Happy 2011, everyone.

I am starting the new year with a clean sink, a pop song stuck in my head (soon to be replaced by the song I'm vidding to) and the discovery that four (!) of my prompts were filled in the
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His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik: Thumbs up. A very easy read, and worth picking up for the sweet relationship between Laurence and Temeraire (man and dragon). Am 150 pages into the second in the series, Throne of Jade, now.

Nanny McPhee (2005, dir. Kirk Jones): Thumbs up. The reviews had made it sound awful, but my children's movie-loving dad ( Read more... )

Hey, folks.

Today is the last day of 2006. (Well, it is in this time zone; for those who are already celebrating, Happy 2007!) It's a time of reflection, of slowing down, of looking back. And with the start of the new year, the second annual Memoryfest will commence.

How it works: I will post one memory each day for the month of January, and I ( Read more... )

Gearing up for Memoryfest II in January... Will post more about it soon. In the meantime, I've finally compiled an index to the first one:

Introduction

1. Care Bears
2. Anti-Semitism at the Movies
3. Physics Teacher Nightmare
4. Kindergarten Lesson
5. Mall Explosion

The Memoryfest Rundown

( Things I have learned during this project )

Alas, we reach the end.

( 31. Pre-School )

There was going to be one about vomit tonight but I've spared you. Have some acrophobia instead.

( 30. Middle School )

Was hanging out at a former co-worker's house tonight with a group of people several years older than I am, and ended up watching half a DVD of Guns 'n' Roses music videos. Hence:

( 29. Elementary School )

Whew. I’m all written out today, and owe a bunch of you responses. A short one tonight.

( 28. Pre-School )

Does anyone remember this exchange from Brave New World, where everyone is medicated to want little and get everything they do want immediately? --"Has any of you been compelled to live through a long time-interval between the consciousness of a desire and its fufilment ( Read more... )