So, this last week I was “unemployed.” I used this time to relax, play video games, and finally get around to switching the office and my bedroom. The subject of this entry refers to the old “hobby” I had when I was in college: Increasing and decreasing the potential energy of heavy objects. (Because I lived at the top of campus, I was always lugging textbooks and other heavy objects up and down.) This week gave me a chance to experience that again, as I lugged such objects as books, boxes, televisions, dressers, mattresses and clothes up and down two sets of stairs. The big day was Thursday, where I started at 10 a.m., and barring a break for lunch, moved things continuously until 1 a.m., when I was finally able to sleep on the bed in its new home, the master bedroom.
After that ordeal, I once again drove up to Berkeley on Friday, with the main intention of seeing Bubba Ho-tep with Luke and Dom, but otherwise just to hang out with CAA people again. On the way to the movie, I had the pleasure of freaking Danny out* and after the movie, I made the previous entry on my cell phone.
Saturday, not much happened, I managed to sit around most of the day at Luke’s doing nothing, basically waiting for things to happen that never did until way too late, was freaked out by Luke**, went to the mall, then saw Kill Bill. I ended up staying Sat. night as well, and went to karaoke on Sun., then drove home.
Yesterday, I went in to Yahoo! in the afternoon to discuss with the various groups vying for my time. Tried my computer setup in my new cube, found it not quite working, then left. Today I wasn’t needed, but I’m going in tomorrow and should be up and running by then.
*Danny has a habit of listening to J-Pop music on his headphones constantly. While we were waiting to leave, he started to sing along with the music. I managed to catch the beat and started air drumming along with him. After a bit, I freaked him out by drumming along to the drum solo at the same time as it actually occurred, and when he asked me how I did it, I just said “well, you stopped singing…”
**Luke freaked me out once again by displaying psychic powers. While reading Cannon God Exaxxion, he commented “I didn’t know Adam Warren did that,” when I flashed the cover to him. We both wondered where he got that from, as his name isn’t anywhere on the cover. A short while later, I was looking at the credits page, and, sure enough, Adam Warren was a translation advisor on the book. This freaked both of us out, as there was no way Luke should have known that, and gotten that from a brief flash of the cover.