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Fahye ([personal profile] fahye) wrote2007-11-26 02:39 pm
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things. many parentheses.

1) Why haven't I seen Razor yet? This baffles me tremendously, and yet every time I consider downloading it, I find I simply can't be bothered. WAKE UP FAHYE. NEW BSG. (This is probably the deciding sign that the apocalypse is nigh Bones has supplanted BSG has the show of my heart, even though they are such very different shows that I don't really feel bad about assigning them both Fave Show status.)

2) My cousin from Birmingham was here for a few days before heading off to her fellowship in paediatric dentisty in Sydney (& she's coming back for the weekend of my 21st! booyah!) and she taught me how to use my hair straightener for quick-and-nasty everyday straightening. DON'T MOCK. I have no elder sisters and my mother has had very short hair for as long as I can remember, so I've never had anyone to show me things like hair & makeup. I am still uncomfortable around eyeliner. BUT ANYWAY, my hair looks slightly more like normal hair and less like someone attacked the bottom of it with a curler and made it flick out in strange directions, which is how it dries when I just leave it be.

3) Last night I saw the first half of the new BBC Jane Eyre (Toby Stephens as Rochester <33!!) and I'm currently reading A Room With A View, which has been on my pile for a short eternity, and LOVING IT. (Note that I have read very little literature. I chased the Shakespeare courses around the senior English department and so was never made to read anything important that wasn't, um, Shakespeare.) It's a great book, all relationshippy in a way that makes me feel like I'm reading delicious guilty trash, but, obviously...it's not trash. It's very sly and poetic. WIN-WIN. I even went to the DVD store and hired the movie, which has Helena Bonham Carter in it (I am trying to imagine her NOT playing a crazy goth lady; it's hard) and I'll watch that once I finish the book, which should be within the next hour :)

4) Skating this afternoon, because the Christmas festival is this weekend and I need one final session of bullying my sister & her friend into synchonicity.

5) My Mantoux test was reviewed today (I don't have TB! lucky me!) which means I can FINALLY start taking my antihistamines again. Which means I will no longer feel like my skin is trying to eat me alive. THANK GOD.

[identity profile] liminalliz.livejournal.com 2007-11-26 03:55 am (UTC)(link)

1. Exactly!! You should watch. However, you should also be watching Bones. DO BOTH.

3. OMG JANE EYRE. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE.


XOXOX
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[identity profile] fahye.livejournal.com 2007-11-26 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
1. But I have finished Bones! THERE ISN'T ANY MORE. UNTIL...WEDNESDAY. *cannot waaaaait*
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[personal profile] minkhollow 2007-11-26 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
...Hired the movie? That's a slang bit I've not heard before.
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[identity profile] fahye.livejournal.com 2007-11-26 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Does 'rented the DVD' sound any more comprehensible? :D
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[personal profile] minkhollow 2007-11-26 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
It does. XD Granted, movies are (at least to my mind) equally eligible for renting as DVDs, but the concept of hiring a movie resulted in some funny mental images. One of those headtilt sort of moments, you know?
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[identity profile] fahye.livejournal.com 2007-11-26 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
So it was 'hired' that caused the headtilt? I know it's not as frequently used in America as 'rented', but here the two words are pretty much interchangeable.
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[personal profile] minkhollow 2007-11-26 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
::nods:: In my experience, people get hired. Things you pay to borrow get rented.
Ah, slang and its craziness.

[identity profile] sadcypress.livejournal.com 2007-11-26 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
Room with a View is one of my favorite things EVER. The book is amazing and the film is GORGEOUS. Once you've read it, it never leaves your mind- you circle round and round it in your mind and it becomes a massive reference point for so many things. :) Or, it did for my sister and I, and we definitely count enough to make massive generalizations around, right? ;)
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[identity profile] fahye.livejournal.com 2007-11-26 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, it's fantastic -- I just finished, and having never read any Forster before I had no clue as to in which direction he would take the ending. And now I have the movie to watch, and it seems to be stuffed full of actors I like (Judi Dench! Simon Callow! Maggie Smith!) and very pretty to boot.

[identity profile] brynnmck.livejournal.com 2007-11-26 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Aww, A Room With a View! I love that book. "Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget reason and civility and all the other curses of a refined nature. And above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of way." (Or something like that.) Indeed!
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[identity profile] fahye.livejournal.com 2007-11-26 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
The chap who plays George in the movie is quite easy on the eyes, too :D

[identity profile] hobviously.livejournal.com 2007-11-26 08:07 am (UTC)(link)
YAY ARWAV! EM Forster is one of my most beloved writers, ever. <33333333
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[identity profile] fahye.livejournal.com 2007-11-26 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
I THOUGHT OF YOOOU. And now I need to a) go back and rewatch that Office episode, and b) read some more of his books! I am planning on A Passage to India followed by Maurice - do you approve? Which of his other books should I read?

[identity profile] hobviously.livejournal.com 2007-11-26 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't read A Passage to India, though I've always meant to. Maurice is pretty good, and very interesting for the simple fact of its existence, but I did have some problems with it. What I REALLY recommend after ARWAV is Howards End, which is in my top three books of all time. Bonus: the HE movie also stars Helena Bonham Carter, and Emma Thompson too! even though as an adaptation of a great book it's actually pretty boring.