my new goals for 2010 are as follows
94. Do one of those picture each day things for a year (once i find my camera of course) - in other words take a picture of myself every day for a year
95. Cook 20 recipes i've never cooked before (0/20)
96. Try 10 beers i've never tried before (0/10)
97. Perfectly follow weight watchers for 2 weeks

Just finished reading Congo by Michael Crichton.  It was good but it felt a little anti-climatic, maybe i've been reading/watching too many thriller type things lately.  maybe it was the way i read it, the way i broke it up or something.  i think the main reason it felt anti-climatic was because of the way it was split into days, i suppose it worked for Timeline because it was all a matter of time but with this one i don't know but i was kind of like "okay so this thing already happened, what the hell else could go on?" and i guess it's interesting but it's still a little less dramatic than it could have been.  however i really enjoyed reading it and i liked the characters (as characters, i'm not saying i personally liked them)
this book didn't have the whole genetic engineering stuff he usually has in his books but it was still freaky, maybe even freakier because the rain forest is fucking scary as hell and it's there, instead of in his other books where humans are doing all these crazy science things that create hte problems the jungle is already there.  all humans need to do is stop destroying it
everytime i see or read anything about the rain forest i get freaked out.  basically EVERYTHING in that region is trying to kill you.  scary man
book #8 for goal #3

just watched District 9 with turtle.  that movie was intense.  i really liked it but i am so glad i didn't see it in theaters because that would have just been way too much and definitely have a higher gross factor than i'd like but it was acceptable for a small screen.  that movie was practically constant action.  i know it was popular but i feel like it didn't get nearly the press it deserved.  likely it was overshadowed by Avatar just like every movie made in the last year (though with good reason as i've said before i love that movie).  the little alien was so cute because it was all little and sweet but cute in a that's still really gross way. 
anyway going to watch some futurama and try to come down from the intensity of the movie
that's movie #37

I finished reading Next by Michael Crichton last night.  I got State of Fear for christmas but i had Next for a little while and just never got to it and since it was shorter than State of Fear i decided to read it first because i knew i was just going to pretty much read for the next 2 or 3 days and i didn't want to read something so long that i'd totally isolate myself in favor of finishing the book.  anyway it was a bit odd, pretty good though.  there were a lot of different story lines but most of them came together in the end.  there were basically two big times of plots coming together and the first one was kind of unnecessary if you ask me.  there were like 8 story lines, 2 or 3 combined at one point and the rest combined at the end.   the story with Ellis was kind of blah.  some of the stuff that seemed unnecessary were taken from real stories (like the whole human chimera story and theft of bones in morgues)
i did find the little "news stories" in the middle distracting.  i think there were just too many of them. 
but the story was unusual and intersting, probably not the best he's written but still kept me curious and left me satisified at the end.  as always he raised a lot of ethical questions and brought attention to the increasing financial and political influences on science. 
anyway that is book 7 out of 10 for goal #3

i need to add 4 goals for 2010 and do a full year update.  also need to update/refine some goals i've already got  on the list.  i'll get to it eventually

saw Avatar with Aleks saturday/yesterday.   it was EPIC.  oh man so fucking awesome.  i'm like depressed that my life is not that movie.  we saw it in 3D but not in imax because when i went to buy the tickets online imax was sold out until the 1 am showing and we would have gotten home at like 4 which isn't totally acceptable for going to see a movie, especially since i had family stuff to do today but 3D is super amazing.  if you have the choice see it in 3D.  i want to be a 10 ft tall blue person!   when i first heard about it i thought it was going to be all about the graphics and that the plot was going to suck and the characters were going to be lame.  i was completely wrong.  it was all amazing.  i could pretty much go on forever about how awesome it was. 
oh man though, going to a mall the saturday/day after christmas not a good idea.  i expected it to be bad but not nearly as bad as it was. 
that's movie #36

watched  "The Hangover" tonight with michkor.  definitely a movie distorted by hype and ruined by previews.  most previews start out decent and rare enough that i'm interested and would probably see the movie, as time goes on previews become very frequent but i'm not as bothered by them.  what really gets me is when the previews start revealing more and more of the movie, eventually i feel like i've already seen the movie and im sick of it.  usually this happens while the movie is in theaters but with the hangover it happened again when the movie came out on dvd.  a lot of the movie was shown for the dvd release, so much that i figured out most of the movie and i think i missed out on a bunch of potentially awesome moments because i knew what was going to happen.  still i enjoyed chilling with michkor and heather graham was in it and she is super foxy.  Anyway that's movie #35

also i got an A- in Abnormal Psych which knocks out one more semester for goal  #6.  A- is pretty damn good considering i went to about 6 classes (including the exam periods) but he basically told us that the exams were out of the book and whenver i went to class i was disappointed with his lectures.  i'd say a combination of my psych knowledge from other classes/studies and studying with evan helped me achieve that grade. 

just watched Hot Fuzz, movie #34. i'd seen a bit of the ending a while back at brandon's but i've never seen the whole movie so i'm counting it since there was a considerable amount of the movie that i missed. really good movie.

what i should be doing right now: dressing for class, preparing assignments i didn't do last night
what i am doing right now: screwing around on the internet
what would i be doing right now without the internet: screwing around with something else

oh mornings

so this quote requires a little context.  i was at erin's halloween party and my ipod was on at the moment and i sitting near it/ about to put something on i think or i was trying to decide what to put on.

random guy: do you have any miley cyrus?
me: no, i'm not a 14 year old girl.
random guy: well i am!

just watched "The Departed"
that movie is fucking intense man, it's long but awesome, it totally deserved all the hype it got. i'd only seen the beginning before but i just watched the whole thing now, wow.
i feel a little off about the end like i'm glad about what happened but i don't know some part of it just seemed lacking. it sort of seemed like "okay this needs to happen and we should end the movie, let's do it...now." i have mixed feelings about it.

i did have the simpsons parody ending in my head at the very very end where they show the rat and the state house (no real spoiler there i think because it's just a shot and doesn't give you anything about what actually happens in the movie) and just how in the simpsons one there is a rat at the end too and ralph goes "the rat symbolizes obviousness" which jumped into my head at the moment and i had to laugh about. 

anyway that's movie #33

cool costumes i saw last night and the night before at erin's party:

3 hole punch jim (with elf ears and "book" written across the face later in the night)
evan and erin as link and zelda
greenman!
a freudian slip (a girl was wearing a slip that said "freudian on it")
gumby heh

russell and c-mont were a birthday boy and a pinata respectively which was funny/cool looking and when russell hit c-mont with a bat he'd throw candy at him BUT it also reminded me of the demetri martin quote:
"I like parties but I don't like pinatas because the pinata promotes violence against flamboyant animals. 'Hey there's a donkey with some pizzazz. Let's kick its ass.' What I'm trying to say is don't make the same Halloween costume mistake that I did."

i'm going to try to bring back the quote thing, i'll probably be doing more famous people/quotes than just quotes of people i know but i'll still do that too if something strikes me (and i remember to write it down).  so i feel no need to credit the sites i got these quotes because well, many/most/all of the famous quotes can be found from multiple sources and i think i only need to credit the person who said them.  i hope no one gets upset by this.
ANYWAY

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." - Timothy Leary

saw Paranormal Activity this weekend with lauren, aleks, and justin up in boston.  it was pretty awesome although i kind of saw a big part of the end coming but it was still awesomely done.  it definitely freaked me out. 
anyway movie #32

was at price club with my mom and i just bought seasons 1&2 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia which completes goal #13
this also means that i'm now watching "Dennis and Dee go on Welfare" which i have seen many times but it is a classic episode.  

finished reading War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells the other day.  it was good/interesting but Wells has a tendency to get caught up in language if you know what i mean so it gets a little tough to read sometimes . 
Book #6 Goal #2

of course i'm dressing up.  i think i'm going to for a very long time, especially since i've now got the perfect default costume.  last year i decided to go as a sim so i made gold aspiration level plumbob on a headband.  the best part about it is i can wear whatever i want because sims just wear normal clothes (and you can customize them anyway so it's not like i have to stick to what'sin the game)  so i can dress up in cheesey halloween t-shirts or my favorate slutty-ish "going-out" top + it fits with my costume
really cold halloween?  no sweatshirt will cover up my costume, it is my costume mo-fo
<3  i love halloween

so kristina bought some starfruit for real cheap because well chinatown. they've just ripened recently so we decided to try it. it was kind of watery-tasting. people say it tastes like a cross between a sour apple and a pear. i definitely got sour apple, not so much pear. it was really light tasting and the texture was kind of citrisy so it's really weird but still pretty good. i think i'd need to get a little more accustomed to the taste before i could be like "i'm going to get a snack, maybe a star fruit" in the same way that you'd get an apple.

that's #33 try 5 new foods. this is food #2 since i'm only doing foods i've never tried before and not dishes

in other news i'm thinking of starting to write things in day/month/year format (not just on here but in general) instead of month/day/year because that's pretty much how the rest of the world does it, we'll see.

I will plan accordingly

I also wonder how women rank

just watched Hamlet 2
it was pretty good. the movie was funny but the actual play part was just okay. i was disappointed by the "rock me sexy jesus" song, it was less funny than i expected and fairly lackluster but i may have expected too much from it. overall i really liked the movie
<3 the scene where he's writing the play
"Oh my god, writing is so hard!"
the expression he has on his face in the very beginning of that sequence where he's staring at the computer wide-eyed was hilarious and accurate and perfectly set up the rest of that part.  i loved that whole writing part. 
that's movie #31

Just finished reading the novella I am Legend by Richard Matheson.  it was pretty awesome, i know everyone is always like "book better than movie" with just about everything but in this case the book is leagues above the movie.  if you've seen the movie you probably saw the crappy new ending that was quickly added in post because movie people think that regular people are dumb.  maybe we are, the original ending was so much better and sort of stuck with the theme of the book, at least a little bit.  anyway that's book 5 for goal #3

Here's a quote for the road:
"There was no sound but that of his shoes and the now senseless singing of birds. Once I thought they sang because everything was right with the world, Robert Neville thought. I know now I was wrong. They sing because they’re feeble-minded.”