Much Ado About Absolutely Nothing

[zana16]

Had the weirdest dreams.... I will not go into them as they involved a romantic situation between my dream-self and a certain Lance Bass of NSYNC who I have never felt the slightest attraction to, but apparently my subconcious does. Ick. Fortunately it did not feature pop music, as I would subsequently have committed myself to an insane asylum.
Tho Kirkpatrick ain't half bad. :)

Am once again spending my entire day at work reading Harry Potter fanfiction. It doesn't help that it's the second day of a strike by all those working for the government, ie teachers and subway drivers. Have I mentioned that if Chirac had been for the war, the revolution over his idiotic social security plan (what has prompted these strikes) would have converted Paris into a bloodbath? Really. I'm only slightly exaggerating. We would have occupied the Elysee, for God's sake. The man's just barely retaining his legitimacy by being against the war on Iraq, just as Bush is barely retaining his legitimacy by being for it. So anyways, all the metros are running like once an hour and I work across town. Not fun. I don't mind when there's technical problems and the metro has to stop in the tunnel, but I do mind when there's technical problems and I'm trapped in the metro and cannot move for the sheer weight of people around me. I firmly believe that the metro sucks my soul.

In other news, after two brilliant and interesting editions, Newsweek International has gone back to being propagandistic crap. Excuse me while I go bitch in the corner and nobody listens.

Fortunately, the plot-bunny that bit about that fanfic I wanted to write? Petered out just as I was outlining about page 300. I think I intimidated it. Go me!

Everyone in the LJ fandoms are raving about X2, which I might conceivably be excited about, given that what's her name, Hally Berry, looks really hot in the posters and queerasjohn has created a few cute userpics, but not having seen the first one and not really being into this type of movie, I will probably not see it until August, when I am home and can see it in the dollar theatre with my brother. Funny, I'm one of those people who go see all the movies of this genre even though I know I'm not really going to like them. Even HP was a disappointment. Just finished rereading the books (SO good--I really don't remember why I didn't like the 4th one, it was quite good second time around) so that I could beta in the HP fandom. I beta'd lucyhale HP fic, and didn't catch a canon error, so I figured I'd better reread if I want to understand the 5th when it comes out next month. I'm really a lot more excited about it now than I used to be. Oh! Matrix Reloaded comes out here on Friday, so I'll be able to see that too, which is nice. Am determined to stay only in the background of fandoms and beta, etc. I will not be a fullfledged slash-writing fangirl. Will not.

Erm. So, entry today is more fluffy than usual. But I got some people I actually know accounts on LJ! Okay, so I'll admit I know at least a third of the people on my friends list. But they aren't nearly as prolific writers as the other two-thirds.