Bleargh

That pretty much describes me right now...I feel sorta gross. Not quite sick enough to have a break from school and stuff, but I slept for probably eleven hours last night and I'm STILL tired, and I have a headache and a sore throat and I'm thinking being able to breathe through my nose is something I won't enjoy for much longer. Ick. So really, I have not much to say...not even a quote for this post...I shall have to use an old one...

EDIT: Oh yeah, and I forgot, I changed my little display-pic-thingy. Doesn't it match nicely? I rather like it.

~Sil

"I feel sullied and unusual."

Break

Apologies for not posting sooner, I had a break from school last week. Also, I would have big news, except I'm pretty sure most of the people reading this already know. We got a Wii! As in, a Nintendo Wii! And it's pretty much the funnestmost fun thing ever. Yes, Erin, you do have some influence. Right now we only have Wii Sports, but my friend is going to lend me Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and I'm planning to buy Third Age (which is a GameCube game) off Amazon. This requires a GameCube controller but they're not too expensive. And finally, as soon as I do get a GameCube controller the same friend is going to lend me Harvest Moon. So that makes me happy. I'm hoping my Wii fitness age goes down slightly as time passes (it's currently at 38), too.

During our school break I finished the first book of the Wheel of Time cycle, The Eye of the World, and I'm now working on the second one, The Great Hunt. Bryan lent me the prequel along with the eleven books of the series he has, so that'll keep me busy for a while. They're amazingly complex, almost to the level of LotR.

I really should go and work on my Costa Rica research paper...only six weeks left of school! And TEN DAYS until AWE!

~Sil

"Dude, our school isn't NASA."

Soundtrack!

Clips of the AWE soundtrack found here and it sounds like about the best soundtrack EVER. My favorite was I Don't Think Now Is The Best Time, and notice at the top of the page where it says "...as well as to the ends of the earth where not only do Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightly) get a new love theme, but it's a super-theme that also encompasses the lost love of Davy Jones and Calypso..." I think we can safely say that they're making their shipper pairings pretty obvious. I mean, not that I didn't already know that Davy and Tia have a history (Tia is Calypso, by the way, if you were confused) but I was under the impression it was an unexpected plot twist to be revealed. No talk of a Jack/Elizabeth love theme, and Jack continues to have his own wacky theme, which is just the way I like him. By himself. No strumpets, no Elizabeth, just him. I mean, I think I can safely extrapolate from a clip posted a while back that he doesn't end up with the strumpets, and a good thing too.

QUIZ MEET TODAY! And I've just been reflecting on how I used to get so crazy nervous for quiz meets. I'm crazy excited now, but nerves really don't have much of a part in it. Quiz meets just so fun. And it's almost as fun to watch other people do well as it is to do well yourself. Also, as I had completely forgotten until I read it on Erin's blog I'm in high school this year, which means I can stay up later. So that should be fun.

~Sil

"Well, I'm pretty sure I won't exist tomorrow."

Three (Pirate) Somethings

Willabeth something #1

TV spot something #2

Norribeth something #3

School awaits. Have fun with those.

~Sil

"When did this turn from studying humility to laugh-at-your-friends night?"

24

Oddly enough, yesterday 24 was on, and yesterday it was 24 days until PotC: AWE. Odd how that worked out, I just realized it. Anyway, I don't think anything important really happened in this last episode, just more of the same - Jack's in trouble. Audrey's suffering from some sort of mental trauma that makes her pretty much unresponsive to anyone but Jack, and he's in trouble, so that doesn't work well, and they need information from her in order to get the circuit board of the bomb back from the Chinese. Nadia is doing her best at CTU but what they really need is Bill, and we didn't see any of him. And we've learned that romance + a career in counter-terrorist tactics = nothing good. Chloe and Morris are seemingly 'done' (though you'd think that since they were divorced, they're already 'done') because Chloe 'crossed a line', even though I can't honestly say I care because I find Chloe slightly annoying and Morris...eh...anyway. They seem to be hinting at romance between Nadia/Milo and Nadia/Mike at the same time, and it's not like Mike and Milo are best friends, and lastly, Karen had to fire Bill from director and he's really not happy with her. So here's a general tip for you all: If you want your marriage to survive past a year, stay far, far away from CTU. Oh, and don't mix romance and the White House, because a) it grosses you out when guys of indeterminate age go for obviously young woman, and b) unless you're entirely assured of your boyfriend's loyalty (and even if you are), don't tell him vital information because he'll sell it to the Russians. Learned all that in this past episode. Amazing. I wish I could find a screencap of Tom's expression at one point when he and Evil Usurper Noah Daniels were discussing...eh...delicate matters, it was absolutely priceless. And he held it for so long, too.

Kitoky (from A-U) has kindly linked us 24 fans in general to a 24 blog which I'm currently giggling hysterically over, so I think y'all will like it. If you watch 24. And maybe even if you don't.

~Sil

"How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To some admiring bog!" ~ Emily Dickinson, Poems, 1. I agree wholeheartedly.