Eeee, go see Schlieny’s brother in The Alamo! *runs off to see if it’s playing nearby*
Mmm, hot chocolate mix. Breakfast of champions. Now working on my conclusion, go me!
Hmm. The paper is only supposed to be 3-5 pages, but I have four full pages already and I feel I’ve barely scratched the surface. Bah.
1AM: It occurs to me that “Bass and Rankin” (the names of the directors of the dorky animated musical RotK) sounds like the name of a bait shop.
1:30: Stupid Microsoft Word Spell Check, “nuanced” is too a word!
2AM: Tolkien, you wuss! You give a name to every rock in Middle Earth and you don’t have any better name for the Ringwraiths’ winged mounts than “fell beasts”?
2:30: What the… birds? It’s the DEAD OF NIGHT. You should not be singing!
4AM: Does anyone know the word for the kind of weapon the Witch King carries? Beyond “spiked flail”? Bah, I’m going to bed.
OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD!!!!!
STEPHEN COLBERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
I can’t believe I forgot flash!!!! but AUTOGRAPHS, TOO!!! And I GOT TO GIVE HIM A HUG!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
It’s probably best described in proper fangirl fashion, so here’s my conversation with Rachel B from immediately afterwards.
Me: STEPHEN COLBERT!!!!!!!!!!!
Rachel: Oh ;-) How was it?
Me: http://www.theninemuses.net/pics/stephencolbertotp.jpg
Me: I can’t believe I forgot flash
Me: HE IS SO GREAT AND WONDERFUL AND HE GIVES GOOD HUGS AND HIS AUTOGRAPH IS LUVVERLY
Rachel: *laughs*
Rachel: “otp”?
Me: One True Pairing
Me: <3
Rachel: *giggles*
Me: And I told him the Jews of Wash U think “This Week in God” is brilliant, as per your request.
Rachel: Was he funny?
Rachel: *dies!* Thanks! What’d he say??
Me: he said “Ah, the Jews.” And was generally delightful. I was too busy thinking STEPHENCOLBERTOMGSTEPHENCOLBERTISGIVINGMEHISAUTOGRAPH
ANDOHDOYOUTHINKHEWOULDLETMEGIVEHIMAHUG? to actually remember what he said.
Rachel: *grins* I can tell. I’m glad you got a hug
Me: yay!
Me: autograph: http://www.theninemuses.net/pics/stephencolbert2.jpg
Rachel: *laughs*
Rachel: So I’m guessing you missed Smallville ;-)
Me: At one point, he asked for volunteers from the audience, and without thinking, I raised my hand. After picking two others, he picked me! I was so thrilled that it wasn’t until I got onstage that I realized that the other two were obvious plants, and I had no script!
Rachel: *giggles* Oh dear. What was it all for? What happened?
Me: I was the definition of “not funny”.
Rachel: Mope? What’d he do to you!!
Me: but it was okay, because I got to shake his hand, and it gave me an excuse to go after him after the show for his autograph and the hug etc. and apologize for not being funny. XD
Rachel: I see :-)
Rachel: Lucky Scilla :-)
Me: He tried to make me funny, and we both failed. I just wasn’t funny at all, though I tried to come up with funny things. Improv just can’t compare with scripting.
Me: bad improv, mind you. I have no skill for improv. Deer in headlights.
Rachel: Ha! You?
Rachel: You have no concept of fear.
Me: yup. believe it or not. I can’t be funny on command, especially in the presence of comedy gods.
Me: I wasn’t afraid, I just wasn’t funny.
Rachel: Oh well. I think you’re funny :-)
Me: and yes, I missed Smallville.
Rachel: Except when you’re violating my sweetie bear.
Me: *laughs*
PriscillaofDomm: mmmm, Clark!
I spent the entire rest of the show wondering if there was supposed to be a third plant, and how he could have confused me for one of them, if he had, as Mask and Wig is all-male. He told me afterwards that I look exactly like one of his friends from High School, so that might have been the reason. XD
I’ll post photos from the show tomorrow. Now, I must finish my LotR paper! Onwards! *zooms*
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STEPHENCOLBERT!!!!!!!
We interrupt your regularly scheduled blog post to bring you hobbits in helicopters. This will grant me the strength required to finish all my homework in a timely and efficient manner.
And I figured out how to access my old emails from the switch this morning, so all is gravy. It’s still so surreal to be using the same client for both UPenn and tnm.n email, though. Ah well. I’m not about to complain! I rather like it.
Woah, that’s freaky. Your-Site.com, my host, switched everyone’s email service providers, and as freaky coincidences would have it, are now using the same client as UPenn email. Oh, the surreality!
Edit: But woah! What happened to all the email we had in webmail before the switch? If all my emails are gone again, there will be rage. And how could priscellie@ not have gotten ANY emails over the two days email was down? Something is fishy here.
::is in tears::
Who’s gonna meet see Stephen Colbert? Delightfully dry wit of The Daily Show? Oh yeah, that would be me! Whose director was cool enough to let me leave rehearsal early so I could go? Man, life is good!
The Sixth Annual Intercollegiate Comedy Festival. Boo to the yeah.
*squeaks* I don’t usually link to picspams, but I had to make an exception for this case. A bunch of behind-the-scenes LotR stuff (mostly RotK) from a documentary thing that will be on the theatrical DVD. The sheer “EEEEEE”-per-image quotient is astronomical.
If this sort of thing makes you as squeeful as it makes me, watch Undone’s journal today. I think she’ll be posting more as the day goes on! <3 Undone!
(And w00t, Tori’s next CD comes out next week! Danke, Renata, for the heads up!)
Edit: And I’m a moron, as I clearly do not know the difference between April and May. May 18th, not next week. Silly me.