The King's Speech is reeeally super good. Quite possibly the best film I've seen in theaters since Inception. It was almost like a sports movie, at times, in how Bertie is such an underdog and you root for him so hard and it's this physical challenge he has to overcome and you've got Lionel as his coach figure. I must admit during his speeches I ( Read more... )

Because I enjoy that kind of thing! Really, it was bad with my old car because I would get kind of distracted waiting for neat-looking numbers to come up on my odometer. Especially combinations of 2, 5, 6, and 9, because they're kind of mirror-y, see? Sure you do. I still remember the day it hit 012345, I was just arriving at a sushi place in ( Read more... )

Ooooh. The Voluntary Butler Scheme. At Breakfast Dinner Tea. Buy it now, thank me later. Actually, that Amazon page doesn't seem to have the MP3 version, but iTunes does, though I can't seem to find an online page for it. Stupid Apple. Anyway, it's awesome- I heard Multiplayer on that one Dell commercial a couple times and knew I had to check ( Read more... )

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Splurged a bit at Barnes & Noble today when I had some time to kill between my physical and lunch (I decided to celebrate my clean bill of health with some McDonalds- it was either that or Chinese). I snagged the last of Terry Pratchett's I Shall Wear Midnight on the shelf, and also picked up Stiff, the last Mary Roach book I didn't already own. ( Read more... )

*sigh* Naturally, my appointment for a physical with a new doctor falls on the day a tropical depression is set to dump about five inches of water on the mid-Atlantic region. Here's hoping it wears itself out overnight and the flood warnings stay just that.

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Mmm, I love chili. Easy to make, and always so tasty. And I remembered cheese this time! And beans. Bit by bit, my simple little chili is becoming more complex, like a new organic lifeform through the generations. Anyway, I hope anyone reading this also read and enjoyed the big ol' fic hanging out below. I don't usually post fics that big on ( Read more... )