Krista Canton

I spent almost all day buying paint and putting masking tape around my room, and it was kind of lonely work.  When my roommate Kristen paints her room I will offer to help her.

Well, look, I’m such a good person.  Not really, I’m just… maybe I am.

Kristen is pretty much the ideal roommate for me because I tend to acquire some habits of the people around me.  She eats healthily, exercises every day, and is a people person.

A little note, mostly to myself (I am now observing people’s habits and mannerisms so that I will be able to focus on enjoying life instead of being awkward all the time.)  I noticed that this evening maybe around 6, Kristen went for a walk with a couple of friends, then they came back here and are now upstairs in her room instead of down here.  I don’t know if there’s any advantage non-awkward-wise with doing that, or if it’s just an arbitrary choice (maybe she remembered that I was planning on sleeping down here because my room stinks like paint).  They are listening to music, which I already knew was important in non-awkwardness.  It is currently 10:31 (I will eventually try to patch together what is a nominal timeline for things such as hanging out, or whatever.)

I also wonder, not for right now cause I’m tired, but for the future what the etiquette is for hanging out when someone else is in their room.  My research on that topic will be remembering things of the past, things people have said about living in residence, and translating them to living in a house with a few people.

I kind of want to make it a habit of just noticing things.  Why is there a traffic cone on top of those boxes? It’s currently 10:47 and I believe they are leaving, possibly that’s the timing.  Nope they are stil laughing.

That wasn’t what this blog entry was about (these are becoming more and more like journal entries, and I’ll have to fix that.)

I think it would be fun to act.  Every single piece of empirical evidence shows that I would not be very good at it – playing rock band, quoting random things, posing for pictures.  I just don’t seem to have a strong personality like that – the “me” I present to the world smiles too much.  She doesn’t get angry and avoids showing emotions as much as possible.

Which is maybe why it would be fun to act: because it’s thrilling to think about pushing back the boundaries of your comfort zone like that.

As a kid I used to want to do everything, to be a part of everything.  I’ve tamed down that desire to a few things and one of those things is acting.  Every time I watch a really good movie or TV show, I want to jump out of my comfort zone and act.

Watching something like the most recent few Doctor Whos (and their confidentials) seems like a kind of magic.  How do they do this?  How do they get the emotions just right, and create something from nothing and make it feel like you (the person watching) is going through what the Doctor is going through.

The second time I watched the Waters of Mars episode (yes, I’ve seen it twice) I knew what was coming and yet I was still amazed at the acting and I was still amazed at the Doctor’s character – he’s walking away.  Throughout most of the episode he’s walking away.

Even when he goes back and starts saving them, you get this uneasy feeling: he wouldn’t have just walked away earlier unless there was a really good reason.  He’s snapped, he’s not being logical.

Back on Earth he’s playing God… well he is called a Time Lord.  The Time Lord Victorious:

Time lord victorious… Drawn from looking at a screenshot from the episode

It’s brilliant, and I just don’t understand how, I can’t understand the mechanics behind creating things like this.  There are some people who think advanced technology is just like magic; I don’t: I think great writing and acting and creating these characters is magic.  It’s inconceivable how they create it.

That might be what’s driving me to want to try to act: a desire to be able to make this magic.  I always want to do things that seem wonderful and impossible.  I think “That’s brilliant.  Where can I get one?”

(My blog entries about random Doctor who episodes probably don’t do them justice.  I found a review of this episode over at bleedingcool.com, which has pictures like actual screenshots instead of a half-drawn picture.)

I heard that David Tennant (Tenth Doctor from Doctor Who) was Barty Crouch Junior in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

No way!  The Tenth Doctor, the one who would sacrifice himself to save a human… a completely insane death eater.

So I downloaded Harry Potter and watched a bit.  Sure enough, David Tennant was said completely insane death eater!

This has just blown my mind a little.

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