When “Captain’s Log” launches, this will be the first link.

Renata: Could you email me the frowl passwords and such so that I could set everything up on Blogger? I’m stupid and forgetful. And what is up with me and monochromatic layouts? Bah. I think I’ll actually change the color scheme this evening…

OFFICIAL STATEMENT: “Party at the Leper Colony” is one of the wrongest songs in recent memory. Thank you, Weird Al.

Eeeeeeeee! Just watched my scenes from mum’s La Mancha video, and I feel so joyous that I can hardly contain myself. I kept bursting into fits of squeeage whenever Tom or Lobo or Mark or Gabby or Stephen or Emil did anything cute or memorable. I will love those guys forever, and though I still miss it, I now know that “Don Quixote is not dead.” And “my name is Dulcinea.” Theatre videos make very good therapy.

The quote of the day remains “She nurtured us! Like little baby birds! ::hand gestures:: Until we blossomed!” (Eugene: Birds don’t blossom!)

BBC Book meme! Why? Don’t ask. In a big block because I don’t feel like taking up too much space.

Bold: Already read

Italics: Started, but not finished

1984, George Orwell — The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho — Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll — Animal Farm, George Orwell — Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy — Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery — Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer — The BFG, Roald Dahl — Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks — Black Beauty, Anna Sewell — Bleak House, Charles Dickens — Brave New World, Aldous Huxley — Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh — Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding — Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres — Catch 22, Joseph Heller — The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger — Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl — A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens — The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel — Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons — The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett — The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas — Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky — David Copperfield, Charles Dickens — Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson — Dune, Frank HerbertEmma, Jane Austen — Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy — Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson — The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy — The Godfather, Mario Puzo — Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell — Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman — Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian — Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake — The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck — Great Expectations, Charles Dickens — The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald — Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett — Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling — Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling — Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling — Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling — His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman — The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams — The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien — Holes, Louis Sachar — I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith — Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte — Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer — Katherine, Anya Seton — The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis — Little Women, Louisa May Alcott — Lord Of The Flies, William Golding — The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien — Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez — The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton — Magician, Raymond E Feist — The Magus, John Fowles — Matilda, Roald Dahl — Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden — Middlemarch, George Eliot — Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie — Mort, Terry Pratchett — Night Watch, Terry Pratchett — Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman — Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck — On The Road, Jack Kerouac — One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez — Perfume, Patrick Suskind — Persuasion, Jane Austen — The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett — A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving — Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen — The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot — The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell — Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier — The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett — The Secret History, Donna Tartt — The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher — The Stand, Stephen King — The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson — A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth — Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome — A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens — Tess Of The D’urbervilles, Thomas Hardy — The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough — To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee — A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute — Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson — The Twits, Roald Dahl — Ulysses, James Joyce — Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson — War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy — Watership Down, Richard Adams — The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame — Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne — The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins — Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

To all interested in the Captain’s Log (the Pirate joke log): I finished the layout. Do we want to use Blogger or LiveJournal?

(Renata, doublepost this in Boron so that those who don’t read CoL will get the message)

Whee! Having a bit of fun designing logos for the Armies in Ender’s Game.

I talked to Alexander, the guy doing the movie, and he says that the biggest headaches are locations and costumes. I’m chipping in, designing the flash suits. I thought we could get light-colored jumpsuits (with stripes of the team colors down the side), stuff them with a bit of padding, then film under blacklight, so that they would glow.

Acting-wise, he said that he already had a girl in mind for Petra, but because nothing is set in stone, we’ll just have to see. I suppose I could be Valentine if all else fails.