mrow, ground control to major tom

re: that RL thing with mum: they haven't fired her yet. Either she's fine or she'll be abruptly sacked after her business trip. No way of knowing. I'm still barely sleeping at night from fretting, but I've laughed and smiled today, which is a step up. I'm irrationally mad at this for killing my fic writing mojo. I wanna work on RtF (aka: that fic I don't suck horribly at) very very much.

re: distractions are awesome- I have belatedly discovered That Guy With the Glasses.com, home of the Nostalgia Critic, affiliate of the KINDA AWESOME Spoony Experiment, and creator of the Nostalgia Chick. Who I love. To death. The "Ferngully", "Labyrinth", and 10 part "Final Fantasy 8" reviews are totally amazing. ♥ The Chick's Big Lipped Alligator Moment graphic and her slowly eating a banana as "Space Oddity" plays in the bg- she's a genius. I love her.

re: I have money to spend, but am too frugal to impulse buy anything- I found "Disgaea" for the DS for $26.99. I am very, very tempted. It'd be the first new game I'd bough in.... at least five years. Am on the fence on whether to buy it of not. Hrm.

-Lucy

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Gave into impulse, got Disgaea DS.

Just did the combat tutorial. So far so good. It's a bit difficult to wrap my head around (I gave up FFT after the first fight), but I'm slowly learning. Oh, SRPGs, you hurt me so.

So I had to restart firefox from scratch recently. Can anyone point me to the plug-in that gets rid of LoudTwitter posts on your FList?

ALSO WEIRD THING: Anyone find it weird how geeks have this sort of trivia osmosis thing? Like, I was watching the Spoony Experiment review of Transformers 2 (I regret ever defending that movie, wtf was wrong with me? oh right, Mum loved it and her enthusiasm is contagious) and between the random mood swings from RAGE to DESPAIR to RAGE AGAIN, they mentioned Battlefield Earth and how one of the many major flaws of that trainwreck was that the film was shot entirely in Dutch Angles.

I paused and asked myself, "Now, what is a Dutch Angle?"

I swiftly recalled that a Dutch Angle is a crooked shot in cinematography. As in, instead of being parallel to the ground, the shot is tilted to the side. Good for the occasional tense shot, but REALLY BAD for an long segment, let alone an entire movie.

... WHY DID I KNOW THAT?

-Lucy