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cimorene+ wankprophet has a quick and easy quiz to see if you're a [dom/elijah LOTRiPS] tinhat.
+ watched tarantino's feature-length csi s5 finale, it was feature-length, but it didn't feel like a movie, but like an episode. and i really, really love the show, and i think it's clear tarantino has affection for it too. there were little bits for characters--catherine and sam brown; warrick and nick's brotherly love; hodges' geekiness; even a hint of the good ecklie hiding inside. it still felt like csi... mostly. and it felt like tarantino, but not entirely. mostly, i really enjoyed it. the suspense! the grissom! the catherine! the cool camerawork! i don't think tarantino feels the nick/greg, though. they've seemed faintly established-relationship to me for a little while, and this episode... didn't. i was a leeeeetle disappointed it wasn't funnier cause that's my favourite thing about tarantino, though.
+ have been keeping up with grey's anatomy, after not watching the beginning of the season. i personally think george is an irritating ass, but i'm fully in favour of his getting laid. and that nurse was cute. i love christina and burke's affair and meredith's with Dr. Baby Sean Penn (as i call him) or Dr. Sean for short. but i was disappointed with the introduction of psychic guy in the last episode. it seems strange for a show that has seemed for all intents and purposes to be set in plain reality to suddenly throw the supernatural into their universe at this time. his plot was funny, though. and he was really cute and british-looking.
+ and we went to see sideways for wax's birthday and i think sandra oh is just incredibly gorgeous. man. ouch.
+ have also been watching the l-word, but not because i like it. the dying daddy plot makes me want to remove my ears with a pitchfork and always puts wax's computer monitor in danger, especially with how much screen time they spend on it. a lot of things about it suck, but i do like: a) to look at helena. b) tina's new mojo. c) jenny's Crazy. d) shane's little manservant, whateverhisnameis.
+ spent the day cleaning, and then went to the store with wax's mom and (more importantly) her car. but we didn't have time to make a list and i've thought of a number of things i should have got but didn't: pickles, salsa, ramen, olives, chocolate. (now that the chocolate cake of DOOOOOM has been entirely eaten up.)
+ it's just too damned expensive to get stuff across the atlantic ocean. i'm stranded here without most of my books. in some cases (eg bargain editions of jane austen) they're cheaper to replace, but what about my nice collections of pg wodehouse, diana wynne jones, patricia c wrede, fred saberhagen, samuel delany and roger zelazny? and cj cherryh's foreigner series, which i like to reread every year and a half or so? and what about when i need to look something up? or when i'm sick and need some comfort reading? my parents offered to mail me stuff once they have time to collect it, since i'm not getting to visit them this summer and get it myself. but i can hardly ask them to send all the books i'm missing.
+ ETA that OH I FORGOT! BUT I SAW A REAL LIVE HEDGEHOG FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE! and it was really, really cute.
+ watched tarantino's feature-length csi s5 finale, it was feature-length, but it didn't feel like a movie, but like an episode. and i really, really love the show, and i think it's clear tarantino has affection for it too. there were little bits for characters--catherine and sam brown; warrick and nick's brotherly love; hodges' geekiness; even a hint of the good ecklie hiding inside. it still felt like csi... mostly. and it felt like tarantino, but not entirely. mostly, i really enjoyed it. the suspense! the grissom! the catherine! the cool camerawork! i don't think tarantino feels the nick/greg, though. they've seemed faintly established-relationship to me for a little while, and this episode... didn't. i was a leeeeetle disappointed it wasn't funnier cause that's my favourite thing about tarantino, though.
+ have been keeping up with grey's anatomy, after not watching the beginning of the season. i personally think george is an irritating ass, but i'm fully in favour of his getting laid. and that nurse was cute. i love christina and burke's affair and meredith's with Dr. Baby Sean Penn (as i call him) or Dr. Sean for short. but i was disappointed with the introduction of psychic guy in the last episode. it seems strange for a show that has seemed for all intents and purposes to be set in plain reality to suddenly throw the supernatural into their universe at this time. his plot was funny, though. and he was really cute and british-looking.
+ and we went to see sideways for wax's birthday and i think sandra oh is just incredibly gorgeous. man. ouch.
+ have also been watching the l-word, but not because i like it. the dying daddy plot makes me want to remove my ears with a pitchfork and always puts wax's computer monitor in danger, especially with how much screen time they spend on it. a lot of things about it suck, but i do like: a) to look at helena. b) tina's new mojo. c) jenny's Crazy. d) shane's little manservant, whateverhisnameis.
+ spent the day cleaning, and then went to the store with wax's mom and (more importantly) her car. but we didn't have time to make a list and i've thought of a number of things i should have got but didn't: pickles, salsa, ramen, olives, chocolate. (now that the chocolate cake of DOOOOOM has been entirely eaten up.)
+ it's just too damned expensive to get stuff across the atlantic ocean. i'm stranded here without most of my books. in some cases (eg bargain editions of jane austen) they're cheaper to replace, but what about my nice collections of pg wodehouse, diana wynne jones, patricia c wrede, fred saberhagen, samuel delany and roger zelazny? and cj cherryh's foreigner series, which i like to reread every year and a half or so? and what about when i need to look something up? or when i'm sick and need some comfort reading? my parents offered to mail me stuff once they have time to collect it, since i'm not getting to visit them this summer and get it myself. but i can hardly ask them to send all the books i'm missing.
+ ETA that OH I FORGOT! BUT I SAW A REAL LIVE HEDGEHOG FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE! and it was really, really cute.
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Date: 21 May 2005 06:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 21 May 2005 07:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 21 May 2005 07:27 pm (UTC)Here is more info: http://www.usps.com/global/mbags.htm
And here are rates to Finland: http://pe.usps.gov/text/Imm/immicl/immicleg_011.html
Like, an 11 pound box of books (which isn't much) is $40 regular airmail, but only $27 if they stick your box in a big canvas bag. I think you may be able to stick several boxes in the bag, too, so you could get a discounted rate by putting two boxes into the bag. I'm not quite clear on how it works as I've never done it myself, but it does seem substantially cheaper than regular airmail rates.
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Date: 21 May 2005 10:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 22 May 2005 04:41 am (UTC)That scene where she's all "I should be SPANKED"? I nearly died. And then she beats that guy's face in with a motorcycle helmet. Can she be my second online girlfriend (after Keira)?
P.S. If you want more, she plays a hot lesbian in "Under the Tuscan Sun" :)
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Date: 22 May 2005 10:52 am (UTC)