"The world is more interesting with you in it."

[katernater]

Todd is away at the wedding of a mutual friend, so I've taken most of this afternoon and evening as a "mental health experiment," during which time I've pretty much bummed around and done nothing but fix a little dinner, read, and watch movies I've been meaning to push through my queue. I finally gave Hannibal Rising a go, having avoided it in theaters after I read the book. It was about what I expected. I admired Gaspard Ulliel's performance as Hannibal Lecter, but I really didn't need all of that character backstory -- what made the man so damn scary in The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon was the fact that his absolute nutjobbiness seemed to come out of nowhere. Once you tack on a sad backstory about baby sister's teeth in a stool pit, you start to empathize with him and that takes all of the fun out of it. It has, however, made me consider going back to give Hannibal a re-read. I love that book. It's pure poetry.

I picked up my cap, gown, tassel and hood at the campus bookstore yesterday. Graduation is exactly one month from today. I can't believe it's really almost over.

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[mr-liam-to-you.livejournal.com]

omg yessss X-Files. XD I was like 9 years old, and my classmates were like "I want to be a doctor/teacher/astronaut/firefighter" and I was like "I WANT TO BE AN FBI AGENT AND WORK ON THE UNSOLVED CASES. 8D"

Then when I was like 12 or 13, I saw Silence of the Lambs on TV and was oddly fascinated by Lecter, and my FBI dream became slightly more realistic. Instead of searching for aliens, I wanted to hunt serial killers :P

Co-op re-read/watch would rock!

(Holy shit, they actually drown you? That's. Intense and terrifying.)

[katernater.livejournal.com]

We would have gotten on well in grade school. XD

I'm up for it! 'Got my dusty old copy off the shelf. I'm flipping through it now -- I actually went through a couple of years ago and highlighted sections I thought were particularly well written. There is a lot of highlighting in this book.

(Yep! It's part of the training. I got wind of that and was like, "Okay, let's start thinking about alternative career options where my lungs filling with water is not a requirement for advancement.")