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bedlamsbard* Am back in Ellensburg. Shockingly, only one flight slightly delayed. (Naturally, while we were actually in the plane.) I actually got back about two in the morning yesterday, but I am spending a shockingly small amount of time on the computer, for two reasons: baking, and The Cowriter has fled the country. Also, mother-daughter bonding.
* My mother bought a KitchenAid mixer. I think I've found my new best friend. *pets*
* Knitting in the airport: gets you comments. One lady came up to me in MSY and stared at my sock in awe; she was a knitter, but she'd never seen anyone knit on DPNs before! And on the plane from Houston to Seattle, the guy across from me leaned over and asked what I was making. "A scarf," said I (having brought two projects with me). "For your neck?" he asked. "...a scarf," said I, "for my neck."
* The seats in front of me on the IAH-SEA flight were filled by a woman and her two daughters; her husband was one of the stewards, and they were just adorable.
* I took The Lion King 1 1/2 out of the library; it makes much more sense when one reads the director's notes and notes it's basically the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead of The Lion King (my favorite Disney movie ever), except then I had an irristable craving to watch The Lion King, so I dug out my VHS tapes and prayed that the VHS player was still hooked up and working. Holy shit, there is no menu screen. And you have to rewind. And VHS is so big and bulky. And the video quality is so bad. BUT THE LION KING IS STILL THE BEST THING EVER although looking at it as a twenty-year-old instead of a four-year-old, there are occasional really creepy undertones and also I want to write fic.
I have got to get The Lion King on DVD.
Also, watched Aladdin. Jasmine! Also, I basically want a Lion King/Aladdin crossover. Can we get that, please? Tomorrow, I think the other two Aladdin movies. (My main thought on Aladdin aside from "Jasmine!" and "crossover!": holy shit, they could not have made this movie post-9/11.)
(Dude, my VHS collection as a kid was wide and varied. I don't have The Little Mermaid because it was (gasp) before my time, and for some reason I don't have Hercules or Mulan (possibly they came out after my parents stopped buying Disney movies for me?), but I do have Tarzan, and also, The Wilderness Family trilogy. I am actually quite surprised my dad didn't follow their example and take off for the hills. Used to watch those movies all the time! Also, In Search of the Castaways. And Iron Will. Loved that movie so much when I was younger; totally wanted to go run the Iditarod.)
* The bad news. Or at least, the not-so-great news. My dad is in Laos, or possibly Thailand -- I think Laos at the moment -- and we thought he was coming back next week, but that turns out to have been last year's itinerary; he is actually coming back on Friday, which means that he will be coming back while I am here, and that will be awkward, because I am still pissed at him (and do not at all want him to bring up my course of study, because as we've established, he does not approve of MEMS, and I'm sure he's definitely not going to approve of a triple major with Classics and English lit, not that it's not his fault for pushing me towards all those things in the first place), and this vacation is supposed to be relaxing. *glowers* Okay, calm thoughts, calm thoughts.
* My mother bought a KitchenAid mixer. I think I've found my new best friend. *pets*
* Knitting in the airport: gets you comments. One lady came up to me in MSY and stared at my sock in awe; she was a knitter, but she'd never seen anyone knit on DPNs before! And on the plane from Houston to Seattle, the guy across from me leaned over and asked what I was making. "A scarf," said I (having brought two projects with me). "For your neck?" he asked. "...a scarf," said I, "for my neck."
* The seats in front of me on the IAH-SEA flight were filled by a woman and her two daughters; her husband was one of the stewards, and they were just adorable.
* I took The Lion King 1 1/2 out of the library; it makes much more sense when one reads the director's notes and notes it's basically the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead of The Lion King (my favorite Disney movie ever), except then I had an irristable craving to watch The Lion King, so I dug out my VHS tapes and prayed that the VHS player was still hooked up and working. Holy shit, there is no menu screen. And you have to rewind. And VHS is so big and bulky. And the video quality is so bad. BUT THE LION KING IS STILL THE BEST THING EVER although looking at it as a twenty-year-old instead of a four-year-old, there are occasional really creepy undertones and also I want to write fic.
I have got to get The Lion King on DVD.
Also, watched Aladdin. Jasmine! Also, I basically want a Lion King/Aladdin crossover. Can we get that, please? Tomorrow, I think the other two Aladdin movies. (My main thought on Aladdin aside from "Jasmine!" and "crossover!": holy shit, they could not have made this movie post-9/11.)
(Dude, my VHS collection as a kid was wide and varied. I don't have The Little Mermaid because it was (gasp) before my time, and for some reason I don't have Hercules or Mulan (possibly they came out after my parents stopped buying Disney movies for me?), but I do have Tarzan, and also, The Wilderness Family trilogy. I am actually quite surprised my dad didn't follow their example and take off for the hills. Used to watch those movies all the time! Also, In Search of the Castaways. And Iron Will. Loved that movie so much when I was younger; totally wanted to go run the Iditarod.)
* The bad news. Or at least, the not-so-great news. My dad is in Laos, or possibly Thailand -- I think Laos at the moment -- and we thought he was coming back next week, but that turns out to have been last year's itinerary; he is actually coming back on Friday, which means that he will be coming back while I am here, and that will be awkward, because I am still pissed at him (and do not at all want him to bring up my course of study, because as we've established, he does not approve of MEMS, and I'm sure he's definitely not going to approve of a triple major with Classics and English lit, not that it's not his fault for pushing me towards all those things in the first place), and this vacation is supposed to be relaxing. *glowers* Okay, calm thoughts, calm thoughts.
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Date: 2010-03-29 12:15 pm (UTC)If I could offer you sanctuary, I would. Alas, I missed taking photos of some very Arenvaldish bits of Germany. Will send postcards-- New Orleans or Ellensburg?
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Date: 2010-03-29 06:02 pm (UTC)...I should send postcards from Ellensburg. Our postcards are very Wild West.
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Date: 2010-03-29 04:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-29 07:07 pm (UTC)Hmm, I'm not as sure about the undertones now as I was last night -- I think I may be pinning on what I know about lion prides to the movie. But my personal canon for why Nala left Pride Rock -- besides the mention in canon of "finding help" -- is because Scar was going to rape her, and she fled, in the vague hope of finding an unattached young male lion, and since she was the youngest and the prettiest in the pride, she'd be able to entice him back to challenge Scar in whatever way she could. So it was a really good thing she found Simba. Also, the whole idea of Scar taking over the pride, which by nature is made up of lionesses: HOLY SHIT, LION RAPE.
Yes, I know, I am depressing. Um. Here is some Simba & Nala to make up for it?
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Date: 2010-03-29 07:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-29 07:51 pm (UTC)Except for the fact that now whenever I see the line "you belong to me" I start thinking of Taylor Swift, and the combination of Scar and Taylor Swift makes my head explode.
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Date: 2010-03-30 12:11 am (UTC)(Nobody ever thinks of Nala being a Disney princess! I didn't realize until you said it flat out right here that she totally qualifies.)
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Date: 2010-03-30 12:17 am (UTC)I'm not quite sure if Nala counts as a Disney princess or a Disney queen, since by the time she hooks up with Simba, Simba's king, and thus she's queen -- unless you count the fact that she's almost certainly Mufasa's daughter as well, and thus a princess by those grounds. But Simba and Nala's daughter Kiara is definitely a Disney princess.
*googles* Hmm, well, at least Nala's included on the Princess Collection 2 CD. She's more of a princess than Mulan is, though!
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Date: 2010-03-30 12:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-30 12:39 am (UTC)...also I would like a story where Mulan, Nala, and Jasmine hang out.