Reading Rambo

There've been too many orderly posts here lately. That's not what this blog is about. It's about stuff like THIS Also books. I'm gonna add a new tag for JLaw gifs so you all can find 'em if you're in need of EXTREME AWESOMENESS. For this has become a random repository of them. I'm getting almost no reading done, 'cause opera, but what I HAVE been doing is watching Once Upon a Time , because fairytales. I mean, sure, Disneyfied fairytales, but fairytales nonetheless. And it's got an evil lady who is COMPLICATED, and -- look, can we stop saying we "actually" find the villains more interesting like it's some unusual thing, because almost everyone finds the villains more interesting. THE GOOD PEOPLE HAVE ONE THING GOING ON. With the evil people it's like "Ooh, how'd they get that way; they must FEEL things very deeply; oh they're such complex characters let me examine them." I think it's highly impr...

It's Friday. We should be happy. I'm gonna post some things that're really, really super-great. 1. Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice Latte & Salted Caramel Mocha. They are seasonal. They are amazing. I had the Salted Caramel Mocha and thought 'That's it. If I die now, at least I have had this experience.' True, I was in the midst of the greatest of sugar rushes, but the fact remains. Amazing. 2. Jennifer Lawrence GIFs. They exist. And we should be all the happier for it. Jennifer Lawrence GIFs are all I've ever wanted to be. 3. Richard III's skeleton . It's been found! (maybe) And they can clone him! (probably not) This has prompted some excellent conversations about cloning, most of which have gone this way: Me: OMG THEY SHOULD CLONE HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM. Intelligent Friend: Remember how they tried cloning that sheep and then all those sheep died before they got it right and then THAT sheep died? Me: BUT HE COULD TELL...

Journal Entry at age 16: I'm not sure I want to read more of Edith Wharton's books, but I feel like she's a very good author and I would go to the library or bookstore and get all her stuff if she weren't so depressing! I want to pat my former self on the head and go "You no talk more about books." I even used the fatal exclamation point. "The Exclamation Point: Guaranteed to make anything placed before it sound lame."' This is the same self who wrote at 17 about Les Misérables : " Poor Fantine! I mean, I don't want to sound stupid, but this book's sad! :) " Yeah. I wrote a smiley face. At myself. Damn you, teenage years. Jennifer Lawrence gifs make everything better