Ralph Fiennes: The epitome of all evil?

Ah, sometimes Scott has excellent ideas. After discovering that my precious rec room is infested with ants (going across all 14 or so feet of the entire ceiling, no less) and spiders (!!!!!!!!) Scott pulled me away and took me to Borders for an hour and a half or so. It was good. I grabbed the volumes of Boys Over Flowers/Hana Yori Dango that I was missing (8, 9, 11) -- but sadly, they're lacking in the Hot Gimmick (7, 9) department. Guess I'll have to order those online. I also looked for the Harry Potter books 1-4 boxed set... out-of-print! I was going to get 1-5 and just give Book 5 to Mom, since she OWNS 1-4, but not 5... but alas! It was not in store, despite the catalog saying it was. So anyway, I bought 4 differently-sized copies of 1-4, and I think I saved money.

I also caught sight of the new Entertainment Weekly and...
(1) "Superman Returns" looks like it's going to be terrible. Sorry, but Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane? I don't see it. That and, despite "not being a sequel," it takes place after the events of Chris Reeve's Superman 2, which means people that WERE NOT alive and part of the fandom when said movie came out will probably have to rewatch it for it to make any sense. This is NOT a good way to start out a franchise with so much possibility and weight on it. The guy playing Clark/Superman looks okay, but... Well, he's no Chris Reeves, and he sure as hell isn't Dean Cain. Tom Welling wasn't even asked to play the role, because they would have had to cancel "Smallville" for him to do it. Oh, and did you know that the 'S' on Superman's chest is really made out of thousands of little crystals with S's on them! Supe's a pimp loaded with bling-bling!

(2) CILLIAN MURPHY! Okay, it's just a one-paragraph blurb, but a pretty hot pic of him, and shadow_reality, I thought you'd wanna know. ^_~

(3) Ralph Fiennes = Voldemort!? o_O... Uh, yeah, this is the guy that went after J.Lo in "The Wedding Planner," right? And now he's the epitome of all evil? Hmm.....

Harry Potter die-hard fans have way too much time on their hands. I wish I had that kind of time on my hands. I mean, I looked at all these unofficial guides and things, and they bring up so many points I never even thought of! I mean, I might have thought of them once or twice while reading the books and making my usual faces, but these people turned them into full-fledged discussions. Once I re-read the series, I might be able to chat with the best of them.

Seattle's Best coffee really has the best... hot cocoa. This delish little thing called the Cocoa Trio. It was yummy last winter in Seattle, and it's yummy now in summer in Los Angeles. Really, I love it. It made my night.

I've gotten a lot of (mixed) reviews for all the oneshots I posted to FFnet, but because most of them were ficlets/drabbles, I used lots of ellipses (...) in them... and QuickEdit (the bane of my existence) liked to edit them out, and make me into some female e.e. cummings with my own sense of grammar. Sorry, no, I'm not that quite sure of myself just yet... I fixed "Silhouette" and "Miss Match," but I don't know if any of the others have screwed up the appearance of my fics royally. I'm going through all the reviews and trying to make sure. Let me know if I don't fix an error within the week!

Note: One of my loyal reviewers, Amazoness Archer, has requested I do a Yami x Anzu fic. Someone better hold me to it. Better yet, be more specific and write a theme/challenge element for me to follow. I seem to be good at doing those lately.

ChibiChib said (of "This Is All Your Fault") -- "I don't get it." o_O Well, she's not the only one making that face. What's not to get? *shrug* Do you really have to know about the Kaibaman card (the one created by Konami, and a legit Duel Monsters card) to understand the fic? I don't think so... Other people seemed to get it, and they said it was funny. Is there anything in there that doesn't make sense?

Any votes for lengthening "First Impression" into a miniseries? Yeah, one so far-- okay, two if you count atlantian_magic's original vote. Anyone else think so? But I need a direction to go-- obviously one of them (Seto or Anzu) would start to remember their REAL first meeting... but how, when, and why? Which one of them? Would the other person need a "push" to remember? If so, from who?

Re: "The Darkness Within" -- remember, it's a Kaiba introspective fic. He thinks if he got too close to Anzu, she'd become like him, dark and rotted and not the person he cares for. This might not be true, but it's what Kaiba thinks, and Kaiba never doubts himself.

Not so many reviews for "World Champion," even though that one is pure fluff (more so than "S'More" I think) -- and the one review I got for "One Of These Days" was someone demanding to know whether it was Kaiba. My answer: Sore wa hi-mi-tsu desu! (It is a sec-ret!) And for S'More-- one person thought Kaiba was being a "stuck-up jackass" ... eh!? He was!? ^^;

I got the wrong idea from this review: At first I thought it was Seto because he always has to be on the top but I guess Anzu is sort of like that too.

This reminds me of a line from Lois and Clark: "You like to be on top. Got it." *snickers* Though Kaiba = Clark Kent... NO WAY!

I've also been contemplating more of WDKY-- sadly, I had no time to work on it tonight, but I got an idea for a relatively plot-sized revision involing You-Know-Who and the rest of the You-Know-Whats. And if you don't know, sorry, I won't tell you until Chapter 22 or thereabouts-- you oughta know by now! ^_~ I don't foreshadow for nothing, you know!

Oh yeah, seeshellirun, I watched "Confessions of a White Collar Cop." It's... o_O <-- my face. It's funny but weird, sometimes shocking, but still acceptable (to watch-- I mean everyone's got lines they draw for various genres; this was never too stupid or too violent for me to click away). But which one were you? The ninja? The clown? Someone else? The confessions were pretty freakin' funny, though. *smirk*

DAIKIRAI!

I hate this! I didn't even have a horrible day at work-- I was happy to come home, happy NOT to be assaulted by bugs while I read Harry Potter in the rec room for an hour, happy to get a nice, two and a half hour nap. But nooooo, when I wake up, it's to some guy from Jamba Reseda asking me to take a shift on the 4th-- uh, no! Look, it's my management's fault for not having me work that day when I would have been more than happy to, but now that I have it off, I'm sure as hell NOT going anywhere. I did want to go to AX, but it won't happen-- I can't rely on the bus system to get me there, and the expenses I'd pay (transportation, registration, food, dealer's room) outweigh my desire to really go. I'll con next year, or in winter. I did wanna call Jill (been putting off doing that for a while-- one thing or another always keeps me busy) and see what she's doing, but now I feel like calling her would be too short-notice anyway. Besides, since she and John are home-based, they probably don't have "off" tomorrow anyway.

But what really gets my goat is when people stay stupid things intentionally, to hurt my feelings or to get me riled up. I awoke pleasantly surprised to find Scott home-- outside, doing this interesting ink painting with a twig and some India Ink. I went outside to say hi for a while, but in the few minutes we talked, my mood went from calm and happy to downright sour. Why? Because the one thing I've liked doing lately, Scott just doesn't understand, nor does he seem to have any desire TO understand. I'm sure other people have been through this before, with different people and things...

Anyway, I was telling him how I'm going to try finishing all the books within the next 13 or so days before HP6 comes out... and he's all "Well, just don't forget about the other things on your list," -- I have this list in my bedroom near my door, reminding me to clean, get out and exercise, paint... you know, a list of recreational things I made up so I'm not doing what I am now-- that is, porked out in front of the computer (actually, I'm just here to print FFIX strategy tips so I can start a new game). I've already started most of those things --cleaning and painting-- but reading to Scott means me staying indoors, which is apparently a bad thing. Even though a) I love reading, and always have, b) I'm reading books that I love, and that I've already read, therefore I will read FAST but also with a passion, he was just all "Eh, whatever" about it. It pissed me off and made me sad, because I always take an interest in his things-- even charcoal portraits, which I HATE, because charcoal just reminds me of an icky time in my life.

And worse, Grandpa laughed at the whole thing too... he was "it's all recreational" and I'm trying to explain that, given a choice of many things to do recreationally, WTF is wrong with reading? Dad was always the one that encouraged me to read, to explore... he never chastised me for loving fairy tales (Heck, I had a map of the Fairy Tale world in my bedroom!) or things like that... I just don't understand!

It does remind me of how much I tried to explain anime to Mom and Dad, and they just sort of smiled and nodded-- they never got into it, they never asked me questions... I would have loved that! And now with Harry Potter (I'm not a diehard fan, mind you, but I do like it a lot!) it feels the same way-- like I'm some lonesome dork with no friends and nothing else to do. And people wonder why I spend so much time online-- because for one, I can rant about this kind of meanness and stupidity, and for two, there actually are people like me-- out in the great wide world, connected to me through the Internet, and maybe even willing to talk or argue or laugh with me!

*sigh* Today, men are just pissing me off left and right. That fantastic feeling I had last night from getting all those books (eh, spending my depression away?) and having that fabulous cocoa-- all gone. I really hate men today. Harry Potter is a cute little boy who removes me from this world, and I love him all the more for it.

Hmph, men!