Day 6: Whatever tickles your fancy I really should have read this list before committing to it. Um, we're on Season Nine of another rewatching of SG1, so Daniel and Vala are always good for making me feel fuzzy inside. Our kittens, Barry and Sam, who greet us at the door and sleep at the foot of our bed and enjoy just lounging around the house as ( Read more... )

As in only stuffing, not proper leftovers or anything. Don't tell my mother.

Day 5: Favorite Quote Blergh. Actually, that is itself a quote, from Liz Lemon on 30 Rock. I tend to co-opt useful phrases from television and movies. Oscar Wilde is an excellent source of wisdom and poignant ennui. But for one-liners, it's gotta be Henry David Thoreau: " ( Read more... )

They either cause endless agonizing or picking what's in the player right now.
A little behind, so a two-fer today:

Day 2: Favorite Movie What does that mean? Is it the movie I watch the most? Because that, embarrassingly enough, would be either Robin Hood: Men in Tights or Bridget Jones' Diary. Is it the movie I recommend to anyone who hasn't ( Read more... )

So, one resolution among many: post to LJ at least once a week. Even if it's memes that get me there!

Name a fandom or a fannish topic and I will share my unpopular fandom opinions on the matter. Or any opinion, because I have lots of those and don't always know which ones are unpopular or not.

Harry Potter Voldemort was only marginally more evil ( Read more... )

Interactive: Balance California's budget | Los Angeles Times ( Read more... )

On this day a year ago, I got hitched in lieu of risking arrest for living in sin in Abu Dhabi. Neither one of us is rummaging for a receipt though, so I figured it's about time we made it official by posting the evidence for all the internet to see. Click the photo for an album of our tiny ceremony of close friends and family, planned in just ( Read more... )

My new job began this week, but I use that sentence lightly. Getting used to the new 11:30am start time has been the hardest part, as half the editors I'll be working with were either still doing their old newsroom jobs or just started in their Weekend Edition capacity, so there was no actual copy. Basically, I spent a leisurely week pretending to ( Read more... )

Alison had me over for dinner, and afterward we watched Ally McBeal while playing Bitch and balancing carrot cake in our laps. They were two deeply depressing episodes - her client was being sued for fraud because she married a man not for love, but because she thought he would be a good, financially stable father. Of course, this forced the court ( Read more... )

Somehow, hurricanes were much less scary when I was living in Florida than watching them barrel toward the people I love back home on weather.com from across the world. It seems Bertha has been derailed, but hurricane season already jumped the gun this year, so who knows what else will happen?

I love Slate. They raise interesting questions, take unconventional angles, and basically tell stories from the human interest perspective - no inside baseball, no corporate fluff, just how this affects you and me. It's useful journalism.

By far my favorite part is their Explainer column. Some people get sucked into the Internet following Facebook ( Read more... )