fortune cookie

Yesterday I got a fortune cookie that said, “It is impossible to please everybody. Please yourself first.” Ted said, “Well, if *that’s* not preaching to the choir…”

Blow, Gabriel, blow!

Wow, I’m in a fantastic mood. I just watched De-Lovely, which was absolutely *magnificent*. There was only one scene I’d have done differently, and the music is just wonderful and the actors were extremely fine and the makeup was astonishingly good. I watched all the extras, which were cool and some of which brought very interesting insights to the film, and I’m just all pumped up and full of energy now. Yay! miles to Rauros Falls: 34

bio? press release? eee!

I’m supposed to write a page-long bio for my press release. I have absolutely no idea what to say. I’m tempted to start with the story of my sister having to write such a bio, where she went to Dad and said, “Hey, Dad, what should I put in my bio?” and Dad said, “Well, there was the time you ran into the burning building to save the baby.” She laughed and said, “Oh, right,” and went and said to Mom, “Hey, Mom, what should I put in my bio?”…

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good heavens!

Good heavens! A Starling appeared online tonight! I’d just been thinking about her yesterday, and lo, today she has arrived! Apparently she’s got a new job, a new car, a new class schedule, a new cell phone and is thinking of a new horse. Which is typically mad. She seems to be doing quite well, and this is my stand-in for a guest update for her journal. :) There was no gaming tonight. Christopher evidently had a brain fart and failed to tell us that either there was no gaming…

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bah. bad head.

Headache. Ow. :P Only finished one book and most of another today, as well as cleaned the kitchen and mopped floors and walked 4 miles. This series I’m reading, by David Zemmel or something like that, is … I don’t like it very much. The characters aren’t very likeable and I’m not particularly interested in the world. After reading the first book (actually I think it was the 2nd), I thought, “Well, I’ll give another one a try,” and some 12 or 18 months later I am, and I feel…

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