Just got in from seeing Beowulf with Grant, his little brother (Scott, I think), Ben, one of Ben's friends (Kurt?) and Paul. I liked the movie, overall.
My favorite things were A. Hey, 3D! Sweet! It was effing awesome. B. Hey, Princess Buttercup! Where've you been? C. DRAGON! D. Hey, naked people! Only not quite. Curse you conveniently placed props!
My least favorite moment--Beowulf tries to stab the dragon's heart. He can't reach with his dagger, so he cuts off his arm to get more reach. It was getting in the way, anyway. Then, he drops the dagger. After that, he just reaches in with his hand and rips its heart out. But he lost 1.5 feet of reach when he dropped the dagger. Grar! I'll accept magic and the fact that Anthony Hopkins + Angelina Jolie evil water demon = creepy strong but still pretty pathetic Grendel and Beowulf + Angelina Jolie evil water demon = DRAGON, but if he couldn't reach it with the dagger he couldn't reach in and rip the heart out.
Overall, it was worth seeing. I'd recommend it. It was more fun than reading it, hands down.
As to the ending, the big question is, does he sleep with her, too? Or not? My vote is no--he was secretly in love with Beowulf and therefore able to resist the watery hotness.
Author, editor, hiker.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
Sharks win at evolution.
Last Wednesday I went to see the Bodies Exhibit at the Carnegie Science Center with my Reflexology class. It was really cool. A little strange to be looking at corpses, but it was definitely neat to see how the things in the anatomy textbooks look in real people. The displays were pretty tasteful, too. I of course, being somewhere deep inside a 10-year-old boy, had to forcibly keep myself from giggling at the first preserved penis I saw, but after that my adult brain took the fore and I didn't have to keep that effort up. I know it sounds terrible, but my favorite part was the fetus room. It's hard to explain, but it was beautiful. I know that they were real babies who died before birth, and that's sad, but the display was incredible. The bones were treated, and so you could see them through the transparent flesh... okay this is just sounding awful. Just go see it if you want to know what I'm talking about.
While I was at the science center, I saw a poster for one of the omnimax shows, and so I drug Paul along on Sunday to see it. It was about Sea Monsters. It was pretty awesome. I haven't been to an omnimax in a while, and this show was sweet. It's about ancient reptiles. Big ones. You should check that out, too, if you're around the Pittsburgh area. It was entertaining and educational and full of Sea Monsters. Sea Monsters rock. And sharks win at evolution.
Today, Paul and I went out to Mike's for our biweekly D&D game. We took cake! Yay cake! Tonight's session was pretty hardcore. We stormed a ship. Our level three party took on a level 5 fighter, a few more level 3 fighters, a level 3 spell caster of some variety, and a healthy handful of mooks. And my cleric had two spells going into it. The wizard, Pete, wasn't much better off. Paul ended up falling unconscious when his barbarian's rage wore off, Bill's fighter went down twice, and when I got on deck I got put down in two rounds by a horde of guys attacking the cleric instead of the fighter and the barbarian. By the end of the fight, the wizard's rat companion had more hit points than the rest of the party combined. Especially since our tanks were both still down. Pete's rat managed to give me the potion of cure light wounds I was trying to take when I got attack of opportunity'd to -3, which brought me up to one, which was where Pete and I both were at the end of combat. Steve's ranger fared better. He had 3. It was scary! We almost died! ^_^ But it was a good time. I am really liking this game, and the guys are all a lot of fun to hang out with.
My ring still isn't in yet! Not that it's due or anything. I'm just impatient. I want my shiny!! I still haven't broken the news to my parents--I'm going to wait and do it in person on Thanksgiving. I hope they take it well. I keep daydreaming about them being happy for me and my mom hugging me and offering to let me use her dress (which I don't know would fit, or if it's even in wearable shape after 24 years in the attic) and my father actually offering to pay (or at least help pay) for the wedding and then more hugs and then there's champagne from somewhere. But yeah. I know, keep dreaming, Jamie. I'll be lucky to get, "Well, if you're happy I suppose we're happy for you. Are you sure this is what you want?" and I'm afraid I'll get "No! What are you thinking? You're not old enough! What do you two even have in common? You're not even supposed to date until you're thirty. You're making a huge mistake." And then I'll make with the crying and stuff. Which I don't want to do in front of them. I really HOPE they react well. I mean, they can't be too surprised. Paul and I have been together for over two years, and we've been living together for more than half of that time. It would be so nice if they were just... honestly happy for me. *sigh*
Wow, this post started out really happy and got sort of down. Sorry about that. Happy Thanksgiving. ^_^
While I was at the science center, I saw a poster for one of the omnimax shows, and so I drug Paul along on Sunday to see it. It was about Sea Monsters. It was pretty awesome. I haven't been to an omnimax in a while, and this show was sweet. It's about ancient reptiles. Big ones. You should check that out, too, if you're around the Pittsburgh area. It was entertaining and educational and full of Sea Monsters. Sea Monsters rock. And sharks win at evolution.
Today, Paul and I went out to Mike's for our biweekly D&D game. We took cake! Yay cake! Tonight's session was pretty hardcore. We stormed a ship. Our level three party took on a level 5 fighter, a few more level 3 fighters, a level 3 spell caster of some variety, and a healthy handful of mooks. And my cleric had two spells going into it. The wizard, Pete, wasn't much better off. Paul ended up falling unconscious when his barbarian's rage wore off, Bill's fighter went down twice, and when I got on deck I got put down in two rounds by a horde of guys attacking the cleric instead of the fighter and the barbarian. By the end of the fight, the wizard's rat companion had more hit points than the rest of the party combined. Especially since our tanks were both still down. Pete's rat managed to give me the potion of cure light wounds I was trying to take when I got attack of opportunity'd to -3, which brought me up to one, which was where Pete and I both were at the end of combat. Steve's ranger fared better. He had 3. It was scary! We almost died! ^_^ But it was a good time. I am really liking this game, and the guys are all a lot of fun to hang out with.
My ring still isn't in yet! Not that it's due or anything. I'm just impatient. I want my shiny!! I still haven't broken the news to my parents--I'm going to wait and do it in person on Thanksgiving. I hope they take it well. I keep daydreaming about them being happy for me and my mom hugging me and offering to let me use her dress (which I don't know would fit, or if it's even in wearable shape after 24 years in the attic) and my father actually offering to pay (or at least help pay) for the wedding and then more hugs and then there's champagne from somewhere. But yeah. I know, keep dreaming, Jamie. I'll be lucky to get, "Well, if you're happy I suppose we're happy for you. Are you sure this is what you want?" and I'm afraid I'll get "No! What are you thinking? You're not old enough! What do you two even have in common? You're not even supposed to date until you're thirty. You're making a huge mistake." And then I'll make with the crying and stuff. Which I don't want to do in front of them. I really HOPE they react well. I mean, they can't be too surprised. Paul and I have been together for over two years, and we've been living together for more than half of that time. It would be so nice if they were just... honestly happy for me. *sigh*
Wow, this post started out really happy and got sort of down. Sorry about that. Happy Thanksgiving. ^_^
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Announcement
Paul and I are officially engaged. We picked out a ring today, and it's getting resized and I should have it within the next ten days. We're thinking about a date in October 2009 for the wedding. ^_^ The ring is so beautiful. I'll post pictures when I get it. *happy happy happy*
Monday, November 12, 2007
Christmas is coming!
Really! And I'm excited! I like presents! Everything about them--getting them, giving them, everything! Yay presents!
On a more somber note, I have pretty much given up on nanowrimo. Maybe I'll do better next year. But it just came at a bad time. Work picked up like crazy, classes are full of the studying and brain filling, and I just got 4 rejection slips in the past 2 weeks and I'm giving myself a writing break to wallow in self disgust.
I do this, I find. I'm utterly unmotivated to write or edit or resubmit or anything for a couple of weeks every few months. I feel like these weeks of down time are actually a good thing, though. I'm not being negative, I'm just giving the whole thing a break. And I know I'll get motivated again soon enough.
Grandma Linda and Aunt Sis came down on Sunday for massages. They both seemed happy with them. It made me happy. And Melissa came over for a massage on Friday night, so I had my first official paying client from the writing group! My plan is inching its way to reality! Bwahahaha. Someday I'll have my own business and work from home and makes lots of moneys and I'll be a successful writer, too. What the hell. If I'm going to dream, I want them all to come true.
I've been putting together an idea for a GURPS campaign. I haven't been this excited to run a game in a while. The PC's will be super powered high schoolers who have been charged with fighting an ancient evil that has allied itself with an insidious alien threat. I think it sounds cool. I'm working on a setting and everything. ^_^ I'm looking for players. Paul is in, as is Linda, a really cool girl I met at school. I'm hoping for five.
On a more somber note, I have pretty much given up on nanowrimo. Maybe I'll do better next year. But it just came at a bad time. Work picked up like crazy, classes are full of the studying and brain filling, and I just got 4 rejection slips in the past 2 weeks and I'm giving myself a writing break to wallow in self disgust.
I do this, I find. I'm utterly unmotivated to write or edit or resubmit or anything for a couple of weeks every few months. I feel like these weeks of down time are actually a good thing, though. I'm not being negative, I'm just giving the whole thing a break. And I know I'll get motivated again soon enough.
Grandma Linda and Aunt Sis came down on Sunday for massages. They both seemed happy with them. It made me happy. And Melissa came over for a massage on Friday night, so I had my first official paying client from the writing group! My plan is inching its way to reality! Bwahahaha. Someday I'll have my own business and work from home and makes lots of moneys and I'll be a successful writer, too. What the hell. If I'm going to dream, I want them all to come true.
I've been putting together an idea for a GURPS campaign. I haven't been this excited to run a game in a while. The PC's will be super powered high schoolers who have been charged with fighting an ancient evil that has allied itself with an insidious alien threat. I think it sounds cool. I'm working on a setting and everything. ^_^ I'm looking for players. Paul is in, as is Linda, a really cool girl I met at school. I'm hoping for five.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Urk!
So, Paul and I are doing National Novel Writing Month, or Nanowrimo. I have to write 50,000 words before the end of the month. Wish me luck.
On Sunday, Paul, Grandma Linda, and I went to Fallingwater. It is beautiful and I got some really pretty pictures of the house and the leaves. It was a gorgeous day, and we had a really lovely time.
Classes are still good. I have eaten too much Halloween candy. Grar, my belly is not happy with me.
On Sunday, Paul, Grandma Linda, and I went to Fallingwater. It is beautiful and I got some really pretty pictures of the house and the leaves. It was a gorgeous day, and we had a really lovely time.
Classes are still good. I have eaten too much Halloween candy. Grar, my belly is not happy with me.
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