Maledicte

• I downloaded the first two parts of the BBC miniseries The Virgin Queen which has Tom Hardy (Mr. Eames from Inception) in it as Robert Dudley. He is young and adorable and I am enjoying him in the role of my favorite courtier. His accent makes me grin like an idiot. Clearly I should move to England and have many hot English affairs. That, or I should be kept far far away from the country... One of the two.

• Also, why is Tom Hardy so hot. Like... stomach clenching hot. (Why yes, I will be looking for icons of him after I post this.)

• Also, this miniseries has strangely amazing music. I might have to see if I can find it somewhere.

• I make a pretty spectacular sweet tea. It's made of PG Tips (hah, I seem to be on a British theme at the moment) and it's decaf. All hail decaf tea. It makes me so delighted and not ill.

• I'm not pregnant! ...just thought you all should know.

• I am, however, counting down the days til a Blackberry becomes mine. Both of my thumbnails are broken, and this makes using a touch screen phone rather difficult and imprecise. We hates it, we does. Guys, how many of you have Blackberrys? Is Blackberry Messenger at all useful? I've seen like... 8billion commercials for it via Hulu, and it makes me wonder. Mostly it makes me wonder how it's at all different from texting. We'll see.

• Because I am leaning to associate getting a Blackberry with it, I'm thinking of getting my haircut. (Association is only because the place I get my hair cut—just Mastercuts in the mall—is near to the place I'll be getting my new phone.) Actually, since I'm letting my hair grow out to its heart's content—what a strange image—I'm thinking about getting bangs. Like... straight across bangs. Probably modeled somewhat on Leverage's Parker's bangs. Thoughts? Ideas? Criticisms? Comments? Anything at all? I have enough sense not to do this myself, at least. Y'all ought to be thankful for that. My hair grows so fast—I swear the long face-frame-bangs I got sometime before June 20th (journals are so useful for keeping track of dates) have grown an inch. I got them cut to just below my cheekbones, and they reach my chin now. So... if I totally hate having straight bangs, at least they'll grow out fast? Hah.

• I miss NYC. And my friends who are there.

• Between writing the beginning of this post and now I have downloaded the soundtrack to The Virgin Queen. It's really beautiful.

• Ever notice that the BBC has some of the most amazing TV? It has not escaped my notice that I really like a whole lot of the things that they make. Maybe I should see about getting IT ALL. (Laugh with me.)

• Time to go exercise and then sleep. (And by that I really mean watch the next part of this miniseries and then exercise and sleep.)

• Today I bought a "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster that was on sale at Allposters.com—as well as Mucha's four seasons, also on sale—and found a place that has a skin for Blackberrys that says "Keep Calm and Carry On" on the back. Aaaand then I remembered that Etsy is my friend. So I bought a necklace with—yeah, you guessed it—"Keep Calm and Carry On" on it for $2.99. I... might have become a little obsessed. So what.

• My new favorite variation is "Freak Out and Break Shit". It cracked me up.

• My dad and I watched Bounty Hunter—that movie with Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler in it—tonight. It's been a long time since I've seen a movie that bad, and I am counting Clash of the Titans and taking into account the 5 good lines Bounty Hunter had in it. So bad. But it was only $1 to rent. So eh.

• I might need various "Keep Calm" icons. Just sayin'.

• Feeling less fucked up today, but that might only be because I've had less time to think, really. Because...

• I've been rereading some of Lackey's books. There are certainly good moments to them.

• I want a smoothie so badly right now. But it's too late to drink the whole thing, and it would be loud to make it in the blender. Life is hard, obvs. I will just have some limeade instead.

It's definitely time to curl up with my journal and a book. And maybe tonight I won't forget to take my contacts out before I go to sleep.

• Alas, no car for me. Or, not that car. It had a thing wrong with it that would take too much to fix. So now I keep looking. On the upside, I have an appointment to take the road test on Aug. 9th. So. Hopefully there is still a car in my future. At least there is probably driving in my future.

• Also, no phone today. Verizon tricked my mom into thinking that I was eligible for an upgrade, but it was this weird early upgrade thing where you pay not quite as much as buying the phone outright, but if I just wait a month—til Aug. 22—I can get the expensive blackberry for free. So, we shall wait. *taps foot impatiently* I will look forward to not having a touch screen. I am way bothered by it now.

• My tattoo is all itchy, but I know if I scratch it it's going to hurt—or at least tingle and ache. And I have a feeling that one of the things they forgot to tell me was not to pick at it when it peels. But it's making me fidgety. And it itches! I keep almost scratching and then remembering not to. I won't always remember, damn it.

• I was looking at ads for kittens on Craigslist. Even though I am not getting a kitten at any point in the foreseeable future. Kitten. Wants.

• Um. I would like things in my life to stop not going my way. I mean, I don't expect everything to go my way, but I'd like a couple things to go better than they have been. And no one seems to have useful advice on what to do, including myself. Pretty much the only useful things is today's Twitter horoscope and a random twitter from a new friend. Otherwise.... so much mental flailing.

• I posted over at my writing blog: Say Nevermore: Thought: Large Ensemble Casts. Now that I'm reading more, I'm sort of finding more things to say about writing in general. I can sort of feel a few other blog posts forming, so here's hoping. (That or I'll start writing book reviews.)

• I got home safe from Colorado. Car was fixed and didn't give us any more trouble. Whoo!

• My mother is annoyed at the fact that I don't have a driver's license yet. She's all, "Let me take charge of this!" Which sort of has me going, "Yeep!" Still... Go Mom?

• There is no earthly reason for me to be thinking about it, but I'm thinking about a new cell phone. My mom just got a Blackberry, and now I'm all, "Hm, I like your QWERTY keyboard..." Still, I have a while to go before I'm up for a replacement (my birthday, incidentally, is my renewal marker). Still, now I'm all ponder-y. (I'm so over touch screens, so even if iPhones come to Verizon, I'll probably pass. Even if they are awesome.)

• Today may or may not be a good day. I don't know yet. I'm hoping things will shape up such that it's a good day—obviously, who hopes for a not-good day?—but we'll have to see. I'm gleefully keeping my fingers crossed.