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Entries for this round of wc20in20 -- my movie was The Emperor's New Groove!

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Come join in the fun! Doing something a bit different this time - less about the screencaps, more about random themes. Should be a challenge but a fun challenge!

11: What book fandom do you affiliate yourself with the most?
I'm not sure I've ever been involved in a book fandom...though I do fangirl over a lot of books, it is usually just me telling people at the library why they should pick up that book to read LOL.
But if I had to go by random stuff around my house and on my shelves, I would have to say 'Hitchhiker's Guide'. I have several editions of the books, I have the t-shirt, etc. :)

12: Tell one book story or memory (what you were wearing when you were reading something, someone saw you cry in public, you threw a book across the room and broke a window, etc.)
A few years back, I decided to pick up 'The Giver' by Lois Lowry. I had been forced to read this book in 6th grade and I didn't like it at all. But I wanted to go back because so many people referred to it as a modern classic and talked about how it was near and dear to their hearts.

So, I checked it out and I fell in love with it (12 year old me was far too self-involved to understand the message, plus I always failed at reading assigned books).

ANYWAY, I was carrying it around with me to read everywhere I went and I had to stop at Chik-Fil-A for lunch on my way to a meeting. I was reading the book while eating my sandwich and one of the employees walked by. He did a double take at the cover, stopped and said "OMG THAT IS MY FAVORITE BOOK!! IT IS SO GOOD!" and I told him I was enjoyed it and we had this nice little moment of "the power of books" and I will always remember it. <3

13: What character would be your best friend in real life?
I think Schmendrick the Magician and I would get along well LOL. We both try our best to be good friends, even if we don't always do it perfectly.

14: Favorite item of book merch
'Hitchhiker's Guide' t-shirt my Mom bought me a few years ago.
I also have a Mockingjay pin that I bought BEFORE IT WAS COOL #hipsterlibrarian. Seriously, Hot Topic was selling those things before the movie was even a thing.
Also, I have a copy of 'The Last Unicorn' that Peter Beagle autographed, then wrote a few pages of the Schmendrick story in, and this his publisher did a Unicorn doodle in the inside flap. (too bad they had a falling out recently, sorta taints the whole thing but oh well).

In non-meme news, today was our big kick off event at the library for Summer Reading! It was insanely hot outside and inside but we had fun. I'm sure we had at least 200 kids. I was in charge of the bowling station (this year's theme is sports so we had a little carnival games set up in our meeting room). The kids seem to really like it, many of them played over and over. And I had LOTS of smiling faces greet me, recognizing me from the school visits I did last week. Always nice to see them and I'm always impressed that they remember me.

I kinda want to sign up for this round of character20n20 but I'm not sure who I want to icon. Maybe I could do Rey...I need some TFA icons. OR I could do Han Solo and then I'd have 4 movies to pull from, though there are lots of other movies I love that I could pick from...thoughts?

And now I will end the post with a photo of my E.T. shelf - drunk E.T. has joined the crew!
( clicky for cuteness )

Well, they didn't say couldn't...but it's not exactly recommended that you try to knock out 20 icons for an icontest the night they are due. But I did. Actually pretty happy with most of them.

I miss my Seeker. I wish someone would pick it up for a third season, but time is getting away and soon I'm sure it will be beyond saving...

AD wasn't feeling up to snuff so he went to bed early so I'm putting off True Blood until tomorrow or Tuesday.

BUT I did use my Amazon Video-On-Demand credit and downloaded the first two episodes of the new Doctor Who. I haven't watched any of the previous years, but I've heard so many good things about this new season and new doctor...plus, I'm a huge fan of Coupling and Moffat is now writing for the Doctor...I think I'll watch the first episode after I post this.

Mrs. Smith and I went to see Mrs. Warren's Profession at the Shakespeare Theatre in DC today. Odd play. Not one of George Bernard Shaw's best works, not as many one-line zingers to quote afterwards and it kind of just...ends. But the actors did the best with what they had.

Looking forward to the Free-For-All in August. Hoping to take andy_wolverton and his wife with us to see the play and get them some culture. ;-) They are restaging their production of Twelfth Night from last season, which was awesome. Anyone can go, you just have to stand in line for tickets on the day of the program (or know someone who is a subscriber that can hook you up).

Okay, gonna watch this Doctor Who fellow and then go to bed. This weekend went by way too fast!

For those of you that don't watch my icon journal, orangerfulboxes, I just posted a set of icons for whedon20in20 and a set for lots20in20.

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Oh, and if you're interested in playing along next round, the sign-ups for whedon20in20 #7 are up! :-)

Very full weekend. Saw King Lear at the Shakespeare Theatre in D.C. starring Stacy Keach as Lear, but the entire cast was fantastic. Apparently it was originally done in Chicago by the guy who runs the D.C. theater loved the production so much that he had them put it on here. They set the play in a Yugoslavia-type country and it worked really well. Very disturbing and depressing, as King Lear should be. After that, AD's mom came over to our place and stayed the night. AD made yummy fish and chips. AND BONUS profita rolls (or however you spell that...let me just say - pastry + ice cream + chocolate sauce = happiness)

Today we showed off our blu-ray player to AD's brother, Al. He was impressed. Sony should send us some commission because he's sold. After that we went over to the mall for lunch and ended up seeing "The Hangover" (short review: so wrong, so right. Longer review later).

Now we're home and waiting for it to be True Blood time. This week is short because of the July 4th holiday. I also have next Monday off, because of furlough days. I'm excited for the 4-day weekend but also sorta bummed about the no pay thing. I'm going to be a good girl and hold off on my iPhone purchase until August (yeah, I'm not even going to pretend to shop around anymore, just need to ask my mom if its okay to slip $30 into the current family talk plan we have).

OMFG - I GOT FIRST PLACE, BEST CROP, and MOD'S CHOICE @ karastillness - clearly I was in the zone for that last week. Too bad I have nothing for truebloodrumble. I could try to throw something together quick, just to get the points, but I'm not feeling the caps or the requirements this week.

Remember last week when I twittered (tweeted? whatev) about what Disney character I most resembled so I could make my entry for disney_rumble? Well, I was looking for caps today. At first, I wanted to do a Tinkerbell icon, but she's actually not in Peter Pan as much as you would think (at least from the merchandising) so I ended up not using her for my final icon. But I had to share this cap which I was soooo tempted to use, mostly because of the "oh, I most identify with this character" part of the challenge:

( my mind, it lives in the gutter... )

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You know you want to! Come on, it will be fun! The world needs more Firefly icons!

Okay, my new Sims are going on vacation tomorrow! I was going to have them go today, but I wussed out. I made a girl/girl couple, both with the family aspiration so I can just adopt kids when they want them haha. I booked a vacation for the end of the week, but now it is bedtime so I must stop playing!

I did buy them a new house from the Bon Voyage package. It was a tiny, one room place meant to be a vacation home. Well, I went and spruced it up (with the help of a cheat code) and gave it a second story. So now they have this cute little house, and a newly adopted daughter!

But enough about Sims - I just got an email from the Buffy Sing-along list and it looks like it will be returning in November! They are holding open casting calls, I guess for people to host the karaoke and such. If I were braver, I would totally send in a video. I know that musical backwards and forwards. But I'd have to be pretty drunk courageous to record myself and send it in with the hopes of singing and dancing in front of an audience. (I could totally be Anya though...)

I really want to start entering icontests again. I was going strong for awhile and then just *boop* I stopped. I found a BSG one, now that I'm all caught up on the series, but I'm so bad with "concept" contests because there are no screencaps for me to save and remind myself I was going to enter! I had joined btvs_epicontest, but I'm just not fond of the caps they pick each week and can't get motivated. Bah humbug!

We're having a little Ice Cream social at work tomorrow (it's the anniversary of the invention of the Ice Cream cone this month!). So I best get to bed so I can wake up early, do my Buffy work out, then go eat ice cream for lunch!