Things I am super excited about (first two items only):
My brother sold one of his songs to be used in commercials for the Grey's Anatomy DVDs! It's the instrumental of his song
She Said (right-click, save-as if you want it). I'm so psyched and proud of him - and am TiVoing every episode of Grey's from here on out in the hopes of seeing it. In other news, he's playing for Fueled by Ramen at the end of this month to see if they want to sign him, so... that's hilarious and weird. And disturbing.
On a different level, I am also stupidly excited for the Emmy's tomorrow - specifically, because Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are co-presenting the Best Actor in a Comedy award, for which Steve Carell is nominated. You guys, I want those two to give him an Emmy SO BADLY. HE BETTER WIN.
Even if he doesn't, last year's Emmy's gave us
these pictures:
which are some of my favorite of those guys, so that's cool. And if nothing else, Jon and Stephen will probably be funny, since they were about the only entertaining thing about the ceremony last year. (But whatevs, seriously, if that ot3 gets to be on stage together, MY HEART WILL EXPLODE.)
Today at the gym, I was reading the Entertainment Weekly Fall Preview Issue, which, whatever. And the blurb on L&O: SVU says this: "Every morning on the set of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, stars Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni compare notes on the emotional states of their characters. That might include, say, being really sickened or despondent about the case of the week. But there's one totally different emotion that comes up again and again. "She'll go, 'All I wanna do is make out with you,'" Meloni says of Hargitay. "And I'll go, 'Yeah, me too, with you.'" To be clear, they're talking about their characters here..."
That, my friends? That is ridiculous. It's honestly at the point where I kind of wish this goddamn show would just get cancelled already so I could STOP PUTTING MYSELF THROUGH THIS COCKTEASING NONSENSE. Sweet fancy Moses. SVU, I hate you, we're breaking up, and I'll see you Tuesday nights at ten, all year. :-( :-(
In other news, I've been spending a lot of time working on my research, voluntarily, like nights and weekends. It's weird yet gratifying? Apparently taking a long vacation actually DID reinvigorate me to work harder. Who knew.