jere7my | Jun. 1st, 2005

This past week, I have...

...failed to update my LJ, which is why you're getting bullet points.
...lain on the lawn beneath the crackling sun in my bathing suit, twice, in an effort to pigmentize my skin somewhat before a week at the beach. Gus-Gus watched me from the bushes with her green-gold eyes (just the color of Jim Kirk's uniform shirt), happy as an exploratory clam now that she gets to be outside (but not often enough).
...watched two movies, Team America: World Police and Alone in the Dark. The latter was astonishingly bad, despite being based on a darn good video game, with a lot of explanatory voice-overs and an ending that came...not so much out of left field, but more out of a deli down the block from the stadium. The former was a lot of fun, and good enough to get me to buy a few of the songs from iTunes (like America, Fuck Yeah!), but not the work of towering satirical genius I was hoping; nice parody of hawkish Neocon American perception, though. The puppet sex was all that was promised, and more.
...started packing our belongings. Mostly, I've packed my porn away, so our catsitter won't be shocked (or, alternately, too distracted to adequately sit our cat). We have a Moving Plan now, which involves hiring one company to load the truck of a second company, who will deliver our stuff in two to three days (we hope), where a third company will unload it. (Our previous, simpler, plan was scuppered by www.movingscam.com, which scared the bejeezus out of us but probably helped us avoid some scammers.)
...been taken to dinner by K.'s grad school advisor. We had buttery-delicious seafood pizza with him, his wife, and his two daughters, sitting outside at Lorenzo's.
...worked a lot. I've maxed out my hours for the last two weeks, in preparation for Alumni Weekend and Nags Head.
...disovered beautiful things on Google Maps, including this train yard in Norfolk and these sand bars south of Nags Head.
...trimmed my goatee for the first time since Drag Ball, which proves, I suppose, that I can grow a beard in about two months. I also snipped the split ends off my hair. Pretty.
...gotten pretty damn excited about Alumni Weekend and Nags Head, which we leave for tomorrow...