I finished reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and having seen the original Swedish trilogy and Fincher's adaptation before reading, I was surprised by a few things.

When David Fincher's film was coming out last December, I'd found my way to some general news or gossip site. Among some of the less enthusiastic comments was someone bothered by ( Read more... )

I could've sworn I wrote something since the post about buying stuff, but I'm about to go out again, and today of all days I decide to look into this ingredients business. Maybe one day I'll go and Google every ingredient in my cosmetics, but today I just read labels ( Read more... )

Ok, since the last post was kind of depressing, maybe, I thought I'd cover it up with something a bit more trivial.

Here is stuff I've blown money on recently!

Please take this as an invitation to recommend like Amazon.


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Dear Meg, I'm sorry if you told us to write something like this before and I don't remember it. :( However, your latest post that included your ideal life prompted me to write mine. For when one knows what she wants, it's much easier to work towards attaining it.

Unfortunately, there are very few things that I know that I want. I know I go on about ( Read more... )

Okay, I received your responses from one of my recent posts, and I'm pondering them. Perhaps I'll reply to them in another six years.

I'm just going to mention a coincidence. There was a PBS special on Thursday night for the program Independent Lens called "Left By the Ship." It's about an American military base in the Philippines that actually ( Read more... )

I've come to accept who I am

for the most part.

I know I'm not a popular definition of physically "hot." I'm not garnering any points doing wild, extroverted things.

So when someone glows about a particular trait I have and it's not something I hate even if I hadn't thought that I was this, I'm going to take it and run. For example, I like to delude  ( Read more... )

For some reason, I'd been thinking about the time xpishposh told me about when she was a cashier at Publix, and a customer asked-- I don't even remember-- but it must have been something reminiscent of when some random weirdo came up to me at the library because when she did reveal "what she is" or "where she's from" the fellow proceeded to tell her about a ( Read more... )

Blu-ray player acquired!

So how about I didn't even know they could also play regular DVDs? There's a Hulu logo on the box, so I'm assuming there's some way to connect it to the Internet... ? But I don't even care right now, I'm still fawning over having something new.

The only tv I could use to put this thing in my room is an old one that needed a ( Read more... )

Podcasts are the new tv.

It's become kind of a joke that everyone has one, so there's as many to choose from as television shows. There's no visual element, so they're great for the morning run. Most of the ones I've come across are free, so you don't have to had paid for a cable or satellite plan and still not get the channels everyone's talking ( Read more... )

Today and yesterday, I've been awake at 5am, and at both times I've reading reviews by JERKS AT SXSW SEEING SLEEPWALK WITH ME. I know IFC bought rights to it, so I guess that means it's going to be in theatres, but I'm not sure. Maybe they're just going to play it on their channel? That would be inconvenient (I don't have IFC, but at least my mom ( Read more... )