Sometimes when I sleep on my side, my kitty will lay on top of me. So every time I move a little bit, she struggles to remain balanced on top of me.

It works better when I sleep on my stomach and she lays on my back and/or butt. But usually she sleeps on my hand/wrist, so I can give her belly-rubs.

billytea, I think we've found Ryan's Christmas gift!

It sounds like Abney Park is the living example of "Steampunk is when Goth discovers brown."

Ahaahaha. Yes. Very much so.

billytea, I think we've found Ryan's Christmas gift!

Oh, yeah, like Daddy's going to share. Which means you get two, I imagine. And now I'm seeing an adorable and disturbing parade.

I can't believe that we're not getting the women's final 'til 9 pm tonight. How ridiculous is that?

Hey, all, need to pick the hive-mind.

I'm making (heh, heh) my students write a compare/contrast essay, selecting an epic hero or a modern superhero to whom to contrast/compare Beowulf to.

I want to give my student a good starting-off list of hero/ines to brainstorm from. They can select who they want, but some of them might need a little inspiration.

So far, I have:

Odysseus Gilgamesh Luke Skywalker Frodo Neo (The Matrix) Blade Batman Superman Spiderman Wonder Woman King Arthur Xena Frodo Aragorn Harry Potter Hercules Aeneas Percy Jackson Simba (The Lion King) Dean or Sam Winchester

The hero/ines need to hit most of the characteristics for epic heros:

1. Represent their culture's ideal of what qualities a hero needs to possess.

2. Have superhuman qualities (strength, skill, powers, determination, etc)

3. Have some kind of divine/supernatural parentage or history.

4. Be on some type quest for something -- an extrinsic quest, or an intrinsic quest.

5. Oppose larger-than-life or superhuman/supernatural villans.

6. The story contains elements of the divine or supernatural.

Any additions you can make would be great, especially ones from pop culture than 16-18 year old African-American kids would be familiar with.

• Buffy's not on the list, because I am using her as my example to model all of the steps of the writing process. :)

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Any additions you can make would be great, especially ones from pop culture than 16-18 year old African-American kids would be familiar with.

John Stewart, Green Lantern.

The women's final was on ESPN2 at midnight, sumi. That's the recording I'm watching. The men's final will be the same.

Patton Oswalt was very right about The Mechanic. I might be out of touch, but that was dark for an American action movie. Also, shit, so fucking hot. I'm almost worried.

In trailer news, they've finally put Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel in the same movie. Now get Statham and Hardy together, stat.

John Stewart from TDS?

Ooh, Green Lantern! Excellent.

Major accomplishments of the day - showered, hair done, makeup applied, and outside clothes on the body.

CJ is at the dojo helping out with today's belt testing. Which, I think, means working the front of the dojo - answering phones and helping anyone who has questions.

Outside goals for the day - get CJ's hair cut, go to the gaming store and see if anything calls our name, and maybe a movie.

Inside goals for the weekend - clean up the place. All of a sudden the clutter is driving me crazy.