It's not funny and I shouldn't laugh but dammit apropos of everything someone dies in a vat of chocolate the day I start rereading Thief of Time? What are the odds.

Tags: i has an addiction to the printed word, i want more people to like discworld

I want to join a flash-mob or whatever they're called. I don't even care if it's for some ad or something, they just look like such fun. If only I could, you know, dance.

Snagged from heartstillatwar.

This can be a quick one. Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
( So not the top 15 books of all time XD )

Tags: flash dance what a feelin, i has an addiction to the printed word, lawl, meme, randomness of a random mind

01 Wow, it's been...almost two months since I posted last. Um, hi?

02 Two months of no internet means I read a bit more. Still plugging away at Proust and the Squid. The Smith College Used Book Sale came and went, and while I didn't get as many books as I did last year, I still got plenty. Picked up a couple more Iris Murdoch books, a few Japanese books, a bunch more history books, and a few odds and ends, including a book on all the words that have fallen out of use in the English language (I should start posting definitions) and a reprint of a bestiary from...the 1600s, I think? Filled with lions and dragons and such. The best books had to have been the ones with newspaper clippings and such in them; it seemed like every other book I picked up had something tucked away in it. My favorite was the copy of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with a playbill from a production in the '60s and the newspaper write-up for that show. My favorite book so far that I've read from this year's haul, and highly recommend, if you can find it, is I See By My Outfit by Peter S. Beagle. Cross-country on a scooter, and not necessarily for the usual beatnik reasons. Makes me want to drive cross-country, actually.

Finally got Nation and bought the last Percy Jackson novel when the lovely Rae stopped by. Overall I liked both books a lot.

( Spoilers for both )

03 Saw Up. I think I just need to accept that Pixar movies will always, inevitably, make me cry at one point or another during the course of the film. Good movie, but what the hell were the badges at the end. My brother and I sat through the entire credits (we always do, he's a former film major, comes with the territory) and there was definitely an Atomic Bomb patch. What in the world do you do to get that one.

Also saw Frost/Nixon, Kung Fu Panda, Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day and Definitely, Maybe. Loved all three. I was really surprised how much I enjoyed the first one - documentaries are not my thing - and also how sympathetic I felt towards Nixon at the end of the film. Kung Fu Panda, omg, I have such a weakness for animated movies and pfffft the one-liners had me lollin' so hard. I know I am so late to that party - it's been out for how long now? - but gaaaaaaaah so fun. Miss Pettigrew, oh my god, even if you don't really like romantic films this one is just. So awesome. Got my dad to watch the ending with me, it was hilarious. Definitely, Maybe is just. So droll. And. Hits all the buttons I don't like to acknowledge I have for romantic films.

04 Am addicted to Rachel Yamagata's Elephants and Vienna Teng's Stray Italian Greyhound. Why can't I pick one musical depiction of love and stick with it? Oh and, Stray Italian Greyhound? Totes an Edgeworth or Franziska song.

05 Dreamwidth - worth it? Yay? Nay? Ehhhh...? Not that I have a code or anything but I'm curious

06 Played Where In The World is Carmen Sandiego? and Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? for the first time in years. 8Dbb Am now plagued by cross-over bunnies. Halp. AND OMFG I WANT IT TO BE WINTER. I WANT GYAKUTEN KENJI WHATEVER THE FUCK THEY WANT TO CALL IT. JUST. GIMME. AND LAYTON TOO.

07 I am so behind on every manga title. Upside though, I am now marathoning Ergo Proxy. Woot!

08 Self, finish those damn Night Watch icons. Do it.

09 How is everyone else doing?

Tags: brief book babblings, i am a dork, i am not a gamer, i has an addiction to the printed word, i want more people to like discworld, lawl, music, randomness of a random mind, spoiled you
Current Mood: awake

Haven't had one of these in a long time. Animanga ramblings is go!

( Detective Conan. To chapter 686 )

While on the subject of Conan, ( Lupin vs Conan. Warnings for very basic idea of what's going, as I can't speak Japanese and there are no subs yet )

( Kekkaishi. Chapters 206 to 242. Warnings for fangirl waffling on at incredible length )

( Team Medical Dragon. Chapters 43 to 46 )

( Vinland Saga. Chapters 49 to 53. Warning for Capslock Cruise Control )

Tags: animanga ramblings, detective conan, fangirling, kekkaishi, lupin the third, team medical dragon, vinland saga
Current Mood: cold

I think it's the hair.

In other news, I've done something to my left wrist. Thankfully it's my non-dominant hand, so I'm not too bothered but it makes typing really hard. And driving. And opening doors, because, haha, I tend to use my left to do that. Weird habit. It's like when I was six or seven and I would always go up a flight of stairs starting with my right foot. Like it was better, or something.

For that matter, where did the term "flight of stairs" come from. Why flight?

...I should probably go to bed.

Tags: randomness of a random mind

( One Piece 535-536 )

Tags: one piece, spoiled you

So I got eaten by TWEWY finally. Have been playing it almost non-stop, but it's taking me forever because I've gotta catch them all got a pin addiction and I want to evolve them all. Now that I understand how to, anyway. *cough* So I'm really only midway through Joshua's week. I like the game, but the thing I'm most amused by is the aliens in mingle mode. I think the first one I ran into was the "that lovin' feelin" and I giggled for five minutes.

But my laptop called to me, it had been neglected for my DS for so long. I have obligations, duties to fulfill, resumes to send, jobs to hunt, banners to make and so I fought that siren call of the dual screen combat and crazy soundtrack...

...only to succumb to Ze?t. Or Zest. Or creepy fucked-up riddle land where Oz and Wonderland had a kid and let American McGee play nanny.

And there's math D: Like logic math.

I cheated, I'll be the first to admit I suck at riddles I'm on 43, and I'm so damn stuck. I think I've got it, but everything I throw at it is wrong. And then somebody decided to link Notpron...Noooo, I said I was going to be productive, not get sucked into another time waster...

So how is everyone else doing?

Tags: buggrit, i am not a gamer, omg mind broke, procrastination nation
Current Mood: brain-dead

So I guess I don't have to feel too bad about not having my license. It could be worse.

( Wan Peese 5-3-3. Spoilaz, yo )

Tags: lawl, one piece, spoiled you

Guys

Guys

I cannot stop going through this website. And argggggh it's making me so hungry but I have no ingredients in the house ;_____;

This is evil.

It's got 700 pages. And counting.

And it all looks so very, very good

Send help. I've been eaten by a cooking recipe website ;_;

Also: Kate Beaton is awesome anyway but I had to laugh at the Jimmy Jam James Joyce comic. If only for the memories. I always knew he was an untrustworthy fellow XD

Edit: Oh god, I want to make sushi now. It's 3 in the morning. Ahhhhhhhh.

Tags: randomness of a random mind, soon to appear on iron chef

My upper wisdom teeth come out tomorrow :/ While in the long run I know I'll be really glad to be rid of the dull pain that I've had for about a year or so, I really, really don't want the pain that's coming my way in the next few days. D:

I used to think when I was a kid that I'd never get my wisdom teeth out. Not because it was painful (I don't think I really registered that) but because I figured it would make me less smart. Or less special. Something.

What can I say, I was a silly child.

That said, this'll be the first real surgery-type thing to happen to me. I've never broken or fractured a bone, I've still got my tonsils, and I've never had any surgery done. So maybe really that's why I'm so anxious.

Or it could just be the aversion I have to pain. Y'know.

Tags: life