I misunderstood the point of this ride

Oh man, I've been trying to write this post all week, but work's been super busy all of a sudden ... and I seem to be experiencing something akin to senioritis, so I have to work a lot harder than usual to concentrate. /o\ I'm really behind on all your entries, too. I'll try and catch up!

Thank you so much for the sweet, sweet comments on the love meme, bbs. I can't tell you how good that made me feel. ♥ Also I rather loved commenting, so you folks should totally put your names down for those things more often. ;) I'm a gusher by nature but feel kind of awkward about it a lot of the time; I appreciate the opportunity of anonymity (or the illusion thereof, as I expect I can be pretty obvious).

I had a pretty lively weekend. It started with a German lesbian vampire movie, which was somewhat entertaining, although there was not nearly enough making out and the ending was disappointingly heteronormative. The audience was certainly quite attractive, and I had plenty of time to admire them, because the DVD started skipping twice. (This has never happened to me in a theater before, even a little arthouse place. The staff good-naturedly blamed Friday the 13th.)

On Saturday I went to a family friend's business school graduation, which would have been excruciating except for his four-year-old daughter. I spent the whole ceremony keeping her occupied and letting her take tiny video clips of me. "I'm going to put you on the computer!" She's also turning into a tiny ball of snark, but I can't say I mind that. :D

My father, meanwhile, attempted to convince me to read Moby Dick this summer in exchange for his reading Little Women. Which, I mean ... what? I have no idea why on earth he thought that was going to work. (I should note that there is absolutely no reason I can think of for his particular choice of text. I did love that book very much when I was about eleven, but that hardly makes it stand out from the crowd.) His mission to get me to read Melville has been going on for ... almost a decade, now, I think. (I have every intention of reading that book! I want to read that book! But not yet.) I told him that if he read Understanding Comics, I'd consider it.

There was also quite a lot of pleasant company and some delicious vegan carrot & coriander soup. (With apologies to a certain Famous Detective, I'm rather grateful I don't have a spice allergy. Mmmmm.)

Also there has been some exciting TV lately! My circle has already done a thorough job of expressing their delight over The Doctor's Wife, so I will confine myself to saying that yes, all of that, oh my god. ♥___♥ (Also, biting is like kissing. With a winner.) And as for the Castle finale, I just, holy fuck. In spite of being a show about murder, that's the one I usually go to for ... you know, fun times? Quips and general weirdness and hilarity? Which probably made the sucker punch (punches) that much more effective, really.

Additionally, I discovered this week that there is apparently a secret government lab (which contains, among other things, a cow) in the basement of the building where I work. (Although for future reference, tv writers: some portions of this particular illustrious university are sadly not beautiful and ivy-covered.)

Right, I should get back to work. I lost a big chunk of this morning (mid-post-writing) to finding out some very upsetting news about a neighbor of mine. Feeling a little shaken at the moment, and also, stuff to do. I'll have to do that catching up later, but I hope your weeks are going splendidly! Also, you should go vote in the Fandom Hot 20 poll (second part here). Aeryn Sun and Wendy Watson need some more love, for starters.

Oh hi, flist. I've been away from most of my usual internet haunts lately. How are you guys doing? (Seriously, tell me something - if you feel like it. ♥)

This isn't to say I haven't been particularly fannish lately, though. I had a sweetvalleyslut over the weekend (too jetlagged and sleepy to be a mirage, I'm happy to say), which resulted in watching a whole bunch of Community, and also High School Musical. The former is full of awesome, as reported! I made particularly embarrassing noises during the episode where Abed dressed up as was Batman. :D (As for HSM, um. I'm not ashamed: I can always enjoy a little Kenny Ortega choreography. I really need to talk my roommate into watching Newsies with me now.)

We also tried watching the first episode of Rizzoli & Isles, because good female partnership-focused television is basically all I want out of the world (that's a lie, but still I really want that); unfortunately, neither of us particularly like that whole procedural/cop show formula with the MOUNTING TERROR and rapist serial killers (not to mention, annoying male FBI agent love interests), so we didn't even finish the episode. It was slashy, but not really enough to make the rest worth it, which was disappointing.

That's okay, though, because White Collar is back and amazing. More on that later, maybe, but for now - oh man, ♥Diana♥.

I should get back to work, but um, I finally deleted my old, languishing OKCupid account this weekend, and set up a new one. I'm being stupidly nervous about that! Apparently I read like I was dreamed up by a "lesbian think tank." I think this was intended as a compliment?

I've become embroiled in an attempt to stop my landlady from exterminating the beehive which currently resides in our wall. We need to get the bees out--ever since it got cold, they've been making their way inside, which is an unhealthy situation all around--but my roomie and I would like to see them relocated alive. :( Bees are important! None of the keepers I've contacted today picked up the phone, so I've left lots of messages . . . it looks like this is going to be messy no matter what happens, ugh.

Also, how is it mid-February already? DDDD: There's so much I have to get done by the end of the month! Thank goodness it's a three-day weekend, anyway. Gah.

On a more fannish note, I wound up watching the new Sherlock Holmes movie yesterday; I enjoyed it, but I'm ( a little puzzled. )

White Collar continues to be just like fanfiction, which is entertaining! Also, I am really excited about this news (season 2 casting spoilers!). Leverage remains my favorite thing on TV right now, though - I need to watch this week's tonight. I've just caught up on Being Human, too, and Annie has been particularly awesome lately, although I'm a little irked by ( one recent development. )

Hey, has anyone been watching Caprica? Is it worth checking out?

I have been so easily enraged this week! Elitist movie critics, bitchy demanding professors, sluggish public transportation . . . of course, some things are really legitimately upsetting (fucking hell, Peter David).

Fortunately, bandom canon has been working extra hard at being ridiculous this week. ♥ I don't know what to do with them all. I've been holding off on FOB Trail for fear of getting addicted and slowing down even further on my arting, but it's probably only a matter of time.

Speaking of which, artist sign-ups have opened for thelittlebang (the multifandom femslash mini-bigbang)! They'll stay open for awhile, but seriously, flist, some of you should totally get in on this. It's kind of a random list of fandoms, but there's a lot of awesome in there. (GIRLS! :DDDDD) I shuffled the order of my choices around, but I really can't decide what I'm hoping for at all. Man, between this and bandombigbang, I am going to be bouncing out of my seat with impatience all spring.

Maybe at some point I will talk about some of the "new" television I've been watching lately. It's kind of a ridiculous list: BSG, Dollhouse (my curiosity is tenacious), Slings and Arrows, Dexter, The Young Ones, and Merlin, of course. Roomie & I will probably get back to The West Wing eventually, also; we only got through the first two seasons before.

Just finished watching "The Missing" (latest episode of Stargate: Atlantis). Oh man. More women. Having plots, and interacting, and passing the Bechdel test, and having character development, and kicking ass . . . what is this show coming to?

It probably goes without saying, but I really want some fic to come out of this!

The very end of the episode filled me with fear, but it's fear I've been expecting all season (having been spoiled for certain plot points).

This rather makes up for the fact that Bionic Woman was boring and irritating this week (as usual; one more Sackhoff-less episode and I think I'll quit), Heroes is driving me crazy, and Avatar is on hiatus 'til the end of the month.