two or three items of interest, and some fluff, just for you

OK, here is my contribution to Two Towers opening-day mania, stolen from the onering.net syndication feed... an article (which supposedly has major spoilers) from the L.A. Times with a really good photo of Gollum, the first up to now... you can see his face. eeeee, I'm going in less than 24 hours.

(You know, there was this article by David Brin in Salon yesterday, it's still up, and for its evidence it relies on using certain bits of documents while ignoring any bits of those documents that refute his thesis - and they're there, definitely, because I've read the letters and so on that he references. I almost wrote a letter about it, but then I realized that, well, any corrective letters about it, while potentially correct, will also sound as though they are written by Comic Book Guy from Springfield. Plus, how many hours of my life spent being pedantic? I restrained myself. I have not yet fully embraced my inner dweeb.)

Oh, anyway. Well. The second link. This came from the boingboing.net syndicated feed. which you should be subscribing to! It's an archive of restaurant menus covering the last century or so. Some are online, with scans; others are just listed.

This is a quiz... I can't remember who I got it from... that is a little different from many of the others; it's about The Back Room of the Internet Junk Shop. Sort of surrealist. Here's what I came to, after taking the test.




( more quizzes, for those so inclined... )

I am very tired & want to get in bed with a book and a mug of hot cocoa. I also really really want to tell more people about the terrifying animatronic doll that is currently in my kitchen (um, autumn already knows), but that will have to wait. it all started when Arwen Isobel peed on my mother's bed... *sigh*

i'm not really complaining.

I woke up way early today, needlessly and after only about five hours of sleep, thanks-but-no-thanks to The Wenzel. I do not like to get up at 8AM unless it is absolutely necessary; my plans were to get up around 11AM and go to the gym (which I don't have the energy to do). Everyone else in the house has managed to go back to sleep, but I am starkly awake, not happily.

I've spent the morning reading, which is pleasant; then I dyed the roots of my hair. I got this Olay Ohm body scrub a few days ago, the jasmine/rose scent, and while I like the smell in the bottle, I may have to stop using it. The jasmine scent is so pervasive that I smell like Love's Musky Jasmine (or "soft jasmine" or whatever it is called these days) for hours after I step out. This isn't a bad smell, but I'm not sure it goes with my perfumes, either.

Movie this evening; I now wish I were going earlier! No telling how tired I will be in another six hours or so, and that's before it even starts... *eyeroll*

Making a cup of tea, getting back to my book (The Savage Girl by Alex Shakar), and hopefully picking up a nap before 6....