1. Sick even unto death. Not 'cancel Thanksgiving' sick, but 'drink lots of herbal tea' -- yes, I am DRINKING HERBAL TEA, clearly I must be dying -- and 'sloth around Kate and GP's place in my pajamas' and 'wish for death' levels of sick ( Read more... )

* MEDICAL: I still have back problems. This really shouldn’t be news to anyone who’s been here for more than fifteen minutes. On the plus side, we’ve got me on some new medications that seem to be working very, very well. Well enough, in fact, that my focus has been shot for the past several days because I didn’t know how to cope with the fact ( Read more... )

* It takes me approximately five hours to eat a pomegranate. I find this really fairly awesome, as it becomes both a tasty treat and a puzzlebox that doesn't cause the Cenobites to rise up out of the floor and tote me away to my eternal suffering. A win-win situation! The hardest part is definitely getting the damn things started, though; it ( Read more... )

1) I have now watched all the episodes of Dexter, True Blood, and Supernatural that aired during my vacation. (I only actually missed one episode of Supernatural in first-run -- 'Yellow Fever,' which I saw for the first time with Kate -- but I was behind on the others.) I am one episode behind on The Eleventh Hour. The third episode of Scream ( Read more... )

Hooray hooray! It's National Comic Book Day! Now, for me, National Comic Book Day happens once a week, when the new releases come in. But since not everybody lives in my glorious wonderland of comic goodness, happy holidays! To celebrate, I'm providing a list of my ten favorite comic book series, past and present. There's a lot of awesome out ( Read more... )

Just as a footnote on last night's dream:

I consider it entirely unfair that I can't actually do my holiday shopping in a parallel dimension run by versions of us who aren't so much 'evil' as 'slightly skewed,' because their toys were much better. I just want to put this out there: if and when we get dimension-hopping capabilities, I am totally ( Read more... )

Recently, I've been not silent, exactly, but a good bit quieter than is my norm. This has led to some really fascinating questions about what's going on -- fascinating because dude, I thought it was all pretty transparent! Still, here's the breakdown ( Read more... )

1. Chris took one for the team in a big, big way last night, when I made him watch all of Flu Bird Horror, which was, I swear, written by pulling plot twists out of a big hat. Actually, that would explain a lot of what goes on in Science-Fiction Channel original movies ( Read more... )

Seriously, it looks like bombs have gone off in here. The process of getting rid of stuff generates an incredible and daunting amount of mess, because I have to get to the stuff to be gotten rid of. It's like mining. Only instead of mining for gold, I'm mining for crap ( Read more... )

Having recently gone on, at length, about how much I'd love to see Neil Patrick Harris play Seymour (Little Shop of Horrors) with Nathan Fillion as Oren Scrizello (DDS), I have decided to list the other improbable-but-I-want-them media concepts currently on my personal chart.

10. Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld in trade paperback format. This was ( Read more... )