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!!!

Got a whole bunch of CDs from the library yesterday. Currently listening to the Scarlet Pimpernel musical. Am totally amused by the song "Vivre," wherein (I presume) a bunch of Frenchmen and women are singing about how happy they are to be saved from the guilotine, and how much they're going to live life to the fullest now.

Which is all very well, but then they started singing about how they're never going to put off fun until tomorrow (or something similar) and I went Really? That's the message you're taking away from all this? When the French peasants were incited to riot because they were pissed that the artistos were taking all their money and wasting it on lavish parties? Really?

Ok, I guess I don't really know the full context for the song, so perhaps these characters or the lesser nobility weren't partying like Marie Antoinette and King Louie, but it was a pretty funny image nonetheless.

EDIT: Turns out it's actually the British aristos singing... give or take one French non-aristo wife. Whatever, I don't need no stinkin' context!

I was reading something talking about how tweens and young kids were beginning to act more and more like teenagers, in part because teen-like behavior is being marketed towards tweens more and more these days. Honestly, it freaks me out a bit. While I find trying to keep pre-pubescent kids and young teens from hearing or thinking about sex to be not only unwise but just plain futile, it really makes me uncomfortable to see teen behavior and trends aimed at younger kids. First off, they tend to take the most unsavory things and give it to pre-teens. (See: almost any Disney channel live action show. Seriously, not only are those depictions of high/middle school insipid and boring, they're unrealistic and encourage kids to mimic that sort of drama.)

But closer to my heart is the feeling that kids like me are just completely left out by all this hoopla. When teen culture is sold to pre-teens, kids like I was stop being able to play tag. It's not "cool" anymore. And so kids who are late developers, or who just prefer kid activities to teen activities get looked down on for not growing up as fast as everybody else. Even if a parent successfully shelters their children from Disney-style tween culture, their kid's still going to suffer 'cos their peers are going to look at them and go "nerd!" or at best not have much in common with them. Tween culture needs to be a safe place both for tweens going through puberty and all that that entails and tweens who are more late bloomers. (Or just not interested in dating and that whole shebang, for that matter.)

Okay, I need to seriously stop procrastinating now. I will not get credit for reading Internet articles about my paper's subject if I don't get anything written down.