Blaaaahg post

I started re-reading "A Game of Thrones" for the umpteenth* time today, and I decided to check on progress of "A Dance with Dragons" (Coming July 2005!). Obviously its no where near complete, but I did happen to look into the HBO series thats coming out next year, and it looks very promising. Sean Bean (Boromir from Lord of the Rings) is cast as Eddard Stark! Lucky him, he gets to revise his role as "Guy who dies right away!" In related news, I discovered through arduous and painstaking research that Mr. Bean is being type cast as the fantasy genre's version of a red shirt.

Lena Headey from the confusing-but-entertaining Terminator series is playing Cersei, which is nice until I realize that Summer Glau isn't playing anyone at all, and a Nerd-gasm is totally out of the question. How can I get excited for a show with NO Firefly cast involvement?

I have a bizarre loyalty to the cast members of LotR and Firefly. I watched the entire terminator series just for River, "V" just for Anara, and most of "Castle" For Captain Mal. When I learned that Nathon Fillon, Alan Tudyk and Adam Baldwin were doing voices in a video game, I preordered it with no hesitation.

I sat all the way through the god-awful movie "Chupacabra Terror" because it had John Ryhs Davies (Gimli), And I went to see The Chronicles of Riddick - IN THEATERS - because Karl Urban was in it, and Eomer was an ancillary character at best.

For the love of sweet cupping cakes, Andy Serkis is in ONE SCENE in lotr, and I'm buying the upcoming game "Enslaved, Odyssey to the West", because he is doing one of the voices in it.

Is this a problem? Some kind of complex? or just my super intense nerdiness finding other outlets because of my stubborn refusal to cosplay?

* Umpteenth is a real word! wtf!

quickie

Today I got my first call from a potential employer in roughly 4.2 millennia, give or take a few decades. Whole foods! huzzah! The interview went great, the guy actually had me meet the next higher-up manager and showed me around a little. I need this job like BP needs better public relations (would have been nice a few months ago, but even more important now!) so fingers crossed.

Last easter I got a sandwich bag filled with jelly beans, and by eating only one piece a day I've managed to make it last until the present day. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that if you eat just one jelly bean, the gods replace the sugar with vitamins so its basically like munching on cauliflower, but without the agony.

Speaking of agony, I think I am developing athletes foot. The top of my right big toe burns like the dickens, but there is no visible rash. My secondary notion is that diminutive fairy-folk (likely envious of my large feet) are sneaking into my room at night and attacking my extremities with miniature mallets.