Any Old Actress

In lieu of an ordinary entry, I give you a blow by blow update. Mostly this is a way of pretending that my ordinary entries are anything but composite nonsense (or: junk I want to tell). Let’s lose the “bloggy pretense” and just list the junk that’s on my mind. Cool, right?

Today’s words are:
ontogeny
asperity
miasma
sobriquets

Band/Song to research is:
Tattle Tale: Glass Vase Cello Case - Cool name, supposedly good song, and I’ve never ever heard of any of it.

Nibbling on: Frozen French Toast (with too much syrup) and Orange Juice

Site I really like but forget to visit:
tarnish.net

Just arrived in mail:
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Not altogether sure why Captain Nemo is running around in a turban (I don’t recall any fascination with Eastern culture, this could be because I never finished The Mysterious Island), but it’s absolutely fascinating reading a comic with the Invisible Man. They’ve resurrected him with a sort of Soap Opera retcon, but I’m mostly just glad he’s still around. I hated it when he died at the end of the book. This is such a way for me to relive my lit-geekiest years between 13 and 16 where I did nothing but read Dickens, Austen, Verne, Wells, Doyle and the other “classic” Victorian authors. Wasn’t even reading anything cool like Bradbury, or Gaiman, or sci-fi fantasy. Just dusty British authors who’ve brainwashed my spelling into things like colour and grey and realise. I’m going to get an old picture scanned sometime, with my really big round glasses when I was extra skinny. And then I’ll have photographic proof that I’m really a big nerdy bookworm (not that it’s like, under scrutiny or anything).

Reading Zines: The Pleiades #7, The Pleiades #8, Heliopause #1, Spitshine the Eye, and All This Is Mine #9

E-baying for:
Affordable underwire bikini top. Not holding breath for matching shorts. Actually found a bathing suit matching all criteria, in white with cherry print, last season, but declined to pay upwards of $60 for sunbathing attire. At this point I’d settle for ugly and cheap so long as it fit and wasn’t a triangle/string bikini top. They’re just not selling anything decent this year though. All the styles are the same, and none of them are what I want. Triangles are bad enough (no support, slipshod coverage), but when they’re all those adjustable slidey strings, they’re just impractical. I haven’t had a bathing suit I actually liked since I was 6. And honestly, with a few concessions to size, I’d still be happy with it. Purple, polka dots, cute little ruffled tube top. Yeah man, that’d do me just fine.

Hating: Carrot Top, Cameron Diaz, Harry What’sHisFace, and the Church of Oprah

Studying:
HLB Values for oil-in-water emulsions. Last lotion’s water phase was aloe vera juice and glycerin. Oil phase was olive, avocado, and hazelnut. Now, I think I want to sub that olive with something lighter like sweet almond oil. But I want to make sure I’m using the right emulsifier to hold it all in solution.

Waiting for:
Pink berry wine soap to cure. Angel reruns to air. July 7th and the reappearance of Trigun. Chance to see college roommate and meet her kids. Squash blooms to bear fruit. Tan to deepen and red to leave cheeks.

Wanting useless things:
New red nail polish to match new red shoes. Vash action figure. Solomon Grundy action figure. Eye shadow brushes.

Wondering: When did Powerman 5K get a makeover? Chocolate soap or green tea soap? What should go on a hotlink graphic?

Excited about: New soap labels! They look good in print, and they match the as-yet non-existent new site. New Villainess layout, which I still really like. All the scars that are showing up on my arms with this season’s tan. I had no idea I’d acquired so many scars! It looks like I’ve done work or had adventures or something.