The Magical Month of May

So what's new? My last post seemed to be pretty grim in spots but everything has been going quite nicely lately. So my dad's still on the road to recovery but it's good to finally have him home. I lived over at his house for a little while after his return from the physical therapy center and have been driving him around from time to time, but aside from that he's fairly independent. Aside from helping my dad with various chores I haven't been doing too much as of the past few weeks. I found out at BCC that I met my math requirement and was taking a class I didn't need, he suggested I drop the class so my schedules been pretty easy, and I get home at like 11:00 but I still have to wake up at seven in the morning, fortunately I was told that I'm on good path to getting my associates. I probably could of gotten it this year if BCC offered most of the important video production classes more frequently. Due to that I'll probably be there another year before I transfer for anywhere. I feel like I'm on a very slow path but I'm determined and I just got to stay focused.

Our latest Ferret "Steve II" or as my mom has been calling him "Cap Garland" (I think it's from a Laura Ingalls Wilder book) recently had to go to the vet for an obstruction. Meaning he ate something (in this case some rubber tubing) that he couldn't digest which if not treated in 48 hours would kill him. Luckily we got him in quickly and he's already home and in good shape. It was our second ferret to have an obstruction (Don't worry that one was okay too) so we weren't too worried and now it's all good.

On to less pressing issues, what's new in the world of movies? So far May has been pretty "Whatever" for me. Star Trek was fine but I don't understand what all the hubbub is about. It's like when Dark Knight came out and everyone loved it (I include myself) but my dad was like "Yeah it's fine but nothing special. I liked the first one better." I understood his complaints, but I didn't get how anyone could not be blown away. So now it's like I'm in the position he was and it's weird. I love the original show's clever, character driven writing, it was a thinking man's sci-fi, but this new one doesn't remind me of that at all. Seems more like a tongue and cheek action flick than anything else. I've also made it clear that I didn't like Zachary Quinto, I felt he had no presence and was just a prick, oh well.

Soon to come will be Terminator Salvation which thus far hasn't received very generous reviews. Sounds like the consensus is that director McG sucks. Looking ahead there's Drag Me To Hell and Up both being released on my birthday. Both currently have 100%s on Rotten Tomatoes (Though DMH only has seven ratings opposed to Up's twenty) I love Sam Raimi, especially his horror and thriller films, so I hope DMH is good despite it's generic horror trailers. I'm not too interested in Up yet but I bet I'll like it, Pixar rarely disappoints.

I finally tried one of those "3 for $20" sales at Blockbuster that Sean's always telling me about. Was kind of neat but I had a hell of a time picking a third movie. I almost got Zach and Miri Make a Porno but it had this stupid "blockbuster edition" design on the cover, not very esthetically pleasing. I ended up buying Ghost Town, In Bruges and Pineapple Express all three films that I very much enjoy.

Well that's all I got the energy for today, keep on truckin'.