So they're making a Golden Compass movie. And it looks good. I mean.. they've got Nicole Kidman as Mrs. Coulter, Daniel Craig as Lord Asriel... it looks beautiful and epic! Now I need to reread the books, but seriously exciting ( Read more... )

Well, I knew that already. I'm terrible at keeping track of people, even people I care about. Well, I guess that's what happens when you spend 25% of your time sleeping, 30% at school, taking notes, 5% on homework, and 40% on the internet, manga, television, homework, and drawing (in that order). There's a 5% glassblowing in there too somewhere. ( Read more... )

So.. been making and studying biochem flashcards all day, working from the study lists that Zhao puts up for us. Got to the 23rd lecture and realized that I did not yet have the study list for it or any of the successive ones. Just went to the class site to get them and snagged the list for the abbreviated list of what information we need from the ( Read more... )

http://dirtymicrobe.com/products/mario-flashers/237/240

look at it. read the caption. It made me giggle.

tomorrow I go out to buy the rest of this series. thanks very much krellian, though I hate you for cursing me to not sleep for the past couple of nights due to my inability to put the book down when I pick it up before I go to sleep.

ah well, it was read or play more gba, so the not sleeping was a given.

Mom (on returning from a Costco trip with her sister): We got the third "Pirates" movie! We couldn't find the second one.. but we have the third one now ( Read more... )

it's a world of laaaughter ( Read more... )

Problem resolved to some satisfaction. It has at least reached a conclusion, boundaries delineated, etc. Namely, I was partially correct. He thought I was way more serious than I was, and he had in no way intended the casual level that I wanted. Stupid boy, to include me in long term plans based upon flimsy pretenses at best. Never assume you're in ( Read more... )

the thing about humans is that communication is never clear. It's pretty much impossible to know precisely what another person is thinking. Even if you could read their mind, that doesn't mean that your brain will be able to deal with their information in the same way so, even with the same raw data, you still don't know what they're thinking ( Read more... )

I'm beginning to have an inkling that I might be spending too much time at the hot shop. For example, today, I spent a grand total of... 7 hours there. I got up at 7 so I could get there in time to turn everything on, then went to classes, then came back at 5:30 to help set up for the beginning class, and usually, I'd stay till 11, maybe 11:15 ( Read more... )