[update journal]
I'm posting from my mother's Dell laptop. She's lent it to me until I either get a new computer or they revive and return my old one. It's weird being on a PC! You'd think that since I use PCs at work, it'd be nothing new, but for some reason it's all STRANGE and WEIRD. I feel like I'm in enemy territory, skulking in the bushes. haha.
i miss my 'puter. :(
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IT'S RAINING AGAIN. Which means it's raining in my room. They have not fixed my roof. And probably won't until it's fairly certain the rain has stopped for longer than a few days. I'm guessing, anyway. Whatever. At this point I'm just kind of dealing. I'm not really upset. I'm more annoyed. Annoyed Tifah is Annoyed.
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I took my car in this morning to the dealer/service because it's past 60,000 miles and that's what you're supposed to do when you're at 60,000 miles only when I got there and they looked at my car and what I'd already had done they were like um, there's nothing to do on your car. d'oh! I was like, are you sure? There's gotta be something that needs to be done. The guy was all, er, nope? They're so nice there. Any other place would have done work for no reason! And they're not really that much more expensive, at least I haven't seen it to be so.
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The job situation is still crappy, in case anyone was wondering. We got official notice that there will *definitely* be layoffs, rather than the previous 'might be' lay offs. Everyone is up in arms. One thing I've learned -- or rather, one thing that's been reaffirmed by all this is = hypocrisy is the new black.
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In fannish updates, I'm watching BSG, 24, and Lost (although how out of it was I last week, I can't recall if I watched the episode or not? was there an episode last wednesday? what was I doing? I can't remember!)
24 = Is making me into a pretzel, eeeee. O.o. I've taken to stalking almeidaisgod.com, hahah. My love for Tony and Jack has risen to alarming levels. I may need an intervention.
Lost = Um, I like it? I'm confused as hell, but I've become very zen about this show. It and I have come to an agreement of sorts == I haven't a clue what's going on but cheer anyway, and it show me lots Sayid and Desmond. (Dude, Sayid'd give Jack Bauer a run for his money, and don't you know it.)
BSG = I haven't seen this friday's ep yet. I'll watch it tonight. *sigh* How sad is it that I'm thrilled this is the last season so I can stop watching these tortured characters being tortured all the time. There's no one left to like on this show, now that they've gone and made Lt. Gaeta bad/delusional/crazy/fucked-up/bitter/whatever. THANKS, SHOW. THANKS FOR THAT.
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Mother and I made it through CoH/Rev 6:8 finally. She was all "that was intense!" afterward. hahah. It was interesting to watch with someone who was completely unspoiled for all the, er, revelations. :D She is, to my chagrin, a total Methos girl. I mean, not that I don't love Methos as much as the next girl, but I definitely watch the show for Duncan primarily. She and I often part ways, though, on many different topics, so I guess it's not always 'like mother, like daughter.'
"Methos is handsome!"
"Well, yes, he is, but what about Duncan?"
"Oh yes, he's very nice, too. But Methos is much more my type."
(Oh good lord, my mother's talking about her "type" hahaha."
"I like Methos!"
"I know you do."
"Sometimes he's a coward, though."
*choke*
She didn't react well to The Valkrie, and thought Duncan should not have killed Ingrid, and I had forgotten (or had sort of stopped thinking about) what a tough episode that is. There's no right or wrong. Although this time around, it seemed pretty obvious to me that Ingrid was rather at the end of her rope and well past the point of no return. She could no longer differentiate between a righteous act versus a desperate act. And Duncan was acting more from a sadness of losing his friend to the kind of obsession that he could not fix, than to what she was actually doing, although ultimately he could not let that sort of thing go -- she was clearly not levelheaded about it anymore, and had escalated away from any actual good she might be doing. It was similar to Brian Cullen (and Byron), only with more politics and meglomaniacs.
Each time there's a flashback, my mother says out loud, "oh! flashback! flashback!" like she needs to announce it every time. It's hilarious. And weird.
"Oh no, don't tell me Methos is a bad man!"
ahhahahahah
Re: Kronos = "That man is crazy!"
Re: the Horseman = "They all seem a little crazy."
Very observant, my mother. You know, I've always admired Valentine Pelka, but I gotta say, he's really very good, like remarkably so. I mean, Kronos is a bit OTT with teh crazzy! but VP actually manages to be mostly cheeky!sociopath. I dunno, I'm impressed, really.
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In completely new and unrelated fannish news, after an embarrassingly long time (something close to a year, maybe) I've finally finished watching all of the Dresdon Files. I was sort of slow, to warm up to it. I mean, I liked Harry (dude, that actor is *gorgeous*) and loved Bob and sort of adored the old-time feel of the show -- I miss the days of dodgy vancouver-filmed speculative syndicated TV shows, man -- and I especially loved Murphy, but it wasn't until the last few episodes that I really started to get that fannish sort of love for it, and now it's all gone! So Sad!
So tell me, Dresden experts out there, are the books good? How many are there? Is Murphy in them? I love her. I really loved her and Dresden together, actually -- they had old skool Mulder/Scullyness about them. sigh. wow, I miss that, I really really miss that.
i miss my 'puter. :(
~~~
IT'S RAINING AGAIN. Which means it's raining in my room. They have not fixed my roof. And probably won't until it's fairly certain the rain has stopped for longer than a few days. I'm guessing, anyway. Whatever. At this point I'm just kind of dealing. I'm not really upset. I'm more annoyed. Annoyed Tifah is Annoyed.
~~~
I took my car in this morning to the dealer/service because it's past 60,000 miles and that's what you're supposed to do when you're at 60,000 miles only when I got there and they looked at my car and what I'd already had done they were like um, there's nothing to do on your car. d'oh! I was like, are you sure? There's gotta be something that needs to be done. The guy was all, er, nope? They're so nice there. Any other place would have done work for no reason! And they're not really that much more expensive, at least I haven't seen it to be so.
~~~
The job situation is still crappy, in case anyone was wondering. We got official notice that there will *definitely* be layoffs, rather than the previous 'might be' lay offs. Everyone is up in arms. One thing I've learned -- or rather, one thing that's been reaffirmed by all this is = hypocrisy is the new black.
~~~
In fannish updates, I'm watching BSG, 24, and Lost (although how out of it was I last week, I can't recall if I watched the episode or not? was there an episode last wednesday? what was I doing? I can't remember!)
24 = Is making me into a pretzel, eeeee. O.o. I've taken to stalking almeidaisgod.com, hahah. My love for Tony and Jack has risen to alarming levels. I may need an intervention.
Lost = Um, I like it? I'm confused as hell, but I've become very zen about this show. It and I have come to an agreement of sorts == I haven't a clue what's going on but cheer anyway, and it show me lots Sayid and Desmond. (Dude, Sayid'd give Jack Bauer a run for his money, and don't you know it.)
BSG = I haven't seen this friday's ep yet. I'll watch it tonight. *sigh* How sad is it that I'm thrilled this is the last season so I can stop watching these tortured characters being tortured all the time. There's no one left to like on this show, now that they've gone and made Lt. Gaeta bad/delusional/crazy/fucked-up/bitter/whatever. THANKS, SHOW. THANKS FOR THAT.
~~~
Mother and I made it through CoH/Rev 6:8 finally. She was all "that was intense!" afterward. hahah. It was interesting to watch with someone who was completely unspoiled for all the, er, revelations. :D She is, to my chagrin, a total Methos girl. I mean, not that I don't love Methos as much as the next girl, but I definitely watch the show for Duncan primarily. She and I often part ways, though, on many different topics, so I guess it's not always 'like mother, like daughter.'
"Methos is handsome!"
"Well, yes, he is, but what about Duncan?"
"Oh yes, he's very nice, too. But Methos is much more my type."
(Oh good lord, my mother's talking about her "type" hahaha."
"I like Methos!"
"I know you do."
"Sometimes he's a coward, though."
*choke*
She didn't react well to The Valkrie, and thought Duncan should not have killed Ingrid, and I had forgotten (or had sort of stopped thinking about) what a tough episode that is. There's no right or wrong. Although this time around, it seemed pretty obvious to me that Ingrid was rather at the end of her rope and well past the point of no return. She could no longer differentiate between a righteous act versus a desperate act. And Duncan was acting more from a sadness of losing his friend to the kind of obsession that he could not fix, than to what she was actually doing, although ultimately he could not let that sort of thing go -- she was clearly not levelheaded about it anymore, and had escalated away from any actual good she might be doing. It was similar to Brian Cullen (and Byron), only with more politics and meglomaniacs.
Each time there's a flashback, my mother says out loud, "oh! flashback! flashback!" like she needs to announce it every time. It's hilarious. And weird.
"Oh no, don't tell me Methos is a bad man!"
ahhahahahah
Re: Kronos = "That man is crazy!"
Re: the Horseman = "They all seem a little crazy."
Very observant, my mother. You know, I've always admired Valentine Pelka, but I gotta say, he's really very good, like remarkably so. I mean, Kronos is a bit OTT with teh crazzy! but VP actually manages to be mostly cheeky!sociopath. I dunno, I'm impressed, really.
~~~
In completely new and unrelated fannish news, after an embarrassingly long time (something close to a year, maybe) I've finally finished watching all of the Dresdon Files. I was sort of slow, to warm up to it. I mean, I liked Harry (dude, that actor is *gorgeous*) and loved Bob and sort of adored the old-time feel of the show -- I miss the days of dodgy vancouver-filmed speculative syndicated TV shows, man -- and I especially loved Murphy, but it wasn't until the last few episodes that I really started to get that fannish sort of love for it, and now it's all gone! So Sad!
So tell me, Dresden experts out there, are the books good? How many are there? Is Murphy in them? I love her. I really loved her and Dresden together, actually -- they had old skool Mulder/Scullyness about them. sigh. wow, I miss that, I really really miss that.