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Highlights from the Weekend
May. 6th, 2007 04:05 pmOkay. Ready?
Good thing from graduation: The guy who won the Nobel prize for discovering Bose Einstein Condensates was our speaker.
Bad thing from graduation: The guy who won the Nobel prize for discovering Bose Einstein Condensates was our speaker.
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It seemed like it was never going to end. I mean, it was great to see him in person but... and the intent and idea of his speech was good, however, the delivery was long-winded and badly presented. That and everyone NOT GRADUATING patting each other and themselves on the back throughout the ceremony that's supposed to celebrate and honor the people graduating. RAWR.
The exact moment when my family finally realized exactly where I was (front row) in my section and waving wildly when I looked in their direction: priceless
Willington Pizza was some of the best "gourmet" pizza I've had. I had some doubts about pepperoni on a greek pizza, but it worked. Pepperoni, spinach, feta cheese, black olives, and garlic with red sauce and the obligatory cheese. There was a LOT of garlic. I'll be exuding it out of my pores for days.
My Mum gave me a little "sugarplum fairy" with a miniature tassel (2007 fob on it and everything) draped on its arm - yeah, I took ballet lessons a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away and my first stage appearance was as the sugarplum fairy (or rather, I think, a troop of them). Along with some sapphire heart earrings and a box of assorted chocolate truffles.
Now for today.
Got to see Spiderman 3. It was okay. Definitely not as good as one and two, it had an homage to Saturday Night Fever and another movie I cannot remember the name of now, which were kind of cute. It was Stan Lee's best cameo appearance in a Marvel movie, IMHO. The extras were too distracting, hamming it up all the time, overreacting in a over-the-top cartoonish way. All the time. It was a background annoyance that never ended. And where were all the strange and normal looking people that populate NYC? There was no one homely or unplastically beautiful through the whole thing. There was no subtlety at all. The most (unforced) moving part was when the Sandman was transformed and rediscovering himself as sentient sand.
Post movie we headed to the mall - where I got my graduation gifties from CoB. I found a product that combined a slew of Marvel comic book heroes, zombies, and The Army of Darkness guy (who also had a cameo in spiderman 3, btw). Imagine almost all superheroes (and I'm not sure if the regular populace was too) turned into zombies. Yeah. It is gonna be good. Apparently it came out (first printing) in 2006. So, I was able to find it (after buying 2 and 3 out of 5 at Newbury Comics) in the all-in-one hardcover book format at Hot Topic. So a five comic limited edition type of thing. Kind of reminds me of the special edition comics where aliens capture all the earth's superheroes and make them fight each other - but with zombies, and Army of Darkness coolness. AND... Also at Hot Topic, I found Marvel Zombies t-shirt goodness. W00T!
Soon, however, I will be bringing the CoB back to the airport. *sigh* All good weekends must come to an end.
Good thing from graduation: The guy who won the Nobel prize for discovering Bose Einstein Condensates was our speaker.
Bad thing from graduation: The guy who won the Nobel prize for discovering Bose Einstein Condensates was our speaker.
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It seemed like it was never going to end. I mean, it was great to see him in person but... and the intent and idea of his speech was good, however, the delivery was long-winded and badly presented. That and everyone NOT GRADUATING patting each other and themselves on the back throughout the ceremony that's supposed to celebrate and honor the people graduating. RAWR.
The exact moment when my family finally realized exactly where I was (front row) in my section and waving wildly when I looked in their direction: priceless
Willington Pizza was some of the best "gourmet" pizza I've had. I had some doubts about pepperoni on a greek pizza, but it worked. Pepperoni, spinach, feta cheese, black olives, and garlic with red sauce and the obligatory cheese. There was a LOT of garlic. I'll be exuding it out of my pores for days.
My Mum gave me a little "sugarplum fairy" with a miniature tassel (2007 fob on it and everything) draped on its arm - yeah, I took ballet lessons a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away and my first stage appearance was as the sugarplum fairy (or rather, I think, a troop of them). Along with some sapphire heart earrings and a box of assorted chocolate truffles.
Now for today.
Got to see Spiderman 3. It was okay. Definitely not as good as one and two, it had an homage to Saturday Night Fever and another movie I cannot remember the name of now, which were kind of cute. It was Stan Lee's best cameo appearance in a Marvel movie, IMHO. The extras were too distracting, hamming it up all the time, overreacting in a over-the-top cartoonish way. All the time. It was a background annoyance that never ended. And where were all the strange and normal looking people that populate NYC? There was no one homely or unplastically beautiful through the whole thing. There was no subtlety at all. The most (unforced) moving part was when the Sandman was transformed and rediscovering himself as sentient sand.
Post movie we headed to the mall - where I got my graduation gifties from CoB. I found a product that combined a slew of Marvel comic book heroes, zombies, and The Army of Darkness guy (who also had a cameo in spiderman 3, btw). Imagine almost all superheroes (and I'm not sure if the regular populace was too) turned into zombies. Yeah. It is gonna be good. Apparently it came out (first printing) in 2006. So, I was able to find it (after buying 2 and 3 out of 5 at Newbury Comics) in the all-in-one hardcover book format at Hot Topic. So a five comic limited edition type of thing. Kind of reminds me of the special edition comics where aliens capture all the earth's superheroes and make them fight each other - but with zombies, and Army of Darkness coolness. AND... Also at Hot Topic, I found Marvel Zombies t-shirt goodness. W00T!
Soon, however, I will be bringing the CoB back to the airport. *sigh* All good weekends must come to an end.
