Femgenficathon

There was a whole post here about Serious Things, but I eated it.

Instead I will note that I've spent pretty much the whole day making RP characters talk about their FEEEEEEELINGS, which is always good times, and wallowing in emoporn until I think even I've hit my limit. (That is a lie.)

You'll note that I did not spend pretty much the whole day doing my job, but I'm pretty okay with that, and I will just make up numbers to put on my daily report. <--is a bad person

I desperately want to go to Borders, but I should not spend money and I have a stack of unread books as high as my hip. I started King Leopold's Ghost the other day. There's some cheery and uplifting reading.

Ooh, but if I went to Borders, I could also get ICE CREAM. Thereby failing the spending money clause TWICE. Ugh. Anyway, I have to stay here another two hours, because my boss let our canvassers go out two hours late today so they could watch the Chiefs game. Yeah. Just read that sentence a few more times and think about how happy it makes me.

Why can't I find any icons of various Cylon Number Six'es? I mean, ones I like. Oh, right, because I'm exasperatingly picky. I also can't find the proper Springsteen lyrics to make a new LJ header out of a picture of Tricia Helfer. Because...that combination is insane, most likely.

Flist, I know that I only post agonizingly boring minutia lately, so I feel the need to remind you that you can and should defriend at any time.

It looks like I missed most of an exciting race of drama while I was watching the other exciting race of drama.

Man, today in general has kind of sucked, but at least the motorsports action has been awesome!

So, you guys want to know something that's a DUMB IDEA? Buying anything from IKEA that you do not physically take with you the second you pay. I ordered a bunch of stuff from Internet IKEA like three weeks ago, the idea being that it would get here last week so that I could have furniture in my apartment that would be conveniently delivered in flat-pack boxes, saving me the trouble of renting a car. Or, at the very least, so that I could give IKEA money in exchange for their goods.

*sigh*

Not so much. It has been like three weeks since I ordered, two since they say they shipped it and oh, yes, it'll be there just after Labour Day weekend, and I have not received an effing thing.

My mom came out this weekend, and we ended up renting a car for the day to get some stuff that Internet IKEA doesn't stock (dishes, mostly) and do a major grocery shop. We also stopped at Canadian Tire*, to get some stuff that I needed - including the cheapest patio furniture we could find to use in my apartment for now, that I can use out on the balcony when the real stuff gets here.

Anyway.

This is what my apartment looks like at the moment, with all of the furniture I own (minus my mattress and dresser, in the next room) in it. If my chair didn't at least have a cupholder, I would be livid with Internet IKEA right now.

( internet voyeurism! )

. . .what does yours look like? Let's make this a meme! SHOW ME YOUR APARTMENT IN THE COMMENTS!

*Canadian Tire is a fairly iconic Canadian chain store, along the lines of. . .I don't even know an appropriate US analogue. They sell power tools and hardware store stuff, but they also stock dishes and microwaves and bicycles and patio furniture and garden sheds and toys and weird only-in-Canada gadgets like handheld bug zappers and stuff. They are not Canadian Wal-Mart, on account of they are awesome, and also Zellers is already Canadian Wal-Mart, and you can't have two.

Who put a curse on the House of Roush? I mean, damn.

Was it bad karma from Matt Kenseth kicking someone off the stage before driver intros? Probably, because he got the worst of it. I was having loyalty issues when it came to the possible exciting shootout between Clint Bowyer and David Ragan for that last spot in the Chase, and I suddenly I had to worry about the 17.

Things that rocked:
-Qualifying storm-out putting all Chase contenders right next to each other at the start of the race made life exciting.
-The Biff and "Hurricane" Harvick celebrating when they got locked in pretty much just by starting.
-Karma is indeed a bitch, as Junior spins out Kyle!!! (Who spins out again back in traffic, and is not a serious contender for the rest of the day.)
-David Reutimann dominating a significant part of the race in the UPS car. Could this be sign of good things to come for MWR?
-Even if you don't like either the 48 or the 20, that was one hell of a finish.
-After all that, Matt is in! And so is Clint!
-Hey, Kyle Petty finished in the top 25. Cool.

Next week: The "playoffs" begin.

Soooo....the priest is not such a nice guy. Now I feel really sorry for Roxanne. All I'd heard about was the coverup section of the conclusion.

But Ella! Badass. I love you.

( possible really vague spoilers for season 2...? )

Well, I did it- I changed over from lupinslittlesis to lls_mutant. I'll probably keep using this icon for a few days, because someone mentioned that helped.

Thanks to everyone who answered my earlier question about changing a name- this one works just fine and won't be changing again anytime soon!

-Lissa

Name a character I've written/played, and I'll tell you...

❥ what initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her.
❥ one of his/her best traits.
❥ one of his/her worst traits.
❥ how easy/difficult I find it to write the character.
❥ the story/thread/chapter/post/etc where I feel that I truly captured them.
❥ my plans (if any) to write the character in the near future.


THIS AND THE OTHER ONE



ETA: HAY GUYS TELL ME GETTING A PAID ACCOUNT FOR JAY WOULD BE DUMB

I am back from Switzerland, slightly sunburnt due in part to having seen so little sun this year I am probably on my way to rickets, but mostly due to being stupid and forgetting about the effects of high altitude. Photographs (I am very pleased with the new camera) and more intelligent comment will follow, but in the meantime, I shall only say that Grindelwald did not contain any beautiful birdlike young men brandishing wands, and that the Eiger is a f*cking big mountain.

It’s Autumn, isn’t it? I quote today’s plane captain, giving the usual spiel before take off and ending wearily: As for the weather in Gatwick, well all I can say is that I hope you made the most of the sun in Geneva.

Any posts I ought to see, in case I don’t catch up with the Flist (quite likely)?

I'm placing these items behind cuts to spare your flists--this post got rather long!

( More on the new book by Bob Woodward )

( [California PSA]: Prop 8 )

( The presidential election reaches ... the ice cream parlor! )

Hello, internets! Guess what I've got? A wireless card! It's neurotic and only semi-functional, but it also brings me El Jay, so I'm going with it. (It was also on sale at Radio Shack.)

So, important things:

1. Happy Brithday, ceilidh! (Hey, I'm finally on time with one of these!)

2. I experienced TS Hanna, my first-ever tropical storm. And I'm starting to think that if WAshington didn't already have hip nicknames like "the nation's capital," it should be called Leakyville, USA. I saw more leaky rooftops in public places yesterday than I ever have in my life--including my own hotel room. So I soaked myself to mid-thigh to get to the metro station, then spent the rest of the day in malls--procuring said wireless card, an external DVD burner, and "A Dog's Breakfast." I justify the latter purchase because a) it's awesome and b) DHew is soon to be unemployed.

Also saw "The Dark Knight," finally, and while I think the amount of hype and positive reviews I saw kind of overbuilt it in my mind, I also admit that I was, quite literally, sitting forward in my seat and muttering at the screen, which is not typical movie behavior for me. And probably deeply offending the other movie-goers. Christopher Nolan does Batman kinda like George R. R. Martin does fantasy--no mercy. Was also very intrigued by the Watchman trailer, so I'll have to borrow that from MA whenever I get back to KZ.

3. Speaking of KZ, I saw the consulting shrink on my case on Friday. He kinda looked like John McCain and he annoyed me more and more the more he talked; also, I kind of suspect that the reason I was brought here was that Peace Corps somehow thought I was in immediate emotional crisis, which either means Viktor and I weren't clear in the consult or they're all very poor readers. Certainly everybody at the office was being very patronizing at first, and Dr. Shrink kept asking me if I was angry at Peace Corps and then smiling in a knowing fashion. (It made me suddenly understand all the people who wanted to stick forks in Dumbledore's ever-twinkling eyes.) But he says he's "85% sure" I can go back to work without going insane, so I'm hoping that tomorrow I can get my pills and then get my plane ticket.

So? How are you?

I Heard A Whisper (The Way I Might Have Been)
Torchwood (& Doctor Who) ; Jack/Ianto ; PG-13 ; 10,000 words ; spoilers through 'Journey's End'
The whole world's in danger, if Ianto's to believe the bloke who's showed up claiming to be his time-travelling parallel universe boyfriend. It's the start of a funny old week.

written for thestopwatch, originally posted here, beta'd by onehundredmoons.

( 'Torchwood, are you in position?' )

1. capriuni has cerebral palsy and has kindly shared an excellent description of precisely what that means to her. Did you know that about 1 in every 500 children is born with CP (NHS link)?

2. More photos of La Princesse, the GIANT mechanical spider, in Liverpool: roaming Liverpool, beware of the GIANT stompy foot, in silhouette, and by night.

3. A few weeks ago various human rights organisations condemned Italy's policy of fingerprinting all "Gypsies" in the country, including pre-school children and native Italians, especially amidst large-scale violence against Romanies in Italy. The Times reports that the EU has now decided to officially back down from previous protests by individuals within the institution and give Italy's overtly racist policies a pass. Please write to the Italian government c/o your local Italian embassy to protest, and write to your political representatives (MPs and MEPs etc.) and your government's foreign policy department too.

4. I'm sure you've all seen the open letter about Sarah Palin but have you seen Queens Elizabeth and Victoria's opinions? Heh. (Via neadods)

5. The Evil Gastropod Conspiracy has infiltrated Scottish government! Oh noes!

Flist, somehow I slept until 11:00 today. I have no idea how. I lost my morning off to SLEEP. :( I could've been using that for...um...okay, never mind.

And I have three posts on my flist from people who didn't get enough sleep, and that makes me feel guilty! Here, have some of mine? ::shares::

Now I'm eating slightly-past-expiration-date yogurt and trying to psych myself up for work. No success so far.

I fell asleep last night trying to figure out West Wing hurt/comfort fic that I (rather foolishly) committed to for the Fall Fandom Fest; I say "rather foolishly" because this will be my first fic in the fandom and I should've gone for a character vignette or team gen banter or something simple instead of diving straight into the emotionally complex h/c. (I know h/c doesn't *have* to be emotionally complex, but it's a goal of mine.) I was still thinking about it when I woke up this morning, and I think I finally figured it out in the shower. (I always figure this stuff out in the shower. If we ever do go to sonic showers like in Star Trek, I will never have a creative thought again.)

So. I forgot where I was going with that. Um, maybe there will be West Wing hurt/comfort! Maybe.

I'd better end this with some links:
Sex flow chart. Amusing! Probably nsfw.

Footnotes, Endnotes, and Parentheticals That Cost Me Marks On My Thesis Ah, McSweeny's.

Thirteenth Colony for Obama. I need that t-shirt.

Mmm, okay, must make my hair do something reasonable. And then get to work early to get the Palm Pilots set up for the canvassers. Maybe the computer will decide to eat all of the data again today, that's always exciting.

I think I want to do NaNoWriMo this year, but I can't for the life of me remember what my username was when I registered in 2005. So I'm searching through the site, trying to remember who I am, and on a list of winners I notice that somebody with the name "Ryan Ross" is registered.

...He won with 50,000 words of free-association stream-of-consciousness rambling metaphors about strippers, traveling salesmen, and the weather, right?

So, who else is doing NaNoWriMo this year?

Unrelated: If you were a fairly normal sixteen- or seventeen-year-old American boy living in fairly normal suburbia, what songs would you have as ringtones on your cell phone?

It is, at last, time for my post on what I've been up to this week. My shiny (and in fact, blue and subtly sparkly) new planner demands it. Right between washing the floors and throwing out the sketchy leftovers in the fridge. So I will post now, as the washer churns away at my sheets and towels and pyjamas. Then I'll probably go to Starbucks and read for a while.

To hit some of the highlights:

( Mail... )
( Shopping... )
( Weather... )
( Classes... )
( Teaching... )
( Socializing... )
( Haskins... )
( Computer stuff... )
( Advisor R... )

Advisor R quotes for the ages: On history: "History is the theoretical particle physics of the humanities." Heh.

And with that, I think I'll conclude. Next stop, Starbucks.

I've been tinkering with Sector 2814 again.

( Geeky stuff behind the cut. )

More then a year ago I found these icons, these awesome Avatar icons, so well done and perfect and stylistic, I almost started downloading the show. It didn't take. Mostly because the first episode didn't seem nearly as stylistic and perfect as those icons were. And I wasn't very down with the idea of American voices in my cartoons. I'm weird that way. But then sockich started making squealing noises related to the show, and I was ridiculously sick and bored in bed, so I got my hands on it last weekend and watched it all and went kind of crazy and now I have no idea who made those perfect icons. I know I kept a bunch of them saved on my hard disk for inspiration but I can't seem to find them anywhere. THIS IS FRUSTRATING FOR ME, OKAY?

This is my roundabout way of saying I have watched Avatar: The Last Airbender and it's probably the only thing that has made me feel fannish in months. And I realize the fandom is mostly gone, and I probably wouldn't have liked it much considering the amount of het I've seen in fanart, but I crave discussion. Because that ending, man. That was... AAARGH! SO MUCH LOVE.

I LOVE IROH, AND TOPH, AND TY LEE AND EVERYONE. AND SOKKA, AMIRITE?! COME AND SHARE YOUR LOVE OF AANG WITH ME, PLS? LET US TALK OF THE IMAGINARY FUTURE. ♥♥♥

I've neglected my poor LJ enough. What better way to make it feel better then a meme!

NAME ANY OF MY CHARACTERS THAT I HAVE EVER PLAYED. AND THEN I'LL FILL OUT THE FOLLOWING:

1) what initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her.
2) one of his/her best traits.
3) one of his/her worst traits.
4) how easy/difficult I find it to write the character.
5) the story/thread/chapter/post/etc where I feel that I truly captured them.
6) my plans (if any) to write the character in the near future

Damned: Shadow, Lucivar Yaslana, Simon Tam, John Connor, Kyo Sohma (original Landels), Loki (original Landels)

Others: Harry Potter and the slew of Originals in the bajillion other verses. Ah, if you know them you can ask about them. ;)

Title: Things We Said Today (1/2)
Pairings: Teddy/Bill, mentions of Teddy/Victoire, past Remus/Bill and Remus/Sirius
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~19000
Warnings: Some dirty talk, some bondage, some D/s
Summary: A discovery in Andromeda Tonks' attic sends Teddy Lupin on a quest to find out the truth about his father. He is led to Bill Weasley, and he gets more questions than answers
Author's Notes: This was written for violet_quill in the 2008 hp_summersmut fic exchange. A big thank you and a dozen candy necklaces to thescarletwoman, who not only beta'd this fic, but ran the whole fest brilliantly. There is a sequel in the works, which will be entitled "Bill and Teddy's Excellent Adventure" because I cannot help myself...

( The Great and Daring Bill Weasley Who Couldn't Be Bothered to Answer His Mail was here )

Title: Things We Said Today (2/2)
Pairings: Teddy/Bill, mentions of Teddy/Victoire, past Remus/Bill and Remus/Sirius
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~19000
Warnings: Some dirty talk, some bondage, some D/s
Summary: A discovery in Andromeda Tonks' attic sends Teddy Lupin on a quest to find out the truth about his father. He is led to Bill Weasley, and he gets more questions than answers
Author's Notes: This was written for violet_quill in the 2008 hp_summersmut fic exchange. A big thank you and a dozen candy necklaces to thescarletwoman, who not only beta'd this fic, but ran the whole fest brilliantly. There is a sequel in the works, which will be entitled "Bill and Teddy's Excellent Adventure" because I cannot help myself...

( The scars, which had seemed so commonplace all Teddy's life, stood out livid against Bill's skin now, set into sharp relief by their history. )

I'm not dead, just bad at updating my LJ... Not good.

The hp_summersmut  master list is posted, so it is now safe to tell you that I wrote Comrades in Arms, a Lucius/Snape fic that's only slightly AU. Check it out, if you want to - I think it turned out pretty well, judging from the reviews it got.

(Incidentally, this fic was also the reason why I made a seemingly random post about the location of Snape's snakebite some months ago - it would be a little embarrassing if the marks showed up in the wrong place like his buttocks.)

Anyway, I need to write get some more writing done. I want to write more Dark Lord!Grindelwald smut (if I can work up enough enough nerve; he's scary!), and there's a femgenficathon  fic I have to finish. Also, I think I owe trubbleclef  a drabble.

Oh, and here's a question: how do you make those little hearts? Typing <3 makes me feel a little immature, somehow...

1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.


deense gave me "G":

Grantaire -
Confession time: I've seen Les Mis in London at least five times, and, pretty much always, the guy who plays Grantaire is my favourite. When I saw it with , he stole the show. He's a drunk, he's always doing SOMETHING int he corner of the stage, but when Becca explained his motivation for being on the barricade, I actually started seing all this strength of meaning. Also, he has my favourite line in the show: "I am agog, I am aghast, is Marius in love at last? I've never seen him oooh and aaaah."

Guinevere:
After Eurydice, she's probably my favourite mythical woman. I've recently fallen in love with Jenny in The Once and Future King, but I'm pretty much always in love with Guinevere, since I watched Camelot with my mom as a kid. She's easy to play as wicked, but I just see a girl who fell in love with two men at once. Oh, heart.

Geoffrey Tennant:
What can I say? I fell in love with him because of how cjmarlowe plays him at the_blank_slate, but I defy you to watch Slings and Arrows and not love him by the speech at the funeral.

Just try it.

The Gallagers:
From Shameless. If I had to pick one, it'd be Ian, but I love all of them. They're such a shambles.

Gytha Ogg:
From Discworld. God, Nanny Ogg never fails to crack me up. She's horrible to her daughters-in-law, she's a shambles, filthy minded, and, every so often, she's actually a good witch. If I ever get openatticnight to app Granny Weatherwax, I think witch_in_law will be a strong possibility.


hirikosaunders gave me "S":

Stokely Mitchell:
Is my favourite character in The Faculty. I like how fierce she is, but, at the heart of it, she's in love with the captain of the football team. And she likes sci-fi and pretends to be a lesbian because it's easier. And Clea Duvall is fucking hot in gothy makeup.

Samuel Heckler:
Fixer of broken things. Sam is Lindsey's boyfriend, in The Lovely Bones. She loses her virginity to him after, one Christmas, he gives her half a heart. I fell in love with him when he was fourteen, when I first read the book, and it hasn't worn off yet.

Stitch:
EXPERIMENT 626. Lilo and Stitch is my favourite Disney movie by a long shot, and Stitch is my favourite disney character. He cracks me up and breaks my heart, and I also do a killer impression of him :b. I've got a plushie version on my nightstand. Lilo and Stitch is one of the only Disney movies that consistantly makes me cry, and, the minute the "humanoid" rule gets lifted on the_blank_slate, 626 is coming to an island near year ;)

Kidding...I think.

Spider Jerusalem:
The word "fuck" 5000 times is not a newspaper column.

(What can I say? I'm hoping to become him when I grow up. Another one I've got an RP journal for :b).

Eden Sinclair:
The minute I saw Doomsday, I knew I was going to end up apping her. She's hot, she's conflicted, she's really fucking scary and she's got a robot eye.

What's not to love?

Eden's consistantly fun to RP; her personal relationships are complicated, and she's learning to be human just as much as the ones who never were. Some days, it even feels like she's getting there.

technosage gave me "L":

Lilith:
Another one of those myths I can't get away from. I wrote her in the style (sort of ) of Molly Bloom for my thesis, and I think she might be done now. Adam's first wife. The first woman who said "no" and meant it.

Lindsay Salmon:
From The Lovely Bones, the Salmon daughter who got left behind. Lindsey has come to be my favourite part of my favourite book, even surpassing Ruth Connors. My favourite scene in the whole book is the one where Susie is watching Lindsay and Sam run home through the rain. I've read that book 30+ times, cover to cover, and I still tear up at those few pages.

William Lee:
Is the character name that William S Burroughs uses for himself in Junky. Whenever you come across Lee, it's dear old Bill you're looking at, in all his horrific glory. Pornographically hedonistic, old Bill. I sort of fell in love with him when I was seventeen.

Lee Scoresby:
Oh, Lee. I am pathetically in love with Lee Scoresby, especially when played by Sam Elliot. He's a good ole boy who's had his adventuring days and he's ready to go home now, and settle and be quiet. He's ready to go back to the sagelands of his youth. Lee's last speech to Lyra breaks me every time I read it. Life is good, and death is over.

Lancelot DuLac:
Lance. I'm very picky about my Lancelots. I did not, for example, particularly care for Ioan in King Arthur, and I'm not overly crazy about Lance in TOAFK. I'm glad they made the executive decision to amke him handsome in Camelot. I love Franco Nero in that role. I think my favourite Lancelot ever was in the books by Nancy McKenzie. In it, he's handsome, but he's got a broken nose. I read them when I was...oh, 14. I could understand how she was in love with him.

Tags: meme

Who_Daily Link: < a href="http://persiflage-1.livejournal.com/153500.html">A Shift in Perspective (2/10)</a> by < lj user=persiflage_1> (Characters: Martha Jones, Ninth Doctor, Torchwood Team | Rating: G | Spoilers: Rose)

Title: A Shift in Perspective (2/10)
Author: Persiflage_1
Characters/Pairings: Martha Jones, Ninth Doctor, Torchwood Team
Rating: G
Spoilers: Rose, Season 3
Summary: The Tenth Doctor goes missing and it's up to Martha Jones to track him down again, but it proves both harder and more instructive than she expects.
Disclaimer: I don't even own my brain any more, never mind Doctor Who!
Author Notes: This is the second in a ten chapter story that's set a couple of months after S4. Ages ago the Doctor Who Random Pairing generator gave me "Martha Jones / Sgt Benton / A Shift in Perspective" and for a while I thought I was going to write a timey-wimey fic where Martha meets Benton, but then the idea of Ten going missing and Martha having to track him down, and encountering all his other incarnations along the way, came up.

Many thanks to my Beta readers for this chapter: 80sgirl80, ladymako71 and most especially shadowturquoise, who has done sterling work in making sure this didn't utterly suck!

Index Post

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( A Shift in Perspective... )

Yes, it's the return of the fun-for-everyone Typos in Published Documents series! Aren't you all excited?

This one is less of a typo and more of a "Heh, they really could've chosen a better acronym."

Actually, this one isn't published yet, either. But if I remember where I got it from correctly, it should be coming out soon. And even if this isn't the book, it's worth a read anyway.

And so, without further adieu...

( Spot the [not actually a] typo! )

September 6, 2008
The Strengths You Possess
Sagittarius Daily Horoscope

You might be pushing through the insecurities you have about yourself today which could leave you feeling empowered. Perhaps by examining the areas where you lack confidence as your teachers, you could notice that your uncertainty has a lot to show you about the way you view yourself. A good way to do this could be to write down the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself and then ask yourself why it is that this has such an effect on you. While writing these, try to think of examples from your life that challenge your diffidence. For instance, if you feel that you are not smart enough, look for a concrete case where you were able to solve a problem no one else could. You may find that the act of confronting your uncertainties can in fact give you a greater amount of assurance in yourself.

Once we see that there is much to feel good about in our lives we will have much more power to face our uncertainty. When we feel insecure, there is often little rational reason for it – it is usually a self-belief or concept about ourselves that is not always based in fact. Taking the time to contest these self-assertions, however, gives both the courage us the perspective we need to recognize that we in fact have a lot to offer the world. Changing the way you view yourself today will give enough confidence to really realize the inner strengths you possess.

I cried over Cassie. WHAT. WHAT NO. WAAAAAAH.

Also, I love Ella in all her fierce, at-times-callous determination, and how she isn't a one-note character the way Hollywood shows portray kickass girls that are willing to sacrifice things; she feels, she just doesn't let it get in her way.

Oh, Thelma.

Still loathe Leon. Am still earthshakingly disinterested in Roxanne seducing the poor teacher, especially since I've been spoiled as to how that turns out. I like him. And while I can't say I hate her, I'm just...meh on her machinations.

And I miss Cassie already. WHAT NO.

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In the world of Harry Potter, I've never considered myself a hardcore shipper. One of my favorite ships is Snape/Tonks, but I also like Remus/Tonks and Snape with basically anyone. Same with Neville/Luna. I enjoy Dean/Luna and Neville/Hannah.

I was looking at the icons that I've uploaded over the past few days, and for every fandom, outside of Harry Potter, I have an OTP. I have a ton of them, and now that I'm exploring other fandoms, I realize that they're pretty hardcore. The icons prove it. There are a ton of couples, even silly ones, like Scotty and a bottle of scotch, and the guy from the office and his stapler. But then there are the really nice ones, like Colonel Brandon and Marianne, Gert and Chase from the comic Runaways, and Billy and Penny from Dr. Horrible's sing-a-long blog. There are the couples, like Kira and Odo, and Anne and Gilbert that I can't picture with anyone else. Wouldn't want to picture them with anyone else. Huh.

I'm a serial shipper. Who knew?

First play from scrimmage for Cal: Jahvid Best, 80 yard rush untouched for a TD.

Second play from scrimmage for Washington State: Syd'Quan Thompson, INT.

Third play from scrimmage for Cal (fifth play of the game, not counting two kickoffs and an extra point): Kevin Riley to Sean Young, 14 yd TD pass.

Six minutes into the game: Cal 21, Washington State 0. Halftime: Cal 42, Washington State 3.

So far this year, we have three TD rushes of more than 80 yards (81 last week by Shane Vereen, 80 and 86 today by Jahvid Best, who also has a five yard TD run. Vereen has his own 39 yard TD run today.).

The only problems have been our special teams coverage and our passing, because this 3-4 defense is AWESOME. Awesome, I tell you. WE ROCK.

ETA: "Coaching etiquette" dictates that when you're up 52-3, running the ball on 4th down at the opponent's 6 yard line (rather than kicking the field goal) is the polite things to do. Except when you score on that 4th down run. Oops; it's now 59-3. Of those 8 touchdowns, 6 have been on the ground and one was by the special teams.

ETA again: so it's 66-3. Washington State's last worst loss was 62-3 against UCLA in 1976. New record: yay?

I have to say I'm really impressed by the number of Washington State fans who are still there, because ouch. Don't they have a mercy rule in football?

Jahvid Best: 14 carries, 200 yards, 3 TDs.

Team rushing: 40 carries, 391 yards, 7 TDs. (Of course the passing was 14/24 for 112 yards and a TD, which is not good.)

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Other people: Go Blue! (McGuffie is fun to watch.) Go Dawgs! (Moreno for Heisman.) Not so go Terps. And next week, really not so go, Terps (I hope).

Just watched 'The Doctor Dances.' Now I get what all those Rose/Nine fans see in those two.

*smishes them together, stares at the adorable cuteness*

Granted that I have to ignore the HUGE age difference and species difference and so forth, but hey--I used to watch Buffy so I've been trained. *g*

Seriously--so cute! I think I need Doctor Who icons.

eta: I went looking for DW icons and ended up with two of the Daleks. My brain is weird.

Fic rec: Frakked Up Beyond All Recognition is a funny and short Anders mpreg fic.

I told daybreak777 that I might post some thoughts about fan videos someday. I either have to type it all now or just forget about it, so here goes.

( I have brief thoughts about fanvids. Go ahead, be surprised. )

So, I have playlists of music I listen to when I'm in a particular mood or wanting to remind myself of things...stuff like that. Now, I have Western music in the same theme as the few I'm posting under these cuts here, but I wanted to start with these ones because, sometimes, I really love what Thai music says about life...

Today, I have three songs for you. All of them are in my list of songs to remind and inspire. I adore the meaning, the story and just...I love them a lot for different reasons. I've even helpfully translated (very roughly) the lyrics as well so that you actually understand what's going on.

First up!

ฤดูที่แตกต่าง (Seasons Change)

I listened to this song a lot at the beginning of the year and, I think, to a certain extent, it got me through some of the roughest times. There's just something about it that makes you think and...it's so true. I hold this one really close to my heart.

( Endure when rain falls, At least it makes us see the difference. And when the rain eases, The sky will clear and make us understand Just how much the wait is worth it. )

Next up!

Live and Learn

There isn't actually a Thai name for this... It's just called Live and Learn by everyone. It's also so very true and it's really great advice. The story, if you watch the video, is a true story so it makes it all even more touching.

( It's about learning. It's about accepting it. Follow our thoughts and keep our consciousness. Live with what you have and not what you dream. And do as best as you can with it. )

The third one is a little different. It's more like a reminder for when things get bad...and it goes out to a couple of friends who might have forgotten some very important things in life.

หัวใจผูกกัน (Hearts Tied Together)

I hold this one close to my heart, not just because of the meaning, but because it was used in a video that was made the first time my Uni class met each other. We had a day of ice-breaking games and someone filmed us, put together this video...and we played it at our graduation party. We were all in tears and now I get all teary every time I hear it.

( So that every time you hear this song You can know that there is still love right here Whatever is going on with you right now Please know that this won't change. )