one of my two current landladies, Miss Britt (the other one is Adventures in Everyday Life), has prodded me to post! well, i can’t blame her, and if there are any new readers or surf-bys out there, just so you know, i normally don’t post only Star Wars book reviews.
i’ve been sick for a week, and i can’t believe it’s been this long, so all i’ve done is read Star Wars comics! 
i’m about to read James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia, which is the current book selection of a Book and Movie Club that Brian and i are going to join. this club sounds cool because on the days they meet, they see the movie of the current book. or if it’s an older movie, i think each member rents the DVD to watch beforehand. lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll (sorry–that was Hopper’s contribution.) after the showing, the book and movie are discussed over dinner.
my head isn’t as stuffy, but my nose is still running, like non-stop. and i feel physically exhausted. i’ve only left the house twice in the past week: on Saturday to see my therapist, who i haven’t seen in two weeks, and yesterday, which was the first day of the Beginning Metalsmithing class i’ve been wanting to take at the nearby Art Center. (yes, we managed to scrape up the tuition in spite of our financial setback–thanks a motherfuckin’ lot, IOP.) the intro class i took over the summer was only 4 weeks long, but this one is for 10 weeks and i’m very excited about it!
i can actually saw several pieces of metal at a time now, without breaking a blade more than once! woohoo! i’m currently working on a brass pendant in the shape of a star, but it’ll be made up of 6 pieces, not just one. each of the star’s legs will be connected to the body with brass jump rings that i make myself and then hammer flat so the legs don’t flop around.
it’ll be easier to post a picture, and i know i promised to post pictures of my last projects, but no matter how many i take, they all come out blurry because of the zoom. if i don’t use zoom, though, you can’t see the details. it’s been really frustrating. so i figured i’d just go ahead and give the pendant to my sister and the ring to my aunt as planned, and hopefully they’ll be able to take decent pictures. i’m pretty sure their cameras are way better than mine. but if anyone’s just dying to see the pendant (photos of the ring just wouldn’t come out), i’ll be happy to post one. or two.
well, off i go to lie on the couch reading SW comics–i mean, The Black Dahlia. heehee.
the book-and-movie club does sound like fun, doesn’t it?
metalsmithing sounds cool. can you show us pics of your work?
(y) YAY for classes starting! BOO for being sick. (n)
What I want is confirmation of whether or not the book is always better than the movie…
LOL, I can be a crabby landlady, can’t i? I hope you feel better soon!! and yee-hawwww on the classes!
Miss Britt is SUCH a HAG!!! (Please tell her I said so!!! Trust me, it’s the NICEST thing I’ve said about her lately. LOL) Love your blog! Hope you are feeling better, I can’t think of anything worse than a summer cold… or perhaps the stomach flu in the summer. Heat and illness never work well together for me. :s
I thought you meant your real-life landlord at first. But you meant Miss Britt? She’s a cute landlord.
Let me know how that book is, k? I’ve heard a lot about it, but am not sure I’d like it.
Thanks for hugging Angelo for me. I felt it.
pantheranon, yes, it does. i just hope i have the book read by then.
maggs, i’ll try to post something when i can produce a photo that’s worth posting! (p)
KG, Miss Britt, and Amy, the cold is just about gone now, but i can’t believe it lasted as long as it did–and it was my second cold this summer! (n) i hear that it’s going around, though.
i’m very excited about this metalsmithing class. i really enjoyed it over the summer, and i have the same instructor, so she knows me already. it’s great for self-esteem because when you finish a project you can say, “wow! i made that!”
Miss Britt, bitchy though you may be :d our last (offline) landlady was a total fucking whore. no, actually, she was just stupid. i’ll take bitchiness over that any day!!!
Amy, thanks for stopping by! (y) i really do write about stuff besides Star Wars.
Jane, i’m about to go off and continue reading that book, but i think you’ll like it a lot, if you like to read stories that take place in California. this one is set in 1940s L.A. i’ll write a review, of course, and then you can decide. (c)