Uruk-hai Unite!
The Uruks are protesting their "unfair" depiction in the LOTR movies. If you're particularly fond of the Uruks, this article will interest you.
Heehee. Cute.

Playing Midwife

Fry gave birth to four kittens at about two this morning. But her labor started as early as 11 pm. So i'm exhausted. My cat is really weird.You know how cats don't like anybody (human) present when they're giving birth, and they give birth in some dark hidden corner? Not Fry. She's been clamoring for me all night long, and when I stop petting her and start leaving, she'll follow me meowing piteously, never mind if her water broke and she's dripping goop all over the floors. She even wanted to give birth on my bed! So I shut her in one of my drawers (i think she gave birth amid bengki's STS readings) and there she gave birth to her little kitties. And I still can't get any decent sleep because she jumps on my bed and wants to be petted (she's meowing beside my keyboard right now). Confounded Cat! Hmph.
I actually thought she was gonna die last night--she had a hard time giving birth. Scared me, really. She was scared, I suppose. Maybe she thought she was dying, too. You know what? That is it--I'm gonna kill the next tomcat who gets her pregnant.
Anyway, today is the anniversary of the fall of Sauron (according to Middle Earth history)! Hurrah! It's also been declared as Tolkien Reading Day!(Er, I read that somewhere, but now I've forgotten). So let's all read Tolkien's works! Will be reading The Hobbit later. Maybe read it to the kitties, heehee, the nasty little buggers.

YOU ARE RAGAMUFFIN!!! VAMPIRE IN A DOLLS BODY!!!!!


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Had a great Friday and Saturday. We watched a free movie and a free concert too. I saw one of my former professors in the free concert that the university press had, and she congratulated me for making it to the workshop thingy. Said something like, "I didnt know you wrote creatively; you always just did theory..." At which I could only smile sheepishly. Anyways, also had a couple of beers and an impromptu Windangers Anonymous meeting. Apparently a lot of people are windang these days. Stayed at Dell's house, where we lazed around 'til early Saturday evening. Then we had coffee (I had Irish mocha--made from real Irish men! Yum).
I had fun ^^ Thanks to Dell for letting us trash his house ^^

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I do not understand. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND!
I passed the test; I will diminish, and go into the West and remain Galadriel.
Say what?
I just made it to the Baguio Workshop. *hops around squealing, whether from shocked joy or panic, i don't know*
I don't understand how i can make it with those stories I wrote. I was just grumbling about a stupid junk e-mail i received (about growing a larger and longer penis, for crying out loud) when I saw that e-mail informing me I did pass.
This is just weird. Oh well ^_^:: I guess I am happy--Baguio Book Sale, here I come! (highly recommended by Yonnina, I've heard).
*squeal, squeal*

Stayed up til three in the morning finishing Into the Forest, a novel about a post-holocaust world where two sisters cope with the loss of their parents and the comforts of the modern world (i.e. electricity, telephones, internet, CD players, even gas, etc.) and re-discover their love for each other and how the forest (nature itself) taught them how to survive. It isn't all that new, really--it follows the usual dystopia scenario where the cause of society's breakdown is attributed to technology and wars, and this same violence is equated with the masculine (i.e. one of the sisters get raped by some guy after she refuses to give him the last of their gas). The women in the novel, as in other such dystopias, comes back to nature, or re-connects with Mother Earth to survive. What was different about it was the strong sisterly bond between them (especially after the rape, and the pregnancy that results from it), which in the end even allowed them some physical intimacy (without the rather icky feeling you get when you realize it could be considered incest). It also veered away from the inclination of such stories of finding an all-women sanctuary away from the chaos of the dystopia--something of a rejection of the masculine--by making the baby a boy, although the persona narrating the story did expect a girl.
*pauses*
Okay. I'm practising how to review a book. It's different from writing a critique, I suppose. Now if only I can buy that book I'm supposed to review...

In other news, Sir Ian McKellen says he wants Tolkien's The Hobbit to become a year-long television series. There's a link in the council of elrond for the full article on that. Wow, I can 't wait for that one. Then again, I could. Right now I can't stand the thought that after Return of the King I won't have anything to look forward to, gnashing my teeth in anticipation and sweet frustration (to quote Audiovent). Hope that pushes through ^_^