Bits and Pieces

[in_the_blue]

First things first: since it's already tomorrow over there...

Happy birthday, angelofthenorth!!!
May the year bring you the answers you seek, the love you need, and the support you merit.

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It's been a hell of a busy day. I did my beta reading this morning (and I know I still owe fics to two of you! I will, I promise!) and got a couple difficult pieces of personal writing out of the way, and took Hannah to get supplies to make Tollhouse Cookies and a few other things. She's all nervous because we haven't gotten her writing test results back yet like mme_publisher's kid did, but I'm sure they're on their way.

Then, it seemed like every time I sat down I had to bounce back up again. It was either the cats or the kid or the guy or food or something and wow, did I feel entirely too much like a yo-yo.

Tomorrow I get to play with mme_publisher and I have to say, it's so nice having another adult to talk with during the summer months. Especially with all my husband's traveling, which drives me crazy. This week, Utah. Next week, east coast. September: India. Me:

Here.

Blah, blah, blah, how boring. kelleypen, ajaxbreaker: fics as soon as I feel creative in the HP realm again.

And I must be boring the hell out of each of you on my flist! Come, tell me something fun. I would love to read it.

Comments

[angelofthenorth.livejournal.com]

Thank you. those are wonderful birthday wishes!

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

And I hope you're having a FANTASTIC day!

[enelya-oronar.livejournal.com]

I found this very funny... http://www.venganza.org/.

Go to India - what an opportunity!!!

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Hee. My favorite part were the responses from the school board.

I can't go to India. Someone has to stay here and make sure the kid gets up and gets herself to school.

[frankieb-sq87.livejournal.com]

Something fun. . . something fun. hee.

I am currently in a musical review and am trying (and failing) to learn the lyrics to one of the cheesiest songs on the planet. So I started typing them out. Over and over. And over. I then sent them to another friend who is in the cast.

I get in to work this morning, and he's FILLED my inbox with the lyrics for this song.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Here, because I am entirely too evil:

If we only have love
then Jerusalem stands
and then death has no shadow
there are no foreign lands.
If we only have love
we will never bow down
we'll be tall as the pines
neither heroes nor clowns.

If we only have love
then we'll only be men
and we'll drink from the grail
to be born once again.
Then with nothing at all
but the little we are
we will conquer all time
all space
the sun and the stars.

Jacques Brel isn't inherently evil. Or inherently cheesy. If it's done well it can be entirely too lovely. Isn't this an ensemble piece that the whole cast sings at the end? It's been a long time since I listened to it.

Good luck, Frankie! Just think of Lucius and the Death Eaters doing this song. At least that thought should make you crack right up.

[frankieb-sq87.livejournal.com]

I am feeeling slightly better about the song today. At rehearsal last night the evil song of the evening was "putting it together", which I think is from Company and is VERY hard. Just got the music for it, so we have 8 days to get it together. Eeeep!

Oh, and the death eaters? jkshagjkhjkg;a'ghjkha'

[lostinapapercup.livejournal.com]

I took an honors Biology class when I was in high school, and at one point in the year we studied water and all it entails. You know, types of water, rain, evaporation, drainage and the sewer system, blah blah blah.

Then we were divided into five groups and had to write essays and make a presentation on whatever our assigned subject was. My group got that subject I was least interested in, of course. We had to talk about the pros and cons of septic tanks, oxidations ponds, and... well, I don't even remember the third thing now.

But we all wrote our individual essays, and one of the girls in the group had a contact that we were going to use to get some more detailed information to present to the class. Days went by, though, and then two weeks. The guy completely dismissed us, and I was furious. But fuck if I was going to be the one to deal with him, you know? I didn't know him and he'd already proved completely unreliable, in my opinion, and none of us were showing much initiative to do anything else.

So two days before we were due to present to the class, I was scrambling for something to do and somehow had the bright idea of making a video, a complete and utter (but informational!) parody of a soap opera/detective show/action movie... so I wrote down a very rough outline of a script, and we all got together that night, talked about what we were doing, and proceeded to film our movie.

It ended up being dubbed As The Toilet Flushes and it was only about 15 or 20 minutes long, but it had everything: educational information and cheesy jokes based on what we'd been learning in class over the previous few weeks, romance, a jilted lover, a hired assassin, murder, a heroine named Jane Bond and her blind psychic sidekick from France (that was me), and a Tom Cruise cameo (well, okay, so it was really only a promotional cutout of him, but do you realize what the guy's asking price is?).

And gaping plot holes. Heh.

We absolutely threw ourselves into that wonderful, awful, overly dramatic acting, and it was really kind of a blast.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

*snort*

The blind psychic French sidekick? I must get a copy.