shields shall be shaken, swords shall be splintered
today is the anniversary of the boston molassacre great molasses flood which is probably my favorite tragedy, if one can have a favorite tragedy. it's so weird. also destructive but mostly weird. a storage tank of molasses burst in boston's north end, drowning people and horses and bending the girders of the elevated railway. the company that owned the tank claimed it was anarchists but you'll all be shocked to learn it was actually mostly corporate negligence.
i forgot some things for snowflake challenge #6, favorite bits of canon. they're all from return of the king which is my favorite of the lotr trilogy. first, and most importantly, theoden's speech at pelennor fields - "ride now! ride now! ride! ride to ruin and the world's ending!" and then they all yell "death!" and "FORTH EORLINGAS" and charge and it gets me every time. honestly, if i could have a whole movie of just the gondor bits from faramir finding sam and frodo ("who are you, his bodyguard?" "his gardener.") to aragorn releasing the king of the dead i'd be happy. i'd get the beacons of minas tirith ("the beacons are lit! gondor calls for aid!" *everyone looks pointedly at theoden* "and rohan shall answer!") and the army of the dead swarming off the corsair ship after aragorn and legolas and gimli. but i'd need just enough rohan on the march to include elrond meeting with aragorn - "i come on behalf of one whom i love". which also gets me every time.
but theoden's speech, that's the best. a sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
ahem.
so friday i met my cousins and sister for dinner which was delicious and fun. the restaurant wasn't as crowded as we were expecting and i had no trouble finding a place to park which was unexpected. one of my cousins said it was because everyone was away skiing for the long weekend. and then saturday i had to go in to work for a workshop one of my groups ran, which was for teachers and went all day. >.< i was there so put up signs and set up food. all of which went well. the only problem (aside from people getting lost) was that the building is locked over the weekend and even tho i got the elevators unlocked, and the room unlocked, and the elevator lobby unlocked, the front door of the building was... not unlocked. so me and some of the students waited around to let people in and take them up to the conference room for the workshop. the students were very helpful overall. the guy who ran the workshop introduced me to all the participants when i was setting up lunch and thanked me and everyone clapped. and i just wanted to sneak in, put out lunch, and sneak out. but no. otherwise i sat in my office and read snowflake posts and it was fine.
and then that night my sister and i saw ferrari which was kind of slow for a movie about a man who just wanted to build and race really fast cars. the racing scenes were good but it started in the middle of the story and ended later in the middle of the story and honestly i didn't care about ferrari's relationship with his mistress and their kid. (possibly because the mistress was played by shailene woodley who just wasn't that good and didn't have any chemistry with adam driver who played ferrari.) penelope cruz as ferrari's wife laura stole every scene she was in. my sister wanted to see it and i didn't have an opinion but the next time i go to the movies it's going to be for something that ISN'T based on a real person's life.
there were a lot of previews but only two for movies i actually want to see: argylle which looks ridiculous and fun and ghostbusters: frozen empire which looks more creepy and less comedy than the original and which i want to see mostly because i caught ghostbusters: afterlife on tv over the weekend.
i did nothing yesterday except family zoom with my mom and sister and put in some laundry and listen to the wind. it was howling. i spent some quality time on tumblr trying to find a post for snowflake and while i'm pretty sure i reblogged it i don't remember what i tagged it which is absurd and unhelpful.
and we finally had the first curling of the season! yay. my team is one woman i curled with my very first season, one woman who looks like someone i used to work with (i told her i was probably going to call her kristin by mistake and i apologized in advance - it would be weirder and easier if that was her name but fortunately it is not), and one guy i've only ever played against. and we won! holy carp. it was a close game which i like but it was also the 8:30 draw which i don't.
today was more productive with bagels and lox with tamalinn and friend a (as it was apparently national bagels and lox day in the us), the grocery store, and some quality time writing a vignette and a sex scene for myself.
if you're looking for a small and random way to decorate, you might consider hinge heads. they're tiny things on magnets that you stick on top of door hinges. odd but fun.
i forgot some things for snowflake challenge #6, favorite bits of canon. they're all from return of the king which is my favorite of the lotr trilogy. first, and most importantly, theoden's speech at pelennor fields - "ride now! ride now! ride! ride to ruin and the world's ending!" and then they all yell "death!" and "FORTH EORLINGAS" and charge and it gets me every time. honestly, if i could have a whole movie of just the gondor bits from faramir finding sam and frodo ("who are you, his bodyguard?" "his gardener.") to aragorn releasing the king of the dead i'd be happy. i'd get the beacons of minas tirith ("the beacons are lit! gondor calls for aid!" *everyone looks pointedly at theoden* "and rohan shall answer!") and the army of the dead swarming off the corsair ship after aragorn and legolas and gimli. but i'd need just enough rohan on the march to include elrond meeting with aragorn - "i come on behalf of one whom i love". which also gets me every time.
but theoden's speech, that's the best. a sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
ahem.
so friday i met my cousins and sister for dinner which was delicious and fun. the restaurant wasn't as crowded as we were expecting and i had no trouble finding a place to park which was unexpected. one of my cousins said it was because everyone was away skiing for the long weekend. and then saturday i had to go in to work for a workshop one of my groups ran, which was for teachers and went all day. >.< i was there so put up signs and set up food. all of which went well. the only problem (aside from people getting lost) was that the building is locked over the weekend and even tho i got the elevators unlocked, and the room unlocked, and the elevator lobby unlocked, the front door of the building was... not unlocked. so me and some of the students waited around to let people in and take them up to the conference room for the workshop. the students were very helpful overall. the guy who ran the workshop introduced me to all the participants when i was setting up lunch and thanked me and everyone clapped. and i just wanted to sneak in, put out lunch, and sneak out. but no. otherwise i sat in my office and read snowflake posts and it was fine.
and then that night my sister and i saw ferrari which was kind of slow for a movie about a man who just wanted to build and race really fast cars. the racing scenes were good but it started in the middle of the story and ended later in the middle of the story and honestly i didn't care about ferrari's relationship with his mistress and their kid. (possibly because the mistress was played by shailene woodley who just wasn't that good and didn't have any chemistry with adam driver who played ferrari.) penelope cruz as ferrari's wife laura stole every scene she was in. my sister wanted to see it and i didn't have an opinion but the next time i go to the movies it's going to be for something that ISN'T based on a real person's life.
there were a lot of previews but only two for movies i actually want to see: argylle which looks ridiculous and fun and ghostbusters: frozen empire which looks more creepy and less comedy than the original and which i want to see mostly because i caught ghostbusters: afterlife on tv over the weekend.
i did nothing yesterday except family zoom with my mom and sister and put in some laundry and listen to the wind. it was howling. i spent some quality time on tumblr trying to find a post for snowflake and while i'm pretty sure i reblogged it i don't remember what i tagged it which is absurd and unhelpful.
and we finally had the first curling of the season! yay. my team is one woman i curled with my very first season, one woman who looks like someone i used to work with (i told her i was probably going to call her kristin by mistake and i apologized in advance - it would be weirder and easier if that was her name but fortunately it is not), and one guy i've only ever played against. and we won! holy carp. it was a close game which i like but it was also the 8:30 draw which i don't.
today was more productive with bagels and lox with tamalinn and friend a (as it was apparently national bagels and lox day in the us), the grocery store, and some quality time writing a vignette and a sex scene for myself.
if you're looking for a small and random way to decorate, you might consider hinge heads. they're tiny things on magnets that you stick on top of door hinges. odd but fun.