So, Red Riding Hood is awful but kind of lolarious (Binder and I went last weekend). This weekend, we saw Sucker Punch (expecting it to be terrible), and it was surprisingly not horrendous! I mean, there are parts that don't make sense, and the whole thing is kind of like the end of Astrópía - wtf even happened?! - but the soundtrack was pretty ( Read more... )

So, I finished Mom's bag (a month-early Mother's Day gift? Why not?), and pictures are up on Facebook, since I assume we are Facebook friends at this point (I might also put them on Scrapbook, but meh - we'll see). I think it turned out pretty all right for a first attempt, and Mom seems to agree ( Read more... )

I am excited to go home, but I'm so sick of packing and how even though it almost works right now, it'll all go wrong again tomorrow, when the laundry's finished. I've spent the whole day piling things on my suitcases, sorting them until they might fit if I were some sort of space-wizard, cramming them in, taking them out, sorting them down AGAIN, ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas (Eve) to those both who read this and to whom it is appropriate! I got all my shopping done while I was still home for Thankgiving/ surgery, which I think is the earliest I have ever gotten it finished ( Read more... )

Ugh making ZERO progress on creative projects is pretty disheartening, I'm finding (again). I can't stay mad at Russia for having lost all their pre-Christian worldbuilding myths, because the stuff they've put together since then is so awesome (I will never not love Prince Ivan, even if he's kind of a jackass sometimes), but it doesn't help me make ( Read more... )

So I totally left everybody hanging after that post-surgery update, but I figure nobody thought I died, so I hope no harm's been done :D

I'm pretty much fine, now (thanks for the pillow tip, suzilem! It helped a lot!), though I think I might have upset my internal reconstruction lifting my bags around when I came back to England Wednesday/Thursday. The ( Read more... )

Sooooo several things have been stacking up here in my Chrome tabs, and now with LJ's really disappointing yet unsurprising stab at Facebook-ish privacy violation, I'd better make a post.

First: If you're against the new cross-posting features (which you probably are), tell them in this poll. If you're not aware of the cross-posting features, read ( Read more... )

So I'm nearly done packing and otherwise getting ready for my 3 weeks in Valpo (hooray!), for which I leave on a train at 7 tomorrow morning (boo hiss). I've got a bluberry pie in the oven and I am also, of course, completing my (and others') favorite 4th of July tradition in watching 1776 :D I mean, it's not like the 4th is the only time I watch ( Read more... )

So we saw Prince of Persia today, and despite its obvious problems (Jake Yillenhoolahay is the closest person bar MAYBE one to Persian in the film, it's not exactly Oscars fare, etc), we are trying to find evidence for the argument that it may be the first good video game to film adaptation. Plus the first half of it was full of gamer-service ( Read more... )

First and most importantly, dear friends, I have an urgent question for all of you: should I buy this handbag? I am leaning toward yes, but it is possible that's because I responsibly decided against the last handbag I almost bought from this company and was thwarted today when I went to a store that said "Handbags half price!" and they had THREE ( Read more... )