Serenity is in theaters today. Finally. I’m hoping Paul will allow me to drag him to the theater just down the road right after he gets home from work tonight and fill him with popcorn and junior mints. If he agrees I will be a very happy young lady. We’ll buy the popcorn there but we might smuggle the junior mints in. Seriously, $3 for a “King Size” which is really just the normal average size you can pick up at the grocery store for less than a dollar? I really don’t think so. There are a few other movies I’d be perfectly happy to see while we’re there, but we’re starting to get old and going to multiple movies in an evening takes its toll. So if we just see Serenity I’ll be content. It shouldn’t be too difficult getting Paul to the theater; he already mentioned buying Serenity when it comes out on dvd.

We hardly ever go to movies anymore. I think we’ve only been to two this year and it’s already the last day of September. It’s just; there are so many other things to do. I have at least a dozen games I need to finish playing, and lately I’ve been having a lot of fun playing them. For a while I was not so thrilled with my selection, but all that changed about a month ago. I work in a library so I have millions of books I can check out and read practically anytime I want. Also Paul and I enjoy spending whatever quality time together we can get … and sitting in a dark theater watching a film isn’t the best place for meaningful conversation.

Our windows machine has been ill for almost a week now. It’s about three years old and throwing lots of tantrums these days. As annoying as not having a functional windows computer is, it has been remarkably fun changing around all my personal settings. Most of them were lost when we had to reinstall Windows (Windows was actually responsible for causing all the problems and it made me value our lovely little Linux box even more.) My old settings were beginning to stagnate a little. Now I’ve set it up so that my desktop has a similar color scheme to this site. Once again, I figure if I overload on the color pink I’ll become disgusted with it and can once again return to hating it with much unbridled passion. In fact, everything is now so pink on my account; Paul actually refuses to access anything from it. He insists on using his own account or one of the other miscellaneous accounts we’ve set up.

Also, for the past week I’ve had a genuine excuse for not updating here. Sadly, it came at a time when I was itching to update.

It’s been over a month since I last updated. I’ve written a dozen little blurbs in my head, but they never quite make it to the keyboard. The problem is rooted in the fact that I tend to compose them in my head while I’m at work. Usually by the time I get home, sitting down at the computer has absolutely no appeal to me. But you can thank Jeremy for today’s update. He managed to guilt me into posting after a conversation we had just the other day. Apparently he actually reads the nonsense I write here, and uses it as a way of making certain I’m happy, healthy and alive. Or at least the alive part.

Chester may or may not have eaten a gecko that wandered in through our front door last night. I’ve seen a few outside clinging to the walls of our building. If you get too close they tend to hide beneath the siding. They are so skittish I never really expected to see one inside. Hopefully the little guy that found his way inside managed to escape Chester in one piece. I also hope that if it got away it managed to return outdoors. I’d hate to open my front hall closet only to find a little lizard corpse.

Paul surprised me on my way home from work on Wednesday. He bought me We love Katamari. I think it was to help lighten my spirits. Wednesday in general was a pretty lousy day. We’ve been having trouble with the car for the past month and a half or so. It just randomly chose not to work. Paul took it in and it had to have some cables replaced. I don’t want to take the car there again. They are incredibly overpriced.

I’m really enjoying We love Katamari though. I think I might actually prefer it to the original just because there’s more variety and, well, there’s just more.

There’s a new Terry Pratchett novel out. I plan on buying and reading it someday. The library doesn’t have its copy yet. I figure by the time they do get a copy it will have a waiting list. All the good new books have waiting lists. Even some of the books that have been around for 5 years have waiting lists. It’s crazy.

I’ve worked at the library for a year now. They’re all still nice, some of them are the nicest people I’ve ever worked with. A few of the librarians have taken on the role of ‘surrogate aunt.’ One of them sometimes even mother’s me. I find it all very entertaining. The work load has diminished a little. We were super busy over the summer and things didn’t seem to slow down until about two weeks ago. I think soon the redesign will begin. I am actually looking forward to it because I’ll have more things to do with the rearranging that will be going on. I’m still not entirely certain what all they plan on changing. I just know that my section won’t be effected all that much.