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... )

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... )

Today, I time-travelled. Or: Adventures in Banking.

So today, the only thing I had to do (besides help avatar1983 pick up a TV stand from Barnsley) was go to the bank and get some money moved around. I needed to find out how much savings I had, transfer some savings to my "current" (read: checking) account, and transfer a good chunk of that in turn to ( Read more... )

My NaNo is still behind, but I wrote 4k words yesterday, bringing me up to 20k in total, which makes the deficit only 4k unlike the 6k it was before. Ugh I have been so bad. I really need to get at least the required 2k done today, but I haven't written a word. I'm still trying to figure out what needs to happen in the meantime ( Read more... )

So I just had my singing lesson. I was extremely nervous and when the first thing that happens is "Caro Mio Ben" appears in front of me and I hear, "Let's start with this" I wasn't any less nervous. It didn't help that I could not hit the first note right off the bat - I really needed to warm up etc and I was dying of tense anyway so yeah. Anyway ( Read more... )

Soooo...it may be a bad idea, but I've decided to try NaNo(WriMo) again this year. Last time I only got 260 words in, but because I cheated a bit I'm already at 925! I only started today/last night or there'd be more (I hope lol). If you're on the official site, I'm adustierstar on there, too - friend me! Make me feel behind with your much better ( Read more... )

In an uncharacteristically decisive move, today I went to the university's music department and asked about voice lessons! The people in the office were very nice (though I think the girl was a little bit confused at first that I wasn't a student: "Well...you'd have to pay...but I can ask?"), and one of them is I guess starting to take over some of ( Read more... )

So things, however, trivial, have actually been happening! Ish. Sunday avatar1983 and I went to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, about which I had been dubious because of F. Scott Fitzgerald (I haven't read the story btw), but which was actually really, really good. Also I didn't know Cate Blanchett could do accents! I also didn't know she was ( Read more... )

So once again daylight shines between my posts, and I have mixed feelings about that. I'm sure we'll all get through it XD ( Read more... )

I seem to have become remarkably lax in my posting recently, which is probably not a disaster, all things considered.

It's not as though things have been hectic, but there has been activity since my last post. Tuesday, avatar1983 and I went to IKEA to get a comforter (and cover) that is actually big enough to cover the bed (and it's super fluffy and ( Read more... )