Odds, ends, and the tasty bits in-between

[fredericks]

FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE
1. Radioshack lackey
2. University Food Service drone
3. Librarian book shelver
4. Paid notetaker

FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER*
1. Bridget Jones Diary
2. The Princess Bride
3. Finding Nemo
4. Undercover Brother
(*I would include Brokeback Mountain on this list, but I realize if I watched it over and over there's a good chance I'd cry so much I'd either succumb to dehydration or sit around my house writing morose poetry)

FOUR BOOKS YOU COULD READ AGAIN & AGAIN
1. The entire Otherland series by Tad Williams
2. Lost Souls, Poppy Z. Brite
3. Fortress in the Eye of Time, C.J. Cherryh
4. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice

FOURtwo CITIES/PLACES YOU'VE LIVED IN
1. Queens, NY
2. Providence, RI

FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH
1. American Justice
2. The Venture Bros
3. Investigative Reports
4. Best Week Ever

FOUR PLACES YOU'VE BEEN ON VACATION
1. Orlando, FL
2. Seattle, WA
3. Italy
4. Virginia Beach, VA

FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY
1. Livejournal
2. CNN.com
3. Imdb.com
4. Webster.com (the daily word games? very much fun)

FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE FOODS
1. Sticky rice
2. Yellow Dal
3. Chili con carne
4. Curry pumpkin and shrimp + bake

FOUR PLACES YOU'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW
1. Anywhere but my parents house
2. Seattle, WA
3. California
4. Manhattan


I think the only Sundays I've managed to go to bed at a reasonable time were the days before clinicals. I cannot believe I am still awake for no good reason. I was planning on heading to the lab tomorrow to practice for validations, but seeing as it's already 3:50 I'm probably not going to end up waking up until 11 and then I won't get to school until after 1, then I won't end up coming back until rush hour is well underway. I detest riding the trains during rush hour. I was supposed to finish up my Nutrition assignment this weekend but it's early Monday morning and still nothing. *sigh* I technically have until the end of the semester, but I don't want to be rushing this thing down on the 21st in order to hand it in by the 22nd. Gah. Can't believe there are only 9 days left in the semester.
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I don't think I'll ever stop being amused by other Christians speaking to me as though I'm not a Christian. Or, instead of referring to themselves by their sect designation using the blanket term "I'm a Christian". Uhm, yes; and that would make me, what? A passport-carrying minion of Hell? Episcopalians-cum-Catholics read the same book you do. Oh well - I suppose we do what we must to ease our souls.
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I saw The Chronicles of Narnia on Friday with my brothers, and I guess the main reason why I didn't mention it until now was because I didn't like it. Such a let-down for me, as I've been waiting impatiently for the movie since last Christmas. It was mainly my own fault; I went into the movie looking for LotR lite. The special effects were awkward at times, and the two younger children had some overall spotty acting. It's a great movie for children, but the adult in me spent too much time chuckling and rolling her eyes at the sloppily choreographed "big fight scenes" (me: "oh my GOD, would Peter stop dropping his shield arm! Jadis could have killed him three times over but she keeps posing like a damned fool!") and the little person who played the White Witch's personal help. I know this fellow from some other movie, and his acting was as horrendous there as it was here. There are so many little people out there that are excellent actors - I cannot believe this scenery-eating dude keeps getting parts. There's one line he spat out ("do you want some MILK!?!?") that, literally...my brother and I were left gasping for breath. Even now one of us will sneer and say "want MILK!?!?" and fall into peals of laughter. But the Aslan/table scene was really well done. The animators who did Aslan's eyes made them very expressive. If only they'd worked on making some of the other effects less laughable.
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My mother and I went to Toys R Us a couple of days back and, for that forty minutes or so, I think I became a kid all over again (well, *more* of a kid). The toys children have today are so cool! I was captivated by these large remote controlled Caterpillar toys. One was a tractor with working front shovel, and the other was a dump truck with working back. So. COOL. Then there were remote control creatures, like dogs and this BIG T-Rex. Kids today have the widest array of toys to choose from, I think. I can't believe I missed out on all that. The best toy I can remember getting was back when I was 3 or 4. My folks gave me a My Little Pony castle, and I remember thinking how massive it was (now I'm pretty sure it was just me that was small). I was in awe of the working drawbridge (you had to crank it and the thread kept coming out of the spool, but still! very amazing) and it came with all these stickers you had to put on the walls and roofs. I wish I'd kept it. I wish I'd kept a lot of the stuff I'd had as a child.

Comments

[lostcrackerjack.livejournal.com]

I really liked Narnia *ducks*, I suppose it brought back a certain childhood nostalgia for me. I dunno, I remember the book and how I envisioned the characters.........I thought the movie did a pretty fantastic job with that. I do agree the acting was ok, nothing special and some of the dueling scenes were too choreographed, but overall I wasn't dissappointed in the least. Personally, I felt it was good enough to place in the top 5 movies of 2005, but that's just me. :-P
*slowly tip-toes away*

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Personally, I felt it was good enough to place in the top 5 movies of 2005, but that's just me. :-P

Top 5? Don't let me dispatch the Ninja Lemurs of Death^TM on you.

*grin* I think the movie did a great job with the characters as well. Nice casting, overall. It's just something I don't feel moved to watch in the theatres again.