Post-birthday post

Fabulous birthday last night. At one point, Ellen, Chandra, Whitney, Peter, and Kate were all watching...I think it was part two of LATP. But yeah, people sort of went in and out, and Ellen was the only one who stayed for all five episodes, but it was good. Much wackiness, 'cause, dude, OOTM and WGFA.

My friends are wonderful, and I have lots and lots of food. A can of those yummy cookies that look like birch twigs, homemade...er, Caplesmade chocolate chip cookies that served as Farscape refreshments, a pint of Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie, a little book of cats, a bouquet of roses that are actually pens, a coupon redeemable for the first four eps of FS S3 on DVD, when they arrive from Amazon (w00t!), a lovely coloring book page of a rusalka, with literary analysis of the little explanatory paragraph underneath (we are so English majors) and the lyrics--and a performance--of a filked song from Veggie Tales in honor of moi, whcih was the funniest thing ever.

My friends are the best. *hugs everyone* :)

Various randomosity

Heh. I'm looking up the Child ballads in order to write this week's fiction assignment, which is to take some kind of legend/myth/etc. and put it in a different context or otherwise change it. I think I'm gonna do "The Three Ravens." Anyway, I should've realized this as an avid fan of Pamela Dean's Tam Lin (which is fabulous, and everyone should read it), but I just now noticed that the ballad of the same name involves a maid named Janet going to Carterhaugh. I'm sorry, this amuses me, especially since she gets pregnant by a guy there who's about to be sent to hell as a tithe from the fairy queen, whom Janet must save by grabbing him off a horse, holding on to him as he turns into various nasty beasties, and finally dunking him in a well when he turns to fire.

I'm a fan and an English major. Bad combination.

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Was attempting to scan our English translation of Goethe's Faust the other day, and was doing all right, until I ran into the word "fire." How many syllables does that have? 'Cause when I say it, it has two distinct syllables, making it sound like "fie-yer"--which of course didn't work for the meter. And this is why scansion is evil, 'cause I pronounce things differently, dangit. (Which doesn't really explain why I was doing this voluntarily, I know...)

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Oh, and the Bujold icon is back, 'cause I missed it.

SG-1

Almost not worth the spoiler cut, but anyway:

( Resurrection )

And now I really, really, really need to do work.