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February 10, 2005

First February posting...

I meant to do some updating to the slightly revamped version of my site, only to realize that I don't know how to access its innards. I fired off an e-mail to my friend Mike (who hosts this), so I'll have the necessary info to tinker away within the next day or so.

My original plans for tomorrow night included perspiration, overpriced alcohol, and wistful nostalgia, but time and space (cruel mistresses that they are) have put the kibosh on all that.

The good news: Dead Man’s Party (the world’s premier—and perhaps only—Oingo Boingo cover band) is having a concern tomorrow evening at 8 p.m.

The bad news: Said concert is at the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana.

The really bad news: I’d be driving straight from work in North Hollywood—on a Friday night.

The deal-breaker: Instead of getting off work at the usual time of 6, I might be working an extra 30 to 90 minutes, possibly getting me out at late as 7:30 p.m.

Actually, it was a bit of a relief to realize that my work schedule tomorrow was going to make my DMP attendance a no-go. Getting out of work early enough to make it there on time, I would have felt obligated to go for it—slogging through two or more hours of traffic to get to Santa Ana, and being in a crappy, stressed-out mood for the concert itself. No good. This way, I have a valid reason to take the more sensible option. Besides, they’re playing the Key Club in April, so I’ll catch ‘em then.

That’s not to say that I won’t have any fun this weekend, though. I’m catching a Saturday matinee of "Arabian Nights" down at UC Irvine (all sold out, but I gots me a connection on the inside, mang), and a party at my friend Jenny’s place in Riverside that night. I will be working half a day on Sunday, though, lest you think I’m given over too completely to some sort of "live fast, die young" weekend mantra, and I’ll probably spend the latter half of that day working on my screenplay for class. As much as I love my admittedly meager source material, and as unwilling as I was to set it aside in favor of something more fleshed out and complete, I am sort of kicking myself for picking two vaguely chronicled historical figures around whom to spin a script for my graduate adaptation course.

In other news, I got DSL a few days ago. I had it when I lived in Westwood with a few roommates right after my undergrad days at UCR, and after a year and a half of the good life, I never quite readjusted to dialup when I moved back to Riverside. Not only can I now download movie trailers and abandonware games with ease, but it just makes the internet a friendlier place to be, as fewer and fewer sites are being designed as dialup-friendly.

That’s all for now. I think I’m going to brave the rain for a quick Starbucks run, then force myself to crank out a few more script pages before I call it a night...

Posted by patrick at February 10, 2005 11:51 PM

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