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[liptonrm_backup]

HA! I'm BACK!!

All shall love me and despair, etc., etc.

Feeling chipper and happy. The flu wasn't really so bad, mostly general malaise and lack of energy. The funeral wasn't so bad either. I wasn't particularly close to my great-aunt so while my heart mourned for my uncle who looked sad and lost and smaller I know that my aunt lived a full and happy life. She had come to the end of a long road and was happy to be going home.

And at the reception afterwards a random woman came up and sat at our table and we had a great discussion. She was extremely affable and Canadian and I wish I could remember her name. Thanks to her I think I want to learn how to golf. No, seriously, I mean it. It might just be a pretty good idea.

Now I am back at work, which is sad but not too bad. Yes, it does seem that my three sick/family days are going to be the closest thing I get to vacation all year, but I'll survive. It'll all get better, someday, I'm sure.

And Lost was on last night. I like that show.


I love Locke. I love Sayid. I love Charlie and baby. I love Claire. Shannon has issues and is interesting. I love Michael and Jin. I love Hurley. Yeah, there's all sorts of love going on for me over on that island.

I do not love Jack and Kate, but that's okay, you can't love everybody. If it came down to a choice between who to follow, Locke or Jack I would totally follow Locke. He might be a little crazy but he's also rational and goal-oriented and people-smart. True, he didn't tell Sayid the whole truth last night, but, you know, he only left out the stuff that would make him seem crazy and fanatical and that's the kind of stuff I tend to keep quiet too. When you tell people that you had a dream that lead you to the plane that fell and killed Boone, well, that sounds kinda crazy even though it's true and most people would generally start to think that you're generally crazy and not give your opinions the weight and merit they deserve. So, in summation, Locke is my leader.

Oh Sayid, your story is so angst-o-riffic what with the woman you love being gone and your terrorist boyfriend shooting himself in front of you after you betrayed him. And yet you soldier on, trying to do the best that you can. *sniffle* You're so the coolest. And the hotest and I'm sorry that Shannon has issues and maybe doesn't love you any more. That's okay, there are lots of us who would more then willing to comfort you.

Was Charlie and the baby not the cutest thing you've ever seen? OMG, I just about died from teh cuteness. There was the crying and the rocking and Hurley singing and then his following Sawyer around just trying to get him to talk. And then Claire comes up when Sawyer's reading from the car magazine and it was like they were this cute little blonde family with sexy Uncle Sawyer in his dorky glasses and I was so in love.

The cast is absolutely what makes this show so intriguing. The plot is good but not outstanding but the cast makes the characters believable and sympathetic and I love them all. Except Kate and Jack, they're boring.

Dangit, I go away from work for a couple of days and I come back to find people have been putzing around on my computer and changing the phone system and drinking beer in my office! For the love of Pete, hands off my stuff!!!

ETA: Good luck to all my British friends with the national elections. I hope that things only get better.

Comments

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

Welcome back, kid. Word up.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Hey you, how's it hangin.

And may I just say that your icon is freaishly hillarious. *bows down*

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

Heh, thanks. I got that from booster17, who got it from samiamicons, I'm pretty sure.

It's okay. Tomorrow is my last day of official work -- after that, anything I do is consulting work. I am ready to be unemployed for a little bit. Le sigh.

How was your baseball game last Friday night?

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Sometimes unemployment is a good thing. Enjoy the downtime, my friend.

The game was good. It got really cold by the beginning of the fourth so we left a bit early, but U-M was up by three and they were up by nine by the sixth. The crowd wasn't as much fun as the one the week before was but that's mostly because Spartans suck. I may be a little biased, however;-).

Here's to the beginning of better things.

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

The ACC tournament is played here in town, only just across the river from my apartment. I can't wait for that -- it's going to be awesome. A dude my brother played Little League ball with is even playing, he's a pitcher for Wake Forest.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Dude, so cool. So.freaking.cool. You are awsesomely lucky.

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

It's also a really cool park. They just built it a few years ago, and it's kind of reminiscant of Camden Yards in Baltimore. Lots of brick everywhere, it's spiffy. I'll take pictures when I go and post them up here.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Sweet. That reminds me, I have to get my own baseball pictures posted. Oy.

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

Yes, you do. Oy. =)

I had dinner with two friends of mine, and one of them had his three-year-old daughter with him. She's so adorable, it's not fair. I'm totally nesting and wanting a daughter now (except for the memory of her crying when daddy took away some string she was playing with). I took about 60+ pictures of her that night, she was running around and climbing on all of us, it was so much fun.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaww. How cute. My friends totally need to start reproducing so I can coddle and spoil their offspring to my little heart's content.

Too adorable for words.

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

Oh, you just don't know. I'll e-mail you a link for the pictures. She's just...

I call her "Snidget" because she's all little and cute and flutters around everywhere.

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Okay. This is creepy. You had a relative die this week (I'm sorry to hear that by the way), I had a relative die this week and, according to hiaycynth, so did timfromcali. *kicks May hard*

Glad to see you back here healthy and such.

And I agree with you on Lost. I definitely find Kate and Jack to be far and away the least interesting characters - which is annoying when the powers that be have declared them "main characters."

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

The suckiness needs to stop right.now. Bad May, no cookie for you.

I, too, am sorry to hear about your relative's passing. You and your family have my deepest sympathies.

I place the blame for Jack and Kate's boring-ness squarely on J.J. Abrams' shoulders. He always has boring main characters with boring love interestes and it's always his supporting characters who are the most intersting. Thank goodness the man has such good taste in actors.

[lil-banik-slave.livejournal.com]

It's election time *cheers*

Thanks :-D

[hiyacynth.livejournal.com]

OMG my ovaries almost exploded from Charlie and Turniphead. This week's TV Guide had the cutest picture of him and whatsherbucket cooing over the baby, and that put my ovaries all in gear, but last night was like whoa i must reproduce immediately dom could you get over here now kthnks honey.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! He was all kind and considerate and darling and cute and if that wasn't bad enough Adie popped in the Jimmy Kimmel bit where he was interviewing the cast and Dom was smokingly hot playing the guitar and making up silly theme songs and I just about died.

[hiyacynth.livejournal.com]

ooh! hunting for dommie clips now...

[hiyacynth.livejournal.com]

okay, it's so funny but i just got a total charge from "Billy's backstage!"

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Duuuuuuuude *giggles*

Have you seen the bit from the Kingdom of Heaven London premiere with Billy and Orlando? If not, make baylorsr email it to you for it is hilarious.

Golf rawks!

[drunken-buzzard.livejournal.com]

I need to get my clubs out! I haven't golfed since the wedding - but I can't really figure out why. I actually like to walk the course and pull my clubs on a cart, people think I'm crazy for doing that. But I might as well get some exercise, right? You should try it! But don't give up if you don't do well at first. Golf definitely takes time and practice. And a lot of patience and laughing at yourself. Ha!

Re: Golf rawks!

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

People say you're crazy for playing golf? Wow, nearly everyone I know plays golf. Okay, nearly everyone in my family, but still;-). Shoot, my dad chronically leaves work early on nice days to play an impromptu set with friends.

You get out there to the green and I will take myself out to the driving range and learn how to hit that little ball with the really big club.

Re: Golf rawks!

[drunken-buzzard.livejournal.com]

I'm not crazy for golfing, I'm crazy for not riding around in the cart while I golf! I'll get my clubs out and start again, and you get to the driving range. Some day this summer we'll go golfing. You know, there are tons of nice golf courses up here, and many are cheap. ;)

Re: Golf rawks!

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a plan! And no carts, those are for wusses.

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

Last night's ep just killed me. Charlie and Sawyer and the baby was my favorite bit; that was truly a cute ending to a hardcore show. Poor Sayid. I think I will join you in comforting him. :)

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

It was a great ep. So much emotion and angst but perfectly intercut with the uber-cuteness that was Charlie and the baby.

I wish I was on a deserted tropical island.