I have returned!

It is important to note that I really don't have much attachment to the LOTR books. I have tried to read them several times and perpetually fallen asleep by the time Bilbo has toddled out of the Shire. However, I have so much exposure-by-osmosis and book-skimming under my belt that I know the story pretty well. Lovely story, boring literary style. People are bitching about condensement here and there, but honestly I think the story benefits from it.

So, here are some of my impressions of The Fellowship of the Ring:
(those of you who want to remain spoiler-free should probably go away.)

1) All Elves are secretly Catholic. (check out the gothic arches and pseudo-Virgin statues! See how Galadriel is Bathed In Mystical Light, and stuff!)
2) Seething homoerotic tension. Uh, I mean, "brotherhood". Hehe. (let's get sweaty, then kiss each other!)
3) "You shall taste MAN-FLESH!" -- *cackle*. (I mean, first of all - cheesy phrasing. Second of all, sounds like a blowjob reference.)
4) Is it wrong to think Gollum is kind of cool?
5) My longstanding crush on Viggo M. is shored up. *sigh*
6) "They're giving away an openly-gay man with hamburgers!" - Armistead Maupin, re Burger King's use of Ian McKellen's image on GWP items.
7) Some of those Orcs are well-known fantasy authors, yanno.
8) There is no Agent Elrond.
9) Pass the weed, man. (JRR Tokin'.)
10) Stop! In the name of Love! Before we break your heart! (just wait for the giant statues if you don't know what I mean.)
11) Sam is Frodo's bitch.
12) Don't spend too much time wondering how the Elves got all that silver stuff if the Dwarves are the miners and they don't like Elves. Your eyes will cross and stick that way.

I'm snide, it's true, but I really liked the movie. I felt it was too long, but the tension was good and the audience in the theater I went to was entirely silent except for a handful of gasps and laughs and a big round of applause at the end. Loved the elf girls - Liv and Cate both excellent. Loved the battle between Gandalf and Saruman. Other than that, I'll leave it to you kids to go see the movie yourselves. & I'm glad to be home.

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two other things: i forgot to tape felicity tonight (AUUUGGGGHHH!!) and had to call my aunt in IOWA while i was on the road to ask her to tape it. fortunately she was home and said yes!

also, i got my hollyday prezzie from miss Ragdoll! eeeeee! eeeeee! i am jumping up and down! (well, in my head, i am.) it's a really good Chinese cookbook that I've wanted for like a year. thankyoo miss Ragdoll! *hugs*

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Today I had such a bad time getting registered for next semester's classes.

So, I go to see an advisor, having filled out my little form of classes that I want to take, and they tell me that I've never been a student at this school (uh, scuse me, I have been going to this school on and off for almost TEN YEARS and I have A DEGREE), and that they can't register me. Well, specifically, I cannot possibly have ever been a student at this school because they do not have my high school transcript. And then the woman starts grilling me with questions about whether or not I graduated from HS (YEAH, IN 1994!) and whether or not I sent my transcript over. How the hell am I supposed to remember? It was almost eight years ago and I have not had this registration problem until now.

She went over to admissions and they showed her that I do indeed have a degree, so they waived the hold. But they still deny all knowledge of me ever having graduated from high school. (Since then, I have remembered, and I believe that at the time the college automatically accessed the transcripts from your high school. But STILL!)

Then I went over to the VA office to register for the benefits I haven't been using in the past few years (one semester I just... forgot to register...) -- and found out that I am eligible for NADA because of my degree, even though I changed my program of study and have to get all my prerequisites before I go on to another school.

Then I went out to dinner.
And it's really cold out, and again, I am underdressed. So I came home to change. I think that I will stay here and wear warm pajamas or something.
Oh, I also had a "bang trim" before I ruined my day by going out to the college.

I was supposed to go over to Nathalie's today but she seems to be MIA, and it's getting late anyway, so... I think I'm opting for an evening indoors.