nathalia

I hit 40k today writing 2,284 words which came out of me pretty fluently. Demyan has gone completely crazy by now or so it is assumed and the story told in the forth or fifth chapter which involved only the four children are now revealed to be centered on Demyan's kids. I'm loving this part of the story, the youngest son finally got a name I don't keep forgetting and that has an actual meaning to it. Basically, everything seems to be uncovered now. All of the secrets except for one. he crystal. It's also interesting to note that I had something planned out perfectly with the story ending with the Old One telling Demyan something about fate but I don't think the story will go that way because I already passed that mark and it's going so well without it. Maybe I can put that in the epilogue, it would work and be a nice parallel to the prologue that is written from "Báleyg's" point of view. So he could start and finish off the story, tying the loose knots together.

I also finally caught up with Y - The Last Man and I am dying to read the last issue. This series is so incredible I'd like to coerce friends into reading it but I don't think I'll succeed. But it is a fantastic piece of literature and I love how the characters, particularly Yorik, 355 and Hero develop over the course of the story. And it sure helps having a Russian spy who's English "isn't bad - it's annihilated" (to quote Ciba Weber, another character) who is named Natalya of all things. Not only does Natalya's lack of English skills amuse me, she is the total opposite of me in many ways (with her horrible English, for example).

I have to read "The Portray of Dorian Gray" till next Saturday but haven't found my copy that seems to be lost in my bookshelf like so many other books, but Mathis is going to lend me his that as he pointed out on Saturday looks really fancy.

As for Wanted, the ideas are flowing out perpetually. The two triangles, Laurie, Drake and Ford as well as Heather, Johnny and Scott are both becoming more interesting and having a rude Englishman who is way older than the rest of the cast is just perfect and makes Kat an awesome character. Also, I have been working out what makes the two triangles different: Heather knows what she wants, she is not an airhead, she had a life that isn't all about who she is with. Laurie on the other hand experienced some angsty stuff and she had always been all over Ford, wanting him, loving him, a drama queen of sorts, quickly losing interest in something once she has it and standing between Drake and Ford, she doesn't know who it is she is looking for. Heather knows that she needs to change something in her life and like Laurie, she doesn't only have a former lover helping her with it, but also someone she never expected to and they are both trying to get to her heart but she isn't angsty, she takes matters into her own hands and is the independent girl with career perspectives and unlike Laurie, she doesn't feel like she can't live without a man in her life. The third protagonist, Kat, is with a guy nobody would ever have expected to see her with, who is unbearable but whom she loves and her former boyfriend who still isn't over her tries hard to make her see the Englishman isn't the one for her but the harder he tries, the more she sees how the Englishman is the one. It's just a nice story about teenagers, no baggage like with the Misfits who are taking a break (it sounds incredible but it's true)

After reading so much good stuff about Seagle and Cooney's "American Virgin", I sat down to read it yesterday and I've read all nineteen issues now and, man, it's great. It's deep, it's perverted, it's fun, it's cute ... There is so much about it. At first I thought, "What the heck?" because well, I wouldn't be able to save my soul according to Adam because I am not a virgin. It will be a year since I lost my virginity soon. Anyway, the idea was kind of weird because the guy is so super-religious, but after a while I really got into it. I mean, nineteen issues in two sittings are quite an achievement for something I wasn't very sure about to start with.

I read that it will be cancelled and that makes me really sad because I feel like there is no fucking reason to cancel such an awesome series. I think I have about one storyarc left and it really upsets me that it is going to end with issue 23.

Livejournaleintrag vom  2. Juli, 7.10 Uhr in Chile
I´m hurting overall, but at least I´m not awake all the time. Some cool things I´m not used to are the glowing panels that indicate whether or not the lavarotries are occupied, so that you don´t have to stand in front of the toilet waiting.
When taking off (we are taking off from Sao Paulo right now), the monitors in front of our seats showed the take'off in real'time and still is but right now it´s not that interesting because it´s only cloudy and foggy. But thte idea itself is interesting, I have to admit that.
Their food is a lot better than what Varig usually offers, but then again, Varig isn´t known for having a fantastic overall service. But let´s not get into that or my mother will kill me as Varig is holy to her.
I´ve been having quite interesting dreams in the last fews days that don´t make any sense but I wanted to mention it just for the sake of it.
We are flying above clouds right now. Nothing but a wall of clouds, literally. And there are black spots in these clouds that look like snowÑ gigantic mountains that are above the clouds. I´ve never been on a mountain that was so high that you were kind of on cloud'level, but Gianluca told me how he had been on Mount Vesuvius once and that it was like that and back then )it was in 2001, I think=, I found the idea of touching clouds fascinating.
On our journey, I have watched ¨The Painted Veil¨starring Edward Norton and Naomi Watts and it was pretty okay. I had heard a lot about it, from the critics and so on, but I didn´t think it was that fantastic. Of course I kept an eye on Norton and I can see him as a very interesting Bruce Banner in the upcoming ¨Incredible Hulk¨ movie. And it probably helps a lot that there was a scene in this movie where he was naked and you saw everything but his lower extremities and the man´s bum is very nice to look at.
We just got some sheets to fill out which I think I´ll do now, see if they ask any interesting questions like if I was involved in the nazi scene back in the days or plan a terrorist attack while I´m in the country.             
No such things, they seem to be a lot more down-to-earth than the Americans.
And we are looking at the interesting list of words Herr Drechsler gave us and making fun of very strange things that we doubt anyone would ever say. There is a very strange term that is translated as ¨to talk about the love life of the worms¨. What the fuck does that mean?! We had some ideas but they don´t really make sense, maybe becauseeral don´t make too much sense. I´m not sure. I myself don´t care about their mating habits.
We still have some hours left until he finally arrive and I think one of the people on this plane thinks I´m totally crazy after I told him about my Neo and that also have a diary and a notebook to make notes about other things )in fact I brought two, but he was already so shocked that I decided not to tell him=.
I read the first two chapters of Alan Moore´s ¨Watchmen¨and I am enjoying myself tremendoulsy. That guy is a genius, I will not argue about that or let anyone tell me differently.
Vanessa started her first diary entry just now, I am considering writing something in my diary as well although there aren´t any really deep and profound things to say except for the fact that I want to get off this plane now. But I think I should do it anyway. Or read ¨Watchmen¨ or ... just something. The content for this entry has expired already, I´m afraid.