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Apr. 1st, 2007 08:44 pmApril's come in with wind and rain, huge great gusts of it howling around corners and through windows. I love April here--it's what May is like up home, the first month of tentative spring, when it's all still cool and fragile and uncertain and new.
Went to Target yesterday, for spring shoes. Got a pair of plain black ballet flats and some little socks, and also a pretty blue dress and new earrings and ice-cube trays for making little juice popsicles with when the weather warms back up.
Just happened to grad the Classic Trek ep on the CW last night,, only to find out that it was "The Tholian Web," also known as the best ep ever. Kirk missing! Spock and McCoy have a fight about it! They didn't listen to his last orders! "Tholian Web" was actually the first Trek that I ever really watched. I was maybe fourteen, staying over at my grandparents' while they were out of town. I'd seen Trek before, but never really gotten it. Until that. And then I was hooked.
I can't decide if I want to read the spoilers for the Supernatural finale. So I won't...yet.
I'm reading "Zastrozzi" for class--the Gothic novel that Percy Shelley wrote at sixteen, when he was a schoolboy at Eton. It's absolutely atrocious: moves too quickly, handwaves plot bits that he doesn't care for so that he can get to the emo, is gay like a crazy gay thing, involved naked tied-up boy-on-boy whipping action during a cataclysmic thunderstorm. I love juvenile writing. It's so self-indulgent that it's charming. A quote:
"Not long did the hapless victim of unmerited persecution enjoy an oblivion which deprived him of the knowledge of his horrible situation. He awoke--and overcome by excess of terror, started violently from the ruffians' arms. They had now entered the cavern; Verezzi supported himself against a fragment of rock that jutted out. "Resistance is useless," exclaimed Zastorzzi. "Following us in submissive silence alone can procure the slightest mitigation of your punishment!"
and it all goes like that!
Oh, and GIP GIP GIP.
Went to Target yesterday, for spring shoes. Got a pair of plain black ballet flats and some little socks, and also a pretty blue dress and new earrings and ice-cube trays for making little juice popsicles with when the weather warms back up.
Just happened to grad the Classic Trek ep on the CW last night,, only to find out that it was "The Tholian Web," also known as the best ep ever. Kirk missing! Spock and McCoy have a fight about it! They didn't listen to his last orders! "Tholian Web" was actually the first Trek that I ever really watched. I was maybe fourteen, staying over at my grandparents' while they were out of town. I'd seen Trek before, but never really gotten it. Until that. And then I was hooked.
I can't decide if I want to read the spoilers for the Supernatural finale. So I won't...yet.
I'm reading "Zastrozzi" for class--the Gothic novel that Percy Shelley wrote at sixteen, when he was a schoolboy at Eton. It's absolutely atrocious: moves too quickly, handwaves plot bits that he doesn't care for so that he can get to the emo, is gay like a crazy gay thing, involved naked tied-up boy-on-boy whipping action during a cataclysmic thunderstorm. I love juvenile writing. It's so self-indulgent that it's charming. A quote:
"Not long did the hapless victim of unmerited persecution enjoy an oblivion which deprived him of the knowledge of his horrible situation. He awoke--and overcome by excess of terror, started violently from the ruffians' arms. They had now entered the cavern; Verezzi supported himself against a fragment of rock that jutted out. "Resistance is useless," exclaimed Zastorzzi. "Following us in submissive silence alone can procure the slightest mitigation of your punishment!"
and it all goes like that!
Oh, and GIP GIP GIP.