Jenni

Bananas are now $11.98 a kilo. I had a customer today who made a total D: face when he realised that his single banana was going to cost over $4.

And now a poll.

[Poll #1719925]

For the longest time I thought Repo! The Genetic Opera was the Generic Opera and I thought, wow, what an interesting title. I feel I would've liked something like that way more than the actual movie. Anyway, dot points.

Am assignment-free for the tiniest of windows. Right now I feel like crawling into a little hole and hibernating, but, you know. Classes. I'm going to deem this Friday 'break day' and... are you sitting down?... go to a DVD store. Because while in almost all other areas of life I am the opposite, I'm clearly a masochist when it comes to my wallet.

I got the first episode of Romantically Challenged. I know full well it sounds awful, and it's probably going to get cancelled after its initial six episode run so really it's just setting me up for disappointment, but... Josh Lawson. I love that man. I've only ever seen him as himself on Thank God You're Here but he is absolutely outstanding (and younger than I always thought he was. An 80s baby? Crazy. He looked to me at least 30, and this was back in 2006). Although it has to be said that he is shocking at accents, so this experience should be interesting.

I preordered this. Good thing, too, since it's apparently sold out now. STOP JUDGING ME. (An email yesterday tells me it has shipped)

Ugly Betty ended ;___; While I enjoy that there is some... karmic throwback (no spoilers), I DON'T THINK THAT IS CLOSURE ENOUGH, WRITERS. SRSLY.

Beginning to develop a thing for BPAL, and already ruminating second order. Fairy Market, The Dormouse and Suspiro are all on my 5ml list, though not necessarily at the same time. I'll wait until my misplaced imps come and test them out before I actually put anything through. LOOK, RESTRAINT, I HAS IT.

IRON MAN IN TWO WEEKS

Discovered that Mother is not as disgusting tasting as it sounds/looks. Still, won't go around making this a regular habit.

I have a couple of movies lined up to watch after catching up on Dr Who. What to pick, what to pick.

Apparently, I haven't finished reading a single book since February. And that's just sad. I blame my current material for being terrible and thus dragging me down (for reference: Twilight and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies).

I was on the TVTropes page for CPR Clean Pretty Reliable, and it as soon as I clicked on the tab, I said "haha oh Jack" to my computer screen. Oh Lost. I still need to catch up on you.

"- Rumi, Iqbal, Mirza Ghalib, and a fourth fellow whose name I always forget."

Looooooooooool brisneyland drama.

Anyway, moving on, because I in no way derive joy from that sort of thing, nope.

For one week, recommend / share:
→ Day 1: a song
→ Day 2: a picture
→ Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic
→ Day 4: a site
→ Day 5: a youtube clip
→ Day 6: a quote
→ Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy

Honestly, I'm a little bit stuck on this one. Lately all the fics I read have been Speed Racer (oxymoronic has some excellent ones), yes, it's a disease/I am terrible etc. Got directed to atrata's heartbreaking The Princess Bride fic via newredshoes a while back, and I thought it was definitely worth a mention, because even though it is heartbreaking, it's truly fantastic, and you should read it if you haven't already.

My book list was not all that big of a help, because a lot of the ones on there are critically acclaimed (thank you, English lit course), and they really don't need me to laud their virtues when dozens and dozens of reviews have done it already. I am currently writing an essay on The White Tiger 200... more... words, however, and I can attest to the richness of that novel, especially if you're keen on dissecting its themes from a colonial standpoint. The quote up the top there is from that book. I lol'd.

Perusing my list, though, I did spot one that was fairly obscure, one that I'm sure not a lot of people have heard of - Pyongyang, by Guy Delisle. I first spotted this book at Borders a few years ago, but it disappeared off the shelf (nicely done, stranger who bought it. Nicely done) and it apparently didn't occur to me to look elsewhere. Say, a comic shop. Because it's a comic.

The next time I spotted it was on ittykat's shelf, and I pretty much immediately snatched it up. Now I have my own copy, and have been trying to flog it to Dad, to no avail, because he doesn't read. The subject is interesting – it documents the author's time spent in Pyongyang for work, and his various misadventures. It's nonjudgmental, and not at all politically skewered, just one man's experience in one of the most secluded countries in the world. The art is simple but incredibly charming, and I really enjoyed the matter-of-fact way events are presented, with (as far as I know), little embellishment.

Related, but not as compelling as Pyongyang was, is Delisle's Shenzhen, A Travelogue from China. I also would love to get my hands on Burma Chronicles, and will definitely be keeping an eye out next time I'm at the comic store.

I feel like I may be in need of a more book-y reading icon.

Finished Thief of Time and The Girl Most Likely on the weekend. Am now bored out of my head, because I have nothing else to read that I haven't read before. The Girl Most Likely was kind of similar to Bridget Jones', in that it was one of those traditional feel-good, discover-yourself, get-guy, find-happiness sort of thing. It even had the gay best friend, and a Hugh Grant lookalike love interest. His name was Matthew Harding and even though the author explicitly tries to drill home the fact that he looked like Hugh Grant, I still envisioned him as Ian Somerhalder. A positive sign of obsession, methinks.

Had a dream about Japan last night. Actually, I've been having frequent dreams about Japan. Maybe my subconsciousness is trying to tell me something.

Jenni's subconsciousness: Jeeeeennnnni! Jeeeeeennnnni! Yoooooouuu miiiisss Jaaaapppppaaaan, doooooonnnn't yoooooouu? Yoooooouuuuu waaaaaannt tooooo goooo baaaacccck tooooo Jaaaaapppaaannn, doooooonnnn't yoooooouuuu? Yeeeeeessss, preeeeeciiiious.

Yes.

+Random fact: my toes are cold, and I know almost all of the prime numbers within 100+

SQUEE! I got through the door on the JKRowling website!

Not much to see, granted, but still.

Spiffy icon by kagome =)(but not actually the 'kagome' on LJ o.O)

WOW! I just read the interview with JKR... so many revelations! Who would've thought that Remus was a half-blood, and that Ron's middle name is 'Bilius' *smirks*...

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