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Back. It wasn't as hot up north as I feared. Visited the dunes.
There was a sand cliff leading to the edge of the lake. The sign said it was 350 feet above lake level, and the angle was very steep. Sharper than 70 degrees.
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Going up north on Friday, coming back on Monday. It's the annual trip to a family friend's cabin.
I see it as something to endure more than, well, anything else. Largely because there's no Internet, heh. A little more worrying, this time we're taking along a cousin and it's expected to be very, very hot up there.
Wish I could sit these things out.
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Still love the Thrawn Trilogy.
If this isn't my favorite portrayal of Luke, he's damn close. Wanting to do what's right, always struggling to turn that sentiment into reality, all empathy and fragility and bigheartedness but when he stand up he stands up... argh.
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So. Birthday. I'm now 21.
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Rereading Heir to the Empire. Again.
I adore this trilogy, seriously. It's distinctly possible that I have a girlcrush on Grand Admiral Thrawn. Mm. There was a book out at Dawn Treader that unofficially summed up and compared the novels. It said that Thrawn was admirable for being a bad guy without being evil. Amoral, not immoral. This is ( Read more... ) -
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I just reread Death Star for the... I think third time.
Still a good book. I like the many-slices-of-life style. These authors - I don't care for them apart. Perry wrote Shadows of the Empire, which while entertaining and with its good parts, I thought had a serious fixation on a villain who wasn't nearly as cool as he wanted us to think, and ( Read more... ) -
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I've just mainlined Astro City, from the early issues to the end of the second book about the Dark Ages. Whoo. Did it after posting The Confessor's story on scans_daily.
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I dreamed that I was going to try to RP Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, and I argued that this was possible because he was the viewpoint character in The Andalite Chronicles and in one main sequence book. (The second part's not true.) Then apparently I dreamed the book. Something or other post-series, Elfangor knew what had happened and was ( Read more... ) -
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On Sunday, while shaving my legs, I accidentally cut off an entire ribbon of skin. That was exciting. It didn't hurt as much as I'd have thought, but there was a somewhat alarming amount of blood, and gaaaah the ribbon of skin was darker and fleshier than I'd have thought.
This is what comes of shorts season and demands that I shave my legs.
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Read Watchmen for a class.
It wasn't bad, but it's also not to my taste. And I don't like Rorschach. Not as much as the teacher does, anyway. She seems to think he's all noble. ...Yeah, not so much.
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