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Still tired from yesterday even though I got plenty of sleep last night. Looking forward to tonight though, I'm going to go listen to a punk band I haven't heard before.
Since there seems to be a lot of commentary online about Xmas shows and movies even though I think it's too early I want to get this off my chest, two of them which I think suck:
It's A Wonderful Life. Sickeningly sweet, Uncle Billy's an idiot and it must be mostly men who love this movie because it basically says if a woman isn't married she's a failure and it's some sort of fate worse than death. I don't appreciate some old movie telling me I'm worthless!
Rudolph: The real message here is it's only OK to be different if people can use you. Oh, and why is Santa such a butt in this??

I should probably explain why I was all pissed off yesterday about the cinnamon roll business. I wanted one very badly because I have to be out all day tomorrow because of them testing the fire alarms and I wanted something I could grab and eat for breakfast without having to cook anything like eggs or whatever. I can't get one today because that bakery doesn't do the cinnamon rolls on Thursday.
Also, I make the same entries on LJ that I do here and it appears to not be working, I can't get anything to load at all from LJ. I think the problem is on their end and not mine because DW and youtube and my e mail and other things seem to be working OK.
Looking forward to this evening anyway, there's this club in SF I sometimes go to that's having an event tonight.

I'm supposed to go to skeptics in the pub tonight but I haven't heard from my friend who picks me up to go to that yet, which is really strange. I've emailed him and texted him. No answer.
In other news, I have to be out all day Friday because they're testing the damn fire alarms again.

I'm going to go over to some friends' house later today. I talked to one of them earlier and she was trying to get me to give her legal advice. I'm not a lawyer so I couldn't help her although I wanted to.

Had some Lapsang Souchong tea. Made some phone calls and did some cleaning up and that was pretty much all I had to do today.

I woke up at 5 in the damn morning because I had to go to the bathroom but when I went back to bed I couldn't fall back asleep again. I don't like that but I have nothing to do today anyway.

Unfortunately I think I'm going to have to spend Thanksgiving by myself again this year.

Yesterday was a real emotional roller coaster of a day. I watched two eps of Boardwalk Empire and American Werewolf in London. I like that movie a lot but I have two things to say about it:
a. Why isn't the song Werewolves of London in that movie? There are a lot of other songs but not that one?
b. My favorite series of books about movies is the Cult Movies books by Danny Peary. Any film geek should read these but he has an odd mistake in there regarding this movie. He says something about a grocery shopping scene. I've seen this movie a few times and there was no grocery shopping scene. I've talked to some other people who saw this movie and they don't remember a grocery shopping scene either.
I got a wild hair to make a pot of chili so I went to Trader Joe to get meat, peppers, onions, a metric fuckton of tomatoes and other things. Damn near killed myself hauling all that bad with fucked up legs, no car and having to go up steps. I wouldn't have been able to do it at all if it weren't for my having one of those deep wire granma carts. Thank you greeneyedsadie wherever you are.
Then when I got home from Trader Joe I was putting the groceries away when I got a text from my friends inviting me over to see the new Ali G movie at their house on amazon that evening. I was surprised but super happy so I put the meat in the freezer (I'm going to make the chili tonight instead).
Then my apt bldg was doing one of their parties. These parties are lame but I wanted to get some free food so I went. Also wanted to at least try to have a conversation w/ my neighbors but a lot of them either can't speak English or can't talk about much other than Jesus, astrology or babies. Not topics I find interesting.
Then L. texted me in the middle of the party to tell me Patrick Stewart died. I'm heartbroken.
I got very quiet for some time, then said I was upset because somebody I love died. Did NOT mention any names. One of the old bags said some crap about god decided it was his time. I go, "well, that doesn't make me feel better" and she made it clear it wasn't intended to.
Sometimes at these parties they have raffles (another reason I go to them). Yesterday I found out they're rigged because the same person won for the third time in a row.
I left and went over to my friends' house, I brought them some candy and cookies and met their new pet rats and we had dinner and drinks and watched the Ali G movie, it was hilarious and cheered me up somewhat. (Also, they were WAY more sympathetic about the Patrick situation!)

I've been leaving my voicemail on on my home phone 24/7 but it hasn't yet stopped the scammers from calling me at SIX IN THE MORNING AND WAKING ME UP! I just don't talk to the scumbags.

Had some PG tips this morning, went out and got some groceries and voted. I realized I can vote by mail instead of having to go to the drop box in some neighborhood I don't know my way around at all so I just did that.