Zoie May's Library

I am on a roll; another Marvel movie seen on opening weekend. And Captain America is quite awesome!
I think they did very well in keeping the main continuity version of Steve's personality even while the story/atmosphere is more influenced by the Ultimate universe comics.
And mmm, Howard Stark is almost as fun as Tony Stark. Am a little "worried", in a fandom-ish sense, at Howard's fondness for Steve in the end; could bring up some uncomfortable 'like-father, like-son' romance stories.

Went with Dad to see 'Paul' for his birthday, and we were pleasantly surprised at how good it was. Seth Rogen was much better as the voice of Paul than he was in his acting role in 'The Green Hornet'.

Nothing tops how my week started! On Sunday we went to the Star Trek display at the Aerospace Museum! Sadly, they didn't allow photography, after I went to all the trouble of borrowing a camera. But it was awesome anyway. There were information plaques and costumes and props AND... Not only the set piece of a hallway from TNG, but a reconstruction of TOS' bridge where I got my picture taken in the Captain's chair!

Monday I scrambled to complete my Mass Media project and finished with ten minutes to spare to catch the bus. When I got home I started baking for...

The breakfast potluck in my archery class on Tuesday. We were so busy eating and talking with everyone that we didn't even shoot.

Thank goodness my teachers are sensible and gave us Wednesday off even though the school system didn't (we were the only school in our county that wasn't off for the whole week. Why?). Grannie and Papa came up to visit me and we went to see Tangled; I've never seen a movie on opening day and I'd been planning on this for a month. BUT, the stupid digital projector wouldn't work! They were kind enough to give us two ticket passes to make it up, but still very frustrating.

Thursday was Thanksgiving. Family and great food, what more could I want?

Friday we ran errands in the morning, moved furniture in the afternoon, went and put up the grandparent's lights and ran more errands in the evening.

Today we are relaxing and doing house chores, and then this evening we are going to a Christmas program done by three generations of the family that owns half our neighborhood.

Oh my god, that was great! My first convention and it was awesome. We went first thing to one of the panel rooms to see and hear about "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and sat through the panel for a television show called "Happy Town" that ended with a screening of the first episode. Its a suspense mystery kinda show, not usually my thing, but it was pretty good. Got to see a segment from "The Prince of Persia" as well as from "The Sorcerer's Apprentice".
Then we hit the floor, and it was packed. I had to hold onto Dad's sleeve so as to not get separated. Lots of cosplayers, but either we or they were heading somewhere so I only got a few pictures. We both enjoyed Stylin Online's booth though we ended up only buying the official Wonder-Con shirt. My favorites were six booths of cardboard boxes full of used comicbook paperbacks, in really good condition at half the new price, and twice I had so many that the vendor gave me half off of that for a few. And just before we left we found the table giving away the Iron Man 2 poster with Scarlett Johansson.

Movie de la semaine: Tim Burton's Batman. I know what I'm doing this weekend!

"Da~ad! Why didn't you tell me that 'Wolfman' was a period piece?!"

"Haven't you seen the trailer?"

"When would I have?" (Actually, why wasn't this in front of 'Sherlock Holmes'?)

"... It's a period piece."

"Then I want to go with you to see it."

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"Why you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy looking, Nerf herder!" - Princess Leia, The Empire Strikes Back

"I will sign no treaty, Senator. My fate will be no different than that of our people." - Queen Amidala, The Phantom Menace

"I asked it of Caesar. I demand it of you." - Cleopatra, Cleopatra

I hate vine swinging, I hate vine swinging, I hate vine swinging, I HATE vine swinging.

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