One of the most romantic scenes I know is the bit in Anne of Avonlea where Gilbert begins to ask her to marry him, and she puts him off, and he says, "Please say yes," and his voice just breaks a little.

In the barn after Diana's engagement party?

Sigh.

I'm a big one for speeches, like Steve's "naked bottoms" one and Westley's "as you will" explanation (although it didn't make it into the movie), but there's the potential for it to be ham-handed. But I do like the tension-poured-out-in-a-cathartic-flood dramatic moment.

Oh! And in "The Matchmaker" with Janeane Garofalo, which nobody but me has ever seen, the scene where the guy sings even though he's got the worse voice in all of Ireland. I like that one.

Oh, that is a good scene! Terrible singing, sweet scene.

Saw it in the theater.

I have seen that movie many, many times. I own it!

"Is being an idiot like being high all the time?"

Ha! Excellent. Of course, it has Denis Leary, which helps some. Bits of that movie pop into my head from time to time, like "a very bijoux room," and "it's great crack."

I assume by 'crack' you don't mean incredibly hard drugs.

ETA: I am SO going to bed now.

Kristen! I have a prezzie for yooooouuuuu.

So I didn't go to bed. Or rather I did but decided to watch Deadwood and Wyatt and Bullock! The slashfic would just write itself if I was still that kind of girl.

Rrg. Trying to figure out which aspects of teaching I find "most gratifying" that aren't painfully obvious, like "getting students to make connections" or "watching understanding dawn" or "seeing students get caught up in things." I'm also quite fond of the "being done before rush hour" thing and the "wielding vast amounts of power over the very lives of my fellow human beings mwahahaha" thing, but I suppose those won't help my case.