The Daily Adventures of Mercat

Riding The Beast in the dark is one of the best things in a long time.


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This afternoon there was an absolutely perfect snow flurry. Fluffy flakes, but not windy at all. Even a shade of sun poking through. It didn't last long, but it sure was beautiful. I was happy, for that short five minutes, that I was outside walking back from class and not inside hiding from the cold. :3

I've been in such a fluffy mood the past couple days. I think it's a damning combination of Christmas on the horizon and a full-out double-plus Indiana Jones marathon.

At any rate, I found a new challenge. I was going to start it up tonight but I'm exhausted and I have a lot to do tomorrow... Unfortunately, for about 36 more hours, it's still finals week.

Hm. I really can't decide whether I want to call it IJ4 (like I have for years) or KotCS? I think I like IJ4 better. =)

Hmm, I promised you a countdown, now, didn't I? =D I love making up "events" for my LJ.


INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL COMES OUT IN ONE HUNDRED DAYS PRECISELY

One hundred days to go, today's trivia: Did you know that foam used for the original set for the scene at the beginning of Raiders can still be found at Kipu Falls on the island of Kauai in the state of Hawaii? (You know the falls, it's the in the background the first time you see Indy in Raiders.) And yes, we're going there over spring break, and yes, I'm going to do my damndest to get some of it.

=D

WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS HOW EXCITED I AM RIGHT NOW


[fakeEDIT] Hee, I think that's big enough, now that I've successfully f'd up your friendslist =^n.n^=

One hundred days' love from the mercat~

This is looking to be a good week.

Firstly, I have a HUGE backload of posts I've been meaning to make (since January) with all the Hawaii updates, too. That's gonna have to wait because you know what I just spent the last five hours doing? This:

(Secondly)I think you all should read this link about Anonymous and Scientology. It's just the beginning. Fascinating. Hilarious, but unforunately memes don't translate well to real life protests (MINUS the Guy Fawkes masks).

ALSO? There are ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DAYS until INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL is released. In celebration, starting tomorrow, I will post EVERY SINGLE ONE of the hundred-day countdown with some interesting piece of trivia or information.

Also!!!! THE TRAILER COMES OUT THURSDAY (with Spiderwick) I am so excited you have no idea. Fuck Valentine's Day, I have more important things to worry about. Like studying history for my two tests Friday so I can see this movie on Thursday and then watch the trailer online Friday a million jillion frillion times.

SO. My huge epic post of catching-up-ness is still forthcoming. My sincere apologies. Anonymous and Indiana Jones have taken over my life. Happy V-day to meeee! =D

I! am in a good mood.

Finally.

And I don't mean, things are better, because they're not. But I am HAPPY.

What did it take? A babysitting job. Well, "babysitting." She was already in bed, so I wached TMC. Yeah, classic movies. My weakness. Like kryptonite. I was raised on them... and I know for a fact they're a good chunk of why I am the way I am. I watched the end of a movie with Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire (I think) and it made me want to get up and dance and sing... and take tap again... but not that modern crap, ugh. Lol. =) Seriously, Fred Astaire is my hero.

Anyway. Classic musicals... I just... yeah. That's me. That's what I like, that's what I want, that's how I live. It just is.

And then I watched part of a documentary on Stanley Donen, who did the direction and some dancing and did lighting stuff for whatever movie I watched, plus On the Town, and Singin' in the Rain, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (haven't seen it, but loved performing it), along with many others.

So. Fred Astaire, Stanley Donen, a toast. With lime jello. Because that's what I ate right now since I couldn't get ice cream downstairs to celebrate how hyper I am again. I was happy, and I was loopy, and I was starting to get that almost-drunk quality that Captain Jack Sparrow has that I realized I'd picked up after I saw the second movie. That or it was always a part of me, AND OH MY GOD I NEED TO GO BUY THE SPECIAL EDITION DVD... BONUS EXTRAS, WHIMPER WHIMPER...

Anyway, linkspam.

A good post about believing in God, of sorts. It's incomplete but I read most of it (tired, sorry, it's been hell lately), and I agree with what I did read. If I missed something major, you might want to let me know. http://infinidimincorp.livejournal.com/94573.html

So people over on metaquotes were talking about huntsmen spiders today, which are apparently large, flat spiders that live in Australia that come in under the door or whatnot and hide around the house. They can be as large as wall clocks, and are difficult to kill. And ew. So, being metaquotes, someone mentioned that they'd seen an ice spider larva (Antarctica, thank god) burst out of a penguin's body and spit acid out. So I had to see these ice spiders. TWO AND A FUCKING HALF FEET LARGE. EW EW EW EW EW EW thankgodtheyliveinthedeepcoldwaters. So the first link: http://www.auburn.edu/academic/science_math/cosam/research/antarctica/2006/journal/6/11/index.php and the second: http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/nsf/fguide/arthropoda-2.html ew ew ew ew

Robin Sparkles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mJAsgIIfNM (yeah... I finally caught up on How I Met Your Mother via YouTube.)

MI6 on James Bond: http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/articles/opinion_05_no_armour_left.php3


So I ate lime green jello, and rutabaga, and milk to celebrate.

I fucking win. =^n.n^= (And hopefully I'm going to the zoo on Sunday, too! And I think I'm ready for Christmas, too. Hooray!)

[EDIT] Plus... Jimmy Buffett's birthday is on Christmas, someone just reminded me today. =)

I am SO. FREAKING. MYSELF. =^n.n^=