I saw an ad for the Wounded Warrior Project on my TV tonight, with a soldier who lost an arm in the war talking about his PTSD and "don't suffer in silence" as a slogan ( Read more... )

"Eat Pray Love" is now a movie, I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. And "from the creator of Glee", how completely not surprising. One of my least favorite books in the world becomes a movie from the person responsible for my single least favorite scripted show in the world ( Read more... )

Stolen from cosmosmarinerGive me a character and I will tell you my ( Read more... )

So, it's Christmas. How do I know? There's jack shit nothing new on my television. Yet another year of "no, we don't all have back to back travel and party plans, you fuckers" fail. Can't anyone put on a short-run reality show or something? Anything new? Please ( Read more... )

Some news on the laptop front: It had a defective right speaker. The Dell repair guy came by this afternoon and replaced the entire keyboard, including both speakers. Problem solved. If you've ever considered buying a computer from Dell and wondered if it's worth paying for the Pro Support, the answer is YES. I'd have pulled all my hair out if it ( Read more... )

I can't sleep for shit, so it didn't wake me up when FedEx banged on the door ( Read more... )

Short RL digression: we still don't know anything about Rob's job. Now *he's* worried. And I don't know how I feel about that. For a while I felt like Chicken freaking Little for being scared to death when he's completely sanguine, yet his lack of worry was semi-comforting. Now we're two small spheres of scared orbiting each other and trying to ( Read more... )

One True Squick: The character that you never want to see 'shipped, twitch at the very idea of them and sex or romance in the same sentence, and, now that you're thinking about it, you'd really prefer to never see them cross the screen/page ever again. At all. Period. (Or, maybe not. Maybe they serve a good purpose in the story, they just squick ( Read more... )

Wanted to make a quick post on my reactions to Season 3 so far-- I'm whipping through DW so fast that I'll be caught up way too quickly! (BTW, when is the new stuff coming to us ( Read more... )

Ganked from wabbitseason:

Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

wabbitseason gave me the following things to natter about:

1. KOTOR

Ooh, one two of my favorite games, and widely considered to be two of the best Western RPGs ever made. The thing I dislike most ( Read more... )