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[clo_again]

Went to sleep earl[ier] last night 'cause I'd spent five minutes staring blankly at the screen, totally unable to spell 'blindly'. Though it did mean that to test my seven-hour-sleep theory, that I needed to get up at nine. Dad found me making tea in the kitchen at half nine and asked if I'd been to bed yet. -_-They know me too well.

Pride and Prejudice was good, surprisingly so after the first bit of snarky dialogue got lost in the first dancing scene. Haven't got beyond the second chapter of the book - yesIamanEnglishmajorshutup - but it compared pretty well to the TV series, though with more cut out, understandably since it didn't have six hours to fit it all in. They didn't set Wickham up as really 'evil' though. He just stood around looking pretty - oh so very pretty. I may have drooled - and when he was revealed as the bad guy, it was so quick that if I hadn't been waiting for it, I might've blinked and missed it. He was oh so much prettier than Darcy, who spent the film looking wetly miserable rather than smoulderingly handsome and standoffish. No Colin Firth. Not that I've read the book, so maybe this Darcy was the right one. *shrugs*

Keira Knightly was very good as Elizabeth though and that was the main thing. You could forget Darcy looking like a kicked puppy with her giggling her way snarkily through every scene. There was also a general sigh of awe when the camera panned around to reveal Judy Dench as Lady Katherine. That woman could not get more awesome.

So definitely, a good film. If you can't face sitting through six hours of the the TV series, this is a good, shorter - slightly - alternative.



It made me sad that I'm doing Dickens instead of Austen this year. They're doing Pride and Prejudice on the Film and Literature course but I'm not allowed to do it, because I'm combined with Creative Writing. Grate woe. Especially since I've done media before, so I could pass it much easier than Victorian lit. Or I could've done Northanger Abby and Sense and Sensiblity on the Eighteenth century lit course... only it's not running this year. Figures. Looks like I'm stuck sneaking into wolves8 and L's Film lit lectures.

Maybe I'm university-orientated this morning because I just got that most friendly of letters from them, demanding money. As usual. Not entirely sure why I - read 'the 'rents' - are paying for me to sit around and read books all year, since I can do it as well at home and the lectures last year? You could pretty much sleep through and learn it later, because half of them seemed to be repeating stuff I found on the 'net. Hm. Suddenly I'm wondering why no one's set up a university English course where you just do it all at home and pay only for the exams.

Having said that though, this year will be horrendously difficult and I'll be running to my lecturers for help every five minutes. So, maybe I should stop planning to skip my lectures before I've even started the year.

I have insane amounts of stuff to do today, since I have to have my BPC fic finished a day early to send before I go to Cardiff, and the Andy-tied-the-bed fic. And Datta before I go back to Lancaster, which is now almost a different fic with all the new stuff that's turned up in planning this long. Huge fun in creating new and interesting ways for them all to angst. Much, much angst. ;-)

So, off to do stuff that is not playing on Black and White which I rediscovered while sorting the main computer out yesterday. It's far too fun to rain down fire on unsuspecting villagers. :-)

Clo

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[clo.livejournal.com]

*snuggles back* Thanks, but lack of Cardiff now means more time to fic. :-) Silver lining and all. I should manage okay.

[lovemeforme-7.livejournal.com]

*sits with a Jumbo size popcorn bucket waiting for fic*

[clo.livejournal.com]

*steals some popcorn and keeps ficcing* Might be another few hours yet.

[lovemeforme-7.livejournal.com]

Thank God I got the Jumbo size then :)

[scoobydumblonde.livejournal.com]

Datta!!!!! *sqeaks incoherently*

[clo.livejournal.com]

You thought I'd forgotten it? *grins* The plan is getting more interesting by the *day*. I'm currently fighting with the muses over whether or not a particular thing would cause too much angst. ;-)

[scoobydumblonde.livejournal.com]

No, just the more you mention it, the more I contemplate withholding all Roger/Andy fic from you for the rest of your life. :-P And my threat still stands. You let Mardy leave Tommy and Marat to go to Roger and Andy and something very bad will happen!