Thursday 13

This is my 13th TT. I would have liked to do something special like Mary did for her 13th, but I am theme-less today. So here is... A Random Thirteen 1. Why live music is better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhhLeqjjf20 2. This is the cat I would have if I weren't allergic: I fell in love with Abbies when I met a little charmer named Tiger. He loved me nearly as much as I loved him and sat on my shoulder to cuddle and sniff my ear. I sneezed and wheezed for an hour afterward, but it was worth it! 3. As you might have been able to discern from my TT of two weeks ago, I love movies with ensemble casts best of all. "Two minutes, Turkish!" 4. I find it tragic that the subjunctive is fading from our language, especially when expressing a wish or a hypothesis. However, I once heard (a possible grammar-geek urban myth) about a killer's use of the subjunctive in a note left at the crime scene helping to convict him, since so few people use it these days. 5. Speaking of urban myths, did you know that "Ring Around the Rosie" is probably not about the Black Death? 6. MJ took this: 7. The oldest romance novel I've read (if you don't count Austen, Brontë, et al.) is The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart, originally published in 1961. It's a damned good book. 8. This is terribly unoriginal—I'm certainly not the first to claim her—but this is my secret girlfriend: Why? She's stunning, of course, she works for the welfare of children, and she did some of her own stunts in Lara Croft. That bungee ballet scene? Beautiful! I'm just glad they skipped the silly falsies in the sequel. 9. Oh my gawd, I just realized I left The Rock off of my list of favorite action movies. For shame! Great quote: "Well, gosh, kind of a lot's happened since then." 10. These are the 935 lies that drove us to war in Iraq — The Center for Public Integrity 11. After Juno, I have had to reconsider my opinion that Jennifer Garner is a horrible actor. She still sucked in Rose Hill, though. Of course, that movie was a pretty terrible adaptation of a pretty charming book, so her suckiness was...appropriate? 12. We have been watching this family transform their house. So nice to have somebody else doing the work for a change! 13. This is the prettiest TT I've ever seen.

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