It’s a girl! Congrats to JK Rowling and her husband, Neil Murray!
And heeey, the “Dean for America” layout isn’t broken with Mozilla!
Dear Dad,
The next time you get the urge to tempt fate and make some joke about “It may be 20 degrees below freezing in Philadelphia with a windchill well below zero, but at least you have power and heating and a connection to the internet and working elevators that ensure you don’t have to climb 17 flights of stairs!”, don’t.
Love,
Priscilla
(blogging from the engineering building)
Not sure if it’s back now, as I’ve been in class the last hour and a half, but from around 2:15 to the time I left for class (around 4:20), we had nothing. And my laundry had 10 minutes to go when the power went out, so some of my clothes were still slightly damp. RRRGH, the world seeks to spite me at every turn.
*bites tongue*
Eee! According to Planet Magrathea, the Hitchhiker’s Guide trailer is coming out in February! *dances a merry dance*
Last night was one of the most fun I’ve had at Penn. It snowed all day, from before I woke up to well into the evening, and Deep and I decided to start the day off after breakfast with an early afternoon romp. As Ko chose not to join us, our first course of action was to write “KO SUX” in giant, 10-foot-tall letters (yes, we are 13-year-old AOLers) on the field viewable from the Common Room window. Of course, once we got back upstairs, we saw that the U and X were obscured by a tree, so it looked like “KOS”. Perhaps we subconsciously wanted to advertise the Daily Kos weblog!
Hee, I love how the snow turns us all into 6-year-olds. I remember in my first snowfall, I went out with Michelle, our nanny, and we wrote my name in big letters on the soccer field of a nearby elementary school. My mom has a picture of me from that time on her bedside table — I’m in a pastel yellow snowsuit, with long strings of pink plastic beads around my neck and a bright magenta skirt over my snow pants. I was very feminine as a child, before I declared at age 10 that “I will never be a girl again.” I am so entertained by ikkle!me.
Anyway, later in the evening, once Deep and I had recovered from the cold long enough to venture outside again, Ko and a bunch of Deep’s friends decided to join us, so we had a rather powdery snowball fight that rapidly deteriorated into a “let’s see how many people we can tackle to the ground” war. Then I found two abandoned lunch trays, and we joined a small crowd of people sledding down the 38th Street Bridge. We met up with Matt and Brady, and near the end ran into Erin Finley, one of my friends from Hockaday, who was there with another group of friends. Unfortunately, our fun was untimely cut short upon the arrival of a snow plough. Humbug.
Ko, Deep, and I warmed up with dinner from Qdoba, which I always find pleasantly surprising, as Ko constantly rags on its inauthenticity and badness in comparison with what she’s used to in Albuquerque, whereas unsophisticated me finds it quite tasty. I’ll have to keep it in mind.
Later that evening, I went up to The Boys’ room and watched “Monty Python and the Meaning of Life.” For the first time. Yes, I am that lame. Now, all I have to see if “The Life of Brian” and I won’t have to be ashamed to look at myself in the mirror anymore at my sheer Monty Python fan poserhood. :D
In other news, Allison posted this link. I am so entertained.
Ooh, here’s an interesting link! Musings over the latest episode of Lost and the significance of Walt’s particular issue of Green Lantern.
But wah, as rehearsals for Lady in the Dark are starting this Monday, I’ll be back to having to wait until the episodes become available for download before I can see them. Hisss. I will no longer be able to check my LJ friends page Wednesday nights. :D *sigh* Three cheers for the Supreme Court’s Universal City Studios, Inc. et al. v. Sony Corporation of America Inc. et al., commonly known as the Betamax case. Gotta love time shifting. Let the issue of warehousing never ever come up in court!
I keep wondering how on earth Bush could have been reelected, and then I find links like this. *sigh*
And I keep wondering if Kerry was elected, would this be happening? There were so many national and international issues I thought before the election that Kerry would resolve when he was elected… And that sentence probably makes no sense, but I don’t care. And imagining Bush on the deck of the Satellite of Love singing “We killed the Hubble” is not funny at all.
Hurrah! *does a little dance* A bunch of my programs (IE, Photoshop, and then even Mozilla and Paint) started spazzing out on me yesterday, so out of curiosity, I ran my Spyware detection programs, and now Jimmy is back to running perfectly! I thought I had been good about running them frequently enough, but I guess I haven’t been. So yay, Jimmy is happy again, and therefore so am I, so tra-la.
Made further updates to the fandom dates list. And probably more to come, seeing as I just realized I left out The Witching Hour. Clearly, I have no brain.
I still haven’t decided if I’m going to go yet, which is ridiculous, as every time I even consider it, I decide I should. I need to stop being a hesitant wuss about it and register already.
Thinking about Orson Scott Card makes me twitch violently, but it’s nice to know that he has some measure of taste, despite being an unspeakable homophobe.