It came so highly recommended. Just finished it, and I have to say I was completely underwhelmed. Felt utterly like run-of-the-mill pseudo-medieval fantasy to me. No fantastic animals, and it was set in Expy!Venice instead of Expy!RegularContinentalEurope, but other than that, it was just a few steps above J.V. Jones' "Book of Words" trilogy.

Edited to add: In retrospect, having learned more about Lynch's writing, this was a case of a really bad recommendation that set up false expectations. Still not my cup of tea, but eh, that happens.

I just realized that the Hunger Games movies are going to rock the Bechdell Test so friggin' hard! Also, Katniss is one of the most complex Action Girls to hit the big screen in a very long time. Suddenly I am a lot more excited about this movie.

I put my wool stockings on the drying rack to, you know, dry.

The drying rack was next to the radiator.

Now my stockings feel smaller and less stretchy.

I think I felted my stockings by accident.

Can you hear my evil laugh all the way to where you are?

Oh, this is gonna be goooooooooooood!

Just spent a bunch of time messing about in Excel, searching on Google and used VBA for the first time in an attempt to persuade a spreadsheet to disgorge a certain subset of data.

Then it turns out that the database already has a query for that subset.

Well, now I can say I've used VBA.

This morning I dreamed that there was a flood outside my apartment. But it was still warm out, so I left my windows open a bit. This allowed a polar bear to swim up to my window, open my screen, and get into my bedroom.

Don't look at me, I just live here.

Last night I had a dream that shirei_shibolim offered to lend me his industrial-grade snail vacuum. No explanation as to why I had to vacuum snails, or why he had it. Just the offer.

I don't get it. I wasn't even reading any Ursula Vernon yesterday. Why would I dream about this.

Though if any of my friends were to have an industrial-grade snail vacuum, it would probably be shirei_shibolim, mbarr or AGO (but he's on the other side of the country).

Seriously. I knew this already, but it was much affirmed by this post on her LJ and the ensuing discussion in the comments. Also, looking at her use of "Bored now," I think she might be a Buffy fan, too.

As a direct result of the above, I now see the point of the “I am Mormon and normal” add campaign. I never used to, because I was never before weirded out by Mormons. But after reading the bit about how Stephanie Meyer associates Edward with Joseph Smith, how he came to her in a dream and she thinks of him as being a greater romantic hero than Romeo, Rhett Butler, Heathcliff and Tristan, I’m seriously weirded out.

Just watched this week's White Collar.

OMG, Tim DeKay dancing tango! YUMYUMYUM!!!!

*ahem*

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

http://ca.io9.com/5813475/10-psychological-states-youve-never-heard-of--and-when-you-experienced-them%253Fskyline%253Dtrue%2526s%253Di

I found this helpful personally to describe some things that I have experienced, but it really would have been most useful to me to find this out about 5 years ago to help write my thesis. Number 7, Repressive Desublimation is essentially what I was arguing was going on in the Confucian system.

Why didn't anyone point me towards Marcuse back then?

P.S. Wow, it's been a long time since I used the thesis tag on an entry