Since I added/was added by a bunch of new people on
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So, it seems that everybody on my flist is super into Elementary. I am excited for all of you! It really seems like the leaked pilot is hitting everybody's buttons and is well-done to boot. This is awesome! I am happy!

I have no idea if I'm going to be able to watch it.

( pretty much all that is under here is navelgazing, and is horribly self-involved and whiny. Here Lies Amal Overanalyzing Her Feelings About Competition Between Shows. )

1) Things to do with canned tuna besides tuna melts, tuna salad, tuna noodle casserole, and feeding it to Lance Kabira and Seghira? We have a glut of it in the cabinet, and methinks the animal-consuming member of our household needs to make some progress in that department. (Well, OK, the baby consumes animals, but I'm not letting him eat tuna-- ( Read more... )

( I wrote a trashy sci-fi novel. With Foucault, and feminism. )

Poll Help a sister out

I'm teaching Machiavelli this week ( Read more... )

That this is the only icon I have with both Mulder and Scully in it.

This makes responding to comments on my smushy fanfic v. difficult. Yet I have no desire to change the situation.

I was talking at a cocktail party with an Arab academic.  I mentioned the community center where I volunteer, and that many of the folks I work with are Arabic speakers.  I said something about how they sometimes have trouble remembering my very American, and, to them, foreign name.

"Oh, you should just have them call you Amal," the other academic ( Read more... )

I visited my father-in-law a while back. He loves--absolutely loves--British murder mysteries on TV. They were, in fact, all we watched the entire time we were visiting him, because he as about eleventy billion episodes downloaded and burned on DVD. We were about to watch Sherlock Holmes, and were discussing different importations of Holmes into ( Read more... )

I don't often make recs, mainly because I feel like my taste is so subjective--what I like about a story isn't often something that I'm sure will communicate, and I'm willing to tolerate poor writing that hits my narrative kinks, or that does something interesting.  (See, for example, my affection for Rachel Anton.)  But I keep mulling over a story ( Read more... )