so i dreamt that...

guinevere33 and i were the sole representatives of our childhood home girlscout council to the girl scouts national convention, which seemed to consist of a small and rather threadbare conference room with the lights turned down.  we started walking around the "exhibit tables"--mostly empty.  the first one with anything going on was where bill clinton was sitting, all by his lonesome, behind a small tv playing the news and a stack of his new book.  he looked affable and kind of bored, and there was no one there, but we scurried by rather than meeting him because we didn't feel like being ogled.  a few minutes later we discovered alan rickman at another table, but he was deeply engrossed in conversation with some guy.  we skulked around the corner watching him for a bit and grouching because what was he even doing there if he was going to have a private conversation?  but then we got over it, and when we were almost all the way back around we found mirabellawotr at a table that was entirely covered by one of those flynet umbrellas that's meant to cover food, but the only thing under it was a shiny sexy silver laptop. 

(for some reason, mirabellawotr looked like the office boss from dead like me.)  we complimented her laptop and i remarked that she never seemed like the girl scout troop leader type.  after a brief discussion, we decided that because we were bored guinevere33 and i would get a giant kite and see if we could get it to carry us a few feet off the ground if we ran fast enough, and mirabellawotr would film it with her laptop.  which we did.  in the basement of the building.  aaaaaand then i woke up.

bulleted point post

+ 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, ( grave danger )

+ have been keeping up with grey's anatomy, after not watching the beginning of the season.  i personally think ( maybe-spoilers to last ep )

+ 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.