Media Lists Complete!

Interesting things I came to realize upon doing this.  I have definitely not read as many books nor watched as many movies the last few years as I did when I started keeping track.  Part of the book thing, I know, is that I stopped subbing and instead started working at the library.  There were many days as a substitute where I might read half a book in one day, as all I had to do was take attendance, pass out worksheets, and make sure the kids didn't light a fire.  I certainly don't have that luxury now.

But mostly I think the change is in the fact that I no longer live with my parents.  Back then, I would need to have some time to myself, so I would sit in my room.  No computer in there (no space), so I would either read, watch TV, or watch a movie.  Now I have my own house, so I don't have that need to find something to do away from everyone else; I'm always away from everyone else!

I have been reading and such more lately, though, because my desktop computer's been sort of on its last legs.  I've been putting it to sleep, and so it just seems silly to wake it up for something small.  The problem is, "something small" often turns into me just sitting on my computer for an hour or two reading random reddit articles or browsing tumblr or whatever.  So in the long run, it feels like it's been a good thing in that I've been motivated to do more productive things.  (And watching TV is definitely more productive compared to looking at cat gifs on tumblr.)

Random Musings on Dumb Shit that Ultimately Doesn't Matter

So I've been doing this completely useless task of transferring over my old media lists (new books read and new movies watched) from this blog into little notebooks.  2008, 2009, 2010 all written down with care.  (And holy shit, this took four days at work - like so much longer than I thought it would take.  I kinda liked it because it made me look like I was industriously working on something important.)

2011 - January, February, March, April...and then I just stopped posting to Blogspot.  I got out the original little notebook* where I started writing this shit down physically - as opposed to just having the lists on the computer - and that starts in 2012.  So I have eight months that aren't accounted for!  Why did I stop?!  Where are those lists!

I got upset at the lack of continuity in this random, meaningless activity that has no actual point other than I felt like doing it.  I'm at work, so I couldn't search my computer, but I also knew that I was still living at home at this point in time and it's likely these lists would have been done on either my old laptop at the time or the family computer, in which case there would be no retrieval.

Then I thought to check LJ and they were right there!  All is okay!

*I kept track of everything chronologically in that notebook.  For instance, January, 1. episode of TV, 2. episode of TV, B1. book, 3. episode of TV, M1. movie.  Etc.  It's okay for TV since that's the bulk of it, but it's really hard to scan through and find movies and TV (and I do actually go through it sometimes when I can't quite remember the title of a book I read, but know I read it sometime last year).  Thus why I've decided to keep TV in one, movies in another, books in a third.  I'm sort of irritated by the fact that the three little notebooks are part of a set I got for Christmas years ago, and the TV one is about 2/3 full, and obviously the others aren't even close.  So I'll fill that one up way before the others.

I don't know why I care about this nonsense?

ETA: December 2011 is not on LJ, either.  It skips from November 2011 to January 2012.  I AM DISPLEASED.

Hello Again!

I can't believe this blog is still active, ha.  I'm compiling a master list of books read and was hoping some of my earlier lists were still here to copy over - and they are!  I think I'm going to start blogging again.  Not that I've been using my LJ much recently, but I'll keep that for more fandom stuff, and just do my random personal thoughts here (where probably no one is reading them, which suits me just fine).

Starting on New Year's Day, I've been writing a short journal entry every day; my parents got me a Moleskin journal for Christmas.  (Interesting fact: though Moleskins are sort of generally considered as "fancy" notebooks, the paper in them is not all that great; if you use fountain pens, the ink will feather and bleed through.  I do manage to write in mine with a fountain pen, albeit one with an extra-fine nib.  Which means I don't have to fill my pen as often, so it works out.)  Mostly it's just been boring "this is what I did today" kind of entries - which has been useful in a sort of meditative way - but I've also been writing about my writing just a little bit.  I think I posted this here once before (years ago!), but I might get back into the habit of blogging here with my writing stuff.  Sometimes just sorting through things in my head, finding a way to articulate various thoughts, even if it's just rambly or incoherent to everyone else, is very helpful for me.

Not today, though - at work today and we're exceptionally busy.  It took me a solid hour to just get through this much!

I have been getting tons and tons of spam comments on this blog the last two days.  I'm wondering if it's because it's showing as an inactive blog.

I keep thinking about what I'd like to do with this blog.  I hate the idea of abandoning it.  Maybe I'll turn it into a writing blog...  It helps me to talk through my process, and ideas, and brainstorming, and all of that.  I don't especially need anyone to read it, but posting makes something seem more "real" than when I just jot down random ideas in my "random ideas" document.

Books
11. The Dark Sacrament: True Stories of Demon Possession and Exorcism, David Kiely and Christine McKenna. 4-2.
12. Black Hole Sun, David Macinnis Gill. 4-5.
13. The Austere Academy, Lemony Snicket. 4-12.
14. Hold Me Closer, Necromancer, Lish McBride. 4-24.
15. Miniature Rooms: The Thorne Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago, Fannia Weingartner. 4-26.

Television Episodes101. Farscape - 1x15 - “Durka Returns.”  4-2.
102. Modern Family - 2x18 - “Boys’ Night.”  4-3.
103. Community - 2x07 - “Aerodynamics of Gender.”  4.4.
104. Community - 2x03 - “The Psychology of Letting Go.”  4-6.
105. Farscape - 1x16 - “A Human Reaction.”  4-7.
106. Supernatural - 4x06 - “Yellow Fever.”  4-8.
107. Supernatural - 4x07 - “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester.”  4-9.
108. Community - 2x20 - “Competitive Wine Tasting.”  4-14.
109. Fringe - 3x19 - “Lysergic Acid Diethylamide.”  4-15.
110. Supernatural - 4x08 - “Wishful Thinking.”  4-16.
111. Supernatural - 4x09 - “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”  4-17.
112. The Killing - 1x01 - “Pilot.”  4-18.
113. The Killing - 1x02 - “The Cage.”  4-18.
114. Supernatural - 4x10 - “Heaven and Hell.”  4-20.
115. The Office - 7x20 - “Training Day.”  4-20.
116. 30 Rock - 6x19 - “I Heart Connecticut.”  4-21.
117. The Office - 7x21 - “Michael’s Last Dundies.”  4-21.
118. 30 Rock - 6x20 - “100.”  4-21.
119. Community - 2x21 - “Paradigms of Human Memory.”  4-21.
120. Fringe - 3x20 - “6:02 AM EST.”  4-22.
121. The Killing - 1x03 - “El Diablo.”  4-23.
122. Game of Thrones - 1x01 - “Winter is Coming.”  4-24.
123. Farscape - 1x16 - “A Human Reaction.”  4-24.
124. Farscape - 1x17 - “Through the Looking Glass.”  4-25.
125. Farscape - 1x18 - A Bug’s Life.”  4-26.
126. Game of Thrones - 1x02 - “The Kingsroad.”  4-27.
127. Community - 2x04 - “Basic Rocket Science.”  4-27.
128. Community - 2x05 - “Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples.”  4-28.
129. Community - 2x06 - “Epidemiology.”  4-28.
130. Fringe - 3x21 - “The Last Sam Weiss.”  4-29.
131. Community - 2x22 - “Applied Anthropology and Culinary Arts.”  4-30.
132. The Office - 7x22 - “Goodbye, Michael.”  4-30.
133. Supernatural - 4x11 - “Family Remains.”  4-30.