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( Primal Scream at 4 a.m. )

In other news, I thought of an eccentricity that I realized may be particular to me and me alone, so I figured I would share.

I have assigned each suit of the standard card deck to one of the Narnia siblings, in a way that has turned out to be consistent with tarot interpretations of the same suits. When putting up Solitaire stacks, I try to put them in age order and finish with my favorites (Lucy and Peter) last.

Lucy=Hearts, Edmund=Clubs, Susan=Diamonds, Peter=Spades.

I'm pretty sure that some other people do the "favorites last" thing. This is a holdover from childhood and only comes up when I'm playing Solitaire games, not card games with other people.

Please, share your compulsive eccentricities. I'm curious.

( and because NO ONE will care, my song shuffle lemming. )

Ballet recommendation: Swan Lake.

I keep meaning to get around to posting this. I guess today's the day. Watch Swan Lake!

Okay, maybe not everyone in the world should watch Swan Lake. But many people on my friends list should. Basically, the director (Matthew Bourne) took the Tchaikovsky score and the fact that it starred royalty, and threw out the rest of the script.

The result is a parody of British royalty, a love story, a tragedy, and a gorgeous all-male chorus line of sweating shirtless "swans." Here's a link to the official photo gallery if you can't picture this.


And finally, because I don't seem to be able to wean myself from the quiz crack: 57.142857142857146% of me is a huge nerd! How about you?

This test was fun, and had some excellently subtle "you had to be there" questions, such as the cleverly disguised Monty Python problem. I was only as low as I was because about 1/3 of the questions concerned video games, which I don't play. Otherwise I think I hit about 80-90%.