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[Apr. 10th, 2008|10:11 am] |
It must be spring since
the birds outside my window
refuse to SHUT UP
It's enough to drive a girl to go outside in her pajamas and throw rocks at trees.
My laptop's monitor is going bad--sluggish to move from screensaver to screen and with a funny reddish tinge before it goes to normal brightness. Not it is isn't expected, since the poor thing's almost four years old and I've used it pretty hard, but I was hoping to let my tax refund loll around in the bank before a bit longer.
Also am seriously annoyed that several people have recced books to me over the past weeks and the library does not have them. Or it has them and they're checked out until next month. Or they're at a different campus and I still feel odd making interlibrary loan requests for myself. I just want to read books about spies and feminist noir, world! Why can't you conform to my wishes?
I wanted to do National Poetry Month, but the poem I planned to start off with has two different translations--one by Ezra Pound and the other by someone whose name escapes me--and I couldn't remember which of the two I preferred. So I went to check both versions...and found neither was the one that I'd been thinking about and repeating to myself for months, because I'd subconsciously smushed the two translations together, keeping the essential meaning of the words but producing something that didn't match to either one. And now neither of the 'real' versions has quite the same zing for me as the one that I dreamed up by myself.
This made me feel so dishearteningly stupid that I scrapped the whole idea.
However, in the realm of things that are good: Someone put up the complete Ball of Fire on Youtube, which means I can now watch it anywhere in the house or at work. Especially this scene, which has one of my very favorite misuses of books for romantic purposes. (Good part starts about four mintes in, if you don't want to watch the whole thing. Though I have no idea why people wouldn't want to watch Barbara Stanwyck being bright and flirty and Gary Cooper being adorably awkward and naive.)
Also, a brilliant anon has concocted drink recipes for all the Gundam 00 characters. This needs to be a trend for more series, yes? Some of them look tasty enough to make me regret my No Alcohol in the House rule. |
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