Coffee: Lots and lots (j-j-j-junkie...? Am n-n-not!)
Music: John Mayer's 'Someone Else'
Current Temp: 84 (bearable)
Books: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (hilarious!), Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
Toenail Color: Gypsy Rose (sounds like a character name to me!)


Whew! Finished major project for my Child Lit class - lots of fun. Lots of work. After I finished giving my presentation, I packed up my stuff, went to the bookstore, and splurged on the above books. Well, not really splurged - they're Dover books, and so cost about as much as lunch. I skipped lunch, and went right to the reading. Fell asleep with Northanger Abbey on my face (and here I thought that only happened in fiction! I actually got a paper cut on my nose from when I tried to roll over), woke up five hours later in time for CA meeting and free chinese from Mrs. Ho's. Yay!

And that's my day in a nutshell. Am now on duty, and must stay awake for another two hours. Hence the coffee. I should go and do patrol, but can't be bothered. I'm tired of the hop-scotch I have to do to avoid stepping on cockroaches. I hate cockroaches. Eew.

Kendra A. sent me some kick-ass MP3s - at the moment, I'm ensorcelled by John Mayer and Delibes (the Flower Duet). And here I said I would never like opera.

Saw 'Pirates of the Caribbean', and OMG! I loved it! After the dismal reviews it's been getting, I was fully expecting another Disney-fied piece of rubbish. But what I failed to take into account was the fact that the actors in this film were BRILLIANT! Johnny Depp, I think, is the only person on the face of the planet who could have carried off the role of Jack Sparrow (sorry - Captain Jack Sparrow), and I don't even LIKE Johnny Depp. I certainly recommend it.

Anyway, I suppose I'll get back to my book now. Yay! Henry Tilney is fast becomming one of my favorite Austen men. And Catherine Morland is a crack-up.

Toodles from the teapot.

Coffee: 2
Music: the Men With Brooms soundtrack (v. good!)
Current Temperature: 97
Books: Holes by Louis Sachar, And Then There Were None by Agatha Chrisitie


It is very, very hot outside. It doesn't help that my apartment building is surrounded by concrete and asphalt - the whole thing acts like one big solar oven. Yech.

So, the swamp-coolers are on full-blast, which means that the posters on my walls are curling up at the corners and my bedclothes are starting to smell mildewy. I guess the smell is better than the heat.

Am too worn-out to do much of anything. I just felt that it had been a long time since I updated my blog, and it was time to do so. A few major points:

I switched majors. I am now going for a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education. Education is much more up my alley than Archaeology. While I am very good at finding things, and very much okay with sitting in a hole all day and digging....writing papers about it? Not so much. So I'm going to teach, and have been spending a lot of this summer reading kids books. I'm happy as a clam.

I updated Hermione Granger's Diary - chapter four is now up.

I updated Revenge of the Taxidermist - chapter two is now up, chapter three will be up momentarily.

I've gotten my Great-great Auntie Grayce's sewing machine to start working again - cleaned out about a pound of cat hair and assorted grime from the insides, scrubbed it out with terps, and oiled. It runs like a charm. Will now get started on restoring the wooden table it rests on. Yay! A Project!

Kissin' Keith is MIA - yay! A friend of mine is now trying to set me up with another friend of hers. Disaster will undoubtably follow.

Have decided that Men With Brooms is one of my all-time favorite movies. I've owned it for about a month, and have already watched it about twenty times. It has Paul Gross in it, for crying out loud. And although it was disconcerting at first to hear Benton Fraser, RCMP, curse like a sailor...I got over it quickly and moved right onto my regularly scheduled oggling.

Penumbra won second place in the Shades of Grey awards for Best New Site. Kendra A. wond a handful of awards for best fic in various categories. I love sharing a website with a fanficing genius - my work gets more exposure that way!!

Am working on a new Harry Potter fanfic, post-OoP, called My Brother the Moron. It will be written from Ginny's point-of-view, because I've really started liking her since the fifth book came out. R/Hr, of course.

And that's all from Radioland, kids. I'll update more regularly, I promise.

Toodles from the teapot.

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