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Icon meme from mumblemutter:

1) Reply to this post, and I will pick six of your icons.
2) Make a post and talk about the icons I chose.
3) Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4) This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!

( under cut, icon meme icons and talk )

The tram drivers were all cranky today.

iTrouble! You guys, I have a question to anyone who's any good with Pages (or just better than me! it's not hard to do!), and it is ( under the cut. )

... because LJ is my user support.

And my therapist.

And my sister.

And my hot hot sex.

PS. I did google first.

runeberg's day coincided with shrove tuesday but things didn't fall from skies?

ETA: it is too late to get the baked goods now.

i'm going abroad to play a very touristy tourist for a week, starting tomorrow. happy turn of the year -time to all.

plus one more yuletide rec for the road: Snow White and Rose Red (what katy did -series), which is rose red and clover, in love. warm and bittersweet and lovely, and muchly true to the original.

i. i've only read a handful of yuletide stories so far (and don't really have the time to be reading any at all), but here be random three that made me a bit warm and mushy on the inside:

Hercule Poirot's Morning Off (agatha christie, gen). short-ish; inside, what it says on the wrapper. i giggled.

Tales Told in Egypt (bible, hebrew/ot, canon pairings. haha, "canon". erm.). approximately half of the old testament is cruel stories of bitter sibling rivalry, y/y? the other half being 'cest. anyhoo, a beautiful feel-good story about siblings leading up to joseph - the leah and rachel part in particular is delightful. (also, a disturbingly catchy, yet accurate, blurb.)

Go East, Young Man (steven brust's dragaeraverse, girlslash!). i tend to be a bit wary about brustfic in general, but how can you resist a blurb that says "Sethra the Younger really, really wants to conquer the East"? (she does.*) to be honest, i have no idea what is actually going on in most parts of this story - but the writing is sweet, there are nifty details, the characterizations are on, (nearly) all the bestest characters are included, and, well, i was pleased and think others might be, as well.

*ETA: lest the rec mislead people, sethra the younger isn't getting any of the girlslashy action here, though. i'm just mentioning this because, now that the thought has occurred to me, i for one would... like her to be? getting some? in some other story? tangentially speaking?

p.s. sethra the younger is secretly awesome.

p.p.s. there are, like, a billion other yuletide stories, too.

ii. to balance out yesternight's horrid de-lovely, today we watched (at the parent cave) being julia, featuring an brilliant, shining, gorgeous annette bening (how can she be so gorgeous?), a thoroughly excellent jeremy irons (nearly not creepy at all! only just sufficiently slightly creepy!), an unrecognized quintessential british school boy type actor as the quintessential precocious british school boy character, a really pretty girl, a sweet someone who may have actually been american but came across so british that we never for a moment bought his american act as boytoy, and dumbledore as the little voice in your head. i assume it's not physically possible to hear annette bening laugh without laughing along. so that, too, made me pretty happy.

iii. for this holiday season, i've taken to wearing my mother's boots from circa 1978, my mother's coat from circa 1978, my mother's jumper from circa 1978, and my mother's haircut from circa 1978. add in the fact that my father can no longer tell my voice apart from my mother's on the phone, and it seems not unlikely that i'm become my mother from circa 1978. vintage. you're doing it wrong.

Hi, I'm sure you all know about this already, but just in case! how to waste time (on words) for fun and profit: FreeRice.com. (And that's all the pressies I'm giving you this year.)

Also, the wikiband meme as seen at mazily's:

( revisiting their early hit singles 'mark ii' and 'mark iii' )

I know yes I know what I said, but. 1 girl must cleanse the palate scrub the brain every three books/points/moments of desperation or so. So okay here's a thing: while I still have as many icons as I do (not that many but many), if anyone wanted to ask (me 2 talk) about any of them. (doesn't have to be 7, there aren't that many of them. not that many, and not that obscure. (still not a fish, and not a boy.) could be x number.) or about the keywords. or just indulge me. Now would be (a) time.

The meme of picking 20 songs on random with the help of your media player of choice and letting others guess from the lyrics! was mentioned on the friendslist, and I've always thought that a good enough reason to do it. Again. Every time. (And you too! You do it too! Do it, too.) I couldn't catch sleep yet, so here, here, iTunes will have it so:

1. now talking to god is laurel begging hardy for a gun - josh ritter, girl in the war; guessed by callmesandy
2. turns out i was a vampire myself - tony lucca, devil town; by callmesandy and walkingshadow
3. he's got a woman at home he's got another woman down the hall / he seems to want me anyway
4. and a sun that doesn't set but settles
5. oily marks appear on walls where pleasure moments hung
6. is it a dream? is it a lie? i think i'll let you decide
7. this is a song about anyone, it could be anyone - lily allen, knock 'em out; by walkingshadow and adventurat
8. you're my desire / the woman i require / i just changed my tire
9. she was right in the rain of the bullets that eventually brought her down
10. just something i knew i had to do / but through it all i kept my eyes on you
11. a much up-dated ruin from a much out-dated style
12. sick and tired of trying to save the world / i just wanna spend my time with you, girl
13. if fashion is your trade, then when you're naked i guess you must be unemployed
14. you know, i feel so dirty when they start talking cute - rick springfield, jesse's girl; by callmesandy and walkingshadow and adventurat
15. someone controlled you / they bought and sold you - the beatles, while my guitar gently weeps; by adventurat
16. is history recorded? does someone have a tape?
17. oh how your bubble's gonna burst when you meet another nurse (she'll be driving in a hearse) - april march, chick habit; by walkingshadow
18. i'm not dumb but i can't understand why she walks like a woman and talks like a man - the raincoats, lola; by just about everybody, except for the bit that it wasn't the kinks version, which was arguably unguessable
19. drop to my knees to elicit crowd response - da vinci's notebook, title of the song; by mumblemutter
20. the t-shirt says shoot pool, not people / kill time, not life

PS. Why does one these songs come up every time I do this?

PS2. As usual, cheated in randomizing by skipping: songs with no lyrics; songs with lyrics in languages other than English; songs by Lush the lyrics to which I couldn't understand even after much much concentrated listening.

1st cs exam today, and I don't really care. And also the fact that I'm understanding literally** not a sentence of what I was actually trying to say.

ETA(2): So, actually, you were trying to say:

You were reading (as usual) Mieke Bal's Narratology and thinking about the notion of canon again - and fanon, since the two of them are books, but some of them do, sometimes, and very skillfully at that. And I wish they'd write him some more, too.

Would anyone on your friends list who might read it. Name one person who should write it.

That is, Skinner and Donna Martin are in a happy relationship until Donna runs off with Blair Sandburg. Skinner then has a one-night stand with Eleven and a brief unhappy affair with Snape, then follows the wise advice of Five and finds true love with JIM ELLISON. First, a couple of personal exceptions), but I'm listing them here anyway just in case I should some day wish to remember the meme that amused a girl more than all the other homework I've emphatically not done this week, and it's 4 pages 1½ spaced 10 pt which I suspect equals a billion words approximately, and, if you haven't been paying attention, my Writing English when I'm trying to get to feel naughty a lot. (Um. also, I smoke.) My point, though, was to make a movie out of The Three Musketeers by choosing to (mis-)subtitle a strategically placed "you" as singular rather than the local call rate. The thermometer says 26 C in a 16 C weather. A teacher forgets her classes start today and uses toothpaste [1] as an example. I buy six books [2] from the library for late returns and lost books and. but also buy, buy like crazy until bankrupt.

Book Reviews or Word of Mouth?
um? book reviews. also, friendslist, and course reading lists, and the high holy western canon, and whatever other books are mentioned in the book i happen to be in such an emotionally exhausted place that a napkin fold going wrong gets the tears going (in which state I'm still most likely to break down in tears and tell me that she'd tried really really hard but it could not be done.

But it looks nice now, so that just goes to show. [ETA: for details, see icon.]

Man. Exciting times we live in, don't you think?