“What am I supposed to do / I don’t wanna be your referee, but…”

Ugh. Lolita is a disturbing piece of work. Of course, the prose is quite beautiful and very unique, from a stylistic point of view… but being privy to a thirty-something man’s relentless obsessions over a twelve-year-old girl isn’t an entirely… wholesome experience, I’ll admit. Hahaha. Nevertheless, still very beautiful… (the language, I mean.)

Books I currently covet from afar (but haven’t the money to purchase):

• Transcending CSS by Andy Clarke
• Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson
• The Zen of CSS Design by Dave Shea and Molly E. Holzschlag

I’m also (rather relucantly and furtively, for the lack of anything better to occupy my time) looking to obtain a copy of Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer. I spent about two hours at Borders the other day, poring over manga and vegetarian cookbooks and privately debating whether it would be prudent to shell out twenty-ish bucks for the thing… that is, until I imagined a certain friend’s expression of amusement and smugness and my subsequent abashment, not to mention my disappointment/disgust and prompt disposal of the dratted thing anyway. (I did place a hold for it at the library, though. But I was shocked and mortified to discover I was no. 129 in the queue. Number 129! I mean, one hundred and twenty-nine!! (How shall I count the ways?) Before moi, there are one hundred and twenty-eight uncultivated chick-flick lovers and hopelessly lowborn readers of teen romance novels… One hundred and twenty-eight self-professed fans of the abominable star-crossed, heart-fluttering, eyelash-batting lovers Bella Capulet and Edward Montague… And one hundred and twenty-eight spineless, and in all probability mentally retarded idiots wasting away their library’s resources in order to wait hopefully in line for what’s bound to be the sappiest, most irritating piece of melodramaticized vampire romance shit ever published. Don’t they have any proper shame, the morons?)

At any rate, I’m looking forward to a meal of pasta and pesto later today. Sarà delizioso (which would be “Será delicioso” para los hispanohablantes). Hmmm, has it stopped raining yet?

I picked up my new class schedule for the year today. I can’t believe I’m posting a second time within the same day; this is… unprecedented. Oh, well, at least it’ll draw some attention away from my last entry… but not like it’s actually needed, since most of my fellow bloggers simply look at the most recent post and write some silly comment just to fulfill their moral obligation. Unlike Jenny-fa, who at times spends up to thirty minutes reading through all the posts she missed since her last visit, and then spends an additional fifteen minutes carefully selecting posts most relevant or interesting to her, and then nearly kills herself painstakingly crafting personalized responses.

Ahhhh, I didn’t really mean that. You’re all wonderful friends and I love you dearly. *hugs*

But the thing is… school is gonna suck.

I heard a rumor last year that Philip Pullman’s children’s novel, The Golden Compass, also known outside of the U.S. as Northern Lights, would soon be made into a film. Today, I found the official Web site and trailer.

Apparently, the film stars Dakota Blue Richards as Lyra, Nicole Kidman as Mrs. Coulter, and Daniel Craig (you know him from Casino Royale) as Lord Asriel. Somehow I thought Mrs. Coulter had brown hair… but oh well! The production stills look reaaaally cool.

Must-see links:

• His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass Wikipedia page
• Official Golden Compass Web site, goldencompassmovie.com
• Official Golden Compass blog

December 2007… I can’t wait.