Mmmmm, my hands smell like garlic. I just helped Tricia and Carmen make pasta and breadsticks, and I’m in tastebud heaven. It’s so refreshing to see garlic used for good and not evil. We decided that we were going to all get together and make dinner once a week, most likely on Sunday. *happy sigh* I love cooking.
Forget Gary Oldman.
Neil Gaiman is Sirius Black.
Hee, today’s strip in the Calvin & Hobbes LJ community has special historic significance for me! It’s where I got the phrase muchas smoochies! Muaha, best phrase ever.
Okay, forget the glitterpaint menorahs. I hereby nominate myself for the “Too Bloody Crafty By Half” award, based on my performance this evening. Apparently, we’re exchanging our Secret Santa gifts today, so I feel very relieved that I went shopping for Kim yesterday. But to my dismay, I hadn’t thought about wrapping paper. Being a traditionalist in these matters, I refused to give her the book alone or in a plastic shopping bag, and even though I barely know her, I wasn’t about to give her a book wrapped exquisitely in paper towels.
But the Sisterhood of the Too Bloody Crafty are never at a loss for what to do! Why not give it to her in the plastic shopping bag it came in? But with a crazy twist? I cut off the handles and the pleated corners of the bag, turning it into a flat sheet. Then I used it like wrapping paper, wrapping it as I would a box, in (a slight variant of) the perfect, lovely method my mom taught me when I was wee. Then I joined the ends of the handles and made a bow. I’m very pleased with the result. :D (Edit: and so was Kim!)
I know myself so well. This morningI was having difficulty forcing myself to write my Songwriting paper (The Evolution of the Rift Between Pop Music and Musical Theatre. Why do I do these things to myself?), so I finally cracked and kidnapped Carmen and went out to lunch. She asked to go to the DVD rental next door, so I tagged along. I knew I wasn’t going to rent anything (because of said paper), but I browsed anyway. Fortunately for my sense of self-control, every movie I saw that looked like something I’d like to watch had been checked out already. But when Carmen showed me her selections, they looked fun, and I told her that if I was far enough on my paper later this evening, I’d join her in a studybreak and watch one. Then, as she was checking out, another girl came in and returned a copy of Edward Scissorhands. An omen! I promised myself that I wouldn’t watch it until I’d written 5 pages (the minimum), at least. So now I have motivation! Johnny calls to me! And once I have written at least 5 pages, I will answer!
Mmm, Johnny. *goes back to work*
Hobbits and elves and wizards and warriors locked in a merciless battle for Middle Earth. Why don’t they just hang a sign on the clubhouse door that says “No GiRls allowed?”
Maybe because said hobbits and elves and wizards and warriors are HOT?
Next up on Captain Obvious, Wow, LotR has female fans, too!
I just calculated my final grade for my CSE class, and I AM POINT ONE-NINE-NINE POINTS OVER THE MEAN FINAL GRADE.
I AM ABOVE-AVERAGE AT AN IVY LEAGUE INSTITUTION. I ROCK SO MUCH.
I am now walking down the halls of my dorm, fists raised in triumph. W00t to the 00t.
And now that it’s 1AM, it’s CHUNGY’S BIRTHDAY. Give her BIRTHDAY WISHES, because she is JUST THAT COOL.
Hee. I was just thinking, trying to compile a list of great Christmas movies. Is it bad that the first two I thought of were “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “Edward Scissorhands”?
In the spirit of the impending holidays, why not start a mini-meme? Comment with your favourite Christmas/Hanukkah/Winter Soltice/Kwanzaa/Atheist-Children-Get-Presents Day/Festivus/Agnostica movies, and we shall compile a list! How merry!
To begin:
1. The Nightmare Before Christmas — Is it true that Henry Selick is directing Coraline? Can I get a w00t w00t?
2. Edward Scissorhands — Tim Burton AND Johnny Depp. Doesn’t get any better!
3. The Star Wars Christmas Special — well, the script I read was laughable
4. It’s a Wonderful Life (Jume)
5. Muppet Christmas Carol (Renata)
6. The Grinch (Renata) — the old cartoon one, no Jim Carrey for us, thankyouverymuch
7. John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together (Allison D)
8. Emmit Otter’s Jugband Christmas (Allison D)
9. A Muppet Family Christmas (Allison D)
10. A Charlie Brown Christmas (Kait)
11. A Christmas Story (Rebecca)
12. White Christmas (Jo) — with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye! Hurrah!
13. Die Hard (Megaloo) — well, it *does* take place on Christmas. And hey, Alan Rickman’s in it– why not?
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EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! Alicey and my dragon collab is going to be printed in Movie Madness Magazine!!!! (Probably!!!)
Philadelphia es muy freaky, man! Yesterday night, everything was still covered in snow. And this morning, it’s all gone. What happened to the evil, annoying slushy melting period? Dude, this city rocks.