Tuesday night, zzzzzzz

[cleolinda]

Hmm. I can't say exactly how much I got done today, since it was in scattershot places, but it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 2000-2500 words, so: good times. I'm actually feeling really wiped out this week, which either means that I'm fighting off some kind of incipient cold or it's a hormonal thing--I have tons of laundry to do and trash to

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[x_knees]

The X-Files is always a good day for background TV. Bad Blood especially.

[cindyg]

Is that the one where the "Shaft" theme makes an appearance, and Scully starts craving for pizza in the middle of her autopsy?

I'm almost sure it is - Bad Blood is a classic X-File episode!

[cleolinda]

That's the one! I love how shocked Mulder is when she recounts that part of the story, too--"I did not!"

[x_knees]

I know!!!! And Scully is just as shocked when Mulder says the sheriff has such an aweful accent. The comedy in that ep is classic!

[demonqueen666]

Is "Bad Blood" the one with the yokel vampire town where they tell the story twice from their different POVs?? Because that's the one I love like cake.

[cleolinda]

Me too! And Luke Wilson as the sheriff! It may actually be my favorite episode ever, I'm not sure.

(They actually showed the ep in your icon, too--the Stephen King demon doll one. At least, I know they showed that one, and I know Mulder was busy sharpening pencils at some point during the day.)

[leucocrystal]

Yes, it is! SO much love for that episode. Oh, the hilarity. (Love the icon, too! Oh, Mulder.)

League of Extraordinary Acts of Truffle Squishing

[ninepointfivemm]

The linkspam was short but very definitely awesome. I am still giggling over the Extraordinary Act of Truffle-Squishing, Bad Sex With Christian Bale, and The Crap Email From a Film Student Jerk (Which Explains Everything).

You linkspam has made me imagine Christian Bale, as Patrick Bateman, squishing truffles.

Also, my mom does that thing like, "ARE YOU DONE YET" when I'm doing papers. It's very frustrating, because I have all the information, but I'm terrible at outlining. So I have to piece together all of my highlighting and information in a coherent matter without sounding stupid, and the, "JESSSSS, ARE YOU DONE WITH YOUR PAPER YET" doesn't seem to help. Hmm.

"Is it done yet?"

[rclementmoore]

My mother asks me that, too. I figure it's payback for all those family vacations and the "Are we there yet?" hell that my brother and I put her through.

I try and train the family that, if they must aks, "How's it going?" is a better question. It allows for an affirmative answer if the day has gone well. "Is it done yet?" allows only for a negative, even if you've been productive.

[lesamalie]

When my sister and I were kids, and we went on road trips (and we went on MANY MANY road trips in our VW van), we would always ask my dad "how much further?" and he would just make up a number "62 miles" or "47 minutes" because to our mind, we just wanted an answer--something to know that we are progressing. Neither of us understood that he was mocking us, though I'm sure we wondering why my mom always hit my dad in the arm whenever he did it.

Regardless, maybe its time to just tell her something. I totally understand in the not-knowing-when-its-done department. And its horrible lying to your mom, but sometimes it the best way to stop people asking.

[particle_person]

My dad would look at the clock and say, "Six minutes and thirty five seconds since the last time you asked." Often, though, he'd just tell us. My dad has an uncanny ability to guess trip times almost to the minute. (He did actually achieve to-the-minute accuracy on one trip, and I think he was as surprised as the rest of us.)

[angelan]

My parents used to give us the speed and the distance, and then make us work it out. I still do that in my head on long trips.