I really can't stay.
Hallo, you.
I am done Christmas shopping.
I gave Jeff his present today, and he gave me mine. A set of Jonathan Strange books! I love books. That is my favorite present. I don't get quite as excited about anything else.
My library grew by three today.
I saw Chronicles of Narnia. Then I got a lot of complaints from a lot of people that they were going to see the movie with me. But hey, Jeff beat you to it.
A few nights ago I went with Brett and Megan to B&O's in Seattle. It was so cute and Seattle-esque. You can't find places like that anywhere else in the world. Nowhere quite so posh/grunge. How Seattle does that I'll never be able to figure out.
Later today I went to a Sushi bar with Jessie, Myke, and Tracy. I didn't actually have any sushi, but it was a cultural experience anyway. We played Apples to Apples after.
Then Cucina Cucina with the family... the best part was drawing on the tablecloths. I hope the bus boy appreciates Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire; two octopi, a nativity scene, Kevin, and a running ninja-cyclops jumping onto a moving truck with a giant flatbed.
The food was yummy, too.
I am just finishing up Book the Seventh, The Vile Village in Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events.
I think anyone who knows a thing or two about Romantic literature should take a peek into one of these. There are little allusions and bite-sized name-and-phrase drops scattered all over the pages.
Hey, Lemony Snicket, even if no one else gets it... I do. And I think it's fine, very fine the way it's all tied in together.
I've been reading so much I almost forget what it's like to have homework.
I am excited to go back to school and read Romantic Literature until my brains melt and start oozing out my ears.
I will have the most Romantic brains of anyone ever living.
Except maybe Lemony Snicket.
I decided I want to be a professor like the one in the Lion the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I want to live by myself in an old castle-house with secret rooms and suits of armor all over the place. I want to have wacky hair and have stacks of books so high and so often that you'll knock them all over the place with your elbows whenever you turn around. I want an old yellow globe and a dusty case of quills up on the shelf, a pair of skinny wire-rimmed spectacles, and little brown patches on the elbows of my sweaters. Yes. Like a real professor.
And hey, even if some people don't like the fact that the Chronicles of Narnia are, in fact, a giant Christian allegory, I like it. I think it's fine and I think he did a great job of it, just like Tolkein. I think it's very effective. It's one of the most beautiful stories. It should be allegoried.
I can write stories like that, can't I?
I will try.
You read them, then tell me if they're any good, okay?
Thanks.
I am done Christmas shopping.
I gave Jeff his present today, and he gave me mine. A set of Jonathan Strange books! I love books. That is my favorite present. I don't get quite as excited about anything else.
My library grew by three today.
I saw Chronicles of Narnia. Then I got a lot of complaints from a lot of people that they were going to see the movie with me. But hey, Jeff beat you to it.
A few nights ago I went with Brett and Megan to B&O's in Seattle. It was so cute and Seattle-esque. You can't find places like that anywhere else in the world. Nowhere quite so posh/grunge. How Seattle does that I'll never be able to figure out.
Later today I went to a Sushi bar with Jessie, Myke, and Tracy. I didn't actually have any sushi, but it was a cultural experience anyway. We played Apples to Apples after.
Then Cucina Cucina with the family... the best part was drawing on the tablecloths. I hope the bus boy appreciates Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire; two octopi, a nativity scene, Kevin, and a running ninja-cyclops jumping onto a moving truck with a giant flatbed.
The food was yummy, too.
I am just finishing up Book the Seventh, The Vile Village in Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events.
I think anyone who knows a thing or two about Romantic literature should take a peek into one of these. There are little allusions and bite-sized name-and-phrase drops scattered all over the pages.
Hey, Lemony Snicket, even if no one else gets it... I do. And I think it's fine, very fine the way it's all tied in together.
I've been reading so much I almost forget what it's like to have homework.
I am excited to go back to school and read Romantic Literature until my brains melt and start oozing out my ears.
I will have the most Romantic brains of anyone ever living.
Except maybe Lemony Snicket.
I decided I want to be a professor like the one in the Lion the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I want to live by myself in an old castle-house with secret rooms and suits of armor all over the place. I want to have wacky hair and have stacks of books so high and so often that you'll knock them all over the place with your elbows whenever you turn around. I want an old yellow globe and a dusty case of quills up on the shelf, a pair of skinny wire-rimmed spectacles, and little brown patches on the elbows of my sweaters. Yes. Like a real professor.
And hey, even if some people don't like the fact that the Chronicles of Narnia are, in fact, a giant Christian allegory, I like it. I think it's fine and I think he did a great job of it, just like Tolkein. I think it's very effective. It's one of the most beautiful stories. It should be allegoried.
I can write stories like that, can't I?
I will try.
You read them, then tell me if they're any good, okay?
Thanks.