Before I say anything: Ben & Jerry's Smores ice cream is the best damn ice cream ever.

( This is one of those long commentaries that really bear no meaning to anyone else, but I enjoy looking back on sometimes. )

So I want to post about NaNo and stuff, and also a few more thoughtful comments on MGS4, and I keep looking for that theme for Old Snake but with the trumpets... Anyway. I'll get to that later. 

On Tuesday night, I had gotten back from play practice and was home alone, and I got a little spooked out. So, I just kept singing- my Beatles songs, then nearly the entire Dr. Horrible soundtrack... But now looking back, I don't know how any potential rapist would havebeen deterred by, "I might just sleep with the same girl twice/ They say it's better the second time/ They say you get to do the weird stuff~"

Ugh, I was beating myself over the head today, 'cause I saw Rachel talking to Snapekid, AND I DON'T KNOW WHY I DIDN'T SAY HI. I should have. (shit) (Although I did drive my elbow through lyricalecho's arm this morning, trying to get her to see him walking down the hall with his dork!glasses.)

I'm trying to get khoanyto watch Firefly. I mean, I can't think of anything she'd like more than Chinese-speaking cowboy-space-pirates.

You know what's neat? Lately, (and this has happened three times already,) if I'm having a bad dream, I slap myelf in the face really hard, and the dream changes. =D I did that night before last when confronted with an angry Chuck Norris.

BUT HERE'S THE IMPORTANT THING:

( Behind the backs of Peach and Daisy, Mario and Luigi are actually huge Bruins fans... )

LET THE TABLE WAR BEGIN!

Yesterday, I believe it was, Peter was telling Emily and I about how he had this dream with Ms. Beekley in it. Also in the dream was a gun. And it just so happened that the gun was in a very angry Ms. Beekley's hand. (This does not, in any way, surprise me.)

Peter also couldn't stop laughing today, with another Japanese encephalitis joke. He was getting all worried like, "Oh my God, what would you do if your brain started blowing up? Would you go to the hospital? Would it just burst your head open? What would you do; what would you say!? To which I responded, "Owwwww."

Watched Dollhouse, whee! Although, I am a little worried about the future of the show (for me) simply because have I ever mentioned how I don't like blood and gaping bullet wounds and knife-slash-someone-maternal-type-things? (Am I four years old or what?) But anyway, just the general 'blood, screaming, dying' doesn't really do it for me. I'm hoping there are less cringe-worthy moments in the next one. (BUT I STILL LIKE IT. Particularly the Boyd/Echo thing, in a purely father/daughter sense. And can I mention how much I LOVE Claire, like, way more than I should? She's just so cute.)

I was reading something from my homework outloud to my mum, and instead of saying "devoured by savages," I sort of said "devoured by sandwiches."

I brought up the point this morning: my birthday sort of falls on Good Friday. So in a sense it's like, "GOD IS DEAD. Happy birthday!"

Ok, hey. I know it's ridiculous of me to think I can go a whole post without mentioning Snape, but something about the Debate occurred to me during English class today. You know how we kept talking about Snape and how he was doing the whole martyrdom/self-pitying thing that we didn't really know how to describe or explain? I think I figured it out. I think he has survivor guilt. He blames himself for Lily's death, and so he feels the need to constantly punish himself for it. It's almost like, "No, I don't deserve to be happy because it's my fault." And then, well, he became so accustomed to distancing himself and the whole self-neglect thing, that he eventually became very bitter and cruel, and he didn't really care. (This comes, of course, from Ordinary People, which a few days ago led me to wonder if Sev ever attempted suicide, and if he did, it probably would have been before Dumbles offered him a job since with the job he felt like he was at least working to be forgiven or... Something like that. I dunno. *shrug* This is what happens when you live half your life in your Snape!fic: it gets sort of crazy. XD)

Argh, there were so many things I wanted to post and I can't remember any of them. Oh well, I have a crapload of homework to do.

EDIT: btw? People should not have Buffy spoilers in their avatars. THAT IS SOMETHING I DID NOT NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SPIKE... FOR SEVERAL MORE SEASONS, I THINK.

I had a bunch of other blurbs, but I can't really remember. Here's an LJ dump as it is:

On Thursday, I had three Palin references: in history ("MAVERICKS!") then in bio, ("Don't you go hatin' on me and Tripp, Mrs. Rowett!") and then in theatre we had a skit where we were the Russians peeking into her living room.

Chevy decided that we should kill two birds with one stone and shave off Mr. Quadros' beard (still ridiculous) and glue it to Ms. Beekley's face when she's asleep in Serino's back room.

lyricalecho's been having a rough time, so I made her brownies and my mum let her borrow a pair of kitchen tongs that she had wrapped in shiny wrapping paper. Long story; you'd 'TL;DR.'

You know you like a teacher (Mr. Mintz) when you see him in the parking lot from the bus and go all "=DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD HI MR. MINTZ!!!!" even though you're sure he has no clu that you're there.

I had this dream where I was a secret agent, and this lady came and hugged me and was all, "OH, SWEETIE, IT'S SO GOOD TO HAVE YOU HERE!" and I'm looking over her shoulder like 'nyahhhh' and... Hey, there's Snape. So I'm staring at him, and he walks in, walks through, walks out, and that's the end of it. =D

Emily was attacked by a gorilla in art yesterday. She turned around, stared at the thing, and muttered a small, "Oh shit." It was just as bad as the day before, when she presented her abstract sculpture which represents the socio-economic and moral and divide between Mexico and America. Mrs. Samaha says, "It looks like a butt!" To this, we entered a discussion on whether or not she had just mooned North America, and how Canada was either "Hey, we didn't do anything! What did we do to deserve this!?" (to which Emily replies, "They're part of NATO, of course they had it coming.") or rather "KIDS, DON'T MAKE ME COME DOWN THERE!!!"

Have you ever noticed that you can take any horrible situation, replace one word with 'puppy' or 'puppies' and immediately it's a bazillion times better/ more pleasant?

Mara? She's totally friends with Tracey, a la The Message. We had a complete geek out together over Firefly and Dr. Horrible, and we were singing My Freeze Ray, and the whole things was just amazing. SO much squeeing.

I want to watch Dollhouse this weekend, but I have something decidedly Pressing and Important that really Must Be Done.

Also,chevy_the_geek, you may want to check out: http://community.livejournal.com/church_of_nph/91415.html

So now I'm sitting here watching old Star Trek episodes. Spock is awesome, BTW. He figured out that they could defeat these aliens by making them eat "food" (AKA giant lucky charms) and booze. (Star Trek NG is still my favorite, lyk rlly.)

*pulls out a bottle of alcohol* "Uh... What is this?" "It's... It's... Green!"

Ok, here's something else I should do: I was in history class and Mr. Hanchett was talking about western immigration and stuff, and he mentioned that people went out there for better land. For some reason, this led him to say that the thing he wants most in the world (his Mirror of Erised) is just a tiny square of grass in his backyard. Because, you know, he apparently lives in Sommerville, which really is a "concrete jungle." So, for an Easter/April break present for him, I want to plant some grass seed in a little pot, and maybe stick a little mini birdhouse in it or something. That would be so cute!

Also over April break, I would like to dedicate that week to making a Snape-coat for ComicCon, but I don't know if that'll go through.

Argh, I need to watch Dollhouse. And Buffy.

I think I'm going to go to the movies this weekend; I'd really like to see Frost/Nixon. It's still out, isn't it? I'm pretty sure it is.

ELIZA DUSHKU WAS IN BOTTLE SHOCK!? NOW WHEN I WATCH IT WITH MUM (because I said I would) I KNOW I'M GOING TO FANGIGGLE. (Also, as I pointed out to the Gang, she's so awesome in that movie that she's the one snarking at Alan Rickman. =DDDDDD) 

I saw Steven in the library today, and he suddenly broke out into song. "John Jacobs Jingleheimer Schmidt!" I don't remember how Mr. Muller reacted.

I did a very stupid thing at Exit 51. I sort of went with a couple of other people to ask Ms. Beekley what she thought of Mr. Quadros' beard (which still looks ridiculous.) It was a STUPID thing to do. Really, at least when Snape snarks, it's more mean and condescending. When Ms. Beekley snarks, it's like she's trying to make your soul melt into a little puddle of shame. *Ali leans over, "Argh, stop backpedaling! You're making it worse!"* God, I think she loves how upset she makes me.

You know what I find interesting? The Insider (or whatever it's called) was on, and it seems like every five seconds there's like, "HAY GUYZ! MAH SEKRIT WEDDINS, LET ME SHOW U DEM!" I suppose I find that most annoying because of that bit of my Life's Work. It's like, "Okay, they didn't do it in secret because they wanted you to analyze everything, post pictures everywhere, and say horrible things about them. What is this 'secret' of which you speak?" Anyway, that's sort of a personal rambling (though Snape wholly agrees and says: DDDDD:<)

I was watching tv with Mum and there was a commercial for NEIL PATRICK HARRIS ON ELLEN HOLY FRICKING FRICK ON A BISCUIT- I was squeeing so hard, and I can only imagine that, had she seen it, chevy_the_geek would have had a coronary. Or her eyeballs would have popped out. That happened on House one time, you know. BUT NEVERMIND THAT. I saw a couple of pics from

church_of_nph and he's wearing this adorable little sweater vest, and have I ever mentioned how much I love sweater-vests and holy CRAP IT WAS SO CUTE.

Last thing. Everyone knows about this, but this is technically a journal, so I'm putting it down anyway. I mentioned before how I had this dream and all I could remember from it was Snape saying, "I would prefer if you would refrain from petting me like a rabbit." So now

 

lyricalecho  periodically pets my head until I say that. (Probably also because my hair is amazingly soft and so much better than hers ;3) But anyway (with my Freeze Ray~) Echo and Chevy were in health and they learned that an infant or young child should be touched at least 100 times a day because it improves self-esteem. This has led to various members of the Gang incessantly patting/poking each other while chanting "self-esteem, self-esteem, self-esteeeeeeem..." Hint: The effects are not the same if you practically hit the person, whilst screaming in their face, "SELF-ESTEEM, SELF-ESTEEM, SELF-ESTEEEEEEEEEM!!!"

 

Bruins game tomorrow! *Edgey!whoop!*
 

Ok. First post of the new year! Also, there is a Snow Day! Whooo!!!1! So, you know, I can actually finish this after [not] working on this for two days. Lots of things to say! Or... Remarkably less than I thought.


( Buffy Spoilers Here~ )

So what else? We had a Fantastic Four sleepover (by which I mean me, Echo, and our two friends from days of yore.) Stayed up 'till five, but I passed out at four. There was some Trace Memory-age, too (along with some Bill jokes.)

Which brings me to this: Mystery/adventure games for the DS are highly underrated. The DS has spawned some of my favorite games. Phoenix Wright, of course, and the ever-lovely-and-thrilling-and-cute-and-plot-twist-y Trace Memory. Hotel Dusk: Room 213 was like some wonderful film noir (though I think Echo still has my copy?) and then, dear Professor Layton, of course. I do love my DS.

Speaking of PL, I saw the Final Time Journey trailer and WHOA LAYTON IN A SWORDFIGHT WHY SO AWESOME? And Luke jumping on the couch, and Layton and his tea and WHEN DOES THE SECOND ONE COME OUT, GORRAMIT? In other PL news, there's supposed to be a PL movie in the works. It sounds fabulous, and then I hear it's live action. Why would you want live action when you have such beautiful European-like artwork to work with? *sigh* At least they can make Layton hot... *no one said that*

Also, I forgot to mention another DS game. Trauma Center, anyone? zarla should be so pleased with herself, what with having her Broken Glass Mix being sung by Echo and I over and over. (It can be found here, BTW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBlukUptk18) "And there's no reason why, when you cut people open, they're all funky colors, all inside, all color-coded, OH YEAH!" 

Also interesting is how (we were playing UtK2) the big bad guys is like a little von Karma, what with the "von," and his rant about "natural selection" and "the perfect human" and being the crappiest father ever. And the organization? Apparently we could have another one: B.U.M.M.E.R. (Was this funnier at three o'clock in the morning?) Yeah, it was. Although, when you have to use your tools to get out of the cell? Kaylee, I think it was, was all, "Hey, why don't we just use the laser to blast out of here?" And Echo stops and thinks, and says, "Well it's more of a delicate laser." "Yeah," I say, "because you wouldn't be blasting people's organs with massive lasers." Kristen nods and says, "Yeah. So it's more of and 'ow' laser." To which we then pictured Chase, all "HEY DEREK" *zap* "CHASE, CUT THAT OUT!" *bzzt*

Then there was some joke about Erika's friend accidentally snorting bath soap up her nose...

Hey, here's something. iTunes is a moron. I'm not talking about this pricing thing; I mean the updated software. It's obviously geared toward people who buy entire albums, rather than those who just buy a song here or there. I'm one of the latter. So, where as before I could have all my songs in alphabetical order, now it can only be organized by album or artist, so that my Library looks like someone ate it, didn't like the weird mix of flavors, and then barfed it back onto my screen. It bums me out.

I had this dream last night, and I swear- God strike me down if I'm lying- Snape was on a unicorn. Swear to God. I just remember... He was kinda like, "Eh?" And I was kinda like, "Eh!?" But yeah, I also had a dream where the Tiny Titans were crewing Serenity, and I guess the Alliance caught us, and everyone was all hiding and fighting, and there was some Salem museum thing going on, and I was all, "hey, I know where that is!" even though I was in the mindset of my main OC, and there was some secret attic with a secret trunk, and there were disguises and secret passageways; and then there was the museum and Giles was there and there was lots of beige marble and dinosaurs? And then I went back to sleep and there was this dream with SSBros. but there were loads of playable characters, and I was kinda inside, and Raven was there, and then there were some aliens and they were making a movie? But then they made me play this game that was kinda like Tetris but with fruit? And I was ok at it, but then Snape showed up and was better, and that was the unicorn part, and there was something about this desktop background I'm working on and I was all, "Oh, that looks good!" And then... Um... I think I woke up again.

OH. Maybe the museum thing was in the dream I had night before last. 'Cause that one also had Snape briefly, but it was mainly Star Trek TNG characters, but they were cowboys, and someone was chasing me, and I was all, "HALP, I KNOW WHO YOU ARE!" And they were all, "Hey, how do you know us!" And then there was something about a wagon and going over jumps and it was nighttime and there were torches, and...

Ironically, I've done virtually no fandoming for a few days prior to these.

Ok, so New Year's Days I watched two movies. First, I watched Stardust with my mum, which I never realized was so long! It's like, almost three hours! But that really is a wonderful movie, with Arthur!Goat and stuff. He was my Mum's favorite character I guess, which was funny; but she liked Shakespeare too, all, "I was thinking, 'waxing poet!' and my men are thinking 'SHAKE! SPEAR!' I love things like that." Also she liked the ghosts, but how can you not? Eee, and I don't think I need to reiterate how much I like Septimus.

Later, we ended up watching Wall E. God, I love this movie. Out of all the Pixar films, it's really between this one and Finding Nemo, even if I really do like Toy Story (which, BTW, Echo pointed out that Joss did the screenplay! =DDDDDDD) But yeah, it was just soooo cute, and... Very artfully done. Of course, no matter how deep and artsy, it's still Disney. So my mum points out, "But, if they can't even get out of their chairs, why did I see a bunch a babies sitting around?" "Because it's Disney, mum. The stork brought them." But anyway, I just love Wall E and all his little treasures, and Eve being all "Uuuuh?" and then Wall E being all dorky in space, and Mo. How can you not love Mo?

So... I think that's it. I'll have a post in a couple of days for a certain event... :3

EDIT: Hey, I was on professorlayton</lj> and found this amazing lot of PL art. WHY IS THIS FANDOM SO CUTE!? http://community.livejournal.com/professorlayton/116419.html