Young Adult Literature Lovers

aizjanika @ 4:48am: my Tivo loves me
I've been reading old American Idol threads and finally got to the one about this year's finale, which is the show I recorded to watch (because OneRepublic was on it). For those who didn't watch, both of the two finalists were named David. The show ran long, and apparently most DVRs cut off just as Ryan Seacrest announced, "The winner, by 12 million votes, of American Idol is David..."

My Tivo didn't cut off, though. When I set Tivo to record, it reminded me that this show was live and might run long and asked me if I wanted to add extra time to the recording. I remembered various awards shows running long back in the olden days when I still watched them, so I added the extra time.

I sometimes pad other recordings with an extra a minute or two or ten or an hour whenever I'm recording something from a channel that has a tendency to start programs early or late.

Also, I never get tired of watching David Cook's winning moment. That is all.

naturalog @ 3:07am: I broke free on a Saturday morning, I put my pedal to the floor...
I feel like I should update this here LiveJournal, but I somehow don't have much to say.  It's definitely not for lack of happenings, though... in the past seven weeks, I've started dating someone new (whom I mentioned vaguely in my second-to-last post, I do believe), worked at my job a lot (I'm a theatre tech!), knit about 1/3 of the body of a sweater (that all in the past couple of days, though), worked on a few mix CDs, changed my major, and... I donno.  Done other things.

Um... so... what's going on in my life now?  I've started binding more or less fulltime now (I bind everywhere except around my family).  I know what tattoo I want and where I want it (the words "we will talk ourselves to truth one day" around my right forearm).  My sweater is coming along nicely; it's going to be navy blue and I will probably post a picture or eight hundred when I've finished it.  I'm studying History and Sociology now... general frustrations and dissatisfaction with Peace Studies, I guess, even though I still find that field interesting.  In about two months (a little less), I'm going to Northern Ireland to spend a semester studying there... that's exciting.  I'm also going to be going there with two of my relatively goo dfriends from Manchester; it'll be a lot different doing study abroad with people whom I knew before.

In other news, a song that I really like- a quasi-orchestral version of Ani DiFranco's Both Hands.  Here's a link to my box: http://www.box.net/shared/iscnzeigw0

Also, if any of you have any questions about what's going on in my life or stuff I mentioned and didn't elaborate on or anything else... ask them!

lettersofsmoke @ 2:21am: What I Did Yesterday
I went to Lucban, Quezon and bought sweets for myself...


Pocket tikoy, which looked adorable and tasted delicious, bought at Campita's sweet shop.
...and Lucban longganisa.  Odd move for a vegetarian, but it's for the boyfriend, not for me. 


Gah.  Look at all that fat.


There's twelve to a bunch. I bought ten bunches.
Excessive, I know.

I wish I could have stayed longer, kaya lang umulan.  I have to say, one of the few foods I miss from my meat-eating days is Lucban longganisa.  There's nothing quite like it - the combination of pepper, garlic, and pork fat, not to mention its not-found-in-nature shade of red.  If you've tasted it, then you'll know what I mean.  Accept no imitations; get the real stuff from Lucban. 

Ang hypocrite ko yata, a sausage-endorsing vegetarian.  Whatever. 

Random memory: My dad always insists that I buy loads of Lucban longganisa as pasalubong for him when I visit the Philippines.  It goes without saying that it's, well, illegal to bring meat to the US.  Hello, everyone knows that.  But since I'm a good first-born, I break the law and do it anyway.  One time, when I was already in the Customs line in LAX, the unmistakable smell of foreign meat started permeating the air; obviously, it came from my hulking balikbayan box (another bane for the Filipino traveler).  So I just sprayed the box with my cheap perfume and boldly told the customs officer that I had nothing to declare.  Of course, it takes more than cheap perfume to cover up the smell of all that garlic, but the customs officer was Filipino and knew exactly what I was doing.  He just smiled and told me to go ahead.  I didn't get fined, nor did my luggage get inspected.  I was lucky.  That was the last time I ever brought illegal pasalubong from the Philippines to the US.  It's just not worth it, damn it.

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I'm obviously procrastinating because I don't want to start writing that contract.  Bleh.

 

taniwhanui @ 4:13pm: Remind me why I wanted a cat again? Damned thing just puked all over a library book and my carpet!

kumquatmay @ 11:44pm: ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

calico_reaction @ 10:42pm: Caine, Rachel: Ill Wind
Ill Wind
Writer: Rachel Caine
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Pages: 337

This is a series that never got my attention until I heard it constantly recommended on the Seton Hill WPF boards. And then I started noticing the covers in the store, and you know me and covers, it's like moths to a flame. So I took a chance and bought book one, just to see what all the talk was about.

The premise: Joanne Baldwin is on the run. She's been accused of murder, is suffering from a Demon Mark inside, and there's only one person she can turn to, her former lover, Lewis. But there's one problem. He's the most powerful Warden on Earth, and he's missing. And all of Jo's power to control the weather may not be enough to stop the storm that's coming.

Spoilers ahead.

( Ill Wind )

My Rating

Must Have: If you're looking for something different in urban fantasy, but you still want the modern, punchy narrator, look no further. You've got elemental magic with a focus on WEATHER (and it's all handled very matter-of-factually, which I appreciate), and there's Djinn's too. No fangs, fur, or fae, and for once, I'm grateful. I've already bought books two and three in the series, and I'm very much looking forward to them.

Next up: hell, this is hard. I've started Caitlin R. Kiernan's Threshold, but Greg also wants me to read Alan Moore's The Watchmen, so who knows what review you'll get next. Watchmen will take a little while though, so we'll see. :)

literaticat @ 6:37pm: from the Signs the World is Coming to an End Dept.
BLUEBERRIES FOR SAL appears to be... out of print.

What the hell? Seriously. Somebody explain it to me. WHAT THE HELL?

wordsrmylife @ 6:03pm: wfmad
Just a quick check in to keep myself honest.

2 "poems" in the next section. Man is this thing going to need revisions!

Time to start supper.

wordsrmylife @ 5:18pm: well filling
Today was a day to fill the well.

I slept in.
I read the comics.
I hoed the garden.
Best of all,
the three of us went to see Almost, Maine at St. Michael's Playhouse (matinee performance because we watch our pennies). John Cariani, who wrote this, is BRILLIANT. It's anthology play about love in a cold climate, a heart-warming comedy, a showcase for four actors playing multiple roles. All I can say is, if this comes to a place near you, go see it.

Thanks to my friend and fellow GMBA committee member for recommending it (John Cariani is her cousin).

Now I'm psyched for my wfmad 15.

clickety, clickety, clickety.

melissawyatt @ 2:10pm: Saturday Six
1. Came across an odd review of RTG on-line. It's highly complimentary but the reviewer seems to question my claim of residency. "Melissa Wyatt is apparently from York, PA." Like I'd lie about that? Like people routinely falsely claim to be from York because it's so chic? Or that she doesn't believe people actually do live in York, that it is a ghost town long condemned and while there have been rumors of life, nobody has actually been seen going in or coming out in years.

2. Reviewer also questions the spelling of Sophy, having never met an American of that name spelled with a "Y." But as anyone who has ever signed books at an American school can tell you, you will meet up with any and all imaginable and unimaginable name spellings. I'm betting somewhere out there, there's a Sohfee.

3. Grocery Clerk 101: Things Not to Say to Customers When you are ringing up the customer's deli order and you find a latex glove between the smoked turkey packet and the Swiss cheese, probably best not to hold it up like it's a dead rat and go "Oooooo!" and say "I don't even want to know where that was!"

4. Other things they don't tell you about having kids because if they did, you'd never have them: having to sit through "end of science camp presentations." Dear merciful goodness, a root canal would have been less excruciating. No lie. (I've had four root canals, so I know.)

5. If you were to encounter a cute little puppy named George, what would be your first association with the name? If any?

6. Am I the only person who remembers Djinn Djinn? My cultural references are shabby and obscure.

lisa_schroeder @ 9:11am: Life is good

I am writing.

I am wearing my bracelet that says "Hope" and I am writing.

I have one hour until I have to get up, get out, and do things. Fun things with my family.

Last week, I wrote the one-page synopsis. I have 35 pages so far. I'm feeling more and more excited. I want to tell you the title, but I'm afraid, so I'm keeping it all to myself. I actually posted it one day then took it down a few minutes later. I will say, it is a love story. A mushy, gushy, but full-of-pain-and-conflict love story.

I am writing.

Just wanted you to know, because I know you'll understand.

miss_shortskirt @ 11:09am: i woke up thinking it was tuesday
After a week away from my usual routine, I'm suffering from a bit of creative energy build-up.

Lance was here for most of the week, even though I spent a lot of time working while he lounged around my house without me. So when I did get home, I was finding myself wanting to go to Dairy Queen and taking long walks down the bike path that runs by my house and playing Katamari Damacy instead of sitting down at my desk to get some work done.

Reason #2343123 I'm excited for a Life Together: my life has been splintered into too many pieces for too long.

Anywho. Maintaining two splinters of life (Jackson Work-Week Jessica and Lance is Visiting Jessica) is difficult and tiring. I had stomachaches, went to bed early most nights, and took plenty of afternoon naps. I also neglected to keep my phone by my side on Thursday night and missed an important 4 a.m. phone call - I'm on the call-for-a-ride-to-the-hospital list for my pregnant friend. Luckily, she didn't actually go into labor, but I still felt guilty and woke myself up too early yesterday making lots of conciliatory phone calls. In a small attempt to Get It Together after Lance left last night, I took yet another nap, woke up groggy, found out I didn't do YET ANOTHER important ADULT RESPONSIBILITY, and then surrendered my night to frozen pizza and mint Oreos with my pregnant friend. I figured I owed her as much.

So with my busy week and accompanying exhaustion, writing wasn't happening.

And I'm feeling it. Not just the tug of my characters, but the tug to make something PRETTY. That's all I really want in life. To make pretty things. Other than giant Katamari balls. To be around pretty things. That's all.

I'm still tired this morning. But hopefully today I will find the energy to not only take care of some ADULT RESPONSIBILITIES, but to also just sit and make something pretty.

anywherebeyond @ 3:19pm: It’s the Aqua Lounge now…

But half of its ghost stories date to a time when this bar was a Derby Lane gambler outpost called the Bucket of Blood. And really, who could resist linking to a story about a bar that was once called the Bucket of Blood??

Originally published at MSUFaL. You can comment here or there.

taira602 @ 3:28am: Woo-hoo!
My god, guys, comic con is INSANE. I mean, I've been to cons before, but none can compare to this insanity. There are 125,000 people there, I looked it up, and the streets are just packed. I made the mistake of thinking I could drive to the slashers' meetup tonight - ahhh, bad idea. I left 30 minutes late on account of finishing 140L and then the delightful 45 minute walk home and then getting ready and stuff, and then it took me a full hour to drive there, find parking, and walk to the place. I got stuck behind some parade of bicycles for what either felt like or was a good 20 minute. It was ridiculous. Like, what? A random comic con bicycle ride? And then I spent awhile trying to find a place that didn't cost $25 to park.

But I got there, granted an hour and a half late, but still managed to make it very worth my while, possibly by jabbering at a faster speed. Or not. But I did talk to cool people, and I got rid of some of my Snarry stuff from Sectus (fandom swap table!). We also got badges, with the pairing we picked on them, I suppose as conversation starters. They were very cool, and worked well I think. I have remus/sirius as mine, and it's very pretty. I may put it on my wall.

I know I keep saying "no more fandoms" to myself, but goodness, seems like everyone there was into fandoms I just haven't gotten around to getting into yet, even though I want to - stargate, battlestar, torchwood, doctor who, and I'm probably missing something else too.

But THEN. I walked down to the convention center with three other awesome people, two of whom had convention tickets, and wanted to see the nighttime screening of Dr. Horrible. Not having a ticket, I totally didn't expect to get in, but it turns out security people don't really care this late at night I guess. It was totally awesome watching it live, too - it's simply fascinating, listening to walk the audience laughs at and responds to, versus my reaction watching it. Turns out "the hammer is my penis" line that I thought was sort of throw-away funny was something that most really laughed out loud for. And seeing the hotness of NPH and Felicia Day on the big screen is pretty cool too. Maybe there is something to theaters and whatnot.

I really loved hanging out in a small group with the three other slashers - very down to earth people, and we seemed to have similar views in certain ways - it worked well, I thought, and we were all pretty well versed on Buffy//Joss whedon stuff. Just walking to the convention center we managed to cover bible slash, and I got to talk about my small love for lewis/clark, lol. Also, one woman had a button with a big slash on it, in rainbow, and we kept making various jokes about how she should "stop trying to straighten out the slash button!" when she was adjusting it which was hilarious. And other stuff too, I'm sure I'm forgetting. Man, I forgot how awesome this could be. I love slash and fandom, I love it, I just do.

Did I mention how totally awesome Dr. Horrible is? I cannot describe how much I love this little internet musical. I've watched it so many times this past week, and it just gets more awesome every time, as I notice the little subtleties. This deserves a post in itself, but just. If you can find a way to watch it, you should.

Anyway, I need to get like 4 hours of sleep so I can function tomorrow - it's going to be interesting. Consensus is that I should go to comic con by trolley, not driving, and that I should show up for the Dollhouse panel a couple hours early to make sure I get a seat. So, looks like no Heroes or Terminator for me tomorrow, but that's certainly okay, as long as I get Dollhouse (and it's not like sitting through a Futurama panel or Simpsons panel will be uninteresting - and besides, I'm planning to bring plenty of 134 notes with me, should I find myself in the position of needing something to do, or you know, stressing about finals. One of the two.)

steampunkcandy @ 10:37pm: HENTAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111

bix @ 9:30pm: New mscancerchick up. Note to self: do not write cancer updates while looped, even on doctor-administered meds.

beingslowlyborn @ 10:20pm: MirrorMask by Neil Gaiman [BOCD]
Book Title: MirrorMask [BOCD]
Author: Neil Gaiman
Category: Bildungsroman; BOCD; Fiction; Sci-Fi; YA
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best]: B+

Short description/summary of the book: (From Goodreads.com) Helena is about to embark on a most amazing journey. Raised in a family of circus performers, she's always dreamed of leading a more ordinary life. But when haunting music draws her into a strange and magical realm, one where anything can happen, her real life is stolen by a runaway from the other side. Helena must rescue the realm from chaos in order to win back her own not-so-ordinary life. MirrorMask is a breathtaking film written by bestselling author Neil Gaiman and brought to life through the vision of acclaimed artist and director Dave McKean. This original novella is Helena's tale in her own voice, a stunning and magical journey.

My Thoughts: I just finished listening to the BOCD today. I enjoyed the story, the writing and the reader. It was simple, but creative and engaging.

beingslowlyborn @ 10:03pm: Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner
Book Title: Little Earthquakes
Author: Jennifer Weiner
Category: Fiction
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best]: B

Short description/summary of the book: (from Amazon.com) Weiner's novel centers around four new mothers, all of whom must learn to adjust their lives and their marriages to deal with the challenges of raising children. Ayinde is a beautiful, biracial newscaster who moves to Philadelphia after her husband, a star player for the NBA, is traded to the 76ers. She meets Becky, an overweight chef who plays the "pregnant or just fat" game every time she passes a mirror, and Kelly, an overachieving event planner who has her whole life mapped out down to the most minute details, after going into labor at a prenatal yoga class. The three become fast friends, and come to rely on each other for everything from burping techniques to intense emotional support. The group grows to include Lia, a semi-famous Hollywood starlet who leaves her husband and returns to Philly after a sudden tragedy. While Little Earthquakes may leave little to the imagination, and some of the characters are laughably stereotypical (the Mama's boy Jewish doctor and the cheating ball player, to name a few), it is Weiner's gift for creating compelling characters with whom her readers can identify that make her such a successful storyteller.

My Thoughts: It took me awhile to get into this book. I am single, do not want to get married anytime soon and do not want to have kids. This made the story one I could not relate to and one I had a hard time caring about, really. But the more I read, the more I started to like the characters and get involved in their lives. I enjoy Ms. Weiner's writing style, and it is a good story with well-drawn characters; I just think I would have liked it more had the topic been one I really cared about.

My favorite character was Kelly, who started out as my least favorite. I think she ended up being the most interesting because she grew so much by the end. Second favorite was definitely Becky, who was funny and irreverent and the one I could relate to the most. I love that they created a game in which the purpose was to throw yarmulkes at babies' heads and try to make them stay. That is definitely the type of activity I would participate in were I ever to become a mother.

keristars @ 9:03pm: Eek! I'm excited! My name was drawn for one of the LibraryThing Early Reviewers books: My Name is Number 4: A True Story from the Cultural Revolution.

It should get here in a week or two, I think. It's the first time I've received an ER copy, and it's one that I especially wanted from the July batch. Do any of y'all have LT accounts and would like the book when I'm done with it? I'll post a review here and on LT, of course, since that's part of the whole reason I signed up. But I know that a bunch of you who read this are interested in China and/or the Cultural Revolution and might like it. The only thing is that I hope to pass it around to LTers at first, just so that it can get the reviews and stuff.


Speaking of, I really need to finish my reviews for the Narnia series. I reread Voyage of the Dawn Treader recently and it's still my favorite of the series so far. I think after that one, when I was a kid, I got bored with the books and remembered the latter ones without much fondness, so it was always Voyage that I returned to for rereading (not that I read them much - only when I was twelve or so!). I felt so sorry for poor Eustace. Is this because I'm an agnostic, rational adult here? I get the feeling that me feeling sympathy for the boy would cause Lewis (and the Pevensies) to take a strong dislike to me! But even when I was a preteen, I felt horrible for him and how everyone treated him, when it wasn't his fault he was nasty. He wasn't raised to know any better, and honestly, his cousins were going around with this great game of pretend constantly and he couldn't be part of it, and they acted like it was really real! Wouldn't you resent them? And then to be thrown into this strange world without any explanation that resonated with what you knew of the world - he was suffering shock for a while there, I think. And then he carried on being resentful and nasty and it's no wonder since he didn't expect anyone to be nice out of the goodness of their hearts at that point (namely: Lucy), and everyone else was ignoring him. It wasn't until he was lonely and had time to give a proper think to his situation and he was able to accept that it was really real that he could be all meek and stop being nasty.

But I've always liked the different islands, though I'm not sure what they're supposed to signify with the Christian allegory theme. I think that might also be why I like this book so much. I keep wondering if maybe the islands are supposed to be related to Beatitudes or the 7 Deadly Sins, but neither seem to quite fit for me.


So anyway, now I'm reading The Silver Chair, and I think what Aslan did to Polly about the cliff and signs and whatnot is just horrid. Eustace is more agreeable, though, and he's not even as disgustingly ...Lucyish as Edmund became.


In other news, I'm so proud of myself! I got a 98% on my Art History midterm (it covered early Renaissance through Mannerism). Art History can be quite difficult, you know, in a different way than chemistry or languages. But I did very well and I'm so pleased!

Yesterday, my brother and I went to the Cummer Art Museum, which is awesome. I forgot that it has what it does - we used to go on field trips back in grammar school, and my big memories are of the gardens (which are right on the river and just spectacular). But the Cummer has an actual Rubens! Not that that's so great, with him having something like a thousand paintings in his name, but this one is authenticated as actually being by him, not just his school. And there are two paintings by Benjamin West, and there's a version of George Washington's portrait, and some absolutely beautiful paintings of Old Florida by someone whose name I can't recall.

If you're ever in the area and you haven't seen the Cummer, you totally should. A lot of locals don't even know it exists, much less how neat the collection is! (Also, right now, they've an exhibit called "Sketch to Scalpel" which is all about the medical drawings from the Mayo Clinic, which are simultaneously super cool and kind of gross.)

hollicolli @ 9:05pm: Have you ever made a decision....
that you thought was the right one and then when you are committed to it begin to think you have screwed your life up royally? Yeah, great place to be....pity party for one...

dragon_smoke @ 5:00pm: A funny from my mom
In a small Texas town, a bar owner began construction on a new building
to increase their business. The local church started a campaign to block
the bar from opening with petitions and prayers. Work progressed right up
till the week before opening when lightning struck the bar and it burned
to the ground.

The church folks were rather smug in their outlook after that, until the
bar owner sued the church on the grounds that the church was ultimately
responsible for the demise of his building, either through direct or
indirect actions or means. The church vehemently denied all
responsibility or any connection to the building's demise in its reply to the court.

As the case made its way into court, the judge looked over the paperwork.
At the hearing he commented, 'I don't know how I'm going to decide this,
but as it appears from the paperwork, we have a bar owner who believes in
the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that does not.'

wordsrmylife @ 6:05pm: harvest
Pick beans 

and blueberries



and the last of the snow peas

and you have

  supper and then some.

Here's to blueberry pancakes for breakfast!

calico_reaction @ 5:00pm: Stein, Jeanne C.: The Becoming
The Becoming
Writer: Jeanne C. Stein
Genre: Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Romance
Pages: 293

This book has been on my radar for a while, despite the vampires. Actually, it's the vampires that kept me from reading it, but what made me snatch it off the shelves were two things: 1) the oh-so-gorgeous cover and 2) the fact it's written in first-person, present tense, which is--as you know--my favorite tense EVER.

So I had to read this, vampires aside. And yes, the voice hooked me pretty fast. It barely took a page to get used to the present tense, but once I did, it was smooth sailing.

The premise: Anna Strong is a bounty hunter. Nothing special, just the usual: catching crooks who skip out on their bail. But one night, what should be an easy case goes horribly wrong, and Anna's turned into a vampire. Her life's turned upside down as she struggles to hold on to her humanity, even though elements of her human life are getting ripped away from her. Someone's out to get her, and Anna's determined to make that someone pay.

Spoilers ahead.

( The Becoming )

My Rating

Worth the Cash: BUT I'm going to give you, outside the cut, the warning no one gave me, because it would've changed my curiosity of reading the book: Anna's turned during a rape scene, a rape scene that she ends up enjoying because it's a vampire, yo, and vampire sex is awesome. That gives the book a slightly worrisome and slimy tone, but Anna's voice is strong, and in the end, she takes care of herself and takes back what's hers. At least, the best she can. I'm going to read the rest of the books, but with caution. I hope what worries me about this book doesn't pop its ugly little head up again.

Next up: Ill Wind: Weather Warden: Book One by Rachel Caine

steampunkcandy @ 2:41pm: Randy Pausch July 25, 2008
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_en_ot/obit_pausch

"I don't know how to not have fun," he said in the lecture. "I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left. Because there's no other way to play it."

We should all be so lucky.  We should all be so brave.

"We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully."

taira602 @ 11:15am: It can has be comic con tiem nao?
Wow, it's so nice to sleep in sometimes. Even if it sort of came at the expense of missing my 8:00 class... but oh well. I totally made it on wednesday, so that should count for something, right? But I just woke up half an hour ago, which felt GREAT, especially since I stayed up all hours working on my 140L lab. Finished parts 1 and 2, only have part 3 left. Which, erk, I hope I can finish today... people say it's easy, but I couldn't figure it out, and then it was 3:30 am and I still had a 45 minute walk home. ...I need to get my bike fixed. Travel time would be so much less. Or I'd get less exercise, so maybe I should keep things the way they are.

But ANYWAY. Today needs to finish itself, because? COMIC CON! Omg, I SO excited. I am more excited for this than for Terminus, which is sort of embarrassing. But? I've been to harry potter conferences before. However, I've never been mere yards from Joss Whedon, and that's definitely going to be something. And there's a live pottercast-type thing on sunday! Which is exciting.

Here's the potential list of what I'm going to:
saturday:
-Heroes panel - I've actually only watched 4 episodes of this show, and only as of 3 days ago, but I really love it so far, and it has SO many delightful potential slash pairings (the flying petrellis! Mohinder and anyone!) in addition to having a complex plot and the way that all the lives of the huge cast of characters is interwoven in various ways in pretty cool. And the racial diversity wins too. I mean, finally, seriously, network shows are way too white all the time. Even if the science bit with the genetics professor is ticking me off - no, we don't only use 10% of our brain, it's called google, writers; lots of As,Cs,Gs, and Ts flashing across a screen do not an amazing genetics discovery make and neither could any person made heads or tails of it without some sort of program that analyzes it (it's called bioinformatics and metagenomics people - use some of those analyses, and you'll have a lot more realistic bit of something you might find on a computer) and really, a vintage copy of origin of species was the best you could come up with?

-JOSS WHEDON Omg. *fangirls* For an hour, talking about his new show, Dollhouse. I will like, spontaneously combust if I miss this.

Sunday:

-POTTERCAST. Or rather, Melissa Anelli and Sue Upton are doing a panel. Am stoked. Brandy's coming down from Riverside to see it, also, so that will be cool.
-Supernatural - I've actually watched only the first season, and didn't think it was all that great, but I might go just to drool over Jared and Jensen (you know you would too) and to see how many Sam/Dean shippers show up. (Unless of course, I overestimate the amount of shippiness at a con like comic con. I think I do; there's a lot of normal people that go.)
-Browncoat meetup! - that's for Serenity and Firefly, guys. I've been obsessed with this show since I watched it, so it'll be great to finally discussing it with live breathing people.
-Once More with Feeling live! - it's like the Buffy sing-a-long, which was sadly not allowed to continue, except somehow it's allowed for comic con. Now, if only they would do Dr. Horrible sing-a-longs too!

Plus, there's other little things definitely of interest that I can use to fill up the rest of the slots, like the "Science of Superheroes", a few of the like, 10 panels on various aspects of LGBTs in comics, the children's film festival, maybe some of the star wars stuff (an old love of mine) and I might go to Terminator (which I haven't watched) just to oogle at Summer Glau and Lena Headey. Not that I approve of actor/actress obsession, but for one hour of my life, you know?

But meanwhile: tonight is the comic con slashers' meetup! I'm stoked, because the last time I went to a slasher meetup of any kind was at Sectus, pretty much. Of which I think 90% of the attendees described themselves as slashers of some type or another. (And I should reiterate I'm not talking about horror movie version of slasher - that's the boring version, guys) Now I just have to make sure I can finish everything and leave school at a decent time.


.....Wow that post was way too geeky. And I still need to finish my 140L lab. What am I doing? Epic lose.