Jackie

So I was sitting here, very into the beautiful send off they gave Doctor Ten. It was sad and lovely and painful.

Then he regenerates.

And my thoughts are "He's UGLY NOW! NO!"

There are times when I'm shallow. At least when Nine died he became Ten. Eleven...maybe he'll grow on me. I wasn't impressed by Ten at first. But Ten wasn't ugly.

I need to get my sleep schedule back to normal. Logging and the Who-a-thon have kept me up waaaaay too much.

Oh, and I think I love Wilf, Donna's grandfather.

My face is painted and I'm at work. I love Fridays. I've heard nothing yet about the teaching position, so we'll see how that goes.

And now, a meme.

RULES: Comment and I'll LJ stalk you to find THREE FANDOMS you apparently love. And then you answer these questions about them!

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?

erraticflow gave me Bleach, Star Trek, and Babylon 5.

( Bleach )

( Star Trek )

( Babylon 5 )

So in summary, go watch Babylon 5, the first two seasons are on Hulu, so go get hooked. And then seek out the third and fourth seasons, which were the best. Star Trek is good, but the fandom is splintered and crazy liek woah right now. Bleach is repititious but I enjoy the bit characters, so I'll probably stick with it.

And I'm coming out of the closet about being a Naruto fan to say GO KAKASHI! Latest chapter is win. He gets to be smart and put things together. :D This is why Maes and Kakashi working together is a dangerous thing in Adstring, la de da.

I'm going to get my slow cooker going for the first time after lunch. I am looking forward to seeing how the dish turns out, but I'm not worried. I love cooking, but it might be nice to be sitting working (at work, no less) while my food cooks itself. It's an oddly amusing thought.

I am slightly excited about today. I have been trying to get more people hooked on Babylon 5 since, well, forever. Two days ago, Adstring's Mayuri player came onto AIM. This was awesome in itself, school and work has been eating her time. Then she said she was thinking of apping Bester from B5. Yesterday, one of the best applications I've seen was waiting in the queue - Bester. It's so awesome, not just because Londo has a canonmate. It's because I love B5 characters. Even the one guy who really is pure evil is intriguing, Mr. Morden. They're all fantastic. Well, correction. All of the ones that have enough info to be playable are. I really did not like Ulkesh, ever. But there are such deep minor characters too. Neroon comes to mind first. He showed up in what, four episodes? And yet was so powerful and moving. Number Two was great. Zathros was hilarious. I simply love seeing the characters. Except Ulkesh.

Tisha and I might still get to hang out tomorrow. I'm hoping. I'm waiting on confirmation. It would be a shame if that falls through too... that would make two RP friends who were down here for Disney that just couldn't find time.

You know, while I'm being random, I might as well link to an RP thread that's still going and I'm still having fun with. My Gojyo now has Kat's Goku convinced that Son Goku means "stupid to the highest extent" and that he should change his name to Mono Tonto. WARNING for language. It is Gojyo, after all. Poor Monkey.

People being wordy for the sake of being wordy and not precision are getting a little tiresome. I'm doing research for my next article, this one assigned, and all of the sources go out of their way to throw more words in. "Look! I have a dictionary and thesaurus! Whee!" No. Bad writer. Go away. No cookie for you. To be certain, precision in diction is desirable. But you need not add, toss in, throw into the mix, and elaborate with options that are redundant and repetitive and say what you've said already. ;)

I finally got around to starting and using my original writing filter. It's still opt-in for anyone. I don't want to spam people with it, and I don't want it public, so it's going there.

Hm. I wonder if I write too much. Oh well. Have an icon with one of my favorite B5 quotes. Ivanova is win.

Today (or now yesterday, technically, but who cares about the technical?) was good. It was peaceful and included sushi and plum wine, caramel cake and caramel ice cream. Hey, guess what, I like caramel. heehee. My family is going to wind up getting me fabric for curtains for my apartment and fabric for a canopy over my bed, too. Hooray for practical and desired birthday presents, hee.

I'm a year older, and I'm still waiting on the added wisdom. I'll let you all know if any arrives.

In the meantime, I'm going to contemplate buying myself the 25 TWEWY pins I picked out, heehee. Or maybe Gaiden. Something, since I didn't spend that much at the con, either. I behaved. :D

And have the last part of an overdue meme. ( For the five things meme, Kat picked Iron Chef, LoTR, band, Mountain Dew, and Bleach. )

So, the new X-Men cartoon premiered yesterday.

Color me unimpressed.

Let's start with the animation. Professor Xavier has a fantastic 'quality' face when they get attacked, which really stood out. I knew who Scott was because of the glasses; his face and hair were completely changed. Wolverine had a torso the size of Kenpachi's, and toothpick legs. It wasn't bad animation, technically. It just wasn't very good.

The mutants are now stupid. This is obvious starting from the first scene, when Shadowcat, Iron Man, and Nightcrawler are training in the danger room. I think it's supposed to inspire nostalgia? Instead, they're stupid and fall easily into traps. Hank doesn't notice Wolverine when Wolverine 'sneaks up' on him with no sneaking at all, Rogue tries to be undercover at a press conference for Senator Kelly but she's wearing her spandex costume under a hooded cloak. Apparently, if Xavier and Jean are gone, everyone falls apart. Oh, and they're sticking with Young!Rogue from the movies.

On to Hank. Beast has always been my favorite character. But something here is off. He's not eloquent. He's not highly intelligent. Maybe it's too early to tell for certain, but... it feels like they've reduced him to just being blue and a slight scientist.

You know, maybe this can be chalked up to growing pains. It's a fairly well-known canon, and they have to do something new with it to be an actual new series. But... I don't know. I still don't know if I'll give it another chance next Friday or not.

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On a more personal note, my vertigo's been out of control this last week, and it's bugging me. Well, obviously it would be, but beyond just the problems it causes. I don't know what set it off. So I've been stuck at home again, and there's nothing I can do but *be* stuck at home. I can't handle a crowd right now; if I get bumped, I'm going down. And walking is exhausting atm.

Though it let up enough that I was able to cook Thursday night. I had lemon ginger fettuccine from a trip to the farmer's market a couple of weeks back, and I had a feeling that a sweet and savory marinara sauce would work very well. It did. Diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, a touch of Worceshire, some sugar, some garlic, two scallions, a bit of ginger, and a dash of red chili pepper flakes worked wonders. Very simple, though it took a bit of sampling and adding before I was happy with it. It had a little too much liquid at the end of Thursday night; I should have drained the diced tomatoes. But the leftovers had a good consistency.

A last random sidenote. I pulled out my old Iroh journal to play on RPsecrets yesterday, since there was a secret talking about looking down on people who use characters from children's series like Avatar. Randomly I wound up interacting with both the Azula and the Toph from DramaDramaDuck. It's huge. It's massive. And the Azula player brought up that they don't have an Iroh. I poked around DDD. I'm still undecided; I don't know if I can keep up with two comms. But it would be neat. They have a few characters, Azula, Toph, Ty Lee, Aang, Sokka. Though the latter two don't seem to be highly active. I don't know. I'll think about it.

Poor Zambia. Even when arranged by number of strokes in the Chinese alphabet, they wound up at the end of the parade of nations. I can imagine them now. "Ooh, new order? Do we get to watch part of the parade this time? We're in a different position? YES! Wait. What? Second-to-last instead of our normal third-to-last? Forget this. I'm moving to Albania."

My weekend was fantastic. Busy beyond insanity, but fantastic. Other than to sleep, I think I was home for a grand total of an hour from Friday until today.

From cooking and enjoying real Chinese food for an Opening Ceremonies party to saving Agrabah as Abu, everything was great. DisneyQuest was as fun as I'd remembered it being, and I now know what is likely the best route for the Pirates game to score the highest. So busy, but so much fun...

Oh, and I may have a ride to AFO. I'm not sure, but it's possible. That would be nice, lol.

Also, have a Bleach Meme, stolen from zoldyck_fan

( Bleach Meme )

And thus the rambling begins, hee.

The plan was thus: Get there on Friday, attend the Grandfather Mountain Games on Saturday, drop me off at the Pipe and Drum Academy on Sunday while Dad went backpacking, and then he'd finish Friday noon-ish, and come pick me up as camp wrapped up. Then we'd relax the rest of Friday, and meander back on Saturday, hitting shops and stuff along the way, and get back very late Saturday/very early Sunday.

( Getting there is half the journey, but it's even more than half if the road Google Maps told you to take doesn't exist. )
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( They call the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games some of the biggest games in North America. Well... the lines were big, at least... )
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( Food - Fantastic. Learning new spins - perfect. Bagpipes from six a.m. until eleven p.m. - questionable. )
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( Meandering and heading back. This time, without being lost yay! )
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( So I got back to find that Nickelodeon had aired all of the rest of Avatar. Warning - spoilers and UTTER GLEE ahead. )
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So, I returned home with a new hat and a Mountain Dulcimer, and three new spins, and a routine for professional if I choose to go that route, and I might. I also returned home to find new Avatar, and new FMA chapter, and more Bleach chapters with one shot of Yumi being smug and called Elite, which is win in my books. :D Our affiliate did not email me, the latest edition of the magazine came out, and my nose, which started bleeding intermittently once we hit the mountains, has stopped.

And now Florida seems freaking hot compared to the cool mountains.

But I'm home. :D

1) Upon observing the peppers on your plant flourishing, exclaim "You're turning yellow! That's awesome! Go you!" Then notice the staring and back away slowly.

2) Be on the phone with a friend when the question of whether Iroh loves tea or the ladies more comes up. Even if you're on the tea side, you'll get odd looks. (My cell doesn't work in the apartment; therefore conversations on that happen on the porch.)

3) Talk at your peppermint plant. Often.

4) Apologize to the lizard sitting on your door step or screen that you're going to have to open the door and go in.

Follow these steps, and you too can watch your neighbors give you funny looks when they think you can't see them.

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( Jackie-news spam )

Pic-spam of my haircut to come tonight, after I get home.

So I'm hearing rumors that the writer's strike has caused the creator of Heroes to quit... this is not encouraging.


( Not like anyone is reading this anymore, but oh well... )

For work this week I was in contact with someone in Odessa, Ukraine. This amuses me.

( Now with bonus spoilers! )