Russell & Kimmy

Today Kingdom Hearts 2 came out, so you can guess where my wife is at. Still I shouldn’t complain I bought it for her, but I did get something pretty out of it. Right ow she is staring very intentlly at the TV and has no clue what I am doing. Its cute, ans she is spoiled. I do have to admit the graphics are pretty cool though.

Today was pretty much one of those days. Work wasn’t too hard and the weather was nice. I spent the majority of the afternoon sitting under a huge oak doing the sudoku puzzle in the University Star. Its still creepy being around the FCS building with its complete lack of males.

Well I just wanted to warn everyone that Kimmy is once again addicted to Kingdom Hearts and ya’ll won’t be seeing her for a while.

Friday night Kimmy and I took off to the metropolitan and grabbed a movie after we had dinner at the Macaroni Grill; we had a regular good ole fashioned date. And while at dinner with the tons of people the six birthdays and the very good opera singer we spied a waitress that was as tall as I am when I am sitting down. She was scary tiny.

Anywho after the scary tiny waitress, the artery clogging fettuccine and the water (still no caffeine for me) we hit the Metropolitan. I have always liked the way the Metro looks. I think theaters should all have the old fashioned style with the high ceilings, murals and giant looking statues. Plus it has had some great documentaries shown there. Well we had decided to see another comic book movie, V for Vendetta. It was an awesome movie. The action scenes were neat, it had a lot of great one liners, and the story was interesting. I enjoyed it, Kimmy enjoyed it so go see it.

In other news my fired LW got laid off and dumped her boyfriend last week. It was a bit strange because we didn’t see each other in two weeks and all this stuff happened to her during that time . I gave her a call up to see if she wanted to head down to class with me and hang out. Despite losing her job and boyfriend LW has actually been having a pretty good week. Evidently pity and comforting is closely tied with food so everyone keeps feeding her. We got to sit around and bash men, objectify random strangers and eat. I ragged on her to finish her thesis, and we talked about her becoming a writer. She would be a pretty awesome writer if she ever got around to writing novel. Then we wandered around campus trying to find art, which we failed at, and waited on Kimmy to get out of class. After Kimmy got done with class we picked her up, and headed back to our apartment were LW convinced us that we need some death cookies. So we hit HEB, bought some death cookies and rented Howl’s Moving Castle. Its a cute little anime about finding love and steampunk and magic; lots of great stuff. If you liked Princess Mononoke you will like this. Plus it has steampunk, I mean who doesn’t like Victorian era steampunk?

So John Stewart is making the news, and no its not the guy from comedy central, by wanting to certify that his meat is bovine spongiform encephalopathy free. He is having to sue the US government so that he can test his cows for the dreaded mad cow disease. Heck he has even offered to pay for it, yet the USDA has told him no. Evidently what ever little testing is done for mad cow disease can only be done by the USDA, and the little that they actually do is enough to ensure our safety. Don’t worry about terrorists screwing with the food chain, it seems that our own short shortsightedness is enough; so much for the free market. Evidently the USDA is concerned that if one slaughter house tests all their cows for mad cow disease then every slaughter house would have to test their meat for mad cow disease and its bad for the economy.

Bollocks I say, the only way that it is bad for the economy is that it affects some one’s bottom. So next time you grab that all American burger just think it could have been one of 660,000 cattle tested last year. Of course that is 660,000 out of 35,000,000, or roughly 0.018%

Wow its been almost a month since I last decided to write some drivel, so allow me to drivel away.

I still have a job which amuses a great number of my friends. Technically we are all supposed to get laid off at the end of May or the middle of June. But like my friend Nick said, odds are it will be three years down the road and I will still be floating on 3 month contract extensions. In a way its kind of nice feeling, I am a company’s security blanket. German class is going, I either have a low B or a high C. My delicious little wife is the teacher’s pet and A maker this semester, and she is reveling in it. It makes her happy and that makes me happy; marrige is funny like that.

On a more philosophical bent I have been caffeine free since March the 1st, and no one has died. Now granted that is not really that philosophical but bear with me. Normally I am slightly spastic and my mind races from one idea to the next, but with the lack of caffeine my thoughts are a little slower. I am also really tired, not quite tired enough to sleep but just tired enough not to really move. So I sit still (yes its strange for me) and focus on fewer thoughts. And here is one of the little gems I came up with:

The other morning in the shower I noticed a spider hanging out on the wall. My first instinct was to smash him but it was 5:30 a.m. (a most wretched time of the day) and I was really to lazy to smash it so I let it be. Then standing under the running water and feeling benevolent I wondered how the stupid spider got there. It was a completely random spot for the spider to end up, and it made no sense. Then feeling melodramatic I thought, we are all kind of like the shower spider and life has left us all in random spots.