Since you're gone my empty arms have nothing left to hold

1. Hi! *waves* I hope everyone had a good Easter weekend! Mine was basically spent one third reading, the other third watching House episodes on cable and the other third watching the movie version of High Fidelity, which I hadn't managed to see until then. And apart from it being basically awesome (and Bruce had a cameo!), now I want to re-read the book. Which was way too good for its own good. And then I'd spend a month doing top fives I guess.

2. Apart from that, I think I did an excellent exercise in procrastinating except for almost finishing a fic for which I can't find an ending. *sigh*

3. But, since I procrastinate, I have two picspams for that lovely scenes challenge for which I already did the pens scene done. I might post one later and the other one in two days or so.

4. Tomorrow the Easter break is over. *sigh* At least it was long enough to cover today, which meant that I skipped the dread ten-hours-of-classes day.

5. I finished Orwell #1. ♥ I started #2, which thankfully is a hundred pages shorter. Also, because coincidences are coincidences, in the newspaper there was an extract from the Shakespeare Wrote For Money book by Hornby which I'll be glad to read when it's out in paperback where he talked about what he read, which was... Orwell's non-fiction #1 (exactly the one I read). And both of us have gone and found us Tropic Of Cancer after reading that last essay which talks only too highly of it. I'm kind of amused that I did the same thing Nick Hornby did, even if I arrived later.

6. And uhm, yes, not really the most interesting entry ever but for now that's it. *waves*

Tagged by 6degreesoflea. I think by now my Fl probably knows more about me than my parents do with all list random facts meme! I'll try to find something new though ;)

a. list seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself
b. tag seven people to do the same
c. do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it"

( under the cut, hoping I'm not becoming boring )

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening.

1 You're Still Standing There by Steve Earle -> gah. I love it. I just love it.
2 Devil's Arcade by Bruce Springsteen -> because Bruce > everyone.
3 Postcards From the Wasteland by Bon Jovi -> it's a demo but I'd smack them. It's better than half of what was on the record it didn't make to. And I love the lyrics.
4 Dies Irae from Mozart's Requiem -> It's actually a movement from the Requiem but erm, yeah, I'm obsessed with it. Don't ask me why. It's just so good.
5 Home is Anywhere You Hang Your Head by Elvis Costello -> gah. I love it. I just love it. And I love the title.
6 Don't Look Back in Anger by Oasis -> well, I'm not that great Oasis fan but thing is, I don't like Liam and I ♥ Noel. He sings better and he writes better so I still don't get why he doesn't go solo. Anyway, I was hoping to use this as fic inspiration but isn't working, though it remained stuck in my head.
7 Sparkle and Shine by Steve Earle -> I should probably upload the whole album where this is because it's just so good. And this song makes me melt.

Whoever wants to do it, do it! ;)

In other words, military is confuuusing. I've been spending half an hour on military rankings and my head hurts. Researching for fic hurts. Kind of. But if things go as I plan it'll so be worth that. But military is confusing nonetheless. Why do they need three different kinds of privates? *shrugs*

And in other news yesterday I finally bought the DVDs for Lost Season 3. They were out here this month, figure it out. We're always so late *sighs*. And then I also bought Slam by Nick Hornby and will gladly interrupt everything I had going on to read it because Nick Hornby owns my soul, hell yes.

So, following my opera-crazy-mother, I'm leaving tonight and tomorrow morning I'll be in Turin, where I'll stay two days in order to see there Verdi's Faltstaff at the Teatro Regio on Sunday, then we're leaving again Sunday night and I'll be here again on Monday ;) *waves to the fl* have a nice weekend!

*lasamy, _izu_, I'm SO COMING! XD*

And socia, on Monday we'll have two FNL to watch, beware ;)

Anyway, I finished Nick Hornby's Fever pitch and that man is definitely the only person in the world that can make me enjoy a book about football addiction. Maybe because if you take out football and replace with music/fandom I'm as obsessed as he is, if not worse. Poor us XD

Guess it's all here, I think ;) bye and enjoy yourself!