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Things:

- Today is another moving day. Today's goal: move all the books upstairs. Which I have accomplished! They're all sitting in stacks in the den, since the bookshelves themselves can't be moved up till the parentals get back and someone can help me with them. The books take up most of the den. It's a little scary, honestly. And now I am covered in dust.

- Last night, I made green tea and coconut soda out of a book my dad got from the library. It is amazing.

- Next weekend is the Lovecraft Film Festival at the Seattle Art Museum! I am totally stoked, especially to see Whisperer in Darkness but also because on Friday night they're showing Re-Animator and I have never actually seen that in a large group setting. Or, indeed, with people that I wasn't making watch the film. So that should be fun. (I'm kinda hoping, since it's at the SAM, we get some people who aren't actually horror people but are instead Art Museum people. Because I like playing horrify the newbie. This is me owning my evil impulses.)

- The other exciting thing about going to the film festival is that I will be in Seattle anyway, so I might as well go early and finally sign up for a Seattle Public Library card. Because I think their digital collection is larger than ours and that's exciting. The gods know I need more library books. 8)

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The problem with mostly having taken piano lessons through middle school and high school is that the vast majority of music I have that is not exercise books is from musicals that I was, at that time, obsessed with.

The good thing about no one else being home is that I can spend an hour or so, playing melodramatic show tunes as loud as I want. Heh. Oh gods, Jekyll and Hyde - so terrible, so much fun.

Muscle memory is really kind of amazing - I haven't played these songs in years and I'm still about as good at them as I ever was. Which means that the finale to This is the Moment still really sucks (but is still really fun to play really loud) but the first three pages or so are pretty good. Y'know, in a "playing show tunes on the piano when no one else is around" sort of way.

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Dear the people who made Farscape,

I realize that I am years too late in saying this but, y'know, when you have a dramatic or emotionally affecting scene about aliens, in which hardly anyone at all speaks English or any other language from Earth, and the music in the background is full of chanting in Latin, it kinda throws me out of the scene somewhat. And by "somewhat" I mean "a lot".

They're aliens! Why the hell is there a Dies Irae in the background?