arrrrr! *swashbuckles*
Wow. Here’s a nice instance of “Misheard Lyrics”. In “What Is Urinetown”, Cladwell says “Stance-Dance forget it! Never, nada, nein!”, but I always heard “Stance stands for carrot”, imagining that he was making some obscure reference to “Don’t Be The Bunny”. Now that I know the real lyric, I feel somehow robbed. Alas.
(cross-posted in my LJ because Blogger was being stupid)
Who’s Aldonza? Who’s your Daddy!
::squeals:: Man, this has been the most fabulous week for me. I finish Dido and Aeneas, I get into college, and I get the role of the leading lady in the Jesuit musical. Could it get any better? Probably, when we release the Very Secret Project for shipping!
Carpool Conversations: (paraphrased, because I don’t have memorex memory)
Mimi: You’ve seen the latest batch of submissions for HP Monthly?
Me: Yep.
Mimi: The costume thing?
Me: (laughs) Hermione and Ron as Carrot and Angua?
Mimi: I’m scared.
Me: I really don’t get it. Her justification was “A blonde and a redhead — what did you expect?”. Hermione’s not blonde!
Mimi: Well, there aren’t many blondes in the books.
Me: Point.
Mimi: Ron and Fleur, maybe?
Me: Hmmm. You know, my friend Monica’s pet pairing is Percy/Fleur.
Mimi: And there’s the canon-accepted Bill/Fleur.
Me: Carrot with a dragon tooth earring and long hair?
Mimi: Nevermind. Charlie?
Me: hmm…. maybe.
Mimi: then there’s always Narcissa Malfoy!
Me: Or you could have a nice gender reversal. Draco/Ginny has quite a following.
Mimi: Indeed.
Me: Then there’s Seamus Finnegan, Rita Skeeter–
Mimi: Rita Skeeter as Angua! Gahgk!
Me: and Lucius Malfoy… (revelation) Gilderoy Lockhart!
Mimi: Yes! Gilderoy Lockhart! And Lily Potter was a redhead. You could have Lily/Lockhart!
Me: (dies)
Mimi: Or Lily/Peter.
Me: No. (pause) Was Hannah Abbot a blonde?
Mimi: who?
Me: Sorted into Hufflepuff.
Mimi: You want a Hufflepuff as Angua?
Me: Point.
Super-loff to Alicey for maintaining HP monthly against all odds, and for making conversations like this possible.
Erk. Minor annoyance: Penn =/= Penn State. Penn is the University of Pennsylvania. Penn State is… erm… Penn State. :)
Quotes for the Week, to make Tanja happy: :D
“It’s like Barbie for Physics nerds!” –Me
“…so we can multiply r2d2, and if we’re lucky, it could equal c 3p0.” –Loh
::Marcelina trips on a stack of books::
“There will be no tripping over Neil in my presence! ::pause:: Mind you I’m sure that there are quite a number of people who would think Neil to be a good thing to trip on, but that’s irrelevant.” –Me
Me: I liked it when the boy walked down the sidewalk and went into the toy store, without sound. It was so artistic!
Marcelina: Take that, Stanley Kubrick
Marcelina: You wouldn’t understand! It’s a British thing!
Rachel: Well neither are you…
Loh: It runs at 15 revolutions per second–
Me: Sounds like the French.
Get you mass on! –Erin (who also got into Penn! Go her!)
Do you have a problem with homoerotic incest? –Me, discussing a particularly unsettling poem
It looks like a sperm and an egg. With a moustache. –Mrs. McCullough
There are like… tons of guns in Canada! But nobody kills each other! –the point of “Bowling for Columbine”, according to Marcelina
Despite the continuous squeeage that lasted several hours and the endless line of hugs from the Dido cast, I don’t think that the fact that I have been accepted into Penn really sunk in until I got home and saw a stack of mail from other colleges. It’s so liberating to know that I don’t have to deal with it anymore. The impending fog that has been hovering over my head the last year is absolutely gone. Good gravy.
I’M IN!!!!!!!
HOLY GODS, I’M IN!
Oh. Goody.
Today:
Tonight:
Plus: If I get into Penn, will I be able to concentrate? If I don’t get in, will I be able to stop crying?
EDIT: ::cries tears of joy:: Dr. Moreland gave me an extension. Major paper now due Monday. You are my savior, Dr. Moreland. It’s actually all going to happen!
::wails:: Where is my West Side Story CD? Mrs. Felice told me at Dido and Aeneas (yes, she got to come! hurrah!) that she wanted me to sing “A Boy Like That” at Callbacks tomorrow so that Mr. Oliver could hear the other side of my voice. I got the music from Mrs. Glaros, but now I can’t find the CD. Arg. ::implores KaZaA::
EDIT: ::gawps:: Okay, since when is it in my main CD case? I took it out ages ago! Someone is trying to spite me. XP