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December 7th, 2008
07:54 pm
Pride and Prejudice, as told through facebook updates:
http://www.much-ado.net/austenbook/
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/smile.gif) amused
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June 24th, 2007
09:54 pm
I leave tomorrow evening for London... back July 11th. In the meantime, I will have no phone access, but I will have my laptop and presumably internet access (provided the hotel doesn't charge exorbitant rates to connect).
See you all when I return!
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June 7th, 2007
June 5th, 2007
11:23 pm - Squee!!!!
New Laurell K Hamilton and new Jacqueline Carey... in my hands... right now!
Squee!!
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June 3rd, 2007
12:21 pm - Meme
Because ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) er71479 (sorry, I have no idea how to link to a blogspot) says I have to:
( Seven Completely Fascinating Things About Me )
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May 30th, 2007
12:01 am
*Scratches head in bewilderment*
( spoilers for The Tudors )
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May 27th, 2007
11:00 pm - If Pirates of the Caribbean 3 was a student in my class...
Dear Pirates,
Although you have the beginnings of an interesting argument, your thesis lacks clarity. What exactly are you trying to say? Remember, you must channel your observations into a cogent analysis; otherwise, I am left to wonder, "so what?" Additionally, your potentially intriguing points are frequently being obscured by grammatical error, excessive wordiness, and awkward sentence construction. While I give you credit for the prettiness of Orlando Bloom, I cannot overlook your overall lack of direction.
C-
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April 19th, 2007
12:55 am
'cause imagisme did it first:
A meme in which you TELL me if you want me to put down a bunch of weird and random information.
So comment, and I'll comment back with the answers.
1. Tell you why I added you to my friends list and/or why I keep you there.
2. Associate you with something. A song, a color, a work of art, a character in a play, a piece of fruit. SOMETHING.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you/us.
5. Associate you with a character from a book or a film.
6. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. (Or else I'll just ask a random question. I reserve that right.)
7. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
8. In return, you must spread this disease in your LJ.
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March 31st, 2007
03:30 pm
From England's Calamity Foreshewn in Germanie's Miserie, an Exclusion crisis anti-Catholic text:
Catholics ostensibly tortured Protestant women by "t[ying] burning matches to the tongues, noses, eyes, cheeks, breasts, and legs: Yea! And the privy parts of women they stuffed wtih gunpowder and fired!"
Ouch. Maybe not quite as bad as the guy who poisoned his wife with the ground-glass mutton dildo. But ouch nonetheless.
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February 12th, 2007
11:55 pm
You know what I hate?
Aggressive Alpine Skiing.
And the hour of my life I will never get back.
Thanks Kirk. Or Mike- I can't remember who discovered it.
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January 6th, 2007
08:02 pm - More sick musings
I am still beplagued and may finally go to the doctor's tomorrow if considerable progress is not made. :(
I finished Silent Hill 4 today (hooray for easy mode)-- and may I say that I'm really irritated about the ending? I don't like it when games have multiple endings and you can only get the "good" ending if you accomplish certain objectives during the game (except that said objectives are not apparent unless you read an entire walkthrough, thereby negating the purpose of playing the game).
Anyway, I need a new game to play since I'm clearly not accomplishing any actual dissertation work. Suggestions? Would I like God of War? I bought it for doongar for Xmas, discovered he already had it, and never got around to returning it.
Oh and in other news, the new season of Rome premiers in just over a week. Squee!
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/sick.gif) sick
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January 5th, 2007
01:39 pm - Sick musings
LKH is apparently having a public meltdown over negative reactions to her latest books:
http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2006/12/dear-negative-reader.html
It's like watching a bad car crash.
On this blog other famous authors, including Nora Roberts, MaryJanice Davidson and P.C. Cast weigh in on the debacle.
http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/
Meanwhile, VH1 is up to season 7 of America's Next Top Model. I still think Caridee was the wrong choice. Melrose was robbed, even if she sucks as a person.
I think my brain is starting to atrophy from disuse. And congestion.
Current Mood: sick
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January 3rd, 2007
03:26 pm
Why is it that every time I get sick, there's an America's Next Top Model marathon on VH1? I swear, this is the 3rd time in a row. I'm going to start getting paranoid...
Current Mood: sick
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January 2nd, 2007
05:02 pm
Happy New Year everyone!
And for imagisme, doongar, and Kirk, look what I found....
http://www.monsterminigolf.com/Norwood%20info%20page.htm
We HAVE to try this.
PS- I seem to have come down with the plague.
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December 27th, 2006
09:06 pm - Odds and ends
I cracked and bought the latest Merry Gentry book with an xmas gift certificate (so it's not as bad as if I cracked and used my own money) Now I'm officially done with the series. Yes, I know I say that all the time, but this time I mean it. Anita gets one more chance, but Merry I am done with. I don't think I can even make myself finish the book, it's that bad.
Since I have the following image engraved on my brain, I will share it with you all-- add this to the list of Things LKH Inexplicably Thinks Are Sexy:
"Mistral thrust his tongue so deep and hard into my mouth that it was like oral sex when the man is too big for comfort. If you can fight it, it hurts, but if you relax, sometimes, you can do it. You can let the man have his way with your mouth without breaking your jaw. I'd never had anyone kiss my like this, and evn as I fought to let him do it, I thought about him being this forceful with other things, and the thought made me open wider to him... I could barely breathe with his tongue down my throat."
Um, ew.
In other news, The Compass Rose by Gail Dayton is excellent. imagisme and doongar might remember this book: We were at Barnes and Noble and I couldn't remember the name or author of the book I was looking for except that it had compass somewhere in the title, and Kristin somehow miraculously managed to locate it. Anyway, it's been sitting on my shelf for probably over a year now, and then today I read it in one sitting. Awesomeness. I bought the sequel tonight with the rest of the xmas gift certificate.
And in still other news, I fit into size 8 jeans today. On the one hand, that feels like quite the milestone- single digit sizes. On the other hand, I'm experiencing a weird disjunction between what I expected a size 8 to be and what I actually look like. As someone who has always been a size 12 (I was a size 12 by the time I was 11), I've always thought of size 8 as an unattainable, insanely small number. Now that I am there, I don't feel all that small. Not in like a body dismorphia sort of way or anything-- I can see how much smaller I am than I used to be-- but insofar as realistically, Victoria's Secret won't be hiring me as a poster girl any time soon. And I guess what's interesting about the whole thing is that it sort of brings home how unrealistic Hollywood standards of thinness really are. When Titanic came out, everyone discussed how "healthy" Kate Winslet looked, that she was normal person sized. But then I read recently that she was actually wearing a size 4 in that movie. Sort of puts size 8 into perspective.
I'm also sort of nervous that this whole weight loss thing can't last-- buying size 8 jeans feels like I'm courting disappointment. But I suppose it's just a matter of maintaining my new approach to eating. *crosses fingers*
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December 19th, 2006
11:13 pm - Another day, another meme
From imagisme: books "you can't go to college without having read."
( 96 books )
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November 12th, 2006
02:38 am - Meme!
Swiped from ayelle
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.22845/Books
This list bothers me. This is exactly the sort of logic that turned the Trivial Pursuit Book Lover's Edition into such a miserable failure. The list is obviously heavily weighted towards contemporary fiction and suggests that you're not well-read if you haven't enjoyed the complete works of Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, or Ernest Hemingway. And God forbid you have an interest in or preference for genre fiction instead of literary fiction.
Anyway, I've bolded the books I've read. I've only read 126 of them, which isn't a great percentage for my 5 years of graduate education. But without further ado, here are ( The 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die )
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October 15th, 2006
12:34 pm - I'm back!
Minnesota is a very cold place.
But the conference itself went well :)
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October 11th, 2006
08:20 pm
Tomorrow morning I'm off to Minnesota (where it's supposedly snowing). I'll have my phone with me, but no internet access while I'm away. Until Saturday night!
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August 25th, 2006
12:56 pm
Laurell K. Hamilton posted this on her blog the other day:
"Eighteen pages today. Tired. But I'm hoping that by tomorrow morning I'll be ready to go again. Why the pick up in speed? Big Edward scene, I'd hoped the pace would pick up, and it did. Cool. I can now say for sure that Olaf is going to be in this book, because he's been on stage. So for all you guys that have been asking when, and what book will Edward and Olaf be in? Answer; this book, The Harlequin, which is the official title."
This gives me hope. Unless Anita has sex with Olaf, in which case I'm done with the series forever.
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