last weekend we went to visit jess, which was so much fun! the island/jax actually reminded me a lot of home, except with a bookstore i would like to live in. also i miss jess's face, you guys. there was much excitement and laughter and mockery, which is pretty much how i like my weekends ( Read more... )

the demon's lexicon by sarah rees brennan: i actually resisted these for a while, but people kept telling me how awesome they were and how intense the relationship between the brothers was. (everyone in the world knows my weak spots.) butttt i was not a fan. the writing was eh, the story was eh, the brothers were actually TOO codependent, the ( Read more... )

-i bought a plane ticket home for memorial day! i wasn't going to, because going up to jersey just for the weekend is usually crazy and stressful and leaves me exhausted for a week, but pop-pop's been sick and i probably won't be able to go up again til thanksgiving and plane tickets were shockingly affordable. (ok, my parents mostly paid for them ( Read more... )

-i really loved deathly hallows part 1. it was by far my favorite movie of the series (so far), it looked gorgeous, the kids were all incredible, etc. i've seen complaints that it was too dark (both in tone and visually) which i thought was weird- our audience had quite a few laughs (and not just from the awkward gigglers behind us) and it was ( Read more... )

team unicorn (or: bob bryar is still not a werewolf) (mcr bandom, gen, g. thanks to brilligspoons for reading it over and appreciating my personal brand of crazy. this is an au of my nano au, but basically: mcr thinks bob is a werewolf. bob thinks everyone else is deranged. this is a more realistic au though, cos in this one mikey's a unicorn :D)

( 'is there any lore about werewolves and unicorns fighting?' gerard whispered. )

there is one major flaw in doing research for my nano: i don't really care about patd, and therefore can't force myself to comb their blog/myspace/wikipedia for important details. i'm hoping some of you pay more attention to them and can help me with some dates. (approximations are fine! once i know about where to look, it won't seem so painful.) ( Read more... )

so, i started researching for my nano this week. "researching for my nano" pretty much means reading wikipedia and ich and borrowing life on the murder scene from kl though, cos i'm writing that bandom story i've been talking about forever. the one where ryan is sherlock holmes and bob isn't a werewolf and pete and patrick have a youtube feud. ( Read more... )

-how fucking good is that black cards song? and then the badass mcr video? bandom hasn't been this much fun since panic! broke up! /jerk (and now there's a new hellblinki album!! this weekend was so good to me, music-wise.)

-i really liked easy a! first of all, momebie and i got there ludicrously early, mostly because we figured friday night, opening ( Read more... )

i finished vampirates today! it was a pretty charming middlegrade book. i have a lot of problems reading middlegrade for fun, which i know i've talked about at length, but once i got into this it really took off ( Read more... )

oh man, work is almost back to normal. (except for the robot today. that wasn't normal. he was less creepy than the tiger at that insurance show, but more creepy than the guy in the giant energizer bunny costume at that hurricane show.) I LOVE NORMAL. when i got back to the office this afternoon, everyone was being giggly and stupid. it was ( Read more... )