time and relative dimension in space

Okay, so bb!brother left to go back to school today, which means starting Monday I'll be having the house to myself for chunks of time again, which then means I can start actually working on my List Of Shows I Haven't Watched Yet again. Yay.

So the thing is I have to actually decide which show to tackle next.

(I swear I will eventually get to everything on that list. Plus some other stuff, probably. Current poll options based on what I'm most interested in right now plus what I know I can get hold of reasonably easily.)

Vote pls?

[Poll #1666013]


...man, eventually I should throw together official "Movies I Haven't Seen Yet But Should" and "Books I Haven't Read Yet But Should" and maybe "Musical Artists I Haven't Listened To Yet But Should" lists, shouldn't I?

I think my body not-so-secretly hates me.

(Translation: The jaw and cheek pain is baaaack. Just in time for my dentist's office to be closed for the weekend so I can't talk to anyone about it until Monday. SCORE. :|)

I hate you, body.

You know what's kind of the opposite of awesome?

When your computer shuts down for no obvious reason.

Yeah.


(...I'm pretty sure it just overheated. I left it off for a while then turned it back on and have had no problems yet. But still. Annoying and not-awesome and also briefly-panic-inducing.)

So, uh. How's things?

My brother decided that I needed to learn how to use Ubuntu so he installed it so I could dual-boot it.

Running it caused my computer to shut off.

Twice.

After the second time, trying to restart my computer resulted in a loop where it would get to a certain point in the startup sequence and then go back to the beginning.

We shut down for a while, until the processor had cooled some, and then were allowed to startup in Windows and uninstall Ubuntu.

But then my Internet wouldn't connect.

Some time later, we discovered that my brother had accidentally hit the wireless switch and turned off my card. :|

WAY TO FREAK ME OUT, SALLY.

Anyway, all problems have been fixed now, but I'm thinking it's going to be a while longer before I try to learn Linux again. OR MAYBE I will just steal my brother's computer and learn it on his and let Sally stay safe just running Windows.



30 Days Of TV Meme:

Day 12 ♥ An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times

There's a lot of possible answers to that. *should probably be ashamed of her TV rewatching habit*

However, I'm going to offer up a M*A*S*H episode. Because I watched it today.

Specifically, the M*A*S*H episode "A Night At Rosie's".

This might be my favorite M*A*S*H episode. And that's saying a good bit, because I grew up on M*A*S*H, my dad owned 90% of the series on VHS tapes (I'm still trying to transition his collection into DVDs, which will take up much less space). But "A Night At Rosie's" ranks, if not first, then in the top 5.

It's the episode where Hawkeye and BJ decide, in a fit of drunkenness, to secede from the union to get out of the war. And then they get most of the camp in on it. And it's fantastic.

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30 Days Of Who Meme:

Day 05 ♥ Your Favorite Companion

This is another one of those where if you're surprised by the answer you haven't been paying very close attention.

I firmly believe that sometimes, to this day, the Doctor stops and asks himself, "What Would Barbara Wright Do?"

She's kickass, tough, compassionate, handles things that would wreck most people, calls the Doctor out... She runs over Daleks with a truck. She impersonates an Aztec goddess and pulls it off through sheer attitude. She bluffs the hell out of the Dalek overlords with her leet history skillz and a mishmash of every historical reference she happens to think of. She stalks a student to a junkyard because she's worried (and madly curious!). She wears cardigans and sensible shoes.

She cares about people even when it's not the most sensible thing to do. Even when she knows better.

And quite honestly the first two seasons of the show are really "The Barbara Wright Show", with supporting characters The Mentor (The Doctor), The Love Interest (Ian), and The Student (Susan).


(Runners-up: Martha, Amy, Mickey, Romana, Peri, Liz. Listed in no particular order.)

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Today I watched 'Pirate Radio' (proper title: 'The Boat That Rocked', but 'Pirate Radio' is what it's called here okay?) for the first time. (LOOK, I don't see movies when they first come out. It just doesn't happen.) Anyway, I enjoyed it. It was a good watch.

In unrelated news, what's the RENT fandom's opinion on David Driver as Roger? Is it that he's terrible? Tell me that everyone agrees he's terrible!


Day 29 ♥ Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days

- Get a job. (I know I whine about this a lot, but it is seriously fairly important.)
- Spend more time in Boston. (This is always one of my goals.)
- WRITE. Finish something of length. 2010 NaNo is included in this.
- Be a better person.
- - Subgoal: Be a better friend.


...annnnd, that's the end of that meme, I guess.

...I might do the TV 30-day meme next. I haven't decided. Don't hold me to that.

HI LET ME TELL YOU ALL A STORY

It's tonight, a little after eleven. I'm in the front room, which is also the living room, which is also where I spend most of my time because the coffee table doubles as my computer desk. Both my parents are upstairs, asleep. The lights are on, the TV is on, I'm surfing the Internet and getting irritated that my LJ notifs are coming through really slowly. (FIX THAT, LJ.)

And then someone knocks on the door.

It is after eleven. I am the only one up.

My heart may have almost stopped.

There is a moment while I try to figure out what to do. I can't pretend like nobody's up; as mentioned, the lights and TV are on, and plainly visible from the front door. First thought is to go upstairs, wake up my dad, and make him take care of it. But then some part of my brain tries to reason "Hey, maybe it is your little brother unexpectedly turning up for a weekend at home!" which my little brother does sometimes. And the door is dead-bolted, so if it was him, he wouldn't be able to let himself in. So in the end I decide to open the door just a little to see who it is.

It turns out it's a guy from Delta delivering my mom's misplaced luggage. He is very nice and apologizes for scaring me but didn't want to leave it on the porch. Our neighborhood is not a good neighborhood for leaving things out in the open, so I appreciate this thought. I sign for the suitcase, we joke about how GPS never sends people to the right house when given our address, he goes away and I close and re-bolt the door and that's the end of a fairly anticlimactic story.

But that is the tale of how Chica nearly had a heart attack today.

The End.

Happy Easter to those who celebrate it, and happy half-price-chocolate Sunday to those who don't. <3


Also, because I fail at longevity, new "The Eleventh Hour"-inspired layout. ...It may be very temporary, I'm not sure yet.

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→ The Live At The Greek Theatre DVD is awesome, omg, no lie, trufax. It may have bumped them up the list of "bands I want to see live in concert", and they were already pretty high up there.

→ Today I made brownies. Which are currently cooking.

→ I was going to do laundry, but the washer does not appear to be working.

→ I also worked some more on that asexual!Kevin story I was talking about. I have it mostly written but I can't figure out an ending. Also I don't know if what I already have sucks or not. I keep going back and forth on how I feel about it. I'm not a good impartial judge. But mostly I just really want to find an ending.

→ → ...Regardless of if it sucks or not, regardless of if I finish it or not, I'm glad I've attempted it because it made me go back and rewatch TBD and that reminded me of just how much I love the show and all its characters. <3 ...I am still Not Okay with its cancellation. *sulks*

→ → But you know what the last fic I posted online was? 'sail fair to the far fields of fortune'. Which was almost a year ago. Seriously. I need to finish a fic and post it for my own sanity.

→ ...I'm so behind on Being Human. :/ I need to just sit down and watch the past few episodes. I want to watch them all in one sitting, though, which means I will need more time than I currently possess the ability to set aside. Maybe tomorrow when I am recovering from the trauma of seeing a dentist.

→ Speaking of which, tomorrow I go back to the dentist. Maybe this time they will actually do something to my teeth to justify the huge amounts of money they are charging me. Fingers crossed.

→ Oh, oh! Also, tomorrow is LOST. Maybe that and BH will balance out the huge amount of haaaaaaate and trauma that medical professionals tend to inspire in me.

→ This entry is so disjointed.

...post subject not actually relevant to this entry. But then how often are my post subjects actually relevant to my entries?


I am excited about the new Doctor Who writer spoilers even if they are over a season off. (Warning: link itself is spoilery, so, you know, don't hover over it if you're avoiding stuff like...who's going to be writing an episode of Who in the 2011 series.)

Exciting and happy-making! Yay, writers I like writing for shows I like!


...in other news, I hate writer's block. But that's not really news.

So apparently the new season of Psych starts tonight and the Internet failed at letting me know. Or I'm just completely oblivious, that's possible too.

I'm lucky my parents watch NCIS on USA and the network is being so helpful with new-episodes-of-Psych reminder commercials.

Anyway, new Psych in a couple hours, yayyyy.