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Last night, [livejournal.com profile] bethje and I saw Jeepers Creepers II (which she'd seen already, but I hadn't). It was pretty good. I like the idea of the Creeper eating people's body parts to replace or enhance his own. I'm somewhat disappointed that the song "Jeepers Creepers," which was quite significant in the first film, was never even played in this one. Not to mention that watching a movie directed by a child molestor makes me somewhat uneasy, but, you know, I try to separate the artist from the art, and all that.

Today, I had the Pizza Hut lunch buffet for the first time in a while. The buffet ends at 1:30, and I got there around 1:15, so I made sure to check and see if there was any good pizza left. In my experience, if you get to the buffet around when it's going to close, they put out new pizzas much less often. So, essentially, you're paying just as much money for less options. Fortunately, they had plenty of good pan pizza. (I don't much care for their thin crust stuff.)

Incidentally, I noticed on the door that Pizza Hut is still doing the Book It! program. That takes me back. I actually only got the free pizza once, which is kind of weird, as I remember reading quite a bit at that age. I just never read enough books in a month, except that one time in January 1989. I guess part of it might have been because I did too much re-reading, which is still true today. If I like a book, I'll read it over and over again, which is fun for me, but doesn't put the free Personal Pan Pizzas on the table. I also remember that I was obsessed with a book called The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, which is a really cool guidebook-style catalog of locations from books and such. I actually bought a new copy of it a few years ago, since the old one had fallen into disrepair. Anyway, it's not a book that you're really supposed to read cover-to-cover, so the fact that I was always looking at that didn't help me reach the quotas.


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Finally, you know how some places have machines where you have to sign your name on the screen, and it's pretty much impossible to go back and dot I's and cross T's? Were they invented in some country where the alphabet doesn't HAVE letters to cross and dot, or is it just another example of people rushing out technology before it's actually able to handle common situations? It's like the time when I was at the New Jersey State Aquarium as a kid, and I got my sleeve all wet when trying to reach into a tank and touch a tiny shark, and it was practically impossible to get the motion-sensitive hot-air dryer in the bathroom to dry my sleeve?

There are a lot of references to uninteresting anecdotes from my childhood in this post, aren't there?

Date: 2006-03-14 09:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com
I missed getting Book It!s mostly because I read plenty of books but forgot to actually write the reports on them. Actually, the first time I ever remember having Pizza Hut was because of Book It! and I was really excited to discover how good it was, because until that moment in my life I had seriously only ever had crappy pizza, and I had no idea why all the other kids in the world kept saying that Pizza was their favorite food.

Date: 2006-03-14 11:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vovat.livejournal.com
Hmm, we never had to write reports. The fact that we got off so easy and I STILL only did it once makes me sound really pathetic, doesn't it? {g} Really, I do think it's a little weird that what you have to do is apparently totally at the teacher's discretion.

Date: 2006-03-15 01:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kristenjarrod.livejournal.com
Anybody remember the shiny blue (well, it was more of a hologram) Book It! button you would get for a certian amount of books read? I had sloos of those growing up and now I have none.

Book it!

Date: 2006-03-15 04:33 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I *hate* the Book it! program. I think the only lesson it teaches children is that reading is a chore which they have to be bribed to do. Terrible...

Courtney

Date: 2006-03-15 05:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] colleenanne.livejournal.com
I LOVED Book It! My sister and I did it each month, and my mom would take us to Pizza Hut for dinner. It's one of my fonder childhood memories. I even dressed up as Ben Franklin or someone like that in order to give a report about my book in front of the class.

Now I want a personal pan pizza and a child's book to read.

Date: 2006-03-15 05:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vovat.livejournal.com
It sounds kind of familiar. I'm pretty sure I never got one, though.

Date: 2006-03-15 04:01 pm (UTC)

Date: 2006-03-15 04:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] l8erngr8er.livejournal.com
Fortunately, they had plenty of good pan pizza. (I don't much care for their thin crust stuff.)

Thin crust rules, but I can respect your love for pan pizza. We don't get thin and crispy around here much because my family doesn't care for it much either (they call it "cracker" pizza because I guess the crust is cracker-like?)

I remember walking to the Pizza Hut buffet a few summers ago, probably at least twice a week for a while, and eating myself sick. It made for an interesting walk home, I'll tell you what.

Book It! Ha ha. I remember it too, but pretty vaguely. We had those pins and if we got a book report in, or whatever, we'd get a little star sticker to put on the pin and when you enough (or you filled it...I don't know), you'd get the personal pan...woohoo. These days, that would not be the least bit satisfying.

I'm actually heading out to Quizno's right now to try their new prime rib sandwich. It'll probably out me $10 and taste wickedly nasty, but it looks awesome in the commercial.

Date: 2006-03-16 07:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vovat.livejournal.com
We don't get thin and crispy around here much because my family doesn't care for it much either (they call it "cracker" pizza because I guess the crust is cracker-like?)

Yeah, kind of. I think it's pretty flaky, really, which doesn't work so well for a pizza.

I remember walking to the Pizza Hut buffet a few summers ago, probably at least twice a week for a while, and eating myself sick.

That's one problem with buffets. If you DON'T have a stomachache after you're done, you feel like you haven't gotten your money's worth. It works that way for me, anyway.

I don't think the prime rib sandwich looks that good, but then, I've never even been a big fan of actual prime rib. I doubt I'd be that thrilled with imitation prime rib, which is presumably what Quizno's uses.

Date: 2006-03-16 04:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] l8erngr8er.livejournal.com
You know how in the commercial the meat looks pretty rare? That's how I like it and that's how I wished it would be, but it wasn't and I'm not surprised about that.
$5.29 + tax for a small sized sub that wasn't that great. I mean, it was okay, but not all that I thought it could be, esp. for that price.

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