For this is Hel's livejournal

Wow. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler fic -- which I would not have thought was possible to do well -- so good as to show up any pretensions I ever had to writing. Wow. Link.

Huh. Actually, yeah. All those jobs sound nice and soothing (except for the pilot ones. Pilot?). And low in homework. Well, okay, except for 17.

1. Electroneurodiagnostic Tech
2. Cardiovascular Tech
3. Computer Engineer
4. Avionics Tech
5. Nuclear Medicine Technologist
6. Broadcast Technician
7. Helicopter Pilot
8. Pilot
9. Medical Imaging Tech
10. Computer Support Person
11. Disc Jockey
12. Database Developer
13. Web Developer
14. Power Plant Operator
17. Mathematician

The phrase is "intents and purposes," not "intensive purposes." It doesn't both me particularly, not as much as the inability to get reign and rein straight. It even charms me a little, because "intensive" is nearly always spelled right, so clearly the person does care about their words! But, indeed, it's "for all intents and purposes," which I think makes a little more sense than "for all intensive purposes," since the point is that the purposes need not be intensive!

And now, back to grading, wherein not only does "intensive purposes" not come up, but students often use the wrong pronoun for each other and drop "not" more often than you'd imagine.

But

O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag—

It's so elegant

So intelligent

...

HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME

Anthony Lane reviews "Superman Returns" for the New Yorker, and begins with his view of the audience demographics:

"Dotted here and there will be Supermaniacs—some of them sporting red underpants, others in panty hose of royal blue, none of them happily married." ( Collapse )

Why couldn't I just fall recklessly in love with some person I hardly know, and use them as an excuse to move to their city? Even if it's a bad basis for making the decision, at least it'd be some basis! Right now my bad bases include such non-deal-makers as "$5,000 signing bonus" and "free tattoos" and "my brother lives there." Maybe I'll just eenie-meenie-minie-mo. Aaargh!

Los Angeles? San Francisco? Portland? Totally up in the air.

"The Ethics of Flight, Sex, and Newly Mastered Shape-Changing Spells: Is it rape if we were both dragons at the time?"

I think more than half got guessed this time, so that's pretty good. ( Collapse )

One more chance at the unguessed lyrics -- I've added another line or two where possible...( Collapse )

Cause it's been entirely too long. And besides, if you're annoyed by these, you totally don't have to play, do you? ( Collapse )