"Listen to your friend Billy Zane. He's a cool dude."

Welp, I've almost made it through the bad period of June...between my dad's birthday (June 12), the anniversary of his death (June 14) and then Father's Day (since that's when I found out he died) I tend to be somewhat less peppy than usual. It's now been three years, I guess, so it's gotten easier than it used to be, but it's still kind of sucky.

In cheerier news, Latin seems to be coming along apace. Tomorrow is our second test, and I think I'm pretty much prepared for it (though the declension of "hic" has been giving me fits). Hopefully all will go well. And I am enjoying wacky Latin pronunciation. (For example, "civitatis" ["state"] is always fun to say, because it sounds like "kiwi-TAH-tiss." Say it, it sounds funny!)

And, apropos of nothing, I now know how to say "for great justice" in Latin.
It's "iuri magno," for the record. Also, I'm kind of fibbing because I had to skip ahead a couple of days to figure out how to conjugate "ius" ("justice"); we won't learn how to conjugate third-declension i-stem nouns until next week. XD

Also, I have joined the Netflix brigade; yesterday Zoolander arrived and I watched it. And goddamn, but that movie is indeed as hilarious as I'd heard. Don't get me wrong, it's monumentally stupid - I felt like I lost 80 IQ points simply by watching it - but I was laughing so hard I didn't care. Which was nice, given that I was putting together a DVD bookcase at the time, and it made me not mind so much smashing my thumbs, or having to redo things due to my own stupidity. XD

Also, after reading Jojo the fashions totally didn't seem over-the-top, whut.

Let's Positive Linking!
- Cat trees bear. Can I just say that if any of my cats saw a bear, they would be halfway to Milwaukee by now.
- Neil Gaiman, Relationship Adviser. Seriously, while I like Neil's answer, the guy sending the letter seems pretty stupid for wanting this chick back. She catches him reading Good Omens in bed, and dumps him for being a Godless heretic. So, she's okay with premarital sex (since they ARE sleeping in the same bed), but not with her boyfriend reading a humorous fiction book that, if she had bothered to read it herself, she would know is not all that offensive?
- A Shortpacked comic especially for bshippotemkin (though anyone else who's seen X-Men: The Last Stand may also find it funny). Not particularly spoilery, but I suppose it could be seen as being so. If you squint really hard.
- Megachurch affiliated with Left Behind strategy game, in which you can either murder people while shouting "Praise the Lord!" (From ahebert.) So, crazy fundamentalist conservative Christians secretly want to be terrorists? Why am I not surprised?
- Dear God, I hope I never have anyone this stupid in my class. Though if someone turned in the Harry Potter skullfucking fic as an assignment, I might give them a pass simply on the basis of chutzpah. XD
- Save Screech's House. (From jantalaimon.) Geez, one minute you're a major character on a popular show, the next you're being foreclosed upon. D: