(Or: There’s Not All That Much You Can Do While Nursing A Twisted Ankle, It Turns Out)

Got yesterday’s mail from my neighbor, including a note from NYU about making the Dean’s List. Hurray!

Watched Following, which caught my eye at the video place because it’s by Christopher Nolan, the director of Memento. Following is slightly less polished but I liked it a lot; it reminded me slightly of Pi in some respects. Definitely worth seeing.

Gave myself another haircut. The back badly needed to be trimmed - which is of course the most exciting part to do yourself (exciting in the sense of “I can’t see what I’m cutting but hey it all grows back eventually”). A careful inspection with the help of multiple mirrors hasn’t revealed anything glaringly wrong; this is the fourth time I’ve done this now, if you don’t count shaving my head last year before I had any actual hair to cut. Right now it’s looking like a short bob rather than an early-stage mullet, which is probably for the best.

Played yet more with OS X; I’m still relearning all my keyboard shortcut reflexes but so far it’s all dandy. I haven’t had to reboot since I installed 10.1.5, which is as it should be. Apart from the stability, I remain wowed by Aqua - my current favorite detail is how most of the window chrome is gone, apart from the upper menu bar. There are god damned dropshadows like you wouldn’t believe. The Dock’s great too, of course; it’s everything I loved about DragThing (which I still love) and then some.

Noticed that everywhere I go on the web lately, everyone is switching to Movable Type, too.

Discovered that the Duane Reade down the street to which I hobbled in search of painkillers also carries Ginger People Ginger Chews, including the Spicy Apple ones. These things are fantastic; I got hooked on them the last time I visited my parents and one of their friends had a giant bagful. Now I can stock up without paying for shipping, whee!

After asking around for half an hour, finally found out the difference between Chow Fun and Chow Mei Fun, neither of which I ended up ordering.