Randomness

Had another informational interview today, and gah, the nervousness! I don't mind when they talk about themselves and their jobs (which is generally quite interesting), but then they start asking me how I got interested. Errr.. I don't know? It seemed like a viable option?

I really don't want to talk to any more people. All I want to do is cower in my apartment and hope that something good will happen.

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My parents and sister are going to Hawaii sometime and hopefully I will be able to go too! Whoo! Vacation!

I'm so sick of going to work now. I feel horrible thinking it, but I am. And it's not the job, I think. It's the waking up at 8 every day and trying to get through eight hours of work on one capuccino. I try not to have more caffeine than that. Of course, it really is entirely my fault that I don't go to sleep earlier. But, argh. I just want to sit back and relax sometime. I think I'm getting nidgier as well because it's May, which used to mean the coming end of school, the onset of summer vacation. I wish I still had summer vacation.

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I've still not been able to read anything lately, which is incredibly frustrating. Well, I did read Best American Erotica 2001, which was much less overtly sexual and much more interesting than I had previously anticipated. I can't even manage to find a romance novel to stick with!! Argh. Hopefully this strange unsettled feeling is caused by lack of sleep or something.

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Vaguely excited about Troy, but I think I might wait a little, considering the reviews. Gr. Also vaguely excited about Shrek and Prisoner of Azkaban, extremely out of my mind excited about Sky Captain, getting more excited about Spiderman 2 (I saw the longer trailer, and ooo, betrayal! Fun). Not at all excited about the King Arthur movie. Strangely, the Arthur mythos is just not my thing. One, I hate Guinevere. Hate. Burning passion hate. And it's totally not logical or anything, considering how many reinterpretations she's been in. The only time I liked her was in the GGK inclusion in the Fionavar Tapestry. I also don't quite get the Keira Knightley thing. Granted, the girl is very pretty, but I always feel kind of biased against her. Most of this is because I really liked the Indian actress in Bend It Like Beckham and thought she was quite good, and so now I can't help thinking that Keira Knightley (who broke out in that movie, right?) got more famous because she is very pretty.

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And now I am going to spend more money -- checking if Tower still has the used S2 Angel DVDs. Woo!

Aaaaand... pointless meme!

Seen on quite a few people's LJs.

1. How far have you been willing to travel to attend a fannish event?

Er, so far, to Los Gatos for a board meet. Ha, that's the only one I've really been to.

2. How far have you gone in trying to save a show or to get a sequel?

Um. I donated some money to the LA food bank thing as part of the Save Angel campaign because I figured it was a good thing to do. Generally, I am too lazy (everyone's going to jump me now). It took a lot of effort just to send an email to my congresspeople via the ACLU website on issues very important to me, so shows? Laziness triumphs.

3. How far have you been willing to overspend on one particular fannish item?

DVDs. Gah. So much money!

4. How far have you been willing to go tracking down a rare fannish item?

I'm actually not that big on collecting fannish items nowadays. I suspect this is because I spent waaaay too much money on Gundam Wing stuff back in the day.

5. How far have you gone to try and pimp someone into a fandom?

I actually try not to deliberately push my shows on to other people unless they've already showed a glimmer of interest. Most of this is because in general, I react very poorly to things pushed on me by people who mean well but do not understand my taste at all. So yeah, all those people who kept trying to convince me that Robert Jordan's latest book was good and I should catch up on the series, not much hope there. But I did manage to get one friend pretty hooked on the Buffyverse and some more people interested in GWing through sheer force of my excitement. And I introduced one friend to the wonders of XF fanfic. And I make the boy watch with me.

Ha, all in all, I am apparently not very fannish at all.