Second Thoughts

So I was bored today (how tired are you of hearing me say this?). I spent most of the day at home, which is something I don't really like doing, if I can avoid it. It's not that I don't like my house, but usually, if I'm here, it means I'm not being productive and apparently, productive is something I don't like not being. Anyway, to alleviate my boredom I went to participate in some good old fashioned capitalism (which is what I usually do in these sorts of situations), but instead of buying something ridiculous (like an X-box 360), I bought a couple of movies that I have enjoyed for a very long time, but have never owned. I bought The 13th Warrior and Grosse Point Blank, the latter of which I'm currently watching. Watching Grosse Point Blank has made me realize a couple of things: 1. Grosse Point Blank is probably my number 5 favorite movie of all time. It is such a great movie. 2. The script I was going to use for my practicum project is eerily similar to Grosse Point Blank. Not so much storywise (although, it kind of is that too), but as far as structure. It has me a bit concerned. I don't want to just make an inferior version of Grosse Point Blank. I'm thinking about writing something new. I have no idea what I'd write.

Small Reviews

Bioshock: Fun without being particularly hard

Star Wars TFU: Hard without being particularly fun (did you see what I did there, I'm so clever!)

Newest Episode of 30 Rock: Why isn't 30 Rock funny this season? Someone explain what's happening?

Newest Episode of The Office: The best parts of this season are the parts where Jim, Dwight and Michael are all in a room by themselves. Everything else is sort of the suck.

Ghost Town: Hilarious. Charming. Ricky Gervais for the win.

My New Pants: Delightful.

My cat: Sleepy.

My dog: Rambunctious.

Roger Moore's Autobiography: Incredibly interesting (and he isn't even James Bond yet!).

Me: More tired than I have any right to be, but other than that an ok human being every once in a while.

Me and DnD

So here's the thing. I think DnD is ok. It's a fairly well constructed game, and if I were to play a PnP RPG it would be DnD (acronyms, LOL!), but the thing is, I don't think I really like PnP RPG's. They're kind of like video games, but they're more time consuming and less satisfying, plus they're just so much to remeber. That being said, I enjoy playing DnD with my friends, but I would never play it outside of that group of people. We have fun playing DnD because we have fun playing games and we don't take it too seriously.

In other news, I'm working my first Monday at Wal-mart since the remodel. I'll let you know how that goes.

In Matt get's stuff done news I e-mailed all of the people I needed to e-mail concerning classes for next week, so I think that counts as something. Still need to apply for graduation.

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It's about 9 pm on Saturday night and I'm already in my jammies. You can pretend you are not jealous, but you would only be lying to yourself.

This week I've been BORED OUT OF MY MIND. Being bored is pretty much all I've been doing since last Sunday. Hopefully this week will be more interesting (note: It won't), but at least school starts a week from Tuesday. In case you haven't picked up on it, I can't wait for school to start again.

I've been playing a lot of Bioshock. It's very very good. Almost Half-Life 2 good, but not quite.

I would like to point out that the reason this post is so boring is because I've been up since 6 am and didn't get a lot of sleep last night so my brain isn't working too well. It's all like "Hey Matt, let's go to sleep", and I'm all like "Buttons". So... yeah.

I thought the major was a lady suffragette. JET!

How long have I been saying, "I should really listen to some Wings."? A really long time. I finally got a hold of The album Band on the Run, the first two tracks of which are a pretty potent combination (the title track and Jet!). The bad news is that version I downloaded is a vinyl rip and consists of one 41 minute track. Quel Dommage! Even though I think he's probably kind of a jerk, Paul is still my favorite Beatle.

Do not read the following paragraph, unless you want to be annoyed at Matt Essner's cloying for attention...

So you know that thing I alluded to in my first couple of posts back from my hiatus? The thing that I was being "really stupid" about? Well I'm still more or less being really stupid about it, but I've decided that I'm done with it for a while, so no longer will you have to suffer through vague description of vague concepts that may or may not be the cause of certain vague feelings. I know this whole paragraph seems like a ploy to illicit some curiosity or attention or something like that, but I assure you it's not. It's mostly a reminder for myself. In fact, let me go ahead and put a disclaimer before this paragraph to keep people that aren't me away (of course, it'll look like I typed that first because it'll come before this paragraph sequentially, but still). I don't know why I'm even bothering to be so mysterious about this. I know what I'm talking about, and the people that read this blog that aren't me, probably know me well enough to know that I'm talking (or, more accurately, not talking) about the one subject that I'm ever reticent to discuss with people that aren't myself. Anyway, the point is I've decided there's nothing I can do about it and thinking about it all the time certainly isn't helping. So yeah. No more thinking about it.

End of self-indulgence.


I have an X-Box 360 now. I got it about a week ago. I'm sorry I didn't bring it up earlier, but I haven't really played it much. Before tonight, if I didn't count New Years, I've probably spent about 2 hours on the console. Including New Years and today, probably 6 hours. As with most toys, before I got an X-Box, I thought I would use it all the time, but now that I have one, I'm glad I have it, but there's other stuff I'd rather do than play X-Box. I'm sure all of this will change when I get my hands on a copy of Dynasty Warriors 6 or some other such mindless hack and slash.

DnD tomorrow! Huzzah!

Expectations.

This post may or may not be improved by listening to the Belle and Sebastian song that shares a title with the title of this post.

It's 2009, in case you hadn't noticed. The next 5 months might be the busiest/most important of my life to date, and here is a list, conveniently itemized and number for ease of reading, of all the things I have to do before May 18, 2009.

1. Finish writing Notre Dame's trivia night.
2. Apply for a practicum.
3. Apply for graduation.
4. Sign up for CL004.
(actually these first four need to be done before Jan 20)
5. Cast, shoot and edit my practicum short film (this one needs to be done by April 26 and it's without a doubt the most ambitious project I've ever done).
6. Pass all of my classes this semester with a C or better.
7. Look for and find some sort of job for after graduation.
8. Attend Steve and Mary's wedding (this one should be pretty fun, but I do need to request off work for it though).
9. Figure out what I'm going to do with the rest of my life.
10. Finish my screenplay(this one is for extra credit).
11. Work on one of two secret mystery projects that have to be done before graduation.

I've toyed around with the idea of quitting my job for the semester so I'll have more time to get stuff done, but I think we all know I would probably just squander said free time by playing x-box or hanging around on facebook. But I'll probably only be able to work 2 days a week anyway because of how jacked up my class schedule is.

In other movie related news, I saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button today. If you're planning on watching it, save yourself some time and just watch Big Fish. You'll have a much better time, and you won't have to stare at Cate Blanchett for 3 hours (am I only one that finds her somewhat off-putting?).

Anyway, I'm going to pretend to go to bed, but I'm really just going to waste time on facebook.