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do you hear that ominous music?
i. Well, drat. Xanga is eating my entries. So I am posting here instead. Said entries mostly consisted of 'AGH THERE ARE ADOLESCENT BOYS INVADING THE PEACE AND SANCTITY OF MY HOME'. Which is to say that my brother is having a birthday party. Mostly they have been quiet, because they were watching a James Bond film (not, unfortunately, the one with JOHN CLEESE IN IT AHAHAHAHA) and are now watching Astro Boy cartoons, but they have had a good deal of sugar and I am just waiting for the storm to break.
The cake is quite good, though. (And I've got batter and icing smeared all down my cape. Oh, dear.)
And the pizza, which is Dad's doing, and he made me a bit with sesame seed crust, which is really very marvellous.
ii. You know what someone ought to make? TONKS BARBIES. I mean, come on, there are Lord of the Rings dolls. I want a Tonks one. With hair that changes colour when you put it in hot water. And lots of outfits to play with. (And![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lady_moriel tells me that there are Tenth Doctor action figures. !!!!! Yes, one of those, too, please. He can sit on my bookshelf next to Gollum.)
iii. There are some ramblings up on Ink & Chocolate concerning Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Paradise Lost, and Dubliners. And my musical coming of age.
iv. Edited to record this gem of a conversation:
Mum: Well, guys have issues we don't understand.
I: Yes, but we've got more issues--pregnancy, periods, mood-swings--
Brother's friend: EEW, PERIODS.
Brother: What's so bad about punctuation marks?
Mum & I: [nearly choke to death]
The cake is quite good, though. (And I've got batter and icing smeared all down my cape. Oh, dear.)
And the pizza, which is Dad's doing, and he made me a bit with sesame seed crust, which is really very marvellous.
ii. You know what someone ought to make? TONKS BARBIES. I mean, come on, there are Lord of the Rings dolls. I want a Tonks one. With hair that changes colour when you put it in hot water. And lots of outfits to play with. (And
lady_moriel tells me that there are Tenth Doctor action figures. !!!!! Yes, one of those, too, please. He can sit on my bookshelf next to Gollum.)iii. There are some ramblings up on Ink & Chocolate concerning Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Paradise Lost, and Dubliners. And my musical coming of age.
iv. Edited to record this gem of a conversation:
Mum: Well, guys have issues we don't understand.
I: Yes, but we've got more issues--pregnancy, periods, mood-swings--
Brother's friend: EEW, PERIODS.
Brother: What's so bad about punctuation marks?
Mum & I: [nearly choke to death]
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That conversation at the end was great! It reminds me of the few we've had here between my little brothers (three of them, though they are a little more understanding of how females work). I remember my sister having asked my youngest brother to get her the heating pad. He looked so scared afterwards and he pulled me aside, asking me if her having her period was going to kill her.
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Right now I'm kind of angsting over Finnegans Wake's total lack of apostrophe. It really hurt to type that out. But I am rather interested in reading more Joyce, eventually.
Hee! My brother is thirteen, and has womanly issues explained to him, but he finds them so utterly horrifying that he blocks them out. (If my mother or I use the word 'breast', he admonishes us in a very shocked sort of way. ^-^)