tuesday, december 31, 2002

not really anything to say. just waiting around to leave and go on some errands. but i felt i should post as this year is ending and a new one is about to begin.
has everyone made resolutions?
meh. i haven't. they're always the same anyhow.
i like to write down the first thing i say in in the new year. a few years back it was "are there any more of those pumpkin cookies?" then it was "where's apu?" then... "40 seconds!" i can't remember last year though- something about fireworks.
i'm listening to "the last unicorn" (thanks cuz fuzz). do any of you remember the animated film? BRILLIANT. i can't believe they're making a live action one.
still. hope no one walks in on me listening to "now that i'm a woman" sung by the unicorn.
sigh.

anyhow, wonderful new year to all. hope people are going out and have plans! i think i'm going to watch the iron giant (woot! bought it yesterday).

goodbye 2002, hello 2003. another year, time turns and turns!

happy year all!

suddenly i was @ 12:38 pm

saturday, december 28, 2002

god, i really don't want to be sitting here. what with all the holiday joys and festivities and god-blamed fudge in the fridge i feel my bottom will soon eclispe the sun and moon and stars! sweet jesus, i feel like a moo moo.
please help.
:P
anyhow. post-holiday reviews. loverly holiday. really was. didn't do anything, sat around with the family. our xmas morn started early enough however, at 6.00 am! puppies were crying.
puppy status: ignatius is paper trained- hoorah! bruce defiantly tries to go anywhere but the paper. little does he know, next week we begin outside training.
the puppers are so cute.
but yes, beautiful day. i still haven't got back on my feet. i find it near impossible to wake up at a decent hour these days. but perhaps that is due to the fact i stay up til four am watching forensic shows. hooray forensics! i love forensic science so much. i want to make an animated movie about a forensic case.
my backup career plan: forensic entomology.
oh my gosh, there's a new secret diary! joy. the madness begins again. sigh, what with all the fun fotr produced, i wonder what parodies ttt will bring?
will there EVER be another carrot?
speaking of ttt, i did see it again, and am most embarassed about my stressing earlier. i actually very much enjoyed the film the second go-around. :P
i think i have compleatly overdosed on lotr as of late. you know it's bad when you bend over to pet your dog zoë and call her "pippin" though i think that discrepancy was due to the fact i was making a pippin quiz for eip not to mention the fact, zoë seems to incur such incidents as last year at this time i was fervishly re-reading the series, when she woke me up at some ungodly hour and i in a half-slumber state muttered, "how now, what news of gondor?"
but anyhow. compleat overdose. i went to ttt, yes, with my cousins but then the following day my father wanted to watch fotrex, and really- how could i say no?
but i've paid the last two nights for my over indulgence (not of fudge or any other holiday treatsie treat, rather, no, of lotr) with bizarre dreams, which i think i am almost too embarassed to state here... let me think about whether or not i shall for a moment before i go spilling my guts.
>minutes later<
oh yeah. took me a moment to remember what i was talking about. my sick and wrong dreams. meh. i guess i can share, they are no more or less mortifying than the harry potter/herman hermits one. the first was strange. i invited my friend amber - and no.
this is too embarassing! cannot share it.
good lord.
the second i hopped a train after school to glasgow to interview (visit? i don't know) a certain glaswegian actor i fancy time to time. he and this girl, who i think was suppose to be jude from bridget jones' diary, took me to some place to drop off my suitcases before going out, and there i waited forever and was annoyed because i wanted to see glasgow, god bless it, not sit around in some green linoleum kitchen.
girl was nice though, she gave me apple juice.
op! got to run and mail a gift to my penpal. tee-tah, till later.

suddenly i was @ 03:47 pm

tuesday, december 24, 2002

guess what friendses, we have puppies! weee! the puppies came a day earlier than expected and they are so cute! it's like have little hamsters or living feather dusters as pets. so bitty bitty. oh, and would you like the know the names chosen for the gerbils? ahem. you'll laugh. they're really out of the blue...
ignatius and bruce.
ha!
ignatius is a character in a book called "confederacy of the dunces" which is terribly hilarious and bruce... well my sister said she had to name a pet because she never had before and the name HAD to mean something to her- so she named him after bruce willis.
go.
figure.
but still! bruce is more agressive, smaller and darker ignatius is a big baby and squeaks and cries the second he can't find bruce.
both of the puppies are in love with our dog zoë, especially ignatius, he can hardly contain his joy when she walks into his sight. he rolls on his back and wags his tail. zoë, i think, likes the puppies, but she's still not quite sure what they are doing here in her house. ^^
the cats, pearl, i think could care less because she is wild anyhow and nothing phases her and mabel- after crawling into the puppy bed and seeing she could easily snort both puppies up one of her nostrils, decided she's all right as well.
i will have pictures... i hope soon!
we also got the other big holiday suprise today- a new tv and a dvd player for the family! wee! my mom's office gave her a gift card to this big warehouse store and we had fun. we update our technology about every 17 years so this is a very very big deal! so many things at once.
no wonder it's so late and i am so hyper.
well, i did too just recieve lydia's email.
hee!
oh and diana, is gollum so fab? my new desktop extravaganza shall be all of him. but perhaps not just yet? i think my family will have a heart attack if i stick his giant face all over the desktop. have you visited serkis.com? it has a bunch of gollum images? hooray! most were in the cinefex mag- but there is one of smeagol- er, as smeagol as in, pre-gollum. oogly as all get out for a hobbit (even of stoor heritage :P) but i still think he's kinder sweet lookin'.

^_^

anyhow. best be off. seeing ttt tomorrow with my cousins. weee hoo. also meeting my dear darling friend at 10 am!
and all through the house not a creature was stirring, save lse with her mouse...

and keyboard.

and in case i don't see ya! merriest of merry holidays to those of you who are celebrating.we you be surrounded by peace and love and all the joy the season has to offer. be happy and thankful for the gifts you may be given and try to share your happiness with all those around you and think of far off places and wish for happiness to be everywhere. and maybe someday, it will!
wish wish wish.

happy days!

suddenly i was @ 03:54 am

sunday, december 22, 2002

hey hey!
update on bored friday: cleaned house
so last night was the huge party my family always throws every holiday season. we invite everyone we know and makes lots of food for them to have and give gifts to certain loved ones and all the little kids.
all day we (minus my sister, who really didn't do much at all) ran around cooking food and cleaning and starting fires (in fireplaces!!). it was nice. i felt like i was in a "a christmas carol" or something.
i liked looking across the table when we had it all ready and examining the food we prepared, there was cookies and cheesecake, salmon, shrimp dip, crackers and grapes, tomatoes and fresh mozerella- vegitables, spinach dip- so much! and i felt very lucky to have such a wonderful feast and wished everyone in the world could have some.
then i had to run upstairs and get dressed before anyone came. this is the ONE time of year i don't look like a 15 year old boy (as my normal outfit consists of ONE pair of pants [get accustomed to one, don't want to ever switch] and countless t-shirts) i put on my grey skirt and a velvet-like green shirt, which was never mine, but i found in my drawer about two years ago and my pretty jewelses. this is the one time of year i also switch out my earrings (not all 18 of them, only 6 or so) and put in the pretty (REAL stoned) ones my grandma gave to me. imagine!
i even brushed my hair for this shindig.
it's so much fun to dress up when you never do.
my dad started the fireplace and the music up and then people started coming. i was door-coat person. so many people, so many coats.
upstairs, downstairs, up, down, up, "may i take your coat?"
my friends came and i hardly had a moment to speak with any of them because i was running around like a chicken without a head.
after my coat duty slowed, i also took to playing with these two little boys, dillon and alex. alex is the son of my father's coworker, and dillon is my cousin's baby. dillon is 5... maybe four and alex is only a year old.
dillon (on stairs): what's up there?
me: the upstairs. want a tour?
dillon: yeah! (runs upstairs)
me:want to come too, alex?
alex responds by beginning to crawl up the stairs.
me: dillon, i'll be just a sec, i have to help alex up the stairs.
dillon comes down watches alex. alex slips up a bit.
dillon: careful, careful! don't fall!

first thing on the landing the boys notice is this old globe we have from my grandma.
dillon: it's the whole world!
alex hits the globe making it spin.
me: you guys want to see where we live?
dillon: yeah.
alex- watches.
me: we live... right here.
i point to our city.
dillon: we live in layton (another city -ed.) right... here!
points to russia.
dillon: no, wait, right... here!
points the the decorated star which indicates north and south etc directions.
me: that's the coolest place to live.

while upstairs i take the boys into all the rooms.
dillon: what's that room?
me: my sister's. the door's closed because it's a mess.
dillon: what's this one? (runs down hall to computer room alex and i follow)
me: this is the computer room.
dillon: where do those go?
points to our house's tiny windy secret staircase
me: the stairs? they good to the kitchen. see, in olden days this was a maid's room and so these stairs were hers so she could get to the kitchen without disturbing anyone. want to see?
dillon: yeah!
alex- starts crawling down stairs.

i also had bonding moments with this little girl named blake who had a sinus infection. i set up the "little mermaid" for her while eplaining my deep encompassing love for belle and the fact ariel has red hair.
most of my friends spent their time listening to my sister tell embarrassing stories about leaving she and her friend bridget's number on random car windows to see who would call back.
bridget also told a story about seeing the movie "8-legged freaks" and being scared because the people she was with kept sticking their fingers in her ear tickling her, making her believe there was a spider on her face. i took this as a cue to stick my own finger in her ear- which resulted in a very loud scream and bridget nearly falling out of her chair.

very fun.

after the last guest left (about midnight) we cleaned up and sat on the couch. we being mi familia and i. my cat pearl laid on my arm, and i considered this magical as she is half wild and would probably rather eat my arm then rest on it in most cases.

earlier that day, before the party, i went and bought my sister a present. i did get her the spongebob squarepants shower curtain. also had to get a few other random gifts- for my cousin etc etc.
i was so embarrassed with those gifts though! i got my cousin the original lotr dvd (which was butt crap expensive too, tick me off. 28.99 for the regular one, only 29.99 for the big extended one! i should have bought her the nice set, i just never dreamed the original one would be so much as i bought it in august for 16.00! these last few gifts SHOT my budget and i was upset, i am most poor now. oh well.) and while i was milling about carrying her gift and i suddenly noticed the new cinefex mag- all on gollum! which i felt i had to own, even though i had no money.
wee! so here i have the stupid lotr movie and this HUGE gollum mag up at the register when i realized i had to get a gift card for someone else- thank god i didn't choose the lotr one (note: got spongebob one) because right at that moment my phone rang and of course it does play "concerning hobbits"! so mortifying. i looked the freak.
moral of story: must repress very obvious interests right now, as is becoming awkward.

whatever. today was the shortest day of the year and i woke up at 3. so, i really had NO day to speak of, but whatever, i was exhausted. i feel really happy and lucky and thank all my shining stars for such a wonderful time and friends and family.

joy!

suddenly i was @ 07:19 pm

friday, december 20, 2002

meh. i am SO bored. what to do? no one is going to be home tonight, except me, and i have nothing to do.
sigh. right now i am looking for pictures of gollum, as i am in love with him, and feel i need a desktop pattern featuring his wonderful selves. my search has yielded some interesting returns- such as this, which is beyond adorable, but some what... strange.
the name matches him perfectly though. i want to name something gollum, but i don't think it would do for a poodle. plus i think it may make the name-bearer evil and possibly schizophrenic. one doesn't want a pet to grow into the name gollum. ha, though, the poodles. we could call one smeagol and the other gollum or deagol- but then smeagol might kill deagol over a kibble or something.
i told you i was bored.
oooh! a gollum action figure! sweet god alive in the morning, i know now what my great quest will be this winter. gollum must be a member of my action figure family. i wonder if he will be as hard to find as pippin was last year?
tomorrow we're having a huge holiday open house. i think i've totally fogotten to mention this. yes, we have a huge party every year. i'm excited. wee! though i don't want to get all gussied up, i feel bleh.
but! i shall tell of all the fun later.

p.s. thanks diana, you read me right. it's strange, on my comp. the comment box bg is red every once and a while, and it shouldn't be. there's nothing in the html. it's so... well, strange.

suddenly i was @ 07:39 pm

hey! TWO comments last post. i consider this a triumph! i love you guys, my darling two readers. hey, may i ask you a question, is the comment box bg red when you open it? or does it have a background image? it's supposed to have the latter.
well today was ttt fun fun of joy day (actually yesterday was, i guess it is past midnight now). i got up at 5.30 am for it. it was an adventure, and rather backwards one at that. usually when you go and see such a long film, you go in while it is light outside and when you come out again the sun has set. oh ho! not this time baby. we went in and it was pitch, came out and the sun was just in the sky. god! it was really blinding, i felt like i had a hangover or something. the light gave me this strange thin-line headache right along the side of my forehead.
but anyhow. the movie. i'm going to babble about it, all right? i know at least one of my two readers have seen it (lydia!). i figure i may as well finish off my week of random lotr banter then just draw a line under the whole ugly event and have done with it. this. is going to be long. avert your eyes from this point on if you do not want to spoil film suprises.

so here i go. i'm not sure what i think of the film- really! my mind was such applesauce when i came out- it thought i liked it- but, wow. just too overwhelmed, i couldn't sort everything out. this film seemed more disjointed to me than the first and i don't mean because it started in the middle, hitting the ground running- oh no. just some things didn't flesh out as well as others.

what disturbed me:
1. hello, my name is pippin. hello, my name is merry. are we in this film? had i but known the trailer bits of the two cousins was serious 45% of all their screen time... yes, i thought the merry/pippin/ent scenes were horribly slighted. i realize why the entish funacho was clipped, as it isn't as exciting cinematically to watch, but i would have liked a little more development. just a bit of say, the ent draught scene. something. give treebeard some character.
since i've read the books, i can fill in blanks and i know what happened and when, but if someone wasn't so familar with texts- i mean, they'd have to be confused. the ents were too fleeting, one never got a true sense of them. the ents were half the book, half! they were important. they needed more time in the film. perhaps they'll pop up more in the extendo version. i hope so.
plus, i would have really enjoyed seeing more of monaghan and boyd's acting. they are both really delightful to watch- the one real dialogue scene they did have (which lasts more than 3 seconds) wherein merry tells pippin if war continues there will be no more "shires" in the world, was wonderful.
also since, i have read the books and knew what was missing, i really bemoaned the loss of pippin's ingenuity in escaping the orcs and well, the total lack of his and merry's presence- but i HAVE to remind myself over and over again, this is not the book. this is an adaptation. all those pretty details i love, i just have to let them go.
one must separate the book from the film to see if the film works cinematically.
still, considering this and just looking at the film as film and ignoring all the little details i know about the story in the books, the ents still seemed rushed. their segments only lasted moments, whereas helm's deep was granted countless long sweeping shots in time. some balance could have been made. i think i just wanted to see and learn a little more about treebeard since he was there!
still, the purpose of the hobbits meeting the ents was to incur their wrath and get them to march on isengard, which, they did. albiet, hurriedly- but they did. so the film was true to the narrative's purpose. hmm.

2. hi, i am boro- whoops, i mean faramir, or er- whatever. oh weep, oh swoon. the character i loved so dearly. he was handled very strangely i thought. very strange. he was very much like boromir, seeming more ambitious and agressive than how he was originally written. though, he did not seem tempted by the ring, like his brother, actually, he came off as being rather disinterested in it. still, he was very strange. i can't quite put my finger on it. he wasn't bad, just so very different from everything i had ever imagined.
faramir also could have benefitted with more screen time.
ok, skip my faramir transgression, that was a tangent. my real beef? gondor? what? hello? i can ignore changes and poetic license in interpetting characters, because such is what makes adaptation so exhilirating, and let's face it, had i not read the book, i never would have known anthing was amiss with faramir anyhow- he worked fine and wenham acted wonderfully. but gondor? what possible narrative purpose was served by taking the hobbits to the city? i think the beautiful dramatic shot of frodo and the fell rider o' the sky could have been achieved just as well with them out in wilderlands. very strange bit, entering gondor, and was never followed up either. the part seemed narratively sloppy.
same with the elves at helm's deep. true, they didn't really hurt the story, but at the same time, i found myself wondering why they were there.
also, why was the "white wizard" and merry pippin's meeting never alluded to ever again?
the roads ventured, but never explored- most irksome in ways.

this is going to be another huge post. no wonder no one ever stops by, look at how boring i am. if you've made it this far, i commend you.

enough of my crit- now down to the good stuff. the film is really spectacular. i think i have to see it again, just to really watch it. i was so blown away by the effects. just stunning. the battle of helm's deep was amazing. this coming from someone who found h.d. to be most boring. yes- just mind blowing.
gollum was great. i love gollum anyhow. i thought he was very sweet, and i still think his soliloquy
with himself was a personal highlight for me. his cgi was amazing.
did he remind anyone else of peter lorre?
i liked gimli actually have more than 2 lines in this movie, and his banter with legolas was finally right on. woo! and legolas, he actually had more than information booth lines. wow!
i loved the development of arwen and aragorn's love story. it's wonderful how the film was able to bring their story, some lost chapter in the appendixes, into the main tale. rounds out both of their characters- actually, wholly gives arwen a real character. in the books, she's hardly mentioned and one can barely remember her when she shows up at the end- and you're never given a window into her grief over being parted from the one she loves. i like the decision to build up the love story.
also liked the addition of elrond's interaction with arwen. one tends to forget she is his precious (ho ho!) baby girl. ^_^
the music, was glorious. so good. i loved it, especially the last bits over the ent's destruction of isengard, when the water broke over the strong hold and the ents braced as it impacted- oh. shivers.
also very much loved sam's talk of tales and the kinds of stories one remembers, yes, i was moved. that bit always gets to me.

in the end, what can be said other than, it's very difficult to adapt a story to screen, especially one which is so well known, beloved and complicated. three hours is not enough time to tell the whole story, but this film tried and did so exceedingly well. the key points of the story were left intact, the effects were mind blowing, acting wonderful, story exciting- good film, great fun and i love gollum.
if you hadn't ever read the book, you would never think anything was amiss and that is what makes the movie work. it's good. jilted in places and a bit bumpy but still mindblowing. just on the visual level alone.

if anyone wants to jabber on about this topic (or any other for that matter), please email me. i haven't got an email in a week. i'm so bored.

p.s. palantír, hello? i was so confounded and awestruck, i compleatly spaced i had been all excited to see pippin's palantír scene! god, please, let it be intact and decent in rotk... please?
it wasn't until hours later i realized. shiz. the palantír. it wasn't there.
more evidence: this film could be six hours long and still not get it all in. what a hard movie to make.

poodle update: names now teetering between sampson and dashelle and oscar and felix. hm.

suddenly i was @ 03:04 am

thursday, december 19, 2002

notice anything... different? muahaha. tell me what you think, or if er- something doesn't work, (weep!) sigh. naught much else to say. must be to bed, getting up at six for ttt! hoo-wee. report on such matters later. ^^

suddenly i was @ 12:06 am

wednesday, december 18, 2002

guess what day it is today my friend- ttt touchdown! oh, the joy of it all. of course it is, 2 am on ttt day, but had i partaken of one of the midnight showings- i would still be watching the film right now...
doo noo noo noo.
but! alas, i am far too lazy to up my butt (get out of my sweats, no less) out into the cold, drive a million miles to miss spongebob squarepants just to watch a silly film which will be playing on and into next september.
says the person who resceduled her two doctor appointments she made moths ago to later this month to clear the day for the "silly film" - you know, just in case.
yes! i have chosen to try and battle the crowds tomorrow. but we'll see. i have no transportation anywhere, so i either will have to teleport, fly or wait until someone offers me a ride before anything can happen.
also, not too stressed as mother's co. has rented out theatre following morning for selfsame film.
joy.
speaking of lotr, which this entire entry will be- good lord. blasphemy. i can't watch a film with mi familia. so, apparently i guess, fotr has been playing on television. my mother has had this intense desire to watch it, even though i keep telling her, i have the far more cool widescreen extendo version on dvd. i begged her not to, as i knew i would get sucked in even though i have seen it four hundred times and that if she watched it now she would not watch it with me later, but alas, she started it up.
the fun started during the council of elrond.

elrond: ... the threat of mordor
mother (in booming voice): THE THRRRRRRRRRREAT of mordorrrrrrrr (rolling r's)


elrond: the ring cannot be destroyed, gimli son of gloin,
mother the ring we can't destroy, son of gloi, it is not a toy-
me: someone kick gimli, son of gloin, in the groin.


but things really picked up once my sister walked in.

sister: what's this?
mother: lord of the rings.
sister: the first one?
me: well it's not the second one.
sister: how come i don't remember any of this?
>"this" being the moria sequence<
sister: hey there's the sexy one! i remember me and bridget were fighting over who we were going to marry, and i made her get the one mom likes so i could have the sexy one.
("sexy one" being legolas, "the one mom likes" being aragorn and "bridget" being her good friend)
mother: which is why you can't remember anything- besides, viggo is mine.
me: she was probably also still trying to figure out who dildo baggins was.*
sister: did i say that?
mother: yes!
sister: dildo- what's his real name anyhow?
mother: bilbo.
sister: who's he?
silence, stair sequence begins. the shot is of frodo.
sister: i wanted him at first, but he's tiny and his feet are like, SO gross.
>burst of laughter<
mother: when she goes into a fantasy, she goes all the way!
me: and here i thought she was still talking about viggo.
mother: i thought she was talking about elijah wood-
sister: what are you laughing about? his feet are gross! that's why i decided to go with my husband (read:legolas) he has pretty feet. we'll have nice children. his blonde hair, my eyes- my ass.
me: what?
sister: i have a better ass than him! he doesn't even have one. look! i would so look better in his outfit.
me: can't say i've noticed.
mother: neither have i...
sister (to me): that's the one we chose for you emily (points to merry)

my sister also enjoys asking really complex questions during pivotal emotional moments.

sam: i made a promise, mister frodo, a prom-
sister: why was frodo chosen to have the ring?
mother/me: shh!

anyhow. tis good being home for the holidays. the conversation was vaguely demoralizing and yet, perversely humorous. poodle update: we get them on xmas eve! rapture of joys. my childhood dream comes true! christmas pets! it's not often dreams come true. last time was when i visited london. ^^ name update: leaning dangerously close to oscar and felix. trés cool.

*last year theatre- fotr.
me: i love this! i can't wait to read all the books again!
sister: whoa. did he just call him dildo baggins?

suddenly i was @ 03:51 am

tuesday, december 17, 2002

oh you'll never guess what! the most amazingthing has just happened. oh, where to start? well, for the pat month or so my family has been debating getting another dog, not only for the family, but for our dog zoë, who really suffered when our other dog sophie died this summer.
a week or two ago, my mother was clued in about a little of poodle puppies. i heard about this over the phone, and we all laughed and thought it was funny. well, the poodle lady offered to let us see them.
we all agreed, as even though we weren't really serious about getting one, puppies are always cute to look at! so yesterday the lady came over with her two tinee tiny poodle puppies. one was creamish-coloured and one was more of a dark almond. my whole family ooh-ed and ahh-ed. our dog zoë was so excited. the mother poodle came along, and my father was enamoured.
suddenly after the woman left, everyone was serious about getting a poodle puppy, my father especially having met the mother, who reminded him of a dog he had when he was young.
after a little debate, we decided we would get the little cream one. it would be an adventure. it was a male dog and a poodle- two things we never expected from a pet in our house.
my mother called up the lady who was delighted. then she said she was secretly hoping we'd get both. my mom laughed and relayed this to the rest of the family. we laughed, but then my dad was silent. my mom called his name.
father: what happens to the one who wasn't chosen?
my mom and i look at each other blankly. was he serious? my mom asked "are you kidding?" my dad's answer was silence. he was! my mom said, "well, i'll call her up again."
and before we knew it, we became the owner of two POODLE puppies. dear lord. ^^ i can't believe it. they are very tiny dogs, as if our schawzers weren't prissy enough. two boys. it will be weird. they're not ready yet to be taken from their mother, but by the big holiday day they will be!
it has been my dream since i was two to get a pet on the holidays, and now i am so excited i think i won't be able to sleep.
it's so strange how into my dad is. very bizarre. he kept coming downstairs after "going to bed" with new name ideas. we're trying to give them masculine names to help them succeed in life, but last time we attempted making a muy macho name for a pet, we came up with phineas the cat. :P
some of the names which have come up are: dashelle and sampson (two famous detective characters) antonio and horatio (don't even ask, i think antonio is a sopranos thing), jules and jim (french movie duo), frankie and johnie, oscar and felix what else? yes, merry and pippin even briefly came up, though mother and i thought frodo and sam would be funnier as we could call the frodo one frofro. rest assurded, no poodles will be named after lotr characters in this house.
right now i really like oscar and felix, perfect. odd couple. see one pupple (?) is very cute and licky and cute, the other just stares... they're... like opposites! tee-hee!
i also really like dashelle and sampson, dash and sam. how cool?
we'll see. the hitch is we have to make names my sister likes, because she's upset she's never named a pet- but that's because she offers up names like "ghetto and fabulous"!
anyhow, any good names, feel free to tickle the commentor.
speaking of sisters i think i'm going to buy her a sponguebob shower curtain.
also, lydia sent me a holiday card, isn't that just boss? ^^ and she has a new layout.
ooh ooh! one more thing- ttt on... WEDNESDAY! so excited, i'm terrified i won't be able to see it- but if not, some of my mother's co-workers actually rented out a theatre to see it- true, at 7.00 am- but yes! i have options! what an adventure, seeing ttt at 7am... i'd have to get up at six!

suddenly i was @ 02:58 am

monday, december 16, 2002

so i am home now. i am free to ftp where ever and whenever i want... if i can tolerate the 56k dialup! OH the humanity.
the flight was interesting enough. i went to the stink airport, of the city. there is the nice international one, and then there is the stinking fesspool of interwinding cement hallways that which is known as "the other airport." unfortunately to save monetary units i had to do through this other airport, which wasn't really so bad besides the fact i had to walk 5000 miles to get anywhere. the train didn't stop inside the airport, so i had to walk to the building, the in the building, then across the parking lot, down an elevator, down a hall, up an elevator, until i finally reached the ticketing station. once there though, of course my airline was at the other end of the airport, next to the garage.
joy. say the blisters on my hands because my suitcase weighs as much a small country.
checking in.
man: is this overpacked? (talking about suitcase)
me: no. just heavy.
man: all right...
on the plane was all right. besides the fact there was no assigned seating! gah! but i got a window. the aircraft was from the 70's but my knees didn't hit the seat in front of me so everything balanced out in some sort of delightful equilibrium. i was dedicated to reading the book hanna sent me, but since my starting bridget jones during my wed. illness, i decided to finish it.
but then panic of all panics, no one told me my flight was a conecting flight. so as the plane started going down in the middle of god knows where, i thought i would die as i had somehow managed to get on the wrong plane.
things were fine, i soon figured out i just had to stay on the plane and wait, which i did.
on the second leg of the trip i sat next to a little girl, whose name was the same as mine whose doll was also had the same name. so there was a nice little family of three flying along.
finally we flew over my home city, and i was so happy to see mountains! i felt like bilbo "mountains again, gandalf..." but it is true! i love mountains so much, i can't stand flat ground, i loss my polarity without a big shuffle of dirt nearby. ;_; luckily the big city i live in has the lake and big buildings which seem to help. i do like water... but nothng like a mountain range. you realize how special they are when you ly over and see literally your hometown IS a valley compleatly encircled by mts.
anyhow, i'm home!

suddenly i was @ 12:29 pm

saturday, december 14, 2002

well well! my last night in the big city. that's right i going home for the holidays. i love going home so much, but sometimes i really miss being able to be my adventurous self and go on a train to grocery shop or rent a movie, counting the money in the bank or run about helter skelter trying to finish things.
oh, but these last few days have been nice though. i went out to dinner last night, after feeling i was cured from the random illness attack of wednesday. i was with my aunt. we went to a super fancy french restaraunt, it was so choice. i had... i can't even remember- this wonderful salad with a ball of goat cheese.

mmm.
goat cheese.
then today, of ALL joys, i got a package from my darling dear hanna in finland! ^^ mee! everyone in the little office was perplexed by the "perishable items: chocolate" label the package came with. i had two phone calls from the front desk.
"you have a package here, which say perishable items chocolate- from finland?"
^^ ooh ohh! and if hanna's package wasn't joy enough, the lady i tutor gave me a gift certificate to my favourite book store! wee! i was so... suprised! i gave her a box of chocolates and she was really touched, but i think she gave me too much in return.
oh! does it ever stop? my friend ana also gave me monsters inc. i nearly wet my pants. i am so joyous.
now... if i could only convince mi familia back at home to get a dvd player...
i also gave out gifts, gave my roommate hers, which included the hobbit book- which i think she could read during her 14 hour flight home.^^" - gave ana a doll... yep.
oh, and look what i madly uploaded during my final storyboard crit: eip's new layout! wee hoo! tell me what you think in the site's gbook if you like. i like the colours and things, happy with it. though i am fairly disturbed by the teeny-ness of the text window.
what was i thinking?
god it's nearly 6 am i have to go to bed.

looks over shoulder. i have the HUGEST suitcase to carry to the trainstation tomorrow. if i never write here again, know it's because i fell underneath the weight of it and was crushed to death (most of its mass is made up of socks too, go fig.)
diana, is you thought the sean lennon picture was awesome, i have to offer you: this. peter jackson can now get no cooler in my mind as of right now.
har! and i seriously have shared this image with everyone because i have no life- but i shall share again my new favourite picture, hobbits and imacs. ho ho! what i wouldn't do to be that clerk, what an exciting day on the job. when i'm employed (ho ho) the most exciting thing i ever did was find disgusting hairy blue oranges in the fruit crate shipments.
hello, my name is hyperbole.
but yes. imacs. hobbits. i actually detest the new imacs, i don't really care for the design, and i'm not fond of osX either. yet, the image makes me feel fuzzy as i type away at my own imac.
pet pet!
ok yet another huge ungodly post. i like to talk. it's 6 am! to bed to bed now i must. i don't think this post shall make much sense.
goodbye city! good bye school! goodbye school friends! goodbye endless art! goodbye, goodbye, till we meet again.
p.s. hee!

suddenly i was @ 05:40 am

thursday, december 12, 2002

wow. yesterday really, stank. yes. i woke up and my stomach hurt a little, which is not odd entirely. sometimes when i don't eat, especially breakfast, my stomach cramps up and hurts, sometimes to the point i get nauseous. i didn't have anything to eat at home though, because i am clearing out my cupboards for my vacation.
so i thought to myself, "well, i shall just get something to eat right when i get to school," which i did. i got a piece of foccia bread. but as i got half way through it, and was sitting my psych class listening to my teacher answer last minute questions before the final, i realized, i wasn't getting better. i sat, and my stomach began to really hurt. i thought, "please, don't do this during my final..." suddenly the pain got so bad, and i had such a hideous nauseous bubble in my throat i knew i had to leave the room. i got up and went to the bathroom. i washed my hands and breathed and wondered what i was doing. i was missing the last hints before a big test.
i went back to class, and the exam had been handed out. i sat down, answered three questions when the nausearose significantly, i knew i had to leave the room again. as i got into the hall, i actually started to heave, i thought "i am actually going to throw up!"
p.s.
i
can't
stand
vomitting.
i started to run down the hall to the bathroom, i almost made a v-line for a garbage can, but then i realized a whole class could see me and i was only a few feet from the restroom.
anyhow, i burst into the restroom, and was sick, all over the place.
it was so awful awful.
someone actually came into the restroom while i was cleaning off THE WALL and gagging.
god.
then after i cleaned up everything and myself. i went back to class only to realize. wee. i still have my final exam to take. which i did. my essays weren't exactly stellar.
then after the test was through i went home and went to sleep. i slept from 10.30 to 4.30, then woke up, and went to my individual meeting part of my evening class, went home slept from 7.00 to 12.30, got up brushed my teeth, went back to sleep until 2am at which point i woke up- in pain. i hurt everywhere. and was so hot.
after tossing and turning i decided the best course of action would be to read a book. i chose "bridget jones on the edge of reason" as it seemed more, mm- light than "clockwork orange" or "grendel" which were the other two books nearby.
i read half the book or so, before falling also again at 5 am.
and now here i am! in animation. i feel much better, though light and cranky. whatever.
i never get sick, so this was a compleatly bizarre event. i wonder though, if it wasn't something from my roommate...
sucks it had to happen during finals though.

sorry to be so disgusting, but it is my place to be so i guess.
anyhow. must run distribute a few gifts during lunch.

p.p.s. oh my god-TWO comments last entry. a record. ^^ i ♥ you guys.

suddenly i was @ 12:05 pm

saturday, december 7, 2002

whew. what a day. i am so sore. i was was when i woke up- my legs feel as though they have run a marathon, though i have direct memory of one, and my lower back- oi! i feel old when it takes me seven minutes to bend over- i mean, you should have seen me trying to sit in the computer chair, oh boy.
so, today was holiday madness of joy. after months of strategical saving, it was time to gift present shop. sometimes the commercialism of the winter holiday season really makes me ill, but i do very much like getting presents for people and today's run was very successful. i fell into some magical preset wherein every possible gift which touched my fingers ended up costing 9.95.
how much is this? ah. 9.95.
this? 9.95
it was like being on an infomercial.
after the first run, i stopped at home to get something and drop some other things off before i headed out again. this second round involved me going along the biggest most famous shopping strip in the city. big large mistake. it was violence! and evil! i didn't think i could escape there were so many people. a lady punched me in the face as she was flagging down a bus, and it really hurt!
how to survive holiday shopping in busy touristy areas of a big city:


1.walk across garden areas. even if they're fenced in. it's winter, nothing's blooming there now- plus it gets you off the overrated and highly populated sidewalk.
2. yell, "move i have to vomit!" at top volume- watch them shoppers just fly from your path.
3. walk just off the curb in the gutter. chances are a car won't hit you- but watch out for those ladies with trigger fists.


all in all, a very eventful day and am most tired.
my roommate got very sick... friday. the night before she moaned and tossed and made most unnatural dying noises as she slept, but she's doing better now. i have forbidden her to do anything until she is well. i am afraid though, what if her strange flu germ comes to me? we share so many things and live in tight quarters- and what if the germ takes hold during the middle of my psych or hong kong cinema final? i have to admit, my lower back pains had me a little nervous this morning.
oh, ttt. i want to see you so terribly, but am afraid i won't be able to. so many people want to see you right at once- but i will try to get into you, yes.
i'm was sitting here looking through ttt premiere party images when i came across this. oh my god. sean lennon.
how.
cool.
i write the longest entries- how boring am i?
in other news i had another dream involving the characters of harry potter. after studying all my freudian things this past week- i have to admit, i am mildly disturbed as to the presence of any hp characters in my unconscious.
this one involved all of them (and a few million other people) walking along a long straight road. it was a race, but no one was running. the grand prize was a meeting with the members of "herman's hermits" (british band of the 60's, hermione won this one) and the second prize was food at mcdonalds (neville maybe? i can't remember who won it, but i think i had french fries and someone took a picture at the end).
anyhow.
disturbing, in a word.
very disturbing, in two.

suddenly i was @ 07:42 pm

thursday, december 5, 2002

guess where i am? my animation class! ho ho ho. today was most fun. pencil tested final, have finished my last story board- watched "lilo and stitch" as well as "spirit" (the latter being most fun to make fun of) yes, today is good.
and i think i shall excuse myself from class an hour early today as my teacher has already left.
hoorah hoorah!
oh. and there is free chocolate in the room.
i.
love.
the animation department.
anyhow. the ftp program on my personal computer seems to be cracking out. last night it frose my computer three times. so in an attempt to right this problem, i have successfully ascertained a new copy of the software from my school in hopes a new version will make things work again.
if not, how will i ever upload my eip surpise of joy?
speaking of uploading. i think my next task will be to make a new layout for this place. i have just the image for it. plus, i have to link all my buddies! ;_;
i've had the strangest dreams lately. it started the other night when i dreamt i was showing someone my dogs, zoë and sophie who died last summer. i picked sophie up and put her on my lap as the person i was talking to started to show me a movie. suddenly i realized "wait, sophie is dead. i can't hold sophie anymore" and i began to cry and cry. sophie started licking my chin and licking away the dripping tears.
then my phone rang and i woke up.
strange, no?
the other dream i had involved harry potter, the muppets and some sort of fate oriented love triangle, which i do not wish to go relate to you dear readers at this time.


anee-how. i think i shall be off now. wee! leave class early i am so happy. ^_^
p.s. 9 more days till home!
p.p.s. 13 till ttt.
p.p.s. i'm hungry.

suddenly i was @ 02:59 pm

wednesday, december 4, 2002

i'm back!
from where you ask? my trip?
what trip?
blast. did i not mention it here?
that's right. i didn't because i am evil! sniff. no actually i ran out of time, but eip got a mention of my leaving in its latest update i believe.
good gracious, i cannot keep straight which website i decide to splurge my personal life in!
anyhow. yes, as some may recall i was out visiting the eastern seaboard. wee!
it was so much fun! very tiring, but fun.
the joy started last wednesday. i left at about 2 for the airport, was at my gate by 3, was moved to another gate at 4, told at 5 something was wrong with aircraft (something one never wants to hear before taking off) and that there would an hour delay. 6 board plane, promptly fall asleep. seven, awake, discover we are but just taking off, apparently aircraft has taxied for an hour.
what.
ever.
it was 10.30 when we arrived at our destination- oh yes. our. i was travelling with my grandma's husband's eldest son. my grandma remarried after my grandpa died, in case you were trying to figure anything.
at 10.45 we rented our car- and were off- over two hours late, beginning our 2.5 hour drive to the beach house and inn!
i was tired but he had me navigate, so i couldn't sleep. i was also hungry because i hadn't eaten since one in the afternoon.
but so what else is new? i am always hungry or tired.
i'm both right now...
we finally got to this house at 1 am. i had no clue where i was, i thought i was supposed to be staying at an inn with my grandma, but this was a house. i found out later it was their (g's husband's family's) house later. it was huge! three floors- seven bedrooms, a full bathroom on every floor.
i went to bed at two, and by 8am i was awoken and told breakfast was ready (a v. good breakfast, apple cakes, danishes, juice, hooray!).
i met my grandma later that day and found my inn, where again i was suprised with a huge room all to myself. really! my whole family would have fit into this room. it had two huge beds, a t.v., all to my greedily little self. muahahah. most choice way to live.
of course we had the holiday dinner, which was great because there are so many vegetarians in the family, during dusk i went to the beach and got to visit with my old friend the atlantic ocean whom i never never see. he gave me a few presents, two horse shoe crab shells and a bunch of sea glass.
the crisis of the evening was i had to dress up, right? well i bought a skirt (very traumatic) but i had forgotten my tights. how, uncooth.
but it turned out all right.
my grandma's husband's brother was funny, smashed but funny- he kept asking me "now where'd you get such a good looking gran'ma?"
me: she was here when i came!
so much fun though.
my last day i had to wake up at 5am to begin the long drive back to the airport.
now i'm back in my dorm. it's snowed and snowed here. but it's nice.
school is madly winding down- less than two weeks before i go home- can you believe it? and here i am in denial about existence of my finals...

suddenly i was @ 03:21 am

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