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Oh my gosh, the weather here today is so frakking weird. There were thunder storms all night and they're still passing through. At the moment the sky is so dark it looks like evening and the rain is pouring down. When I drove into work this morning there were lightning bolts but by the time I parked my car and the song on the radio had ended that little bit of storm had passed, only to be replaced now, 3 hours later, by something even more foreboding.

Poor Pup, I woke up to find him hiding in the laundry room, all stiff and sore from laying on the concrete floor. Bad weather really scares him.

HA! A former governor of MI was nicknamed 'Soapy'. There are a few of you out there who will understand why that is freaking hilarious.

Spent some time with my high school BFF last night (she's in town petsitting for her mother). She kept on making comments about how lame we were, sitting around and watching TV and all I could do was shrug because, seriously, that's how I spend most of my recreation time with my friends. Communal TV snark should be considered an art form.

It's funny spending time with someone who is almost a fangirl but not quite, or, at least, not an LJ type of fanperson. She loves the Ninth Doctor to pieces (and Christopher Eccleston for good measure) but has never seen either 28 Days Later or Shaun of the Dead and didn't know who Ron Livingston was. It was like we were almost speaking the same fan dialect, but not quite. There is a bit of a divide between someone who goes to Seventh Heaven for mindless brain candy and someone who goes to Supernatural for much the same reason.

And OMG, I'm over-analyzing all of this, again. Why won't my brain just shut itself off! *groans*

In other news:
May I just say how the pilot is a million times more awesome when rewatching it after I've seen the entirety of the first season? Everything is more poignant. I actually choked up a little during the first scene with the demon and Mary on the ceiling. That shot of John and the boys huddled on the car was heart-breaking now that I know what was in store from them all (already killed your family, indeed < /cryptic finale spoiler>). And John laughs! When he comes into the nursery and Dean runs to him he smiles and laughs and it's wonderful! *heart breaks*

Sam and Jess are so cute! I really like her and she's good for him, breaks up his emo and makes him laugh. I really kinda hate that demon.

Then, of course, there's the Dean breaking in and the sparring and guh. That's good stuff right there. It goes without saying that all of the brother stuff is great for the entire rest of the episode. Kripke as a writer does better with the info-dump in this episode then a lot of the other SPN staffers do. Yeah, there's still clunky exposition but he at least tries to make it feel organic. The characters are still being felt out (Dean's a little over-the-top horndog when meeting Jess) but I love how easily Sam and Dean both fall back into the old patterns while still trying to work out new techniques (the computer search at the library when Sam forcibly takes over is one of the great brother moments of the episode). Wow, a lot of what makes this show so much fun really was already popping in the first episode.

In conclusion: It's all really about the Impala.

I am informed that today is the solstice. Happy Solstice, everyone! Be sure and get out and enjoy the longest day of the year! Unless, of course, you live in Michigan, Land of the Neverending Downpour.

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Thank you for solstice wishes! Not that you know this, but it's become my cheezy spiritual birthday.

Crappy weird weather here, too, though. Not very solsticey.

I have decided that you must show me some key Supernatural at the earliest opportunity.

I need a Ninth Doctor icon liek whoa.

*is dull*