I should be writing essays so of course I decided to finally write here about my new shiny laptop. I was going to wait till the economy was more estable but Terabithia killed her fourth charger (maybe i should've known, naming her that, that she would be a bridge of death), only 5 months old, and I snapped. I spent a few days going over specs and ( Read more... )

Just watched Tangled, which for some reason I always think of as Tangled Up, the Disney retelling of the last fairytale I ever discovered, Rapunzel (I was 12 and I got so excited!). For some other reason, there were LOTS more songs that really necessary, like, a crazy amount. I blame High school musical.xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas- ( Read more... )

In England I feel like I'm in a book, or a movie. Because English is the language of fiction for me it also is the language in which I can reinvent myself just thinking and speaking it. And here, reality nods along and assures me that "of course it's real. It's not only in your head." It's like getting to go Hogwarts.
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Hoy Argentina legalizo el matrimonio gay, aparentemente incluso Cristina estaba a favor (nunca la había escuchado hablar antes porque lo que me llegaba de segunda mano era bastante embarazoso pero no sé, el discurso un poco por las ramas pero bien.). Also, like, awesome famous people. 10º país en el mundo no está nada mal. I'm like, so proud ( Read more... )

El 20 Sharon cumplió 13 y como no pude estar le mandé un dibujo y un poema (y una pluma pero nadie la mencionó porque el poema desencadenó rios de lagrimas). Mi vieja insistió en que tenía que publicarlo, a pesar de que la verdad no me parece que tenga sentido si no sos parte de mi familia, y después Verena lo quería leer y yo lo quería presumir ( Read more... )

I went to meet Sarah Rees Brennan at Foyles today, she was charming but not exactly what I expected. She seems smoother through writing, in person she actually speed-talks, flails a bit and mutters half her sentences under her breath in a way that I find utterly familiar and half amusing, half embarrassing because *I* don't look charming when I do ( Read more... )

I. I totally forgot to tell you about the Myers-Briggs meetup! The meeting I co-organized on the 6th and that I was so excited about I forgot my home keys (Verena decided to come to the meeting so I got home around midnight >.<). So I met the organizer, Marianne, and she turned out to be a really cool ENFP and know a LOT about Myers-Briggs, ( Read more... )

x. Oh. Oh. I have something to tell you! It's even something that really happened! I got Katniss today, I'm still figuring her I got internet working on her, which turned out to be trickier than expected for WiFi. Of course she doesn't have a line since I got th Iphone for that, in September I'll get her a SIM, for now I'm going to enjoy her in all ( Read more... )

001. El otro día en clase de arte vinó una modelo a posar (desnuda, sí). so there was a model in art class and it was amazing. it's like, I was drawing her and thinking about "the curve of your hips rewrites history" (as in Shakespeare). I couldn't see her lips very well, seeing as I need new glasses again and also, she was naked so there were ( Read more... )

Today’s been the day for thoughtfulness about freedom of speech, first a librarian wrote a wonderfully reasoned but very PC letter to a customer who wanted to ban a picture book about a gay weeding, then Jazzypom wrote a post about the unspoken fandom prohibition on criticism since it’s a "safe space to have fun in" and "real life is hard enough", ( Read more... )