jade_sabre: (potc:  finally)
Y'all I am having the worst academic day ever.

I was late to Fiction Writing, totally read the wrong section for 19th Century Philo and thus spent the entire class going WHERE DID HE SAY THAT?, and am now utterly failing to read the Dryden poems I'm supposed to be reading (to be fair, I'm halfway through Absalom and Achitophel, but still).

BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER BECAUSE BRIAN WILLIAMS AND TOM BROKAW HAVE BEEN TELLING ME ALL ABOUT HOW BARACK OBAMA IS OUR PRESIDENT NOW.

P.S.  I keep bursting into tears randomly, and looking for people to hug.  I wonder where everyone is?  Oh well, we're having a party in like half an hour, maybe there will be people to hug there.

P.P.S.  Y'all I can't even believe it's real.  Except it IS.

P.P.P.S.  That Lunar Rover machine thing?  SLICK.  *applauds*

P.P.P.P.S.  I like how Michelle brought the Bushes a housewarming present.  And I do agree that George knows how to make an exit.  I'm excited that they get to go back to Texas.  It's really where he's wanted to be, all along.

P.P.P.P.P.S.  SO HAPPY.
jade_sabre: (glee)
y'all I'm terrified.

I'm almost too afraid to keep watching.

hey where does the vice president live?

MALIA AND SASHA!

okay I need to keep doing my fiction writing now.

edit:  Michelle I am not sure I like what you're wearing.  Your girls, on the other hand, are adorable.

George looks nervous.

Cheny had an accident?  That is sad.

Also way to preempt the media by suggesting the Strangelove similarities, Tom (at least I think that's Tom?  I'm feeling very soothed--watching on MSNBC, btws).

son of edit:  OH MY GOD HE DOES LOOK LIKE STRANGELOVE HAHAHAHA I LOVE IT.

okay Michelle it's green, not yellow.

dude I think the girls might have gotten more applause than he is.  It could just be the microphone.

daughter of edit:  OH MY GOD THERE HE IS sometimes I scare myself with my simultaneous love for and fear of (and for) this man.

Joe Biden!

sharecroppers!  not good, but still.  TOM STOP IT YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE ME CRY.

...HOLY CRAP LOOK AT ALL THOSE FLAGS WAVING.

HOW DID WE GET HERE I LOVE IT.

edit edit edit?:  Rick Warren AMEN.  Well done.

also we have tear sheddage.  No need to run for the kleenex yet.

editx4:  SING IT ARETHA.

editx5:  WE HAVE A NEW VICE PRESIDENT Y'ALL.

editx6:  plz to be seeing my reply to Checkers's second comment for my thoughts on this part.

can you imagine playing in 20 degree weather?  holy crap.

hm this is a little modern-y for my tastes

oh that's better, thank you Itzak.

Yo-Yo is so psyched.

on a side note, snow keeps falling off my roof and catching the sunlight and making it really bright in my room at very startling moments.

oh I liked that.  Thank you, John and co.

editx7:  HERE WE GO YOU GUYS

LOLOLOLOL phew he's human!  he makes mistakes!  he can't remember long strings of complicated words when he's nervous! 

That makes me feel better.

editx8:  WE HAVE A NEW PRESIDENT YOU GUYS.

HE IS SHINY AND NEW.

STOP CHANTING HIS NAME AND LET HIM TALK.

stiiiiiiiiiiiiiill haven't finished my fiction writing thing.

yeah, you tell us how it sucks.  because it does suck.

YES THEY WILL YES THEY WILL look we have a new chant.

<3333333333333333

what is that woman wearing on her head?

HELL YEAH

I really want to call my friends back home now.

Tuskegee!

OKAY.

COME ON CONGRESS WORK WELL PLEASE.

look at his breath it is so cold outside there.

does it work?  no.  but I think WE CAN MAKE IT WORK.

he speaks so well, y'all.  so well.

you go Malia.  Work that camera.

DADDY REFERENCE also heck to the yes INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP.

BUILDING IS GOOD.

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY YOU HEAR THAT AMERICA says the girl building up a nice package of student loans.

oh I like the people gathered on the statues.

okay my battery is going to die, so I'll have to stop this particular commentary, but...

I AM SO HAPPY.



jade_sabre: (love you)

Psalm 100

A psalm of thanksgiving. Shout joyfully to the LORD, all you lands;

worship the LORD with cries of gladness; come before him with joyful song.

Know that the LORD is God, our maker to whom we belong, whose people we are, God's well-tended flock.

Enter the temple gates with praise, its courts with thanksgiving. Give thanks to God, bless his name;

good indeed is the LORD, Whose love endures forever, whose faithfulness lasts through every age.








I’ve already made my thankfulness list; but know that I’m thinking of every one of y’all today.








Look at what was outside the window on Monday :

I hope you spend the day with loved ones, or at least feeling loved, and that you have a chance to say thank you, to somebody, somewhere. Even you non-Americans.   :-)






jade_sabre: (stars)
THERE IS A GIANT RAINBOW OUTSIDE THE COMPUTER ROOM WINDOW.

it is already fading, flickering in and out of existance as the rainclouds roll in over Angers.

and those rainclouds are huge.  And also already raining.  Oh wet bicycle seat, you and I are old friends.

Oh look!  The rainbow is moving with the clouds.

I like taking pictures of the sky.  If I could paint, at all, I would do nothing but skyscapes:  dawn, the light bright blue right after dawn, the the deep blue with the fluffy white clouds, the grey-on-grey-on-black stormclouds, the sky right now, with its layers and levels of clouds, and sunset, and night, with a halo around the moon and the stars, all around.

I like looking at rain from far away, too.  I like looking at trees on a drizzly day.

which reminds me of this, from the train on Friday morning:



Expandbecause it seems like musing on a train is a time-honored tradition or something )
jade_sabre: (does not approve)
GOD DAMNIT ARTEMIS.

That pretty sums up my feelings about the whole book, as penguinkye will testify.  I loved it, obviously.  It was a lot like the last one in terms of last-minute wait-what-the-hell-oh-God-no-you-can't-be-serious plot twists (and not too last minute, I mean I could physically see how much more of the book there was to go, but geeze).  It is an incredible, fun, fast-paced novel, just like all the others, and the characters...the characters...

GOD DAMNIT ARTEMIS

the characters are, as usual, awesome.  I love the Artemis Fowl books because they're well-written (the occasional comma splice, but you get used to it), incredibly funny (including potty humor which, at this point, has become funny because of sheer character connection), and guaranteed to take you for a fun ride.  I highly, highly, HIGHLY recommend going to the library and getting them and reading them.  Or, heck, buying them.

Also, I still want to know where Eoin Colfer gets all this time to travel and stuff.  [livejournal.com profile] rowana, if you ever meet him again, ask him for me, okay?  Or...wait...*scurries off to website*

See, I bought The Time Paradox right after it came out.  I paid $17.99 for this book.  I never buy books wholeprice unless I have a giftcard to (damnit, I did have a giftcard to burn, I just now realize) burn, but I love Artemis Fowl THAT MUCH.  A brief listing of my affections for them:

Artemis Fowl is love.  Just pure, twelve-year-old genius vs. fairy love.
Artemis Fowl:  The Arctic Incident is CRAZY TIMES IN SIBERIA love.  Also Holly is pretty in a black-widow kind of way.
Artemis Fowl:  The Eternity Code was, for the longest time, the last book, and it is such a satisfying last book too, which says a lot for it.  (Also I got it while waiting for Goblet of Fire to come out.)
Artemis Fowl:  Opal Deception was the surprise, the HOMG WHAT NEW BOOK?  It is not as good as the previous three, because Eoin Colfer (who is the author, btws) had a bit of trouble with the two different kinds of Artemises he had.  I have only read it once (versus multiple times on all the others).
Artemis Fowl:  Lost Colony is HOMG SUPERFANTASTIC OMG LOVE.  I was a bit wary of getting it after the disappointment of Opal Deception, but in this one, Artemis is back in all his glory.  I LOVE this novel.

Which leads me to Artemis Fowl:  The Time Paradox
Expandcut for spooooooooooooooooooooilers )
jade_sabre: (losing voice)
Oh f-list.  Oh my dear, dear f-list.





Secondly...oh come on, all of you know what I'm about to talk about...




Thirdly, for just a few things I thought were weird...



And I think that was it, which brings us to...



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