the last shift

myspace sucks because 90 percent of this weekend i couldn't log into it because it was down. myspace sucks because the login has to be an entire email address and not just a unique word or something. myspace sucks because it can't remember your password on your computer.

Lady in the Water (2006): a water nymph thing (narf) is trying to get back to her own world or something, but before the eagle can come and take her away, she must first get past the wolf made of sod. sounds crazy, i know. so most of the time while i am watching this unfold, i'm thinking that m. night is going to pull a fast one on us as usual and this ridiculous story will all make sense in the end. but no, it is what it is. there are no cool twists and turns or big revelations or surprises at the end. so right off the bat, don't expect an ending like any of his other movies. i guess the closest it comes to is signs. anyway, the story is set in some apartment complex that seems to be completely cut off from the rest of the world. most of the movie is a stupid mystery game to try and figure out everyone's role in getting the eagle to her. it just goes back and forth between characters and it gets old pretty quick. the characters themselves were really interesting and all played well. watching the tree monkey things fighting at the end, i felt like it was jumanji or basically some pg-13 fantasy for kids. finally, all the characters in the apartment complex are excited and concerned for the well being of this narf and not once does anyone stop and say, "this is the craziest crap i've ever heard of." there are some skeptics but they only began questioning well into their involvement with the whole thing. this was easily my least favorite of shyamalan's major movies. don't see.
disappointing, C-

today is pioneer day and everyone has the day off but me. we do get time and a half however. today happens to be my last day working as a dispatcher. it's been a long three years working here. in fact i've worked here longer than any other job. it's been fun i guess. easy for sure. i never had any huge emergencies or major medicals to deal with. never got into any trouble with anyone as far as i know. there have been a fair share of annoying coworkers, but so much isolation exists as a dispatcher here that there is very little personal interaction between myself and anyone else. there are also a few i will actually miss also. countless hours were spent on video games and movies. hours of sleeping upright in a chair. all this police procedure and dispatching knowledge will begin the process of being forgotten starting tomorrow. i would have liked to of stayed here and took over the dispatch supervisor position. it pays terrible and is basically one big headache, but it would have been fun.

last week i beat that video game i was playing (xiii). toward the end it started getting ridiculous and would take hours to master a level well enough to get through it without dying, so for about the last quarter of the game i started using cheats to get myself through the levels. otherwise i'd probably still be playing. instead i'm working on hitman. it is really hard and again you cannot save during a level. and in this one they don't even give you health. there is so much you have to figure out to pass each mission that i'm lucky to be able to pass a level with half a day worth of playing. after this i might take it easy on the games for a while because right about when i've beaten this game, school should be getting ready to start.

just slightly over three more hours until i'm off. today was a lovely twelve hour shift so my entire monday has been wasted by being here. there are going to be fireworks any second though from the school after the baseball game is over with. the game is tied and right now they are in the ninth. death cab for cutie is playing at uvsc in a few weeks. i'd totally go if i wasn't going to be living in another state during that time. i'm also going to miss a little get together of dc intern cohorts at the end of august which pisses me off. this may have already been mentioned, but i really wish i could go. i need to talk to kim and work something out. hmm.