Below are the most recent 16 friends' journal entries.

Friday, August 29th, 2008
chlare	6:24p	Random: John Mayer dated Jessica Simpson? Jessica Simpson? Did he not see the show??? My respect for him has plummeted a thousand fold. Current Mood: baffled (Comment on this)
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
strangecreature	7:43p	Still lacking a teleporter. Woe. In defiance of all logic, I am convinced that you can give yourself jet-lag while travelling vertically on the map. Convinced. Anyhow, I'm back at my apartment, madly attempting to resuscitate the houseplants while throwing together a pitiful dinner comprised solely of non-perishables. The cupboard, t'is bare! After this I shall tromp down to the grocery store for actual foodstuffs... though I think I'll be taking a pass on my beloved deli meats this time around. Heh. (On the subject of which, full points to the irony gods for making sure Torchwood was airing 'Meat' for the first time in Canada during the listeriosis outbreak! Good grief.) But I have Internet and all the messages that were stuffed under my door in my absence are of a non-urgent nature ("Please stop throwing cigarette butts off your balconies, as the adjoining building is indeed made of wood and, thus, flammable, you idiots. Love, the Landlord.") so I am a happy camper. On the subject of unpacking, someone please explain how the heck my books and DVDs managed to multiply exponentially in the few months I was in Calgary?? Although, I suppose stomping down the hall with boxes upon boxes of new books while humming the A-Team theme song to myself will let my poor neighbours know that the resident geek is back in town. *snerk* Current Mood: exhausted (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
chlare	10:18p	Re-entry in 5, 4, 3, 2.... You all have gotten me back to skip 300... But I made it. Made it home too. Finally. Hope you all had a great weekend. I see you all were busy. I painted some pottery with one of my nieces - a giraffe mug with green and purple spots, if you must know. Took home some childhood treasures. Had some really delicious barbecue. Saw a rabbit and the faint blur of a hummingbird. Overheard: "Auntie Chlare, she's my favorite." Oh, and I finally read The Da Vinci Code. And only have about 30 or so pages left of Master and Commander. Go me. Anyway. I hope to obtain some rest now. :) Tell me something nice about your weekend/day/plans for the upcoming weekend. :) And I might tell you about my Wes/Cordy changing room fic. ;) Current Mood: loved (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
strangecreature	10:43a	Stalling? Who's stalling? I am once again in the process of embracing my inner nomad and tossing all my most precious belongings (read: many many heavy books) haphazardly into empty liquor store boxes for the trip back up north on Thursday. *lip wobble* End-of-summer angst has transformed me into a wild and reckless creature, heard to utter such statements as "Screw it! I'll write this fic in present tense! Ahahahaha!" The mad blood is stirring, yo. So! Whovians and ... Torchwoodies? Riddle me this: How come when we've seen Jack's wrist strap used for time travel in canon, it's all pain-faces and neck-cracking and inaccurate landings, but John Hart seems to be able to saunter right in at the exact moment he intended? Continuity glitch for the sake of an admittedly awesome shot, or is there an actual explanation that I'm missing? *ponders* In other news: 54 Hobbit Miles and counting! Black Riders are chasing us, omg! We've yet to pick up Merry, but Farmer Maggot's land is within sight. Wheee! Current Mood: listless (16 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 25th, 2008
strangecreature	3:21p	Fic: Detours I posted this for the lovely and inimitable novascotiasam on her birthday last week and figured I might as well crosspost it to my own journal as well. :-) Detours, or Three Ways Angel Avoided a Dead End Pairing: Lindsey/Angel Rating: PG-13 Words: 1500 Summary: In which little choices make a big difference. Set during 'Blind Date'. Warning: Shameless fix-it fic. Don't say you weren't warned. ( Detours ) Current Mood: :-) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
strangecreature	8:51a	And *now* I'll stop yapping about it...! In which it's surprisingly difficult to take a picture from this angle by yourself: ( Tattoo pic ) Ta-dah! (Little sister is already asking what I'm going to get for my next one. Oh dear.) Current Mood: chipper (29 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
strangecreature	3:59p	Tattoo: I has it! Yay!! I didn't faint! I didn't attempt to flee! I'm ridiculously pleased with how he did the shading! *happy hands* And allow me to state for the record: it hurt waaaay less than I had expected. Very, very manageable, although it got pretty tender during the shading part. I was definitely nervous as hell though... The artist kept telling me to calm down and tell him if the room started spinning. And then I got scolded for holding my breath while he was doing the long straight bits. ("Okay, that will make you pass out..." "But you told me to hold still!") Afterward, he mentioned that he'd had to do some of the first lines twice since my heart was pounding so hard that the needle was skipping spots. Hello, Nervous Nellie here! Hee! Pictures to follow later this evening... And then y'all can mock me for fussing over something so tiny! ;-D Current Mood: happy (11 Comments |Comment on this)
strangecreature	9:41a	*zooms around* Ahhhhhh, it's tattoo day! Quick, quick... Should I take a painkiller before they start gettin' poke-y, or am I fussing over nothing? *G* Current Mood: excited (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
strangecreature	5:50p	More Quotable Quotes from Little Sister... "Torch-wood! Torch-wood! Torch... socks? Wherefore art thou, my socks?" Gosh, can you tell I've had a couple months of quality Big Sister influence here or what? Hee! Current Mood: amused (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
strangecreature	11:41a	Of caffeine and commentary Megan versus the Evil, Evil Coffee Beast: Round ten gazillion and four. Having come to the conclusion that cold turkey is stupid and often painful, I shall attempt to gradually cut down to a reasonable 100mg per day. *resolve face* In other news (heaven help us all...), I've discovered how to search for myself on Delicious. And, lo, I have found myself! Mwuahahaha! I don't know if this makes me narcissistic or masochistic, but I'm utterly intrigued by reading the reviews that people don't actually leave in my journal. (I mean, I know you're not going to get anything totally brutal since they took the time to bookmark your stuff and all... but the bluntness is refreshing. *g* Also, some of the terrifically backhanded compliments make me cackle in bemused horror.) My favorite excerpts so far have to be... "The drabbles are of various quality (...) but the overall story is quite good." (Heeeee! Thank you for overlooking the crappy ones!) "Oh, what I wouldn't give for this fic, just with MORE in it." (Have no fear, gentle reviewer! The Director's Cut totally includes the missing sequence with the mimes and the catapult.) "Sweet and a little introspective, not too angsty." (I like to pretend that one is actually a comment on the author... ;-D) Current Mood: crazy (22 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
chlare	11:13p	Out-of-office reply Alright kids, I'm off few a days. I am surgically removing myself from the laptop and going to visit the fam in Reno. I shall be back in working order on Tuesday. I know some of you are still waiting on drabbles, but don't worry, I haven't forgotten about you. Anyway, no work! For five whole days! Who cares if two of those days are weekend days! Yay for nieces and birthdays and the family cat! Not to mention there will be no dishes or laundry for me to worry about! Wish me many on time planes and not so many fights with the 'rents. ;) See you soon, have fun, be good! Write me lots of pr0n! Current Mood: hopeful (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
chlare	12:20p	Dreams Oh, wow... I haven't slept until noon or past it in years. Like...10 years probably. I was having this weird dream. I was back home and there were times where I was me, times where I was this other woman's son, and times where I was someone else. My mom and I went to visit this woman who IRL really used to be our backyard neighbor. But in the dream, she lived in this smaller town next to us and her husband had been arrest and was killed in prison, and I think her kids were killed. We go there and these days she's got this little column in the paper where she now uncovers little political conspiracies or incidents where politicians are embezzling money because she thinks her family's deaths had to do with some senator trying to get power and her family had been too close to some evil things he was doing. But anyway, there were some other things - like she made jewelry on the side - and then I started walking through the rest of the town on my own towards the crash site of her son and daughter-in-law. I also ended up walking through a re-enactment of her husband's death in prison - kind of like I was some investigator on CSI/NCIS or something. But all through the dream there was just such pain and loss depending on which person I was. This political machine had caused so much hurt and even the townspeople had suffered because of it. They took these deaths hard. It was a world of pain, silent but there. Truly heart-wrenching as I walked through it. *shakes head* This is what I get for staying up until 2:30 isn't it? Current Mood: sad (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 16th, 2008
chlare	11:41a	I *like* Dr. Dave! Make Brian stop screwing things up with Mikey! ETA: You go, Dr. Dave!! You fight for Mikey! Woo! Current Mood: distressed (3 Comments |Comment on this)
chlare	12:53a	Spam! Oh, Don and Tim you just make me smile. :) "I love it when we fight!" A couple of goofballs, I tell you, a couple of goofy adorable goofballs. Current Mood: awake (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, August 15th, 2008
strangecreature	9:08p	Freeeeee! Free as a bird! Work is done for the summer, whoop-whoop!! And now I'm off to the mountains with the family until Monday. Think of me fondly as I gibber and twitch my way through serious Internet withdrawal. ;-P Current Mood: jubilant (2 Comments |Comment on this)
chlare	10:27p	OMG, TED!! On another more social commentary note, does anyone think that QAF is damaging to the gay community? The straight-bashing (albeit somewhat mildly in comparison), the perpetuation of the 'gay guys can't keep it in their pants' stereotype.... This seems like a goldmine for conservatives. Maybe it's just me, but it seems a little more detrimental at times than it seems positive. I do get that they're trying to go for 'the real world' but... I don't know. Thoughts? Current Mood: worried (6 Comments |Comment on this)