Rebecca? Look at Dom’s shirt. I win!
(And at her quasi-request of sorts, Rebecca M shall henceforth be called Becky, leaving Rebecca G the sole Rebecca. Hopefully, this should eliminate some measure of confusion!)
Woohoo! Just passed 1,000 pageviews on DevArt! Sure that number is trifling compared to pretty much everyone else’s, but it’s not too shabby for someone who never posts. :D
W00t! Sannali tells us that Something Rotten, the next Thursday Next, will be published simultaneously in the US and the UK on 1 August 2004. Whee!
And of course, August 1st is a Sunday. Don’t these publishers have ANY awareness of the sheer numbers of easily amused people in the universe? Throw us a bone here! Give in to the punny goodness! The last book came out on a Tuesday. A Tuesday. I hear Terry Pratchett’s Thief of Time release corresponded with Spring Daylight Savings’ Time, where we all lose an hour. Harhar, ten points to Pterry’s publisher! We’re still waiting on you, oh Publishers of Nextian Goodness, to give us the weak pun we long for.
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Mmm. Feels so good to have my Noir paper turned in. I adore every word of it, save maybe the concluding paragraph, but it’s good enough. In true Dom and Billeh fashion, I told Chris that reading the paper would be like being given a big box of candy. This was joked over pretty much all class period, along with Arjen’s (how do you spell that boy’s name? Ah! Directory search! Arjun!) Arjun’s 38-point title “The Lone Wolf”. Haha.
Anyway, we spent the class reading intro paragraphs and nitpicking them, and naturally he chose mine first in order to discover with the class whether or not it was truly like receiving a box of candy. Arjun proclaimed that it was like eating a bag of gummy worms, and there was much rejoicing.
Meanwhile, I just opened another fortune cookie (I always have to order 4 extra, to provide the 40 cents to put me over the minimum delivery charge), and it said “You will inherit some money or a small piece of land.”
“We shall call it ‘This Land’!”
“I think we should call it Your Grave!”
“Oh, curse your sudden yet inevitable betrayal!”
I *heart* Firefly.
Meanwhile, I just got The Silmarillion! That word is so much fun to say. Silmarillion, Silmarillion, Silmarillion! If I lived in Middle Earth, I think I would make random excuses just to say that word. That and “Nine Fingered Frodo and the Ring of Doom,” a phrase I first discovered used in a hilariously bad rap song before actually reading about Sam’s freaky morbid wishes in RotK. Hah!
So yes. Java.
Tonight, I ordered in Chinese, as is my wont when working on papers. My fortune cookie? “You just had a pleasant and fulfilling dinner today or in the near future.” Finding this hilarious, I opened another cookie, which read “Your children adore you.” Fortune cookies are great!
*facepalms repeatedly, but in a good way*
Wow. I spent all of last week thinking that our math exam was tomorrow, whereas it’s a week from tomorrow. I’m so glad I’ve been spending all my time on my Film Noir paper and not studying Math.
I am a really, really happy person right now.
Meanwhile, I had a really weird dream, as all my dreams tend to be. My mom was repainting our living room, adding subtle and decorative tribal religious motifs and such. At the moment, she was adding Kokopelli to the main wall. Then, my dad asked me to meet with these two little girls that were the daughters of one of his potential business partners, and he wanted me to take them out to photograph ghosts. I told my dad before the girls arrived that I didn’t have much time to spare, as I was working on my Noir paper, plus lots of other stuff, but he said to meet with them anyway. Only one girl was present, and we talked for a while, and she was really cute, even though I now realize that her appearance was taken from a non-creepified Diane Arbus photograph of twin girls.
After talking about an hour, I started getting antsy, as I needed to get back to work. But she was excited as ever, and I didn’t want to disappoint her. Then, my mom pulled me away, as she wanted to rehearse a three-person piano piece she had planned for herself, me, and my sister for some big event. We three sat down to play, and then I realized that I didn’t know how to play the piano anymore. I kept looking at the keys, expecting them to somehow indicate which note went next. I felt horrible, then felt even worse as I saw my mom and sister’s extreme disappointment in me. Tearing up a bit, I returned to the little girl and told her that we were going to have to reschedule our ghost hunting trip, and she said of course, it’s alright with her, and that I didn’t need to cry about it. I denied that I had been crying, saying that my eyes were just watering.
Then, we suddenly plunged back in time to the 18th century, where my family and (randomly) my friend Julia Tucker-Huth’s family gathered around the piano, where we were holding a friendly voice competition to see who would sing certain songs at a combination party/rebel uprising (I just read the Scouring of the Shire last night, so I guess that’s where that came from). However, I didn’t know the tune of one of the songs they were auditioning me for, so I tried to sightread as well as I could, eventually turning the tune into “Cabaret”. Even though I was totally off tune, my voice sounded great, and all were impressed, so there was much applause. Overjoyed, I ran to my favourite sibling, my older brother, Simon, who looked like Stephen from “Master and Commander” (easy enough, Stephen and Firefly’s Simon Tam are the two doctors I squee over, and I refer to both interchangably with Marcelina as “doctah!”), who was sitting on the couch. He had lost his right hand at the wrist (Master and Commander again, or maybe The Silmarillion), but had since become an excellent blacksmith and swordsman. We hugged tightly, and all was great.
Mum talks about synchronicities and how people in the same dream groups sometimes have the same dreams. I challenge anyone to ever have the same dream as me. :D
Reasons why my probable Spring schedule is cooler than yours:
1. 3D Modeling
2. Intro to Computer Architecture
3. Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
4. Film History
5. Theatre Arts: Concepts of Lighting and Set Design
::incoherent squeaks:: This is going to be so awesome…
I am so amused at my Friendslist’s complete OBSESSION with the Hot Topic Sirius Black workshirt.
Meanwhile, I have satisfied my fangirl clothing quota of the moment with A Cornucopia of Love. Muaha, I can’t wait for it to arrive!
And Mon reveals the reason why she is super super awesome! Squeeeeeee, YAY!