WOW. Wicked = SOAMAZINGLYAWESOME. Everyone must fly to New York this very minute and see it, or else this friendship is over.

Mum and I took the train to NYC yesterday morning and spent the day shopping and generally taking in the city. Then we went to dinner at Sardi’s and saw Wicked, which was wicked awesome. Even though it has absolutely nothing in common with the book, which was quite vexing at some points, but I learned to cope, and all was dandy. And let the record continue to show that Idina Menzel is beyond fabulous.

So now I’m back in Philly, waiting for my storage boxes to arrive. Mmm, modern conveniences! Is it really really nerdy that the thing I’m most eager to get back is my bookends? And they’re not even cool bookends, they’re just basic, functional, bent pieces of metal. But they will make my room orderly and nice, and for that I am grateful. Mmm, bookends. I so need a life.

I’m in Philly! I’ve unpacked all I can at the moment, until my boxes of stored stuff arrive on Saturday morning. Right now I’m hanging out in the computer lab with the ITAs, making sure my laptop is up to snuff security-wise. It’s so great to see Ari and Jing again, and my fantabulous roommates Ko and Deep. And M, of course, former roommate of Ko! Tonight we shall engage in zany hijinks, hurrah!

Clearly, today is “link to stuff Cyth links to” day. Ah, I love Nathan. :D Spread the Serenity love! Or if you haven’t experienced the fabulousness that is Firefly yet, go buy/rent the DVD! You won’t regret it.

Priscilla’s Top 10 Reasons to Watch Firefly:

10. Shirtless Simon

9. Shirtless Simon

8. Shirtless Simon

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6. Shirtless Simon

5. Shirtless Simon

4. Shirtless Simon

3. Shirtless Simon

2. Shirtless Simon

1. Um, the writing is really good.

Cyth suggests starting potential Browncoats on “The Train Job,” and I concur. Though it’s tragic that one should miss out on the Rose-Tinted Glasses of Moral Ambiguity. Sigh. Hmm… I wonder if my roommates still have been unexposed… *cackles*

From here:

Wednesday, September 08, 2004 07:00 PM

Terry Pratchett, will be promoting Going Postal

Appears on/at: FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA/Speaking/Signing

Montgomery Auditorium 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Tel: 215.567.4341

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. I am so glad my classes end at 4:30 on Wednesdays. I must remember to bring my copy of GO that Neil autographed! Woo, doublesignage! Urgh, I wish I had more songs from MAA finished. Maybe if I spend the next week frantically working on “My Kind of Town” or “I, Comma” I could polish something half-decent… EEE!

(reminder to self: doors open at 6:15)

Ooh! Keenness from the Cinefex Weekly Update!

Flushed Away: Variety and THR report Sir Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis and possibly Hugh Jackman will lend their vocal talents to this Aardman Animation stop-motion film about a snooty, high-rent English rat who accidentally takes a trip through a U-bend to end up in London’s low-rent sewers.

Every name mentioned makes me positively squee. And Aardman! Eee! Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, Angry Kid… Man, those guys are awesome. So much love!

Cyth just linked to these screencaps from an unaired scene from “Waiting in the Wings.” I think I just broke something trying to stifle my laughter, as not to awaken my parents. Like a lung or spleen or something else vital. Please tell me there will be video eventually!

Dude. First he voices his anti-FMA stance, and now this. What benevolent spirit has suddenly posessed Dick Cheney’s body, and can we get one for Bush?