Sept. 6 The Rosie Project: I’ve read a review of the
book The Rosie Project by Graeme Simison in the Globe and Mail. It was a good review. According to Amazon:
A first-date dud, socially awkward and overly fond of quick-dry clothes, genetics professor Don Tillman has given up on love, until a chance encounter gives him an idea.
He will design a questionnaire—a sixteen-page, scientifically researched questionnaire—to uncover the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker or a late-arriver. Rosie is all these things. She is also fiery and intelligent, strangely beguiling, and looking for her biological father a search that a DNA expert might just be able to help her with.
The Rosie Project is a romantic comedy like no other. It is arrestingly endearing and entirely unconventional, and it will make you want to drink cocktails.”
In the Globe and Mail, the review said it’s obvious that the character Don has Asperger’s syndrome. This seems like an interesting and fun book to read.
Words: I’ve been reading and then when I find a word
I don’t know, I write it down so I can look it up later on dictionary.com:
Diocesan- “1.
of or
pertaining to
a diocese. “A
diocese is “an ecclesiastical
district under
the jurisdiction of a
bishop.”
Hagiography- the writing and critical study
of the lives
of the saints;
hagiology.
Malapropisms- the unintentional misuse
of a word by confusion
with one of similar sound, esp when creating a ridiculous effect, as in I am not under the affluence of alcohol
Centrifuge- an apparatus that rotates at high
speed and by centrifugal
force separates substances of different densities,
as milk and cream.
Numismatic- of, pertaining
to, or consisting of
coins, medals,
paper money,
etc.
Sept. 11 Syfy TV movies: I went to a job fair today,
looked for a job, read the business section of the newspaper, and basically
read the newspaper. Let me treat myself
to watching some more of these Syfy TV movie trailers.
Haunted High: I watched this one and immediately
thought: “Isn’t that Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia from Buffy) in those
glasses? I checked on imdb, and it
is. The story of a headmaster collecting
souls.
Hansel and Gretel: This was some months ago, but I
watched the first 20 min. of this movie because I do like watching fairytale
characters set in the present time (like Once Upon a Time) and horror
movies. I was tired that night, so I
stopped watching after 20 min. Here’s
the trailer.
I think I will watch the rest of this when it comes on TV
again because I have this thing to watch and complete things to the end.
Behemoth: A big monster comes out from a volcano and
attacks people.
Hydra: This one seems a little bit more
interesting. These bounty hunters drop
off these 4 criminals onto an island and hunt them down as a game. There is a hydra which is snake with 3 heads
and it’s eating people with their heads first.
Dinoshark: Eric Balfour is in it. Remember the Buffy pilot where he plays
Xander and Willow’s friend Jesse
who turns into a vampire? He was also in
the big movie remake Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
This is basically a dinosaur and shark mixed together and it likes to
jump out of the water and eat people alive and in mid-air.
Sept. 16: From watching these trailers, Syfy makes bad
movies. Hallmark makes all these soft
movies about romance, family, and lots of Christmas ones too. I only two of them: Love Begins and Love’s
Everlasting Courage, because the actor Wes Brown was in it.
It was boring because there was very little conflict. Not too complicated or interesting of a
story.
Newspapers: Did you know that the Edmonton Journal
changed their layout about a month ago?
I thought it looked good.
Subscriptions: I was thinking about how my family
used to subscribe to 3 newspapers like the Edmonton Journal, the Globe
and Mail, and the National Post.
It’s not until this year, we canceled the Post.
It reminds me of The Simpsons joke where an
accountant goes through their records.
Accountant: You have 3 Vogue subscriptions.
Homer: I have 3 bathrooms.
Lol.
Flashback: This leads to a flashback in gr. 9. I think it was a Junior Achievement workshop
and talked about the cost of living.
Newspaper subscriptions are expensive.
I just checked and it says the Edmonton Journal has a deal of $24.99 for
4 months of daily newspaper.
Margaret Atwood: She’s been in the newspapers and I
have been reading interviews with her.
She’s promoting her new book Madd Addam. I saw her when she gave a talk in 2006. I was reading her book Oryx and Crake
for college. In 2009, she released the
book The Year of the Flood to follow up the Crake. Madd Addam is the last book in her
trilogy.
The Fringe: This year the Fringe did very well,
that’s what I read in the Journal.
I just read the Fringe reviews. I
was too busy with work to go and see a play.
I haven’t seen a play since 2001.
It was also for school and it was the play called “The #14” about
passengers on a bus. It was a comedy and
various passengers come on and it was like a comedy sketch.
Comparisons:
A dangerous person has contact with a good guy’s family:
I was watching Do No Harm, because CTV
was airing the remaining episodes on Sat. nights in the summer. The bad guy Ian was at the good guy Ruben’s
place for a family dinner.
It was done on Buffy when Angelus (Angel without a
soul) is talking to Buffy’s mom Joyce right outside their house.
When I was watching Do No Harm, I immediately
thought: “I wrote a scene before where a woman has to introduce a bad guy to
her mom.”
