Dear Carmen:

I don’t really know how to tell you this, but our affair is over. I think I realized it when I threw up outside of Chicago and I saw you sit on the crazy monk. I’m sure you’re frostbitten enough to understand that Santa doesn’t exist. I’m returning your ring to you, but I’ll keep your left ear as a memory. You should also know that I was interviewed by the Times about your passionate interest in mice.

Good luck on your short-term leave from jail,
Odette

I am full of stories that I will tell as soon as I stop scrambling to catch up from mostly ignoring school over spring break!

There needs to be a story about this.

Which reminds me! Liz, I saw The Ghost and Mrs. Muir last week, which was good fun! Thanks for the recommendation.

An Amazon recommendation.

The cross-breed zoo. I know I’ve seen the duckigator picture before, but not the rest. They’re all amusing, though I’m especially fascinated by the gryphon, cardifox, and bunny-bird.

I’ve been going back and re-tagging some old entries, especially ones that (a) were “Uncategorized,” (b) needed my new “D&D” tag, or (c) needed my slightly less new “Mmm, London!” tag. Which took me to this entry, at which point I started feeling a little bit guilty because the site I made with foreign study stories was (a) never finished and (b) no longer online because of that little graduation thing. So it now has more blathering added to the end and a link to my pictures, which are not on Flickr, but are on Kodak’s “EasyShare Gallery,” through which I ordered all the gazillion prints that went into my scrapbooks. Mother had discovered that before I discovered Flickr.

And if you were curious like Tae…

This is the “July story”. Started shortly after I came back from England, which is why I decided to try to use British spellings.

In progress: Reminiscing on Oscar Night. Presumptuous as usual, here I go again with the writing about things I know nothing about. Started in response to the second assignment for my class, my first idea was to write the story as someone’s Oscar acceptance speech. However, a 2,000 word Oscar speech is on the absurd side, so after an attempt to turn it into a one sided conversation happening at an after-Oscars party, I abandoned the effort. Now it’s gradually becoming a two-sided conversation. Suggestions on Heather’s background would be great. So would suggestions for fleshing out Pirate’s Daughter, which is about to become a story in it’s own right.

And this is the Hamlet/Cinderella remix that I showed Tae a while back. It stands firmly in the “finished, maybe” category. Not sure where it may be going.

Have you got the twit blocked yet?

1. Post a list of your 10 favorite fandoms.
2. Have your friends list guess your favorite character from each fandom
3. When guessed bold the line and write a sentence about why you like that character

1. LotR – Samwise & Galadriel
(bonus points if you get them both)
Aww, Sam. Where would we be without the trusty sidekick?

2. original series Star Trek – Spock

3. Enterprise – Malcolm Reid
(not sure any of you but Pug stuck with this one, but give it a shot)

4. Firefly/Serenity – Wash
(big pughug for getting Firefly to me!)
A close call, all told, but his adoration of Zoe reminds me of something. Must have read about it somewhere, I guess…

5. Harry Potter – Hermione

6. The Phantom of the Opera – the Phantom

7. Star Wars – Leia
This started at a point when the female lead of any show was automatically my favorite character (a bit weird, neh?), but later realized it was justified! Love it when things actually work out that way.

8. The Princess Bride – Miracle Max

9. Camelot/King Arthur – Merlin
(in general, no specific version)

10. The Enchanted Forest Chronicles – Kazul, King of the Dragons
(I know that nearly all of you have read these because nearly all of you borrowed them from me! So I expect you to put up a good guess.)

Now…to see if my favorite characters are as obvious as my favorite movies!

This might be more appropriate.