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How many times can Avatar end?
I think I'm suffering from too much denouement. After the climax, Avatar cleaned up with 2...no 3...no FOUR closing scenes. It's like they ended the series by committee. But I will use my extensive training in textual analysis to make it a reasonable choice: the four endings represent each of the four nations (except they don't at all). Also, I may ( Read more... ) -
What? Me Conflicted?
Bipolar budget move
After months of dragging my feet, I cancelled my gym membership yesterday. I had gone daily during the summer of 2007, then slowly tapered off during the fall. It's possible that I went a total of 5 times in all of 2008. I'm sad that I am giving up the possibility that I might have started exercising regularly again, but I'm ( Read more... ) -
conspicuous consumption
First off, Happy New Year! Here's hoping for world peace, economic recovery, and a breakthrough in Nihongo-by-osmosis research ( Read more... ) -
I wish to live in a void
I am becoming re-acquainted with all of my muscles today after helping s_vamp carry stuff up to her new apartment on Sunday. I love empty spaces on principle, and her apartment is a good find in general. Extremely convenient location, only 5 units in the building, some rather nifty 70's-style design elements, and FOUR CLOSETS! I was obsessing over ( Read more... ) -
so I am punished
(Also, you all failed me ( Read more... ) -
notes on an orzo salad
I am spending a fortune on lunch these days, picking up three dolmas and a half pint of bleu cheese and orzo salad from Andronico's. I can't make my own dolmas because I am incompetent, but it occurs to me that I ought to be able to do the orzo. The visible ingredients ( Read more... ) -
pretty is as pretty does...and I don't
One of this month's featured communities on LJ involves people displaying pictures of their bento lunches, and now I'm thinking I want to start packing a bento box for work. Except I don't cook. (It's difficult for most people to understand the extent to which I don't cook. I consider heating frozen processed foods to be cooking. It took over a ( Read more... ) -
Flewelling take two
I can no longer move in my bedroom. I would like to pretend that once s_vamp has left for her offsite training, I will take the opportunity to de-clutter my apartment, but I think we all know that isn't going to happen ( Read more... ) -
Ycon 2008; The Melancholy of me
Just a quick note because I'll never get around to a well thought out post ( Read more... )