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Hello Elllllll-jay! Sorry for not posting for ages again: I just haven't felt the urge to actually turn on my laptop this holiday season. I've been mostly hanging around in the living room enjoying our epic new HD TV, or gaming, or reading. I do have a cookie recipe for you, though!





It's a family tradition to make these at Christmas, but there's nothing that makes them intrinsically Christmassy, so you should go make them right now. You won't regret it.


We got an Xbox 360 for Christmas, collectively, and I've been playing Dragon Age: Origins. Chose a human mage to begin with, and it's tons of fun so far. :D I put points into cunning and the coercion skill, which means I can make NPCs do almost anything I want in conversations. It's pretty sweet. I dunno what specialisation I should go for, though. Blood Mage is out, since I'm being good, so maybe Arcane Warrior. I am going to shut up now, because no-one cares.

(I am also hitting on Alistair the Grey Warden guy as much as possible, because he is adorable. When you give him a gift he likes, he goes "R-really? This... this is for me? ;_;" like no-one has been nice to him ever before.)

I got Assassin's Creed II, as well, but I am determined to play them in order, so I'm waiting for Amazon to send me AC I.

Got some other great stuff, too, like a sexy jacket, books, socks, and a subscription to and back-issues from Current World Archaeology from Tim, which have actually been stopping me from reading the books. I really miss Archaeology, I have realised.


I've also been to see Sherlock Holmes and Avatar. I want to take Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law out of that film and insert them into a better one, so I can enjoy their brilliant interactions in a better plot.

As for Avatar, I am in two minds. It's cliché, and shallow, at times offensively so, but I adore the look. Especially the creature designs, fuck yes. Giant fantasy animals, insect and dionaur/reptillian influences, bioluminescence... basically they are pushing so many of my aesthetic buttons that I managed to completely ignore the stupid cat people for most of the film, in favour of the pretty colours.

Oh, except for their language, which was sort of cool, I guess, but that's probably only because I know they had it especially designed. Though I agree with this, in that I'm not sure why you'd go through the trouble of having a language made if the rest of your alien culture couldn't be more of a Noble Savage cliché if you were actually trying.

To be honest, though, I wasn't really expecting better. Sorry, films, I have low expectations of you.

But fuck it was pretty. I'm probably going to go see it again for that. Oh, and because I feel that every ticket might just be encouragement to make more sci-fi films. Alien planets: they work! Now put a good plot on one! Please?


I'm turning 22 tomorrow! It is common knowledge that, while I am ageing in a linear fashion, my greatness increases logarithmically. I've been in a pretty good mood, lately. Come on, 2010! Let's have a good new decade. :D
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