Halrloprillalar

May 1st, 2008

06:01 pm — I chose plastic on Earth Day and other tales of my existence.



  1. I would like a t-shirt that says: I will fucking curse you and you will fucking die. But not enough to actually make one. And I'd never be able to bring myself to wear it.


  2. When I grow up, I want to be Donna Noble.


  3. Girlification Question 1: Is it possible for the hair on your legs to be too long to wax? Is it ever worthwhile to try to do the waxing yourself at home so that you don't have to let a stranger touch your body?


  4. Girlification Question 2: Is there a good way to minimize the appearance of grey hair without wrecking the rest of your hair? I have a bit of grey at my temples which will probably look lovely eventually but which currently is short and straggly and makes me look untidy whenever I pull my hair back. I've only ever coloured with Kool-Aid previously, which doesn't seem like the best option here.


  5. I have been pondering the best way to order coffee. When I go to my favourite coffee place, there are four atoms of information I have to give the counter person: size, roast, room for cream, to-go. It seems rare that anyone, unless they know me from repeated visits, can absorb all four of those at once. I've been wondering what the optimal order of atoms is and whether I should stick with two or three at first and then add the rest in a second sentence. (Let's not even get into places that have a size "medium" and a roast "medium".) What information do they need first, to give them a context for the rest of the information?


  6. I should probably be drinking less coffee.


  7. I am currently re-watching, with various people, Prince of Tennis, Bleach, and Supernatural. It's so much fun but I feel like I'm using up all my fannish squee in realspace, thus depriving the internet of my squee. (I'm sure you've noticed an overall drop in the amount of squee online.) Though maybe that's just because I'm lazy.


  8. But here's some squee after all: 8 MORE DAYS UNTIL SPEED RACER! I so cannot fucking wait. Even if it's bad, it will be good. I just hope Racer X is cool enough.


  9. Eventually there will be fic here again. My brain is back on track but I took on a freelance project to oblige a friend and so I haven't had the time to get anything down yet. Plus, writing is hard.





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April 22nd, 2008

05:51 pm — best of three

He reminds me of you.

i think )

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April 15th, 2008

05:08 pm

I realise this is probably not an acceptable thing to say on LiveJournal but sometimes you have to get stuff out in the open.

I fucking love my job.

That is all.

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April 13th, 2008

09:09 pm — Doctor Who: Fires of Pompei

In the words of the great Cicero: Caecilius est pater. Metella est mater. Quintus est filius. Okay, really those were the words of the Cambridge Latin Course, Unit 1, where we followed the lives of a Pompeian family, which were generally unexciting, until the end of the unit, when Vesuvius began erupting and multi in flammis peribant.

I thought about them when I saw the preview for this week's episode. I didn't expect to actually see them in this week's episode. *geek love*

Otherwise, no deep thoughts. Episode = fabulous.

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April 12th, 2008

12:03 pm

wind breathes from wherever spring is hiding
cherry blossoms let go their branches
fill the air with soft pink flakes
drift deep in the gutters

better luck next year, I say
and blow my nose one last time

 

April 10th, 2008

04:50 pm

Okay, which one of you ate my brains today? Fess up, I know someone took a good chomp. At the very least, you should allow me to eat the same amount of yours.

This is the most damn embarrassing thing that could happen to a zombie lord.

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April 6th, 2008

06:56 am — Goodbye, Charlton Heston



I was not ready for this day to come.

Last summer, when my partner was away for a week, I had myself a Charlton Heston film festival: Omega Man, Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, Soylent Green, and, of course, Planet of the Apes. It hardly seemed like enough -- this year, I'll do it again, and watch El Cid and The Agony and the Ecstasy and whatever else I can track down.

He's iconic, he's larger than life, he's the voice of God and the last man alive. And, like I said before, I can't help thinking that one day he will appear in glory to save us all.

I'll be waiting.

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April 5th, 2008

03:57 pm — Doctor Who: Partners in Crime

I should really have written up my Torchwood finale thoughts before I watched the BSG premiere. I should really have written up my BSG premiere thoughts before I watched the Doctor Who premiere. Too much TV this weekend!

spoilers and glee )

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April 3rd, 2008

07:20 pm

You know those days when you're so sleepy that you go to Starbucks and order a venti dark with extra shots and then you give it to somebody and watch them drink it and then you eat their brains?

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April 2nd, 2008

08:08 pm


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