it's a magical world

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Eh? Eh?

Really, is there anything that chicken soup can't cure? I swear, when scientists finally discover a cure for cancer, it will be chicken-soup-based.

My Lighting Design class is going to be all kinds of awesome. The prof is incredibly enthusiastic about lighting in an oddly low-key sort of way, and he's all about being blatantly honest and telling lots of stories and messing around with lights a lot instead of taking exams, and how our final assessment is to light a show and he hopes we all do terrible designs because then we'll be able to analyze them more interestingly and learn more from them and get higher marks. Gah. I signed up for this class because, as a director, I'm sick of feeling like an idiot when I talk to my lighting designer and I want to actually be able to talk intelligently about it. But this guy makes me want to BE an LD. So much coolness.

My other classes here so far have just been, well, classes. You know. Interesting enough, in their way, but nothing brilliant. So this is a huge improvement. Maybe I really will get something out of being here.

I think I'm the only Jew in Ireland. Aside from the occasional tourist.

Nothing improves my mood faster than OMG KITTENS!

N'awwww. I would totally have a cat, if I weren't allergic.

I love thunderstorms. :)

Bork bork bork!google

Also featuring Klingon, Elmer Fudd, and Pig Latin.

ldmoonflower rocks for noticing this.

So I got back home to NYC today only to find airgiodslv's card waiting for me! Yay! *smooches*

Now that I'm all in the holiday-type spirit, must send out my own set of holiday cards. Yes.

Also, a thingy that shanalle started doing a while ago that I've wanted to emulate but had no time:
- comment and I'll pick one of your LJ interests and make you an icon.
- you have no say in what I make.
- put this in your journal so I can do the same

I LURVE MAKING ICONS. Seriously. Let me make some for you all!

Oh, shit, I should start writing my yuletide fic, shouldn't I?

http://www.peepresearch.org. Because some people have way too much time on their hands, apparently. The surgical separation of conjoined Peep quintuplets may well be the funniest thing you've ever read. Then go through the rest of the site, too. It's hilarious.

I think. Anyway, this is a nontraditional Christmas song setting a poem by John McCutcheon to this sad, sweet music by a Celtic group, Aengus. It's the story of a true incident during WWI, and it's one of maybe three songs I've ever heard that consistently makes me cry. The lyrics are beautiful.

( 'Christmas in the Trenches' )
Shalom, peace be with you.

In a little more than three days, RotK spoiler icons will be officially allowed by livejournal fandom etiquette. Which means I can start giving in to my evil iconage urges and MAKE some. That said, where be RotK screencaps? I've seen a few scattered around, but are there any specific places I should be looking? Hmmm?

In other holidaysy news, I got your card, shanalle! Yay! And I sent assorted cards and drabblets out on Friday, so y'all should get them sometime soon, God and postal service permitting.

Happy fourth-night-of-Chanukah, all! Let us ponder the many possible spellings of "Chanukah." C optional, last H optional, multiple N's and K's allowed. Chappy Hannnukkkkkka! OMG I'm such a bad Jew.

Oh my god.

Aaron fucking Boone.

That was...extremely unexpected.

Now imagine: at least 15 Red Sox fans and only five of us Yankees in the lounge. And then. Aaron Boone. Hits the SHIT out of that ball. And five lonely Yankees fans start jump up and down, screaming our brains out.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

me, quoting a Sondheim song: a girl'll feel more at ease as long as she's smelling trees in bloom.
ldmoonflower: Dom's hands inside Orli?

AHAHAHA SHE ROCKS SO VERY HARD AND SHE'S NOT EVEN INTO LOTRIPS (yet)