not a perfect metaphor

Gainful employment starts Monday. And now we know.
The mother recruited me to help her clean out her still-life-stuff cabinet and reorganize it today. Conclusion: Art teachers end up with the best stuff. (She's got kerosene lamps in there! And a typewriter! And an old hair dryer! And a big black box that professes to be a flood lamp!) I might have to get my camera in there, for some of it.
and from the other day's edition of wacky crossovers: Solution to the Horcrux issue: Cast them into Mount Doom. (Clearly!)

Those of you who've seen RotK and found a certain line too funny to be allowed (you know the one I mean)...
You might appreciate the subject line of this. Yes, I thought of it yesterday. No, I wouldn't've done it if it hadn't worked out so well, which you can take to mean the icon(ograph)s or the rest of the post (personally, I think it's both).

*Heathen gods appeased. My total: 1200 words in seven fandoms (eight if you include the pirates).
*I'm sick, but it's not a sinus infection. so, less rejoicing there, but I am feeling a bit better.
*Dad and I got the lights on the tree last night without killing each other (though that nearly happened afterward).
*We're going out to dinner tonight and then we're going to the movie - since we all know there's only one out at the moment. XD This'll be the first in-theater movie on my part since reading Moving Pictures. Hope I don't start spazzing.
*And now, to go rec some pirate!fic...

It's amazing how long a two-minute song can go when it gets stuck in your head. Rave In On must've been going for half an hour around lunchtime. But that's not a bad thing... yet. Hopefully it won't be ever.
Changed the title/subtitle wossnames on the journal. 'Cause the raven is cool. Probable icon rotation here in a minute, which means dropping Crowley for the first time since I made it. ::brief mourning:: Oh well.
LotR bookmarks are proving next to impossible to get this year. I'll have to ask around - they gave 'em to teachers rather than putting them in the library - and see who's got Aragorn. And DUDE! somebody better have Eowyn.
Music with rocks in CD is on hold again, but tomorrow I'll at least be able to get one song on. Maybe more if the hold gets called in.

Not that I was expecting anything else. (We've been reading King Lear in English class; just finished it today. Standard Shakespeare tragedy ending.)
BUT! One of the princesses actually says "holla, holla!" toward the end! ::SNERK!:: (Especially after some of the bits from the RPage community.) I didn't even know they had that expression in Elizabethan England.
Another reason why Discworld/LotR will never work: Angua is SO not an Arwen. Definitely not book!Arwen, anyway. Movie!Arwen, possibly. Either way she's more of an Eowyn. And this argument may not be applicable outside of the setup what was being carried on, but still. (For those who missed it, the argument is here, toward the bottom. But it won't make much sense unless you've read the stuff in question.)
Have small contribution to the Fairy Tale Sort of Mishmash posted. Fun times, fun times. XD

( the funniest quiz ever. EVER! )
Anyway. Nothing else of note is really happening, but thank you friendsfriends for pointing me toward metaquotes. Fun in abundance!
Got mail from the Army and the Air Force today. No thanks in terms of going to either, but I find it amusing that they're trying to get me there.

( the adventures of my friend's house... )
And now the book-lacking is starting to get to me. Not like I've got enough money for BOOK GET! to be happening anytime soon (as I owe Mom most of my recent lawnmower income), but everyone else and their cousin has it and, and, just. I wanna know but I DON'T want to be spoiled, I'd rather find out for myself. Speaking of which, points to the house of your choice to everyone for not-spoiling thus far. ^_^
Need to write something. Anything. Perhaps another drabble is in order. (Hmm... knives... [Don't panic, people, that's this week's drabble-thing.])

( Answers for twitchycat. Though by now it's the fourth time I've done this... mere technicality. )
In other news, this song is positively SQUEE in relation to a certain LotR pairing. If you've heard it I suspect you know; if you haven't at least find the words, as they will tell you.

At least the crossover-ficlet will be posted online in its own right later. Not sure about the interludes.

First: A Good Omens/American Gods crossover-ficlet. War runs into the technical boy. Due to choice of characters, a bit heavier on the swearing side than what I usually write.
( Storm )
Interlude ye First: Well, actually it was an interlude before I was calling them as such. LotR snippet I wrote because I thought the world needed a little something from the ring's point of view. Posted here in a blaze of non-publicity (but afrai noticed it!).
( Precious )
Interlude ye Second: A Good Omens thing that randomly popped into my head one day without anything to go before or after, so I just wrote it as it was, and that seemed to work. Actually doesn't include any of the Horsepersons (gasp!).
( Books )
And, er, Interlude ye Last: This is the one I'm scared of. It never should have been written, but I did just so it would be on paper and leave me alone, not to mention it was the only thing Miranda gave me at the time. And I still feel like I've committed a crime against literature. I mean, I can justify one strange plot bit, but the whole THING is a strange plot bit, and I never should have had the idea...
It's. It's. Well. Read it and find out.
( Teleport )
And... well... there you have it. I wrote stuff during this exile academic ineleigibility thing.