The Dude abides...

I made an agreement with a friend that I would blog once a week if he did the same... Seemed like an easy thing to do at the time. But now I am faced with an (almost) empty screen and one blog entry to finish before tomorrow is over. Nice, eh?

When I started this blog I was gonna use it to talk about many things that were important to me. I was gonna talk about being many kinds of geek and walking in the real world. I am not sure that I have come even close to doing a good job with that... But whatever. I write what comes to mind and go with it. I will say (on that geeky nature) that I have been trying to find a place to watch my PBS online (no I haven't tried PBS.org... I always do things the hard way) and have been looking forward to my Friday night gaming session a little more than usual this week. I have almost finished watching all of the episodes of the 2nd Doctor in the Classic Dr Who tv series, and have (finally) watched the last 3 episodes of the first season of the 10th Doctor. Wow. Matt Smith doesn't disappoint. I am also working (very slowly, might I add) through all of the X-Files, beginning to end.

With all that being said, my son is doing well. He is now in the middle of his fourth grade year and has been taking on some career advising. He asked last night what I was good at (you see, he has decided that I need a second job... He's not wrong...). I told him that I was good at talking to people, good at using a computer, and good at being a leader. I also told him that I could cross my eyes, roll my tongue and pat my head while rubbing my stomach ("Not job skills, Mom" Again, he's not wrong...). Do you know what he gets from that? "Mom, you should work at a game store. Cause you're kind of a gamer!" You see what he did there? And, wow. I am not sure how to think about all that, you know, now that I see it in print.

But the geeky inner me and the socially adjusted outer me I like to show the professional world are doomed to stay separate, alas! Cause, you see, none of the game shops are hiring right now. I checked. And the split personality that I have grown so accustomed to will remain.

And, yes, I did watch The Big Lebowski this week. All I ever needed to know from life, I learned from this movie. ... No, not really, but that sounded nice. Lol! I do so love this movie! "F*ck it! Let's go bowling!" has become my motto. I also watched a terrible movie called Bloodsucking Redneck Vampires. If you haven't seen it... You should! I think that my roomie and I are gonna grab our 15 minutes of fame and do a web movie as an homage! Redneck Zombies. Or Werewolves. Or even Frankenstein monsters. The list is truly endless.

And I think that is enough to keep my end of my bargain. Let's see if my friend does his part!

GGC