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1. My roommate and I went to see Howl's Moving Castle on Sunday, and while I was rather startled at how much the plot was altered, I still enjoyed it. She enjoyed it too, and I think I persuaded her to read the book. ^_^ I was explaining to her how the original story went, and I realized that some of the alterations left serious plotholes in the movie version (because Diana Wynne Jones does tie up the details neatly, and it's difficult to rearrange such a tightly built structure). I was also a little bit annoyed by the voice actor for Howl, who had a strange tendency to slip into a monotone when he only had one line to speak. But really, otherwise they did an excellent job of dubbing. (I think I'll have to see it in subtitles though, if I see it again.) And well, it's a Miyazaki film. Really beautiful.
Afterwards, we sat on a bench in Boston Common and ate the bacon and egg sandwiches we packed for our lunch. There was some sort of outdoor concert going on, not far from where we were sitting and we had a nice view of the park and the buildings across the street (they were the sort of gracious old buildings that Boston has so many of; New York's old buildings are always just a little snobby, but Boston's are unambitious despite their impeccable upbringing). We didn't speak much but enjoyed the sunny weather and the pleasant sensation of liberation that comes from idling away a Sunday afternoon. I haven't written much about my roommate, but I think I can best describe her as a person with whom I can sit in silence and not feel lonely.
2. Finished Claudius the God and Shadow of the Giant, currently engaged in reading Paths of the Dead. I've been debating over whether I ought to include a link to my reading blog or not, and I've finally decided to "bare my soul" to the interested: infinityblog. If you haven't already found it, that is; I do have a link to it on my personal site, although it's pretty well hidden among many dead links. (It's odd that while the reading blog has only impersonal subject matter, it feels much more private to me.) I'm still in the middle of writing about the books I read from late March to May, but I do have everything up to early March 2005, and I've vowed to keep it up to date during the summer.
3. Posted up the Wa! FST yesterday, if you're interested. I changed it considerably from before, and to my surprise I managed to find songs with remarkably appropriate lyrics. O_O No, I don't know how it happened.
4. Today, we hybridized three slides, and the experiment went so smoothly that despite my sleepiness, I felt deliriously happy on my way home. Excuse the cliché, but I suddenly realized that I was alive, the world was amazing, and if gravity were not an issue, I would want nothing better than to just bounce up into the air. The intensity of it startled me. I mean, I've always been certain that I was meant to be an academic and moreover a scientist, but still, it's peculiar, the kind of joy that the sheer menialities of experimental research can inspire in me. A few days ago, I wrote an email to Mr. Randolph telling him that despite everything, I thought that I was probably happier than I've ever been before, and today, I realized it was true. I am happy. Take away all the surface stress and pressure, and beneath it all, I'm actually happy. Most of all, I want to do this for the rest of my life. I want to spend all my days in lab and come home exhausted afterwards. I want to design experiments and carry them out again and again until something works. I want all of it, even the boring, frustrating, confusing moments. I don't know what it's like to fall in love or even just become infatuated with someone, but I think it must feel like this beautiful, almost ridiculous delight.
5. I think I finally figured out how to write the Death Note fic![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sub_divided requested in that meme a month or so ago. Now, if I only could pull it off...
Yours &c.
1. My roommate and I went to see Howl's Moving Castle on Sunday, and while I was rather startled at how much the plot was altered, I still enjoyed it. She enjoyed it too, and I think I persuaded her to read the book. ^_^ I was explaining to her how the original story went, and I realized that some of the alterations left serious plotholes in the movie version (because Diana Wynne Jones does tie up the details neatly, and it's difficult to rearrange such a tightly built structure). I was also a little bit annoyed by the voice actor for Howl, who had a strange tendency to slip into a monotone when he only had one line to speak. But really, otherwise they did an excellent job of dubbing. (I think I'll have to see it in subtitles though, if I see it again.) And well, it's a Miyazaki film. Really beautiful.
Afterwards, we sat on a bench in Boston Common and ate the bacon and egg sandwiches we packed for our lunch. There was some sort of outdoor concert going on, not far from where we were sitting and we had a nice view of the park and the buildings across the street (they were the sort of gracious old buildings that Boston has so many of; New York's old buildings are always just a little snobby, but Boston's are unambitious despite their impeccable upbringing). We didn't speak much but enjoyed the sunny weather and the pleasant sensation of liberation that comes from idling away a Sunday afternoon. I haven't written much about my roommate, but I think I can best describe her as a person with whom I can sit in silence and not feel lonely.
2. Finished Claudius the God and Shadow of the Giant, currently engaged in reading Paths of the Dead. I've been debating over whether I ought to include a link to my reading blog or not, and I've finally decided to "bare my soul" to the interested: infinityblog. If you haven't already found it, that is; I do have a link to it on my personal site, although it's pretty well hidden among many dead links. (It's odd that while the reading blog has only impersonal subject matter, it feels much more private to me.) I'm still in the middle of writing about the books I read from late March to May, but I do have everything up to early March 2005, and I've vowed to keep it up to date during the summer.
3. Posted up the Wa! FST yesterday, if you're interested. I changed it considerably from before, and to my surprise I managed to find songs with remarkably appropriate lyrics. O_O No, I don't know how it happened.
4. Today, we hybridized three slides, and the experiment went so smoothly that despite my sleepiness, I felt deliriously happy on my way home. Excuse the cliché, but I suddenly realized that I was alive, the world was amazing, and if gravity were not an issue, I would want nothing better than to just bounce up into the air. The intensity of it startled me. I mean, I've always been certain that I was meant to be an academic and moreover a scientist, but still, it's peculiar, the kind of joy that the sheer menialities of experimental research can inspire in me. A few days ago, I wrote an email to Mr. Randolph telling him that despite everything, I thought that I was probably happier than I've ever been before, and today, I realized it was true. I am happy. Take away all the surface stress and pressure, and beneath it all, I'm actually happy. Most of all, I want to do this for the rest of my life. I want to spend all my days in lab and come home exhausted afterwards. I want to design experiments and carry them out again and again until something works. I want all of it, even the boring, frustrating, confusing moments. I don't know what it's like to fall in love or even just become infatuated with someone, but I think it must feel like this beautiful, almost ridiculous delight.
5. I think I finally figured out how to write the Death Note fic
sub_divided requested in that meme a month or so ago. Now, if I only could pull it off...Yours &c.
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Date: 2005-06-15 03:44 am (UTC)Yeah, there were a lot of changes. Man, the Japanese need to get over WWII. ::rolls eyes:: ::grumble:: They should also finally get it in their brains that they were the bad guys ::/grumble::
ANYWAY, back to HMC. I read the book after watching the movie, and I realized 1. No hats. I liked the hats. 2. The Witch of the Waste's character was totally changed (No Teacher-woman, what's her face). There was nothing about the whole crazy quest to create the perfect man. 3. That whole other universe in Wales was gone. I really liked that idea. It goes so well with her other books.
Aww man, now I want to read my Crestomanci books again. Gaaah~ I also have to finish Hellblazer and Dark Tower I&II and reread RTK to start the second volume and Dragon's Winter and While England Sleeps.
;_; Grandma also wants to watch the Earthsea series, and kinda so do I. I have doctors appointments tomorrow and thursday, and thursday night I want to go watch Batman Begins with
...Um...Sorry for blabbing on your journal. I should probably move all this to my journal, but I figure I'll probably complain about this a lot anyway and I'm kind of rambling but I think I'm on some kind of Chinese Opera high. ...o_O
Um..Feel free to ignore this.
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Date: 2005-06-15 11:02 am (UTC)I miss the Wales thing in Howl's Moving Castle too. And the romantic relationship was a little too overdone, I thought. But it was still a great movie. XD
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Date: 2005-06-16 03:17 pm (UTC)theme: it's a small world
Date: 2005-06-20 08:40 pm (UTC)It's a very small world, and this summer keeps insisting on making that point. I forget what's happened so far to remind of that, though.
Re: theme: it's a small world
Date: 2005-06-21 12:10 am (UTC)