Thanks, Morpheus. That was eff'd up.

Weirdest dream I can recall in a good long while. There was this largish spider that, for some reason, I had to chomp down on...even though I'm very much afraid of them (my brother once chased me around the house with one of those very realistic pictures from the "Nature" pamphlets they gave out in elementary. I ended up staying in the basement for a good ten minutes after he'd given up the fun, scared that he was around the corner, just waiting for me to re-emerge so he could terrorize me again.) All "Fear Factor" style, except without Joe Rogan. I kept trying to, I don't know, swallow it? but its legs prevented that from happening. As they were dangling outside of my mouth. It also had its fangs or something dug underneath my chin (I swore I felt all of this). I finally say "screw it" and pull it out of my mouth in two halves. Top is easy, bottom is stuck in my chin and so I sort of have to yank it. Go to a mirror and my face is torn up, like its venom was acidic. I'm, understandably, devastated (what, no more modeling career?!? ha, no), but when I start to wash my face said scar tissue and burns wash off like movie magic.

I suppose I should read a bit of Kinney in that dream, you know, take control of your fears and things won't turn out nearly as bad as you though, but I'm still captivated by my moxie.

Not going to try out for FF, though.

Don't cha love watching train wrecks?

I picked up Le Guin's "Earthsea" set because someone had mentioned to me the fact that they were making a mini-series of it on Sci-Fi. I hadn't read any of Le Guin's work before that and I figured a Hugo-winner was a good enough place to start. The first three books were excellent, the rest? eh. Haven't made myself finish them all. I popped on over to the Sci-Fi channel's BB for the show and...it's always great to see people lambasting something in its home, you know? It would seem that the writers and director took major liberties with the story, to the point where Ursula Le Guin herself has problems with it. That they made a big deal of sticking the usually awesome Danny Glover in the role of a person whose scenes are sparse (significant, yes, but) in the book means they've really changed things around. And KRISTEN KREUK? Ugh. Gouge out my eyes. Reason NOT to watch. They've added a love interest in a place there wasn't.

Just...read the board. Have fun. It's nice to read people's gripes.