Nuns

[emony]

So I'm watching The Sound of Music on DVD at the moment, and it set me to thinking. In season 5, after Riley leaves, Buffy briefly considers becoming a nun. It's mostly for humour value, but I was thinking, it's different for blokes, but I know I used to want to be a nun, and my mother went through a time when she wanted to be a nun. Is it a general girl thing, or are we just weird? Does everyone, or a lot of people anyway, have a time when they think nun-hood sounds like a pretty good plan. And if we do, why is it? Is it only after we've been dumped, when life's a bit difficult, or are there things about life as a nun that appeal to us all? Hmm. Late-night thought.

In other news, I joined Farnham library today, discovered they have *no* Dalziel and Pascoe books in the entire library, so instead went to WH Smiths and bought one. Hehe.

ETA: Oh, also, we watched Dragonheart 2 tonight, which was a). really crap and b). really gay. Ah, so amusing! *g*

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[emony.livejournal.com]

I never wanted to be an astronaut or a fireperson, but I did want to be a lawyer and a psychologist and a film director. I never wanted to be a ballerina though. I hated ballet. I only ever wanted to be a princess because they had the coolest hats (tall cone-shaped ones with silk bits), and I often wish, even now, that I was a housewife because having a job is *hard*. I wouldn't worry *G*

I liked it that way too. I had to refrain from making comments about how Francis, or whatever his name was in that film, was being a total bitch, cheating on the dragon with the king's advisor who wanted him to come and live in the castle with him so he could give him personal tuition in how to 'sword fight'. *cough cough* And all that "giving him my heart" stuff? Come on, man, at least make it a little bit hard to see the slash! ;)

[packmentality.livejournal.com]

I wanted to be a psychologist and a film director too! But those are much more recent career fantasies.

I'm oddly relieved that I'm not the only one who saw the Geoff/Drake slash. Thought I was going insane for a while...

[emony.livejournal.com]

Was that the kid's name? It was totally there, yo. The whole film was about their love affair, without ever actually explicitly saying so, but it clearly was. They met, fell in love and first sight, the kid took the dragon out to try new things, then that wasn't enough so he tried to get the dragon to change (ie. learning to breath fire). Then he met someone new, and the dragon was all, "omg why don't you love me anymore? Is he better than me? Why are you spending all your time with him?" And the kid was like, "god, don't crowd me! I'm going out for a beer!" And then the kid realised that his fling-guy was Not All That and actually just wanted to use him to screw over the dragon, and he remembered all the reasons why he loved the dragon in the first place. Although it all still came down to the dragon in the end, as the dragon saved his life by, effectively, marrying him. Because, let's face it, that's what it was. "Sharing his heart"? Come on. And in the final scene, they were happy again, and 'flying', oh what a subtle metaphor. So yeah, I saw it *g*

[packmentality.livejournal.com]

Dude... I love you. :-)

[emony.livejournal.com]

Lol! Thank you :)