1. I have a big-time fail of a zit on my chin, right next to another one that won't go away. Please don't tell me that one's skin goes downhill THIS fast as one approaches/after a particular age. COME ON, REALLY?
2. OMIGOD YES.
Stritch and Peters in my life - this is GOING TO HAPPEN. Apparently I'm going to flail about it in every medium available to me, because I CAN. I'm thinking a fall trip to NYC is an increasingly likely - and exciting - prospect. :D
3. I just came back from a charity concert for a local women's organisation. The show was at turns painfully amateurish and quite good (though the quite good parts were mainly due to the talent of individual performers being spectacularly awesome), and I don't think there's much on the audio to salvage, but it's always nice to get to see people SANG their faces off. Better than work, anyway...
4. And I really, really, one hundred million percent DO NOT WANT to go into work tomorrow later today. Actually DO. NOT. WANT. I have to re-write a draft, as per normal, and it's not the toughest job I've ever had to do, not by a country mile, but I would love to just be LAZY for once and not have to always metaphorically pick up the pieces and fill in the cracks for everyone else. Also, I am RIDICULOUSLY unfocused at work these days.
5. Mainly because I am so (re-)obsessed with House it's hard to think straight. (WARNING: What lies ahead and beneath the following cut is not for the faint of heart or those allergic to capslock...) Is it just me? These days, I get randomly massive FLAIL MOMENTS IN MY BRAIN when all I want to do is shout...
HOUSE AND CUDDY ARE CANON, OMIGOD HOUSE AND CUDDY ARE CANON!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I MEAN, SERIOUSLY, GUYS. IT IS SO HARD TO FOCUS BECAUSE ALL I CAN THINK IS - FLAIL. OMIGOD. HOUSE AND CUDDY. HOUSE AND CUDDY. SDKFHSLDHFSLFHSDLFHSDLFHS. I MEAN, I MAINTAIN THAT THEIR SEXY SEXINESS AND MUTUAL ATTRACTION HAS ALWAYS BEEN PART OF THE CANON OF THE SHOW, BUT NOW THEY. THEY ARE CANON. AND ALL I CAN THINK AMIDST THE CAPSLOCK FLAIL IN MY BRAIN IS: WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT SEASON? OBVIOUSLY THERE WILL BE FLIRTING. SEXY, SNARKY FLIRTING, EYESEX, AND LOTS OF AWESOME SASSY BANTER. ALSO, A LOT OF ME NOT BEING SURE WHETHER I'M LUSTING AFTER HOUSE OR CUDDY OR BOTH OF THEM. BUT THIS IS TOTES PAR FOR THE COURSE FOR THIS SHIP. ADDED TO ALL OF THAT COME SEPTEMBER? ACTUAL SEXAGE ZOOOMG.
AND THEN MY BRAIN SHORTS OUT AND STOPS FUNCTIONING PROPERLY, AND I GO HUNTING THROUGH TUMBLR/GOOGLE FOR PICTURES OF HUGH, LISA AND HUGH/LISA, AND SERIOUSLY I AM CRUSHING ON HUGH LAURIE SOOOOOOOO HARD RIGHT NOW I CANNOT EVEN EXPLAIN IT WITH WORDS THAT DON'T COME OUT LIKE ASHDFLSHALFHASDA OR DASAFDOERWUEFLASDFAS OR DFHSDLHOSRF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOD IT IS GOOD TO BE BACK IN THIS FANDOM AGAIN. TO BE BACK IN THIS SHIP, AND BEING HAPPY, AND VINDICATED FOR HAVING SEEN SOMETHING THERE ALL ALONG. I STILL THINK THAT HOUSE/CUDDY IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFULLY-WRITTEN, ACCIDENTALLY ORGANIC SHIPS EVER TO BE, EVER (BECAUSE IT'S EMPHATICALLY NOT THE HOUSE & CUDDY SHOW THE WAY IT IS THE MULDER & SCULLY SHOW OR THE BOOTH & BRENNAN SHOW) AND IT FILLS ME WITH SO MUCH EXCITEMENT THAT, AFTER EXPLORING HOUSE'S PSYCHE FOR SIX SEASONS (BECAUSE THAT REALLY IS WHAT THE SHOW IS ABOUT), WE'LL GET TO SEE WHAT HE'S LIKE IN A RELATIONSHIP (THAT ISN'T ALREADY OVER I.E., STACY) AND WE'LL GET TO SEE WHAT HE'S LIKE IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH LISA CUDDY.
YEAH, I WANT TO GO TO THERE.
AHAHAHA OMG SO MUCH CAPSLOCK, I DON'T THINK I'VE TYPED THIS EXTENSIVELY IN CAPSLOCK FOR A LONG TIME. BUT IT'S BASICALLY THE STATE OF MY BRAIN RIGHT NOW, SO DEAL WITH IT. ;) ALL I WANT TO DO IS MAKE ICONS AND PICSPAMS AND PRETTY (I STILL NEED ICONS OF THE FIIINAAAALEEE OMG), BUT AM NOT ALLOWING MYSELF TO DO ANY OF THAT UNTIL I'M DONE WITH THIS MONSTROUSLY LARGE FIC I'M WRITING.
Speaking of which, and on a somewhat serious note (hence no capslock), I'm still working on it and the first draft will be a few days in coming yet - but does anyone want to volunteer to give it a read-through before I unleash it on the world? I'm not really bugging for a comprehensive beta (especially since my liberal usage of commas would give ANYONE nightmares); that's too time-consuming and I don't want to bother anyone. But it HAS been two long years since I last wrote for this fandom and I am afeared that what I have might be... off. So... just a reader would be nice?
6. Wow, typing all that capslock was pretty exhausting. ;) Ooh, but one last thing -
Track 9! Happy birthday to me (and all of us, really)... OMG, it's Julia being saaaassy! :D
7. RIGHT. BEDTIME. LATE NOW.