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

I MISS YOU ALL LIKE A THING THAT IS GREATLY MISSED. I miss you so much I am even trying to teach myself how to use Tumblr, because that is apparently where you have all gone ( Read more... )

If fandom were my job, I would totally be fired by now.

Since last I posted, I have 1) been accepted to my grad school of choice; 2) been informed by same grad school that, oops, I wasn't admitted after all; 3) been reaccepted to that same grad school, because apparently they were just playing hard to get; and 4) FINALLY got a full time job. ( 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... )

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.

My download has 10 minutes remaining. My current level of anticipation is absurd.

SHERLOOOOCK.

More procrastination! Stolen from two excellent dudettes, eponymous_rose and tardis_stowaway. Gnarly!

(Gnarly is good, right? It's hard to be hip with the kids, these days.)

1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few lines of the first thirty songs that come up that do not give away the name of the song. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ( Read more... )

Waiting for New New Who to download. Twitching with anticipation. Writing a post.

Thanks to a recommendation from the wonderful and wise pendrecarc, in the past week or so I've devoured Terry Pratchett's young adult series about a young Discworld witch named Tiffany Aching, and am now wholly consumed by a renewed love of all things Pratchett. So I'm embarking ( Read more... )

Three Things:

1) On the George R.R. Martin shelves at Powell's there's an employee note that says, "If you're just starting this series now, I call bandwagon." And yet, yesterday I carried my copy of A Clash of Kings to the register with pride. I watched the show, and now I'm reading the books. I am a sheep. A happy, happy sheep who needs a t-shirt ( Read more... )