So I've finally seen the Two Towers Extended Edition. Whee! It's fun seeing the extra stuff in there just for the fans. I can see why some of it was cut out, but on the whole it seemed a nicer cut. Maybe it's just me and the little bit more Legolas that we get. Mmm, wet elf...I did notice that the EE seemed to have a little bit more violence in it than the original. This is a good thing or a bad thing depending on your point of view...I guess for me it fell in the not-really-necessary part, but hey, that's just me. I guess I still have some gripes about the editing in the original parts that was conserved into this edition, but who am I to nitpick...I'm not an editor!

I did find out that there'll be a RotK midnight screening at Esquire so I'm happy about that. Can't wait till they actually start selling tickets...

Newsweek article about RotK

And now, page 7...

Today was the fifth and last day for swimming the rats. 6 hours today. Yahoo. Mostly because all I do when looking out for the rats while they're swimming is read (and write some snippets of Moonstone) I've finished three books in four days. I'll admit that some of them were rather short, but still...I read Timeline (in honor of the movie coming out) and Angels and Demons (the first book featuring the protagonist of the Da Vinci Code) and To Catch a Wolf (which was the short one). Whee! And now I'm on Anne Rice's Blackwood Farm, which is a little odd, because the last AR book I read was Queen of the Damned when I was in college. So obviously there's a ton of backstory that I'm missing. Ah well.

And in case you didn't know, my mother's 50th birthday is tomorrow. Now, you can't call her 50 yet...she's still got five hours left! Feel free to send a card