Small Things

Yesterday got outfit for Eathan; he's really happy.

I so love Warren Ellis, and Royce.

(Went and got vols. 49-51 of Transmetropolitan yesterday--since it looks like the date for bringing them out in collected form is nevereverever. Can you tell I love them? Will bring back to the Mawr to share the joy.)

Also, got substantial work done so far. More tomorrow, even. Though sadly (I fear) no zoo trip as I wanted--got sucked into fascinating book about toy industry instead.

Found Interesting Information, here Presented in Two Parts for the Edification of the dutiful Reader:

( Part the First )

( Part the Second, of a much more Salacious Nature )

Song Lyrics

It's very rarely that a song makes me almost cry while driving down the middle of a highway. Forgot to post this this past weekend.

I'm gonna fly someday
someday I'll soar
'cause I'm bigger than my body
gives me credit for

You must read these lyrics. Yes, you, right now. Click.
Need to find out if all songs on album are like this. Amazing.

400 Years of Queen Elizabeth, 1 year of Marketing Smoking Something

Writing has fleshed out my thesis. Yay.

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I saw today (when my mom brought in the mail) a catalog full of fine gifts--china, glassware, $100 tchotchkes to take up dust off your custom-designed mantelpiece.

There was also a great Queen Elizabeth doll--beautiful, and I found it hard to believe that come 2004 she'll have been dead 400 years. Maybe (okay, yes) I've studied too much Renaissance drama, and too much history, but I still feel like Elizabeth (I just can't bring myself to refer to her as Bess) is still here influencing everything about Western culture since her birth and beyone her death.

That's an amazing thing.

Also, there was a set of King Henry VIII and his Wives fabric Christmas ornaments. If it hadn't been incredibly expensive I would have bought it. I find the concept of decorating your tree with the wives of Henry VIII both amusing and redemptive, somehow. Though it was rather hard to tell which wife was which.
I'm bringing the catalog back to school with me, the ad is going to go up on the board. :D