This week, in The Atlantic, Christopher Hitchens makes an idiot of himself. Again.

Why anyone would let him write anything again (let alone about comedy) after writing an article declaring that women couldn't be funny is beyond me. At least this worthless magazine is free.

Things I'm glad I didn't major in:

1. Economics
2. Philosophy. Because OH GOD I would have gone a killing spree!!!
( Rant, Last Weekend )
Last and final piece of news: a nightmare woke me up at 5ish, which hasn't happened in... oh, years. It was about my family and some friends making a last stand against zombies. Blergh. So now to nap!

Oh wow, I really haven't posted on here for a long while. At least it feels that way.

Meh. Not much has happened. Harry Potter opened, and I worked the midnight showing. It was fun. I didn't get nearly as panicked or upset as I was worried I might. I still think I'dve rather been on popcorn or drinks duty than on register. C'est la vie, though! There was a little trouble getting the credit card receipts to print at first. That wasn't fun. I was glad one of the other workers, Manny, handled it; although I'm not sure I wouldn't have preferred working with someone else since he occassionally stopped working to shout something at friends of his who had shown up, and it felt a little like he wasn't really listening to me. I like my job overall, although sometimes I think I let other people make final decisions re: things when I ought to be able to call them myself. It sucks when they jerk around the schedule though, like they did tonight. Pbbt. It just sucks.

I saw Knocked Up and The Hangover recently. Both recommended to me by various friends and family. All I can say is that The Hangover made me appreciate Knocked Up- and because of Knocked Up, I now have a folder labeled 'Hating Movies' in my bookmarks.
( A Funny Thing Happened On The Way Home Tonight... okay, not really funny. )

Cookie dough recalled due to bacteria!

Sad news indeed.

Why didn't anyone TELL me Dangerous Liaisons was awesome? Sooooo evil, but sooooo awesome to watch.

Kinda like Artemisia Gentileschi. Except not, because she wasn't evil, she just painted my favorite picture of Judith cutting off some dude's head ever. So she was really just AWESOME in a way that has nothing in common with Dangerous Liaisons except that I like both of those things.

It's completely weird to feel this way because I'm not very fussy about looks, but after going so long without getting my haircut, it feels totally wonderful to get it done. And while it's nice to have my split ends gone and have my head feel so light, but oddly, what I'm really liking about this haircut is how it's not very stylized. (My brother and I went back to visit our parents today, as our grandmother was there and our mom was getting better from being sick, and I asked mom to cut my hair.) Hooray for straight-edge, chopped-in-the-bathroom, not-exactly-even cuts! Now I don't have anything uber-chic to compare it to, so whatever I wake up with will look fine.

Surprisingly, I kinda wish today had been a weekday. As if we'd had a second Thursday or something. Because being holed up in my room doing nothing all day is kind of fabulous, but not very exciting and now I feel like I let myself down or something. I coulda done more since waking up this morning.

Aw, well. This evening will probably mostly be talking to other people, but I can get some stuff done before the real socializing begins to start. Like read everything for feminisms class a week earlier. (I'll get around to osteology, I swear!)

Yesterday in zoology, I got to touch a baby horseshoe crab. SO CUTE!!!

Ooh, wait. We're going to Applebees instead. Yay, food, except I'm being a total space cadet, so my socializing ability is gonna be squat.

WTF? There's only been one episode, folks! And that episode happened to be one that Whedon had to rewrite several times! So duh, of COURSE a TV show looks shallow and 2D. The pilot was reasonably entertaining. Give it three more episodes before writing a judgement on the ENTIRE FREAKING SERIES, geez!

Blergh.

This, too, seems like a good idea!

See, I sort of think that except for the gate to Hell thing, this might be pretty ok!

Soooo several nights of watching Eureka plus sleepiness plus reading things equals me not doing any writing over the past few days. Whoops! And today is the day I head back to school, so my free time is dwindling.

Darn, and I hoped to be done with at least one project by the time break was over. Whatever, at least we got around to rearranging my room. Even though that's not -totally- done, only all the hard stuff.

I've been writing quite a bit over the past few days (not on the computer and nothing finished but still- writing!) and I'm beginning to recognize the signs of an approaching creative lull. I can win myself a few more days of creative frenzy if I just keep pushing myself to work on things, but little snippets of conversation that started me off on various different writing tasks have stopped multiplying, so it'll be tough goings. I'm also distracted by the urge to start drawing again, which is great and has let me make some nice sketches, but is very distracting when I intend to try and write. I keep getting ideas for things to draw and no more ideas for what to write. Agggh!

Does anyone else have this problem or is it just me?

Ugh, sometimes I seriously hate going into a reading trance. I keep meaning to do all these things, and instead I get sucked into a book or online. Somebody stop me before I read again! Heh. But really, I just finished On Killing yesterday, and today I finished Bambi Vs Godzilla, so it's book reviewing time!

( Bambi Vs Godzilla )
( On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Killing )
Hmm.... what else have I been doing.... Oh, I watched Garden State. I wouldn't have, if it wasn't a.)late, b.)a present, and c.) the only thing my brother and I could agree to watch. (Tess of D'Urbervilles was on TV!) But it wasn't disappointing or anything! It was kinda of cute, kind of nice.

I've finally found something likely to keep me from being online all day: books.

I went to library and got tons. My goodness, I am SO HAPPY somebody at the library likes Swan, the CMX title about ballet. It's soooo amazingly addictively cheesy. It's like Hikaru no Go plus a soap opera, but with ballet!

Anyway, thedeadqueen: So far, my dedication to JANOWRIMO has been pathetic. Pathetic, I say! I get distracted all day. What I have written has either been offline or posted elsewhere. (Perhaps checking out two bags of books was not a good decision? Naaaaah!)

Oh, and here's something kinda cute:
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Gacked from thedeadqueen . Which of these movies have you seen?:
( Meme )

So after nights and nights of sleepless panic, I finally got the chance to waste my energy for fun, instead of work-slash-feeling-guilty-for-procrastinating-instead. Rather than shepherd it carefully, I decided to stay up all night and pore over the Internet. (A telling indication that this strategy was ill-advised: I just wrote 'poor' and 'pour' before I got to the correct one.)

Anyway, this won't be very long or good, but I think I promised thedeadqueen my own fanfic manifesto. Tragically, I am not much of a writer- but the opinion of readers is underrated anyhow.

( LJ-Cut For Your Protection! )


Um, that turned out to be not really fanfic-related. Well, I've got break, so I'll probably get around to writing more about fanfic. Anyway, thedeadqueen , you know lots about school and learning. Your evaluation/opinion? I think it's rather heavy on creative writing.

Ha-HA! I thought I had two finals today, and I only have one! The early morning final I set my alarm so early for is actually Monday! Yesss!!!