The final day and even MORE excruciating details than you ever asked for! I do suggest checking out eugis's reports for MUCH better pictures and even a couple of videos! I bet if you put together her photos and my great big wall o' text, it would be perfect.

( James photo #2 -- with 95% more holiness )

( more Jonathan Woodward antics )

( Leah Cairns talks about a scene that never was and gives a fan shout-out! )

( everything awesome James Callis & Kate Vernon said )

( Inara's secret revealed, plus Firefly people love the same shows I do )

( I am surprisingly invested in everything Jamie Bamber had to say )

( I get semi-famous people to write their names on things, MY LIFE IS COMPLETE )

Current Mood: energetic
Current Music: "Mr. Pleasant", The Kinks

Richard Hatch will be in San Diego on December 8 (Tuesday) to speak at a free event produced by San Diego Filmmakers. It will be held from 6-9:00 PM at the Groovy Like A Movie studio on Kearny Villa Way (Facebook event)

Speaking of the man who likes to talk: His upcoming reality drama "Who the frak is the real Richard Hatch" has an official site on Facebook

This is Peanut and she needs a macro after yesterday's ordeal-- we were at the emergency vet till midnight with apparent chocolate poisoning... I just want everybody to be especially careful-- don't turn your backs on your cats if you're baking Xmas cookies that have chocolate in them!!!

( Pix of Peanut )

EDIT: I probably should say that she managed to come out of it all right, thank goodness!

Tags: blanks
Current Mood: exhausted

A post is made with a video of Portia De Rossi on The View. Elisabeth Hasselbeck asks about whether or not "the word [marriage] is more important than the rights". Portia "explained that a 'lesser' term would imply that gay couples are lesser".

The comments are mostly unsurprising for ONTD. However, hoodiefan says that Hasselbeck has a point and predictably starts up a little shitstorm. The real stupid is this comment though:

"It just seems like a huge waste of time and resources for gay activists to be focused on getting to use ~a word~ when there are actual human rights issues at stake, like the fact transgendered people often times can’t even find work, have medical coverage ETC but lets focus on the word so portia and ellen and other rich gays can have bridal registries, etc etc"

Consensus is not stupid. Sorry.

TCM and I are likethis this chilly weekend. Lots of stuff I haven't seen before, yay.

- Last night, Shop Around the Corner, <3 Jimmy Stewart.
- This afternoon, Random Harvest, kind of soppy but ultimately satisfying.
- And now (well, just finished), The Talk of the Town, which is right on the edge of going OT3 for real.

I'll probably try to see an in-theatres movie tomorrow since I'm way behind on those.

Tags: movies
Current Mood: satisfied
Current Music: TCM

At the beginning of the day...



...and then 10 HOURS LATER...



(Yes, I totally took a picture of my carrel before and after 10 hours of inhabiting it. I had a feeling it was going to be an epic day. AND IT WAS.)

Items you can spot in picture #2 include (but are not limited to): my alpaca/silk Rose's Wristwarmers, DRD Pike doing a faceplant into my notes, the remains of lunch (and snack), a truly amazing amount of post-it flags (mostly hidden, actually, but you can see a few), antibacterial hand sanitizer (because hello, it's the LIBRARY DURING FINALS), and probably the best coffee mug I didn't have to pay for (yay for swag).

Not pictured: my shoes (which were most definitely not on my feet for most of the day) and my two layers of polar fleece (which I didn't need because our corner of the library was quite warm).

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Sadly, none of my pictures of yesterday's snow came out very impressively, so I have nothing to share on that front. But it did snow, and that's that.

Tags: law school, randomness, real life, unexpected law school perks
Current Music: ok go - a good idea at the time

Thanks, friends, for the good vibes the other day! Just one of those times when everything hits at once, though it turned out not to be a bad day at all. In fact, I got high ratings on my evaluation. A wee bit of holiday malaise, as usual, but overall things are much better now!

Tonight is my annual viewing of one of my all-time favorite movies, The Sound of Music. Whee! LOVE IT. Every single thing about it. Well, except for Liesl/Rolf, who are rather annoying. And I'll repeat what I say every time I post about it: The Baroness is not evil. She's just misunderstood. Hmph.

I recently finished reading The Knife of Never Letting Go, by Patrick Ness, which was highly recommended by taragel. I quite liked it, though not as much as I'd hoped, and it led me to some curious thoughts on American vs. British "styles" of writing. ( A few thoughts, with minimal spoilers. )

Another book rec: The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, by A.J. Jacobs. My sister loaned it to me over the summer, and I really loved it. ( So, you want to read the encyclopedia? )

Although I don't have much to say about it, this week's episode of Friday Night Lights was stunning, of course. [No real spoilers here.] But I'm a bit confused by all the consternation in various blogs about how Coach calls Landry "Lance". I could've sworn that in S1 we learn that Lance is his first name, but everyone calls him Landry. Am I mistaken?

And I'll wrap up with a short linkspam:
-- Indi pointed me toward a fun quiz: What is your decorating style? Mine was 50% Nantucket, 25% Zen, and 25% Vintage Modern.
-- Poniewozik posted an interesting take on the HIMYM "Dirty Frosty" video that has gone viral.
-- Hitfix put The Amazing Race on the top 30 of the decade, and his description is a good explanation of why I also love it.
-- The NYT has a blog post on the new (and annoying) trend of when party hosts expect guests to pay their share.
-- Mental Floss unveils the underground CAPTCHA industry.
-- Sign On San Diego has a great piece on attracting boys to ballet.
-- Jezebel hopes that Gabourey Sidibe can have a long career in Hollywood, but they're worried she might not get many good roles.
-- And they have a fun post (with several cute cat videos) discussing just what cats do all day.

Tags: the sound of music
Current Mood: lethargic

Quantum Mechanix (QMx) are selling a 'Evolution of The Cylon' Poster.

Price: USD$14.95
Availability: Preorder. Ships 12.11.09
Description: From kitchen appliance to Caprica Six, how the Cylons came to be. Now you can own this large banner-style poster that depicts the complete evolution of the Cylon race, starting with the simple Toaster through their early prototypes up to the advanced humanoid models. Our 12"x29" banner-style poster features stylized renderings of all the Cylon models that are known to have existed. It’s printed on 110-pound, Aspire Petallics stock – a sumptuous, glimmering paper that subtly changes hue, depending on how light strikes it. Aspire Petallics paper is manufactured carbon neutral using 100 percent wind energy, and is Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) complaint using 30 percent recycled paper. Just the sort of thing our future Cylon overlords would approve of. At $14.95, this informative poster makes a great addition to your household or base ship decor.

https://store.quantummechanix.com/Evolution-of-The-Cylon-Poster_p_82.html


( image under the LJ cut ... )

It's been awhile since I posted. I've been very very busy.

So - I'll start with praising all the amazing Fanfic! OMG! Hours and hours worth of fabulous BSG, Kara/Sam Big Bang fanfic has been coming out over the last week. I'd like to throw my recs in for:

merrykk - Waltzing with Destiny

karate0kat - Through the Looking Glass

lizardbeth_j - The Thread of Ariadne

grey_sw - Voice of Reason

lyssie - Untitled

Between all of these I'm going to be spending most of my December reading! Yay!

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I also have a movie recommendation.

GO SEE THE BLIND SIDE (I think I cried almost the entire movie. It was that kind of good.)

I also enjoyed 2012 very much. I know it's cheesy as hell, and makes no sense. And I mean that literally. It makes no sense. So I didn't try to make sense of it, and just allowed myself to enjoy the destructo-porn. Heheheheh.

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Over in equestrian a rather cool video is posted (cool for those who like horses, at least) about a horse doing at liberty work (read: not tied to anything or anyone) and going over an obstacle course very similar to what one might find at a dog agility competition.

Most of the comments are along the lines of "Wow cool!" until wagrobanite enters the scene and decides that the video is "not really like canine agility" at all and refuses to see the similarities insisting that because she has competed in the sport for years she is TEH EXPERT in all things agility. And proceeds to split hairs, refusing apparently, to recognize that horses would be incapable of performing on a dog agility course.

hydrogen_atom tries to be helpful by providing a definition of agility from an agility association website but wagrobanite insists that there's more to agility than just that.

As added lulz, silverblaidd utterly misses harnessphoto's sarcasm

[220] Battlestar Galactica Cast Icons


HERE at cigarsgalore

[220] Battlestar Galactica Cast Icons


HERE at cigarsgalore

I was just browsing random twitter accounts, as you do, and a girl that I once hated posted the link to this under "is it just me or is the new Iron Man poster a little homoerotic?"



I have to admit, I was a little disappointed. But still: I need this movie to come out last night. Especially if Shia LaBeouf has decided he's too good for the Y the Last Man adaptation. God, kid, could you make more stupid decisions if you tried?


Right now I have three bandom stories that I am in ~love with on the go, and the only hard part is deciding which one to work on tonight. With my tea and my crap dollar store chocolates. Also, last night I wrote 4000 words of original fiction in 3 hours after I came inside from the blizzard aka snowpocalypse that sent the entire city into a hissy tither. Yep. That is all.

Tags: ironmanhood
Current Music: M. Ward - Stars of Leo | Powered by Last.fm

Title: Colonial Day Fun Part One

Tags: fic, kara/lee

Title: The Fine Art of Bartering
Author: kappamaki33
Characters: Ensemble, featuring Lee, Gaeta, Kara, Dee, Skulls, Racetrack, Crashdown, and Boomer
Rating: Maybe PG-13 for language and innuendo?
Summary: Bridge bunnies, Viper jocks, and Raptor wranglers form a delicate alliance to achieve a vital common goal. Kinda crackish.
Notes: You know how there are certain things that, realistically, the Fleet should have run out of after a couple of months, and yet five years later, they still have them? This is semi-serious crack about how that worked. Set early first season, somewhere around "Water."

"Not that kind of proposition, Ensign," he said, displaying his mastery of the bridge bunny skill of inflecting ranks so they sounded like another word for "dumbass."

The saddest thing about my computer crash last year? I lost all my Christmas icons. Dammit, I love those cheesy little hats. :(

But! While I'm on a bit of an LJ break at the moment, I'm making a quick exception. If you would like a Christmas card from me, please comment with your address. Comments are screened. See you on the other side. ;)

You can see moar cat macro awesomeness here. Please comment/vote! It's for a college viral media assignment. ^^

Current Mood: creative

Watching Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight a really awful Saturday morning, US knockoff of a long-running Japanese series (think Power Rangers-clone) with kidlet. However, the show was somewhat redeemed by watching Mark Dacascos kick some whiny boy "hero" ass.

Off to a birthday party. *sigh*

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moar funny pictures

Gen
Just Another Word~ by 'Anonymous" for rayruz in the karathracelives fic exchange [Kara, Lee, God; PG13; Spoilers: Through “Daybreak”]
A Period of Adjustment~ by 'Anonymous' for taragel in the karathracelives fic exchange [Kara, Adama, Helo & cast; PG13; Spoilers: Pre Series]

Het
The Thread of Ariadne~ by lizardbeth_j Written in bsg2003fics [Kara/Sam, Sam/Thea Six; R; Spoilers: Season 3]
Insanity Underrated~ by amidala_thrace Written in bssg2003fics [Kara/Lee; PG13; Spoilers: “Final Cut”]
The Electric Heart~ by geekbynight Written in bsg2003fics [Cavil/Boomer; PG13; Spoilers: None]
Reflections on the Firelight on the Shore~ Pt 39 by umademebelieve Written in adama_roslin [Laura/Bill; R; Spoilers: None]
The Stars and Their Course~ by bugsfic Written in adama_roslin [Bill/Laura; T; Spoilers: None]

Other
Here on the Hill, Halfway Down~ by lls_mutant Written in bsg_bigbang [Cavil/Gaeta; R; Spoilers: Series]
The Space Between Us~ by lls_mutant Written in bsg2003fics [Gaeta/Hoshi, Pilot!Eight/Engineer!Two, Kara/Sam, the Tighs, the Agathons, Adama/Roslin, Boomer/Tyrol, Baltar/Caprica Six, Thornton/Sian, Sweet!Eight/OC!Four, Zarek/Racetrac; R; Spoilers: 4.5]

Miscellany
It’s ”Alternative Universe” at bsg_kink

** Just a note ~ sorry for all the goofs~ notice my icon, that pretty much sums it up for me lately!!

Current Mood: blank

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Before I head off to the library for the day...



(I have no clue what the deal with the thing with the mouse was. The actual trailer starts at about 22 or 23 seconds in.)

( Cut for trailer-related flailing. )

Tags: doctor who

( not the flavor I expected )