Brown. Hates. My. Guts.

[bedlamsbard]

Which is to say, for the second time this month, Brown has refused to dry my clothes and ate my quarters, although apparently this time it's not just me, but everyone else too, so now I have wet laundry -- clean, at least, but wet -- spread all over my bed. Have I mentioned the fact that, oh yes, I also have no clean clothes?

Now isn't that just wonderful. And it gets better: my period just started, which means I was in pain today. Not cramps, but my butt and thighs ached like hell, and then my back was in horrible pain, and then I almost threw up. Twice. Didn't, but the second time I ran to the bathroom (right across the hall, by the way) and sat in the stall taking deep calming breaths and trying to figure out if I was going to die, and once I'd figured out the answer was no, I went back to my room. Shortly afterwards, the Laundry Incident occurred and I missed dinner. Ate anyway, heating up mini pizza pockets in my friend Tracy's microwave, and watched Eragon on my laptop with her -- she was with me when the Bathroom Incident occurred, and the Laundry Incident, which involved me kicking the dryer and swearing loudly.

That said, I should probably get my laundry off my bed, even though I have no idea where to put it.

Comments

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Psh, no way. They're all pretty hot. I saw the movie just for whats-his-name the one with the dark hair who may or may not be evil?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*sniff* Murtagh. That what's-his-face?

Eragon? Does nothing for me.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, him. Mmh. Dreamy. My inner 14-year-old-girl sighs happily at thought of him.

The books aren't all that great, though they're not terrible, just not worthy of all the hype.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*sniff* Not. My. Type.

It's like Paolini went down a list of fantasy cliches and crossed them off one by one! No. Just...no.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

... but he's TOTALLY A TRAGIC HERO, which is TOTALLY your thing, isn't it? ;)

... um, isn't that what JK Rowling did, too?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*shrug* I haven't read the book since seventh grade; I never read the second book. Plus, my tragic heroes are the "loved and lost" type.

Yes, but Rowling did it with much more class.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you can call the HP books "classy", though... They're really not that well written, when it gets right down to it.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

But the subject matter's dealt with a lot better, simply because JKR has much more life experience than seventeen-year-old Christopher Paolini.

Are we going to have to agree to disagree again?

(Why yes, it is almost seven in the morning and I am awake. It helps when you don't go to sleep.)

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Haha, no, I totally agree, I'm just being difficult.

What sucks, though, is that there are some really amazing fantasy books out there for YAs, and so few people know about them because the crappy stuff like Eragon and HP has taken over.

OMG WHY DIDN'T YOU SLEEP? Tsk tsk.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Robin McKinley, Diana Wynne Jones, Tamora Pierce...HP isn't crappy, but Eragon...ugh. I suppose it helps a little bit that Hollywood's jumping on the YA bandwagon now with things like "The Dark is Rising" and "The Golden Compass", which gets people to read the books, but I mean, still...

Because I had to pack! And then my friends came in and we played Uno for a couple hours, then I packed some more, and now I think I'm going to repack some stuff because I'm pretty sure my suitcase is overweight anyway, so my backpack might as well be lighter.