1. My computer does not, after all, have a hideous spyware virus as theorized by an astonishingly unhelpful over-the-phone tech guy; nope, my physical hard drive is scratched. I'm taking it in this afternoon to get the hard drive replaced, and hopefully I'll have my own functional computer returned to me by the weekend. I'm remarkably unstressed ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamt that I was writing poetry about Spock. I am actually more or less incapable of writing poetry, and I expect that if I'd remembered the words upon waking they would have been not-very-good words, but at the time I thought it was decent. Now I'm a bit sad I'm not devoting my day to poetry about Spock ( Read more... )

For no particular reason I have lapsed back into watching TOS Trek. (Maybe the reason was that I suddenly realized Abed would make an awesome Vulcan? That is the only reason I can think of short of my brain just suddenly going, "Okay, hilarious 60s sci-fi time!") And from there it is but a short slide into seeking out all the Kirk/Spock fic. I am ( Read more... )

I have always possessed a weird sort of envy for those entries on my flist that say "You guys are all fired for not telling me about [x]!" I'm not sure why; maybe it's a weird mix of delight that my own flist does tell me when cool stuff is happening, and envy that this person's flist usually does the same. Or maybe it's just a great sentence! ( Read more... )

Now that I am doing an idle Lex-Luthor-bits-of-Smallville watch, and unsurprisingly shipping Clark/Lex like burning, I have had the same conversation with a handful of friends. It goes something like this:

ME. And I love Lex! Oh my god, I love Lex! But Clark is, uh ...
FRIEND. Boring?
ME. Yeah! And this is becoming a pattern. Like, okay, take ( Read more... )

Things that are making me stupidly happy:

+ The Enterprise pizza cutter. If I had cash for superfluous things and/or an urgent need for a pizza cutter, I would buy the hell out of that thing.
+ The Foresmutters Project, which warms my archival heart and brings me Kirk/Spock from the 1970s. I am a bit stupidly in love with it ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I am meeting my parents in Vegas -- VEGAS! I have never been; I fully expect it to be surreal and absurd -- and I am mostly delighted about this, though I still haven't quite regained my voice from the Adam Lambert concert. I can at least function for short bursts for things like calling a cab, but more than that is beyond me ( Read more... )

i. Today I finished Mockingjay. Then I went searching for reaction posts, as you do, and was mildly pleased to discover that pretty much everyone had the same reactions I did, even unto the numbness at the end. ( Brief & spoilery. )ii. Which means I am in need of uplifting things! Thankfully my brain is still full of Star Trek (and THEY ARE NOT THE ( Read more... )

I doubt I am finished watching Star Trek -- seriously, can one ever be done watching Star Trek? that would be like watching all of Doctor Who -- but I've watched enough of TOS proper for now, so I want on to Those Three Movies That Are A Bit Decent. And I think I kind of love the movies! They have all the absurdity of the show, and effects that are ( Read more... )

I am tearing joyfully through Star Trek! I am fascinated. (Yes, thank you, Spock, you can stop providing my internal narration now.) I don't know exactly what switch flipped in my brain to make me suddenly mainline TOS; when the reboot film came out last year, I loved the hell out of it, because it was a genuinely fun movie, and I had enough ( Read more... )