psa! also a lost ship, and dogs
today is the 25th anniversary of the first episode of buffy and also! bucky barnes's 105th birthday. this calls for cake. :D
buffy being twenty-five makes me feel old, tho.
and in other historical news, ernest shackleton's lost ship endurance, which sank off the coast of antartica in 1915 and stranded shackleton and his crew on ice sheets and very cold islands (they all eventually made it home alive) has been found. at the bottom of the sea. almost two miles down. in really good condition, considering. she can't be moved or disassembled, so researchers and scientists will have to check her out where she is. (the bbc has some neat photos of the ship before she sank.)
yesterday at work some student group had a lunch gathering in the lounge on my floor, which meant when i had to get something out of the printer i had to walk by delicious-smelling indian food that i could not eat because it was not for me. and then when the students were done they took the leftovers with them! and cleaned up after themselves! *ghasp* one of the it guys is having a baby - well, technically his wife is - so the admins threw him a baby shower and got a cake. it was a good cake. also i rode the elevator in the morning with two students and their big, white, very fluffy, very well-behaved dogs. (two of them.) and later when i went around putting up posters for a seminar next week i passed one of those big fluffy dogs sitting on a couch in a lounge area, with one of the students from the elevator. SUCH A GOOD BOY OR GIRL.
monday when i was going to work from the t station i passed a guy walking a corgi, and at the end of the day when i was going back to the t i passed a woman walking a dog wearing a yellow rain slicker. and i share because it is a truth universally acknowledged that dogs in coats are THE CUTEST.
is anyone else watching resident alien? if so, can i just say oh, my heart? after the new episode last night i watched (unintentionally) astrid and lilly save the world, which is ADORABLE. and pretty easy to follow, considering it's the first episode i've ever seen and the season is probably half over. it has a demon who tried to eat his feelings - namely, by devouring an inadvisable number of funnel cakes because he was sad. there were other very cute plot developments, but i felt that one on a very fundamental level. i mean, funnel cake.
sort of enjoying the endgame, morena baccarin's new show, altho i am intensely frustrated by the way characters keep referencing stuff that's clearly important but that the viewers have absolutely no frame of reference for. continually mentioning important shit in the past but not telling us a. what it is or b. why it's important isn't that clever, show. sometimes it makes things hard to follow because we're missing some of the pieces. on the other hand, the plot keeps twisting in interesting ways, and i do want to know what's going to happen.
this is an abomination unto the lord. (by which i mean, marbled hamentaschen with cheesecake filling. friend l said "i thought the cheesecake was a metaphor." no, no it is not. i can almost understand the chocolate-and-vanilla marbled cookie, but you don't fill hamentaschen with cheesecake.)
buffy being twenty-five makes me feel old, tho.
and in other historical news, ernest shackleton's lost ship endurance, which sank off the coast of antartica in 1915 and stranded shackleton and his crew on ice sheets and very cold islands (they all eventually made it home alive) has been found. at the bottom of the sea. almost two miles down. in really good condition, considering. she can't be moved or disassembled, so researchers and scientists will have to check her out where she is. (the bbc has some neat photos of the ship before she sank.)
yesterday at work some student group had a lunch gathering in the lounge on my floor, which meant when i had to get something out of the printer i had to walk by delicious-smelling indian food that i could not eat because it was not for me. and then when the students were done they took the leftovers with them! and cleaned up after themselves! *ghasp* one of the it guys is having a baby - well, technically his wife is - so the admins threw him a baby shower and got a cake. it was a good cake. also i rode the elevator in the morning with two students and their big, white, very fluffy, very well-behaved dogs. (two of them.) and later when i went around putting up posters for a seminar next week i passed one of those big fluffy dogs sitting on a couch in a lounge area, with one of the students from the elevator. SUCH A GOOD BOY OR GIRL.
monday when i was going to work from the t station i passed a guy walking a corgi, and at the end of the day when i was going back to the t i passed a woman walking a dog wearing a yellow rain slicker. and i share because it is a truth universally acknowledged that dogs in coats are THE CUTEST.
is anyone else watching resident alien? if so, can i just say oh, my heart? after the new episode last night i watched (unintentionally) astrid and lilly save the world, which is ADORABLE. and pretty easy to follow, considering it's the first episode i've ever seen and the season is probably half over. it has a demon who tried to eat his feelings - namely, by devouring an inadvisable number of funnel cakes because he was sad. there were other very cute plot developments, but i felt that one on a very fundamental level. i mean, funnel cake.
sort of enjoying the endgame, morena baccarin's new show, altho i am intensely frustrated by the way characters keep referencing stuff that's clearly important but that the viewers have absolutely no frame of reference for. continually mentioning important shit in the past but not telling us a. what it is or b. why it's important isn't that clever, show. sometimes it makes things hard to follow because we're missing some of the pieces. on the other hand, the plot keeps twisting in interesting ways, and i do want to know what's going to happen.
this is an abomination unto the lord. (by which i mean, marbled hamentaschen with cheesecake filling. friend l said "i thought the cheesecake was a metaphor." no, no it is not. i can almost understand the chocolate-and-vanilla marbled cookie, but you don't fill hamentaschen with cheesecake.)