trucking along okay

I feel weirdly like I have nothing to do and too many things to do at the same time, so perhaps making a list will help.

No particular order, varying wildly in levels of urgency, importance, and time commitment.

Things to get done:

- Figure out school for the fall: what courses to take, and sign up for them. Decide if the "Theory of Colour" course is a good one to take right now (alongside probably Intermediate Accounting II: Liabilities and All That Jazz?) or if I just want to do one course at a time atm. Or if I'm feeling Industrious (ahaha no) and want to do two BComm courses.

- Investigate deaf/HOH-friendly first aid courses. It's a good time, while I'm off the lights and in town where they, you know, give the courses.

- Investigate possible sign language course? Last time, Mucca took one and I didn't since I had to work, leading to the non-deaf person in the household knowing more sign than the deaf one. :P

- Paint my nails (probably rainbow colours again, that's fun)

- Finish reading Ancillary Mercy. I like it so far (especially Zeiat!) but have only settled down to read for small snatches.

- Set up for multiplayer Mass Effect games with justice_turtle. :D :D Going to take a stab at that tonight. I think it's ME3 or something which I've not played? Anyway, exciting. :D


Things checked off to-do list:

- Get a pillow I can sleep on. I think I have one! Squishable, but not too flat. Will sleep on it tonight and see.

- Buy boots! I have wide feet and nothing ever damn well fits, at least not in interesting colours or designs. But I found some ankle boots that fit pretty well, good stompy soles but not super heavy like Docs. And they're a deeply satisfying shade of red. :D My entire wardrobe is basically shades of blue with a bit of green & purple thrown in, but for some reason red boots were important.

- Get Dark Matter sci-fi show to watch. Also Magic Mike XXL and Paddington (2014).

- Grocery shop. Make chicken tikka masala. It was pretty good; should get the proper spices to make it from scratch without the pre-mixed curry paste, but it wasn't half bad as it was. Plus, I remembered the recipe without the Jamie Oliver cookbook. A first. :D


Tired, want to go home, etc, but probably doing a bit better than Mucca.

Dinner with my brother & his fiancé on Thanksgiving Monday. He's just across the street so that should be fun. :-) No word yet on whether other brother is coming as well or if he's doing something with girlfriend's family.

Will make post about Charming Potato Magic Mike XXL and The Martian, both of which we saw this week.

Things watched

Since the other post was getting long:

Things watched:

The Martian:

I'm definitely well within the target audience for this one, with its 20-minutes-in-the-future tech and its teamwork and triumphs and disasters. I loved that reestablishing communication was such a huge plot point, and how they went about it. Plus the team contained Donald Glover, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jessica Chastain, Sean Bean (who's agreeable in person, then does the fuck what he wants--and makes LOTR jokes), and a super cute new-to-me Canadian actress called Mackenzie Davis playing the satellite planner who realizes Matt Damon is alive.

Also, MARS!! Absolutely worth the 3D for the Martian scenery. <3


Magic Mike XXL:

Less actual stripping than I expected, but I liked it a lot. It was both completely saturated in sex (very much the female gaze) and really sweet at the same time. The guys themselves were this interesting combination of dude bros and touchy-feely hippies, and there was a lot less OTT crass humour and aggressive hookers-and-blackjack masculine posturing than I've come to expect from all-dude road trip movies. And they actually treated women well? Even when not playing up to them for stripping/money purposes.

But my favourite part was that Charming Potato spends all this time and sexual energy trying to cheer up a girl who is bisexual and "not in a guy phase right now," and doesn't end up sleeping with her, and there's no resentment at all about that, just "hey, I cheered up a person I like." Like there's actually a shot near the end of her going off with some hot girls, while he heads off with his friends. Not that nobody gets laid, but there's a fuckton less entitlement going on there. The movie is pretty clearly pitched to straight women and bi women who are in a guy phase, but it wasn't hostile to f/f either.

Second-favourite was probably Jada Pinkett-Smith's establishment for women who like to ogle beautiful men while being told how sexy and desirable and worthwhile they are. :-) Ladies of all colours and body types, too, which was nice to see.

Plus, guys with great abs and no shyness about showing off, either. Matt Bomer, you are a blessing.

(As is Donald Glover--who was also in this one! I don't mind. He is very pretty and should be in everything.)