So if all my classes tomorrow are English classes, why the hell aren't they all in the ENGLISH building?

Stupid ECU. Now I don't think lunch is going to be an option at ALL tomorrow. XP

So I've already been having a kind of lame week for various reasons (endlessly gloomy tropical storm-induced weather; lingering discomfort from my now-absent wisdom teeth [seriously, is this normal? It's been over a week now and, well, it doesn't really hurt, but it's kind of sore and tingly like, say, that feeling you get after an especially rigorous flossing, only it WILL NOT GO AWAY and frankly it's driving me BONKERS. And I took the last of my painkillers yesterday morning, woe]; an e-mail from my seminar professor containing a schedule of in-class presentations, and OF COURSE I'm going first, as in, the first full week of school. IS THAT EVEN ALLOWED? because essentially I now have to put the presentation together over break, except I don't even have access to most of the required research materials and basically, yeah, I'm ready for this term to be over before it's even started; and FREAKING SPYWARE screwing up my computer so I'm on the family computer now while I've been running scans on my own dearest darling for about the past four hours -- I think I have it under control, but still ZOMG ANNOYING) and now this? *curls up and quietly curses the suffocating amounts of bad mojo*

Team! *cries*

Stargate Atlantis is canceled.

Well, shit.

I miss fandoms like Harry Potter. No one would ever cancel J. K. Rowling.

I'll watch the Stargate Atlantis movies because I love the characters. I feel jerked around by the SciFi channel and I'd cancel my cable subscription if I had one. I'd considered getting cable so I could watch Stargate when it aired.

So I'm canceling my thought to ever get cable. There.

Stargate Ultimate or Stargate Ultimatum or whatsit? Since SciFi just canceled two Stargate shows I have hard time imagining them going for it. Although as my stepdad once said, more sci-fi is always good. But I don't trust the SciFi channel to stick with the show and can't feel upbeat about the idea. If rising costs in Canada are an issue then it would have to be a much cheaper, much crappier show.

Besides. I want my John and Rodney. *squishes them to my chest and won't let go*

So, I am at least glad that there was already an emergency round of mcsmooch going on. KISSING TO WALLOW IN. But still... I mean, I know the fandom will still live on and my friendships will still live on, et cetera, but it's hard. :(

***

I wrote some self-indulgent backstory for one of the kids' novels I'm working on. It's Keerthi's life from her point of view. I pretty much love Keerthi (the only thing that could make me love Danny and Alan more is giving them a mouthy, smart little kid to deal with. I am unashamed about writing kidfic into my own universe, guys.), but I am trying to hold off on this until I finish that other novel. Whoops.

***

So, today I went out and bought an actual two-piece swimsuit for the first time in like... five years. It's super cute. I am excited about wearing it on Saturday! It's red and white, which is another first. Most of my swimsuits are black or blue. I actually bought it at two different places. I spent eight million dollars on the top at Helen Hirsch, which is a bathing suit store for ladies with ample busts and then spent $9 on the bottom at JC Penny's. CLASSY. I am a classy lady, guys, as you would be able to tell if you've ever been anywhere with me. Or spoken to me. Or, really, well been introduced to me, even.

It REALLY emphasizes my tits, though. Like, I'm slightly nervous about that. E CUP, GUYS, WHAT EVEN. And they are very... there. Oh well. I should just embrace them, the terrible nuisances that they are.

Anyway, after that I got my hair cut. I will take a picture tomorrow, perhaps. Perhaps not. We'll see how tired I am after work.

***

Ugh, I am still so bummed. Stargates are supposed to last forever, guys D: D: D:

***

Um, what else? The Bookstore was boring today, but I kept busy. Tomorrow I am working 12-6. Friday I get moonsheen and quatredeathlady. Saturday we are going to Dorney Park. Sunday-Thursday I am opening the Bookstore almost every day D: D: D:

The episode of Cold Case I am watching right now takes place in 1996 and the music is like, a flash back to middle school. Oh my god.

ALSO, Joe Morton was on an episode of SVU that I just watched! He played one of my favorite guest stars and I didn't even realize it, which is tragic. I realize it now, of course, but I totally adore Joe Morton so that was fun.

***

Ugh. Maybe I'll try to write a kiss or something to make the cancellation blahs go away :(

Sitting here tonight, missing my man.

My amazing man, who flew down to meet me in San Diego two weeks ago.

Who spent the entire weekend with my family.

Who not only charmed both my nieces (Sam 10, Kelly 4), but who was in turn charmed by them. To the point that he is all ready for Samantha (Sam) to fly up alone for a weekend with us.

Who sat there with me Sunday morning, before we left, after he had bonded with both girls, and told them we were getting married and wanted them both in the wedding.

Who was as moved and pleased with their reactions as I was (Sam kept asking our colors so she could pick her dress out, and wants a big bouquet; Kelly said she wants to wear her Princess dress, and made her dad help her change and then announce us to her (she is from this point on known as Princess Flower Girl).

It turned out to be an amazing weekend. I fell more in love with my man, and I got to watch as he got to know my family better - especially the two most important girls in my life.

I now have three Princesses. And I couldn't be happier!!

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• 14:14 Also: holy crap, in the space of the school day, I have received 14 new emails. #
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I've been suspecting it for some time, there is no way we can stay in Iraq for 100 years without drafting citizens into the military; here he is quoted on Keith Olbermann:
I can't believe that McCain has so much support... are people paying attention?  Don't they realize that he is going to pick more Supreme Court Judges like Scallia?  McCain wants to over-turn Roe V Wade, he cares more about the rights of the unborn than of women (not too surprising really).  And now we learn that he really does want to bring back the draft, which makes sense since he wants to go to war all over the world.

The rules of the meme:
1) Bold any food that you have tried
2) Strike any food that you wouldn't eat on a bet.
2a) Italicize any food you'll never eat again.
2b) Put an asterisk next to any food you'd be interested in trying but have not yet.*
3) Underline any food you love, love, love!

Hm. I haven't mentioned this because... well, I forget to mention a lot of things.

But does anyone know why two people whose jorunals are exclusively (one exclusively, one with the odd dab of English but it really is... odd) in Russian would friend me? With no shared communities or anything? And they haven't commented anywhere? Not that that's NEW of anything, people add me without commenting a lot and I want to slap them.

But... quoi?

And Claire defriended meeeeee... without warning! Mean. Oh well, I guess I'll live.

Oh, I just realised that we're all three friends with lexus_grey. But that's weird, no discussion really goes on in her journal. In fact, it's a fic journal, pretty much. That's why I have her friended, anyway. But one of them has 555 friends so maybe she's just a collector. Still, I don't really want to be friended by someone I have almost zero connection with. It's weird.

I have Stephen (my computer) back! Hooray!

Hi, my name is Sara, and I am addicted to the internet.

(Four days without nearly killed me. I was kept functioning only by my roommate generously allowing me to use hers occasionally. It was pretty sad, I'm not going to lie.)

In good news, Rachel Maddow is getting her own show! *has such a girlcrush on her*

In less-good news, school starts up again on Monday. Joy.

Also, Y!M, why are you not working? This is not cool. I know I haven't logged on in four days, but it was beyond my control. I demand that you start working at once.

The new Facebook layout makes me want to stab myself in the eye. It really needs to not become non-optional. I do not approve of these shenanigans.

Here, have some random musings that I posted in my seldom-updated blog.

This original story I'm working on has surpassed the 5,000-word mark. I'm a little bit in awe. I wonder how long it'll end up?

Yeah, I'm rambling. I'll go now.

Well that just sucks. Future movies aside, it means the end of Stargate really, and just as when Buffy went, there was Angel, when Angel went, there was nothing and it hurt, and so will this.

I'm really sorry to hear this news.

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Yay no more Stargate Atlantis!  Except for the movie that's going to be beating the dead horse. 

Anywhoo, went out to dinner with Danielle and then to coffee.  I had a blast.  I love her.  We went to Tantalizingly Thai and that was yummy.  I'm stuffed.  I gave her the Communist Party shirt from Threadless which was a birthday gift.  She loved it.  She kept making comments like 'look at my shirt, it's better than yours'.  I'm happy she liked it.

Then we went to It's a Grind, got our Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup blended drinks and then wandered around Vons.

Seriously, if you're poor and have nothing to do, just browse your local grocery store/walmart for an hour or so.  Don't even buy anything if you don't want to, just wander around.  We stared at teas, coffees, spices and then organic things.  Yup.  We're hippies, only not.

Now I want to go to that hippie clothing store by me...  damn it.

Anywhoo, I just wanted to celebrate the Atlantis fail.

Bye!

Steffy

SGA Cancelled D: D: D:

SGA is so my happy place, guys. It's my total silly happy place, my place that I don't think that hard about and genuinely have a good time with. This fandom is one of the greatest I have ever been in and I've made some fabulous friends and had spectacular bonding times with friends I already had after converting them. It's... I don't know. I don't even know what to say, especially since I really feel like the show has been getting better and better with subsequent seasons.

I guess I should look on the bright side--the article does make it seem like SciFi wants to do more than one movie, so I guess it's not totally dead, but still :(

I don't know. I'm going to go read some more Big Bang fic and pretend that this didn't happen for a few more hours :(

I was feeling quite self-satisfied last night when I managed to peel myself away from the computer at the not-totally-ridiculous hour of about a quarter to midnight and head to bed.

And then, of course, I couldn't fall asleep.

("Time to establish normal sleeping patterns before going back to school!" the sensible half of my brain says. "But... but... think of all the Stargate we could be watching!" counters the other half. ...You see my dilemma).

I turned to my old standard method; viz., popping on the headphones and cruising the frequencies for some music to help me sleep. Fact: the radio is about a thousand times more awesome in the middle of the night. Less morning chatter, more "When did my adult contemporary station suddenly turn into a jivin' disco party mix on Saturday nights? *scandalized* *but intrigued*" My ultimate late night radio guilty pleasure -- Delilah. Oh yes, I listen. And occasionally cry, even. "OH MY GOD CYNTHIA FROM TEXAS EVEN THOUGH HE'S A JERK I AM SO SO SORRY THAT YOUR EX-HUSBAND WENT TO JAIL BECAUSE YOU CLEARLY AREN'T OVER HIM BUT GIRL DON'T FORGET YOU ARE SMART AND BEAUTIFUL SO DON'T BE AFRAID TO LIVE YOUR LIIIIFE!!" Although often ridiculous, it is sometimes genuinely sweet; and it plays the perfect sort of late 80s/early 90s "smooth (AKA boring) hits" for me to fall asleep to.

Last night I happened to be in the middle of listening to Genesis' "In Too Deep" when I gave myself a sudden case of the giggles because, well -- for some reason I've always connected this song with House/Wilson, and that is... so very, very lame. On so many levels. Once I started thinking about it, I realized that I actually have a tendency to do that with a lot of lame songs. You know, songs that are waaaay too embarrassing to ever include on any sort of fanmix, and yet that you can't help intimately associating with a particular show/ship/character/etc. A few of mine:

House/Wilson: ...I have no idea how/when/why I subconsciously appointed Genesis with providing the soundtrack for these two, but there you have it. "In Too Deep" (AHAHAHAHAAAA THE VIDEO MAKES IT ABOUT 125,947 TIMES BETTER *WIPES EYES*) as previously mentioned.

I know you're going, but I can't believe
It's the way that you're leaving,
It's like we never knew each other at all
It may be my fault,
I gave you too many reasons for being alone
When I didn't want to
I thought you'd always be there

Perfect for upcoming S5 post-Amber angst Y/Y?? And then "That's All" (IF POSSIBLE EVEN BETTER THAN THE LAST VID) offers a nice Wilson perspective (fits BEST ca. S2, I think):

Turning me on, turning me off,
Making me feel like I want too much
Living with you's just putting me through it all of the time
...
But I love you
More than I wanted to
There's no point in trying to pretend
There's been no one who
Makes me feel like you do

Star Trek: TOS: If I had the proper clips from the show, I would vid this one in a heartbeat. I mean, I can visualize it perfectly as an OT3 vid, and it's what plays in my head every time I listen to Michael Bublé's rendition of "I'm Your Man".

If you want a partner, take my hand
Or if you want to strike me down in anger
Here I stand
I'm your man
If you want a boxer
I will step into the ring for you
And if you want a doctor
I'll examine every inch of you

(Most ridiculous lyric ever? "Howl at the moon like a dog in heat"? WHO WRITES THIS STUFF? And yet... I love it shamelessly.)

Robin Hood: I'm pretty sure I've already shared this one, but it's so perfect that it bears repeating. Robin/Marian (!! I KNOW!) to the Beach Boys' "Wouldn't It Be Nice":

Wouldnt it be nice to live together
In the kind of world where we belong
...
Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray it might come true
Baby then there wouldn't be a single thing we couldn't do
We could be married
And then we'd be happy

Coincidentally, I love it for all of the reasons I ultimately don't ship Robin/Marian: it's youthful and sweet and over-idealized and way unrealistic for their situation. But, still, d'awww... it would be nice.

And, err, I think I already shared my embarrassing Guy/Marian pick.

SGA: Okay, the other thing that convinced me that this "ridiculous fandom songs" thing was a decided trend and not just a freak occurrence -- I also listened to my Emmy Rossum CD a bit last night, and "The Great Divide" (with a bonus PotO vid, as if we somehow needed to up the dork factor on this) has inexplicably become a central SGA song for me. I picture it, like... you know, mid-disaster McKay? Worn paper thin and hating the world but somehow using this moment to remember what he's fighting for and who he's fighting beside.

Help me calm this hurricane
Before this moment slips aways
Are you listening?
Don't turn away when I say
I need you

I think what makes me happiest about this is my complete and utter assurance that Rodney would, like, actively loathe it. *cackles*

Finally, this is suuuuch a silly John song: Adam and the Ants "Los Rancheros":

Soon my worries
Will be gone
Ranchero-ee-oo-o
There's a bullet with my name on it

To make me feel less epically lame, I now invite you all to share your own goofy inner soundtracks (fandom or otherwise).

It's odd how little I use this as a journal. Hmm. Well, maybe that's because I have no life. I'm presently slightly drunk on sheer lack of sleep plus a vodka and coke so I feel like posting.

David's in the UK until Saturday, possibly longer. I was up until 1.45 working on the LMFA one night, last night it was 12.45 and then I just couldn't sleep and had very weird dreams I won't bore you with except they involved Garett with a nose ring so maybe I should... nah... Maybe tonight I'll make it to bed at a reasonable hour. Thinking clearly is becoming an issue. It's reminding me of when Lauren was a baby and I'd get up seven times in the night to her (which went on until she was two and a half at which point we let her cry and the hell with the trauma and three nights later she slept through, thank God and never looked back).

Writing... doing the prison AU fic for Moonridge right now, in between LMFA stuff.

Watching... partway through this week's SGA but am feeling meh and part way through a Burn Notice that has Tony Perez (Gustavo Alcante) in it, so yay for Sentinel actor bingo.

Reading... tbrook keeps posting more of her stunning Sentinel AU 'The Eighth Day' and I'm pouncing on it eagerly because I love this fic to bits.
The main body of the fic is here:
http://www.geocities.com/brook_henson/theeighthday08.html

and the updates are on her LJ and Yahoo group.

I also just finished all 60+ of the Chalet School books. Wow, would I ever not send my child there. Every single walk they go on there's a flash flood, the mountain crumbles, or they get attacked by wasps or something.

Lauren is at a sleepover. Eleanor and I still found it hard to make noise after 8.30 and kept giggling when we remembered that, cats aside, we were the only people in the house and could make all the noise we wanted, so there.

I am trying to mow the lawn. It's a big lawn. The grass is long. The mower keeps cutting out. My weedy, weak arms are having trouble pulling the ripcord with the necessary authority to restart it. Sod it. It'll have to wait until David gets back. I've done 80% of it.

Hmm. Another vodka or not? Decisions, decisions...