Ticket squee!

After a truly suck-ass week last week, things are starting to look up a bit. I am now the proud possessor (at least electronically) of:

* tickets to two July Duran Duran shows (insert 12-year-old girl squeal here) with three more to come.
* tickets to the D.C. screening of Serenity, thanks to deannie harrassing me to watch the boards at two o'clock this morning. *g*

And tonight I get to see Kingdom of Heaven.

Even my commute this morning was entertaining. I got to read the Post Express thanks to the... what do you call someone who stands outside the Metro station handing out the free newspapers, anyway? I have no idea. Anyway, thanks to this very enthusiastic newspaper-hander-outer, who chased me into the Metro tunnel calling "Ma'am! Ma'am! You forgot your Express!"

Well, no, I was ignoring you, but hey. It's not often people are that eager to give me something for free, so why not?

And speaking of people eager to give you something, we had a very entertaining passenger on my second bus today -- an elderly Jamaican Jehovah's Witness, who made a concerted effort to talk to the bus driver about Jesus.

Now, this bus driver is a conservative Christian guy who goes out of his way to be nice to passengers, but today he must have been in a mood. The following is an approximation of what took place:

Elderly Jamaican Jehovah's Witness: "...wah wah wah Jesus."
Bus Driver: "But Jesus was an alien from outer space."
EJJW: "..."
BD: "Yeah, everyone knows that. He came on a space ship."
EJJW: "How can you say that? Don't you know about the Trinity?"
BD: "Sure! Jesus, and the other two aliens on his space ship! Come on, this is stuff everyone knows. I heard it on TV."
EJJW: "*sputter*"

And it went on like that for about two miles, until the EJJW got off by the medical center, laughing his EJJW butt off.

Then I finally cranked up the volume on my mp3 player to drown out the rest of the ride with "Notorious." Overall, not a bad way to start the day.

Ticket squee!

After a truly suck-ass week last week, things are starting to look up a bit. I am now the proud possessor (at least electronically) of:

* tickets to two July Duran Duran shows (insert 12-year-old girl squeal here) with three more to come.
* tickets to the D.C. screening of Serenity, thanks to deannie harrassing me to watch the boards at two o'clock this morning. *g*

And tonight I get to see Kingdom of Heaven.

Even my commute this morning was entertaining. I got to read the Post Express thanks to the... what do you call someone who stands outside the Metro station handing out the free newspapers, anyway? I have no idea. Anyway, thanks to this very enthusiastic newspaper-hander-outer, who chased me into the Metro tunnel calling "Ma'am! Ma'am! You forgot your Express!"

Well, no, I was ignoring you, but hey. It's not often people are that eager to give me something for free, so why not?

And speaking of people eager to give you something, we had a very entertaining passenger on my second bus today -- an elderly Jamaican Jehovah's Witness, who made a concerted effort to talk to the bus driver about Jesus.

Now, this bus driver is a conservative Christian guy who goes out of his way to be nice to passengers, but today he must have been in a mood. The following is an approximation of what took place:

Elderly Jamaican Jehovah's Witness: "...wah wah wah Jesus."
Bus Driver: "But Jesus was an alien from outer space."
EJJW: "..."
BD: "Yeah, everyone knows that. He came on a space ship."
EJJW: "How can you say that? Don't you know about the Trinity?"
BD: "Sure! Jesus, and the other two aliens on his space ship! Come on, this is stuff everyone knows. I heard it on TV."
EJJW: "*sputter*"

And it went on like that for about two miles, until the EJJW got off by the medical center, laughing his EJJW butt off.

Then I finally cranked up the volume on my mp3 player to drown out the rest of the ride with "Notorious." Overall, not a bad way to start the day.