interest & icon meme/letter meme

Comment and I will give you 3 interests on your list and 3 icons for you to explain. 

littlelaikengave me:

Culture: I honestly don't remember putting that on my interests, lol...I probably threw it in there while adding on "art" and "theater," lol. I do love going to things that one would refer to as cutural events--symphonies, going to museums, that kind of thing. I really feel like I live in an area that's starved for culture, so to make connections to it on LJ would be nice.

David Wenham: He plays Faramir in LotR, and I listed all the LotR actors in my interests. Well, the cute ones, anyway. XD

Literature: Literature is probably my most favorite thing ever. I can't get enough of reading (I own just over 1,000 books and I consider that the crowning achievement of my life), and I love it when I find someone who's read something I've read (especially if it's not well-known) and we can discuss it. It really doesn't matter if it's a teen novel or a murder mystery or one of the Great Classics, I just really love to read.


 I love C.S. Lewis's work (notably, the Chronicles of Narnia), and this quote so fits me. I do love hot tea (it's comforting and warm, especially when it's cold outside), and there's something about reading the last lines of a book that leaves an emptiness in me, even when the book was not that impressive.

 Ah, yes. Boone is a character from the first season of Lost, the first major character that they killed off. I adored him and was really, really upset, so I started a campaign among fellow fans. It's really just our way of saying that we wish they hadn't killed him--flashback appearances are not enough! I made this avatar (my only Lost-themed avatar) and also own a t-shirt with the same message. ^_^ I also wrote an AU fanfic in which Jack manages to save him.

 This one is the one closest to my heart (hence its default status); I made up this quote and had this icon made for me (back in the day before I had a GIF animator, lol). I get asked what it says fairly often, so to clarify: "I have come to consider myself...a restless Éowyn...awaiting my Faramir." Éowyn is the character in Lord of the Rings that I most identify with. Short version: She's the niece of Théoden, king of Rohan, so she's actually got a lot of political power and is left in charge of the country when the men all go to war. She knows how to fight and defend herself, and just plain is an empowered female in a story that doesn't have many. She falls in love with Aragorn, not knowing that he's already in love with and betrothed to Arwen. She disguises herself as a man and goes into battle, not wanting to be left behind "tending the children," etc. She actually ends up killing a major villain that was said to be incapable of being killed by any living man, haha. But she also gets injured pretty badly and winds up in the Houses of Healing--where she meets Faramir, who, after all the deaths and the restoration of the Kingship, is the Steward of Gondor (the King's right-hand man). They fall in love at the Houses of Healing while everyone else is off saving the world. It's pretty darn romantic, especially as it looked like neither one would get a happy ending. Anyway, in the throes of both a fresh heartbreak and my newly-discovered Ringerism (wow, it's hard to imagine a time when I was a new Ringer, lol), I made the analogy--yeah, I was hurting, but it would end eventually because that guy was just another Aragorn, and someday I would find my Faramir. I'm still looking. Maybe. (I have to say my heart skipped a beat or two the first time Duncan said that the character he always related to most was Faramir. *giggle*) And now that I've given you a dollar answer to a nickel question...




Leave a comment and I'll give you a letter; then you have to list 10 things you like starting with that letter. Post them in your journal and give out new letters to your commentors in turn.

I got P from littlelaiken, so in no particular order:

1. PB&J (the Lost couple, not the sandwich, though the sandwich has its merits, too)
2. Peter S. Beagle
3. Pippin Took
4. Pepperoni pizza (two points! wait, that's Scattergories...)
5. Posting (like, this entry)
6. Pauletta (my niece)
7. Painting
8. Poetic writing (more than actual poetry in most cases)
9. Plays
10. Planes (I wanna fly again!)

the weekend and Monday, too

( Confusion reigns... )

 

today

Bwah. I made no plans for today other than coming online. I might be hanging out with Nico later, he said he might feel like hanging out after he gets off work.

I got Duncan's voicemail this morning, it finally rang and then sent me to voicemail so his phone's working again. I left him a message this time, we'll see if he calls. (I'm kind of hoping he's been, you know, at work today and yesterday. *crosses fingers*)

Katchan called me today, and they're in their new place! Yay! She couldn't talk long, because they were headed out to Justin's new job, but she'll likely call again tomorrow. ^_^

I also talked to Mom--I guess we're not going to St. Louis for Mirielle's first birthday. They're coming here, and my grandparents are coming up here at the same time. (Now I'm really beginning to appreciate my apartment!) At least tentatively--it's still over a month away, so things could change. That'll be cool, my siblings and my grandparents can see my place. ^_^

If we're not going to St. Louis until July, though, I am definitely wanting to go to Springfield sometime in the next few weeks. I'm having a jones for a real mall, and now that I'm on my own, what's stopping me, I ask you? (Anyone else want to go?) It'll have to be after payday, but still.

I think she wants me to come out to the house tonight. I need to get out there and get my dishes--I'm finally getting the dishes that my grandmother, long before she died, promised that I could have when I moved out (was that really six years ago already?). They're orange, hence my longtime desire to have an orange kitchen. (I have a lot of orange stuff in my kitchen, I just can't paint it.) And I've been putting it off, mainly because every time I've had a day off and/or a car to get there, I've been hanging with one friend or another.

So yeah. I'm going to go check up on DLBE now, and MySpace (if it's working--it made Internet Explorer crash earlier, and just plain refused to work before that). Then I have no idea, lol.

WTF?

I was about to head home, but as I got out in the lobby I checked my phone and had a text from Duncan.

He's currently in Kansas.

*scratches head* I think he mentioned he had family out there, too, but--dang. He said he hasn't been getting service (which would explain his lack of calling me), but started getting it today out of the blue. Now I'm debating whether to text him back or just call him.

Meh. Either way I'm calling Nico first. TTFN!