I woke up at noon today. It was awesome.
Of course I did stay up until nearly 3 which I haven't done in a while. Or maybe I have. I'm starting to forget. It used to be nothing for me to stay up until 3 or 4 reading fic or watching tv but now I can't do it very often. Getting older sucks.
Jo and Jack doing police work when they're not police anymore! I love them. It really pains my heart that this show pushes Jack and Allison so much because I really dislike that pairing. I miss Nathan, yo.
Gosh it's been so long since I saw the last episode (and how did I forget that the first part of season 3 was only 8 episodes) that I can't quite remember what happened. Until I saw the previouslies I didn't even remember Jack had been fired.
Aww. Jo and Jack and Lexi sharing a meal.
Aww. I like Sheriff Andy.
Thank you, show, for ending on a nice Jo and Jack moment. I appreciate the bones. Heh.
I find Marshall's concern for Mary incredibly endearing. Like he totally knows she can take care of herself but when she throws herself into dangerous situations he still gets super concerned. It's adorable.
I really just love Marshall period.
Awww. Mary'd stand beside Marshall even if he committed a crime because he's the only thing making it worth it for Mary to be up there with Lewis is because Marshall has her back. Seriously. Love them.
"Oh and Marshall? For the record, I'd sell you out for a twinkie." Hee!
Josh Malina. Whoo! He and Brandi are cute.
Oh wow. Marshall picking up and carrying the pregnant lady in distress? Pretty hot. "All of a sudden he's Gary Cooper, this one." I love Richard Schiff.
"Silly wabbi." Hee! Marshall's laugh against his will and then "Come on, say it." "Kix are for trids." Haha! I love them.
Eee! Mary McCormack and Josh Malina in a scene! What? About the only thing, besides the Josh and Donna stuff, of the last season of The West Wing I did not hate was Will and Kate.
I like Elanor. I also am a little in love with Elanor and Marshall being at Mary's house in the morning with Marshall eating cereal. Hee!
"Because if you go to jail he becomes my boss and then I have to kill myself." "Thanks, I appreciate that."
Oh gosh. So many things to love about the end of "Duplicate Bridge". For one how much do I love that Marshall knows Mary so well he can answer questions about what Mary thinks about Brandi to Brandi? And then the looks when Mary asks him how he is and vice versa. Gosh I love them.
I love "A Frond in Need" with Marshall calling Mary to essentially gossip about Stan and Elanor. Hilarious. "Why do you always gotta take it to an ugly place?"
Only 2 more episodes to go of season 2 and then I have to wait for new eps like everyone else and if season 2 is 12 eps like season 1 then there's only 2 episodes left and then I will cry.
"Are you sure you wanna do this?" "I'm positive I don't but you seem to have become the trainwreck I can't stop watching." Heh.
"He didn't let me do anything." "I was her escort." Heh.
Gosh I really hate Agent Dickhead. He better have a damn good reason for being a dickhead. Oh. So he's a dickhead because of his, well, dick. Nice. Also, not good enough.
So her father's in witness protection, right? I mean that's pretty obvious.
"Would you like me to get him on the phone so you can apologize or would you like to send a card?" "Let's go with the card this time." I really do love Elanor.
Ok so I could read so much into Shelly asking Mary what's what with she and Marshall and Mary going all "what? are we in looooove?" like that. But I won't. Really! Except to say that that entire scene was very middle school for all involved. But especially Mary with her "are we in loooove?" and then throwing it back in Shelly's face all "why? are you?" because that's a valid question to ask of someone who's only met Marshall twice and only talked a few times at that. See? Very middle school. It'd be like some girl asking another girl if she knew if the hot guy in their history class had a girlfriend because she has a crush on him and that girl also has a crush on him but doesn't want anyone to know so she starts teasing the other girl with the obvious crush. I mean, I'm pretty sure that happened a few times when I was in middle school.
And then when the boy and the girl with the obvious crush start bonding about going to Italy the other girl gets all jealous so has to jump in the conversation with a crack about going to Jersey Shore because she can't stand his focus being on some other girl.
I'm just saying. If one wants to read it that way one could. Or one could read it as Mary just not being able to stand not being the center of attention period.
"Does he really run like that?" "Fraid so." Well that's not fair. We didn't get to see Marshall run. Although, I am impressed he was running at all in cowboy boots. Those things are damned uncomfortable. Although suppose maybe not if you wear them all the time. I still wouldn't want to run long distances in them.
Oh god they're so awkward. It's hurting my soul.
"Doofus partner's got 9 of these things." Ahaha. Oh Marshall. One doesn't need 9 telescopes. You big dork.
"It's amazing what you can see when you open your eyes." And then Mary puts on her contemplative face. And then she goes to the office and Marshall's still there because Shelly's ex called. "Well, you've still got me, Rico." Heh. Also, awww. They are so dysfunctionally functional. I love them.
So I really really love Mary and Marshall. How could I not? My history partner!shipping is long and predictable. Give me partners and/or best friends and 9 times out of 10 I will ship them. Sometimes the show plays it up and sometimes it pretends it doesn't exist so I subsist on subtext and fic.
In Plain Sight is a weird mix of the playing it up and pretending it doesn't exist. I mean in episode 3 you have that awesome awesome kiss in the name of diverting the bad guys (always a favorite cliche of mine with parntner!shipping) and with Marshall getting a little too into it. But then he plays it off as "I'm a guy. It's what we do" and Mary looking on the whole thing as vaguely humours with "bad guys near by and you're ready to throw down with your best friend" which could also be Mary's way of diffusing a possibly awkward situation in her own special way because she can't deal with what it might mean.
Then there's ep 4 where Marshall gets shot after they've spent half the ep mad at each other because Marshall entertained quitting and Mary just could not handle that so she got bitchy. And then he got shot and she made him explain why he wanted to quit and if it's because of her and Marshall tells her "it's not why you think" and I'm 99% sure what he thought she thought was that it's because he was in love with her and couldn't handle it. He tells her it's because sometimes protecting her from the world and the world from her is too much responsibility. Then at the end there is the great great scene where she's holding up for Stan but as soon as her mom and Brandi get there she breaks down. Even by ep 4 you know Mary Shannon doesn't do that often.
This is to say that in very early on in the series we learn that Marshall and Mary have a very close relationship and clearly Marshall has a bit of a crush on Mary. Then there's ep 11, before the season finale, when Mary's kidnapped and Marshall almost loses his shit in front of Bobby D. Gosh I love that too.
So I think it's pretty clear Marshall loves Mary. Little things in episodes support that. It's also clear he'll do anything for her and vice versa.
The question is does Mary love Marshall? I don't know. I think sometimes Mary is aware of his feelings for her. I also think, though, that she is very used to being the only woman in his life and, hell, they've both admitted they're each other's only friend. When Shelly comes in and she seems like a viable threat, so to speak, someone who speaks Marshall. Who's as nerdy and sometimes awkward as he is she can't stand not being the center of his attention. She makes jokes and mocks and does what she can to bring his attention back to her. The problem is these could be the jealous actions of a friend used to being the only significant person in another friend's life or it could be the jealous actions of a woman secretly in love with her best friend. I think the show wants Mary's feelings to be ambiguous. For the time being.
Because then there's lines like "It's amazing what you can see when you open your eyes" and then right after that's said to Mary she's walking back into the office where Marshall is after a failed date with the woman who, on the surface, fit Marshall better than Mary and she tells him he's still got her. Which I don't see how to take it as any way but significant.
Then there's Raph and while he's progressed to being able to sleep over I'm still not seeing much of a connection between he and Mary. She can't and won't let him fully into her life and I don't see that she ever will. I mean, come on, when Brandi needed to know how Mary saw her Brandi didn't go to her sister's boyfriend who proposed to her. She asked Marshall. That's very telling.
I hate not knowing what direction a show is going to take but I have hope that all these little things aren't going nowhere. I certainly don't want Mary and Marshall to hook up now because I quite enjoy them as they are but I don't want the option taken off the table so soon so these rumors/spoilers I've heard about Raph and Mary being engaged better be misleading or the marriage better not happen.
I think I may have a cavity. Or perhaps a filling fell out because it kind of feels like the pain is coming from where I had a cavity the last time. The last time being when I was 11 years old. So I'm a bit unsure of what a cavity even feels like or where that one was. I remember the shot of novacaine and going back to school all numbed up and dribbling water and unable to actually play when I had to go to band practice. I don't remember the pain. But this pain isn't constant or consistent but every so often I'll eat something that sends shooting pain pretty much throughout my mouth. It starts in one place and radiates every where. Is that a cavity? Or something worse?
Any of you uninsured people know how much it typically costs to have a cleaning and cavity filled? I was going to try to get just dental insurance long enough to get it filled should it be a cavity and what not but my company doesn't seem to let me just sign up for dental insurance even though it says you can and I just can't afford full medical coverage at this time.
Jo and Jack doing police work when they're not police anymore! I love them. It really pains my heart that this show pushes Jack and Allison so much because I really dislike that pairing. I miss Nathan, yo.
Gosh it's been so long since I saw the last episode (and how did I forget that the first part of season 3 was only 8 episodes) that I can't quite remember what happened. Until I saw the previouslies I didn't even remember Jack had been fired.
Aww. Jo and Jack and Lexi sharing a meal.
Aww. I like Sheriff Andy.
Thank you, show, for ending on a nice Jo and Jack moment. I appreciate the bones. Heh.
I find Marshall's concern for Mary incredibly endearing. Like he totally knows she can take care of herself but when she throws herself into dangerous situations he still gets super concerned. It's adorable.
I really just love Marshall period.
Awww. Mary'd stand beside Marshall even if he committed a crime because he's the only thing making it worth it for Mary to be up there with Lewis is because Marshall has her back. Seriously. Love them.
"Oh and Marshall? For the record, I'd sell you out for a twinkie." Hee!
Josh Malina. Whoo! He and Brandi are cute.
Oh wow. Marshall picking up and carrying the pregnant lady in distress? Pretty hot. "All of a sudden he's Gary Cooper, this one." I love Richard Schiff.
"Silly wabbi." Hee! Marshall's laugh against his will and then "Come on, say it." "Kix are for trids." Haha! I love them.
Eee! Mary McCormack and Josh Malina in a scene! What? About the only thing, besides the Josh and Donna stuff, of the last season of The West Wing I did not hate was Will and Kate.
I like Elanor. I also am a little in love with Elanor and Marshall being at Mary's house in the morning with Marshall eating cereal. Hee!
"Because if you go to jail he becomes my boss and then I have to kill myself." "Thanks, I appreciate that."
Oh gosh. So many things to love about the end of "Duplicate Bridge". For one how much do I love that Marshall knows Mary so well he can answer questions about what Mary thinks about Brandi to Brandi? And then the looks when Mary asks him how he is and vice versa. Gosh I love them.
I love "A Frond in Need" with Marshall calling Mary to essentially gossip about Stan and Elanor. Hilarious. "Why do you always gotta take it to an ugly place?"
Only 2 more episodes to go of season 2 and then I have to wait for new eps like everyone else and if season 2 is 12 eps like season 1 then there's only 2 episodes left and then I will cry.
"Are you sure you wanna do this?" "I'm positive I don't but you seem to have become the trainwreck I can't stop watching." Heh.
"He didn't let me do anything." "I was her escort." Heh.
Gosh I really hate Agent Dickhead. He better have a damn good reason for being a dickhead. Oh. So he's a dickhead because of his, well, dick. Nice. Also, not good enough.
So her father's in witness protection, right? I mean that's pretty obvious.
"Would you like me to get him on the phone so you can apologize or would you like to send a card?" "Let's go with the card this time." I really do love Elanor.
Ok so I could read so much into Shelly asking Mary what's what with she and Marshall and Mary going all "what? are we in looooove?" like that. But I won't. Really! Except to say that that entire scene was very middle school for all involved. But especially Mary with her "are we in loooove?" and then throwing it back in Shelly's face all "why? are you?" because that's a valid question to ask of someone who's only met Marshall twice and only talked a few times at that. See? Very middle school. It'd be like some girl asking another girl if she knew if the hot guy in their history class had a girlfriend because she has a crush on him and that girl also has a crush on him but doesn't want anyone to know so she starts teasing the other girl with the obvious crush. I mean, I'm pretty sure that happened a few times when I was in middle school.
And then when the boy and the girl with the obvious crush start bonding about going to Italy the other girl gets all jealous so has to jump in the conversation with a crack about going to Jersey Shore because she can't stand his focus being on some other girl.
I'm just saying. If one wants to read it that way one could. Or one could read it as Mary just not being able to stand not being the center of attention period.
"Does he really run like that?" "Fraid so." Well that's not fair. We didn't get to see Marshall run. Although, I am impressed he was running at all in cowboy boots. Those things are damned uncomfortable. Although suppose maybe not if you wear them all the time. I still wouldn't want to run long distances in them.
Oh god they're so awkward. It's hurting my soul.
"Doofus partner's got 9 of these things." Ahaha. Oh Marshall. One doesn't need 9 telescopes. You big dork.
"It's amazing what you can see when you open your eyes." And then Mary puts on her contemplative face. And then she goes to the office and Marshall's still there because Shelly's ex called. "Well, you've still got me, Rico." Heh. Also, awww. They are so dysfunctionally functional. I love them.
So I really really love Mary and Marshall. How could I not? My history partner!shipping is long and predictable. Give me partners and/or best friends and 9 times out of 10 I will ship them. Sometimes the show plays it up and sometimes it pretends it doesn't exist so I subsist on subtext and fic.
In Plain Sight is a weird mix of the playing it up and pretending it doesn't exist. I mean in episode 3 you have that awesome awesome kiss in the name of diverting the bad guys (always a favorite cliche of mine with parntner!shipping) and with Marshall getting a little too into it. But then he plays it off as "I'm a guy. It's what we do" and Mary looking on the whole thing as vaguely humours with "bad guys near by and you're ready to throw down with your best friend" which could also be Mary's way of diffusing a possibly awkward situation in her own special way because she can't deal with what it might mean.
Then there's ep 4 where Marshall gets shot after they've spent half the ep mad at each other because Marshall entertained quitting and Mary just could not handle that so she got bitchy. And then he got shot and she made him explain why he wanted to quit and if it's because of her and Marshall tells her "it's not why you think" and I'm 99% sure what he thought she thought was that it's because he was in love with her and couldn't handle it. He tells her it's because sometimes protecting her from the world and the world from her is too much responsibility. Then at the end there is the great great scene where she's holding up for Stan but as soon as her mom and Brandi get there she breaks down. Even by ep 4 you know Mary Shannon doesn't do that often.
This is to say that in very early on in the series we learn that Marshall and Mary have a very close relationship and clearly Marshall has a bit of a crush on Mary. Then there's ep 11, before the season finale, when Mary's kidnapped and Marshall almost loses his shit in front of Bobby D. Gosh I love that too.
So I think it's pretty clear Marshall loves Mary. Little things in episodes support that. It's also clear he'll do anything for her and vice versa.
The question is does Mary love Marshall? I don't know. I think sometimes Mary is aware of his feelings for her. I also think, though, that she is very used to being the only woman in his life and, hell, they've both admitted they're each other's only friend. When Shelly comes in and she seems like a viable threat, so to speak, someone who speaks Marshall. Who's as nerdy and sometimes awkward as he is she can't stand not being the center of his attention. She makes jokes and mocks and does what she can to bring his attention back to her. The problem is these could be the jealous actions of a friend used to being the only significant person in another friend's life or it could be the jealous actions of a woman secretly in love with her best friend. I think the show wants Mary's feelings to be ambiguous. For the time being.
Because then there's lines like "It's amazing what you can see when you open your eyes" and then right after that's said to Mary she's walking back into the office where Marshall is after a failed date with the woman who, on the surface, fit Marshall better than Mary and she tells him he's still got her. Which I don't see how to take it as any way but significant.
Then there's Raph and while he's progressed to being able to sleep over I'm still not seeing much of a connection between he and Mary. She can't and won't let him fully into her life and I don't see that she ever will. I mean, come on, when Brandi needed to know how Mary saw her Brandi didn't go to her sister's boyfriend who proposed to her. She asked Marshall. That's very telling.
I hate not knowing what direction a show is going to take but I have hope that all these little things aren't going nowhere. I certainly don't want Mary and Marshall to hook up now because I quite enjoy them as they are but I don't want the option taken off the table so soon so these rumors/spoilers I've heard about Raph and Mary being engaged better be misleading or the marriage better not happen.
I think I may have a cavity. Or perhaps a filling fell out because it kind of feels like the pain is coming from where I had a cavity the last time. The last time being when I was 11 years old. So I'm a bit unsure of what a cavity even feels like or where that one was. I remember the shot of novacaine and going back to school all numbed up and dribbling water and unable to actually play when I had to go to band practice. I don't remember the pain. But this pain isn't constant or consistent but every so often I'll eat something that sends shooting pain pretty much throughout my mouth. It starts in one place and radiates every where. Is that a cavity? Or something worse?
Any of you uninsured people know how much it typically costs to have a cleaning and cavity filled? I was going to try to get just dental insurance long enough to get it filled should it be a cavity and what not but my company doesn't seem to let me just sign up for dental insurance even though it says you can and I just can't afford full medical coverage at this time.