As part of an experience but not an experiment, I will, with any luck, not be journaling for a while.

A successful marriage is one that can only be understood by one of three things: experience, observation, or extensive reading. There’s not many couples in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice that can boast the “luck” that Charlotte Lucas says is the chance of happiness in marriage. The pairing of Elizabeth (hereby referred to less formally as Lizzie ( Read more... )

Last night, my mom (sort of, between naps) watched the first volume of Pride and Prejudice.

The next day, she told my dad about how stupid the movie was.

What kind of a dumb ending was that? The guy said he was in love with her and she rejected him. What's the point of the movie? Jerks finish last? Huh? What's the punchline?My dad, laughing, told ( Read more... )

$32,000

is the magic number

of money that we are missing

From now on, all of my entries will be replaced by the LJ entry generator, as follows:

dad was totally unfair to me yesterday and now I have to do chores instead of going to the movies with folks :-(.

Oh yeah. Why does turambar1 keep posting images in their journal?! I keep telling them I'm on a modem! I'm going to unfriend them to teach them a ( Read more... )

Snails travel faster than cable modems!

Imaf kanf fauk rif ow. I have been smacked in the jaw numerous times during the course of today's game, and my tongue will not stop bleeding. Normally, I wouldn't have mentioned it because I get injured every week in the same manner, but I, quite literally, can't talk ( Read more... )

Of the Star Wars kind, that is.

I present to you the independent film, Star Wars: Revelations, released at last!

As many writers aspire to join the ranks of bestsellers in the fantasy genre, they seek to create the most basic and fundamental of writings: the “stock fantasy novel.” However, it is important to know that stock fantasy requires great skill, practice, time, money, patience, moral support, and other such things that help otherwise talentless people ( Read more... )

Where on earth do people buy smart drugs? Y'know, it's those things people are on when they write something brilliant, insightful, and meaningful that they can honestly say they just made up.

When I watched The Sound of Music at a much younger age (it's one of those movies you understand no matter how old you are), I was stricken by how much of a ( Read more... )