A Log of Exciting Activities

Today has been shockingly interesting. I made Rice Krispy treats, finally. They turned out delicious. I also have found a plethora of great iMixes on iTunes for my iBellydance iWorkout mix. I really like iMixes - it saves me the trouble of hunting things down but I'm very disappointed in what's out there for the Tower of Terror. They have totally the wrong version of a great many songs used in the queue - namely they all have some version of "Wishing" but it's Vera Lynn's version that is key. And haauuuntttinnnnnnnng. boo!

My user testing meetings are officially over, my voice is returning but the inevitable cathartic fatigue that comes from 18 months of preparing a system that a user can function in has hit. I just think I could sleep for a thousand years.

Initially I had intended to take a short roadtrip to either coast for a night out of town. Because the meeting lasted til Friday instead of Thursday, LA and I ended up at Typhoon Lagoon instead which was far more manageable logistically. I laid in the 0" Entry pool and let the water wash over me. I nearly fell asleep. I have SO much to deal with at home, personally and so forth now but I am ready to once I catch my proverbial breath.

Then I went and saw the new Zach Braff movie, "The Last Kiss" and it was achingly real. Like Garden State, it was like the last fifteen minutes of any Scrubs episode - comedic with a current of sobering reality flowing underneath. The soundtrack was very good as well, though I was perturbed at the opening Snow Patrol song, "Chocolate" for reasons I shan't get into but suffice to say it was a programmed ringtone of mine at one time. One of the characters they kept referring to as Lis which bugged me. And then a lot of other miscellany things I could identify with. Jacinda Barrett was surprisingly good in it - I still see her in her "Real World" skin but she really gave a very powerful performance with her aussie accent slipping out only on a few words in scenes where she was powerful pissed. And I love Blythe Danner, have an enormous crush on Zach Braff and think Casey Affleck holds all the Affleck power but no one knows it yet.

By far the best line of the movie comes from the also fabulous Tom Wilkinson and I will have to paraphrase this because I don't have any actual text for which to confirm other than what I recall from one of the best scenes in the movie:

What you feel only matters to you! It's what you do that matters to other people.

Mmmhmm, and it just ain't whistlin Dixie.