muck_a_luck

Good morning!

So is that you posting from home or work, then?

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Was posted as I was shutting down the computer to go to work. At work now...

Yourself? Getting anything done today?

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Actually having my first official sick day in two years. Still feel crampy and groggy, and unable to concentrate. Hence short posts! And the one down-side of having P around, and it is a very tiny down-side, is that he's working in the living room today, cause SM has his stuff all over the study, so I can't lie on the sofa and watch movies. Alternating between LJ and dozing on the bed.

And on an entirely different topic, have been given Arwen on

theatrical_muse. Someone had already set a journal up for her,

evenstar_arwen, and then decided they didn't want to do her, so I'm taking that over. I'll pop over at the weekend and introduce her. I'm there for the weekly challenges, as I've never RPed in my life.

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Poor baby! Sorry you have been kicked out of the living room. P can't work and watch TV at the same time? :) I used to work at home while The Husband was a student. I liked having MST3K running in the background...

I should friend evenstar_arwen and see what she gets up to.

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P can't work and watch TV at the same time?

Not while I'm sniffling away to "Brief Encounter" as I wanted to do! Much better than "Sliding Doors"!

And I'd love you to friend Arwen!

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Still waiting for passwords so I can set Arwen up. Yawn, Yawn.

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Friended her already.

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What's Brief Encounter about?

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Brief Encounter is the classic 1940's black and white love story. Very English, very restrained, very sad. It's based on Noel Coward's one act play "Still Life", and stars Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard. I won't go into details, as you may see it sometime, and I wouldn't want to spoil it too much!

I haven't seen it for many years, and picked up a bargain DVD just before Christmas.

And after listening to an article in the radio about how film students can't see it's relevance today, I wanted to have a go at writing a screenplay based on the movie and the play that would show how the values that are at the core of the movie do still have relevance today if put in the proper context.

Yet another project to be going on with (and I haven't quite finished Strawberries yet, but may get it done tomorrow).

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Sigh. See, I would like to watch this movie, based on your enthusiastic endorsement. But it is clearly in the category of movie I *hate* because I'm such a weepy crybaby....

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Have you been over there today?

I posted my intro last night, well actually 3.30am - don't ask!! - and had a reply from Elrohir almost straight away. Then spent half an hour finding out how to say "hello brother" in elvish before I replied.

So when I got up this morning (v. late), Elrohir was back, as was Glorfindel, then Elladan arrived, and Erestor. Spent most of this afternoon being very elvish and civilised, and we had all just retired to the dining room for some thing to eat (how weird is that!!!!), when two older, wilder elves turned up, and began to try and heat things up, and eventually the party broke up.

Still talking to Elladan (who is quite slashy, so not about to try anything, I hope!) and Elrohir, Glorfindel and Erestor are quite cool too.

138 comments on that first post so far - OMG!!

I love that it was very in character for most of the time, and I'm not about to get involved in anything strange!!!

Oh, just checked! Diamond Took has just stopped by to say hello. She was on my friends list when I took over the journal, as were a couple of others.

Hope to keep this Moddle-Earth based, as like being in character.

Sorry to prattle on about this!

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I adore what SM calls "Chick Flicks", cause I love a good cry, makes me feel good! How weird is that??

Also, if I need to be in a certain place when I'm writing, I'll watch a couple of key scenes, like Boromir's death scene, that will put me in a sad mood.

And I can't watch stuff like Ice Age, or those ones with the baby dinosaurs looking for their parents without howling, so we don't generally go and see stuff like that at the movies!

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Good gracious! One would hope that you would be safe from your brothers and uncle. Possibly Erestor might get ideas...

I was over there when you had a mere 57 comments! :)

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My husband "vultures" me, to see if I'm going to cry. I've actually gotten *a little* tougher since we've been married, and have been very annoyed with him lately for peering at me when I'm not even remotely about to cry.

But I'm not like you. I really resent it when the main objective of the movie is obviously to make me cry. I flat refused to see Beaches. And when my brother tried to convince me to watch Titanic, I just told him "I know how it ends." (Cried a lot during The Small Boy's Titanic obsession.) Could not read the Grey Havens to The Small Boy - The Husband had to do it.

Did you watch Nemo? It didn't make me cry... :)

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SM does that too, but it doesn't put me off in the slightest!

Love a good cry, especially at the movies! And Beaches - wahhhh!!

No, haven't seen Nemo yet. It was either that on the huge premier type screen in Leicester Square (when we were in London last year), or Calendar Gilrs on the tiny one, so we went for Calendar Girls due to my emotional problems with kids cartoons! Will watch it when it comes on Sky, so I can cry buckets :)

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155 comments altogether!!

Well, Elrohir did snuggle up to me while we were waiting for Erestor to appear with food, I gave him *a sisterly kiss on the head*, and then he dropped out of that thread! He is now trying to get it on with his brother in Elladan's journal. Might pop my head around the door later to see how things are going!

Elladan's a sweetie, though! I think I like being a female character in a world of manly slashyness, so I can be the sister figure to all these hot guys :)

On another note, did you ever read "The Saga of the Exiles" and "Galactic Milieu" books by Julian May, because I came across a brilliant character from these books yesterday, while sorting out my TM friends list. (So I did a little LJ yesterday while I was supposed to be working - bad databse designer :( )

marc_remillard who even says in the journal that they doubt anyone else on TM will have heard of them, and have only had one other comment from someone outside TM who obviously thought it was a real person! So I left an "Arwen with attutude" comment yesterday, and hope they will reply. The books were brilliant, full of complex characters.

Think he might be played by

fileg cause when I went back and looked at my friends list, they had friended Arwen.

Please feel free to ignore these rambling TM posts if you want!

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Will probably just peek in on Arwen occasionally. The RP seems to me to be more for the players than the public... :)

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