well, i could just blog about my day

but that'd be boring. basically it was: christmas shopping, manicure/pedicures with the momster, more christmas shopping, grocery shopping, getting cookie a new sweater vest, and shoveling out the driveway because the plows finally came through and dumped a bunch of snow against the sidewalk/mailbox. see? boring.

i've kind of been on an inspiration kick lately. i guess that's good, because when i go through long periods of fangirling/obsessing over random things it's generally followed by extended periods of writing - which, you may have noticed, i just haven't felt like doing after the last few months of nonstop school/college/soulsucking writing i've been doing. so just to clear things up, these aren't my views of the year, they're just things that i've found during my daily internet/iphone wanderings.

examples include the prompt of the day at one of the writing blogs i follow. (actually, it was the prompt of the day in, like, november - i just haven't been checking it since, well, see above for the reasons i haven't been writing, you lazyass).

no retreats, no regrets.

oh, and remember that story about the world war one soldiers who had the truce at christmas and couldn't fight against each other? i always thought that was lovely, and then i got to see the history channel's documentary on it, which was amazing. i'm thinking this goes on my list of things to look up in 2010 (i would start in on it now, but i'm having such fun rereading othello and plowing through my stack of victorian-era research books in the car...they make me want to write a steampunk story). also, i like how this is flickr's idea of a relevant photo for world war one. aren't they cute?

other things which have been making my fingers itch for some post-its and a pencil so i could start outlining include this song by the be good tanyas:

really, i would've loved this song just for the lyrics well it's times like these i feel so small and wild, but the whole thing's just so happy and folky and summery it makes me think of sunshine and flip flops and forgetting everything i've ever learned.

i finished season three of the tudors, today. well, all except the sixth episode, which itunes replaced with the first episode. i wrote them an angry email (thankfully attributed to my mother, who one expects that sort of thing from, since the account is under her name) and ended up getting the whole season refunded and a promise that they'd get on uploading the right version in the next two weeks. aw, isn't that sweet of you, apple? this is why no one likes PCs. you can't imagine their customer service people are justin long.

as for the tudors, i'd explain why i like the show so much, but having just finished a picspam of Certain Characters and/or emmy-winning costuming in the notebook-who-shall-not-be-named (why, yes, i did just watch harry potter), i'm kind of tired of splainying. besides, who needs reasons to watch a show with him in it?

what am i listening to now? tourist by julian casablancas. full disclosure: s-la's blog inspired me to put him on again, since before this i was listening to the mission "m is for milla mix" by puscifer.

this didn't really have any inspirational value. i just found it on flickr and was amused.