You know, it's a shame the titles ruin these but they are still pretty freaking hilarious:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHbhChg0sM
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QVHw5nGDi4

My Sixathon story has not gained any scope but is turning out to be longer than I'd anticipated. Still, I am making progress! Yes, it was due weeks ago. Par for my life. *sighs*

I need a title, though. I can't think of a good title. Or an ending, for that matter. But in good news, I wrote like 1100 words in the past two days. That is a ridiculous amount, for me at any rate :) Will soon need a beta, hopefully.

CNN article on Ancient Aztec Whistles of Death. I listened to the example track (the link in the text near the bottom of the picture), and I had my headphones on pretty loud, and the first one scared the crap out of me so much it dumped seven tons of adrenaline into my alligator brain and I literally tore my headphones out of my ears. Maybe part of that reaction was surprise and decibels too but... *shudders* I'm going to have to wait a while before going to sleep now...

Okay, so I clicked on one of the discussions in who_daily that was NOT marked spoilery and the first thing I did was read "Well by now most of us have heard the rumor of ***************" which I most assuredly had NOT heard of yet and if it's a real spoiler instead of just a rumor I'm going to be pissed. Actually, even if it's NOT I'm still going to be annoyed. I'm just annoyed all around.

Fuck.

No more reading of reactions on who-daily for me. Not the daily's fault at all, after all rumors are just rumors and I'm being crazy strict so it's up to me, not them, to keep myself spoiler free upon link-clicking.

It just seemed like more of a left-field rumor and I have no idea if that makes it more or less likely to be true. Craaaaaaaaap. I don't want to know what happens next week. I really don't.

I've got to get the new series off my mind until Saturday. And for some reason Big Finish isn't accepting my new bank card so I can't get the new audios, and it's late and I should be sleeping and instead I stayed up reading fanfic and generally being non-productive and... oh man, I'm going to bed :(

In this week's confidential.

( Click here if you want to see a casting spoiler )

Okay, I watched that last night and then our internets went down afterward and I still had LJ up and could SEE everyone's cut-tags with all their juicy discussion and COULD NOT CLICK ON ANY OF THEM! So apparently my brain was racing a bit and though I slept fine, when I woke up randomly this morning it was still like, "Go check the connection! You know you want to talk about Who!" Which is why it is 20 after 6 on a sunday and I'm up and blogging. I apparently have quite a bit to say about this and a strong need to write it all down ;)

( Doctor Who 4x12: The Stolen Earth )

When you see this, post a quote from 'Doctor Who' on your own LJ.

I OBEY!

The shoddy cell-phone pictures don't do the crazy storm clouds justice, but here they are anyway, from my drive home today:
( pics behind cut )

Things I have done this weekend:
- Went grocery shopping
- 0.5 iterations of laundry (put away clean clothes, gather dirty clothes, no actual washing done yet)
- Vaccuumed
- Found an italian Deli in my podunk town (has Boar's Head brand and good bread, hooray!)
- Bought/lugged upstairs/assembled a treadmill (with D)
- Went running on said treadmill
- Bought/assembled/played Wii Rock Band
- Made large vat of chicken salad for lunches this week.
- Kept the kitchen clean despite much cooking

Things I haven't yet done this weekend:
- Finished my Sixathon story (apologies elliptic_eye, hope to work on it tonight)
- Worked on dissertation
- Answered email to professor who was kind enough to read my journal article and send me a response

*sighs*

I need more hours in the weekend!

Why no, I haven't been flitting back and forth from my desk to the break room to keep up with the US Open... Oh who am I kidding? (ETA: spoiler cutting just in case kalypso_01 TiVo'ed it)
( Spoilers )

Tiger's tanking on the first hole today :( Double-bogey on the first hole again!!! (Unless he triples, eep!)

Not a long post, but I realize I've not said much about Who lately, so:

( Spoilers for 'Silence in the Library', 'Forest of the Dead' and a minor spoiler for the trailer for next week's episode at the end )

gender politics Internet Meme

Well, on the one hand there's this:

-30 As a 1930s wife, I am Very Poor (Failure) Take the test!

But just out of curiosity, also this:

56 As a 1930s husband, I am Average Take the test!

I'm not sure what to think about that...

Well, the Pens stole one from Joe Louis Arena. Dunno if they can eke another one out but we gotta win at the igloo first. I hope they learn how to play a 3rd period soon!

Yeah, wishkey, I'm still up. 2nd OT intermission, onto the third OT. Yeesh. My heart isn't cut out for this...

You had to at least pretend you were in it for the first two periods, Penguins. Way to get my hopes up. What a fucking meltdown. I'm not even watching the rest of this one.

Sorry Detroit fans but I gotta say it and not even give you any chance to defend your team in comments: God I hate the Redwings. Fiery passionate levels of hate.

Pens lost last night kind of sadly, and remind me not to get embroiled in online 'discussions' with RedWings fans because grah, what is the point? Your team did good, yeah, congrats, but it's only game 1. I'm reserving judgement for once games 2 and 3 are past.

On the other hand, auntiemeesh scored some free Pirates tix and it was a lovely day for a game, that was mighty entertaining. And the Pirates even ended up winning, because Soriano lost a bottom-of-the-ninth, 2-out fly ball in the sun and allowed the Bucs to tie the game. Then they won in the 11th, quite a fun time!

In other news, I got my hair cut last week-- I forgot to tell you all, but it's pretty short and bouncy and fun, after I'd left it long and just kind of boringly hanging there for probably close to a year. yay for haircuts! I also, in a fit of girlyness (did I mention I've lost like 8 pounds or so in the past three months?), bought new shoes, that kalypso_01 might even approve of. They are not elf-pointy toed, but they are classy, with like a 3-inch heel. Which still apparently leaves me as the shortest person in my office, but only by about 2 inches instead of 5. Go me!

Some meme-age


1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.


elyssadc interviewed me:
( Five Questions )

You know, the mainstream media, the New York times book lists, and many conservative think-tankers are all up in arms over "Who Stole Feminism?"-- I think we should turn it around and ask "Who Stole Libertarianism?"-- and the Internets tell us the answer is--- get ready for it!--- Immature, Socially Maladjusted upper-middle-class White Geeks! (in the comments, not in rydra's original post). Possibly this reflects a pre-existing bias on the Net as a whole.

*sighs* So not worth my time. Grow up, transcend your adolescent frat-boy mentality that you seem to take as the default 'right' way to see everything, go out in the world and have some life experiences, read some books, possibly, maybe once or twice actually try to talk with people-- sick people, old people, young people, black, white, red, men, women, upper class, lower class, angry people, happy people--- anyone really, who is not exactly like you.

The limits of my activism are that yeah, I did vote in the lj-advisory board election thing, though, and not for that guy.