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Friday, January 5, 2007
Well, scheduling managed to screw me over, although not for anything I need for my certificate. Just for stuff I really wanted to audit. Sigh. I will lay off the whining about Greek this quarter, I promise.

Ye Olde Movie Reviewe: “An Ideal Husband”. If there’s one thing that can make me swoony, it’s a ne’er-do-well British aristocrat played by Rupert Everett. Possibly that is the only thing on record that can make me swoony.

Saturday, January 6, 2007
Ye Olde Movie Reviewe: “Brokeback Mountain”. Okay, so I gave up after about half an hour. Mostly my thought train ran like this: “OMGWTF? You just made a big deal out of how cold it is! Jake Gyllenhaal is going to freeze his ass off! You cannot let Jake Gyllenhaal freeze his ass off!”

Ye Olde Movie Reviewe: “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason”. Okay, so I gave up after about five minutes. Maybe I’ve seen too many movies lately.

Ye Olde Movie Reviewe: “Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Gawain and the Green Knight”. *ded from so bad. SO BAD.* I wrote a summary/parody/dialog/bad, bad idea, but I don’t think I could do the badness justice. Not that that’s ever stopped me. It features The King Notarthur, Sean Connery, The Loyal Humphrey, John Rhys Davies, Sir Gawain, Morgan Presumably le Fay, and The Ugliest Unicorn Ever. If anybody wants to read it, let me know and I'll email you individually. Available in regular and profanity-and-innuendo-reduced versions.

Monday, January 8, 2007
SPOILERY REVIEWE SPOILERY REVIEWE WARNING SPOILERY REVIEW Okay, ye be warned.
Ye Newe Movie Reviewe: “The Painted Veil”. I liked it. It was very beautiful. A very quiet movie, for something so sweeping. Edward Norton’s accent sounded kind of forced, but it sounded like that in “The Illusionist” too. But he was totally believable as a conservative, stoic bacteriologist. Or was it virologist. Anyway. I liked the story, except that part I didn’t like. They were so sweet after Ye Olde Night of Drunken and Probably Drugged Passione. I was kind of hoping they could have a happy life together. But no. Ah well. I love what she says to Walter Jr. about Charlie at the end.

Friday, January 12, 2007
I have a job! A real one! With timesheets and payrolls and official-sounding things! I’m the new Bibliographer for the Classics Department reading room. I have already started a notebook entitled "Classics Reading Room Notes, or, Chronicles of a Local Biblioprotective Deity". I will do stuff like re-shelve books, type card catalog cards (yes real cards!) with a real typewriter, yell at people for bringing in food and drink if I catch them at it, and occasionally take out the trash.

Does anybody know of any cleaning products that are relatively safe to use around books? (The cleaning staff probably hasn’t been in there in years. The dust bunnies are obviously dangerous mutants.) How about where I can find a detailed chemical explanation of the damage done to books by the presence of food? (Besides attracting rodents and insects, I mean.) The more it has to do with pH changes the better (yes, I am evil. I want to see my victims’ eyes glaze over with boredom and complete, terrified awe). (Yes, I also like parentheses.)

My first mission: to ascertain the whereabouts of one errant A. Walde and J.B. Hoffmann, “Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch”, Vol. 1. I am excited beyond all reason.