Dollhouse: I HAVEN'T SEEN LAST WEEK'S STILL. I procured it, I can watch it at some point, but tonight is knitting night and tomorrow I'm going out with beanpop and her hubs so I'll just have to watch it before I watch tomorrow night's episode... probably this weekend.

Glee: Really, the only reasons I think I keep watching this show are the musical numbers and Jane Lynch. The rest of the story lines are either a) not terribly well written; b) incredibly over the top; c) just plain boring; d) all of the above.

Castle: Freaking awesome as usual. I love this show. I love Nathan Fillion going all grammar nazi on suspects. And Stana's hair is gorgeous. DO WANT.

Criminal Minds: I love hobbly Reid (okay, no one's surprised about that). I'd bake him cookies. Bad Garcia, Bad! those of you who follow my twitter already saw my elation, but Sean Patrick Flanery (looking a bit older but still pretty darned cute and doing a fantastic job) was on last night's episode. YOUNG INDY.

...I watch other shows but I'm either behind or have nothing interesting to say about them, so, ( pictures from the past weekend. )

(500) Days of Summer:

1. All right, I'm just going to say it. NEEDS MOAR GUBLER. Now that that's out of the way.
2. I desperately want Zooey Deschanel's hair.
3. Joseph Gordon-Levitt sort of had a Heath Ledger thing going on—sharp angles on the face, deep-set eyes, smirking grin.
4. I loved the architectural details interspersed throughout the movie. They were a nice way to emphasize the fact that Tom wasn't living up to his dreams.
5. Marc Webb stole the majority of the soundtrack from my iPod. True story. Okay not really true, but I was having a fun little internal game of "identify this song" and I got most of them.
6. Summer's attitude towards love and life very much reminded me of Betsy. Also the HUMONGOUS EYES. I miss the Betsy (and the rest of the Orlando folks!).
7. OF COURSE HIS NEW OBJECT OF AFFECTION IS NAMED AUTUMN. I literally facepalmed at that. I was with you until that, Marc Webb, but at that point, you sort of stepped into cutesyville and I just couldn't go with you.
8. The karaoke scene was delightful and I sort of want to hear JGL actually sing, because he seems as though he might be quite good at it.
9. I totally thought of teamradvak every time Tom wore his Joy Division shirt.
10. Overall, a very good movie. I liked the way it was structured, the writing was sharp, the acting all around was very good.

Before the movie, I saw trailers for Whip It! (OMG want to see that so very badly) and Adam, which looks cute and awkward and full of the ever-charming Mr. Dancy. (not Darcy, DaNcy.)

Tomorrow: Heather and Rob's virtual baby shower (via phone call, since we couldn't all convene in Maryland), Greek Festival (there had better be a MOUNTAN of BAKLAVA), and a co-worker's birthday party (there are promises of s'mores!).

THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THE HAPPY, SUPPORTIVE WORDS. I'm really excited, although right now I'm really just exhausted.

Some details: My title will be Assistant Editor, and I'll be working on a variety of projects in different forms of media (print, TV, electronic). My last day with this company is June 30, and my first day with at the new job is July 13. THAT'S NOT FAR AWAY. I literally have 2 weeks to get everything packed and ready to move before I start driving out there. Of course, in the mean time, I still have to go to work every day for 4 more days--okay, 3 and a half as of this posting--, go to Orlando on Sunday to see some friends who are visiting from out of state, go back to Orlando on Monday night for the Jenny Lewis concert with turalu_21 (a more prudent person than I would skip it, but I need some C-time, I've been looking forward to this show for months, and I've never seen Jenny on her own), take Vera to the vet to get her shots up to date, drive across the state to my parents' house for my grandmother's memorial service and family time, and then drive back and load the pod. All told, I'll have three full days of packing, and that's it. Obviously I have evenings and half days here and there, but whew.

My mother is coming over this Saturday to help with the packing efforts, and I've already started a bit myself, but man. A smidge overwhelmed.

Thankfully I don't have to immediately worry about finding a place to live, because myras_girls and her delightful hubby have volunteered some space at their domicile. The one concern I have with that is the fact that Vera is a diva and she gets riled up around other animals, but hopefully she will either a) learn to coexist peacefully with other beings or b) learn to love being cooped up in one room.

I've been trying to make a mental list of things that are going to have to go in the car with me (and my mom and Vera). I'm torn, because I won't have a lot of room for yarn paraphernalia, but I am also going to have to go at least a few weeks without access to any of the stuff I put in the pod, so... I have to plan that carefully. I'm thinking about taking the yarn and magazine for the next large project I have in mind (the Elemental Boatneck pullover from the Summer IK issue), as well as the yarn for my mom's blanket (note to self: wind yarn) and a couple of skeins for socks (one sock I'm test knitting, one sock I'm "re-designing", whatever is still on the needles at the time). Money will be tight so I can't just buy more yarn until I can get to my stash! Clearly I'm going to need more projects in the project box. Meep.

I also am figuring out the reading material situation. I plan on setting aside whatever Harry Potter books I don't finish before I leave, but as I just finished Chamber of Secrets last night and will likely start on Prisoner of Azkaban today at lunch or dinner before knit night... well, at least Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, and Half-Blood Prince are fairly long.

See, this would be a good time to have a Kindle. They take up much less space.

Please, when I lament about the fact that I have all of this stuff with me, everyone just keep your mouths shut and don't point out the fact that it's really only about 3 and a half days of trading off driving with my mother and I'm packing entertainment items like it's 3 months. The yarn is the important thing, though, I'm sure I can find other entertainment for myself until I can access my boxes.

I'm leaning towards throwing in my Sandman volumes. They're skinny.

( entirely unrelated MGG pics )

Sigh. Matthew Gray Gubler, you will be the death of me. ( Read more... )

Star Trek + "I'm On a Boat" = BEST THING EVER (Totally NSFW, but had me rolling on the floor, for serious.) Scroll all the way down to the bottom to watch the fanvid version. My one regret is that there are apparently no flippy-floppies in space.

In related news, I need a new stamp in my Fangirl passport because I am all aboard the Chris Pine Fantrain. I blame lanyon and spoonishly. And by blame, I mean thank.

I'm thinking about seeing The Hangover this weekend. I'm tempted to turn it into a double-header and see Star Trek again. And then I may watch some more Harry Potter movies in anticipation of my re-read of the series. OH, I also borrowed Rise of the Lycans and S. Darko (the latter purely for the Jackson content, as I really do not like Donnie Darko) from Jen.

I finished a pair of socks last night and immediately cast on for another. It's a sickness. And my February Lady Sweater is moving along. For some reason the rows of garter stitch were nothing, but the gull lace is dragging a bit. I think it's the fact that I actually have to pay attention. I can knit all day long with no problems, but knit plus yarn overs and then purling back is a bit more time-consuming? I don't know. Meanwhile, I found the most adorable cardigan yesterday and it totally called out to be knit in the green Ella Rae yarn that I picked up on sale and so now I really want to knit it. One problem: the pattern is in French. Any of my knitter friends read French knitting instructions? I think I can figure most of it out with the help of Babelfish and my own knowledge of French and knitting, but a little support would not be amiss.

So, we had a few days of excitement there, but now it seems that all is back to normal and I'm still an incredible nerd who loves sci-fi/fantasy and knitting.

Watching the third to last ever episode of Pushing Daisies. It makes me super super happy, and yet, super super sad, because I know there will never be more PD eps made. Yes, I managed to not download the episodes when they were leaked, preferring to wait until I could see them on my TV screen. Damn you ABC. Damn. You. I may have to go see Land of the Lost just to support one of my celebrity BFFs, Anna Friel.

( Babbling about my beloved show )

I'm tempted to blow off my attempts to clean and watch Firefly instead. Probably shouldn't. Haven been gone for two weekends in a row means I need to clean.

I bought a giant slice of carrot cake yesterday at Downtown Produce, and it was the best decision I've made in a long time. Okay, maybe not.

When I grow up, I would like to be Melinda Clarke. She gets to kiss the pretty: Nathan Fillion, Zachary Levi, who knows who else I'm forgetting.

That's all I got.

For those of you who are Criminal Minds fans and/or Big Bang Theory fans, here's a picspam comparing Dr. Spencer Reid to Sheldon Cooper. I don't watch BBT (at the moment), but this picspam cracked me up.

This morning, the barista at Starbucks told me she loved my bag. This was made extra special by the fact that it's the bag I made myself.

I really need to sleep tonight and tomorrow night. It would be nice. I couldn't fall asleep last night--probably dozed off sometime after 1, and then I was up at 6:30 when the alarm went off. I'm thinking chamomile or sleepy tea in the evenings. Except I have to time it JUST RIGHT tomorrow because I can't go off to Colorado without knowing what's going to happen to Reid this time.

I've acquired a little nest egg in my PayPal account and I was really itching to buy some yarn yesterday. However, I managed to refrain, mostly by reminding myself that I have two skeins of sock yarn coming as part of the Vamp club, as well as some more sock yarn that is payment for other services rendered, and you know, souvenir yarn. (Oh lord.) So instead I bought this (hoping Etsy link works).

Thanks to FX, I have seen The Mummy Returns, X-Men 3: The Last Stand, and Underworld: Evolution numerous times over the last few days. They make for good background noise. OH! I should buy Rise of the Lycans.

Oh, and Castle and Dollhouse both really need to be renewed, because I need to know what happens after those finales.

This is pretty much exactly what I posted in deceitfulangel's discussion. ( flailing mostly for next week's Criminal Minds - spoilery for season 2 and maybe spoilery if you haven't seen the preview? )

I will not be a happy panda if something awful and irreversible happens next Wednesday!

OH GOD NATHAN FILLION COULD YOU BE ANY MORE HUMOROUS? I think not.



I can't wait for CBS to upload the whole episode, so I can watch a better version of it.

Yesterday morning, I watched Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber in Wolverine. (Quite enjoyed it, although the ending fell a little flat to me for some reason?) This morning, I'm watching the same two gentlemen in Kate and Leopold. Obviously, fate wants me to look at attractive men early in the morning. I think this is a good plan.

I'm pretty sure my air conditioning is just not really working at all. It's been on for almost an hour and it is still apparently 77 degrees (thermostat is set to 76). I turned it off last night because it was doing this then, and usually turning the whole thing off will re-set and get it to working right, but it's not working this time. The high for today is supposed to be 88. If the temperature in my house doesn't go lower than 77, I won't die, but I'm already really uncomfortable (it's all sticky). This is not going to make me more inclined to cleaning my house, either, as that will require me getting up and moving around and it's too warm and quite humid in the house. Really makes the idea of moving to a place where the high for today is 61.

Thankfully there seems to be some breeze action going on this morning, and so I've opened the windows.

Oh, I can finally announce that my friends Heather and Rob are expecting their first baby! Heather's due in mid-November. I really hate keeping happy news a secret.

( some recent photos to share with you all )

Yesterday I watched The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Usually Wes Anderson movies are not my favorite. I don't dislike them by any means, but they sort of just leave me thinking "...okay then." Which isn't a bad thing. Anyway, I did enjoy The Life Aquatic a lot more than I thought I would. (Matthew Gray Gubler's appearance with an Art Garfunkel-like hair-style didn't hurt. Or Willem Dafoe--he's just awesome.) I had to laugh while watching one of the featurettes. The actors were trying to describe the plot and kept going on and on. People. It's Moby Dick as told by Wes Anderson. Not difficult.

I still need to see Rushmore and Bottle Rocket.

I've been reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, though I haven't quite had the time to just sit and read the whole thing. I tried to read it yesterday while waiting for an oil change, but I had trouble tuning out the other people in the waiting room.

So so so excited for May. First up, X:Men Origins. WOLVERINE, BABIES. And then Star Trek. And then COLORADO AND MARITAL BLISS FOR CHRYSTA AND COREY.

Realized today as I was sweeping my kitchen that my treatise on the evils of flooring, specifically cleaning said flooring, was deleted, and that makes me sad. I thought I could have mass-produced it and begun a real movement to end the tyranny, or something.

I walked to the grocery store today, and when I got back, Vera managed to slip out the front door without my immediately noticing. I knew that I had heard her near the door, but hadn't realized that she'd snuck out. It was okay, because my brilliant baby made it one foot out the door before she flopped down on the cement and started rolling all around.

It is possible that I could be more boring, but I'm afraid I'll just have to leave you all semi-comatose.