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Sep. 29th, 2004 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cleolindaUrg. Have been studying for the Milton midterm all day, if by "studying" you mean "reading a shitload I hadn't even gotten through once over in the first place." Paradise Lost is a tough read the first time through, y'all. Also--I can't remember if I mentioned this--the prof assigned us three new small pieces to read for the one (!) essay on the midterm, so we'd have something to talk about other than our notes regurgitated straight onto the page. Or the computer screen, rather--Chapman has booked us the education building computer lab for exam, because SHE ROCKS. Seriously, that's the one thing I really, really hate about exams--I've been typing for so long now that I can't write longhand for any length of time now. You can't read my handwriting anymore, my right hand has a spaz and dies, and my left hand gets bored. On the computer, though--I can tear this bitch up, so I'm almost excited about the whole thing.
I still don't know what I'm doing for my final paper, which will include a series of smaller assignments that will take up a crapload of time over the next two months, but I do not want to be writing it an hour before class starts the way I usually am. So, you know, three cheers for discipline and all.
Oh, and I'm still getting used to this whole "actually being home at night when good TV is on" thing. I totally forgot about Veronica Mars last night, and the TWOP recap guy is about to have fits trying to get people to watch. The recap of the pilot sounded really good, but then I started reading The Grim Grotto (finally!) last night and... I forgot about it.
(I am starting to get really concerned as to how Handler's going to pull the end of the series off--he's spent eleven books now promising us via the Lemony Snicket author/character that the story is awful and terrible and tragic and we ought to go read a book about ponies braiding each other's hair or what-have-you, and I'm going to feel cheated if the Snicket books have a happy ending... but I'm going to feel cheated if they don't, because I love those kids. I keep sitting here trying to imagine what I'd do in his position, as a writer, and I seriously cannot think of a way out.)
Ooo! Twenty minutes until Lost!
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Date: 2004-09-29 04:47 pm (UTC)I really hope that girl gets eaten
and Dom takes his shirt off.no subject
Date: 2004-09-29 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-29 05:40 pm (UTC)THE SPICE MUST FLOW!!!!!
and..um...look, a bear!
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Date: 2004-09-29 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-30 05:28 pm (UTC)although it is funny.
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Date: 2004-09-30 11:23 am (UTC)Most of us are just happy to see you reading -- no matter what it is. So go to it!
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Date: 2004-09-29 06:24 pm (UTC)I'm a bit worried about how the series will end, too. Maybe it'll turn out that it was all a practical joke, a word that here means 'death to an author'.
And, ooh, I watched Lost for the first time tonight. I've fallen even deeper in love with Dom Monaghan. I kind of have a crush on Sayid, too...
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Date: 2004-09-29 07:06 pm (UTC)I expect the ending will be bittersweet. Either that or it will turn into Hamlet and everyone dies in the last chapter (the first 12 chapters will all be explaination of what VFD is-Lemony is really in trouble if he keeps on keeping the secrets secret) and we're left their blinking.
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Date: 2004-09-29 07:30 pm (UTC)Lost has got me hooked now. I want someone to die though.
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Date: 2004-09-29 07:42 pm (UTC)But I understand the distractions. I only caught the last 20 minutes of VM last night because instead I had wine and mopped up the flooding rug and watched "Shawshank," which I'd never seen. Oh, the horror.
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Date: 2004-09-29 07:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-29 10:01 pm (UTC)(I would also like to randomly point out that until I was in high school, we did not even have a local FOX station, so ABC would sometimes air UPN stuff, like Voyager. *does the "yaaay, we've got 5 whole channels!" dance*
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Date: 2004-09-30 11:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-29 11:21 pm (UTC)Seriously! All I do is type notes into peoples' accounts all day at work and then come home and type comments on LJ. I can barely read my own grocery lists anymore.
And I was wondering about the whole Lemony Snicket thing myself...
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Date: 2004-09-30 12:51 am (UTC)lemony snicket rocks!
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Date: 2004-09-30 06:35 am (UTC)I've been thinking about that, and then it occurred to me that Snicket is writing these books on the go. So when he writes one book, he doesn't know what's going to happen in the next book. So that potentially gives enough room for a happy ending.
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Date: 2004-09-30 11:16 am (UTC)That's totally true, I think: at the beginning, he's writing at the time of about the 9th book, I think, so he knows that the story UP TILL THAT POINT has no happy ending. But eventually he is writing almost as the story continues: remember in The Slippery Slope where he 'sneaks' that letter in midway?
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Date: 2004-09-30 07:28 am (UTC)it is a prospect that fills me with great dread. not unlike Chris Columbus/John Williams slash. >.<;;;;
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Date: 2004-09-30 02:20 pm (UTC)but in the trailer, HE MADE COUNT OLAF'S SCARINESS FUNNY.
*stab*
THAT'S NOT OKAY.
< /geek >
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Date: 2004-10-01 01:13 am (UTC)*poncy non-wheezy non-scratchy non-as-Olaf's-voice-is-described-in-the-books voice* Oohl I aahsk is that you do eech and evry litle thing that pops intomyhead, while Iiieee enjoytheenormousfortuneyourparentsleftbehiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin-DUH.
I think Violet may have been refering to this when she says "We're very concerned".
We needed a CREEPY SCARY OLD MAN who can do a NASTY CREEPY VOICE. Like Tim Curry, he was good in the Audiobooks. Or Willem Dafoe, cause he looks creepy and slightly mental.
They did a good makeup job, though.
Oh, and what was with the odd squaky bird noises, and the whole in-a-car-on-the-train-tracks-about-to-be-pulverised-by-oncoming-train thing?
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Date: 2004-10-01 08:50 am (UTC)HP FANS: OMG THAT WAS RON'S LINE! You've changed stuff from the book!
LOTR FANS: What are you, new?
It's all too true, sadly.
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Date: 2004-10-02 01:23 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-10-03 09:06 am (UTC)And btw, am loving your icon. Hmmm, could go for a hobbit sandwich right about now.