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08/07/2008: "Steam"There is a whole story involving steam - or really condensation - but let's just skip it. Grr.
I was going to put up my new blog really fast so I could talk about the X-Files movie. Bleck. But then I couldn't wait. I like this simple text box anyway. Ha!
Okay, my faucet in my tub was leaking hot water, lots of it, and when I came home for lunch there was water dripping down all the walls in my bathroom. Making little yellow droplet puddles on top of the heater and elsewhere. Ew. Apparently, my walls are not clean. It's a smoking building. ? When we cleaned the walls of the smoking floor of the hotel, it looked like that. Anyway.
There were big drops of water forming in the bathroom doorway too. I'd told my apt. manager about it 2 days ago - the leak - but nothing had happened. So, on my way back to work I wrote a note on some scratch paper and stuck it to his door, which was locked and he was gone even though he was supposed to be there. I stuck it to his door with a band-aid. Heh. It was all I had. A clean one!
So, finally today when I came home from work, the faucet was fixed. Now it only leaks a little. Instead of torrents. Pfft. I'll take it. Whatever. I've been here nine years. How 'bout every nine years you give me a new faucet!!???!!
Grr.
Anyway. The X-Files movie. Pfft. Was bad. Yup. I was gonna snark on it so much, but I ran out of steam. Heh. See what I did there?
Let's start slowly, like a choo choo train. There will be spoilers. Lots and lots of spoilers. First off, the movie left me with a sticky residue in my brain. Like it gunked up my mind and left it all slimy and gloppy. There are certain things you just can't wash out of your mind. Ew. Colony of pedophiles. Illegal organ harvesting. BODY harvesting. Two headed dog. Mulder and Scully wussing out and whining a lot. I don't know when they became an old retired couple either. Ew. Not that there's anything wrong with being an old retired couple. I can't wait to be half of one! But, bleck. Too soon.
I wanted Mulder and Scully in suits. Being sharp and witty and sassy as usual. I want them hanging from tall buildings with the "artifact" in one hand, going to Antarctica, lots of exploding cars/buildings/phone booths, whatever. Snide villains. Sigh.
Just getting warmed up. There was no X-File in the X-Files movie. Unless you count psychic ability. But that's almost normal now. I can see that on Medium. And weird Frankenstein monsters? Yeah, I think that one was written much better centuries ago by Mary Shelley. (Oooo, them's fightin' words. Eek!) 'Cough.'
I like that there was a new addition. Amanda Peet. But she had no.... nothing interesting to say except that she believes in Mulder. Thanks for stopping by. And then they got rid of her, whoops, accidentally knocked her off the edge of a building. Oopsies. And the moment felt as ridiculous as that. As she was falling - 10 or 12 stories down - which took about 5 minutes for some reason, they showed these 3 rebar looking stake things that she was going to land on. And my friend said to me loudly, "Like the fall isn't bad enough?!" and I said, "I know, right?!" and we laughed. And then the people in front of us laughed at us. Hee. Oops. I kinda forgot we weren't in a living room. We were in a movie theater. But there were only 7 people there, so you know. We were practically alone!
And then my friend after the movie pointed out something to me. Did Scully, or did she not, Google certain medical procedures, and then - based on her research from GOOGLE - perform BRAIN SURGERY?
Oh my God.
That's one hell of a product placement. Kids, don't try this at home. And another problem I was having with that scenario was.. Scully's a BRAIN SURGEON now? What? I suppose she's had time to become a specialist. But in the rest of the movie she pretty much seemed to be a hospitalist. A doctor who takes care of inpatients in a hospital. I don't think Scully's a surgeon. It always bothered me on the show how she would go into some strange hospital she had no privileges or rights at, in a state she wasn't licensed in, and start bossing people around and they would listen to her and obey. ???? At least when they did that on Firefly, the other doc said, "Who are you?" Geez.
The movie was two things that I hate for movies to be. Boring and gross. But it just disappointed the hell out of me! Duuuuummmmb. I may be in a mood, but, DUDE. The plot was not exactly spectacular. Scully and Mulder are not sharp and witty and brave anymore. I don't even know if they can move quickly anymore. GEEZ. I don't know, I waited for six years for this and I guess I just expected it to be SOMETHING. You know? The first movie is one of my favorite movies ever. And I smile now.
Pft. I actually have more complaints, but I will keep them to myself. Why? I've bored you enough. 'Taps her bottle of antidepressants', Is this thing on? Heh. I mean 5HTP! As usual. I'm trying a new brand. HMM. Does it show?
I thought up a funny little web series today that takes place in one room and it's about - wait for it - medical records!!!! Where do I get these ideas?! But it will never happen. I don't have A) a camera, and B) other humans to play all the parts. Ffft. Hmm. But I made myself laugh at work. People must think I'm "touched".
But then the story got all serious with homophobia and anti-vegetarianism. Or anti-homophobia and anti-anti-vegetarianism. You see my point. Those are the things that bother me that I hear the most in the workplace. HMM. Actually I don't hear about anti-vegetarianism, it's just sometimes... it's hard to be one there! I had this conversation at work once about going out for pizza:
Me: I'm a vegan, I don't eat dairy.
Them: You could have a salad.
Me: I need protein.
Them: You could add some meat to it.
Me: I'm a vegetarian.
Them: What?
Yup. I saw this sign up at work once too, about a free lunch, still pondering it: "There are vegetarians in this office, please save the chicken for them." If I'd have been drinking something, I could've done a spit take.
Anyway, in my head, the web show is FUNNY. Hey, maybe I'll make it a cartoon. Someone teach me how to draw. Pfft. I mean I can draw realism, but I need to draw cartoony. Help me! Okay, calm down.
Oh, hey! I meant to link to the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. MUCH funnier than a kid on a bike with a cell phone. Okay, here's a link: LINK. Watch it!
This also is pretty darn cute: LINK.
No, you don't get to know what they are until you go there. They both involve Neil Patrick Harris. Huh? What's not to love? The second one involves Felicia Day mostly. It cracks me up. Tee hee. Okay, calm.
Dr. Horrible is free on the web again. Check it out!
Okay, and now I really must go. Oh, hey, I redesigned my website. MOST of it anyway. Still pondering the blog.... Hmmmm....
Okay, bitchiness elsewhere! Time for me to fly! Or, actually, eat. But that just does not sound as exciting. Bah. Later. ~