Today I have a dentist appointment in Sunnyvale (the real Californian city, unlike the with-a-d Sunnydale, which is fake). So I am taking the day off from my job in downtown San Francisco. The commute would be a waste of 2 hours in the middle of the day. I have so far taken the opportunity to sleep in to the glorious hour of 7am. I did this with ( Read more... )

In other news, "Beer Bad" is pretty painfully bad. "Fear Itself" was much better. Well, chainsaw. You know. "Wild at Heart" suffers from asking me to believe some random awful singer is charismatic. "The Initiative" features G & X being all unemployed and slackery together. A major fic starting point for me ( Read more... )

chaletian: "This Is What's Next" and "Mr Kirk of Iowa" - gen, FRC, West Wing/NuTrek crossover

Meet Jed Bartlet, president of the United Federation of Planets. Utterly delicious crack in some ways, and also completely plausible in others. The CJ voice is particularly great.

A letter to Sorkin about The West Wing season 4/5 cliffhanger and resolution:

( Massive spoilers for end S4, beginning S5... )

Also, I think it's very important that you all know I've been following Josiah Bartlet, AbbeyBartlet, JoshLyman, and LordJohnMarbury on Twitter. I'm not sure about this Toby Ziegler guy, though.

In brief:
- Am vastly enjoying Obama's conversation with Jed Bartlet.
- Had dinner last night at sahiya's place, with nemaihne, Mr N, and Mr P. Much conversation and card game playing.
- Discovered that Quark isn't all that funny despite thirty-year-old memories of it being so ( Read more... )

Have spent today watching The West Wing and working on yet another pointless software project that at least amuses me, and speeds the time before my inevitable mortality arrives. I'm now generating html, and am trying to decide how to slice the data for my new index page. Mind you, I still have to pre-process another 40 story files. Yargh. It's ( Read more... )

Crippling tension headache all day. Watched oodles of the first season of West Wing from a hot bath, which relaxed my shoulders enough that I stopped wanting to die and decided to watch some more out of the bath while de-pruning. Sorkin is at his best when he resists preaching, and he doesn't always manage it. I'm a sucker for his issues, but I ( Read more... )

Look, what good is being home, tired, and unable to go to sleep for jet-lag-management reasons if I don't spend the time writing silly polls? Here's one on the West Wing boxed set that should be sufficiently silly. ( After the cut... )