So the layout's working now, except the alignment's not quite right, but I think it's supposed to be that way. Oh well.

Now? On to my deep analysis crap that I wrote last night that probably nobody cares about

So I'm fairly certain that some aspects of "Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories" were borrowed from "Final Fantasy VII..

... And between this and the work I'm doing on my current writing project with Keira and her memory that was the target of Eltanin's experiments in memory-altering, I'm really getting sick of the word "memory."

I've decided that "The Drugs Don't Work" by the Verve could be Future!Jack's theme song on Lost...

Today's also the one-year anniversary of the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I'm going to celebrate by displaying three of JKR's ridiculously written sentences from HP&DH. First we have "Water filled Harry's eyes and mouth: He could not see or breathe: Then, with an awful lurch, the cart flipped over and they were all thrown out of it." There are a couple of things wrong with this. First, although I don't think it's exactly incorrect, I hate her habit in her later books of connecting sentences together with colons, especially because she capitalizes the first letter of the second sentence, which I'm pretty sure is incorrect. Secondly, why the hell does she connect THREE sentences in this way? Especially when two of them are rather short and choppy? Why couldn't she have just said, "Water filled Harry's eyes and mouth, and he could not see or breathe. Then, with an awful lurch, the cart flipped over and they were all thrown out of it." It would have eliminated a lot of unnecessary colons. Then she later decides to combine three sentences again: "He spotted Ginny two tables away; she was sitting with her head on her mother's shoulder: There would be time to talk later, hours and days and maybe years in which to talk." She actually used a semi-colon this time, but then she has to ruin it by tacking on another sentence, connected by a colon. Bad JKR, bad! The third sentence includes more absurd colon usage: "One shivering second of silence, the shock of the moment suspended: and then the tumult broke around Harry as the screams and the cheers and the roars of the watchers rent the air." Yes, I know that Voldemort's just been defeated, so maybe she should be granted a bit of creative grammatical license to convey the Drama (which is why I won't comment on all the "and's"), but that colon should NOT be there. A simple comma would have sufficed, damn it.

Despite all of JKR's failures with HP&DH, however, there are still some redeeming moments.

- "NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!" (Molly Weasley FTW!)
- Hero!Neville cutting off Nagini's head and all that.
- The whole chapter "The Prince's Tale." I cannot tell you how much I adore that chapter.
- Remus and Tonks getting married and having a baby. Of course, that was pretty much ruined when they got KILLED OFF ;_; I don't think I've ever been angrier about a character death (or two characters' deaths, in this case).

Oh, and I have to say that the chapter when Harry's in between life and death on the Farplane in King's Cross, I couldn't help but think of a badfic that I read (well, actually, I just read the sporked version over at deleterius) about Female!Harry stuck on Luna's Astral Plane of Love where s/he experienced constant orgasms (yes, that did scare me away from the fic). My FFX brain also immediately thought "ZOMG IT'S UNSENT!HARRY!" Because, you know, he was caught between life and death...

Okay, analysis!brain has been shut off. It needs to be put to use on The Scarlet Letter now.

It's very unsettling to just be innocently walking down the hallway with "One-Winged Angel" blasting in your head. I mean, you're just walking and in your head all you can hear is "VENI, VENI, VENIAS, NE ME MORI FACIAS" in a really creepy deep voice. It makes for quite an ominous experience.

Last night I stepped further into the world of geekdom by beginning to create a conlang (constructed language). I'm having a lot of fun with it because languages are so very fun. I haven't come up with a name for it yet, but it is awesome. Its grammar and stuff somewhat resembles Latin (but not really - there aren't any cases, for example; there is just one ending for subjects, one for objects in general, and another for possessive, and there is also no imperfect tense). I've still got a bunch to do, though, because when you think about it there are a lot of grammar rules out there and forms of words to make.

Also, on Saturday night, or early Sunday morning, rather, I wrote almost all of chapter ten of "The Power of Light." It was very exciting because now I'm almost done with that chapter: all I've got to do is write a lead-in to when Sari is introduced, introduce her, and then that chapter's done. Then, however, I've got to get back to chapter nine. But then after that things start to get exciting, once Keira gets to Arx Chalybs and reunites with Talia. It's going to be hard to write those scenes without Talia quoting Axel. ("You really do remember me this time? I'm so FLATTERED.") Oh, and then I get to write the scene in which Sari and Perrin first meet, which is going to be hard to write without making any "ZOMG THEY'RE GOING TO GET MARRIED IN FIVE YEARS!" squeals.

So it's really amusing to read Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban when you've been reading a lot of "The Shoebox Project." When Harry first got the Maurader's Map, all I could think of was the scenes surrounding the map-making in "The Shoebox Project." (Of course, it's really interesting reading the book when you know that Sirius isn't a criminal and that Wormtail is Scabbers and is the real traitor. And that Snape is/was in love with Lily. I always forget about that, no matter how awesome it is.) 

So last night I was trying to fall asleep (stupid brain thinks that I shouldn't be asleep at 10:00), and so I turned on the radio thinking that no interesting songs will come on so I can fall asleep. Of course, this was not the case, and what should come on but "500 Miles" by the Proclaimers. Now, I've always found that song amusing because it reminds me of Tom, but thanks to How I Met Your Mother, there is even more amusement to be found in it. And it's really hard to sleep when you're Deeply Amused. (Also? How I Met Your Mother has caused me to be extremely amused at the thought of the word "moist." Go on, say it. It'll make me giggle.)

Oh, and in the car on the way home from school today I came up with what I'm getting Summer for her birthday. It's going to be LEGENDARY. 
 

Lost returns next Thursday at 9:00 - yay! (And there's a clip show at 8:00, but I'll end up missing most of that anyway because I'll be  at dance. It doesn't matter, though, because I know what's happening on the show, having just watched the third season in its entirety again.) So I've been having quite a few Lost-related dreams for the past few nights. The only bit I can remember from last night's dream involved Juliet crying a Single and Meaningful Tear. (I also dreamt that Isabella was pregnant, but let's just forget about that because it's not Lost-related.) I had a couple of other Lost dreams two nights ago, but I don't remember those as well. The best Lost dream that I've ever had, however, was in spring 2006 when I dreamed that the cable that Sayid/Hurley found on the beach led to an underwater hatch, where there were speakers that wouls repeat "Attention: Wonderland has ended. I repeat: Wonderland has ended." Then, a year later at the end of the third season, it turned out that the cable on the  beach led to an underwater hatch called "The Looking Glass" (which ties into Wonderland because Through the Looking Glass - which was also the title of the season 3 finale - is the sequel/companion/whatever of Alice in Wonderland). So after that dream turned out to become fairly accurate, I'm just waiting for the revelation that Desmond and Libby are controlling everything on the island (which was a dream I had a while ago).

This weekend I'm hoping to finish chapter nine and maybe chapter ten of "The Power of Light." After chapter ten, though, I don't really know what's going to happen. Chapter ten should be fun to write, though, because that's when Sari's introduced and it should be interesting to portray her as an emo kid Angsty Teenager who Hates her Family. Actually, what's going to be an even better chapter is when Sari and Perrin meet for the first time, because then I can make little author-squeals: "ZOMG SQUEE THEY'RE GOING TO GET MARRIED IN FIVE YEARS!" (Though I'm considering having this universe/society/whatever not have marriages. Yes, I have been reading way too many of limyaael's fantasy rants lately.)

Well, I can't really think of much else to say, except for Death Cab For Cutie = love. I am very thankful for the ability to go into Andrew's room and steal his CDs, because those two Death Cab for Cutie CDs are pretty damn awesome. It's becoming my inspirational music because I worked on my entire children's book while listening to them.

I've got to get my "Weird and Wonderful Words" book up here so that  I can start doing a "word of the day."

[EDIT: Read this, 'cause it's important. I somehow managed to get a 94 on my Geometry midterm. I don't know how the hell that happened, but YAY!]