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posted by [personal profile] elanya at 05:17pm on 22/08/2003
Went and picked up Hazel's birthday present after work, had ice cream (black rasberry cheesecake, yum!), and went grocery shopping with mom. Came home, put cold rocks in the willa cages... Poor things were wilted all to hell. Now my sinuses are driving me mad! I just took an allergy pill, but while it is kicking in, geeerk! It is like the insides of my ears are itchy/burny. Stupid willa hairs, I was only in the room about five minutes!

I am not sitting around the house in the coolest clothes I could find (my choli and my yellow tie-on pants, hoping that my mom will actually give me a promised backrub. Hazel will be coming home in about an hour or an ahour and a half. I think she has a copy of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre that she wants to watch. I am thinking, it *is* now after August 19th, we might try and see if we can frickin' rent Spider already! Such a cool film, although I know it will make me twitchy to play Exia again, which isn't going to happen until September.

I have finished reading Eco's The Island of the Day Before which is a really cool, though odd, book. I think Hazel would like reading it. I want to make Dave read it because I want to see what it would do to him ^_^. This means that my next project is to finish writing my script for 'Deadman's Chest'. I have been thinking of little pirate scenes for my volunteer voice actors, but I don't think they will be very long. I don't know if I am going to confine myself to a half hour, either, since I am definitely not going to be able to do this monthly. I'll see what I can scome up with, I guess.

Other things that I now need to do are to get in touch with the director of the Maritime Studies program at ECU, and also send a CV to Saint Thomas to see if the rumours are true that they desperately need people to teach anth courses. Could be interesting, I think. First, though, a backrub, and maybe a nap before Hazel gets home. If people are interested in trying to find Spider, they should let me know, mm'kay?
Mood:: 'sleepy' sleepy
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posted by [identity profile] vess.livejournal.com at 01:59pm on 22/08/2003
Monique and I just watched Spider on Wednesday. Very cool movie. By the way, its a balmy 18oC in Saint John!
 
posted by [identity profile] juliann.livejournal.com at 02:18pm on 22/08/2003
Wow, someone who has actually made it through The Island of the Day Before. Bravo! I've tried reading it at least three times and always get fed up and put it down again. There's too much else out there that is deserving of my time for me to force myself through that one...
 
posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 03:35pm on 22/08/2003
I actually quite enjoyed it, but then I think that my academic frames of refernce are fairtly well suited to it's style and content, if that makes any sense. It's disjointed narrative elements all intrigued me, even if Roberto is a bit of a romantic twerp ^-^
 
posted by [identity profile] shanmonster.livejournal.com at 02:41pm on 22/08/2003
I just finished The Name of the Rose today. I like it a whole lot better than Foucault's Pendulum, but it did drag in a few places. The action scenes had me rapt, though!
 
posted by [identity profile] f00dave.livejournal.com at 04:19pm on 22/08/2003
I'd be game, if I had time to read *anything*. I'm still partway through Feynman's "QED". The last non-fiction book I read was a single book, celbrating my one-year-without-fiction self-imposed abstinence.

I wish I still had time to read. :-(
 
posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 04:32pm on 22/08/2003
Ahh, but Eco is a professor of semiotics, so you could almost pretend that reading his works is *like* research ;P
 
posted by [identity profile] f00dave.livejournal.com at 04:43pm on 22/08/2003
I'll trust Lev's (not terribly high) opinion of Eco. We were discussing semiotics (and Eco, as he's the leading name in that area, apparently) just a few days ago. Odd coincidences abound this week. ;-)
 
posted by [identity profile] astatine210.livejournal.com at 05:24pm on 22/08/2003
I read IotDB and found it really unsatisfying - I thought it spent most of the first part of the book going somewhere, then squandered it in the latter part, then ended with a pointless thud. It's a shame, 'cause I enjoyed The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum immensely.
 
posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 08:53am on 24/08/2003
Well, I didn't really think there could be any kind of satuisfactory ending, soI wasn't surprised. I suppose it was kind of, well 'gaimanesque' that way.

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