you can't do that with a tiffany lamp!

I went out this afternoon to get a pair of running shoes...

I came home with the Black Pearl.

i.e. a sleek black 60GB video iPod.
i.e. my baby.

I also got a black "Sports Jacket" sleeve/case and an extra year of care & warranty (through CompUSA, not Apple, of course) and a travel charger, so she'll be in the best of hands. er, form-fitting silicon.

and now I have to mop the floor, when all I really want to do is ditch all previous plans of ficcing and love on my new toy.

[16:45] meletor_et_al: god my prose is dense, what the hell?
[16:45] shrieking_ell: dense in a good way, like well-made brownies
[16:45] shrieking_ell: or a good chocolate torte
[16:45] meletor_et_al: really? right now I'm feeling it more like walking through a narrow cave webbed with spaghetti.
[16:46] shrieking_ell: fascinating analogy
[16:46] meletor_et_al: thank you


yet, I am determined. .:: pokes notebook ::.

um, I just had a Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder version) x Superman (Brandon Routh version) crossover dream. it was weird. I think there was some King Kong in there, too. and it all took place at Bowdoin College, in the middle of Metropolis. and Jack Sparrow was teaching a Psychic Skills/Analysis course and kept forgetting the AV equipment. so my mother yelled at him and took over as professor.

man, I really need to stop with the smoking crack before bedtime.

( very very borderline DMC spoiler, but, just to be safe )

it is definitely time for that nap.

( DMC spoiler )

Comments welcome! Quiero discutir.

Pidge: I'm a ship stranded in the delta quad-rant...
Mel: I'm Voyager.
P: my captain's a girl.
M: she's short.
(sung to the main melody of the Star Trek: Voyager theme)

in other news, I hear that if I try on a pair of jeans at American Eagle, I get a free ticket to any AMC theater. Pidge and I are going to explore this claim at the mall tomorrow, hopefully with the result of seeing PotC: DMC again. whether we succeed or fail, I definitely have idea-age for a ficlet I need to be writing tomorrow -- and that is something which makes me ridiculously happy!

also, I got three $5 tips at work today. go me! *is charmer*

[ETA: also tomorrow, I plan to reply to the comments people have left on my last few posts. aiee, I fail at lj upkeep!]

( spoiler )


I continue to hold out hope that I just managed to miss something pivotal during that first viewing, and that someone else caught it and can pass that info along. because right now, I am distraught.

ganked from mirkwoodelfchic:

Mel's Past Lives

V V V

1504 BC: Egyptian Slave

1433 AD: A deckhand

1673 AD: A failed artist

'What were you in your past lives?' at QuizGalaxy.com

heeee!

yesterday and the day before and today and tomorrow I'm all kinds of busy, working and then shopping and cooking and baking and getting ready for the pirate party and assembling my costume. because TOMORROW, MIDNIGHT, YO. I'm so freaking excited! :D

Lois: It's a bird.
Perry: It's a plane.
Jimmy: No, look it's...
Clark: Uh, you wanted to see me?

you see this picture? looks pretty damn silly, doesn't it. but that sucker is great in action. srsly! I definitely approve of the movie, even though there were some parts that weren't so great (Lois Lane being a major DiD, for one). they did a fantastic job of carrying on / bringing in all the Superman mythos and it was epic and uplifting and grin-inducing and just plain fun and man. I loved it.

more later, maybe, but I need to sleep now!


(p.s. it wasn't until we were walking out of the theater that I realized I was wearing a Batman-logo tee, which amused me greatly and even moreso when the kid in a Flash-logo tee walked past and we both cracked up at each other)