If you’ve ever been bullied — especially if you could laugh about it later — you’ll love this.
I appreciate you all indulging my current fondness for YouTube.
Love Actually
I have only seen Love Actually a few times, but each time, it stays with me for days. I simply love this movie, and when I haven’t seen it for a while, I forget how much. Every time I see it, it makes me want to move to England. Now.
What does that mean, that it stays with me for days? I keep replaying my favorite parts in my head. And I don’t want to do anything except to watch it again. Here’s a trailer for you.
NaNoWriMo Assessment
After I got sick and lost precious momentum, I pretty much gave up on meeting the deadline. So I didn’t try. I’m not mad at myself. I refuse to make myself feel guilty because life got in the way of something I wanted to try to do. I am not, however, going to give up. Some time when I have more time to devote to it, I will pick up my project again. I think I had a pretty good idea, and I’m still excited about it. I’m just very busy, and I can’t do everything. I’m not sorry I gave it a shot, either. I will probably try it again.
What Kind of Reader Am I?
A quiz via Waterfall:
| What Kind of Reader Are You?
Your Result: Literate Good Citizen
You read to inform or entertain yourself, but you’re not nerdy about it. You’ve read most major classics (in school) and you have a favorite genre or two. |
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| Dedicated Reader |
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| Book Snob |
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| Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm |
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| Fad Reader |
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| Non-Reader |
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| What Kind of Reader Are You? Create Your Own Quiz |
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That’s probably pretty accurate, but I take issue with the notion that I’m not nerdy about it.
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I didn’t realize that e-mail was the same age as I am. The first e-mail was sent in late 1971 by Ray Tomlinson. The Sun has a list of what it purports to be the worst e-mails ever sent.
Happy Birthday, E-mail! How’d we ever function without you?
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Arthur
Maggie has a classmate named Arthur who recently lost his father to a fatal heart attack. Maggie’s class is collecting donations to help the family with funeral expenses. If you are interested in helping, please contact me, and I will provide you with Maggie’s teacher’s e-mail address; she can tell you how to help. Out of concerns about security, I didn’t feel comfortable posting either the teacher’s e-mail address or Arthur’s family’s bank account number here.
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World of Opera
I ran to the store just now, and NPR, which is the station the car radio is tuned to, is broadcasting World of Opera, a weekly showcase of a wide variety of operas. I suppose the idea is to make opera accessible and approachable. At any rate, this week’s program was a production of Bizet’s Carmen by the Houston Grand Opera. I don’t care much for their Carmen, but the tenor singing the part of Don José sounds just like Steve. I put the production on streaming audio here on the computer, and Steve agreed that it did sound somewhat like him, although I don’t think he agrees that the tenor sounds just like him. The tenor’s name is Marcus Haddock.
A lot of Steve’s regular readers laud him for his writing talents, and Steve surely does love to write and is beginning to receive attention for his writing, but I have always felt Steve did not take his musical talent as far as he could have. If he had, he might be on that recording. He’ll probably grumble about me saying this, but in many ways, he has been his own worst enemy as far as establishing a career as a tenor. I know that his family holds him back, too. Frankly, he’d probably need to go to Europe in order to really establish a career, and I’m not ready to do that. I don’t think he really is either, truth be told. I have come to the conclusion that he never really wanted a career as an opera singer, but pursued opera because he was good at it. If he needed to do it, I think he would be doing it. In some ways, it’s sad; I’m sure there are a great many tenors with a real fire in their belly to be professional tenors, but they don’t have the talent Steve does. Doesn’t seem really fair, does it?
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Amadeus
My favorite movie? My answer to that question vacillates between Brokeback Mountain and Amadeus. Today, it is Amadeus. Of course, YouTube has everything, including clips from this movie. If you haven’t seen it yet, may I strongly suggest that you do so? Such a phenomenal movie. F. Murray Abraham delivers an excellent performance as Antonio Salieri, and Tom Hulce as Mozart is also really good.
I Suck!
I haven’t worked on my NaNo novel in ages, and I just suck. Suck, suck, suck! What was I smoking when I thought I’d have time for this during the school year?
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Wil Wheaton on Star Trek: TNG
Star Trek: The Next Generation is, was, and probably will always be my favorite incarnation of the Star Trek franchise. I loved the characters. I loved the stories. The late 1980’s and early 1990’s offered much better special effects than those the original series had to work with. I never truly caught on to DS9, Voyager, or Enterprise. I have really been enjoying Wil Wheaton’s commentary on TNG episodes over at TV Squad. Wil’s sense of humor is unerring, and his deconstruction of the episodes is an entertaining read. He also supplies interesting memories associated with filming the episodes. You can read all of Wil’s recaps here. To me, the mark of good writing is the extent to which I am compelled to read it to Steve. I have read all of Wil’s TNG recaps to Steve.