So I finally did it. I managed to FINISH Fellowship of the Ring.

(and it only took 6 months)

I am so impressed with myself.

I really cannot express how boring I found this book. I’m not really sure why that is, because every time I go to try and read them — and believe me, I have tried many many many times over the years — I go in with enthusiasm. Elves, swordfights, magic, politics, quests: the plotlines are all ones which I enjoy greatly in other books. But there’s just something about this trilogy which just puts me to sleep. The Wheel of Time is another series which I should like, yet don’t.

I do this sometimes anyway, but I don’t usually reveal the results. Anyway, today is High School (and other school) stalking day. Here we have the page of Jen, who appears to be a teacher now in Seattle. Jason who appears to be in London. I think he had gotten some kind of scholarship to go to graduate school over there (not a Rhodes or a Fulbright) if I remember correctly. I don’t know if this is the Stacey I know or not, but it would be pretty weird if she was an art teacher in Wellesley town. I guess I could go on classmates.com or something and pull up a lot more information, but that seems like cheating. One problem is a lot of the girls may have gotten married by now and changed their names.

Well, I don’t usually do surveys (or even quizzes anymore), but I thought the results to this one were pretty amusing.

Go to google and enter “<your name> is”.

Kate is continuing to work steadily on a new album.
Kate is darn hot.
Kate is Great.
Kate is also a truly striking woman, and one of the most beautiful women on the planet.
Kate is the proverbial “One Woman Rock Band”
Kate is what’s called a transsexual person.
Kate is looking to pass the ball while Azzi is guarding her.
Kate is a founding partner of Gregory Consulting Limited.
Kate is a multi document editor.
Kate is nominated as Best Actress for the MTV Movie Awards 2002!
[Cattle] Kate is all manufactured in rural America with great attention to detail.
Kate is on fire.
[Totally] Kate is the only website endorsed by Kate Mulgrew.
Kate is a UK Web Woman!
Kate is also featured in the fold-out Oscar cover of Vanity Fair this month.

Have been mainly reading other peoples’ blogs and not posting in my own.

But I haven’t done anything to post about. It’s a catch-22.

Shoujocon is in about 3 weeks! Gyah. I still have so much to do before then.

Oh, and this is something I’d meant to post on Tuesday and didn’t.

Massachusetts 440-BCW: This is the license plate number of the jackass who banged into the back of my car and then drove off without waiting to see if there was any damage. (There wasn’t.) So everyone send mean thoughts in his direction.

So the brilliant people at WB have misspelled Lucius Malfoy on the website for the first CoS trailer.

As others have pointed out, at least they didn’t type Luscious.

And Jen, you should try the new comment system that blogger has linked on their main page. It looks pretty decent.

And another thing. Huckleberry Hound confuses me. Even more than Goofy. Because he doesn’t wear a lot of clothes, just a little bowtie and a hat.

It came on last night after the slashy Popeye cartoon (…) and so here is the scene. HH is barbecueing a steak on his grill. A dog from next door comes over and stands behind him.

Dog: Ruff ruff! *whimper*
HH: What are you saying, doggie? I don’t understand you.

But he IS A DOG!! What the heck is wrong with these people?

All I have to say is DUH

I woke up this morning to the sounds of some people yelling. They were fully across the street and up a hill, but I could hear them quite clearly. They were obviously watching the World Cup.

Frigging soccer fans.

When I wake up in the morning and promptly get a tune stuck in my head, I know I haven’t slept enough. It’s only when I’m still tired that I don’t have enough control over my thoughts to banish things like that.

It took me a long while to realize that, and now I think it’s sad that I did. But sleep deprivation also earns me more interesting dreams, both sleeping and awake. Still, I think it’s something I’d prefer not to explore regularly.

So anyway, this news about Shounen Jump has me fairly psyched. Smile, Animerica Extra and all those are/were okay, but they were too expensive with too little content. $4.50 is actually cheaper than what I can get the real thing for — Sasuga sells them for $7-8, and while one can pick them up after the fact at the grocery store down the street, that’s a chancy deal at best. They don’t always have what you want. It remains to be seen however, if what we get is some kind of stripped down version.

And what the hell were they thinking trying to compare Shounen Jump with Cosmo Girl?! The two have nothing in common whatsoever. Cosmo and Cosmo Girl are… well, they are advertisements, basically, interspersed with advice about how to get a boyfriend (latter) and how to turn him into husband (former). And how Clairol(TM), Tommy Hilfiger(TM) and Cover Girl(TM) can help you to do it. Shounen Jump is… a book of comics.

Hmm. Crappy Advice Columns and Makeup Tips = Comics.

I have to see the dictionary they’re using.