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Blah blah blah. My life is BORING right now. Very dull. But the book that wouldn't die has officially been sent off to the printer today, so it is a day for celebration! Huzzah! Of course, I still have a ton of work to do on the corresponding website, followed then by the instructors' CD-ROM o' answers.

It is raining here. Everyone seems to hate the rain, but I love it. Someday I really should move to the Pacific Northwest. Rain = happy eee.

This past weekend was my high school reunion. I was a little... anxious... about it. But it turned out fine. I saw a bunch of people I haven't seen in forever, and everyone was nice. One girl who was kind of snitty in high school apologized to everyone if she was ever mean, which I thought was nice. So I told her that at one point or another, we were ALL mean to someone and so we should just leave it all in the past and be happy we're not in high school anymore. So that's good. It was kind of funny that at the end of the evening, the "popular" kids were upstairs, while us "regular" kids were all downstairs bowling. All these years later, and the factions still stand. Though it makes sense that people would want to talk to the people they knew the best all those years ago. The only problem with the entire event was that there was no AC. OMG, the sweat. The place smelled like a gym for a while. Eeeeech!

What else? On Sunday I saw Prince of Persia. It wasn't as horrible as I expected, but I expected really bad. I could see this being a popular movie amongst boys, what with all the swashbuckling. There needs to be more swashbuckling in movies. I think that's one reason the first Pirates movie was so popular. Also, it's fun to say. SWASHBUCKLING!

Last night the Scientist and I got BBQ for dinner (yum), and then I decided to pop my scifi cherry and finally sit down to watch Dune. He started me on the David Lynch version, as it was a) the shortest, and b) the least like the book. Within the first ten minutes I had to pause the movie and have him explain WTF the narration was about. The movie was okay. I know it's one of those "sci-fi masterpieces," but the pacing was all off. There was so much about Paul getting to the Dune planet, and then once he met up with the Fremen it was like "Wheeee, he's one of us, the movie's almost over!" It was like they just accepted him as their new messiah and he saved everyone and that was that. Too rushed. So now I'll have to watch the miniseries and figure out what I missed.

Anyway, that's it for me. Now back to work.

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It is raining here. Everyone seems to hate the rain, but I love it. Someday I really should move to the Pacific Northwest. Rain = happy eee.

That's one of the things I love about living here... although to be fair, we actually don't get all that much rain. Overcast skies? Yep. Drizzle? Oh yeah... but out and out rain? Not quite as much. But I still love it. And then when we have days like today, when the sky is unbelievably blue and the sun is shining, I REALLY appreciate them.

Ah, then maybe the Pacific Northwest isn't the place for me. I want rain, hard rain. I've been conditioned to love it due to spending my early years in southern Florida.

Ooh ooh, who was the snitty girl who apologized?

I have to say, I looked at those pictures and thought DO NOT WANT. I'd gladly come and hang out with you and fava and a few others, but for the most part I'm perfectly happy to have that chapter of my life closed.

Also, I have weird amnesia when it comes to the guys in our high school class. Most of them aren't tagged in the photos, and I kept going, "Who the hell even is that?"

I'll PM you as to who the girl was. Since it's an open post, I don't want anything findable here.

Several people commented on how the guys in our class didn't fare as well as the girls. For the most part with the ladies, you can tell who's who. But with the guys, it was kind of a crapshoot.

I love the all-out rain, too. All the thunderstorms we've been having lately have been wonderful. (Has it been storming more this year, or am I just noticing it more now that I'm in a house again?)

Re: Dune, I thought the David Lynch one was boring. I'm not even sure if I ever finished it. I know I've certainly tried several times but would eventually lose interest and start doing other things around the house while the movie continued on in the background.

The miniseries, on the other hand! I've only seen it once and have been wanting to rewatch it for several years now! (Come to think of it, I should just buy it since it had been The Ex's copy I had watched...) I liked it so much that I tried reading the book, only to feel the same glaze of boredom from the David Lynch movie set in. Maybe I'm just bad with narrations. But, yes, the miniseries should hopefully be a better experience for you, too!

It does seem to be raining more this year, I think. But I also think that last year was low on rainfall, if I remember correctly.

We have the miniseries and Children of Dune, so I think I'll slog through it all at some point. FYI, there are two DVD versions of the miniseries. One is the version that aired on TV, and the other is unedited. So if/when you buy your own copy, be aware there are differences.

I just read

fizzball's response below! How funny that it's so completely different from mine! Maybe hardcore sci fi geek? (I'm totally a sci fi dabbler!) Especially since I consider the boardgame the scary game that would last 6+ hours at

zarfmouse's annual New Year's party! (One turn sometimes taking about 1.5 hrs!) Too much of a time commitment for me, but everyone playing it always seemed to have a great time!

Let me know what you think of Children of Dune whenever you get around to seeing it. It was one of my search results while I was adding the Dune miniseries (Special Edition hopefully being the better edition) to my Amazon wishlist earlier today and am curious about it now!

My husband really likes Children of Dune, if that counts for anything. I find it amusing that James McAvoy isn't even listed on the cover, since he wasn't even on the radar when that miniseries was made. Alice Krieg gets better billing than McAvoy. Oh, how times have changed.

One reason I'm looking forward to watching the Dune miniseries: Matt Keeslar from The Middleman plays Feyd in it. These are such complete opposites in character that it will be really interesting to watch. (By the way, if you've never seen The Middleman, I HIGHLY recommend renting it.)

ehh, just read the book. And then we can play the totally excellent boardgame.

Both filmed versions are disappointing in their own special ways. I don't know that anyone actually considers the Lynch version a SF masterpiece; not even people who like it a lot (like me). It's a total mess, but is far more interesting than the miniseries, I think. Brad Dourif! Creepy Alicia Witt!

Heh. I like that your opinion on which is better is the complete opposite from the post directly above. I've heard that both versions have their pros and their cons, but neither compares to the book. I'll just make my way slowly through it all, I suppose.