Ugh. Something's been wrong with my back since last night so I gave in and watched The Pandorica Opens instead of my original plan which was to wait until net week.

( Doctor Who Ponderings )

Thank you to the cookie monsters! carleton97, musesfool, and anonymous!

That was very sweet and I appreciate it, it brings the happy!

*burns Christmas music CD for the car*

I'm sorry, Thanksgiving -- but at least I lasted until after Halloween!

Home from celebrating chicklet_girl's birthday with a play by lallybroch (Two Thumbs up!), but not a lallybroch 8-(.

There were delicious cakes afterward, which was nom nom nom.

Only to come home and find....

that my insulin pump supplies have been recalled. (yes, I do get the irony of cake and insulin pump) 8-)

To which I say, NOT ON, MEDTRONIC.

I will deal with this in the morning. Or maybe a morning next week.

Finding Nemo the movie - one of the best of the new Disney.

Finding Nemo the Ice Show? (as interpreted from the tv commercials)

Most. Horrifying. Thing. Ever.

How big does your genius have to be to think, 'Yes, yes! Women, on skates, with fishheads on their chests, eyes at breast level, and for Dory, mouth unfortunately placed - that's the ticket!'

This is the point where society is the winner of the Darwin award. We're about to turn on the rocket pack on our backs and crash into the mountain.

Wow.

There were 58 people at my caucus tonight. We ran out of ballots and had to make more. I just... that's 52 more people than the midterm, 48 more than 2004.

In the preference vote - Obama - 29, Clinton 28 (the convenor forgot to vote! - it would have been 29 - 29 in that case).

Resolutions passed without dissent-

The party support legislation to prevent employment discrimination based on sexual orientation.
The party support the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
The party refuse to support changing the Minnesota and Federal Constitutions with Amendments banning same sex marriage.

Caucuses are tonight, should be interesting. People are anticipating higher than normal turn out. I'm anticipating the same 8 people I see every time.

In other news, my broken tooth is now more broken, I guess it's time to mortgage the house and go see a dentist.

And this makes me feel old.

Aliens was released 22 years ago this year.

On F2, ONTD, ppl are talking about Tim Reid on 'Sister Sister' - and I'm going, Hey, Venus Flytrap still looking good.


I think it's way past time for sleeps.

The last five minutes of SGA was made even better by knowing that devildoll was squeeeing at John's reading matter.

I'm just sayin'.

Things that are making me happy: chicklet_girl's post about our SGA Fangirl mini-vacay at the Atlantis hotel.

In Wisconsin.

Because it's booutiful.

\o/

I have cleaned all the screens in the house.

Man, it's a hella lot lighter in here. Whoa.

I just keep thinking how the next step on SGA is to get the original Chairman on. That would be groovy.

This is how sick I am:

This afternoon I drank 8 cups of herbal tea. Okay, so it was 1 Black Tea Bag + 2 Herbal Tea Bagsb = blerbal tea?

The first 4 cups were Bengal Spice and the second 4 cups were Tangerine Orange Zinger.

I like tea a great deal, but it has to be right out of the pot hot, which... yeah. Doesn't last. Lukewarm tea? Vile. So I put my blerbal tea into a thermos after it was steeped and it was actually drinkable! Unlike most of the hot tea I had last week at the conference, in which the hot water pots were not at all hot by the time we got to them. 8-(

Adding the herbal teas helped as my sense of taste is currently toasted, so that was good. The Bengal Spice was okay, chai-like, but there was an offnote, either the chickory, carob, or vanilla. I like Stash's Chai better for Chai. The Tangerine Orange Zinger was better, different, but I liked it.

So, all that hot tea, and then a hot shower, but the congestion doesn't seem to be moving all that much, dammit. Though I have my voice back and I sound a bit less like Harvey Fierstein than I did this afternoon.

My job next week? Get SGA icons, sheesh.

Okay, finish this, then Alton!

To the Minnesota (and Wisconsin and Iowa) folks,

Alton Brown's Feasting on Asphalt tonight at 8pm will be the episode shot here in MN.

Lutefisk + Alton Brown = JOY.

Horrible, lye coated, stinky JOY.

Still have the cold of death, send help.

Farmer's Market for the win! The WIN, people.

Texas made me want vegetables, and now I have amazing picked this morning green and wax beans, squashes, cucumbers, tomatoes...

So pretty, so delicious...

If only I had a cook to make them for me.

Have not yet started to actually pack the suitcase, though have most of the little bags packed. Traveling with the pump for the first time is kind of nervewracking.

So, just need to get to the airport at 5am and by this time tomorrow, will have been in Texas for three hours. If NWA has pilots.

Thankfully, being a girl, I shouldn't be lewdly troubled by stray Idaho Republican Senators in the airport restroom.

Last week was insane with meetings, this week is insane with getting ready to go to Texas next week.

BUT!

I managed to remember the second showing of Eureka this week. I thought the episode was sweet; Eureka FTW! I did not like that transmission got fubared twice. This is why we have cable, cable.

And I saw a commercial for Megasnake. Michael Shanks and the winner of 'Who wants to be a Superhero'. Yeeaaah. Honestly, I don't know whether to go with 'and he was the only real actor on SG1!' or 'Oh, Michael.'

And lastly, Flash Gordon.

1. Why does every woman on the show look like Lana Lang?
2. Thank god SGA was picked up for another season, because Zarkov was cast as if it was for DH. *shudders*
3. YHALOTHAR, Vancouver. *hugs*
4. People who don't understand the cheezy perfection of the movie depress me. This show, it is so... drab.

How I spent the second day of my summer Vacation (or, Beth does not call into work to check on things day 2):

Today we loaded 3 TVs, 1 monitor, 1 VCR, 2 DVD players, and about 8 fluorescent light bulbs into the truck and took them to be recycled.

$185 later... they are gone. (the electronics were $0.41 a pound, so it was about 440lbs)

We still have 2 TVs, 1 Microwave, and a toaster oven for the next trip.

Then we went to the farmer's market and got corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, green beans, onions, baby red potatoes, and kohlrabi.

Now to change and go back downstairs and collapse more cardboard and try to get a handle on the stuff to put on freecycle.

They apparently aren't reupping on the Dresden Files.

Because of course they don't want a show that appeals to anyone over the age of 12.

Between that and the fact we could be having BRAND NEW SGA eps RIGHT NOW...

FOAD, SciFi.

I'm fully expecting them to be airing the 56 part mini-series: Meglodon vs Mansquito, the High School Years.

Minneapolis folks, everyone okay? family?

35W Bridge Collapses btwn University and Washington

chicklet_girl, fan_this, carleton97, lallybroch?

David Nykl on Eureka FTW!

Even if he didn't show until the last 15 minutes.

I think Eureka is holding up pretty well with S2 so far. And Friday Casual Stark is very hot. Much hotter than last season. *frowns*.

Anyway. LJ's back.

Now we can see the hundreds of entries 'I'm bibbity over on insertnameofotherjournalhere'. Because now it's helpful. 9-)

So, they keep advertising the Kia Rondo during Eureka. It's a bit of local dissonance, that ad. A happy African-American couple loading up their Kia Rondo SUV. You have to understand the significance of Rondo to people from the Twin Cities.

Anyway. Day 3 of 3 of meetings tomorrow, so sleep now.

Oh, fandom.

It's days like these I wish I had invested in smelling salts and fainting couches.

*headdesk*

Eureka! See, this is what happens when you get out of the TV habit because there's only reruns and 'reality' tv on. You miss Eureka. Dammit.

Your Harry Potter 7 Spoiler of the Day:

Draco Malfoy grows up to realize his true calling is Mary Kay Cosmetics.

His sales figures are so high he wins a shiny pink broom.

Happy Birthday, chicklet_girl!

See you tonight!

Home from Atlantis - well, have been home for awhile, but had to take a post driving nap.

Any vacay that starts with chicklet_girl and I barely able to stand upright we're laughing so hard upon seeing our accommodations - is a good weekend.

And there was Cap'n Jack.

More laters.

Jaysus Christ, Fandom.

Sentences start with capital letters.

Woot!

So, last Friday I really wanted to grill some steaks - and since I totally got hosed on the mini-propane grill (with mini-propane tanks - cheap to buy, $5/ea to dispose of...), we had bought an electric grill a few years ago.

It was dead. Deadity dead.

So, today after getting my hair chopped all off - shortest it's been in years - I got this:

http://www.brevilleusa.com/products/800grxl/index.jsp?sku=800grxl&cID=233&pID=11&pvID=11

It's so cute! And fast! And cute!

The other one (and it was Krups - it should have totally lasted longer), had a grill grille, which was horrifying to clean, and the griddle plate was from crap.

Made chicken breasts in it tonight and while it took a little time to get the grill cleaned, it cleaned perfectly clean, no unreachable bits to get icky.

I totally want a grilled cheese now. *g*

*hearts her new foodtoy*

So, I tried to write devildoll fic today.

And, as you can see, that didn't work.

It did, however, involve Easy Bake Ovens, which is apparently the current interest of the Whoodle hivemind.

<3


Happy Birthday, Devildoll, many more, and I hope you didn't have to do laundry today!

And we'll see you in Atlantis in a month!

*hugs*

DEAR PHONE: IF YOU DO NOT STOP RINGING *ONLY* THE SECOND I GET ANOTHER CALL, I WILL THROW YOU OUT THE FREAKING WINDOW.

This melodrama brought to you by my insane day.

1. There's nothing more illuminating about fandom in general than people who talk about racism in SGA with that note of 'only them' to it. Bitca, please. Yes, we like a crappy show. Thank you for sharing, we'll make sure your opinion is registered.

2. Using the name of the character in an AU is not always the same as using the character. If I wrote (HAH) a story in which the computer Rodney was working on was RONON - this is not to say that I think people with more melanin than John and Rodney are computers. Many times using the names are because in an AU there's always a place for a canon reference. And since I'm a shipper, the story would be about John and Rodney and their BIG LUV. And I'd totally make RONON a laconic computer. Maybe even with braided fringe around the CPU.

3. Specialist Ronon Dex did not seem to be a university professor. He seemed to be Alonzo Wilder. Saying this does not mean I think he's stupid. But be honest - if you had 1 person who was going to fix the oxygen tank on your spaceship - Rodney or Ronon - who would you choose? Sateda was advanced in weapons and ships - okay. Having those things in your society does not mean that *you* have the intelligence to build them yourself. I can't build a car from the ground up, how about you? (yes, we could both learn, as Ronon can learn, but at this specific point, could you?)

4. Higher learning amongst the Athosians - I'm not seeing it. So yeah, it could be hard to place Teyla in terms of education. Now, it'd be cool to see that Teyla went to higher school on another planet, but we haven't seen that. The only tech we've seen Teyla have is a lighter. She's not stupid. Is she intelligent? Absolutely. Is she underused? Totally. But by our educational strata here in the states? She's not on par with the Earthers.

Zelenka, Weir, Rodney, and Parrish - all have Ph'ds. Lorne, Caldwell, Ellis, and Shep - Master's at minimum.

So, yes. If you're using 2007 American values of educational worth - yes, the Earthers do rank higher.

5. Ronon as a criminal in an AU. Let's see, on the run from the authority, imprisoned and altered by said authority. (Yes, I get wraith = bad) Yeah, I totally can't see why someone might think he'd be a good fit. Of course, he'd be innocent, and he'd have to be defended, and even the prosecutor wouldn't want the case... But still, that WORKS.

Is this discussion (beyond what happened in comm, the what's happening now) happening because of white guilt? Specifically the guilt of liking a show in which the main focal characters are white males? Is it inherently part of the social construction of racism to like shows where those focal characters are white males? Is it you use what you get? What does that say about Due South? Does this make us bad feminists?

And lastly.

Why do so many fans treat the topic as revolutionary and new every time it comes up?

A week and a half of coughing and not being able to breathe is gettin' me a wee bit down. I'm pretty much down to the happy cough syrup and some tylenol though, finally.

I may finally be able to finish up Christmas this week (not wanting to germify the things I'm making).



( Torchwood ponder )

They're showing The Terminator on one of the UHF channels right now. Movies have changed so much. Though Ahnold's acting ability has changed none at all. Huge cars - I never thought of that movie as in the era of the huge Buick.

Okay, with all the kvetching you see about SGA, I'm pondering why no one's started in with all that the galaxy has to offer, we're apparently exporting (and using the zpm to provide) white bread sandwiches in plastic boxes.

I mean thank god for the fruit, I was worrying about scurvy with being in the middle of the ocean all, but really. Do we *have* to export Wonderbread and plastic packaging?

Other than that major concern, you know. *SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*.

(and in your face!)

After four days solid of doing pretty much nothing but grocery shopping and cooking (and sga obtaining), Thanksgiving is pretty much all ready to go.

Lester the Turkey is done and carved but for his breast, the jello salads are chillin', the gravy is cooling, and the dressing has been added to to reduce the pepper and sage factor that was threatening to become an issue. Everything else is down at Grandmere's, and my aunt is bringing the pies. I hope the non-pumpkin isn't apple.

I so wish I had an oreo cookie right now.


Happy Thanksgiving!

I return triumphant from the grocery store.

I have a turkey, all the bits, etc.

I shall call him Lester, and he shall be my turkey.

Tomorrow, when I get what I forgot tonight, which is as it always happens, I shall be ready to rock out with Thanksgiving.

But now I'm just tired.

Okay, just so we're clear, I'm dreading today.

That said, if you're one of those people who has to do the opposite of the thing that people are saying you should do because, well, basically, you're an asshole, and are planning *not* to vote or planning on voting for candidates because your flist keeps pimping the other guy, just... don't tell us, okay?

Because that just makes the baby jesus cry, and honestly, he's crying enough as is.

Hiatus!con was so much fun - lots of chatting, eating, wireless stealing, and tv watching. And there was some swimming and some more eating thrown in!

They have good insulation because we didn't get tossed for being too noisy at 1am. *g*

It was so much fun to meet lallybroch, carleton97, and fan_this, and it's always fun when devildoll (who brought a most excellent pumpkin cake and gift bags) comes to town. chicklet_girl is always a hoot, and she brought the veggie tray, ensuring that the fangrrls did not waste away from scurvy.

Three more fangrrls have been introduced to the Crack!Cheetos, and have fallen prey to their siren call.

I love anytime you can have fun, talk about Rodney the Man-Cat and Joey Donuts.

*hearts*

*dead from squee*

Okay, that was sooo good.

Today is my 5th LJ anniversary.

I thought I should mark it since last year was such a mess at this time I totally forgot about it. Plus, I like fives.

I guess my most profound thought on the whole LJ fandom thing is 'thank god we're not on myspace'. I never thought I'd have as little to say as I do, and it does feel strange.

So happy anniversary to me.