Evil Wrapped in a Fangirl Disguise

The problem with having nothing to do is that you have a lot of time in which to do nothing.

Today my nothing-ness has included: reading, writing, and watching Horatio Hornblower and deleted scenes/bloopers from Pirates of the Caribbean. Which is all fun, but really not very productive in any sort of way. Except for, perhaps, the writing.

I noticed on HH today that in Duty Bush is totally ready to climb into the cupboard to get away from Maria's mother's advances. I hadn't noticed that before! "Tell me, are you married Mr. Bush?" "No, I am not..." He's just about bent over backward to avoid her. Poor William. Also, I rather like Midshipman Orrock. And, of course, Admiral Pellew. Who is almost attacked by Maria's mother as well. I wonder what Pellew's back-story is anyway?

And then watching the deleted scenes/bloopers from PotC I realized that Kasey was, in fact, right. There is no way I will ever be able to put PotC on at school and not be sucked in. Even during the Will parts. I will spend the entire wondering why Elizabeth is such an idiot and lament the fact that no one loves the commodore. (Except Jack, but that's another distraction all together. Heh.) The other half of the time I'll be distracted by Commodore Norrington himself and Captain Sparrow. Because, yeah.

Oh, I hope my grades don't suffer too badly.

Speaking of Will though. I think I've figured out my problem with him. A bit. It's not Will so much as it is Orlando. And not so much Orlando as it is his method of acting. It's strangely declarative and that kind of bothers me. Possibly this will improve with more roles that involve more acting and less action I will come to appreciate Orlando. But as it stands? Give him to the penguins.

But I suppose the declarative way of speaking does serve the character of Will. He's young and naive and pretty opinionated. And young, naive, opinionated people like to state things. *shrug* I don't know. I do find that I'm liking Will in several of things I'm reading, however, so I'll just blame Mr. Bloom at the moment.

So, yes. This is all true.

So, like, I would have been on-line last night, but the blasted internet refused to cooperate. Sigh.

Tom started school yesterday, first day as a high school sophomore, and apparently it went well. Tomorrow is his birthday and we're going to Wenatchee. Whoopdy-ding.

Today Neesha and I met for lunch at a new Mexican restaurant in Royal. It was pretty good, although I couldn't finish. How Neesha finished I will never know. And I'm not sure I really want to. :) Then we went up to the hs and bothered random people/teachers. It was odd to be semi-introduced to Mrs. Neiffer's September Experience student teacher with first names. Sometimes I forget that I'm old enough to be allowed first names now. Hmm. So I came home and we all had dinner at Grandma's as an early sort of birthday thing for Tom. Fun fun. I made the salad (so HA crazy aunt!) and the rice. And they didn't suck. So there.

I only have one more chapter/story left in Mr. Midshipman Hornblower and then I can continue on. Unfortunately I have now watched all of the HH movies that A&E has thus far made. This makes me somewhat of a sad panda. :( Although I can re-watch and re-watch as much as I like, but still. I want more Horatio! And Pellew! And Bush! And Styles and Matthews!

I also just accidentally allowed my Commodore Norrington Love to approach "insane" again. Whoops.

I also re-established my utter geekiness by ordering a Farscape poster. To keep my map of Middle Earth and Neverwhere poster company in my dorm room. *big geek*

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And now, some messages for my friends:

overjoy - I'll try and continue writing. Good luck with your first day of high school!

bunnysan - Good luck at the job interview!

trademybike - I read the bit of script that you sent me, have comments, but AIM is being uncooperative. Arse. Also, happy (slightly early at the moment) birthday!

There is a really big part of me that can't wait to get back to school just because of the people. Very little time to be mind-numbingly bored when you've got so many people to occupy your time.

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Have continued watching Horatio Hornblower. There's only four movies left, I believe. And Lt. Bush shows up in the next one, which makes me v.v. happy. (Paul McGann!! *li'l Paul McGann crush*) (Although I did rather like Edrington. *li'l Samuel West crush*) Random observation: Everyone's hair extensions are really long.

I have a secret. Well, not really. Anyone following the fandom should know it by now. That's all I'm going to say. I'm not even going to specify the fandom. mwuahaha.

Angel Season 4 comes out on DVD September 7. It's the really heavy Wesley season. And Wesley/Lilah. Plus the gorgeous Gina Torres, even if the method of getting her on the show was worthy of major ick. Mostly I don't care about Connor, but rather liked the end of his little arc on S4 (ie. "Home" and whatever episode it was with Cordy in the church). But the Cordy/Connor thing? *shudder* Ew.

So, yes. I've discovered that I'm watching/reading way too much period stuff because my method of conversation has slowly become more wordy, which gives me a chance to use larger words that I'm usually forbidden to use around friends. I am a word freak. 'Tis fun.

I finally caved.

Horatio Hornblower - The Complete Adventures and Horatio Hornblower - The New Adventures should be here in a week or so.

Whee!!

*napoleonic-era navy geek*