morning roundup

-- having begun to read gaudy night, i realize that shrewsbury college, if it actually existed, would be pretty much outside my window.  i know all the places sayers names in the first five or ten pages; i pass by them every day.  hurrah!

-- dream theater:  i don't know where i was, but i was with some people watching baseball on TV.  the losing team was playing very, very badly, bless their hearts, and for some reason i have the idea that they were the new washington nationals.  le sigh.  anyway at one point i was talking to someone about my new MPhil topic (stress assignment in english compound words and phrases), and then susan sarandon came in and changed the channel to where thelma and louise was just coming on.  she seemed to be looking forward to watching the movie, and i asked her if she'd ever seen it.  she sort of raised an eyebrow at me and reminded me that she was in it, and i said of course, i know, but i guess a lot of people don't ever see their own movies, right?  at which point i woke up.

-- my australian accent is coming along very nicely.  we've got a guy in our college, the junior dean, who is (a) australian and (b) very, very funny, so relating things he's said to other people is good practice for me.  :-)  also getting better at telling australian from new zealand; "fush" vs. "feesh" for fish, said a new zealander i know, and she seems to be right.  there's a guy from south africa in my choir, and i'm trying to listen to him as much as i can to hear what's distinctive about his accent; of course i can tell all the southern-hemisphere englishes apart when i hear them all together, but the goal is to know which one i'm listening to if it's the only one i can hear, and so far i'm not there yet.

-- my australian is coming along so nicely that it's infecting my imitation of eliza doolittle.

wah.

i wonder if i have a second set of wisdom teeth coming in.  my existing teeth don't seem to be going crooked, as they did when they were shoved out of place by the original wisdom teeth (long gone); but i've definitely had pain up in the back-teeth area for days now, and i'm pretty sure i'm not clenching or grinding my teeth (when i do, it doesn't feel like this).

ow.

gah, gah, the dissonance

avoiding work - googled ex-boyfriend - found what can only assume is very very bad extremely low-budget horror flick - plays creepy neighbor who stalks mute girl - apparently working on new film for same director playing nerd who becomes drag queen - cannot assimilate this - followed link to IMDb - ex has been conflated with another actor by same name who was on episode of "ryan's hope" in 1981 - ex was two years old in 1981 - also was only nine when supposed to have played priest in feature film starring john glover - sure would have heard about this while dating

that'll teach me - back to the books now and never looking up again


[eta for the particular benefit of those who knew him:
me:  he wasn't hunched over and drooling blood, in college.
cmshaw:  if it's any consolation, he looks more like an angry raccoon who didn't enjoy his jello.]