me: ....wow
I just got off the phone with this guy
"I want you to look at my work. I think it's brilliant, It's the lost history of art. It's the art of celebration. I am the Matisse of our generation"
hitode: . . .
me: I was just like "... ... ... OKAY!"

Comment to this entry with 'DON'T PROCRASTINATE SO MUCH' and I'll ask you five questions, then you make a post answering them with this bit over them or a phrase of your choice. ( cut for images and art babble )

I am really going to bed now.


But oh my goodness Mad Men


So completely worth staying up to stream that.

Aha! I finally finished sorting and sizing some pictures from my Paris trip. WARNING, IT IS MOSTLY MUSEUMS AND BUILDINGS. Because that is what my family pays attention to when they travel with me. The full gallery is here. It is unlocked, so if you can't see it, it's probably your widget. LJ scrapbook prefers a manual login, I've found.

I would do a full writeup of my days, but I think this gets the point across just as well, really. Though I do babble in some of the image descriptions in the gallery! I like the talking. Anyway:

Happy birthday also to my Sempai, lilorchid1023.

I love you dearly and miss you most of the time these days :(

Also, please see tags.

It is five minutes after midnight.

Even where I am.

Which is nowhere close to where you are.

(Except for in my heart.)

But happy birthday drazzi

1. Pick 10 of your favorite books or series.
2. Post the first sentence of each book. (If one sentence seems too short, post two or three!)
3. Let everyone try to guess the titles and authors of your books.

L-Like llamrei said, "favorite books" do not necessarily equal "best books I've ever read." But all of these are books that have a very special place in my heart. Basically, if I would turn the last page and then immediately flip back to the front and start again, a book was eligible for this meme. AND TEN WAS FAR TOO FEW.

1. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. -- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (llamrei)

2. "I heard a noise," Mrs. Davenport said, "and then I was moving through this tunnel."

3. Many years later she remembered how her parents had looked to her when she was a small child: her father as tall as a tree, and merry and bright and golden, with her beautiful black-haired mother at his side. -- Deerskin, Robin McKinley (blackbird_xiii, lj is just hating on her comment)

4. May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dust green trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. -- The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy (wordsofastory)

5. Linderwall was a large kingdom, just east of the Mountains of Morning, where philosophers were highly respected and the number five was fashionable. -- Dealing With Dragons, Patricia C. Wrede (cesia)

6. Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares. -- A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett (drazzi)

7. Current theories on the creation of the Universe state that, if it was created at all and didn't just start, as it were, unofficially, it came into being between ten and twenty thousand million years ago. By the same token the earth itself is generally supposed to be about four and a half thousand million years old. These dates are incorrect. -- Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (llamrei)

8. "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. -- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (wordsofastory)

9. The rabbit had been run over minutes before. -- Sabriel, Garth Nix (avianthropy)

10. When I first set eyes on Evelyn Barton-Forbes she was walking the streets of Rome-- (I am informed, by the self-appointed Critic who reads over my shoulder as I write, that I have already committed an error.)


And here's a bonus that I couldn't use for obvious reasons:

11. In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.


---oh, right. If you didn't know it, I am back from Paris. Pictures to follow!

ATTN KENTITY:

Anybody interested in getting together to see Zombieland tomorrow?

SO.

In a little less than two weeks, I will be traveling to Paris with my parents. I am very excited, because my father swore up and down for YEARS that due to an unfortunate college visit, he would never set foot in that city again. And obviously that was long before my time.

Despite this, I have reeeally failed at doing research on the rest of the ciry. And now my parents are leaving on another trip and will be awol until I meet them in France, so I need to make my suggestions now! SO GUYS. WHAT SHOULD I DO IN PARIS?

We have a museum pass that will allow us to skip some lines. I want to spend massive amounts of time in the Louvre and the Orsay, and I know we're doing a day at Versailles. Other than that, everything is still up in the air.

...okay. I want to codify my mental state, so I will write this out. Then I will decide if I want to post this or not.

WARNING: RP WHINGINGS TO FOLLOW. ADVICE WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

( I really think I should drop some characters. )

CLAMP


CLAMP


Touch me everywhere.

Shows I will be watching/talking about:

- Mad Men
- Supernatural
- Top Chef
- Project Runway
- America's Next Top Model
- Kobato
- Bakemonogatari (I STILL WANT TO WATCH THE REST OF THIS. this is mostly a reminder to me)
- anything else that other people make me sit through

Shows I have watched recently but didn't really talk about:

- True Blood (...season one)
- So You Think You Can Dance (♥)
- Gossip Girl (...season one)
- Iron Chef America (I just kind of always watch this)
... I feel like I'm missing things here

...


chash, explain your museum.

- In the past few days hitode and I have a) moved furniture together and b) gotten sick together. I understand these are supposed to be excellent relationship building activities, so score.

- I REALLY have to work on in-revolution.net over the next week or two* BUT FIRST I HAVE TO DO A JOURNAL LAYOUT FOR A FRIEND WHO PROBABLY THINKS I FORGOT. I HAVEN'T.

*related note. I am not happy with tafl right now. I can understand limiting how many listings you can apply for, but when it takes a month or more for some categories to be updated? The number you can waitlist yourself for seems reeeeally low. Now I feel like I should lock this in case I am found and blacklisted.

- God I feel like shit, did I mention?

- ICONS. ( meme from my Sallie under the cut )

My whole life is about to change.

I don't think this is an exaggeration. Today is the day that hitode comes to live in my city. In my neighborhood, practically. I've never been in a relationship that wasn't primarily long distance. That's something of an oversimplification, but at the moment it feels like I'm really stepping in to new territory.

It's exciting. It's overwhelming. And wonderful in ways that I don't even have words for. And if I'm poked about it I will likely flail madly like I did in my last post about all this. I don't do well with being public about these things sometimes but...

But I'm happy.




I'm picking her up in two hours dsg;klnjkbghsfhlkfdhdf

edit IF YOU COMMENT TO THIS POST I AM FLAILING AT YOU IN MY HEART.

Also, actualize would it be possible for us to drop stuff off tonight instead of tomorrow? We're probably springing for a cab anyway and it seems silly to drive to the wrong place. IF THE ANSWER IS YES, CAN YOU EMAIL HER? (not me, I have no spiffy iphone.)

...note to self. When using Best Yet pie crusts, your recipe makes two quiches.

Fortunately, there are two crusts per bag.

Just got a call from a reality TV court show that wants to film us v. confused accountant.



Yeah I don't even.


What is my life.

Imagine you are trying to name a new group of young artists within an established... well, an agency.

What would you call them?

Our only idea right now is "the next" eta also "the current." WE HAVE A THEME.

Wow, so the book I was reading just turned into full on Kit Marlowe/Will Shakespeare yaoi. Complete with rose petal skin, dusky curls, and a single strand of saliva stretched between their mouths.



.....ok!