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So Dark Knight was beyond awesome and hit so many of my narrative buttons that I actually lost track. And I saw Mamma Mia last night with southernbangel and loved it completely because ANY movie/plot is improved approximately 200% by characters bursting into song. Also, Amanda Seyfried, be my girlfriend.
That said, see icon for the summer movie of my heart. You guys, I've gotten to the point of flailing and making high-pitched squeaking noises every time a preview comes on TV. This is going to be so bad. I have set myself up for so much disappointment. /o\
So today I sent in an application on an apartment. WIN. It costs a million dollars a month, but that's what student debt is for, I guess. Everything there seems to pretty much cost a million dollars a month, and I want to be close to campus. Hopefully my application gets approved, or we start the whole process again: Once more, with blind panic. I also got a TB test. So exciting, my life. One would think I would manage to make progress on the fic I am writing, or at the very least finally read the Big Bangs. One would be wrong.
I did start reading Twilight, mostly to see what the fuss was about. I know that opinions on my flist re: TW run the gamut, so not even touching the book itself, can we talk about how unintentionally hilarious this article is? I mean, I'm only 50 pages or so in, so it's possible I'm missing something, but . . . I don't know, from where I'm sitting, vampires are not ROLE MODELS. Just. WHAT? I mean, I'm a vampire fiction fan, I'm a dyed in the wool Ricean, I *liked* Memnoch the Devil, I know, okay? I get it. But. No one ever wrote an article claiming that Lestat was a role model. And yes, these are YA books. But still. I am face palming so hard over this so someone tell me if I'm wrong because I read that article and didn't know whether to find it hilarious or horrifying just on basic principle.
That said, see icon for the summer movie of my heart. You guys, I've gotten to the point of flailing and making high-pitched squeaking noises every time a preview comes on TV. This is going to be so bad. I have set myself up for so much disappointment. /o\
So today I sent in an application on an apartment. WIN. It costs a million dollars a month, but that's what student debt is for, I guess. Everything there seems to pretty much cost a million dollars a month, and I want to be close to campus. Hopefully my application gets approved, or we start the whole process again: Once more, with blind panic. I also got a TB test. So exciting, my life. One would think I would manage to make progress on the fic I am writing, or at the very least finally read the Big Bangs. One would be wrong.
I did start reading Twilight, mostly to see what the fuss was about. I know that opinions on my flist re: TW run the gamut, so not even touching the book itself, can we talk about how unintentionally hilarious this article is? I mean, I'm only 50 pages or so in, so it's possible I'm missing something, but . . . I don't know, from where I'm sitting, vampires are not ROLE MODELS. Just. WHAT? I mean, I'm a vampire fiction fan, I'm a dyed in the wool Ricean, I *liked* Memnoch the Devil, I know, okay? I get it. But. No one ever wrote an article claiming that Lestat was a role model. And yes, these are YA books. But still. I am face palming so hard over this so someone tell me if I'm wrong because I read that article and didn't know whether to find it hilarious or horrifying just on basic principle.