The lack of entries here lately has been due mostly to me not feeling like I have much to say. Such is the way of things sometimes.

Today, I turned in an application at Safeway. The big "Now Hiring" sign near the entrance was too tempting to pass up. They even had a position open in the deli. Oh yay.

Though I have very mixed feelings about the idea of going back to doing that again, it would beat being broke, I think. Also, if I get a job there, it would have at least 2 distinct advantages over my last grocery store gig. First, the location is within easy walking distance of my current pseudo-residence, so I wouldn't have to drive all the way to Boulder every day and spend 5-10% of my weekly income on gas, as before. That's a plus.

Second, their deli actually closes down at night, so if I do get a job in the deli, the latest I'd likely end up normally working would probably be around 8 - 9pm. (I would still optimally like to get something even more "normal" so I could maintain some semblence of a life, but since when is this world ever perfect?)

I'm not sure if having a competitor of theirs on my job history is really an asset or a liability in this case. But since it can be counted as relevant job experience, I'd like to say it's a positive. Spin it that way.

Took in a matinee of Matrix Revolutions today. I guess I mostly covered that in my movielog. Though I made a few comments, I guess, like Jaeger, I'm also not totally sure what to think of it just yet. Though I enjoyed the movie, it didn't leave me walking out with the immediate instinctive "wow, that was awesome" factor, as both previous movies did. However, that's not to say I didn't like it. Though it did seem to be missing.... something. But I can't quite define what. Hmmm. Charm, perhaps? Narrative focus? I'm not sure.

Though it may not have quite lived up to its predecessors, it was still a worthy movie in many regards. Thought provoking, and maybe just a bit epic. A sigh, rather than a shout.

Afterwards, when I got on jabber, Jaeger was talking about plans to go and see a showing. Despite my mixed reaction, and despite the dwindling cash in my wallet, I decided that I might just be insane enough to join him, seeing the same movie twice in one day. (Plus I was curious to see the then-unknown consumer electronics toy he had obtained.)

Alas, it was not to be. When I arrived at Colony Square at 1940, the sign said that tickets for the 2000 showing we were planning to see had sold out. I pulled out my cell phone with the plan that I would call Jaeger to see about his thoughts on the matter, and discovered that I had a voicemail waiting. It was from Jaeger. When they discovered that 2000 was sold out, he and Kiesa had gotten last minute tickets into the 1930 showing. (Had I not had my radio turned up in the car, I might have heard the phone ring. Hmmm...)

I contemplated whether to attempt joining them, and decided against it. Sanity, boring as it may be, ultimately prevailed. I abhore getting into movies late (even if I just miss a few of the trailers), and I estimated a high likelihood of landing in the nosebleed seats. Besides, I had already seen the f-ing movie once today! Better to save my money for another time. I returned to the Laser Fortress.

(Still, at some point in the not too far future, I would like to go for a second theatrical viewing. As I was with the previous movies, I'm curious to see how it will play when I already know where things are going.)

I guess that will do for now.