Dream dream dream when I want you in my arms...

So, loneliness has taken a vacation, hopefully for awhile, after a great and rather interesting/insightful conversation with the boy last night.

I'm up until at least midnight tonight, making sure the hangPROUD update goes through okay. It's always when I have to stay up that I really want to go to bed. Weird, eh?
In other HP news, all of my interns and I have BYLINES now! Proper bylines! Bylines that say By____. At the beginning of the article. Right beneath the headline. For some reason, coding I guess, they aren't showing up on the homepage, but I'll bring that up. We're also trying to put together some interactive quizzes for the PROUDgirl section of the site, so, if you have any unique ideas, please let me know! Carla's hoping for one each week from each intern, so we'll see how that goes. I'm thinking we're going to run out of quiz topics, but we'll see...

So, I'm watching Bridezillas on WE...and damn, this bride is bitchy. But anyway, bride and mother are talking about said bride being walked down the aisle by both mother and father. Thoughts, anyone? I feel like the aisle would be crowded. It's sweet, but not traditional. I don't know what I think...I mean, if I did it, my mother would be bawling. Well, she'd be bawling anyway...and my dad would probably be teary too. I'm kind of hanging on to the idea of daddy giving me away. And here's another one: Is your wedding day the most important day of your life? I mean, it's important, but is it the be all and end all of important days? What about the birth of your children? And if you say that the birth of your children is the most important day/days of your life, then is that a slight on your marriage? And what about...I don't know, big life-changing career days? Promotions? Job offers? Aren't they important too? What thinkest thou?

To add to the jumble, I'm also reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. I'm over 300 pages in, about half way, and I'm not sure how I feel about it. First off, Vampires is a totally new genre or subgenre for me, but I do find it to be fascinating so far, because I know so little about the history of vampires and the legends that exist. I'm not sure how I feel about how Kostova tells the story. Maybe it's just me, but over the first 150-200 pages or so, when we're reading the letters, I had problems separating the lives of the father and Rossi, the professor. I can figure it out when I get confused and have to add another detail into the mix, but the problem is that I have to pause and concentrate on which character did what 25 odd years before the story is actually taking place. The other big problem I have with the telling of the story is the way the father tells stories and writes letters. It just isn't realistic. No one recounts that much detail, no one. I know that we're supposed to be stepping into the memory, but the suspension of reality is, in this case, hard for me to believe. Of course, it is a story about vampires, so their goes reality, right (hopefully)? But since we're on the subject of vampires, here's a question: Why is no one FREAKING OUT about people being BITTEN BY FRICKIN VAMPIRES? Um. I'd be flipping out. Like, hysterical. And the wife of the guy in Istanbul is all, oh what a shame, I'll go make him dinner. I mean seriously!

/rant.

I do like it though. Really ;)