When last we left our heroine...
Seeing as the most recent updates on here have been to keep up with the postings of mcshep_match fics (they're so awesome! All of them!) and other things under friends lock, I should probably post here now. I got to dogsit the cuuuuuutest dog this weekend, and it was lots of fun though sadly due to an overactive brain, I didn't get much sleep. I hate when you're still buzzing with unimportant (or highly important) things at like 2am. Which then means that you get thrown off your sleeping, so that you can no longer get up early and it's a vicious cycle. Fortunately, I have the rest of the week before "productivity" sets in, as summer camp starts next week. I'm really looking forward to having something to do during the day, though looking back at my calendar, I have not really been lacking for social things. And, looking foward (as I noticed when M and I were making plans this week), I am highly busy still. Tonight, I am watching a movie with M (maybe L.A. Confidential, maybe... a million other things), tomorrow I am playing frisbee, Thursday I have orientation for camp, and Friday a whole bunch of 'frisbee kids' are going to see a play that our "fearless leader"'s wife is in, with an after-party. And this weekend WALL-E comes out, I'm so excited!
Of course, my room is still a mess, but we have hot water (again, I got to relight the pilot light last night) and Roto Rooter came and fixed our sink, so we can both wash dishes and use the washing machine. Still, will be happy to get out of this house before it falls down about our ears, a la the house of Usher.
Watched Into the Wild (finally, the last of my DVDS from Netflix that I have had FOREVER are sent back, and I will be getting Blood Diamond, and discs of season one of Bones and Eureka woohoo!) and it was an interesting movie, very atmospheric and artistically shot. Emile Hirsch, who plays Chris McCandless, did a fine job of seeming both wise and naive beyond his years, and while the whole "ethereal voice over" mode of storytelling is a bit pretentious, it worked. The realist in me is still a little irritated at the real life events: how much of the tragedy could have been prevented (if he'd had/used a MAP, for God's sake) but I enjoy the romanticism of it (in the idealist way of romanticism, such as Thoreau). Makes me want to read The Journey is the Destination again. That and go have an adventure.
Think I'll have to settle for folding laundry and taking some decongestant (the headache from yesterday now has accompanying itchy eyes and sneezing. Something must have bloomed), at least for now XD
If I remember today, I have notes to make up a new Rec Triad, because I am woefully overdue again. Also, more fic inside my head. Though I spent a long time last night reading lots of lovely J2 fic recced by setissma here (though it was J2 AU fic, so I'm not quite sure how real that makes the RPF, haha) and then jezrana's involved awesomeness for bandombigbang: The Fall and Rise of the Black Parade
Of course, my room is still a mess, but we have hot water (again, I got to relight the pilot light last night) and Roto Rooter came and fixed our sink, so we can both wash dishes and use the washing machine. Still, will be happy to get out of this house before it falls down about our ears, a la the house of Usher.
Watched Into the Wild (finally, the last of my DVDS from Netflix that I have had FOREVER are sent back, and I will be getting Blood Diamond, and discs of season one of Bones and Eureka woohoo!) and it was an interesting movie, very atmospheric and artistically shot. Emile Hirsch, who plays Chris McCandless, did a fine job of seeming both wise and naive beyond his years, and while the whole "ethereal voice over" mode of storytelling is a bit pretentious, it worked. The realist in me is still a little irritated at the real life events: how much of the tragedy could have been prevented (if he'd had/used a MAP, for God's sake) but I enjoy the romanticism of it (in the idealist way of romanticism, such as Thoreau). Makes me want to read The Journey is the Destination again. That and go have an adventure.
Think I'll have to settle for folding laundry and taking some decongestant (the headache from yesterday now has accompanying itchy eyes and sneezing. Something must have bloomed), at least for now XD
If I remember today, I have notes to make up a new Rec Triad, because I am woefully overdue again. Also, more fic inside my head. Though I spent a long time last night reading lots of lovely J2 fic recced by setissma here (though it was J2 AU fic, so I'm not quite sure how real that makes the RPF, haha) and then jezrana's involved awesomeness for bandombigbang: The Fall and Rise of the Black Parade