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About halfway into the second episode of White Collar.
( This is not particularly spoilery. )
In other news, I still don't have any userpics uploaded to Dreamwidth. I should do something about that.
So a week or two ago when I posted with some complaints and reservations about Glee?
I take them back. ^_____^
(yes, I did just do a ^_^ face. Look, it's called Glee.)
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So I love Glee! I really do, I love musicals and I love stories about plucky misfits banding together to be awesome, and I'm happy to see other people on my flist who adore it too.
But. ( spoilers, squee-harshing, and preachiness within )
Otherwise I do love it, honest! Even if seeing Reid's mom as the cheerleading coach seriously throws me.
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ROLLER SKATING ON A ROLLER COASTER TRACK
IS THAT NOT THE MOST AWESOME THING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN?
Frightening.
This comic is my D&D group.
We have an entropy tower. And at the last game, three members of the group each swallowed a miniature d6 or d10.
No I was not one of them.
Went to Harry Potter at midnight. Was surprised to quite like it, given I hated the sixth book. Except for ( lol spoiler cuz this didn't happen in the book )
However, a Final Destination trailer was seriously not on. The movie was PG, and they opened previews with a minute-thirty of 'awful deaths by everyday objects.' I looked away, but a little too late. Thanks for the nightmares, jackasses.
Sleep schedule now fucked up. Erf.
Since i posted about it i suppose i should do a wisdom teeth followup.
Surgery went fine. Nerve on right side got bumped and it is weirdly tingly like when anesthetic is wearing off but it should go away in less than a few weeks rather than stay permanently. Yesterday right after surgery once the bleeding was done i pretty much felt fine and was cheerful and shit but today i feel sick and tired and my drug cocktail of vicodin/motrin/antibiotics is at last getting to me, i feel woozy and stupid as all fuck. how house functions on this i shall never know. it wouldn't be bad if firefox didn't keep freezing up on the netbook. i do not have attention span for anything besides gratuitous rapidfire internet browsing and i am tired of closing and restarting the browser. also i am tired. i may nap again.
thank you for well-wishes.
Tomorrow I get my wisdom teeth removed. I don't do well with needles, or surgical procedures, or stuff done to my mouth, or knowing I have a slightly elevated risk of nerve damage. I've got doctor permission to take a xanax 90min before to try to calm myself, but that means i have to be up at 7:45, which is a mixed blessing. More time to get prepared and feel comfortable with what I'm wearing and how clean my teeth are, and more time to think and think and think about what's coming. I should sleep but that'll make the morning come faster.
GUYS, WHAT IS THIS?
I DON'T KNOW.
BUT IT'S ENTERTAINING.
(not...precisely work-safe.)
Star Trek in 47 seconds and Wolverine in 30.
I CAN'T EVEN BREATHE.
(Spoilers in the Star Trek one, um, less so in Wolverine.)
ETA: Fixed the first link.
I hate the internet. I check one weird symptom online five minutes before I need to go take a bio test, and suddenly I'm freaking out over whether I've got salmonella.
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I'm on a boat! I'm on a boat! Everybody look at me, 'cause I'm sailing on a boat!
...Yeah, I'm actually translating Chaucer into idiomatic modern English right now, but somehow this helps.
I still have no userpics uploaded to Dreamwidth and it is because I have like 3000, I don't know how to look through them anymore.
So I got this email this morning.
Good morning [Pyrae],
I'm writing to let you know that your access to the Carleton network has been suspended temporarily following an RIAA Infringement Notification we received yesterday.
I've attached the notification to this email, but it essentially says that the RIAA have detected that your machine is sharing the songs listed below via the BitTorrent file sharing network:
[redacted out of SHAME]
Having received the notification, Carleton is obliged to block access to the shared recording(s) until such time as we can confirm that the issue is resolved. Just for clarification, the important part of this notice is that the sound recordings are being shared - the issue of legitimate ownership is not being addressed.
In order to regain access to the Carleton network I need to receive notice from you via email stating clearly that you have taken steps to prevent these recordings from being shared.
I would suggest uninstalling the BitTorrent software or alternatively removing these and other copyrighted materials from BitTorrent's shared space or from your machine entirely.
If you have any questions or would like further clarification, please feel free to contact me. Also, please refer to the Student Computing knowledge base article on File Sharing for more information on this issue in general:
http://####
Regards,
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Student Computing Coordinator
FUCK YOU, RIAA.
My main email was out for unknown reasons for a little over a week. Sometime before I switched as many things as possible to another email, I apparently got one of those random Dreamwidth invites for having registered an OpenID. I don't really know what I'm doing with it; I just don't want to lose people if everyone makes the switch. I'm pyrae over there, too, and I'll be slooowly adding as many people as I can locate. I kinda hope that people who did a username change have mentioned as much in their LJ profiles or somesuch, since I wasn't recording those as people posted about them.
This doesn't mean I want to join the Dreamwidth vs LJ wank. c.c
Aside from Queer as Folk, I do not believe I have ever seen anything quite as gay as episode 12 of House S4. What was that?
Regarding the end of S1 of House:
Sooo, House is basically whoring himself out here, isn't he? The smug looks on Cameron's face are grossing me out. Ew, ew, who thought this was a good idea?
ETA: oh my god they just took out a JAW and they've had this fetish with lumbar needles lately and WHY AM I WATCHING THIS GOING TO BE SICK
--- How the fuck did I get hooked on House? The number of shows I've watched/started watching in the last three months is absurd. Also, this is like the worst show I could watch because it routinely makes me feel ill and I have to cover my eyes through a good five-ten minutes of each episode. I don't need to see needles poked into eyeballs. But House makes me cackle with glee and Wilson and their weird friendship is adorable and I don't hate the rest of the characters. Dammit.
Dear brain:
I don't care that you came up with a semi-clever way to allegorize a common fandom fear. You still gave me what is effectively a zombie nightmare and you made it take place in my school, with all my friends having minor to starring roles as fucking zombies.
I hate you.
Discomfited and paranoid,
Pyrae
Went to Watchmen at midnight.
( Highly inappropriate thought I had at 3am, just after film's climax )
I don't yet have any thoughts on, you know, plot or music or how it's adapted.
--- Have watched through episode 4 of Being Human (so, including pilot, five episodes since...yesterday). Shit, shit, I need to do work.
--- watched episodes 1 and 2 of Being Human. SO AWESOME. HELP.
I just watched the pilot of Being Human on Youtube, even though I have a crapload of work to do. *facepalm* It was awesome. I want more. I can't have more.
Finally back to watching Angel...
( 4x18, 'Shiny Happy People' (ETA 4x19, 'The Magic Bullet') )
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It is to laugh!
(ahahaha oh god you don't want to know how long it has taken me to do nine chemistry problems)
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It had to happen. Today it "warmed up" to 17 degrees, which Accuweather tells me felt like 2 degrees if you factor in wind chill and shit, and I saw a guy in shorts. He seemed fine. I was in hat/scarf/gloves/boots, since I've lived in them for over a month anyhow. Cue inevitable remark about Minnesota and disbelieving question as to why I'm going to school here.
Thanks to people who answered my question about travel options! I'm adding your points to my table of pros and cons, and will be showing it to my friends soonish. They shall be so impressed with my surveying skills.
Question for bus travelers.
Some of my friends here at school are thinking of spending a few days in Chicago over spring break, and we are considering Greyhound as a way of getting there from Minneapolis. Has anyone had experience with Greyhound? Was it easy to manage? Not worth the price? Trouble with luggage? Poorly located stations? Failure to get a seat despite advance tickets? Anything?
ETA: We're also looking at Amtrak. It's costlier by about $50 (total, not each, and that's assuming a Greyhound discount) but it seems like it would be more reliable and more comfortable. All I know about Amtrak is Joe Biden loves it.
I don't usually do "highlight what you've done!" memes, but these are the Newbery Medal recipients, and it turns out I read a fair bit in my childhood! Bolded means I read it, underlined means I think I did.
( PS congrats Neil Gaiman )
I went rock climbing again today. This time I made it up two walls! Oh, I will feel it in the morning, but right now I just feel kickass, because I was also faster than last time, and not as afraid.
--- Who the fuck scheduled new Lost episodes at the same time as Criminal Minds? Don't those fuckers know there's only one TV and I'm outnumbered? Fuck. I liked watching them live.
I went rock climbing again today! As before, I got up one wall, tried a second, and found my muscles were too dead to get me even to halfway. On the other hand, one of the friends I brought with me easily scaled one wall, attempted the section I'd completed, and declared it ten times harder than the one she'd done. With all my handicaps (no muscle strength, short limbs, terrified of heights), this makes me feel mildly awesome.
Arms do not want to move now, though. Sore.
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Sledding was fantastically awesome today. The hill was basically pure ice where people had been going down, with snow left on the sides to make it (theoretically) possible to get back up. There was also a massive build-up of it at the bottom, which people tended to smash into with a great spray of powder. Depending on your momentum and orientation, you would either plow straight through, slide to a quick but painless halt, or go FLIPPING THROUGH THE AIR onto a padded cushion of fresh powder. I had my metal saucers, and as this ice was already smooth enough to make sliding down on your ass fun and painless, the saucers basically eliminated all friction. We got absurd speed on those things.
All went well except that at some point I do believe I sprained my wrist. It hurt a little after one trip down, when I crashed into someone (we both felt perfectly fine but evidently something happened that I cannot remember), but more and more types of movement are making it hurt. I would try to rest it except I have, you know. Homework to do. That requires my right hand. I wonder if "I went sledding" is an acceptable excuse for not finishing Chem.
I was rather uncharacteristically enjoying my Christmas Eve glass of wine until I noticed the tiny dead fly in it. How long has that been there? Ugh.
Anyway, the key to enjoying this wine seems to be to swish it around at the front of the mouth, and not actually swallow. I think I understand wine tasting now.
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