Secants and Tangents

“Ain’t that the story of my life…” Of course I have not written because I am busy as usual haha.

I am living on Landfair now and although it is going well, I don’t particularly dig the apartment thing, and I do not understand the appeal but whatever. I had a lot of trouble trying to get internet, but I have found a nice wireless signal that I can use instead. Apparently the cable port and the phone line are damaged for god knows what reason. The landlord (from Housing) does not respond to any of my calls or emails. It is kind of ridiculous. Fortunately this is only for 8 weeks. I will probably cancel my contract for Glenrock next year and find my own place.

Work is going great. I love Sunset Rec. All it is are two pools, a big field, and a Challenge Course, but it is the people and the stuff that goes on that makes it so much fun. My coworkers are really cool. I work with this one girl like all the time. She is blunt, funny, and fun to be around so my shifts fly by when she is around. Not to mention my boss, who is probably the funniest one. She is pretty chill. The building supervisors are a lot of fun too. There is this one guy that has the strongest British accent I can’t even understand what he is saying. There are clerks, building supervisors, camp staff, other supervisors, lifeguards and tennis instructors so it is quite busy around there.

It is awesome just to sit by the pool while studying and watch everybody else have such a good time since there is always something going on. A good 60-70% of the patrons are little kids, so there are not as many women there as during the year, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t any eye candy . And all of the lifeguards know it! Haha

I hear the same shit everyday from patrons, some of which get hostile with me. Sometimes I have to walk away from fear of laughing aloud: the parking machine is broken, the pool is (2 degrees) too hot, “why don’t you have change?”, “how am I supposed to park?” The best was this past week when a little kid shit in the pool and we had to close it for several hours. Even funnier, it happened the day before too. So many people were pissed about it since it happened two days in a row during a heat wave. One lady even yelled, “what is the matter with this kid?!” The lifeguards have a new radio call, “code brown.”

I keep in touch with the Bootstrap Camp crew. We are hoping to plan a reunion this Fall!

So last quarter didn’t end up as bad as I thought it would. I did a lot better in Analysis than I thought I would since I aced the final, but I got my first C ever: Physics. I could care less though. Nobody cares about a damned physics class. And of course I got an A in statistics, the subject that really matters to me now. Well, that’s the good news.

I had a streak of bad luck following Bootstrap Camp. I had my laptop stolen right out of my truck at HOME…not even in LA! And I got in a car accident. I got a new laptop that has wireless so life is great now haha. It is a Gateway with a 17” display and a new Centrino processor. I won’t have a truck for 3 weeks but oh well. I was overdue for this. My dad is pressuring me to buy a new truck, because he wants my F-150. I can part with it as long as my dad keeps it .

Some trucks I am considering:

Finally, the Willy Wonka remake is finally out and I want to see it! I doubt it is as good as the original though.

There are some pretty interesting changes to the characters since this is 2005. Interestingly, the “tragic flaws” that each child exhibits is uncannily up-to-date yet similar to the 1971 version.

Mike Teavee is no longer a Western thriller buff, rather an intellectual that is addicted to computer programming, games and television. In the original movie, Mike was an idiot.

Veruca Salt has a mother in this version, but Veruca looks practically identical to the original. Her fate involves the “squirrel and nut room” or something like that which was in the book, but not the original movie. Her flaw is shallowness and materialism whereas in the original it was being spoiled…close enough.

Augustus Gloop looks close enough. Hopefully he still has that funny accent. His flaw is greed and gluttony, which is unchanged from the original.

Violet Beauregarde has a mother as well in this version. She is very competitive in sports (and gum chewing) which was not her persona in the original version. Her sin is her competitiveness, whereas in 1971 it was rudeness (incessant gum-chewing). The actress that plays Violet looks like an ugly version of Kirsten Storms.

Charlie Bucket is a freaking nerd! What the hell happened to him? He sure as hell does not look poor in this remake!

Willy Wonka seems to be the most changed character. Johnny Depp is a good match, but he still too “ Burton.” The original Wonka was sarcastic, clever and scary in a perfect combination. Burton of course makes him scarier and mean than sarcastic and clever. The non-sense one-liners in the original version originated from literary quotes, whereas in this version they seem to be based on…well…cliché and low brow humor.

The Flash website for the movie is pretty cool.

Anyway, this entry has gone on long enough…