I’ve got one day left till the move. Needless to say I’m excited, mostly because I want to not be working in this stupid place anymore. Any work environment where people are too fucking lazy to open up a letter and realized how much each Best Buy gift-card they bought is worth, is a retarded company. Also retarded is the fact they don’t actually pay their sub-contractors all that they should. Which just seems friggin awesome to me.

Originally I was going to drive all the way down to FL, however thanks to my mother a fact has been pointed out to me. I can take the Auto-Train. Here’s how it works, because I had no idea such a thing existed. Basically you pull up to the train-station with your car loaded up for wherever you’re going. Pull it into one of the cargo-trains attached to the cab of the train and then get into the passenger-train and do nothing until you arrive at your destination. So I don’t have to drive some 1,000 miles in my car by myself, or worry about finding a hotel. I simply sit in my seat, fall asleep at night [the train leaves here at 4pm] and wake up in the morning around Daytona Beach in FL. Which to me sounds a helluva lot better than the alternative. Plus I save on gas money, wear and tear on the car, and it’ll be nice.

So instead of worrying about how early I have to get going tomorrow morning, I can sleep soundly knowing that I don’t have to really be anywhere until about 4 pm, ok maybe about 3 since I have to check my car in at the Amtrak station.

It’s funny to see my clothes not in their normal state and instead looking like a bunch of clothes-bricks. Thanks to the SpaceBag. Now before you start saying “Well I saw those on TV but they probably don’t work like they say they do.” Hoo-boy are you wrong, not only do they work, they’re a friggin god-send. I used them when I moved to Denver and am using them again. I basically got all the clothes I’m taking [sans shorts and stuff because those don’t shrink too much] into two of their XL bags. And instead of having a bunch of suitcase type things, I have two pretty thing ‘bricks’ of clothes I can easily pack into the trunk of my car. So if you’re traveling somewhere, do yourself a favor and pick a few of ’em up.

Since I temporarily work in a job that I hate and do nothing productive, I got bored yesterday and put in Fever Pitch into Technorati to see what I could get. I got a few hits to journals so I started checking them out to see what they were saying about a movie that to me is semi-blasphemy. Some of them were interesting, most weren’t however. But I then randomly settled on this one. And thought it was interesting mostly because the girl had actually bothered to read the book, and liked it.

Which to me was a suprise on two parts. One that she had read it, and that two she liked it. But in her reply to my first comment on her site she said that at it’s core it still deals with the same things. Which it does, I just would rather it’d be about Arsenal Football Clbu and not the Sox.

But her post and then reply to my comment made me realize something. If nothing this movie will hopefully help bring more light to the book and even if a lot of people dont’ read the book, some will, and those people will know about The Arsenal, which will help spread the word here in the states. Then maybe, hopefully, a few of them will decide to sit down and watch a game or two and possibly become fans. Which to me is always a good thing, the more football fans we can have here in the states, the better.

I just hope there’s some sort of Arsenal references hidden in the movie since Hornby himself did the screenplay.

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