I'm sitting here downing a delicious bottle of cider (Fox Barrel Blackberry Pear = new favorite EVER) after a very uneventful day off. We were going to grill up some burgers with our neighbors tonight, but one of them fell sick, so instead I made some Spaghetti alla Carbonara for Luke and I which OMG SO HEAVY. (But so good.) (BUT SO HEAVY ( Read more... )

June was just nuts. July is finally slowing down. I haven't had much time to dig into fandom on any significant level, which is okay. My interests have been going in 50 directions at once these days. Digging my heels into any single one of them is just not feasible at the moment ( Read more... )

Luke and I jointly beat Red Dead Redemption last night. And... dear LORD. Most epic game ending EVER? I think so. Saw some of it coming, but the whole thing with Jack? D: I am speechless.

( Well, maybe not quite speechless. If you own a console and are thinking about playing this game, a) GET IT NOW and b) please do not read. )

Had an absolutely fantastic weekend with spectralbovine here! What a great start to 2010. He left early yesterday morning, and I rounded out my last day off with some reading, beaching, and fellowship. Got New Seeds of Contemplation for Christmas and it's already challenging me in all the right ways. Trying to keep my head screwed on straight about all this NEW ( Read more... )

Since I fail at making any sort of proper retrospective post, I stole this meme from torak303 to help me sit down and think about this past year. I guess I feel a bit more settled now about it being New Year's Eve. A bit. Here's to actually processing 2010!

( 2009: IN SUMMARY! )

I sound like death today. It's kind of amusing, because usually whenever I answer the phone people are breathlessly explaining who they are and what they need from me. But today, they're all kind of hesitant and timid. I'm scary! \o/

I keep forgetting tomorrow's New Year's Eve. Like, REALLY? 2010? GET REAL. I remember exactly where I was and what ( Read more... )

Work today was a WHIRLWIND; I'm still trying to recover. But I... kind of loved it? My old position is already a distant memory, and for that I'm surprisingly grateful. The lethargy is gone. I don't just feel like a cog in the wheel anymore. Always a plus ( Read more... )

savethescc.com - responsible for the insanely organized and passionate efforts to keep Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles alive - tells me it's Blog Day. I guess that means it's time for me to write about this show again... one that has completely revitalized an old, beloved sci-fi mythology and turned it into something more compelling than I ( Read more... )

Oh, internets. You have brought me such an exciting day. First, I woke up to the epic #TheResistance showdown in NYC, chronicled with gusto by Muse fans the worldover on Twitter. Such was our enthusiasm that both the official treasure hunt microsite and muselive.com crashed ( Read more... )

So with just a couple months left to go before The Resistance hits, a new round of Muse Madness has begun. And in true form, frontman Matt Bellamy sees this as an opportunity to enact one of his favorite things - a global treasure hunt - on a... rather intimidating scale. He's played these games with us before, and they've always been a fun way of ( Read more... )