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topaz119 ([personal profile] topaz119) wrote2012-05-29 01:20 pm

summer, yay!

Okay, so we survived graduation weekend! It was pleasant, even. My mother felt well enough to not only do the actual graduation ceremony, but also our festive dinner after (at Maggiano's because that's Oldest's favorite restaurant ever (that's not a dive Tex-Mex, pizza, or barbecue joint)), BabyBoy's karate test (whee, he punched his way through many boards, everyone was impressed) and a showing of the Avengers the next day. My father kept his mouth relatively inoffensive, and my in-laws allowed me to drive them everywhere, thus reducing their stress about city traffic to a manageable level.
 
I was just about to get all sniffly at the end of the graduation ceremony itself but for some reason they used music from Star Wars as the recessional and I cracked up instead. (The medal-awarding scene from the original movie… very stirring and dignified, etc, but still. STAR WARS. Srsly, wtf?)
 
And now school is out, and I do not have to get out of bed before it the sun is up, \o/.
 
I played with my tumblr yesterday (I am [tumblr.com profile] topaz119 there, too, surprise) though for right now, all I seem to be doing is posting space videos and dithering about whether or not I should follow names that I recognize from dw/lj. (After a decade of this here, you'd think I'd be over the insecurity, but apparently high school is the gift that keeps giving.) It is very, very pretty there, isn't it? I suppose I should start re-posting the pretty I stumble across. (And figuring out tags so I can find things again. Who knew that the database mgmt. class with all those attribute-naming exercises would be the thing I refer to again and again over the years?)
 
My dear friend J is going to be in town next weekend; we are debating seeing the Avengers again or Battleship (she has seen it already and says that she had to refrain from texting me during the movie because she knew I'd love some point or another. Plus: Tim Riggins. In uniform. And you know how I feel about uniforms.)
 
Also, the trailer for Baz Luhrman's The Great Gatsby? Am I the only person who watched that and thought, omg, when did Leo start injecting himself with Redford's DNA? Yes? Okay, then, NM.
 
Happy Tuesday everyone--have a nice week!

[identity profile] destina.livejournal.com 2012-05-29 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
It is very, very pretty there, isn't it?

No! *g* I realize I am the only person in fandom who finds the thing unusable, just like I'm the only person who doesn't get the Avengers. But omg, no.

Yay for not having to rise before the sun!
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[identity profile] msktrnanny.livejournal.com 2012-05-29 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Arguably I may not be in fandom, but, tumblr escapes me as well. Simply do not get it. (Avengers I get, but I'm with you on the tumblr thing)

[identity profile] topaz119.livejournal.com 2012-05-29 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
The Avengers fandom is nuts on tumblr--it's why I'm there.

[identity profile] topaz119.livejournal.com 2012-05-29 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I will say that the user interface is fairly painful, but I write my way through horrors far worse for work, so I think I'm immune. I've never really been a visual person--I'm much more about words, but I'm seriously enjoying just watching all the art & the photo sets & the scans go by. I did get sucked in by the Avengers, though, so I'm two strikes down by your count, *g*.

It is always such a pleasant shock when I get back that extra two hours in the morning.

[identity profile] msktrnanny.livejournal.com 2012-05-29 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Holy cow, no! I watched the trailer twice just to be sure I wasn't seeing things.

[identity profile] topaz119.livejournal.com 2012-05-29 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
The Redford version came out right about the time I actually read the book, so he's sort of inextricably tied to the role, so I kept thinking I was just projecting on Leo,so I'm glad I'm not the only one!
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[identity profile] failegaidin.livejournal.com 2012-05-29 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
TUMBLR! Sorry, but I love it. Of course, my tumblr is basically an homage to pretty boys and I really just reblog things. It is the biggest timesuck ever. Possibly even worse than YouTube. But I like pretty boys. If you want to, you can follow me over there - same username.

[identity profile] topaz119.livejournal.com 2012-05-29 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I did follow you, thanks! Pretty boys are pursuant to my interests, too. :D
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[identity profile] turps33.livejournal.com 2012-05-30 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
The graduation weekend sounds great.

Congratulations to all that deserve them \o/

[identity profile] topaz119.livejournal.com 2012-05-30 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, Terri! I have an actual signed diploma in my possession (there was some drama in the last weeks & I was holding my breath that we wouldn't have to jump through any hoops to get it, but it was all okay) and now we can really get going on the university stuff.