Jandy’s Meanderings

This year I’ve been posting short run-downs of what I’ve read and watched each month over at my LJ. Thought I’d post them here, too. Because I can. Mwahahahaha. I suppose I could just link to my LJ entry, but where would be the fun in that?
Without further ado, movies I watched and books I [...]

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Tagged:Aguirra the Wrath of God, Audrey Niffenegger, Body Heat, C.S. Lewis, Cache, Good Night and Good Luck, Grave of the Fireflies, In a Lonely Place, Pickpocket, Sahara, The Abolition of Man, The Time Traveler's Wife

I try to keep up with watching movie trailers over at apple.com, partly because I enjoy seeing movie trailers (seriously, I cry if I get to the theatre too late to see the trailers), and partly because I like to make my movie-going decisions based on actual footage as well as word-of-mouth. Granted, the actual [...]

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Tagged:A Scanner Darkly, Alpha Dog, Apocalypto, Brick, Cars, Click, Friends With Money, Inside Man, L'enfant, Lady in the Water, Little Miss Sunshine, Lonesome Jim, Lucky Number Slevin, Marie Antoinette, Mission Impossible III, Pirates of the Caribbean, Stick It, Superman Returns, Thank You for Smoking, The Da Vinci Code, The Fountain, Tristram Shandy, Trust the Man, V for Vendetta, X-Men 3: The Last Stand

I have other posts in various stages of writing and thinking, but this one deserves its own:
I GOT IN TO BAYLOR!!!
No assistantship or funding, but I’m crossing that bridge when I get to it. Right now, after two previous years of applying to grad school and not getting accepted, I’m just ecstatic that I [...]

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Sunday School thoughts: I’m incredibly hard to offend, so I tend not to think about causing offense in others. So if I ever, you know, offend you, let me know. Because I probably won’t think about it unless you do. In my egocentrism I assume that people will react to things the way I would, [...]

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Tagged:criticism

Mark liked the version of this that I posted on my livejournal better, so I copied that one over here. He’s right, this one is more “me”. I was tired last night when I wrote the shorter one; plus I’m not totally comfortable here yet. My persona on LJ is pretty well-defined, but it’s still [...]

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Reasons today rocked:

Hot wings at Culpeppers
As a related item, eating lunch outside for the first time this year
Walking in Forest Park, in an area I don’t usually go to (I’m a Grand Basin junkie, but I thought I’d check out some of the other park areas)
Getting an article I’m writing for a webzine about half-finished [...]

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Okay, I know I’m not going to like the American Idol results show this week. I like seven of the eight girls (I don’t care for Kinnik, and I just saw before I backed my DVR up to the beginning that she’s off, as I knew she would be). And I like five or six [...]

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