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January 20, 2005

Various stuff...

First things first: Congratulations to my cousins--my cousins and not each other's, that is to say--Darren and Becky on the birth of their first son and second child, Ethan Daniel Seitz, who weighed in at seven pounds, four ounces.

Birth weights are a curious thing to me. I always wonder what they're supposed to portend in the long run. I was born at a measly three pounds, three ounces--a 66th of my current weight. Meanwhile, you could have a baby born at seven or eight pounds who ends up as a rather petite woman--somebody for whom their birth weight was perhaps a 15th or 18th of their eventual total. Heck, if Ethan were to hold to my growth ratio, we'd be looking at 478 pounds of Seitz.

And that, my friends, is a lot of Seitz.

Between school and work, I've been pretty busy this last half a week. I find myself falling into a behavioral quirk of my father's (or so my mom told me)--namely, going long stretches of time without eating. Luckily, I had my first full-fledged grocery run in the new place today, so I stocked up on yogurt (and apropos of nothing, I just recently learned that Boysenberry yogurt is supposed to be gray--I just always thought it'd gone bad), bananas, pepperoni, paper towels, and other essentials of life. When I finally break the fast, I won't have to rely on 7-11 Spicy Bite hot dogs for all of my nutrients (just the fat, sodium, and nitrates).

Speaking of essentials, I encountered the following headline on Yahoo! News a few minutes ago:

"Diet deemed problem for tsunami survivors"

I must be turning into an Angelino; my knee-jerk reaction in that first fraction of a second before actual thought occurs was, "Shouldn't they drop the diet until their villages are in better shapes?" I certainly don't mean to make light of that tragedy, but you have to admit, the choice of wording in the headline has a bit of the gallows humor to it.

I cleared out the last of my stuff from my old apartment last Saturday, gave it the cleaning it had wept for during most of my tenure there, and turned in my keys. Between turning in my TA keys and my old apartment keys, my keychain is getting mighty sparse. If I take off that weird belt-loop hook-thing that I never use and jettison the Tasmanian Devil figure, it'll be too light for comfort. I need ballast, lest I lose track of them in my pocket and not notice their having slipped out. Maybe I could solder the main loop to an old railroad spike, or something.

The first volume of "Rumiko Takahashi Anthology" came out a week ago yesterday, although it took me until Sunday night to get my hands on a copy. I did the script adaptation for the first and third episodes, and it was still a real shot in the arm to hear my words being acted. It was odd how the background music popped back into my head after just a few notes of each different ditty--or not so odd, I guess, given how many times I heard them looping, looping, looping, looping as I adapted the dialogue.

Not much else to report. I've treated myself to a little "Arc the Lad" in my downtime, although I'm reaching that point where I wonder if I want to dedicate X number of hours into finishing it. They're tossing those "win 100 battles in a row for a bitchin' weapon"-type side-quests at me, and I don't want to find out down the line that I needed said bracelet or shield to take out the Final Boss trash. What I really hanker for is the new Sid Meier's "Pirates!", which I probably won't even bother to buy until I've finished the MFA program.

And then I'll play it for three days solid. Y'arrrr.

Posted by patrick at January 20, 2005 01:15 AM

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