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Saturday, December 20, 2003 Today I am feeling: peaced out 
Books I am reading: The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World Verilyn Flieger Skipping Christmas John Grisham Games I am playing: Asheron's Call 2 Paper stuff is fun to make. Yes, I know what you're thinking, but hey, I'm off school now, too much time on my hands, so I'm making a paper tiger ... which is harder than it looks, I need tiny pointy fingers to do a good job. And better glue. A hot glue gun would probably work, ya need something quick drying and easy to get in small areas. Anyway, makin' this stuff took me back to when I was a kid, cuz there used to be this company that made a whole series of books of stuff like this where ya could put together entire towns and villages, and I had just about every one they made, and I got pretty damn good at putting those things together of course the big question is once you finish them, what do you do with them? In other news, I've been recently re-addicted to ebay. I've used them a few times over the last few years, buying cheap stuff like toy troll dolls for my cat or playbills to Broadway shows I can't afford to see, but now I've become obsessed with art supplies. Unfortunately, being a student I am poor and art supplies are expensive, so I thought hey, maybe ebay has some cheap! I started by looking for cheap Prismacolor pencils cuz those damn things cost like a dollar a pencil, and a set of them (the good jumbo set) is over a hundred dollars retail. A hundred bucks for colored pencils! So, I poked around ebay and found a few sets and bid on them but I'm not only poor but cheap as well, so alas I got outbid. But I found other art supplies for sale like those good "artist" quality (ie professional quality) watercolor paints that sell for $5 a tube and more at the art supply store so I bid on a few of those too but got outbid too grrr. So, so far no luck, but maybe after the holidays people will be unloading stuff cheap. I do wish people would sell smaller lots of paints on ebay though, most of the ones for sale are for lots of 50 or more and even if I only paid a dollar a tube that's still at least fifty bucks. Too much. I really only need a basic palette, like say a warm and cool of red, blue and yellow with maybe a purple and a green tossed in. I really don't need all those wacky colors (although if I can get 50 of 'em for say $20 then that's ok with me.) Oh, well, I guess I'll just stick with my cheapo Cotman watercolors for now which actually aren't all that bad, except for washes, cuz I compared a wash of Cotmans with a wash of the same color of the artist's quality and the latter was much denser and even. But I only have 2 colors of the artist's grade, red and blue hehe.
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Friday, December 19, 2003 I wonder what Tolkien woulda thought of Joseph Campbell ... excerpt from MYTHOPOEIA The heart of man is not compound of lies, but draws some wisdom from the only Wise, and still recalls Him. Though now long estranged Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed. Dis-graced he may be, yet is not de-throned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned: Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from mind to mind. Though all the crannies of the world we filled with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build Gods and their houses out of dark and light and sowed the seeds of dragons--'twas our right (used or misused). That right has not decayed: we make still by the law in which we're made. --J. R. R. Tolkien So, does this mean The Lord of the Rings isn't literature, it's myth? No wonder I love those elves so much ....
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Today I am feeling: peaced out
Books I am reading: The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World Verilyn Flieger Skipping Christmas John Grisham Games I am playing: Asheron's Call 2 Woot! School's out yay! No more homework. Weird feeling, cuz for the last five months I've had homework every freakin' day. I don't know what to do with myself, where's the pipeweed and elves when ya need 'em? Hehee. I'm gonna spend the break reading, playing, sleeping, cleaning, organizing, maybe selling some of my junk on ebay, and working on my art technique to practice what I've learned this semester so I can start next semester all revved up. I also might get a job but only if my conscience gets the best of me. Other than that, not much else going on.
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Thursday, December 18, 2003 Today I am feeling: fine
Books I am reading: The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World Verilyn Flieger Skipping Christmas John Grisham Games I am playing: Asheron's Call 2 I had my last final today, now all I have left is one critique in my rendering class tomorrow morning, which basically means stick yer stuff up on the wall and everyone look at it. So, no more thinking until the end of January! Yay! In cat news, my cat has graduated from toy mice and imaginary shadow mice to real ones. While I was in the kitchen today getting more soda, she was outside jingling so I called her and then I saw that she was chasing something, so I looked and it was a mouse! She caught it and brought it to me, and I had to explain to her that while I appreciated her offering to the goddess, I didn't want her to catch little mousies that were real. She didn't hurt it though, so I let it go which on afterthought might not have been a good thing cuz now that mouse is probably wreaking mouse havoc on the neighbors. Oh well. My cat is now crying hysterically because I made her come in and she wants to go outside and play with her mousey friend and I'm a meanie cat mommy waaaaah. Poor kitty.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2003 Today I am feeling: 
Books I am reading: none right now Games I am playing: the university of life bureaucracy game 
Mmmm ... elves! And Smeagol and Gimli and Aragorn and Arwen and Merry and Pippin and Gandalf and Samwise and Frodo, oh Frodo and Bilbo ... oh man, I think I am now hobbit and dwarf and wizard obsessed in addition to elf obsessed. LOTR III opened today and I of course, had to put off my last remaining bit of homework to go see it at 10am this morning, thinking oh, no one will be out this early right? Wrong! Apparently I am not the only elf-obsessed one in this city! Anyway, didn't get very good seats [off to the side, I hate off to the side] but still was ok. One word of warning though, or actually two: Do not go see this movie if you don't like to cry in public and for Saruman's sake don't drink anything! You might have to pee and you might miss something! That said, I liked the movie, bits were boring [endless battle scenes, I'm a girl, ok?] and some parts were briefer than I'd like or even cut from the book, but all in all a spectacularly beautiful film with some moments where I found myself asking "How the fu... erm heck did they do that?" which might not be good cuz it took me outta the moment but damn, some of the special effects were awesome. And the ending ... ah, the end ... or ends ... oh man, this movie was so sad even the biker dude sitting down the row from me was crying. Let's just say Peter Jackson has just taken over the top spot of "Master Emotion Manipulator" from Stephen Spielberg. The end was sad, happy, beautiful, painful and altogether marvelous. I give this movie 7 1/2 out of 5 stars. I'd give it 8 but some of the battle scenes just got a bit long for me. But the other stuff almost made up for it, and it was so good it got bonus stars for cinematography, music, and emotion. Oh! And I even understood a couple words of Elvish! Yay for me! Anyway, I gotta go recover now. Then do homework. Grrr ... maybe I'll do my homework while watching the first two films again.
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Sunday, December 14, 2003 Today I am feeling:  
Books I am reading: none right now Games I am playing: the university of life bureaucracy game The rat has been found ... or so they say anyway, who knows it could just be an imposter or something, maybe even planted by the Bush administration to make them look good ... I'm sure the Democrat conspiracy theorists are all hopping this morning trying to think of some "explanation" for this. Anyway, if it is him, good, one less whacknut psycho to wreak damage. Too bad thousands and maybe even millions of people had to be murdered first but at least we did something this time instead of bein' wimpy like past presidents who either ignored the situation or half-heartedly "tried" and failed. Bush should be proud, only what, a few thousand American lives sacrificed? Not bad, and now he can concentrate on finding that other rat Bin Laden then little Bushie can be pretty much guaranteed re-election in 2004, sorry Hillary. The only bad part of all this was having to watch Kerry on TV giving his views, I dunno, is it just me or is that guy truly scary, he reminds me of those re-animated corpses in Night of the Living Dead or something.
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