starting the superstar sims / scrabble / missing ed mckay

last night i was kind of grumpy when i got home from work--on account of the getting-no-weekend thing, which of course i signed up for all by myself, but i need the money and it's not really my fault about the job thing, i'm trying--and i couldn't make up my mind about what i wanted to do with the evening. dann suggested we install the Sims Superstar expansion pack that i had gotten for christmas. my computer's too old to run it, and dann has the earlier expansion packs anyway, so we put it on his computer, and created a new house to play with. Dann and Rox, the Teh family. the Rox sim has a cute willow-season-5 flippy hairdo and i picked out a good outfit for her. she and the Dann sim have a little teeny house that dann and i spent a good amount of time creating ("why are you putting that $2000 toilet in there, they don't need that!" "why would you put the burglar alarm on the inside?" "what do you mean, no kitchen sink?"). it was fun. i took the Rox sim out to Studio Town to see what it was like. because i'd never played the earlier expansion packs, the whole "town" thing was new to me, and i was very entertained. at first when i tried her on the open mic and the kareoke, it was really pathetic--the audience hated her, and her singing was really godawful. but then i took her home for a few days, got her some creativity and charisma points, and she performed a lot better and actually made a bit of money. enough to pay for the $25 shrimp skewer she had for dinner. but eating that was apparently fun. the best part, though, was on the open mic stage when she whipped out that hand puppet, and they had an argument and then the puppet attacked her and she fell down. it was absolutely hilarious.

so dann and i decided that he would work on Dann's character and i'll work on Rox's, and we'll keep the other's character busy but make sure not to kill them off or anything (Rox needs some serious cooking points, though). and we'll keep each other posted about any progress we make. oh, and a skunk showed up and it was the cutest thing. i can't wait until they can afford a slightly bigger house and can get a pet. and dann's thinking about getting the new Makin' Magic expansion pack, so we'll see what that's like. i'll have to do some more playing and try the downtown stuff.

then we played scrabble with jorn. it was the most pathetic game ever, no contest. when i was ready to go out, we were all so relieved that it was finally over. oh well. we'll play again soon, i'm sure, and it'll be a much better game. anything's better than LTHTHGE.

amy lebrun called me on friday to see if i wanted to go to the mall with her. i was all excited, even though i was confused at first because my cell just told me the caller was "amy cell" and i wasn't sure who it was. i've rectified that, now, though. i couldn't go to the mall because i was work (fucking work), but i'm thinking next week or the week after i will give amy a call and see if she wants to go to the isabella gardner museum with me. it'll be free, too. yay for SPNEA.

and i just finished my second buffy book. i need to find a good used book store here in boston that has a decent sf/fantasy paperback section. the ones i've found so far have only had maybe two or three shelves, nothing at all like ed mckay's. that store was one of my favorite things about greensboro. rhett, too. she's engaged now. i'm so glad she's so happy.

interview at HLS tomorrow. here's hoping.