wordinista: (Miroku Knight creds to ushitora_icons)
Headache is gone! Whee! It took a little while to get rid of it, and I still hadn't lost it by the time I was getting ready to go to lunch with a friend of mine. Actually, she was my mentor when I first started working at the college. We haven't talked in months, and I figured it was high time we caught up. It was nice, actually. We went to a sushi restaurant in town that I'd always snubbed because nothing IN TOWN could possibly be any good, right?  Yeah.  Wrong.  I had a fantastic teriyaki beef rice bowl.  There was much love for it.  (I was still feeling a little queasy, or I would've had sashimi, but I fully plan on going back, so...) 

It was really nice catching up with her -- I used to waste so much time in her office during my between-class gaps.  We decided we totally needed to do it again, soon. 

When I got home, I discovered serious problems with my concentration today, so decided to cook instead of write.  I started making dinner around 3:30 -- chicken curry has a lot of prep work, but it's so worth it.  Seriously -- it's got a cook-time of 2.5 hours, and that's to say nothing of the prep, which includes toasting cardamon pods, coriander seeds, fennel seeds, peppercorns, cloves, 1/2 a cinnamon stick, and fenugreek seeds and grinding them up. 

But the house smells to-die-for delicious right now, and I like making something that takes effort every now and then.

And what did I listen to while I was toasting, grinding, chopping, frying, and later dicing and sauteeing?

"Kaze no Naka e" -- the Miroku character single.

I have lost count how many times I've listened to it so far. 

Yes, really.  Lost count.

...

And I think it's only fair for me to blame my love affair with this song on two people:  [livejournal.com profile] moonphased and [livejournal.com profile] squeakyinuears

It's not fair that Kouji sounds that good, all the time.  (Seriously.  I feel kind of bad sometimes, like I should like "Gou" more than I do.  It's okay, but not my favorite of the three.)  

*Loves "Kaze no Naka e" like rowr*

*annnnnnnnnnnnd listens to it again*
wordinista: (Shiku~!)
I have to thank [livejournal.com profile] mscongeniality for pointing me to this article. 

Sohma Ayame made incarnate. No, really.

No, that's not all the article is about, but it's the part that stuck out most to me.  *tilts head*  I don't know.  I'm probably too deeply ingrained with Western gender types, but if teh boi started carrying a man-purse, I'd probably tease him mercilessly.  Though I have been trying to talk him into getting highlights.

LINK LOVE!

Sep. 7th, 2005 01:54 pm
wordinista: (Tea! Gimme gimme!)
http://www.toadalamode.com/zodiac.html

Seriously, go there.  Furuba fans will never be able to view the zodiac the same way again.  I'm DYING, here.

Love and kisses,
Fried Fruit Pie
wordinista: (c'est moi... sort of)
Totally, totally, totally want to see The Brothers Grimm, because... just because. I don't even know why -- except that it looks like it's either going to be awesome, or delightfully awful. Hard to tell, really.

In other news, I've just spent the past... hour browsing iTunes listening to the songs of my misspent youth. Good GRIEF, I did not know that iTunes had expended its collection to include flash-in-the-pan 80's hair bands.

Oh, yes. Teh bunneh liked teh hair bands. I found bands I'd FORGOTTEN about! Good grief! Songs that were played at middle school dances!

When did I get so old!?!? *cries*

Fic Update!

Aug. 1st, 2005 04:27 pm
wordinista: (Tea! Gimme gimme!)
Chapter Four of "Bump in the Road" is posted at FFN!

And the plot thickens! Kind of!

That's just about it for me today. I was good and got a few things taken care of that needed taking care of, but mostly I've just been making trouble and laughing myself to tears over at [livejournal.com profile] evilpuppy's journal. I should've gotten so much more accomplished today, but... laughter. And more laughter. And then tears of laughter.

God, I'm in such a weird mood.

*runs off to make more trouble!*
wordinista: (c'est moi... sort of)
Thank you, thank you, thank you [livejournal.com profile] mscongeniality for making my morning.  Oh god.  Wow.  I don't know the last time I laughed this hard.  I'm omgsoglad I wasn't trying to consume liquids at any point during this.

If it's a new religion, sign me up as one of her priestesses!

Seriously, guys.  Read this.  Love it.  Worship it. 

Best part?  My favorite, anyway?

[livejournal.com profile] thefourthvine's wisdom follows -- and lo, it is good!

Use apostrophes or you are destined for the hell controlled entirely by burned-out English teachers and people like me. So. The apostrophe:

'

It looks very much like a comma, although just how much will depend on your font of choice, and I am not going to dictate. I am no fontophobe. (Well, except that I do hate people who write papers in calligraphy fonts, but only because it has a negative effect on me personally. I mean, seriously, if you're that determined that I should go blind? Just run up to me and poke at my eyes with a stick or something. That way, at least I don't have to suffer damage to my eyes and read your pathetic excuse for a thesis statement at the same time.) But here's the key difference between apostrophes and commas: one goes up top and the other goes down below. They're like the bras and panties of the writing world, people. You should not leave home without a bra and panties (Unless, yes, you are either not a woman or not generously endowed, but see the part where I said I was losing my shit - don't expect the insane frothing ranting woman to be careful to include all viewpoints and sensitive to everyone's issues and to file a rant environmental impact statement and a rant sub-contractor who fulfills all 181 points of the fair hiring statement, because - losing. My. Shit.), and you should not write a story without apostrophes and commas. ("But I do not use contractions!" If there's dialog, honey, please let there also be contractions. Yes, you can occasionally get away without them, but most of the time you leave your characters sounding like actors in local amateur theater productions of Shakespeare plays. Worse case scenario, amateur Shakespeare actor with stick up ass and lockjaw. Very few characters sound this way naturally. Trust me on this.)

Any rant that can use the phrase "Cock on a Hot Tin Roof" deserves to be read.

What are you still doing here?  Go read it!  Spread the gospel!
wordinista: (Tea! Gimme gimme!)
Can you imagine how different things would have been if the One Ring had been a toe ring?

...

And REAL cranberry juice tastes a LOT like real grape juice, I find. Nowhere near as blindingly tart as the cranberry juice cocktail. But I don't think it'd work very well in a cosmopolitan.
wordinista: (Je ne parle pas... creds to weenie)
I just finished playing the film version of "The Importance of Being Earnest" for my Comp II class today, and I'm presently going mad because there's a song in the film ("Lady Come Down") adapted from one of Wilde's poems called Serenade (for Music).

I must find this song. MUST. I tried searching on iTunes, but it doesn't look like they have the film soundtrack there.

It's stuck in my head, you see. And while I'm quite happy to have it stuck in my head, I rather wish I could play it instead of just humming it (off-key, no doubt).

Ooh! I haven't checked Amazon!

*runs off to check Amazon*

Ooh! It's there!

....But I really only wanted the one song. Bah.

But, really, Rupert Everett and Colin Firth -- SINGING?

Hmm. I want this song.

Any suggestions?

Yes, yes, nice Recording Industry Officials, I do plan on procuring the song legally.

EDIT: MWAAHAHAA! GOT IT GOT IT GOT IT GOT IT GOT IT! *dances*

Legally, of course!

Colin Firth. *le sigh*

I now feel like watching Pride and Prejudice. XD
wordinista: (Evil Geniuses)
I'm getting silly, and really needed to share this:

"Comparing Bianca as Whore to Desdemona as Saint creates a situation in which the Whore comes out on top."

Yes, I had this typed out as a legitimate passage in my paper.

And then I backspaced.

And I'm still laughing.

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