Wow - just woke from a really odd dream. I dreamt that we were in a very large canoe, sailing placidly through the reed-sea behind one of the local towns (and trust me when I say that the only water (save the ocean) that's anywhere near this - is a small, artificial pond). So... we enjoy this quiet ride - and then Ride of the valkyries starts out of hidden loud-speakers and we're rushing across a hanging bridge as the big finale to this canoe-trip.

Well... at least that's what I think. In reality, it's the beginning of a crazy-ass roller-coaster-ride. Ups, downs, loops, corkscrews. The last bit's even inverted (and don't ask me how we're suddenly hanging with our feet dangling. It's a dream, yeah?).

And throughout this crazy trip - I'm laughing! I'm enjoying it. Which is far and away the oddest thing about this dream, because in real life I hate roller-coasters. I might go on the really tame ones with just a single fall along the way. Or the ancient one in Tivoli in Copenhagen, which goes up and down and up and down and... you get the picture, yeah? But this dream one? I was laughing!

... I sure as heck hope it heralds good things for my future life-changing experience... :-)

Oh... man. This ad makes me laugh hard (and drool, just a little). Could we get more of these, hunh? Just to balance out all the scantily clad women in ads?

Okay, just had a ( Merlin-binge )

My thoughts.... ( behind a cut )

May I direct your attention, Rickman-fans, to the video on this page titled: I'm too sexy. Because... man, he is... *drools discreetly*

Enjoy!

Bold what you've read, underline those that you liked,
make itallic those you have partly read, put a ◘ for those you've seen the movie.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ◘
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien ◘
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ◘
4. Harry Potter series- JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ◘
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ◘
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald ◘
23. Bleak House- Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams ◘
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ◘
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell ◘
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown ◘
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery ◘
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert ◘ (My all-time favorite sci-fi series!)
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ◘
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas ◘ (My all-time favorite books!)
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding ◘
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker ◘
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ◘ (I'm in love with the Muppet-version)
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ◘ (beautiful movie)
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
89.Adventures of Sherlock House - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ◘
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (I have never been so bored in my life!)
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas ◘
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare ◘ (The Kenneth Branagh version is four hours well spent!)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl ◘
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ◘

All in all... not too shabby, I don't think... ;-)

Yeah. That's the conclusion I've reached. Why?

( Because they do! )


So... yeah. Kinda annoyed by the "moms" today.

I just woke up from the most awesome dream. ( And... cut )

Occasionally? I love sleeping. :-D

Oh. My. GOD! Could Arthur and Merlin be any more married? The scene on the battlement! The late-night conversation in firelight! The late-night conversation about beds and floors and OMG Arthur's bare foot! *flails*

Please, for the love of Merlin, tell me this show doesn't get any slashier than this, because my heart just won't take it.

BOYS!

The Jolly-cola ads from the early nineties.


Here's hoping it works...

Stargate. Way back when, I remember not wanting to watch, because it looked like every bad sci-fi-show ever made. Oh, and it had that guy I'd seen, occasionally, with his stupid mullett.

I'd watched the movie, obviously, and loved that (my love for James Spader and Kurt Russell knows no shame!), so eventually, I figured I might as well give it a chance.

Needless to say, 10 seasons, 5 seasons of Atlantis, 2 movies and a truck-load of books later, I never looked back again. :-)

... does there exist a story (or stories), where Arthur goes to Gaius to get a potion or something to combat the way he's beginning to look at guys?

'cause if there doesn't, I kinda want to write it... ;-)

I'm nominated for the NCIS awards in the Gibbs/DiNozzo category. "I'm more Jack Russell Terrier" is nominated in best AU and best Humor. :-)

Not going to win (seriously? I'm up against Xanthe. I rest my case!) - but somebody loved my story enough to nominate it. :-D

There's a glut of brilliant fic in the SGA-fandom, and I'm a sucker for angsty transformation-fic. beadattitude's Checkmate-verse pushes all of my buttons. It's gen a good long way through, so you don't have to be a lover of McKay/Sheppard to read it.

In brief: Sheppard gets turned into a cat. He still thinks like Sheppard - just in a black house-cat shape. Seriously. This is the fic that made me seriously think about getting a cat or two... :-)

... What're you still doing here? Go read! :-D

Jim and Blair from the Sentinel. No, really. Yes, they are so married! :-D

Yep, just like the subject says. Astolat is writing Arthur/Merlin-fic! I gotsa new fandom! Shiny! :-D

Uhm... speaking of... recs or lists of recs greatly appreciated from those Merlin-fans out there... :-)

I hate fan-fic writers who encourage people to comment on their fic - and then never bother to reply to the comment!

... I think I'm going to have to start a list of writers who won't bother with a simple 'thank you' to the people who put some effort into commenting about their fic - 'cause in that case? I'd rather make the effort with other writers who might appreciate getting comments about their fic!

Sit in the shadow with a tall, cool drink and a good book.

Alternatively, inside with every door and window closed. If I'm careful, I can keep the temperature one or two degrees celsius below the outside temperature - which is a good thing if there's no wind outside.