all things me

Updates: wow, something new at XAMM Well, not a biggie, just that Gillian Anderson can be *heard* on Harsh Realm’s Pilot episode. HR is a “new” show by Chris Carter.

Talking about Harsh Realm, there’s a Prodigy song played quite often in it and I recognised it so I had to search my whole Prodigy collection all 3 CDs… for it. Luckily it kept playing on HR cause I kept forgetting how it went So, here it is: Climbatize from The Fat of the Land. Also, lots of familiar faces in HR. Terry O’Quinn (XF movie, Millennium series… I guess he’s been on XF episodes too… can’t remember), “Ned” from Party of Five, “Frank Black” i.e. Lance Henrikssen from Millennium, and the guy playing Waters, just can’t remember where I’ve seen him before — have to check the actor’s name (as well as “Ned’s”) sometime…
Been listening: Prodigy (“inspired” by Harsh Realm); didn’t remember it was THIS good. The bass in The Trick is amazing! Too bad it doesn’t sound good enough on the headphones, it breaks, or whatever. I can’t believe I used to dislike Firestarter… *bo-boom*
(going to get a headache soon I’m afraid… *turns the volume down obediently*)

Been wondering: Should I start “archiving” the oldest entries… i.e. making more pages for this thing right here…

@ 17:12
Surfing Internet Movie DataBase:
Harsh Realm
– “Ned from Party of Five” is Scott Bairstow, he’s also been in the X-Files (ep Miracle Man)
– “Waters” is Max Martini (gosh what a name), can’t understand where I could’ve seen him… maybe he has one of those faces that stick in your memory even though you’ve seen them only once
– Terry O’Quinn *has* been in the X-Files, in several roles, and also Alias (I should’ve remembered)
There are also other XF people: John Shiban (writer/producer), Frank Spotnitz (writer/producer), Kim Manners (director), Mark Snow (music)…….

Wow, I received a “Site of the Moment” certificate from Domynoe after joining her fanlisting for Bookmarks..

Went shopping today with Dad. It’s funny, he always wants me to go shopping with him whether it’s clothes for him, tools or garden stuff. It’s very nice though.
Today we went to buy a fountain pump for our little pond in the back yard and some vent/fan thing for I don’t know what… maybe the sauna.

I had a weird dream. My dad and I were at a book store and suddenly he says “Hey, there’s a Robert Heinlein book over there.” (Heinlein writes scifi.) I don’t see anything so we go closer. I don’t see anything still. He picks up a thin paperback that was behind some other books and shows me the picture of a decorated shield on the book’s spine from which he recognised it was Heinlein (there isn’t one on the real books, but this is a dream, remember). I said to that “It’s the same as if I recognised David Duchovny from an eyebrow.”
Hmmm… bummer, I don’t.

@ 20:16
Finished XIII. Pretty cool it was. Maybe I’ll start it over with a more difficult level.

Kat and I have been pen friends for 9 years now Whee

I should be doing my bachelor’s thesis… but naaaaaaah. I’ve been doing the more interesting translation research. I’m a bad bad girl! Too bad the translation thing I’m doing can’t be a major…
And when I’m done with this, I’m going to play some XIII

@ 23:49
I just got a mail from my aunt. I had written her to tell that I’m working most of this summer so I can’t be there to look after the kids; one of them is my godson (5 yrs old) so I usually go there to help when the “official” baby-sitter (or daycare at a family close by) is having her own vacation and my aunt and her husband are not on their holiday. Anyway, my aunt wrote me that she had told my godson that I’d be coming over this summer and he’s waiting for me, so she asked if I could come in August for a “normal visit”. Awww… my heart melts. My godson wants me to visit him.

Been cursing: my TV

Updates: I finished reading the Talisman today, next I’m starting “Talisman II” i.e. the Black House.

I’m always shocked (not in a bad way) to see a professor use smileys… In an email I received there was a <=O]
hehee…

Today I stayed at the department because I was supposed to go see a prof about my training/job but we (the studies coordinator and I) didn’t get to see him. Oh well, good thing I stayed doing assignments though, cause I finally got my natural language generation pipeline working properly (well, I haven’t made the pipeline which is Java, but the XSL transformations). I had done something very odd in the beginning when I was just learning the stuff and it messed up the whole system. Now there’s only a few “polishings” to do and I can send all the assignments/files to the professor (for whom I’m doing the course, it’s sort of “extra curriculum” but has to do with my bachelor’s thesis). I do, however, have an essay to write by May 1st, but that I’ll do on Friday. Today I have to check what I’ve done wrong in an assignment cause it was so easy (probably haven’t done anything wrong, mind you)

@ 23:27
Updates: Joined the Talisman Fanlisting

I have an exam tomorrow about “changing English”, we were told to bring our notes and papers with us. I’ll just read through the papers quickly tonight and I’m set. Better catch some shuteye, too…

Whee, can’t wait for tomorrow morning and the bus ride. I’m going to start reading Black House (that’s my “backpack book”). Geek? Me?

XIII arrived today but I can’t play it until this Sunday (at the earliest) because I have SO much to do so I can’t waste time playing (as wonderful as it would be… *deep sigh* Duchovny…).

But, a bit happier thoughts: I finished the assignment for Semantic Web today (due today, too, but anyway) quite effortlessly. Also managed to do the assignment (due Thu) for context-free parsing methods today, so I dared to allow myself meet Grandma tomorrow after text analysis exam. We’ll go eat and chat.

Today I’ve been reading for that exam (booooriiiing) and cursing my tv/video. It keeps turning off (and the cassette comes out) every few minutes. I’ll be rich (yeah, right) after this summer so maybe I could buy a new tv + video, perhaps digital tv because I’m going to have to anyway someday (by 2007, was it?). I can’t live without a TV and a properly working video (thank gawd the X-Files isn’t running…).

This morning I went to the library, because I needed to get a book with normal 30-days loan period. There’s a website where you can reserve a book and get it brought to the library of your choice. It’s a good service, but when I tried to reserve the Finnish version of Everything’s Eventual (Maantievirus matkalla pohjoiseen) it kept reserving a book with a 14-day loan. Not enough. Plus, if you call a library to reserve a book, you need to go there to get it. Only the staff could reserve a specific book and get it brought to a specific library. So I went to the library and told the lady there that I need a normal loan-period book. She reserved one for me and I went happily to the department to do an assignment because I needed a graphical program — Protégé — for it (couldn’t do it today so I have to plan it well for Monday and go to the dept. well before a lecture), and I just thought I’d check if I can see the reservation in my info. The librarian had reserved a book with a 14-day loan period AND it wasn’t even available yet! The due date was May 5th! I knew the book could’ve been found in many libraries around the neighbouring cities waiting in the shelf. So what’s the logic?! I was angry and annoyed (and not to mention stressed with all the stuff that’s piling up) and cancelled the reservation and accidentally also cancelled the English version of Carrie that was on its way (and probably at the library here already…) so I had to re-reserve it and now I have to wait for THAT to arrive. At least I have books to study while I wait.
Then I checked if Maantievirus was in any library I could get to and luckily it was. A kind student I know and often chat with told me how to get to the library and off I went. When I got to the library it took me a while to find the right – horror – section and there was a man flipping through King books. He finally stepped aside a little to read a book more carefully so I got to browse through the shelves. I realized Maantievirus wasn’t there so I tried to see if the man had it. I asked him if it was the book and it was! He asked if I needed it and I said that I did and had come all the way just for that book (stupid me I didn’t say I needed it for a translation studies research). He said I could have it and he can get some other book. I couldn’t believe it and I was really really really happy. I hope the man found something to read. Good taste he has, at least.
So, now here it is, beside me. Maantievirus matkalla pohjoiseen translated by Ilkka Rekiaro. And I can keep it for a whole month. I couldn’t be happier.

Like my sister said, The spirit of Stephen King guided me. Yup, it probably did Last night I was channel surfing and started looking at the start credits of a movie on the Estonian Channel 2. Lo and behold, it says “Based on the book by Stephen King” and I gasp. When I watch a little more I realize it’s The Stand!! (I guessed it from the first scene) I don’t know if this was the first episode (Larry and Nadine met for the first time and Flagg let Lloyd out of jail and Trash blew up some Cheery Oil tanks). But I sure hope it was the 1st. I’m not taping it because the picture is very bad but at least I get to see it! And mayhap (sorry, King uses that a lot…) the mystery of M-O-O-N in my head will be solved.

Ps. Did you know that ‘lo’ means ‘see’.

Bought Hearts in Atlantis DVD –> Updates at TGWLSK. I also watched it today; very good movie, sweet… and good actors (Anthony Hopkins and Anton Yelchin who plays the young Bobby).

*Today* I got a confirmation on what I’ll be doing for the summer and that it’ll be training, which means I have to make a report on my work and I get 2 credits. At least after the summer the training will be done so I don’t have to worry about it later.