StalkingMidnight

So last night, I'm finishing some homework at about quarter-to-two, when I hear sirens and screeching tires.  So, naturally, I turn off my overhead light and look out my window...as a car tears up my street, jumps the curb and slams to a stop more-or-less in a neighbor's driveway.  A cop car is close behind and parks on the curb (fast, of course).  While the cop is pulling up and parking, the guy (about 150 lbs, 5'8"-11", btw. 15-20, baggy bottom, couldn't tell the top) jumps out of the fucking car (still turning over), and runs across the yard and into the next house's backyard.  Needless to say, the officer pursues.  The officer then proceeds to not find the kid (probably hopped a fence and went up a block, call for backup, and for the next 2 hours, we have between 3 and 6 squad cars (most of our force, I believe) parked or driving up and down my street (plus the tow truck, for a bit), and officers wandering into back yards across the street.  At first, the owner of the house whos yard he ran into poked her head in a dressing gown out the front door, but the cop on the scene told her to go back inside, so she did.  Then the neighbor who's driveway now had a new car in it poked his head out, and the dialogue went something like this: "Go back in the house!" "What?" "Go back in the house!" "Who are you?" "The police, sir, go back in the house!" "What's going on?"  "Go back in the house now, sir!" (a door shuts).   Yeah, he's kind of an idiot...always has been.  So anyhow, at some point, mom wakes up to let the dogs out, and asks why I'm still up.  I explain that as I finished my homework...this happened, and she proceeds to stare out the window for 10 minutes, and then tells me not to leave the back door open.  Guy didn't cross the street, and if he did, he isn't coming back towards the officers.  I tell her she's silly, I let the dog out, and she goes back to sleep.  I then proceed, like a complete idiot, to stare out my window with binoculars to see if I can spot the guy This is at about 3am...I do this for perhaps 15 minutes.   Then I settle down to check the news, etc, and do some reading before bed.  The State of Michigan has now been shut down for 4 hours.  I go to sleep.  10 minutes later, the state is un-shutdown.

COPS...dumb show, but now I understand the appeal...if not enough to say, start watching it...ever...

SQUEEEEE!!!



That is all.

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If you want more detail on that damned potter epilogue...Rowling interviewed, and gave a shitton. Huzzah, interwebs.

I was just prank-called by a prisoner.

If you're expecting a detailed update...maybe tomorrow; don't hold your breath. I'm tired. However, I should note that I have finally and, for at least a couple of weeks, returned from Mt. Pleasant, home of the wild Guinea Pig. Yes, that's right. Wild guinea pig. As I was parking across from Dan/Elliotttttt/Aaron/Adam/Kyle's apartment after returning from the On Borrowed Time cast party, I saw a small animal in the parking lot. I recognized it immediately, and, despite its black and white coloration, approached it. Upon reaching it, and petting it, I confirmed my suspicions. It was, in fact, an Abyssinian guinea pig, wandering the parking lot. Naturally, I tried to catch the poor creature and get it at least put away so I could take it to Soldan's in the morning. But after my initial petting, when I approached it, it ran into the bushes, and it being quite late, and me rather tired and it being dark, I was unable to pursue and detain the little beastie. I went back in the morning, hoping it had holed up for the evening, but no, it was gone. So, somewhere in the city of Mount Pleasant, roams a new kind of creature (though I doubt it will live long out on its own): the wild guinea pig. Keep an eye out for this noble creature if you're still in the area, and if not, wish it luck on its journey.

So I thought it was amusing that Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman had two movies together in a single year. Well, then I realized that Daniel Craig and Eva Green are in two movies in just about a year, too, as she's the Bond girl, Vesper Lynd, and Serafina Pekkala. It just makes 6 degrees that much easier.


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Oh, the irony.

Does anyone remember the show "Ghost Writer"?  Well, I used to watch it.  One of their episodes deals with a crime centering around copyright infringement.  That's where I first learned the phrase (even though my dad had been pirating stuff forever).  I remember discussing it with my mom in the basement at the time.  The irony (you know, other than my massive subsequent violations), is that (in my "get shit from my childhood" kick) I am currently copying a VHS I found at the library of that particular mystery.  K, so it's not amazing or anything, but being me, I find it worthy of the 5 minutes I've dedicated to pondering the irony and writing this entry.