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was there something I should have told you?

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(That’s a line from RENT, in case you didn’t pick it up immediately after I gushed about it yesterday and memorized it. Sheesh. I don’t think I’ve memorized my ‘it was red and yellow and green and brown and…” Joseph’s-coat-of-many-colors bit for the AHS drama thing. Ah well. More practice tonight! I guess I should go about finding my matching blacks…)
Actually, there was. I forgot to mention our interesting sledding escapade. Perhaps you had to be there, but Kate and I couldn’t stop laughing about it, even though it had the potential to be very scary. Funny scary though.
Anyway, after seeing RENT on Saturday, I persuaded Kate to go sledding on what little snow remained (I hate it when snow falls, looks really nice for just a day, then melts (or is sledded over too much) for me to go sledding. Bah!) So we drove over to Art Hill to see if it was totally sledded-out, which is was, then we moved onto another hill close by that I’d had luck with in the past, which was slightly better. It was a little too warm for good sledding; you had to find packed snow because the untouched stuff would just stop you cold. No pun intended.
So, we sled a bit, and then we trek over the crest of the hill to see if we could get anything better on the other side. We’re on a golf course, which is what’s underneath most of the western end of Forest Park, so it’s got some nicely hilly spots with putting greens and fairways and brush, etc, etc. Well, we decide to go down, and I persuade Kate to go down first (makes it sound like I have persuasion skillz, don’t it?) and she goes, and then suddenly she just drops out of sight!
It was like one of those cartoons where you see Wiley E Coyote go over a cliff and hang there for a second.

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no day but today

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RENT rules, baby. Kate and I agree that some of the performances from the matinee on Saturday outshine those on the original broadway cast recording. Perhaps one day I’ll get around to playing the music. RENT is a great soundtrack to sing along to. It was especially hard not to at the show, lol. Collins was great. I almost cried. I’m gonna have to revise that “I never cry at movies/theater/music concerts, etc” because I’ve almost cried at several. Perhaps I’m getting overly emotional in my old age. Eh. Perhaps I was just overly happy with getting a RENT long-sleeve tee, with NO DAY BUT TODAY across the back. *gleeful* So I was trying to explain how, as much as I love the soundtrack and have listened to it so much I know every word, even the crazy words to “La Vie Boheme,” there’s just something so…new/great/theatrical/different about actually seeing the show. Yes, I know, one’s live and one’s Memorex, but I guess listening to the soundtrack can inure you to the emotional content of the show. In both Phantom (the movie) and RENT (the musical) I noticed things that intellectually I knew were happening, since I’d seen both theatrical performances, but that you miss when you just listen to it everyday. Yeah. You should go see both of those.
Did you know you can see the first five minutes of Elektra at Yahoo? Go see. And the Troy dvd has an easter egg, which I shall go find tonight. When I’m not watching 24, of course. Anyone else peeved that the widescreen edition of Troy only features Brad Pitt on the cover? Sheesh. The whole reason I bought the thing was for Orlando. I admit it 😉
Anyone have a vcr they’d like to let me have? The one in the living room has decided it likes the taste of tape, and thus will not do anything but sit there like a lump on top of the dvd player. Boo.
Page 7: You remember the shoebox project, right? What a bad fan I am. I didn’t look to see if there was anything new over the break. Lo and behold, HUZZAH! there is! Enjoy.

It’s snowing!

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A bunch of random babble while I stare outside at the really pretty snow.
When I left work I was worried about various things. Still am, actually. But this makes it all better. Anyway, when I left, it was spitting little icy balls. This was about 7 pm. So, in the course of putzing around and after watching the extras on the Troy dvd, I turned on regular tv and caught a weather report, and the lady says, “there’s already a half-inch on the ground downtown…” and I was like, I’m almost downtown, and I looked out the window and lo and behold, there was snow! It’s so pretty! *awww* It makes me happy when it snows and I don’t have to drive in it. At least not yet. It will probably be gone by tomorrow when I have to drive to the Fox to see RENT . Yay RENT! No Day But Today, baby! And there will be Kate-Crazy-Bowls’n’Wraps-ness which will be fun and possibly Rams football. You all know how much I love football, right? *sarcasm*
What do you think about a Phantom layout? just until we get some more Kingdom of Heaven pictures 🙂 And I need new layouts for LJ and blogger. There goes artistic Jen. Someday, I hope. Maybe I’ll get to see Phantom again. My mom told me there’s a new big screen theater out in Chesterfield that’s supposed to have great sound too. Wouldn’t that be a blast! And I’m sure my dad is looking forward to Elektra 😉
I’m supposed to get a new computer at work. That will make things nice. Pablo’s leaving, which is sad. But on the upside, if I ever get a chance to go to Sweden I’ll have a place to stay 😉
On a totally different note: I just found out that I passed Orgo I! Sigh. That’s a relief. Now I just have to get reading for the next semester. Bah.

Time

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{ETA: This is insane. Ugh. Who thinks up these things?
My dad has to do an illustration of our new Governor, Matt Blunt, he who won because of the drug connotation of his last name, as some of my friends have mentioned. My dad is a Democrat. Unfortunately, as an artist he can’t show journalistic bias for (or against, in this case) his subject. Sometimes I dread the next four years. This may be the land of the free but it certainly seems like we’re losing freedoms. Sigh. Bad thoughts. Begone! /ETA}
Chantal Kreviazuk, everybody. Since I’ve felt that time is really rushing past me. How is it already the second weekend of January?
Time, where did you go?
Why did you leave me here alone?
Wait, don’t go so fast
I’m missing the moments as they pass

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If you ever wondered

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what the word “wiki” means…
read all about it.
Anyone who has not yet encountered a wiki while surfing the web will sometime soon, for wikis are proliferating quickly. In fact, the word wiki comes from a word for “quick.”

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Here’s to the Professor

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Today is JRR Tolkien’s 113th birthday. Amazing, isn’t it, how one man could have such an effect on popular culture? I wonder if he would have been happy at how his books created such fervent obsession 😉 I hope he would have liked the movie.
I saw Phantom of the Opera this past weekend, which was nice. I liked it, and so did the parents 😉 There were definitely some off notes, but on the whole the actors really could sing. The costumes were great and it was nice seeing the sets be more realistic than they are, by necessity, on the stage. Unfortunately for me, we saw it at an independent theater that doesn’t show big-name trailers, so no Kingdom of Heaven trailer for me. Alas. I just went home and watched it on my computer 🙂
Hope you all had a safe and happy holiday season. I need to take down my tree sometime, I guess. *sniff* I like the holidays. I just wish I’d had a little bit more time off. Ah well. someday grasshopper. Troy comes out tomorrow 😉 I know it wasn’t all that great of a movie, but hey. It’s Orlando. That makes me happy. Random thought: anyone else notice that Kingdom of Heaven includes two actors Orli has worked with before? Marton Csokas and Brendan Gleeson also star…like you care. Random thought #2: if you like instrumental music you might like Mehdi.

Historic

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50 years ago, the first organ transplant occurred. Way to go! Amazing that they can do that, even today. Thank goodness.
Good news is that I a) will have a new computer at work after New Years and b) I don’t have to come into work tomorrow! I can actually take vacation! Whee! So you won’t see me tomorrow. Thank goodness. It’s time for a break.

Happy Holidays!

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Hope you all had a Merry Christmas or whatver holiday suits you best. I did pretty well with the presents 🙂 I thought about putting up something but I was just too lazy. Bad Jen. I still need to make some email presents for my buddies in the Philippines. Sorry I’m so late, guys!
There was supposed to be an entry earlier today, but the computer ate it. I think that was the first time that Firefox crapped out on me. Silly virtual memory paging file, whatever that means. Ah well.
I’m very excited about Kingdom of Heaven, Orlando’s next movie. Medival Orli, what more could I hope for? I do hope it’s not another Troy. As much as I liked that movie, it really wasn’t that good. But the trailer for KoH (which I’ve watched about ten times now) looks very good, slighly Gladiator-ish (not surprising, since Sir. Ridley Scott directed that too) and quite exciting. *crosses fingers* Sigh. This fangirl is impatient. May 6 2005, folks…and just so you know, when you do finally see the cool trailer, the music used at the end of it, at about 1:50, is from Jonathan Elias’ The Prayer Cycle, a very beautiful album. The song is from Movement III: Hope. Check it out.
Hope you all have a stunning New Years. We’ll see if I have anything new to talk about in the days to come 😉
it’s only a little gripe…

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there’s no one here

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There’s no one here yet, and it’s already 9:30…it’s a little weird being here in the lab with no one around. I just love going to work so much! *just a little bit of sarcasm* sigh. I’ll leave early today and hopefully get some cleaning and laundry done. Something that doesn’t require going outside. It’s SO cold! And it didn’t snow. *pouts* No white Christmas this year, I guess. Though why I keep hoping for one I’m not sure, as we almost never do have one…ah well. I didn’t want to drive in it anyway.
Thank you to all of you that sent Christmas cards. Hope you’re having a nice holiday! *can’t wait until tomorrow even though she has to get up and go to work*
pssst: what an ignoble post for #500! I’ve been doing this way too long. Thanks for the comments, guys 🙂 Although I did manage to finally get Categories displayed after the entry. Not yet on the individual ones, I’ll work on that sometime…
Fiona made me a gifte 🙂 Whee! That reminds me, haha. Gotta get working on mine…

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