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09:56:16 AM,Friday 7 May 2004
I would like to see a movie based on a classic story (like Arthur or Troy, which I am thinking of cause they are both coming out this summer) which has magic and gods, and for the movie people to not do away with the magic and the gods, and for it to be done really well. And not be a cartoon.
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09:55:54 AM,Friday 7 May 2004
There is a certain amount of despair in these books that I'm not used to, really. They don't seem to know at all what they need to do or how to do what they figure out they need to do, but they are going to go on fighting. At least in the Lord of the Rings, they had this idea which worked, even if they gave Frodo really only a snowball's chance in hell. With Arthur being their best bet, and Arthur being sure he will die before the end, it's extremely depressing.
This is not to say that I'm not enjoying them immensely, and that I'm not gaining new respect for Guinivere all the time (this seems to be the lesson for Tori in the past few Arthur books, the mess with the Atlantis princess being ignored, as I gave up before Arthur was born), that Guinivere is not necessarily a total idiot.
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03:15:55 PM,Monday 3 May 2004
I watched Love Actually again yesterday. I think it's a delightfully fun movie. I tried to think of Nate's criticisms of the movie, but I just had fun watching it, and that was good.
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11:21:08 PM,Sunday 2 May 2004
When doing something like soaking chickpeas, salt makes them hold water much much better.
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12:37:16 PM,Sunday 2 May 2004
My parents got a new dog yesterday. He's itty bitty, and (as far as I can tell from the two times I met him and he fell asleep) very nice. Ellie seems to think he's fine, but Nattie is a bit more hesitantant. His name is Benvenuto Manchester.
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11:59:26 AM,Sunday 2 May 2004
I have been reading the Fionovar Tapestry. I had this wretched hour this afternoon where I figured "should go to bookstore, buy last book" which meant "must stop reading long enough for the half hour each way trip to Borders" (why couldn't the nearby Borders have the book, and why do the other two have to be down roads that get all backed up when there's the slightest bit of traffic) cause I had a car and time and about a book more of the second book. And then I came home, and Chris and I watched Underworkd, so I can mail it back, which was certainly and entirely different sort of experience from Kay's prose.
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08:10:51 PM,Friday 30 April 2004
Dear god, they shipped the movie I never actually expected to be shipped.
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03:47:16 PM,Friday 30 April 2004
I was so tired and out of it yesterday when I left my house, my stepdad was worried about me, and I almost cried when there was an accident which meant I could either stop for coffee and breakfast or be late for work, and I knew which I was going to do, which was not be late.
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08:52:17 AM,Friday 23 April 2004
I am unbelievably tired. I woke up before 7, cause I was going to shower before spending 7 hours in the glass shop. Connor got in the shower before I woke up, and it occurred to me that it was stupid anyway. But 7 hours is a long time, and I have nothing to show for it. I was going to put together stuff for fusing peacock feathers tonight, but I think I need to go to bed instead. (Go to bed after I start a load of laundry, as I have very little in the way of clean socks and underwear.) And then tomorrow I wake up early again, cause I have to make the damn things, and get them to the studio, so they can be fused, when I go to class tomorrow. And all I really want to do is curl up and finish The Sunbird, which is making me all happy inside, and then finish The Devil Wears Prada, which is silly fluff that makes me feel all strung out, but I'm enjoying it immensley, and go to Annapolis. I want to go to Annapolis so badly, I keep thinking I'm seeing Johnnies all over the place. Sometimes really stupidly. This girl walked in the glass shop (who looks nothing like Tracy), but I thought she was Tracy for a moment (might'be been the sunglasses on the head), and there were more things like that. And, anyway, I'm off.
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10:50:56 PM,Wednesday 21 April 2004
Computer is up and running again, hurray, complete with functional real AIM rather than gAIM (althought I was really starting to like gAIM better). Connor says he installed windows like five times last night.
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06:46:42 AM,Wednesday 21 April 2004
Today is a night for vichysoisse (which I never claimed to know how to spell) and salads and Tori not cooking anything for dinner, especially if it involves getting near a stove/oven.
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03:21:46 PM,Monday 19 April 2004
I don't know if it's more exciting that I made a cup that looks nice, or that the number keys started working on thsi computer again.
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03:12:47 PM,Monday 19 April 2004
Stupid broken number keys
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11:00:42 AM,Sunday 18 April 2004
Today my book showed up, and this makes me very very happy. I have this thought in my head that if after I read it, I will know exactly what I want to do for my glass final. It doesn't strike me as at all true, but it's a possibility.
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11:51:10 AM,Friday 16 April 2004
I think for me it's good that Connor's birthday is today, cause otherwise I wouldn't go "gee tomorrow's Connor-oh-fuck-I-didn't-do-my-taxes"
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07:10:15 AM,Thursday 15 April 2004
I should've gone down to visit Storytellers last week, when TCS was on Spring Break and I didn't have to be in Harrisburg at 8:15 Thursday morning.
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10:35:42 PM,Wednesday 14 April 2004
Huzzah, hurray, Amazon has shipped my entire order, seperately, with two different carriers. I will be completely amused if they show up at the same time anyway, as the later one was sent airbourne. And I want it to show up soon, cause I'm impatient.
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09:32:35 PM,Tuesday 13 April 2004
They turned the temperature on the glass furnace way down, cause the campus was closed over the weekend, and so when we got in the glass was cold and hard and had white flecks on top. The glory hole spat blue flames out the cracks in the doors, and we couldn't reach our instructor. We called a nice guy in Glass 2 about the blue flames, and woke him up, as it was shortly after 8, and he said he didn't mind having been woken up, as it was better that than to have had the thing break, and he talked us through making it work. Around 10, Mia and I were just about ready to give up on the glass going normal, and we'd both failed several times to blow anything nice, and we called the people coming in at 12 to say we were leaving, and to explain the situtation to them. They weren't thrilled, and told us to try calling our instructor again. And we realized we had the wrong number, and reached him, and he told us to turn the furnace up. Eventually it went nice. And I made an almost nice cup, except the lip was like massively too think, and so I couldn't mkae it into an actual cup, and so we threw it away. Mia's stuff kept blowing out the top, and we didn't know why. It all sucked, and neither one of us wanted to be there, and so we let the 12 o'clock people have the shop 15 minutes early and left.
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02:54:41 PM,Monday 12 April 2004
I sit here with a pint of Ben and Jerry's Dublin Mudslide ice cream, which is really tasty. I like mudslides, and the ice cream tastes like Bailey's, and that's just cool. And it makes me think of a carbomb, which strikes me as one of the fouler possible drinks, and also rather racistly named.
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09:28:22 PM,Thursday 8 April 2004