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It's been a few days, internet, and you are still failing to provide me with Isner/Mahut slash. Bad form. I do have high hopes for some from people I found discussing Isner/Mahut slash using the Livejournal comments and entries search thing, though. Although by high, I mean 'miniscule'.

I've not been very communicative for the last few days. That's possibly because I've had a sort of busy week. I was at college on Tuesday and Wednesday, I know I didn't mention. I signed up to have some free college training with the Jobcentre, while I was off work and it was still available, and I have to go have a two day induction this week. Mostly this meant getting to a really odd community centre somewhere outside of Wakefield for a half day course on what the college is like, filling in induction forms, and finding out what kind of learner I am (visual, mainly, which I sort of already assumed, and it was only a self-assessment), and then a half day course on customer service, which mostly involved discussing customer service, and how you can do it well or badly, or how some people do it well or badly.

Then the next day I went to the actual college in Wakefield (and still had a hard time finding out where I needed to be), and had an almost-full day's course on First Aid in the Workplace, for which I now have a three-year certificate. I say almost-full day because we were meant to be staying until 4 o'clock, but we got let out at about half past 2 because a bunch of the lads wanted to go early for the England game, and another I think had a Jobcentre appointment at 2.30. But I think we still fit in everything we needed to, and it was actually quite good. I'd had a bit of first aid training at school, but they didn't teach us how to do chest compressions because apparently it was really easy, if you didn't know what you were doing, to accidentally break a rib and drive it into a vital organ, possibly the heart. But according to the woman who taught us on Wednesday, either that's been proved to be not true, or the law has sort of changed because apparently you'll almost certainly break a rib doing chest compressions anyway, and it's sort of assumed that if someone isn't breathing or has no pulse they'll need chest compressions enough to risk possibly breaking a rib and puncturing something anyway. I don't know. But we learned how to do them, and how to do mouth-to-mouth, and what should be in a first aid kit, and the different types of shock, and different causes of fainting. And I got used as someone to have the recovery position demonstrated on me, which I thought might happen since I was the only girl there, apart from the tutor woman. But maybe it had nothing do with that. Anyway, we went through and did it, and it was really quite good, and I have a First Aid in the Workplace certificate now, hurrah! And they're going to contact me shortly, possibly, about doing the actual work-related course I signed up for. I think.

After that, on Thursday my mum and I had my youngest nephew, and on Friday I had to get my mum a birthday present and my mum and I had my oldest nephew. Then on Saturday it was my mum's birthday, and I slept in, and then we went to Chiquito's for a meal, then today I slept in and then we went to a local pub for our Sunday dinner. And now I am posting. And in between all that, I was running up to my room on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8 o'clock or half 8 to listen to Adam and Joe at Glastonbury, which was grand. So, yes. I've been busy this week.

But I watched TV as well, a bit, last week. Including Emmerdale. OH MY GOD OH MY GOD NATHAN HAS THE WORST MOTHER EVER OH MY GOD. Emmerdale )

Also, you know what Simpsons pairing I love? Sideshow Bob/Bart. I have terrible pairings, I know. Although frankly, when there is a scene between two characters which involves one trying to kill the other and then finding that they 'can't do it', and then singing about how they've 'grown accustomed to his face', I'm not sure that it's completely my fault. I love Sideshow Bob/Bart.

Also I love Logan/Aaron from Veronica Mars. I really truly love it. I wrote a tiny bit of fic the other week based on a prompt from a prompt community, and thought up a bunch of AUs, including a sort of Labyrinth AU, mainly because I've been listening to the Labyrinth soundtrack quite a lot recently, and the idea of Aaron coming back from the dead as a kind of Goblin King figure and making Logan run around a maze to try to get back a child or person he'd accidentally wished away, all while trying to sort of convince/seduce Logan into staying with him in supernatural-land forever, was REALLY QUITE PLEASING TO ME. And I have awful pairings, I know. But awful GREAT pairings.
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Hello. It's me. A few weeks ago I decided, since my computer didn't seem to be having the disk space issues it had been doing and I had a new external hard drive to clear space with anyway, to see if I could install an old game of mine, Morrowind, again. It turned out that I could, aside from some problems with the computer not recognising the game disk some of the time. But anyway, I've mostly been playing that rather than posting for the past few weeks. God I love Morrowind. I'm not exactly a big gamer, but it's probably my favourite game I ever had. And one of my favourite fantasy stories ever. But anyway.

I have been doing stuff though. I went to see the Snow Queen in London a few weeks ago, and stayed the weekend with [livejournal.com profile] cakesy. The Snow Queen, and staying with cakesy )

I also had two interviews. The interviews )

The flat things )

Anyway. In other news:

  • While I was at my parents' I picked up a belated Christmas present that wasn't delivered in time in December, the Wolf Almanac. And promptly spent most of my time at my parents' reading about wolves. I would be tormenting you all with Wolf Facts and discussing Erroneous Assumptions About Wolves somewhat endlessly, but I'm mostly a better friend than that.

  • I saw a part of an episode of Veronica Mars while I was at my parents', and am currently going through one of my regular bouts of rage about the lack of Aaron/Logan on the internet. Dudes. It was incestuous, abusive, AND Aaron was a Spoiler for season 1 ). How could it not have taken off??

  • I saw a beautiful hat in the sale in Accessorise last week, on the very day that I really properly did not have enough money to buy it with. It was a black trilby with two of those scrunched-up felt flowers attached to the side, a pink one and a grey one. It was beautiful, sort of Gangster-Feminine, but the next day, when I had slightly more money, it had gone. At the moment I'm vaguely planning to make one. If I can find the right bits in a haberdasher's.


Another thing I've been thinking - while I do feel like any money I get from now on should really at least partly go towards paying back what I've borrowed from my savings to pay for my rent and stuff lately - on the other hand, when I get the £200-ish deposit back from my flat (assuming I do move out at the end of February and they don't feel the need to buy new furnishing with it or keep it for some reason), it would probably pay pretty much for me to go to Eastercon. Assuming there are still places and I can find someone to share with. Hmm. It's a thought, anyway.
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Someone made a Sam/Yellow-Eyed Demon slash vid.

I don't know why the internet isn't chock full of Sam/Yellow-Eyed Demon slash. Sam was his FAVOURITE. He watched him since he was a BABY. He had PLANS for him. And other things. Other things I could probably remember if I wanted to. Dude.

Other videos I like: Veronica Mars: Star Wars style. Although it does make me want Keith/Aaron. And possibly Keith/Aaron/Logan. That's a bit good.

Also, I don't know what this is, but it looks fantastic.

Things

Jan. 24th, 2008 10:44 pm
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  • Are there are any more beautiful three words in the world than Final Clearance Sale? Suddenly all the most colourful, cheapest tat in the world can be yours!


  • I have a new neighbour. She came to the door yesterday to ask when the bins are taken out and which days the binmen come, and already I think I've exchanged more words with her than I ever did with my previous neighbour. She seemed quite suprised and bewildered by the lack of a washer and dryer, but also seems like the kind of person who will take in her own mail. And she changed the lightbulb in the hallway. I think this will go quite well.


  • Really the best part about the time after Christmas is clearance Christmas chocolate. I'm aware that the bags of Thorntons mishapes aren't really particularly cheap at £1.99, but still I get to have 200g of broken chocolate figures to snack on. Mmm, Santa's leg...


  • Today there was actual sunshine, that I saw and walked in. And when I finished work there was a bit of blue in the sky. It was like some kind of magic. I CALL IT THE MAGIC OF SUN.


  • Stephen Mangan has been given his own show on Thursday nights and is on TV again. This is very good. He is QUITE BEAUTIFUL. ALL THE TIME. He's a recovering alcoholic who isn't terribly impressed with his AA group, or life without alcohol. Mostly he accidentally seduces people and has to go hide upstairs when it all goes wrong. And wears jackets. OH. IT'S GREAT.


  • La Senza did not have underwear in the size I wanted. Wilkinsons do not have a hand towel in the colour I want. A pox on them.


  • There is a Cross-Gen/Incest Porn Battle here that includes prompts for Veronica Mars but not any for Aaron/Logan. What the hell, mostly?


  • Never Mind the Buzzcocks is still very good. Am I wrong in thinking that the singer guy tonight looked a bit Sylar-ish? Like if Sylar suddenly decided he wanted to be in a British semi-famous indie band? Can anyone who watched it remember the second intro he and Phil did though? I remember knowing it, but can't remember what it was (hmph).
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  • I spent most of today and yesterday at work checking two forty-page documents to make sure the text was exactly or mostly straight because the printers are a bit funny, and the documents were going out into the public domain. Pity me.


  • It's quite sad that there don't seem to be any L.A. Confidential "Holding Out For A Hero" vids. Since that's blatantly what Exley was doing. Hmph.


  • Suburban Shootout fic though, woo!


  • And today on Emmerdale, Carl King went mad with power. Matt was only slightly turned on.


  • I can't believe no-one ever told me about Evil Dead: The Stage Version before. Dude. Mostly I think it would be worth it just for "All The Men In My Life Keep Getting Killed By Candarian Demons".


  • People still really aren't writing enough Aaron/Logan slash. Damn them.
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Mac from Veronica Mars is in Napoleon Dynamite. She is Deb, and wears pink and takes "glamour" shots, and sadly has no computer skillz. Also there was recreational bowling, to which I'm pretty sure I'm now addicted without having picked up a ball in years. It's nice and only slightly terrifying how all my viewing seems to be going round in circles lately.

Napoleon Dynamite is one of those funny geeks who still looks very good )in a pair of jeans. He drew rubbish pictures, but oh, how he danced. And fell over. And there was some beautiful, dusty scenery, which it appears I'm a sucker for. And it didn't have Peter Stormare in it, which is frankly a bit of a relief at this point. So not a bad way to round off the weekend. Hurrah.
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Veronica Mars, the end )
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Midway through Veronica Mars 2.22 )
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The music on the Brick website just - gets me. Oh. Which is why I'm glad the soundtrack is apparently available from Amazon. It's interesting to contrast and compare the film with Veronica Mars - similar. But very different.

Speaking of which, I'm slightly terrified of finishing it tonight, which I surely will unless the disks make me cry. Everything will surely go wrong and terrible for all my favourite characters, and I'll have just been wrong about everything ever.

Or not.

Anyway. I have an odd urge to write an essay/book about cars in contemporary drama, after musing about all the ones in VMars. Mostly it would have pretty pictures, I suspect. Though I could probably throw in a few Christine references too, just to please myself >:)
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Veronica Mars up to 2.19 (home stretch, people) )
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Veronica Mars 2.15 )
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Yesterday, I:

  • Learned how to turn up the brightness on my icons. One day, they will reach the dizzying heights of "mediocre"!

    In the meantime, this is Uma Thurman in My Super Ex-Girlfriend. Love her as I do.


  • Touched a very small horse (not in a creepy way)


  • Ordered that pen


  • Went on a walk with my sister, mother, grandmother and nephew. Which might be more properly called a hike. Or even a trek.

    We started off just around the field up the hill, where we normally go. Then someone decided we should stay out a bit longer, and wander down the wild, rock-spattered road we used to go down when we were young and trying to walk off Sunday dinners. We lost sight of civilisation somewhere in the first ten minutes. I don't think the local sewage works counts. I had to stay at the back with my doddering old grandmother, pushing the pushchair to keep herself upright, while she gasped and told how she wasn't fit anymore, and she'd be dead quite soon. Halfway down/up the track, mum remembered a friend of hers lived up it who kept 'wild, vicious dogs' which she let roam loose sometimes, so I had to silently devise contingency plans for both sacrificing myself for Jack, and getting him out of there, since I was probably the fastest. After making it past them, my sister eventually led us down a leafy, manure-strewn "exit" path, through some bushes, over a stream, and under a mystery tunnel, from whence it was just a fifteen minute walk down a main road before we got home. Where I fell down. And had cake. All's well that ends with cake.


  • Watched the rest of the third disk of Veronica Mars, so I could start the last tonight. Even though the last episode of disk three stuck and stuck and stuck, and made me want to weep, and I'm now slightly terrified all the other episodes will do the same. And I will never know the truth and beauty of it. I comfort myself with the fact that the rest of the episodes played unto perfection, and hope. Against hope. Also: the show is slightly gay. Slightly really gay. Omg.


  • Did not have to work. Which was not the case today!
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Veronica Mars 2.01 and 2.02 )

Connotations is a little over two months away, and this pleases me immensely. Who do I know who's going at this point? Such people who SHAMELESSLY TURN IT DOWN YEAR AFTER YEAR WITH NO RHYME OR REASON need not reply (you know who you are!)
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I'm off work for the second time this week because of my period. Damn you period. Except for the part where I'm - off work. Naturally I feel perfectly fine now, but the paracetomol wasn't working very well on Monday, and Day Three can sometimes be worse than Day One, and I don't really want to faint. Again. So. I'm home. Tee hee

I haven't been posting or commenting. I have been watching Season 1 of Veronica Mars. Neither today nor yesterday did I know what day it was, and (as per usual) I can't quite remember what my favourite character looks like. VERONICA MARS ATE MY BRAIN. Fact.

But I've just realised there should totally be a crossover called Life On Veronica Mars, with Veronica and Logan going back in time, and to England, and my bra is totally on inside out. Dudes. ATE MY BRAIN.

But anyway. I finished Series 1. And it is yay. Except for the part where I still can't go and read all the fic and discussions in comms because they're spoiled for Season 2. Since I pretty much ignored my family, my kittens, any sort of social interaction and a healthy, happy attitude to work in order to finish it so quickly (to be fair, so I could stop HATING ON family/social interaction/work that was keeping me away from watching more) - I kind of told myself I'd take a break before getting into Season 2. Though not longer than till this weekend, I'm guessing. But...I sort of want a fix. And possibly need help. Oh dear.

Anyway. Obsession aside, my thoughts on S1/the show: Spoilers (possibly vague ones for S2) )

So. I am mad with fandom. But resting for a while. I have been spending time with the kittens, and, y'know, feeding them and stuff, and they are both lovely. One is lovelier than the other - Kell purrs and comes to see you and meows (a little intensely) at you - but they're both pretty swish. Pictures later, probably. Mainly tonight I am looking forward to A Town Called Eureka on Sky - another rarity for me and television. But it looks slightly ace. It's about a hidden town full of eccentric geniuses in North America. Small, insular community? Check. Strange goings on? Check. Quirky, geeky, intelligent characters? Check. Some sort of law enforcement official I don't have to care about? Check. I am SO THERE, people.
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1.10/1.11 )
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I have been rubbish at commenting and posting. It is Jen's fault and her Veronica Mars. She did not tell me I would STICK LIKE GLUE to it. Hmph.

Veronica Mars )

I just wish I had proper time to watch it, instead of Time When Dad Wants Me To Clean Out The Garage, or Time When Jack Is Being A Nightmare, and, y'know, Time Working. But, I forebear. I got paid today. And I still don't understand it. By my reckoning, I should be getting about £900 (£6 an hour for 37.5 hours a week). And I have been taking days off, so I shouldn't get all of that. But still I'm getting £975, with £60 National Insurance taken off, so £914. I'm not complaining, but - hell, I'm not complaining. I just hope it continues and they don't come asking for some back at some point.

I think I will put aside money for Connotations this month. And possibly buy Carnivale. Yes.
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Jekesta IS CLEAR GLORY AND WIN! She sent me Veronica Mars! All of Veronica Mars! And I glove her and I know I stole that word and oh. I will watch it (all) when I finish Lost and that last episode of Eerie Indiana. Or just - right now. Who knows. LOVE.

KITTEN UPDATE: You remember how I said, some weeks back, I was getting a kitten? And then nothing more since? Well, my sister's mostly been trying to offload the other three, and two are gone, but one remains (besides mine). However I (slightly), and my mum and dad (more so), are getting slightly fed up with waiting, while the kitten pretty much becomes a cat. So, according to dad, it looks like - since we were going to take a kitten and her big cat, so it wouldn't fight with her dog - she will rather be keeping her cat, taking the dog, and we'll be having both kittens. Which I'm actually quite gleefully pleased with. Though it does mean I'll have to think up another name. Um. Yes. BUT - two kittens. Hopefully. Perhaps some night this week. Huzzah! :)
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I graduated. Check me out.

Graduation Day. No demon snakes, though )

Today I skived off work, being completely knackered. We stayed on for dinner with my housemates and their parents last night, and didn't get back till 11 or 12, after staying up late on Wednesday as well. I almost overslept yesterday morning - forgot to set my alarm. Only my mystical ability to sometimes get up exactly when I intend to/am used to doing, without alarms, saved me. Also I had a coughing fit at 5am this morning, and blah blah blah blah blah, I didn't think I'd be much use. I sorted out all the masses of stuff we emptied out of the Nottingham house instead. I have somehow magically made it disappear into my room, and I'm not sure how. Ah well.

I also have more books than ever. It's slightly horrific and terrifying. Bookshelves soon, I think.

Anyway. I also watched my recorded episode of Veronica Mars. Spoilers for Veronica Mars 2.7 )

I want to see Series 1. Like now. Probably I should just bite the bullet and start downloading stuff. But I'm also thinking a multiregion DVD player might not be a bad idea. Like these shiny numbers (ooooh). I can pretty much afford it, after all. And I could probably cope with the tiny screen.
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I answered all my comments. I am tired.

In tonight's Emmerdale, Matt and Carl did not stand as close as I might wish. But they did get Carl out of those suits and back into jeans and t-shirts . And have him talk about seeing the explosion again and again in his mind. Because he is just so eeee, and like that. Good deep down at heart, enough to feel guilt and responsibility for stuff he's involved in, and also innocent enough for Terrible Things to be a shock. God knows how often he still thinks/dreams about the postman. I love Carl. He is ace.

There were plenty more King huddles. And Carl being the voice of reason. And the one good bit of King interaction was Matthew, slightly inappropriately (though he's done that before), making a joke about Jimmy while he was in surgery, to which Carl just laughed softly, and said 'Yeah. Just like when we were kids'. A) because it is a sign Carl letting himself love Matt again, and b) because it refers to when they were kids. And eee! I love the thought of it. And the line implies a certain togetherness when they were kids, and that is great, because Jimmy and Matt are 10 years older than Carl, and still they all played together. Because they loved him. Yay.

Carl repeated Jimmy's lies to the Health and Safety people. Clearly he is going to need Matthew's help in running a secure business while Jimmy is ill. It's very pleasing :)


Anyway. In other news, I watched my first ever episode of Veronica Mars today. I was slightly confused by the characters' shocking racism and the murders with no obvious explanation. Also the fact that Elliot from Just Shoot Me is Veronica's father. Though if he calls his detective firm Mars & Daughter I WILL LOVE HIM FOREVER. But I was intrigued enough (not least by the random Veronica/Logan scene) to want to see more of it. Which is why it's very frustrating that, what with all the fuss fandom has been making about it, I don't think it's been on UK terrestrial TV yet, and the only DVDs available are Region 1. I settled for recording next Thursday's episode - a quarter-way through Season 2. Hmph.
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