IMPORTANT NEWS IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER ( Read more... )

THING 1: Just submitted the very last of my grad school application materials about five minutes ago. I now feel I could CONQUER THE WORLD.

THING 2: Just accidentally typed CONQUEER THE WORLD and liked it so much I was tempted not to correct it. It's like the Gay Agenda, only with a little extra Alexander the Great.

STUFF 1: Last week my little ( Read more... )

So. This happened:

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All right. So, judging by the trailer, we are in very familiar territory, Sorkinly speaking. The Newsroom looks a bit like Sports Night stole Studio 60's format and production budget and then went out dancing in West Wing's borrowed gravitas. I don't mean that as a criticism; on the contrary, I'm delighted. As much as I love The ( Read more... )

Terrible news:

I was driving my poor (mostly) blind mother to the bank today (don't feel sorry for her; as will soon be revealed, she's an awful person and doesn't deserve it) and we were chatting happily about tater tots and Jeopardy and asbestos - you know, normal mother-daughter stuff - and out of nowhere she says, "I do like the way you wear ( Read more... )

1. Saw The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo yesterday at my local temple of celluloid worship cineplex. While I upsold the book like a pro at Borders (god rest its soul), I've never actually read past the first few chapters; I think that may be why I ended up enjoying the movie as much as I did. It was hardly perfect, and one scene in particular did ( Read more... )

NEW SHERLOCK TODAY. FREAKING OUT. PLEASE COME FREAK OUT WITH ME SO I WILL NOT BE FREAKING OUT ALONE.


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Stolen from tricksterquinn:

Pick up the nearest book to you.
Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.

Oh holy god:

"Aunt Petunia found a few moldy blankets in the second room and made up a bed for Dudley on the moth-eaten sofa," from Harry Fucking Potter and the Sorcerer's Motherfucking Stone.

That's it. I never want to have sex again.

Here are my thoughts.

( they are covered in spoilers. )

ETA: Much thanks to boxed, who saved my bacon when I was an idiot and let LJ have its wicked way with this post. It probably wasn't worth all my anxiety over its loss, but that doesn't make me any less grateful to her for saving it. Big thanks also to phoenikxs and mylittlepwny for answering my call of pain and rage.

And now, back to our formerly scheduled post:

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