ooh!

I never noticed before, but at the top of the main livejournal pages it's not just pretty colors, it's words! Random sentence bits, but still. How neat is that?

I expect everyone else knew that already, but *I* think it's pretty cool. :P Queen of the Easily Amused, right here, you may bow.

Oh, yeah, and Angel's going to be on Wednesday nights at nine this season, which I am psyched about, since Wednesdays are one of the few evenings I actually have consistent access to any TV stations at all. *does happy dance* Plus, I understand Smallville is on right before that, and I've heard Good Things about the show from a friend of mine and also from (strangely) my younger stepbrother. I think it used to be on Tuesdays or something, when I'm always cut off from TV, so I haven't had the opportunity to give it a chance, but hey, now maybe I can find myself another new addiction! (Just what I need...)

thinking too hard

My almost-two-year-old brother's utensil antics led the family to ponder The Little Mermaid around the dinner table. You know that bit where Ariel finds the fork, and the seagull whose name I can't remember calls it a dinglehopper or something and demonstrates how to use it for hairbrushing? Yeah. If Ariel has no idea what a fork is, and therefore they don't use forks underwater, what do they use? I thought chopsticks, but then I realized the real answer. So far as I remember, you don't see mermaids eat at all throughout the movie. _{(I could be wrong, I haven't seen it in ages.)} So obviously, like whales, mermaids eat krill. And while they're swimming around, talking and such, they're really slurping up microorganisms and doing all that baleen stuff that filters it.

So that's one mystery solved. I feel so smart. Or smug. Or possibly too obsessed with Disney movies. :P