Finally it is Chapter Thirteen!

Yeah, this took longer than I would have wanted, but I had, you know, family emergencies, my Apocaversary gift, and school during that time. Plus, it covered quite a lot of time, and I had to actually play all of that.

Unfortunately, Slideshare seems to be refusing to upload PDFs at the moment, so you're getting the PPT version for now and I will fix it later. *is annoyed at Slideshare*

Edit 1: okay, need to remove the master slide image. *sigh*

Edit 2: PDF is working, now, and I removed the master slide image, so hopefully this version will be better!

Anyway, enjoy!

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All of this week's prompt responses can be found in this post. If you missed reading/commenting on them before, you can do so now, and you are also still welcome to respond to any of this week's prompts in their original posts. As always, please be respectful in your comments to other writers.

November's prompt submissions post can be found here. The next one will go up on the first Sunday in December.

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( 11/9 - Jamie )

( 11/9 - Di )

( 11/10 - Maenad )

( 11/12 - Doc )

Oh my sweet God, no movie as stupid as 2012 has any right to be TWO HOURS AND THIRTY-EIGHT MINUTES. I drank HALF a smuggled 12 oz bottle of Coke (Tiny Coke, if you will), and nearly DIED. My bladder is BRUISED.

My mom's the disaster movie junkie--she hasn't seen a movie in the theater in six months (I think she last one she saw was Up), so I went for her sake. Man, I hate disaster movies. I worry about this stuff enough, you know? I'm not really into watching implausibly connected characters run and weep and do noble shit and die horribly for two hours (AND THIRTY-EIGHT MINUTES). I'm okay with watching shit blow up; I just don't want to watch the cast meeble on about it. And let me tell you, internets, shit does not start blowing up until FIFTY-SEVEN (57) minutes into the movie. If you think I give a shit about John Cusack's ex-marital problems, you are WRONG, Roland Emmerich. And even the next hour and a half has way too much wibbling about humanity. BLOW SHIT UP. BLOW IT UP NOWWWWWWWWWW. Seriously: go buy a ticket to this thing, walk in fifty-seven minutes late, watch John Cusack and family outrun an earthquake in a limo (because this part is THE MOST AWESOME THING I HAVE EVER SEEN, at the very least the most awesome thing I have ever seen involving either an earthquake or a limo), and then after they get to Vegas, LEAVE. If you've seen Deep Impact and The Poseidon Adventure, you've pretty much seen everything else. In fact, you can probably just watch Dodge the Freeway in the trailer; I didn't watch it, but my mother says pretty much all the awesome stuff is in there, and the rest of the movie is just a game of Guess Who's Gonna Die (a winner is me!). I was also able to call not one but TWO ridiculous romances, because it was that kind of movie. Honestly, earthquake in a limo and Thandie Newton's French: best things in the movie. Everything else I laughed at until I was seized with urinary tract regret for the entire last hour.

(OMFG THE WOLFMAN TRAILER WAS SO AWESOME IT IS WHAT THE INSIDE OF MY HEAD LOOKS LIKE. I was seriously just sitting there all a-squee, clapping my fists [so it would be quiet!] chanting "WOLFMAN WOLFMAN WOLFMAN!!!!!!" and my mother was like, You are so weird.)

I also grabbed a few sheets of printer paper to fold up and stuff in my purse--turns out that you can just squeak by on six pages and the back of the first page if you take notes sparingly.

(THIS IS THE THING OF WHICH WE DO NOT SPEAK. WE DO NOT JINX IT. IT MAY STILL NOT HAPPEN.)



(Zomg e-book! The Annotated Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Wizards!)

I've been searching everywhere for this skintone. Does anyone know which it is? Picture is radiationpoison 's.
Thanks in advance.

Comments to everything coming later, but for now, it's done:



Comments at Boolprop as per usual please.

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Hi everyone, does anyone know where I can find a hair like this?

Also, I looked for something like this because I remeber reading something like this, but does anyone know of a mod where I can control familial relationships?

Grading.

Well, huh.

Anyone who has had to grade things and after awhile, you think you're losing your mind?

What does this mean: "The reason it is obvious that portraying the ghost of Caesar through projection was advanced for the time is the way in which it stood out as highly advanced in both the scene and for the movie as a whole." ?

This particular paper actually improved partway through. There was one where I didn't even know which assignment the student had chosen.

I can't just run through writing down bad grades. I'm probably giving them better grades than they actually quite deserve. Besides, if I don't tell my students what is wrong AND how they can fix it, I'm not doing my job. It's easy to drip red ink all over misspelled words, but it's hard to tell a student how to fix incoherence. For one thing, you have to figure out what they thought they meant, why they went off the rails, and how to get them there in a way that they'll understand. For another, the truly incoherent papers are probably mostly written by students who were really trying. It was, in many cases, the best they could do, which is really sad.

So there is lots of grading, and the cats have become fat and are on a diet. I'm trying to work hard and get my grading all done by Wednesday. On Wednesday, I'm going to a performance of Love's Labors Lost touring from the Globe in London, with an all-male cast. Then that evening I'm teaching some non-English drama for once: French tragedy and Kabuki theater. It's been fun preparing for that, and I thought maybe some of you might like to see some videos I'm working with.

This is a piece called "Heron Maiden." It's pretty much a solo dance--the English narration tells you what's going on. If you stick through it, you'll see some amazing onstage costume changes.
( cut for long video context )It starts slow, but it's worth it for the costume changes at the end.

Today I will finish grading and commenting, but I will also cook--a nice buttery yellow cake, I think, and plain roast chicken with winter veggies.

I ran into a problem today with the rebuild. I needed to kill off Cindy and Trevor since I needed to move on in the rebuild, but whenever I killed them, their gravestones were both Family, and Trevor is Knowledge.

Does anyone know about this?

Hey, Horrible fans. Just wanted to let you all know that Uconn (at the Storrs campus) will be performing Dr. Horrible today and tomorrow. If you're at all in the area, stop by! It's five bucks admission in the Student Union theatre. I'm not sure if they'll be recording it, but if not, I'm bringing my camera. So hopefully I'll have some videos to bring back. :)

It was posted by Whedonesque, which was pretty cool. You can find more details here and here at the Facebook event.

Saturday, November 14 at 3:30pm.
Sunday, November 15 at 2:30pm.

Evening all!

Here's the next bit for ya. Nearly done with Generation One now, I just need you guys to choose me an heir! Polls are madatory for OWBCs I do believe. So I'd really appreciate you skipping over to boolprop.com to vote, so I can know and move on with the next Gen :) Links under the slideshare my little sausages.

Enjoy!


Boolprop.com thread and for your clicky fun: HEIR POLL

I got two. Well two that I wanna share.
One is sad one is happy - both of DHSAB and both having to do with Biily/Penny

The Story of a Girl

Please, Let me go back
*the sadder one*