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Boston in the fall
So, since my last entry, I have:
given my big end-of-semester presentation;
gone to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
speakerender's suprise birthday party;
gone to our friend's wedding reception;
watched Free Enterprise withxerahanadu and enemy_anime;
had the annual July family barbecue;
Written a bunch more verses of the CitH/XF crossover story.
Oh, and today, Mr. Dan and Linda took Mom and me out to lunch for her birthday and out to see that movie with the pirates in it.
It was a very good movie; far better than I'd been expecting - *pretty*, and some wonderful character moments, and great new characters, and just like the first one, great fight scenes. It was essentially the fanfic I've been wishing for two years that somebody would write, and better than most of the fic, so it had that going for it. It suffered from two problems, though: Too many characters, none of whom ever managed to stay sympathetic for more than about three minutes at a time; and a plot which depended on characters being repeatedly stupid. Especially the fact that apparently everybody in the entire movie (including Will) forgot that William Turner is a BLACKSMITH!
Arrggh. I just wanted to yell repeatedly at the screen: Will, you're a freaking master blacksmith! I know you look good shirtless and whipped, but You Can Just Make Your Own Copy! Arrrr.
Anway, I would go into more detail, but now I only have about two hours left to not do the stuff that I'd normally spend all weekend not doing.
given my big end-of-semester presentation;
gone to
speakerender's suprise birthday party;gone to our friend's wedding reception;
watched Free Enterprise with
xerahanadu and enemy_anime;had the annual July family barbecue;
Written a bunch more verses of the CitH/XF crossover story.
Oh, and today, Mr. Dan and Linda took Mom and me out to lunch for her birthday and out to see that movie with the pirates in it.
It was a very good movie; far better than I'd been expecting - *pretty*, and some wonderful character moments, and great new characters, and just like the first one, great fight scenes. It was essentially the fanfic I've been wishing for two years that somebody would write, and better than most of the fic, so it had that going for it. It suffered from two problems, though: Too many characters, none of whom ever managed to stay sympathetic for more than about three minutes at a time; and a plot which depended on characters being repeatedly stupid. Especially the fact that apparently everybody in the entire movie (including Will) forgot that William Turner is a BLACKSMITH!
Arrggh. I just wanted to yell repeatedly at the screen: Will, you're a freaking master blacksmith! I know you look good shirtless and whipped, but You Can Just Make Your Own Copy! Arrrr.
Anway, I would go into more detail, but now I only have about two hours left to not do the stuff that I'd normally spend all weekend not doing.