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I have been extremely stressed out for the better part of the past six months. It's pretty much sucked. But it looks like things are at least becoming a little less stressful. *crosses fingers* Therefore I hope to be on the internet a little bet more. I've even *gsp* started writing again.

Anyway, just thought I'd check in. And also point you towards a tumblr where someone takes pictures of an Angel standee "doing" things. Angel Does Stuff. It's kind of hilarious.

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I frigging swear, this whole applying to the bar thing is going to give me an ulcer, if it hasn't already. Right now they're breathing down my neck to get them information over which I have little to no control. I sent the records requests to the appropriate authorities and now we all just have to wait until those requests are filled. There's nothing any of us can do about it.

Ugh, don't they know they're making it difficult for me to fall asleep at night? Regardless of how many times I tell my brain that there's nothing we can do it still insists on running in circles and worrying about every possible thing that might have gone wrong. Chill, brain! There's nothing we can do! Go to sleep!

Bleh, how about some random links? The internet is, after all, our friend.

* Something that will make even the worst day seem better, Kermit the Frog on Reading Rainbow [OMG I LOVED THIS BIT AS A KID OMG]:



* Ewan McGregor riding a bike. Wearing a newsboy cap. With puppy. OMG ded of cute.

* There was a Super-Moon this weekend and nobody told me about it until after the fact? But, wow, those photos are amazing.

* NASA has a site entirely dedicated to women researchers and astronauts. I think I'm in love. Why yes, I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid, why do you ask?

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OMG I forgot to put this in my last post!



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Re: Show.

BOBBBBBBBYYYYYYYY!!!!!!

That was awesome. Bobby's awesome. Best.Episode.Yet.

Also, semi-relatedly, have ya'll seen Hi, I'm Twilight and I'm True Blood? 'Cause you should. It's lolarious.

In other news, my car broke down on the way back from FGC last night. Why oh why don't I have a Bobby who could come over and fix my car and be all grumpy at me? Stupid, inconvenient real life being all real and stuff.

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I'm not a huge Dark Tower fan but what I just read over at Deadline.com is so awesome that it literally stole my breath. Ron Howard, Akiva Goldsman, and NBC Universal are going to tell Steven King's ginormous epic in both feature film and TV formats. They're going to do three films. They'll start with one and then use a season of TV to bridge to the next film.

OMG WHAT AN AWESOME IDEA!!!!! That way you get to see all of the really awesome big culminative scenes on the movie screen and you still get all of that time to deal with the character work on the small screen. If they pull this off then just think of all of the other books that could benefit from the same kind of treatment! And not just books! OMG, this is so much more exciting than 3D technology, this is a new kind of visual storytelling!

Yeah, so, if you can't tell, I think this is really frigging exciting. I mean, I probably would've ended up watching a Dark Tower movie because it's genre and I'm easy, but now I'm really excited to see what they do with it and how they handle the new format. If they pull it off it really will be the best of both worlds.

Which is not to say that every TV show/movie should get this kind of treatment. But, still, it's a genius idea and I really hope it works out for everybody involved, especially us fans.

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Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes! I appreciate them more than I can say.

I've been very busy this week working on a vidding project. I want to have the rough draft done before the FGC shindig this weekend (we're going to have a hiyacynth!) so all of my time has been focused on getting that done. I have about 50 more seconds to go, which I hope to finish this evening, leaving later tonight and tomorrow to doing my RL homework. It's always annoying when RL takes time away from fannish activities.

Went to see Iron Man 2 yesterday with dodger_sister. It was fun. We were almost the only people in the theater so we let ourselves be a little more ... vocal then usual. At one point we simultaneously leaned to each other and whispered "Drunken billionaire" in spontaneous unison. She was referencing Batman Begins while I was referencing something else, but we were both on the same wavelength. It's a fun movie and we had a good time and I'm not sure who I loved more, Rhodey or Agent Coulson.

Relatedly, dodger_sister says that Thor is a pussy. I'll have to take her word for it as I have only the generalest of knowledge concerning Thor-as-Marvel-superhero.

After the movie I stuck around FGC and watched Tuesday's Glee. It was Lady Gaga-inspired so, yeah, I kind of had to see it. It's not a secret that I kind of love her. The episode was okay, the costumes were excellent, though the production on the Bad Romance number was a little, I don't know, mediocre. The vocals were fine but I just didn't like the camerawork or the editing.

LOL, I amuse myself when I get so deep and critical of things like direction on a show like Glee. Anyway, have links to some awesome Lady Gaga vids that YouTube won't let me embed: Bad Romance, Paparazzi and its continuation Telephone. So there you go.

ETA: Dude, I can embed! Tricksy YouTube. ( I'm a freak bitch, baby )

Which reminds me, the guys over at Project Rungay are doing a fantastic analysis of the fashion of Mad Men as a lead up to the beginning of season four. Not only is it a great look at retro fashion, its also a stellar analysis of how wardrobe is used in television/movies to create characters and moments. If you like fashion or film production even a little you should definitely check it out.

Okay, back to vidding. It's a hard job but somebody has to do it. *snerk*

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Did you all know that I got some really awesome holiday cards from auntimeesh and shanghai_jim? Well, I did, and they are beautiful. shanghai_jim's has the most adorable penguin on it and auntiemeesh made the card herself, OMG! You are most talented, my friend. And thank you both, I love them.

For some reason my brain has been "all pop music all the time" the past couple of days. It probably has a little something to do with watching/listening to this on repeat. I am awed and amazed that this DJ Earworm guy is able to make an actual song out of Billboard's Top 25 for the year. A pretty friggin' good song, too.

I know people give pop music a lot of grief, but sometimes it's exactly what I want to listen to. My brain just loves music, the genre doesn't seem to matter.

Also, all thanks to buffyaddict13's recent enthusiastic discovery, I've been rewatching Band of Brothers. Easy Company just never goes out of style, you know? My DVD is currently paused at the beginning of 'The Last Patrol' because I needed a break after 'The Breaking Point'. I'm always impressed at how much I find every time I rewatch, even when I thought I knew all there was to know. That's some damn good television right there.

I should probably get back to work. spn_j2_bigbang sign-ups are coming soon and I need to be ready.

I kind of love Joe Biden. Trufax.

Which reminds me, this crazy SPN idea popped into my head one day. So, the ghost of Warren G. Harding (or some random president like that) is wreaking havoc in the White House (and by "havoc" I mean stealing soaps from the Lincoln Bedroom and making Malia cry, the bastard). Cue Rahm Emmanuel calling John Winchester's cell phone (because of course Rahm has the number) and getting the boys instead. Sam&Dean head out to the DC and hunt the ghost blah blah blah. And there would be a running gag about how Rahm needed to keep quiet about the ghosthunting because they didn't want Joe Biden to know because Joe has been threatening to call his "expert" and everyone's kind of nervous about who that expert might be.

Of course, the expert would turn out to be Bobby or someone like that, because Joe Biden is nobody's fool.

Also, baylorsr and I like to talk about Joe Biden's crowbar (named 'The Biden') and how people have to keep restraining him from using it to cram health care reform up the Senate's ass. And Rahm is standing by to let loose on the House if only the President would give the word.

Because it's about time that the Dems stopped worrying about getting bipartisan support on Health Care Reform and just started FDR'ing this bitch up.

You know, I really need an icon that says 'FDR this Bitch Up.' That would be awesome.

Once upon a time in the long ago, mythical era known as the Great Blizzard of 2009 I was snowed in at FGC. During this magical time baylorsr and I alternated between watching Animal Cops: Detroit and driving the Baylor Sister crazy with an imaginary Disney boy band. We devoted large swathes of time to composing said band and filling it with CW RPF characters wherein we created a love story that would play out between boy bander!Jensen and Mousketeer!Jared.

Sometimes you just need to let your inner pre-teen out and let her squee, you know?

Well, somehow we were able to convince allamboy to write it for us and post it over at spn_j2_bigbang. We're always able to talk Jason into writing all of our ultra!crazy things for us, he's kind of awesome like that. And now you can read it too.

Drum roll, please.

Now presenting Live & On Stage. *cymbals clash* If you're in the mood for adorable schmoop and fangirl crazy (and who ever isn't?) you should definitely go read it. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by what you find.

OMG 5X EVERYTHING I LUV U!!!!!

You should all run out right the fuck now and see Snakes on a Plane. Yes, it is just that awesome. Best movie I've seen all summer, hands down.

Unless, of course, you're mortally terrified of snakes and, like my mother, had to remove even the picture of one in a dictionary for fear of freaking the fuck out. If you feel that way then you definitely shouldn't see this movie because there are lots and lots of snakes doing snake-like things.

Everyone else should go and see this because it's just as cool as Samuel L. Jackson says it is. If The Man tells you to do something then you'd better fucking do it, if you want to live.

I am so damn tired and weird today. Last night, like the genius I am, I took a claritin right before going to bed. Said claritin kept me up well into the wee hours until I broke down and took a sleeping pill. Said sleeping pill made it nearly impossible to get out of bed this morning thereby causing me to be late to work. I just took an excedrin and three aspirin in hopes of destroying the headache that is itching around my temples. No one can ever say that I'm not well-medicated. ;-)

I watched Dark Angel on SciFi last night. Yes, I watched it because of Jensen Ackles, I am not ashamed of this (I've tried to watch Gilmore Girls for Jared Padalecki but I just can't get into that show, it's annoying and talky, bleh). Dark Angel's not so bad. Max is kind of a wannabe Buffy, complete with emo-ridden OTP ship but Jessica Alba doesn't bring as much to Max as Sarah Michelle Gellar brought to Buffy. The Ackles is wonderfully charming, I'm sure I would've fangirled him back in the day if I'd been watching; talent, brains, and beauty are a deadly combination. I will now physically restrain myself from waxing rhapsodic because ya'll really don't need that. Now I need to go watch 'Devil's Trap' again because, wow, can that guy act.

I feel like there are a million and one things I should be doing but have forgotten to do. I've also had the same song stuck in my head for weeks. Dar Williams' 'Mercy of the Fallen' keeps popping into my head at random times. I'm sure Freud would be happy to tell me why that is but we all know what kind of a sex-obsessed perv ol' Siggy was so I think I'll leave it alone until the humming gets on my nerves. *wink*