it's a magical world

There aren't many things I find more beautiful than a summer thunderstorm, when the heat is breaking and the wind is high and the rain is just pelting down.

I can see the orange sunset through the clouds. That's so weird.

skywaterblue has an awesome picspam about the utter geek that is Barack Obama here. Snerk.

I actually feel like I got enough sleep last night, for the first time in a while. I really, really don't want to have to go into work tomorrow, unsurprisingly. Weekends need to last longer than two days. Especially given how most of MY weekends only actually last one day.

Slightly ambitious plan of the day: finish writing my Two Lines fic. If only because I'm not gonna have much time to work on it this week, and I need to make sure I leave enough time to get it to beta and back before the deadline. (Not that Two Lines deadlines are all that rigid, seriously, I almost ALWAYS post these things a month or so late. But not this time!) Weirdly, what I thought would be a fairly short post-Doomsday fic is already 19 pages long. Probably I have about five more pages to write. It's not epic by any stretch of the imagination, but still. I blame Jack Harkness, who just had to stick his pretty face in, despite the whole parallel universe business. Jeez.

Perchance I shall get a haircut today as well. It's about that time. And I told my housemate I'd bake her a carrot cake, as per her birthday request, though I'm heartily wishing she'd requested just about any other sort of baked good, because I do NOT feel like investing time in grating carrots all afternoon. I like baking because it DOESN'T feel like proper cooking to me. Once you make me grate carrots, that's proper cooking, and I disapprove. Plus now I have to buy a grater. Bah.

I don't know what search term to use to look this up for myself. It's for a fic. You know how when doctors need to look at X-rays and suchlike, they stick them up on a sort of white wall that's really one big light, to see the scan properly? What on earth is that called? A light wall? They do this in House all the time, I've seen it on the X-Files before, I'm sure every medical drama known to man has featured it. It must have a real name.

This went around a couple of times, and I just realized I never participated: the Fuck You, She's Awesome meme.

Women who are AWESOME and KICK ASS, no arguments allowed and in no particular order:
-C.J. Cregg, Abbey Bartlet, Zoey Bartlet, Donna Moss, Amy Gardner, Nancy McNally, Joey Lucas
-Sharon Valerii (all models!), Six (all models!), Kara Thrace, Laura Roslin
-Hermione Granger, Nymphadora Tonks, Andromeda Tonks, Molly Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Minerva McGonagall, Pomona Sprout, Lily Evans Potter, Cho Chang
-Zoe Washburne, Kaylee Fry, River Tam, Inara Serra
-Lisa Cuddy, Thirteen (who really, really needs a name already)
-Eowyn, Galadriel
-Rogue/Marie D'Ancanto, Jean Grey, Mystique/Raven Darkholme
-Hazel Tyler, Romey Sullivan, Donna Clark, Sandra
-Lyra Silvertongue, Serafina Pekkala, Marisa Coulter, Mary Malone
-Dana Whitaker, Natalie Hurley, Kim
-Susan Walker, Sally Harper
-Dana Scully, Margaret Scully

Yeah. Leaving work at 12:30 FTW!

This is just to say, Mrs. Fields Cookie Cups are happiness in dessert form. It's a cupcake, except with cookie instead of cake. And it is made of win.

This is not a recent discovery of mine, but every time I give in to temptation and buy one, it makes my world a happier place. Despite a really awkward night yesterday and not enough sleep and being at work and having a show to stage manage tonight. Pure. Happiness.

Every now and then, my mother finds the cool stuff before I do.

Greatest. Prank. Ever.

Time stops in Grand Central Station. You have to watch this.

How much of a dork am I that my idea of a great Friday night is reading X-Files fanfic and dancing around like a lunatic to the Across the Universe soundtrack?

Whatever, it's totally fantastic.

Today was heralded by the arrival of some very important and long-awaiting things: bookcases (small, alas, but a good start), a big squishy comfy chair of awesome, and my Battlestar Galactica DVDs.

It is a good day.

Now that all the furniture is sorted, I can actually figure out where to put up my posters and such, and then there shall be apartment!photospam.

This one looks interesting...

Ask me to take pictures of any aspect of my life that you're interested in or curious about. It can be anything from my favorite shirt to my cell phone. Leave your requests as a comment to this entry, and I'll snap the pictures and post them as soon as I can.

Just about anything is fair game here. I recently recharged the batteries in my digital camera (for the first time in, like, six months), and I'd like to use it again. *winning smile*

Well, I voted today. Did you?

Granted, one more Democratic vote in my extremely Democratic county probably isn't much to brag about. Still. One more drop added to the flood, I guess. Can't hurt.

In geeky theater news, OMG Anne Bogart and Mary Zimmerman are speaking in my university's theater this afternoon. *fans self*

Neither my first name nor my last name are all that unusual, so this is rather nifty. Only seven of us?

In other news, I am CRAP at answering comments. Oy. I love you all, you know that, right?

Drunk!Jake is possibly the funniest thing EVAR. OMG I so want to go out drinking with him now.

This is one of the funniest damn things I've seen in a long time. It's a mock preview for "Brokeback to the Future". WATCH EET.