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[elfs]

Right now, you have no idea how drunk I am. Bless my wonderful friends for having the courage to take Kouryou-chan for a sleepover.

Right now, Omaha and I are 2/3rds through a three-movie marathon. We have watched The Transformers, and 300 and are about halfway through Troy when the DVD player gave up due to the scratches delivered by Blockbuster. I am 80% through an entire bottle of Trader Joe's "Fume Blanc" whatever it is. Troy is wonderful: Brad Pitt plays a great asshole, but I am too in love with Oenone to forgive Paris for anything. Helen can go boff herself for all I care.

See you in the morning, desperately hung over.

Comments

[nbarnes.livejournal.com]

It's amusing to note that your drunkenness hasn't touched your grammar, spelling, or sentence construction, but that the idea structure of your paragraphs has gone directly to Hades.

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

I noticed the tenses were no longer consistent.

[nbarnes.livejournal.com]

Also, there's some comma misuse in the sentence about which movies he's watched.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

That is a little weird. I didn't mean to drink so much; I just poured myself a mugful of wine (rather than a glass; less likely to spill) and didn't realize just how much bigger the mug was than the typical wineglass. It was good stuff, too, Frey "Organic White Table Wine", and I had absolutely no hangover in the morning. I must remember that "the second glass won't hurt me" is a bad idea when the second glass is that big.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Non-sulfited wines do not give me hangovers, at least not if I remember to drink a lot of water right before going to bed, so I'm good with that. I can't do straight alcohol; I've never learned to enjoy mixed drinks or anything much in the way of hard liquor.

[srmalloy.livejournal.com]

Taking a B-complex vitamin before you go to bed also helps; those get depleted by the breakdown of alcohol.

I didn't think 300 was supposed to be a comedy... I picked up a copy of the Special Edition at Comic-Con, and finally got around to watching it about a week later. But watching Leonidas tell Ephialtes that he can't be part of the Spartan force because he can't protect the next man in the phalanx, and if the phalanx breaks, the army falls... and then as soon as the Spartans stop the first Persian charge, they break ranks and rush out to fight individually... Yes, it was dramatic, but it wasn't Sparta. The elephants I could barely accept Xerxes having had imported from the Indus, but the war rhino had me laughing, along with the oh-so-clichéed 'thrown spear dropping it to slide to a stop at my feet' resolution. And then it just got more and more surreal, a steady progression of "wouldn't it be cool if the Persians had..." spectacle. The documentary on the battle of Thermopylae, which had historian discussion interleaved with someone's filmed recreation of the battle done in the same sepia style that Frank Miller had used, had better characterization and acting. But, then, the documentary wasn't showing off the stars...

[acelightning.livejournal.com]