Saturday evening, after a long absence

[cleolinda]

[Note: I wrote this before I went out, and... apparently forgot to hit post. I r smrt.]

God, I slept so much yesterday, and it was awesome. On top of the Pet Circus, the Lovely Emily pointed out that certain conditions of my polycystic ovarian whatthehell mean that I'm probably not getting enough iron, which would explain a lot of my fatigue right there. Meanwhile, the pups spent the day at the vet, getting bathed and checked-up upon, and it turns out that they have both fleas and worms (and are now de-bothed). Today I woke up after even more sleep to a wonderfully sunny, freezing-cold day; I'm going out tonight,* and I have plenty of money; tomorrow's Easter, and there will be tons of chocolate; and I swear to you, I can't stop smiling. I mean, just in a quiet to-myself kind of way, but even Sister Girl noticed and thought it was weird. And it's not that I'm never happy--I laugh a lot, and I'm easily amused. But I don't know that I can remember waking up with this kind of inexplicable glee before. My family would think I'm on drugs, except that they can't figure out what kind.

* The results of the out-going were that a small group of us had dinner at--On the Border? Over the Border? A Border was involved, I know that much--and I had the first drink I'd had in a long time. Like maybe more than a year, due to my cautiousness regarding my meds. And by "drink" I mean "several refills from the margarita pitcher." Apparently not drinking from a straw makes a huge difference, because this time I barely felt it at all. And then we went and saw The Lookout.

I've also been reading a lot of Jane Austen this week, for no particularly good reason, except that maybe Pride and Prejudice happened to be on HBO one morning while I was dogsitting. Maybe this has contributed to my mood? I don't know, except that I have very strong urges to use phrases like "monstrous pretty" and "excessively fond" all of a sudden. If you're like me, and I know I am, you will also enjoy The Republic of Pemberley, as pointed out to me by redcoast, where they have annotations of some of the Austen novels and all kinds of interesting things, including reprints of Austen's own letters ("At the bottom of Kingsdown Hill we met a gentleman in a buggy, who, on minute examination, turned out to be Dr. Hall -- and Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead"). I spent way too much time browsing there last night. Enjoy.

("You express so little anxiety about my being murdered under Ash Park Copse by Mrs. Hulbert's servant, that I have a great mind not to tell you whether I was or not.")

What linkspam I have on hand:

Couple fights to name baby 'Metallica.'

Belief in Reincarnation Tied to Memory Errors.

Keith Richards snorted his father's ashes, mixing them up with cocaine. There's pretty much only one possible response to this article, and it's Oh, Keef. Really, it's more a matter of what Keith Richards hasn't snorted at this point, and "things that were too big to fit up his nose anyway" don't count.

Short Ends: Keith Richards: 'I Did Not Snort My Father.' Okay, now I'm just disappointed.

From psammead: Sydney Pollack plans film about 2000 US election.

From Annie: "The official Blades of Glory music video, as performed by Bo Bice in a powder blue tuxedo and featuring cameos by Will Ferrell and Jon Heder."

Librarians to sign over firstborns no-tell clauses in exchange for Harry Potter 7.

Sanjaya's 'Idol' run not India's fault.

Sean Connery still considering "Indiana Jones 4" role. Apparently he hasn't acted since 2003. Of course, I can see how LXG might put you off appearing in public for a while.

Moonbase [Your Username Here]: "You are walking through a chrome armoury. The base's computer alerts you to hed pastede on yay."

And in the spirit of the season: Peeps for Passover.

Comments

[ter369.livejournal.com]

Of course, I can see how LXG might put you off appearing in public for a while.

I'll just be over here alone, enjoying that movie. Peta Wilson and that dude that managed to not suck in Queen of the Damned were campy good fun.

I'm also alone enjoying The Fountain.

[nohara-megami.livejournal.com]

You're not alone, I loved LXG. Especially for Stuart Townsend^_^

I'd say that I am also with you on The Fountain, but I have not seen it yet.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I actually loved The Fountain. Part of my problem was that I went and picked up the LOEG graphic novel (well, the first volume; second hadn't come out all the way yet, I don't think) just before the movie came out. If I hadn't been invested before, I was then, and I loved that all the characters were total screwups and misfits--Mina was an outcast divorcee (and didn't have any powers), Quatermain was this emaciated drug addict, Hyde and the Invisible Man Whose Name Currently Slips My Mind were total sociopaths, etc. So pretty much none of this is in place in the movie (Mina's a vampire, Jekyll and Hyde are actually trying to keep things under control, Quatermain's Sean Connery), so that's one thing I have to get over. Then, the whole "racing around the streets of Venice" thing lost me. I understand why Fu Manchu might not have been the most marketable idea for a mainstream blockbuster movie, but... I really wasn't all that excited about what they came up with instead. I don't know--I kind of enjoy the movie now as a guilty pleasure, but I mostly think of it as the movie it should have been.

[angiepen.livejournal.com]

I liked League too. :) OK, they thrashed the graphic novel but Connery's character made out well in said thrashing and the whole thing was just fun. Silly, sure. Implausible, of course. But it was fun to watch and I've seen it a couple of times.

Angie

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the movie, but everyone else not enjoying it made me wonder if I had seen an alternate-universe version of the film. I mean, yeah, not Great Art, but it was fun. It gave me all I asked for out of a summer blockbuster, plus a snarky Invisible Man and some sexy visible men!

Mina being a vampire is so a Fred Saberhagan thing. /random

[lauramcvey.livejournal.com]

Whaddaya mean "managed to not suck in Queen of the Damned"? He was horrifying! I wanted to beat him over the head with a hardcover copy of the book, growling, "LESTAT-DOES-NOT-SOUND-LIKE-THAT!"
That entire movie was a pile of crap, anyway.

[mysticowl.livejournal.com]

You're not alone, so I'll join you over here. LXG was fun, but then I haven't read the graphic novel it was based on. I thought the Fountain was visually breathtaking.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

On top of the Pet Circus, the Lovely Emily pointed out that certain conditions of my polycystic ovarian whatthehell mean that I'm probably not getting enough iron, which would explain a lot of my fatigue right there.

Ah hah. I wondered if it wasn't something like that -- you've been tired for a very long time now. Anyhow, glad you got up and out of the house. Is your moneyed status connected to a new contract, by chance?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's connected to (slight) financial remuneration for dogsitting.

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

Couple fights to name baby 'Metallica.'

I have been fangirling Supernatural so much that my first thought was, "Dean Winchester has gone mad."

[headtotoe.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, yes.

[lezopez.livejournal.com]

Did you enjoy The Lookout? It makes me happy to see Joseph Gordon-Levitt getting work - this is a kid who kept who with John Lithgow on 3rd Rock, for god's sake, I have to think he has some sort of chops, you know?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It was pretty good--JGL was really good. (I still want to see Brick.) My only real complaint about the movie, if you can even call it that, is that I'm starting to realize that I don't really have much of a taste for slice-of-life indie movies.

[frodosgoosegirl.livejournal.com]

Ohhh they were totally talking about me in that HP/Librarian article. Please don't tell anyone. So what if I knew Dumbledore died four days before anyone else. That was the coolest feeling in the world for me, knowing the biggest secret ever. Which is, I suppose, why they don't want everyone to have it.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

So what if I knew Dumbledore died four days before anyone else. That was the coolest feeling in the world for me, knowing the biggest secret ever.

Sadly, that info was screamed in forums on the Internet over 24 hours before the release, and then people who'd been spoiled had to wail & gnash their teeth in their blog ... and I wound up accidentally spoiled for HBP the way I got spoiled (via e-mail) for OoTP.

I'm getting offline in early June. I've been looking forward to the final book since 1999.

People yakked online about Serenity's spoilers four months before it was released. I actually enjoy being surprised in storytelling, but the Internet is not my friend in this aspect.

[jennnk.livejournal.com]

I swear I'd heard the Keith Richards ashes thing before, like when that came out I said to The Husband, "Didn't everyone know that already? How is that news?"

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine was diagnosed with PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome), and she was able to get rid of it through dietary changes. Mainly, she got rid of "bad sugars" (i.e., white breads, fried foods, etc.). It took a while for her body to adjust, but within a year, she no longer had PCOS. You might look into it (if that's what you mean by "polycystic ovarian whatthehell"--if not, you can just ignore this).

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

No, that's what I mean. And you know, my psychiatrist had mentioned something similar--apparently sugar issues (diabetes, etc) can be tied up with PCOS, and I noticed that mine got a lot worse right after Valentine's Day--on which I got a boatload of chocolate. So of course, today's... Easter. Oops. But there aren't anymore candy holidays until Halloween after this! I'll be good!

[eyemage.livejournal.com]

have you heard of the book "the eyre affair" by jasper fforde?

its an book set in an alternate history now...not sure how to describe it actually except that it involves jane eyre...and world domination.

I would be much interested in what you think of it.

happy easter!

[lotusbiosm.livejournal.com]

not sure how to describe it
You can't describe it, except to say that the Thursday Next books are sheer, concentrated hilarious awesome.

I think the blurb on my copy of the book says that it's Harry Potter meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Monty Python.

[lily-handmaiden.livejournal.com]

I love the Republic of Pemberley. It inspired me to get my very own copy of Jane Austen's letters ("Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted"). Really, reading anything by Miss Austen puts me in a very happy mood for some time thereafter. And I also find that you can always tell when I have been reading a lot of her because my emails end up saying things like, "I was excessively happy to get your card in the mail."

[maid-line.livejournal.com]

Two years ago, I spent an entire week reading nothing but Jane Austen. My writing style has yet to recover.

[cassildra.livejournal.com]

Might I email you something regarding linkspam?

[lauramcvey.livejournal.com]

Glad to see you back.
Re: Harry Potter- it wouldn't be half as much fun if there wasn't all this secrety and weird ritual-type things. I mean, the release parties are fun. I got to make putty at the last one.

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever woken up with anything approaching glee. I usually greet the day with varying levels of dread and hostility. Waking up gleeful would, I think, send me directly into cardiac arrest.

[syneblue.livejournal.com]

On the Border! Their chimichangas used to rock my world...but they reinvented the menu about two years ago and now they kinda suck. And yay for margaritas! (how obvious is it that I haven't had lunch yet?)

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

If you're like me, and I know I am, you will also enjoy The Republic of Pemberley, as pointed out to me by , where they have annotations of some of the Austen novels and all kinds of interesting things, including reprints of Austen's own letters

Beep-beep-beep. Missing word alert! And honestly, I think you meant me, because I linked you to the annotated P&P on that site on your last post, or possibly the post before that.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yes! Do you ever do that thing where you keep meaning to do something, and you end up two hours later not even remembering what it was you meant to do? That's been me this weekend.

[msilverstar]

Sleep and Jane Austen, sounds perfect!

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Tim O'Reilly and Jimmy Wales (of Wiki) have proposed a code of conduct for blogs (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/technology/09blog.html?ex=1333771200&en=0ac52f05a37e88fd&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink). Dooce gets a mention, as does Mina Trott of Six Apart.

Chief among the recommendations is that bloggers consider banning anonymous comments left by visitors to their pages and be able to delete threatening or libelous comments without facing cries of censorship.

[lyricalnights.livejournal.com]

The Deathly Hallows rules are pretty much the same ones that we had to follow last time, actually. The stupid forms were supposed to be in by March 31st, but they didn't mail them to most places until three days before that.

Funnily enough, I worked in an amazon.com distribution plant when Goblet of Fire came out. I was part of a special work detail dedicated solely to applying Saturday Shipping labels to closed boxes, and they made it very clear that peekers would be fired. I figured thieves might be shot. =)

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

wow I love your icon.