Been feeling down like crazy these last weeks, for no apparent reason. Just one of those usual emo periods one has every now and then I guess. Not getting a good night’s sleep, feeling tired and drained of energy. So I’m doing The Closer marathons. Never watched it before, but I downloaded all the seasons a couple of days ago and have been enjoying going through them so far, only one season left.

Our shower is still not functioning and it’s incredibly annoying. Yay for having 20 year old shower setups.

Our shower broke down last week, and now it looks like it won’t be up and functioning again for over a week. Needless to say, I feel pretty yucky and disgusting at the moment. Washing your hair with a bucket of water does not feel very satisfying.

Yesterday I watched Mr. Brooks, which was absolutely fabulous. It’s been a while since I’ve enjoyed a movie that much.

The last few days has been spent doing the occasional 2-3hr hiking trip — it’s great to live in a city where you can take the subway for 15mins to find yourself surrounded by complete wilderness. I think I must have been inspired from watching Man vs. Wild, a newly discovered show for me. If you haven’t seen it, it’s basically a documentary series about this badass guy named Bear Grylls, who puts himself in the middle of nowhere all over the world with no provisions, and he then shows you how to survive and get to civilization so you can be rescued.

I’ve also started re-watching Star Trek: The Original Series, I had completely forgotten how good it was (though The Next Generation is my favorite). I had also forgotten how incredibly campy it actually is — not a bad thing.

Epp pasted a picture in #across of a celebrity a couple of days ago and asked if anyone knew who it was. I vaguely remembered her from somewhere, and after a while I remembered she looked an awful lot like Buffy’s little sister, and indeed it was. Which again reminded me that I never really watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer properly before, I’ve only seen an occasional episode or two from the TV when it’s been on in the background. So I decided to give it a try since I’m bored out of my mind these days, and it’s been fun to watch so far.

When I haven’t been hiking or watching series, I’ve most likely been playing old console games through emulators. I just downloaded complete sets of all games for Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance and Genesis, together with a nice program to launch the games from, called QuickPlay. It’s been a lot of fun now that I have a controller to play with, I’ve always had to use a keyboard before. The games that’s seen the most action so far has been Banjo Kazooie, Super Mario 64 and Paper Mario for the N64, along with Metroid Fusion and Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow for Gameboy Advance. Fun fun fun.

I received my camera on Saturday, so I’ve been playing around with it since then. It sure is quite different from your normal point and shoot cameras, and pure heaven to use compared to my old one. Still learning and experimenting, it’s been fun so far. If you should ever want a digital SLR camera, then I can only recommend you get this one, as it’s pure awesomeness.

I’m still rather clueless when it comes to real photography, if you want to call it that, but I feel I learn something new every day at this point. It should become a nice hobby. I remember I really enjoyed the few times I got to use one of the cameras at our disposal (a Nikon D70) when I did my civil service. Specially fun to have one of them published in the internal magazine, even though I didn’t get the credit for it. I think the hardest part will be (and has been) how to get a proper sense of the interaction between shutter speeds and aperture stops.

Anyway, today I ate 16 packs of PEZ refills for breakfast. I’m completely addicted to them — I buy them all the time, whenever I see them in the store.