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The Rules of the Game. First, link your tagger and post these rules. Second, share 7 facts about yourself: some random, some weird. Third, tag 7 people at the end of your post and list their names and link to them. Fourth, let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment at their blog.

First: Plugging.  I’m it, I suppose. I was tagged three times. Kaylee, Chanel, and Aisling, thanks for showing an interest in me, and thanks for giving me something to blog about. ;)

Second: My Happy 7. Number 1: pronouns. When discussing hypothetical people occupying typical male positions, I prefer to use the use the terms she and her. For example, if a made-up soldier were the topic of conversation, I’d be likely to say something like, "If she goes to Iraq then …"

Number 2: Alexander. Alexander is my cat. Now, he’s resting, purring, and using my arm as a pillow. He’s always around. If I were a video-blogger, he’d be a constant feature: he’d be on me, in my lap, behind me, ripping keys off my keyboard (it’s happened)… I love him.

Number 3: pop music? Yes, please. I love syrupy sweet cornball saturated high energy pop songs. If it sounds cute and is Japanese, I’m down. Don’t believe me? I love this song (Momusu’s Mikan) (and I really love this (Korean; Girls’ Generation’s Girl’s Generation)). BUT I do have some taste, because I hate this stupid song (so what if it’s for kids)…

Number 4: food. I hate nuts, bananas, ham, pork, bacon, anything made of pig-meat, hamburgers, beef,  anything made of cow-meat, kimchi, wasabi, coconut, snickers bars, key lime pie …

Number 5: green. I’m partial to pretty things and to green things. The other day, I played an Xbox game, and I was childishly disappointed when I was unable to use the green controller.

Number 6: I watched more TV this month than I have in the last 4 or 5. Before, at the very most, I watched the box for an hour a week. But I like reality TV, and now there’s Kid Nation (♥), The Amazing Race, Run’s House (MTV!!!) …

Number 7: That exam. Well, it didn’t go as well as it should have. I did better than most people. I scored in the 90th+ percentile in the verbal section, but I got nervous and had some issues with multiplication. So the math part didn’t go quite as well so…I "phailed" and will be taking it again. Oh well. It happens.

Third. That’s it! If you haven’t done this, and if you’re in the mood to post 7 facts, consider yourself tagged. ;)

I know I turned some of you off with my last post. I apologize. But don’t get your hopes up. Math is still my boyfriend, and this entry—well, it’s more perfunctory than not. I’m blogging to blog, not because I have something profound to say, but when do I ever—enough rambling.

I have a tumblr (aerielle.tumblr.com). I will spam it with random thoughts, random quotes, and random pictures of pretty things.

I dragged a male friend into a book store Anthropologie. It’s odd that I remember the incident as one involving a book store; in reality Anthropologie specializes in unique and—dare, I say it? I could work there. Oh well.—ugly and overpriced clothes as well as peculiar books and pretty things. Anyway, my friend threatened to buy me a book, one on bullshit. What is it about BS and the ability to BS that people find so amusing? Why write a book on BS full of BS? What is the point? I mean, really.  BS is such a coarse term too.  Anthropologie is teeming with books on etiquette. What is On Bullshit doing in a place with expensive garments and works titled The Art of Civilized Conversation and Tiffany’s Table Manners. Whatever the reason, I’m glad to see that Anthropologie has a sense of humor. ;)

A new layout is in the works. I’ll won’t use Typepad, and I’ll be going with a white background … That’s all I’ve come up with so far. Suggestions, especially content suggestions, are welcome.

NaNoWriMo. I signed up. I don’t have any concrete story ideas; I don’t know if I’m going to write anything. But I signed up. That must count for something. I’m toying with the thought of writing a YA-ish piece from various perspectives. I made a character and a website for Rhiannon’s Worst Website Competition 2007, and I think that maybe it’ll be fun (in a slightly masochistic way) to write more from Ella’s point-of-view. There’s also the Korean Drama-like novella that I was working on. Hmm…

If you signed up for NaNoWriMo, how’s your novel going?

Also, I’m engaged! Oh wait—I’m engaged in my dreams. In one of them, my friend asked me to marry him—and guess what?—I said, “Yes.” I don’t know what I was thinking nor do I know what he was thinking. I’ve never had a dream in which I’ve put myself and someone else I know in anything that resembles a romantic situation, and sometimes I even have control over my nighttime musings, so this is completely weird. It doesn’t help that in the real world, I’m a little pissed at him… How could I say, “yes?” Anyway, because we’ve busy been (or, at least, he has), I haven’t talked to him in awhile but when I do it’ll be hard to shake the I-had-a-distrubing-dream-about-you feeling.

[”우리 왕자”와 약혼했다~ ㄲㄲㄲㄲ]

Disclaimer: This is a housekeeping entry. It is not an exercise in fine writing. Please, excuse the mess.

In the interest of allowing my readers to learn more about me as a person, rather than me as a blogger, and because I fear nothing, and show everything…ask me a question. Any question you want. - Amanda

I’m following the trend that Amanda began—ask away. Questions and answers will be added to my Ask & Answer page.

two. I will blog about something other than nonsense later. Who’d have thought, right? Suggestions for blog topics or articles are welcome—if there’s anything that you want to hear me go on about, let me know!

three. Also, this layout isn’t quite right. I want to make another one with the same theme of Versailles. Suggestions? Criticisms?

It is harder, sometimes, to review a glorious book—to convey its power and influence without relying on suspicious adjectives. Good books can be slotted, characterized, explained; great books often cannot. I believe Geraldine Brooks’ new novel, March, is a very great book. I believe it breathes new life into the historical fiction genre, the borrowing- a- character- from- the- deep- past phenomenon, the old I- shall- tell- you- a- story- through- letters tradition. I believe it honors the best of the imagination. I give it a hero’s welcome. - Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune puts it best but—yes, I attempted to review March. My review is here.

five. I have an exam on Thursday. Wish me luck!

six. Things of interest:

1. After the taser incident at the university in Florida, the domain donttazemebro.com was registered.
2. The Prehistory of Emoticons

I. My addition skills are in fine form (I can add!). Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of cross-sums puzzles (Kakuro).  I’m not very good at them yet. But- I’m definitely in the process of developing mad skillz.

II. TV? It’s just not fun anymore. We’ve cable, movie channels, and all sorts of things but, I rarely place myself in front of a television. I’m only interested in watching two shows. 1: The Amazing Race. 2: The Tudors. But, the Amazing Race comes on at 2 in the morning and my family decided to cancel Showtime (The Tudors only airs on Showtime!). I’m out of luck.

(Honestly, I tolerate MTV every now & then.)

III. The real purpose of this entry: to say that I’ve launched a reviewing section (Reviews(at) callistonian.net woo!).  Currently, there’s only one review up. It’s of a Japanese pop album. If you’re interested in that sort of thing or open-minded, check it out.