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My dad called me chunky this morning, said I should exercise. So naturally I'm in a bad mood.

What a way to start the week. -_-

Google Proves Humanity Is Sick and Sad, Yet Absolutely Hilarious

And my favorite.

- Paid Dad's municipal bill
- Emailed my old boss, whom I've been meaning to get in touch with for over a year
- Emailed nosmokegirl 
- Emailed sagesse 
- Edited two sentences on a cheat sheet document I'm preparing for my team at work, and felt good about it (really, this is an accomplishment for a perfectionist like me!)
- Organized my LJ a little
- Wrote this post

Now that's all left is....zzzzzzzzz. Yep.

From Robin Williams when he presented the Oscar for Best Director in (??):

"What are directors besides people who wear down jackets and baseball caps?"

"Does Woody Allen dream in black and white, and if so, does Ted Turner buy them and color them in?"

"...is there the writer-director-producer, one of the few creatures on the planet who can blow smoke up his own ass..."

I'll say right off the bat that there won't be much point to this entry; I just felt I ought to keep my journal somewhat alive. The truth is, I feel rather out of touch with everyone involved in this community--my f-list I guess that would be--but also with life in general. My friend and I had a conversation some nights ago, admittedly about just what IS the appeal of Twilight to begin with, but it quickly turned into a discussion about just how boring modern life is. I was actually working on the Chronicles of Narnia books and The Vampire Armand at the time as well, and so the world seemed boring to the extreme.

I imagine I won't be finding any magic wardrobes or paper-white begins who ooze mystery with every gesture, but what about the people who are around? The people around me are a very practical bunch, and it's hard to find anyone willing to talk what-ifs and whimsies just because they are fun. Ah, that's the storyteller in me, longing for a little Magic. Actually, I can't be sure if it's not my whole being craving some impossibilities. Some faith. Some hope.

I shouldn't like to "grow" out of this, even if I have to keep it to myself my whole life. Even if it means always being just a little out of sync with the world around me.

Dear Twilight fanfic'ers,

Please stop killing off Esme so that Carlisle can meet another woman. It's not nice.

Kthxbye.

This is a completely impulsive post.

(Edit: And it was a pain trying to figure out the lj cut function, since my browser is dumb and won't let me copy/paste from MS Word directly.)

Rating: Kid- and grandmother-friendly
Characters: Carlisle Cullen


( The Rescue )

(Yeah, I know I'm totally cheating on this thing. =P )

Me: you know Carlisle is a secret thimble collector
Jewel: I took him as more of a stamps kind of guy

I saw Phantom of the Opera today in San Francisco! Breathtaking stage...

Best part = waves of dry ice blowing directly in the conductor's face =D

What?? My last one was on Dec 23? Where'd the days go--I honestly don't know!! Oh well. Maybe these will take me through to New Year's then.

Part A) Loud, hectic family Christmas gathering yesterday with piles of yummy food, two adorable nephews, piles of presents, and two Narnia books from the used bookshop!

Part B) Friend and I spent afternoon and evening of actual Christmas (25th) together, laughing until we cried over ex-boyf stuff and general girly silliness.

Damn you Google images and your capacity for rapid, accurate searches.

I will stop staring at Ben Barnes boys. (I'm sure I'm way late jumping on that wagon anyway.)

Boys!

http://www.chrisviolette.com
http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/spotlights/2008/rtuk_feature_ben_barnes_01.jpg

Also, comment from starandrea about my icon. It makes me grin too! ♥

All of the publications assistants on my team got bottles of rose wine from our boss! Woohoo! The bottle's pretty too, bright red translucent al-kee-hall. It was a very pleasant surprise, since I didn't even expect him to be in the office today; he usually works from home on Mondays. It was an appreciated gesture that made my day =) 

I was tagged by sagesse on Dec . 15 to post one happy thought per day for the next eight days. Well, better late than never :-)

My happy thought ever since the cold spell started has been "I have warm clothes on, warm food waiting, and a warm house to go to. I really can't ask for more than that." 

And the story behind that is pretty minimal. One day, the temperature decided to drop, and in came our winter with rain, black ice, snow in some areas, and arctic winds. So, I get home after dark every day now, and during the block and a half walk from the bus stop to my house, I think the above. Because it really is nice to walk in from the cold into a house with the central heat running.

“Remember your fourth wedding? The Scottish theme? You made Jasper, Carlisle, and I all dress in kilts! And what is worse is that it was windy that day!” -- Shenanigans by Amber and Bronze

[Insert mental image here]

So this post is very late in coming, but I have no delusions about how well I'm going to do this year. Basically, NaNo is going to be my excuse to ignore things I ought to be doing in favor of parking somewhere comfy with my laptop and spewing junk :)

That said, the first decidedly significant comment from the infamous Inner Editor:

"That's nice, but why is he doing that?" 

This refers to, of course, the main character in my NaNo, and the fact that I honestly have no idea what I'm doing. PWP? 

"I have designs on your virtue." -- best OOC Carlisle quote to date

nosmokegirl : I always think of you whenever I start dancing in my chair, because you said something like 'ah, the chair dance' when I started doing it during your last visit.

Being sad is enough of a struggle. Being happy shouldn't be.

So I was going through the usual sludge of manuscripts today at work, and I came across one where one the invited reviewers was named Robert Pattinson. *blink blink* 

I grinned like an idiot for about five minutes, because I couldn't really just burst out laughing at my desk.

One of the tasks I sometimes have to do at work is look up the institutions that our reviewers belong to, because their names will be suggested, but I need an university/institution and an email address to enter them in the system. So imagine if I had to go Google "Robert Pattinson" for that information. I'd never find the right guy!