in which our heroine continues to suck at updating in a timely fashion

[hermionesviolin]

The Firefly movie made EW's 2205 "Must List".  Best section is Joss on Summer: ''She brings a haunting quality, while fulfilling my apparent need to have a superpowered adolescent in everything I do.''

applejuicegirl stayed overnight on Friday ‘cause she was attending the Boston Bacterial Conference.  I gave her a grand tour of Norwood -- walking for about an hour and a half.  Surprising how many things were still open at nearly ten o'clock.  Oh and when she was in Boston Friday she was gonna get me flowers, but the place was closed, so she got me a marzipan bunny reptile.

On Saturday i went to athene and lordaerith's "hippy pagan ren wedding".

I changed my clothes multiple times, finally coming up with something that felt more Renaissance than gypsy -- black boots, black skirt, maroon shirt, my mother's tan fringy shawl and fake pearl brooch, my new Tiffany necklace.

I said i felt like a peasant or something, but my mom pointed out that with the shawl and particularly the brooch that really didn't work, so we settled on low gentility or fallen aristocracy.
My mom: "Your father was--"
My dad, interrupting: "A hamster"

I thought cool and rainy had been predicted, but it was warm and humid and rather sunny throughout the ceremony.  It even remained so during the reception.  (There was a brief period of rain over some of the tree-covered mountain visible through the window, and there was a rainbow right there as well which was really cool.)

The wedding was very pagan, with elements of Judaism.  So gorgeous.  Right up there with Paul and Barbara's.  Oh, and after all the official wedding pictures had been taken before we all went inside for the reception, the wedding party rushed the gazebo (and had photos taken by the official photographer).

I'm sure there'll be pictures up at the wedding website eventually, but for now kjpepper has a bunch.

At the reception, everyone was assigned a "castle" (a table).  Mine was Neuschwanstein.  (The wedding party table was Windsor Castle.)  Everyone else at my table was wearing green, so someone joked that really it had all been arranged to offset my maroon.  As it turned out, the common bond was Smith.

The food was good, and we each got a champagne flute glass of mead.

Someone mentioned how it seems like all the [Pioneer] Valley geeks are gonna be married by the end of the summer -- which only kind of puts them off the market as so many of them are poly :)  I was extra amused as recently i had been feeling like there were so many Big Gay Weddings in the offing -- phineasjones&mmm_cake, ladyvivien&how_i_lie... and i thought there was another one but perhaps i was mistaken.

I came home from the wedding to an e-mail from collegecate, so i spent Sunday with her and jadasc.  He dorks Whedonverse, so i actually got to geek out with someone (since i don't do gaming or roleplaying and am not into all that interested/well-versed in most sci-fi/fantasy, i tend to do the sit in the corner quietly thing when i'm around geeks).

The 89 from Powderhouse Square to Sullivan Square passes Norwood Ave. followed by Thurston St.  I was amused.

We watched Shaun of the Dead, which was amusing, but i don't understand the love katemonkey et al have for it.

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I'm unsure how i feel about tags.

• They show up in individual entries period, and what i've been able to glean so far is that they just show up in main view if you have S2 but not in S1.  I dislike S2, as i have ever since it came out, but not having them show up on one's main page doesn't seem a big deal since for use of one's own journal, one has the Memories feature.
• Looking at the FAQs, okay you can pull up the entries of yours that have a particular tag which i'll grant being neat and useful (though apparently it only pulls up the most recent 100). And of course this also only works with S2.
• They don't seem to show up on friendspages so far as i can tell regardless of style, which bugs me because i thought the major point of tags was to label your entries so people reading could more easily skip over the items not of interest to them, and the majority of people read via friendspages rather than main view of individual journals.

Edit thanks to wisdomeagle: Apparently they do show up on your flist in S2. So basically, for everything except seeing them in individual entries, they only work for S2. I dislike S2 and even if i didn't, i would still think it unfair. (The fact that you can only the most recent 100 entries with a certain tag is also in my opinion a major flaw in the system.) "There are no plans to support tags in S1 in the future." *hates*


Inspired by a post by illiterate, using the phraseology of babyrocket...

[Poll #516594]

I read Lolita i think two summers ago.  One of my fic kinks is a younger woman seducing an older man, but i totally didn't read Lolita that way.  It seemed like HH was projecting hardcore, trying to justify his attraction, but so over-the-top that you kinda knew he knew he was crazy.

Comments

[hedy.livejournal.com]

I like that Allison (SP) was given away by both her parents. What are they doing about last names?

Lolita was completely child-molesting, imho.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

(Yup, it's two L's.) Yeah, i loved that both her parents walked her down the aisle.

I think they're taking Allison's name -- King.

[rhipowered.livejournal.com]

Simon Pegg is bloody hilarious in 'Spaced', which you would probably like. It's a British sitcom about a bunch of geeks, and the fandom references are legion. Seriously, it's good, if you can find it over here (I saw it on DVD in the UK).

[wisdomeagle]

Tags show up on your friends page in S2. On the other hand, my friends page is ugly in S2. It's not really worth it.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay. Thanks for the info. *hates on LJ* I dislike S2's comment-style primarily, but even if i lurved S2, it seems ridiculous that they wouldn't be able to enable this for S1 as well.

[lilithchilde.livejournal.com]

Shaun of the Dead is hilarious, but my brother has quoted it to, well, death. I could use a breather.

I think I should probably elaborate on my poll answer. I tried to read Lolita a few summers ago, and got halfway through before I put the book down in disgust. I felt that HH was a completely unsympathetic and thoroughly irritating character, and couldn't get interested in him or any of the other characters in the book. From what I did read, I would have put the second option down. However, I don't feel comfortable passing judgement on a book I haven't finished, and I think that I should probably pick it up and try again sometime.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I was mildly amused by Shaun... but no more than that. I know everyone is shocked.

The first time i picked up Lolita i couldn't get into it at all and quit after just a couple pages. The second time i persevered, but the characters don't get any more likable as you go along. It's on my list of books which somebody needs to explain to me why it's a classic.

[applejuicegirl.livejournal.com]

And a box turtles goes "ribbit." Go back to second grade and learn you animals, Elizabeth. The marzipan creature is definately a crocodile-like reptile--not a bunny.

*no need to comment--I can already visualize your tounge being stuck out at me. And perhaps being given the finger.*

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I thought you had said "bunny" when you gave it to me and i hadn't yet opened it at the time i posted. I was excited to see a reptilian creature when i did open the package, though. And of course i'm sticking my tongue out at you. (No flipping off this time, though.)