Dear Phantom,

Please come in from the cold.

I'm sorry that I haven't caught you. I'm too dumb for hints and the postmark on the last thing had me chasing my tail.

PHANTHOM, I AM ON TO YOU.

I KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND AT LEAST TEN OF YOUR USERNAMES,

I WILL GET YOU BACK IN A THANKFUL SORT OF WAY, I SWEAR IT.

SERIOUSLY PEOPLE.

FLIST. LOVELY FLIST. WONDERFUL FLIST FULL OF PEOPLE I LOVE AND WHO LOVE ME.

ARE YOU THE PHANTHOM?

Look, just anon post. I left this public so that you can, and I'll probably get spam, or whatever. I don't care. I just need to know if it's one of you guys or one of, like, not-you-guys. Though I do not know who that could be.

Whoever you are, thank you so very very much and I really will draw you that thank you picture very soon.

THIS IS A MYSTERY THE LIKES OF WHICH I CANNOT TAKE.

I should have been asleep an hour and a half ago but then I went crazy and need your help.

There is this one xkcd comic I want a print of but it's not for sale on the site. This is for a gift so I need it to come out nice. How can I print the web image as nicely as possible? Is my printer my only option? If I take the image file to. Office depot can they make something nicer? Any knowledge you have about this would be amazing. Thanks!

Trying to sleep now...

I promised Lea an in-depth review of Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, and I intend to deliver, but I just want to express my thoughts on what was a big area of concern for me, namely the dedication.

( Cut if you don't want to be spoiled )

POSSIBLY SOME OF THE MOST EXCITING NEWS I'VE HEARD LATELY.

( Christopher Robin and Pooh to be reunited in new sequel )



I mean, really. That there is some Sheppard-esque art. I'm mildly concerned about adding a new character, but I do love otters. Basically, I NEED THIS BOOK.

Really, though, Amazon sends me notifications for things I looked at ONCE. With all the Pooh stuff I've bought, why did I have to learn this from my newspaper?

Two comments about books.

1. Did you know that S.E. Hinton isn't dead? I really thought that she was! I find this news surprisingly soothing-- she was Nathan's favorite author so it's sorta like learning that something I connected to him is still around. Anyway, I learned this yesterday whilst perusing the library. I found a Hinton book I hadn't read before, and found a publication date of 2004, which shocked me because again with the thinking she was dead. I checked the book out and it looks pretty good. I got a little bit too excited over that Amazon summary-- it said "genre-bending" and I read "gender-bending" but oh well :)


2. I saw that Pat Conroy has a new book out. I joked "Oh God, what war were they in this time?" But then Borders sent me an e-mail pimping the book which contained the following line: Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. Let me repeat. An amiable, loving father. Seriously? In a PAT CONROY novel? My expectations are not totally wrong, though-- someone in the protagonist's past does commit suicide, and he's involved in the "60s counterculture" which means Vietnam again. But still, the thing about the father. This is like a John Irving novel in which no one has a bizarre fetish and there aren't any prostitutes.


......I have to stop posting now. My Dad just turned on MSNBC and some woman is claiming that the health care plan is going to turn us in to Russia and violate the Constitution, and now someone is trying to claim that someone is saying that sharing their views is unAmerican and I just...I am either going to scream or sob or slam my head against a wall because I cannot handle this shit.

'tis an entry about Star Trek. I know some of you may be sick of it, so I'm cutting. Also, I'm crazy.

( trek )

Stuff and the like--

1. I have been meaning to say for weeks now that I loved the bachelor party on House, especially Thirteen doing body shots off the hooker and Foreman paying extra for it <3

2. I subbed at my old elementary school last week. Actually, after weeks of striking out I've been getting a lot of Wyandotte jobs, which I love. I love being back there. I love driving down streets and seeing houses built in eight different decades, I love the stone and brick of the schools and how they've aged, how the steps I climbed for seven years still have those same gorgeous tiles. I taught a fifth grade class in my sixth grade homeroom, subbing for the older brother of the valedictorian of the graduating class before mine. I taught a girl whose older brother sat by me in math.

3. My mother recently had a fit of self-indulgence and talked me into doing the same. Thus, I decided that life is short and I really have saved well and bought a Wii (and Wii Fit.) This is my birthday present from me to me. I loves it so very very much. AJ and I basically spent most of the day embarrassing ourselves by failing miserably. The only downside is that my Mii is huge in Wii Fit, which makes me giggle and frown at the same time, since my mom and AJ are sticks and my dad is, while not itty-bitty, still not at all big. That's okay. I'm the only one with a big happy smile too (plus I made all the Miis for my family and can change them horribly if I want ahahahahaha.)

4. I wrote, like, three more pages of my Duke G fic! That fic is so old, it's not even in my main folder anymore. Go team me. Also, while looking things up, I found the TVTropes entry for Tortallverse, and whoever wrote "The Big Guy: Oh my god Raoul" IS MY HERO. Was it one of you? WAS IT? You should totally tell me if it was.

5. I am almost done with Cherie Priest's Four and Twenty Blackbirds. I would be totally done if only I didn't keep falling asleep every time I try to read.

6. I changed my journal again. Someone named boo put up a CSS style sheet for thieving, so I thiefed it, changed the colors and the image, and finally have the style of my dreams.

I have a favor to ask. For the past few days people have been posting their dreamwidth user names and I've been saying "oh, okay, I'll go back and add that person when I have a moment!" Except, uh, I ran out of moments and now I can't find the names anymore :( So, if you recently posted your username and I haven't added you, and you aren't thinking "gosh I wish I could get rid of Chrissy" then please tell it to me here. Only I can see your results, so your privacy is safe with me.

Poll #1394066 DW
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What's your dreamwidth name?