Worked in the garden yesterday and planted some stuff, reseeded some stuff, weeded a lot (per usual), and harvested peas. We will have a lot of peas. If I don't manage to come home regularly for winter quarter we'll probably have a lot of pea seeds too, later into the year.
I think my dad has finally picked up on my fondness for sci-fi since he drafted me into watching Laserhawk yesterday. We made popcorn from the really colorful popcorn kernels that I grew in the backyard (yep the ones that are practically all shades of the rainbow) (it was actually pretty good) and ate that while watching (I ate most of it, parents being not as fond of popcorn). Yes...popcorn and really bad sci-fi. It's a match made in heaven. Pity that dad can't follow along the English dialogue / plot line (or whatever passed for a plot line) that well, so I was too involved explaining the movie to have much time to point out all the holes in the plot and scientific inaccuracies, which would've been really fun.
I think I enjoy myself a little too much on those occasions but really, why else would bad sci-fi movies be worth watching, if we can't make fun of them?
I watched Paprika just now (thanks Lucy!) and that was much more interesting (my mom finds that kind of stuff too freaky and cannot understand my fascination with them) what with the discussion between dreaming, reality, and the idea of self. (Or maybe I'm over-thinking it, but that's okay, I still enjoyed the anime.) After yesterday's encounter with Laserhawk I'm once again reminded of my belief that...well, if it's sci-fi and you can't do a good job with the CGI, you should just do it animation-style because it looks so much cooler. (But that brings up the whole other issue of the connotation associated with animation and the targeted crowds and so on, so huh, guess not.)
Slightly more yard work, then reading, then maybe something else today. We'll see.
Oh yes. And Lunatics get-together this week!
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