I saw the Golden Compass today, which was overall amazing.

Lyra: Perfect.

Mrs. Coulter: Perfect.

Lord Azriel: Disappointing. Not nearly commanding enough. Actually the but (butt? butte?) of some humour in one scene. Sometimes flustered, and unsure.

Daemons: So cool! Really well animated, expressive, cute, etc. Good choice on the daemon speech/ ( Read more... )

Is anyone still friends with James? I need to get a hold of him for the sake of resolving financial and legal matters which, if left untended, will screw him far more than they'll screw me. If he'll take your calls, please help us both out and give me a hand getting in touch with him. Thank you :)

Everyone in our house is sick and nauseous (as if I needed more excuses not to study) so it's a neverending march of teas, juices, and whatever I can tempt into a miserable Steve and occasionally others. I don't actually get sick most of the time thanks to my commando immune system but it's much easier to play nursemaid than it is to sit down and ( Read more... )

Cori, where are you?!?!?!

Living with other people is so frustrating. And then they say "I'm gonna make chicken mole for dinner" and 45 minutes later you're eating it and it's chicken mole. I'll take the frustration, that's a good deal.

The Stranger by Leonard Cohen is a fantastic song. I hear more in it every time I listen. I am so appreciative of this songwriter who is also a poet, and appreciative of clever lyricists (so rare to find these days). I think I'll let the song stand as my 27th birthday post on its own.

There is so much shit going on in my life. The livejournal silence reflects graciousness and a sense of propriety: there is nothing I feel I can talk about here (and not even cause it's not right, but just cause I "shouldn't"). Suffice to say, my strength is being tested again and again. I'm so far outside of my comfort bubble that I've given up ( Read more... )

I'm back from Clinton War, my first SCA event. Amazingly enough, I survived and so did the rest of my disastrous and changing/learning life. I'm exhausted, but it's not sleeptime yet, no. It's time for a cup of tea and some video games.

Recently there have been several instances by which my life can be explained by those sugary Brezny horoscopes. Like this one ( Read more... )

Feeling more grounded now. Talked to my best friend in Toronto for an hour on the phone. It is ...weird the way that other people affect one's self-image. It goes far above and beyond "concerns" over what people "think of you" and goes into a deeper level of the way one is reflected in the world around them. I never noticed it until I moved to ( Read more... )