shit kenzi says

So, the neighbour has decided to cut down these two beautiful trees that sit behind her house. I love those trees. What a travesty to see them shorn of their branches and then cut down, piece by piece. Now her yard will be completely shorn of any covering, open to the punishing sun in the summer and without beauty or grace. There is nothing sadder then seeing a healthy tree cut down in its prime.

Saw Jarhead on Saturday and it was everything I thought it would be and more. Deep and insightful and very, very, overwhelmingly pretty. Though, I have to say I found the scene where all the Marines were standing around a bonfire, shooting off their automatic weapons to be much more ... "fascinating" then the two santa hats scene, though that one wasn't anything to scoff at, believe you me.

Have also discovered the reason why the baylorsr sisters keep me around. I make a useful pack mule. *sly smile*

November's begun in full force, here in Michigan. The leaves fell from the trees almost overnight and while today is clear yesterday was cloud-covered and raining. Frosty morning should start anyday now. Hello cold, my old friend.

Had a terrifying moment yesterday when the Palm Pilot ran out of juice. I was sure that I had lost all of the addresses stored there and with the holidays coming that is not a good thing. Thankfully, upon finding the wall plug and rejuicing it, I discovered that they were all still there. Crisis averted, this time. *cue ominous music* *chuckle*

Y'know, Livejournal is a strange beast, a fact that is readily apparent and rather obvious. I've seen better, more interesting people comment on how these posts we all make are nominally personal but not really because we all know that we're talking to a community rather then writing in a real, personal journal so it's this strange combination of the private with the public and I'm sure in some way it's changing the fundamental basis of modern social interaction but I'm a historian, not a sociologist so I won't be able to comment on anything like that for another 20 years, or so.

Anyway, my whole point is that my real life is rather boring and I'm not the most skilled storyteller in the world so I have a hard time making it seem even a modicum more intersting then it actually is. I do, however, have a very active secret pretend world where I go on lots of adventures and meet lots of interesting people but I'll probably never be able to actually write anything coherent about it because while I enjoy meeting these characters I never feel up to the challenge of writing them so I make do with enjoying other people's fanfictional goodness.

And writing is hard, yo, and I'm kinda lazy. ;-)

And the point is ... well, really, there is no point it's just that in some world I have flirted with Josh Lyman and gone on missions for the RHAR for Leo McGarry and gone out drinking with Lewis Nixon and lived in a house in Cleveland with the Scooby Gang while learning how to become a Watcher and attended a magical boarding school in England and helped Mulder and Scully investigate an X-File and worked at a pub in Aldbourne and they've all been very good lives (and you were there and you and you). In those worlds I'm a better, more confident version of myself who doesn't have a weird phone phobia and finishes what she begins and never lets anyone down because, really, there's no point in having secret pretend worlds if one isn't fabulous enough to participate in them. ;-)

And, you know, it's inherently unfair that when I was a kid I read all of those wonderful books like Little House on the Prairie and Ozma of Oz and Little Women and Anne of Green Gables so that I had this idea that men and women were inherently equal only to grow up and realize that the world doesn't have the same opinion. Seriously, what is up with that?

Last night was the Night of TV. Okay, TV and grocery shopping but grocery shopping is dull even if I did buy ice cream.

So, television. I am now the proud viewer of two episodes of Veronica Mars and yes it is a good show. Is it my new obsession? Who knows but it is engaging and the acting is first rate and I can't wait to find out who killed Lilly Kane so it's doing everything it needs to to make me watch, so that is good.

Prisoner of Azkaban was playing on HBO again and I flipped in and out a few times. Any man who carries chocolate around with him and considers it the cure to dementor attacks all things is quite possibly the perfect man and I must find one. There also must be a movie made with all of my redheads in it. In some perfect universe there is a movie that stars Rupert Grint and Damian Lewis and Alan Tudyk and Scott Grimes and Gillian Anderson and it would be beautiful and charming and I would die of happiness.

Also popped in The Last Patrol and watched Webster being Webster. Having Colin Hanks play Lt. Jones is unbelievably meta and rather delightful. The Spawn of Tom (as I used to call him back in the day when he was on Roswell) is a good little actor, I like him. I enjoyed seeing Matthew Settle be Speirs rather then Jacob Wheeler and am impressed at how talented all of my boys are. They can all play pretty much anything. Except Eion Baily, he always plays Webster but he plays him so well that he gets special acting points in my book. =D

Going to see Batman Begins tonight. Am very excited.

Michigan strawberries have just burst into season. I'm hoping for a bumper crop this year that I can freeze and enjoy for months to come.

Had a most uneventful weekend. Did spend a bit of time running to and from my parents' house but besides that I got some good tv viewage in. I caught the new Kim Possible movie on the Disney Channel and, since I am apaprently all of 14 years old, enjoyed it quite a bit. That very night I also watched the last half of G.I. Jane which is not as bad as I thought it would be. I did not know it was directed by Ridley Scott. See, you can even learn stuff from Demi Moore movies.

I watched three more episodes of season one X-Files: Genderbender, Lazarus and Young at Heart. Somehow I had never seen Genderbender before and was not only impressed by how very Forever Knight the production values were but was also suprised by the appearance of Nicholas Lea as an almost victim of the killer. This was either a casting faux pas or already the Consortium had their eyes on Mulder and Scully and sent Krycek to spy on them. Unfortunately he decided to go to a club while they were up playing with the faux!Amish and was used and abused by the bad guy du jour. Poor widdle Alex.

Speaking of Mulder, David Duchovny was on Inside the Actors Studio on Sunday and I have a tape of it. I didn't watch much, only enough to see that Mr. Duchovny is still as smokingly hot as he's always been. *sigh*

Have begun a new knitting project. We'll see how it turns out. I'm flying from the seat of my pants here, as I can't seem to get the hang of learning from the diagrams in books so the project is mostly me going, 'Hmmm, I wonder how it would turn out if I did this'. We'll see how it goes.

I feel like I should have something profound to say but I've got nothin'. My profundity seems to have slowly seeped from my mind. I blame reality tv, personally.

ETA: Ah ha! It just came to me. I wanted to talk about books!

( I Like Books )