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I am supposed to be working on a paper that I have taken an incomplete for, but I am so damned sleepy that I am not entirely certain that I can function properly. Thus, the internet will have to accept my random ramblings.
-I have settled on a policy to deal with the LJ/Facebook crossposting PR disaster- I will keep crossposting to LJ but all comments are going to have to show up on DW. Sorry to all my LJ-only friends- I do have invite codes if you are interested in switching over and I am seriously pleased with Dreamwidth. I will still reply to comments on LJ, but I am not going to put things out there that I don't want.
-I have recently watched all three Godfather movies. I have seen at least snippets of all three, by which I mean I walked through the room while my parents were watching these movies, but didn't pay any attention myself. Which was mostly the movie-watching pattern of my high school years- I'd start a movie with my family and then get bored by the first hour mark, go and do something else, and come back for the ending. Maybe. You'd be surprised by how many movies are not damaged at all by missing the middle sections. (Caveat: does not work for anything made in black and white. Dunno why, the plots are predictable enough. It might have something to do with my inability to tell white men apart onscreen.)
-Watching all three Godfather movies ( see, this was the point I meant to get to in the first tangent, but I got distracted!) has made me reconsider my love for all things mafia. I mean, there are SERIOUS PROBLEMS with the Godfather series: women don't show up as anything but honorable and boring wives or bad and boring wives. I think that Kay is probably the hero of the second film, but I didn't see enough of her to really delve into her character arc. I really did love the way Michael came home to find that Kay was at her sewing machine; it's a trope used to show a woman as a virtuous and industrious wife in Rabbinic and Greco-Roman literature, and finding it reused in modern cinema was kind of a kick in the head.
But, there is style. And a kind of penis-havers-only honor to the system, in which everyone else can go fuck themselves but you'll still stand by your don. It's crazy, but it's kind of intriguing. Except for the fact that I CAN'T HAVE IT. Because I have no penis myself, and thus no ability to accrue honor except by marrying well. I can only get secondhand penis-honor. And while I am enthusiastic about having a penis-owner share said penis in a manner beneficial to both parties, I am not so keen on having to share honor. MY HONOR, DAMMIT.
-I am willing to read any AU in which characters are reimagined in a mafia/cosa nostra setting. ANYTHING.
-I am now taking Biblical Greek, which is mostly review for my previous study of Greek, but it's a really useful study. Judging from the problems I'm having reading ahead of the class (which my prior education should leave me easily able to do), I do stand in good need of the review. But dammit! I wanted those class spaces for other things!
-I am trying to fit taking Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian into my class schedule. I dunno if it will happen, but it would make me happy and I'd be able to chat with the Boy in his native tongue. So, yeah.
-I have settled on a policy to deal with the LJ/Facebook crossposting PR disaster- I will keep crossposting to LJ but all comments are going to have to show up on DW. Sorry to all my LJ-only friends- I do have invite codes if you are interested in switching over and I am seriously pleased with Dreamwidth. I will still reply to comments on LJ, but I am not going to put things out there that I don't want.
-I have recently watched all three Godfather movies. I have seen at least snippets of all three, by which I mean I walked through the room while my parents were watching these movies, but didn't pay any attention myself. Which was mostly the movie-watching pattern of my high school years- I'd start a movie with my family and then get bored by the first hour mark, go and do something else, and come back for the ending. Maybe. You'd be surprised by how many movies are not damaged at all by missing the middle sections. (Caveat: does not work for anything made in black and white. Dunno why, the plots are predictable enough. It might have something to do with my inability to tell white men apart onscreen.)
-Watching all three Godfather movies ( see, this was the point I meant to get to in the first tangent, but I got distracted!) has made me reconsider my love for all things mafia. I mean, there are SERIOUS PROBLEMS with the Godfather series: women don't show up as anything but honorable and boring wives or bad and boring wives. I think that Kay is probably the hero of the second film, but I didn't see enough of her to really delve into her character arc. I really did love the way Michael came home to find that Kay was at her sewing machine; it's a trope used to show a woman as a virtuous and industrious wife in Rabbinic and Greco-Roman literature, and finding it reused in modern cinema was kind of a kick in the head.
But, there is style. And a kind of penis-havers-only honor to the system, in which everyone else can go fuck themselves but you'll still stand by your don. It's crazy, but it's kind of intriguing. Except for the fact that I CAN'T HAVE IT. Because I have no penis myself, and thus no ability to accrue honor except by marrying well. I can only get secondhand penis-honor. And while I am enthusiastic about having a penis-owner share said penis in a manner beneficial to both parties, I am not so keen on having to share honor. MY HONOR, DAMMIT.
-I am willing to read any AU in which characters are reimagined in a mafia/cosa nostra setting. ANYTHING.
-I am now taking Biblical Greek, which is mostly review for my previous study of Greek, but it's a really useful study. Judging from the problems I'm having reading ahead of the class (which my prior education should leave me easily able to do), I do stand in good need of the review. But dammit! I wanted those class spaces for other things!
-I am trying to fit taking Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian into my class schedule. I dunno if it will happen, but it would make me happy and I'd be able to chat with the Boy in his native tongue. So, yeah.
