what's this about hmm...giant ants?

so i just realized that you don't get notification when people comment on your entries! how dumb am i! answer: pretty dumb! but thank you for the comments, erin and steph. they were neglected, but now they are not!

last night i watched the merchant and ivory version of a room with a view. i liked the book way better, but it was still pretty good. helena bonham carter looked really young, and daniel day lewis had a dumb haircut, but what can you say, it was 1986. and all i could think about during the big bathing scene with george, freddy, and mr. beebe was that e.m. forster must have enjoyed this, wherever he is now. i love e.m. forster. he was friends with w.h. auden and christopher isherwood! the best friendships are author friendships, don't you know. literary fun fact: w.h. auden married a german lesbian author in 1935 in order to get her a british passport to escape the nazis. he was awesome. i wish i could hang out with him and talk about the sino-japanese wars.

the bad part about watching a room with a view was that in led to my writing of bad fanfiction! oh no! i am only admitting this because i think everyone should and probably has written bad fanfiction at least once in their life and i am owning up to mine. it will stay locked away where no one will ever find it. i don't think i've written fiction since i was in middle school. in truth, it wasn't all that bad, i don't think, but still. lock and key. these are incriminating times or some such nonsense.

i will now end this entry with one of my favorite comics for no reason at all! if i ever become a history teacher [it is possible], all i will do is show kate beaton comics. she is awesome. also! another thing for absolutely no reason at all: isn't the guy who plays tiberius gracchus in 'the battle for rome' dreamy? sigh. go on out there and campaign for the common people and work it, tiberius. the senators may assassinate you but you'll always live on in my heart.