When I am an old woman, I will still be wearing purple.
It would be wrong to just read the half- or one-page prose "Argument" (aka "summary") Milton put at the beginning of each book of Paradise Lost and skip the actual poem bits. Despite how very tempting it is, it would be wrong, especially since I'm partway through Book 9 at this point anyway, and only have three and a half more to go.
But oh, God, it's tempting.
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Inspired by a post from asinpterodactyl, I picked up Mairelon the Magician and Magician's Ward, both by Patricia C. Wrede, from the library today when I was there on another futile search for newspaper articles relating to my P&T paper topic. I read the second of those books a few years ago, but never quite twigged that it was a sequel, or never bothered to get the first book, or something. Anyway, they're highly entertaining, particularly since I know the ending of the second book, and it's adorable.
I realized about fifty pages in that Mairelon and Kim could easily be the Doctor and Rose in an AU (or vice-versa, of course). The characters and relationship between them are remarkably similar. David Tennant is absolutely my mental version of Mairelon. Kim is less like Rose/Billie--she owes more to Eliza Doolittle than anything--but it still works. Hooray for cuteness!
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I got more of my hair chopped off yesterday than I'd really planned. It's at least as short, possibly shorter, than it was when I came back from Thanksgiving sophomore year. It's not a bad haircut--it's very spring-like--but is a bit irritating in that the sides won't stay tucked behind my ears very well. It'll be about a month before they grow the quarter-inch or so necessary for that to work. Until then, I suppose I should invest in barettes. Hmph.
I managed to floor the lady who cut my hair when I told her I was about to graduate from college. She'd thought I was fifteen, sixteen at the most, and on break from high school. Oil of Olay really ought to hire me for their ad campaigns.
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I got purple shoes today. Well, grey and purple, but whatever. Yay purple! Also a skirt that's plum, rust, and gold, which I love, but cannot find a top to go with. But I'd been eyeing it every time I went into Kohl's for the better part of a year, and it was $7, so... Maybe tomorrow I can find something at another store.
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Hey, here's an icon that fits pretty much all the topics of this post in various ways... (Ask me why and you'll get a long reply on the glory that is Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series. C'mon, you know you wanna.)
But oh, God, it's tempting.
*
Inspired by a post from asinpterodactyl, I picked up Mairelon the Magician and Magician's Ward, both by Patricia C. Wrede, from the library today when I was there on another futile search for newspaper articles relating to my P&T paper topic. I read the second of those books a few years ago, but never quite twigged that it was a sequel, or never bothered to get the first book, or something. Anyway, they're highly entertaining, particularly since I know the ending of the second book, and it's adorable.
I realized about fifty pages in that Mairelon and Kim could easily be the Doctor and Rose in an AU (or vice-versa, of course). The characters and relationship between them are remarkably similar. David Tennant is absolutely my mental version of Mairelon. Kim is less like Rose/Billie--she owes more to Eliza Doolittle than anything--but it still works. Hooray for cuteness!
*
I got more of my hair chopped off yesterday than I'd really planned. It's at least as short, possibly shorter, than it was when I came back from Thanksgiving sophomore year. It's not a bad haircut--it's very spring-like--but is a bit irritating in that the sides won't stay tucked behind my ears very well. It'll be about a month before they grow the quarter-inch or so necessary for that to work. Until then, I suppose I should invest in barettes. Hmph.
I managed to floor the lady who cut my hair when I told her I was about to graduate from college. She'd thought I was fifteen, sixteen at the most, and on break from high school. Oil of Olay really ought to hire me for their ad campaigns.
*
I got purple shoes today. Well, grey and purple, but whatever. Yay purple! Also a skirt that's plum, rust, and gold, which I love, but cannot find a top to go with. But I'd been eyeing it every time I went into Kohl's for the better part of a year, and it was $7, so... Maybe tomorrow I can find something at another store.
*
Hey, here's an icon that fits pretty much all the topics of this post in various ways... (Ask me why and you'll get a long reply on the glory that is Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series. C'mon, you know you wanna.)