There can be only one...thank Gods!

Rented movies for this weekend, and we're watching about one a day so far. Yesterday was the X-Men movie, which I liked a lot. Must see the second one now, someday.

But today... Ugh.

If I can remember who ever told me Highlander didn't suck, I am going to have to hurt them. I had always thought something like this should appeal to me; Swords, Sean Connery, and decapitations. Okay, so I'm not a big decapitation fan- I could've put up with it for the sake of the story. Except the story...bites. I should have given up and turned it off as soon as Sean's character died, but I never learn. I kept hoping it would get better.

And then...it was over. And the peasents rejoyced. What a farce.

The fact that the entire soundtrack was by Queen didn't help, either. I have nothing against Queen, even like them at times, but it was hard to take seriously.

Call me crazy, but I think what the movie could really have used was the guys from Mystery Science Theater cracking jokes.

I'm really very bummed, though. Thought it would be much cooler.

Blech.

Merciless

Taking a break from watching the Indy 500, occasionally beating eBay with a stick because it keeps telling me there is no Babylon 5 stuff listed (as I scroll through 33 pages worth of stuff...), liking that it is Sunday for once. I'm bored but basically happy; no school stress or finals, and I don't even have to see my crazy family until tomorrow.

And very slowly I dig myself out from under the very large list of stuff I need to get done this summer, or at least that I really want to- webpages and fics, books I want to read, boxes and corners of my room infested with junk, which I need to clean out. Not that I'm really looking forward to the cleaning, but it's got to be done. I'll feel better when it is, anyway.

One thing I am considering moving to the top of the list is a Harry Potter fic I have half-promised myself will be done before Order of the Phoenix is out. I really don't want anything from OoP to influence the fic, even if half of it ends up invalidated by said book. AU has never scared me.

Of course, I don't know that it's going to be done by next month; I'm at this point where I'm torn between really liking the fic and really hating it.

Maybe a beta reader would help? Lindsay did really well on Emerald & Ebony for me, but she's busy, and I impose on her too much. Getting me out of javascript and HTML messes should be enough to ask, even of my 'sister'.

But then I get to thinking that no, I don't need a beta reader. I need some self-confidence, and some objectivity. I keep telling myself, you can write, and you can edit. Be merciless, I think, over and over again. Be merciless. Cut the words you don't need, the ones that really don't work.

I am the best and worst editor I'll ever have, anyway. Because I am merciless. Just not merciless enough.