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"Bastard" sword. ;)
Jun. 30th, 2004 12:10 amA-yep.
Jun. 30th, 2004
A-yep.
Get offa my lawn!
Jun. 30th, 2004 06:38 pmThe Jenny Turpish Slapped Me "Better Apartment" quiz: (Discretion is the better part of squalor)
One of the things they didn't ask was number of bathrooms vs. number of inhabitants. On the phone with my sister last night:
( To no one's surprise, the Jenny Turpish Personality Test reveals: )
Your apartment's score is 60.One of these days... Those kids who drive around and around and around and around and around the block on their lawnmower-powered scooters are gonna get hit by one of the psychoes who blows through the stopsign doing 70... Patriotic duty.
Not the greatest part of town, really. Is it a country heartache of a place, with prematurely withered women tucking back mentholated Camel Lights and talking about the man John Law put in jail last night? Or a college backwater, which the bouncing university nubiles have to run through because any distance less than the mile radius it is from campus isn't enough to burn off the lemon gelato they had with lunch?
It's possible I'm bitter, but you're bitter, too. Rest assured your neighborhood is exactly right for telling pleasant past-tense stories about once your rotting woodwork and yowling neighbors are colored bittersweet with nostalgia.
And if anyone bounces down your sidewalk, by God, it's your patriotic privilege to watch.
One of the things they didn't ask was number of bathrooms vs. number of inhabitants. On the phone with my sister last night:
Sister: Sorry, I would have picked up, but both me and the hubby were in the bathrooms...I'm just saying: .5 bathrooms: fine. 1.5 bathrooms: good. 1 bathroom: Evil! Evil! Ev-ille! Perhaps I shall speak in more depth on the subject at some future time.
Me: What bliss to have two bathrooms! To never be separated from your loved ones by even a second, spending every worthwhile moment together...
( To no one's surprise, the Jenny Turpish Personality Test reveals: )
Impressive authorial intricacies
Jun. 30th, 2004 09:48 pmDiana Wynne Jones says that of her characters, I'm most like [Edit: Yeah, screw you, too, Wynne Jones!]. Bother! Now I'm going to have to go read it.
Fortunately, I suppose, my housemate collects Diana Wynne Jones like I collect... Well, actually, there isn't anyone I collect as thoroughly as she collects DWJ. And I'm the one with a bookcase full of nothing but variations on the Amber books. (Then again, I've got German and Spanish and British and Audio versions of those, so perhaps I'm a bit more psycho than she is. Anyway.)
Anyway, it's thanks to her keen watch on the DWJ list that we learned of how The Author, intrigued by the idea of "which blah character are you" quizzes, went off and created her own quiz which will tell you which of 101 of her characters you're most like. Brilliant!
Fortunately, I suppose, my housemate collects Diana Wynne Jones like I collect... Well, actually, there isn't anyone I collect as thoroughly as she collects DWJ. And I'm the one with a bookcase full of nothing but variations on the Amber books. (Then again, I've got German and Spanish and British and Audio versions of those, so perhaps I'm a bit more psycho than she is. Anyway.)
Anyway, it's thanks to her keen watch on the DWJ list that we learned of how The Author, intrigued by the idea of "which blah character are you" quizzes, went off and created her own quiz which will tell you which of 101 of her characters you're most like. Brilliant!