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11/25/11 // 10:47 am

My roommate has gone home for Thanksgiving, giving me the apartment all to myself for five days.

Never has an icon been so appropriate.

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Hell yeah!

8/30/11 // 05:41 pm

Final count:

Victory!

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HAN SOLO

8/30/11 // 01:42 am

Scroll on down to the bottom. Han only needs one more vote to win. I take the poll down tomorrow. MAKE ME PROUD.

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Well... that was Irene then, huh?

8/29/11 // 01:29 am

So, Irene. My apartment's in an evacuation zone--my roommate and I only would have been evacuated if a category 3 hit just south of NYC, so we didn't leave, but we got well prepared beforehand. Went on a grocery run on Friday. Filled every container (and the bathtub) with water. The super came in and taped the back windows. Moved the furniture away from the windows in the event of a glass-splosion. Frequently checked weather reports and left all charge-able electronic devices plugged in to maintain maximum charge. Responded to increasingly anxious calls and texts from Mom. On Saturday there was a little bit of rain and some thunder; I went to sleep at 11:45ish, expecting to be woken up by the hurricane at some point in the next few hours.

I woke up Sunday morning at 9:30ish after a very restful night of sleep, thinking I'd missed the hurricane.

I don't think my neighborhood got hit, like... at all? Which is great--I know people lost power and had their homes flooded and, y'know, died. Still weird, though. I expected to come out of my apartment today and see flooded streets, tree limbs through buildings, a population thrust into full-on Lord of the Flies-type madness, but nope. When I went out earlier it was windy and there was a downed tree limb. I don't think it even rained much here (though I gather it did in other parts of the city, and much more in my home state of NC).

So, just a boring weekend stuck in the apartment. I think I got my roommate hooked on Misfits, though.

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Han Solo!

8/24/11 // 05:59 pm

GUYS GUYS GUYS. Urgent. I work on the weekly poll on my magazine's website, and a recent poll asked for favorite Harrison Ford character and HAN. SOLO. IS. LOSING. To Indiana Jones, but still.

I beseech you, GO VOTE FOR HAN. His poll is the one at the bottom, which means that next Monday I take it off the site. I feel very proprietary toward these polls, and if Han loses, I will be sad. If Han pulls an upset, I will be happy.

C'mon guys, make me happy! Vote for Han!

ETA: He's down by one vote! Only two more votes and he pulls ahead of Indy. Han has to win--he didn't make the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs to get beaten by a guy who drives around in a Jeep.

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So, hi again!

8/13/11 // 12:10 pm

Shit wot I have done recently, in handy list format:

Bought 3-day pass to NY Comic Con.

Gone to steampunk bar and seen the 8th Doctor TV movie, which wasn't that bad if you ignore that it's Doctor Who. I mean, the Doctor running around being confused and kissing people's weird after seeing Ten (a.k.a. the Get Shit Done Doctor), but... c'mon, it's Paul McGann. What's not to like?

Seen Captain America. I get that it's called Captain America and not Red Skull, but c'mon, the screenwriters could've spent more than 30 seconds of their brainstorming sessions on figuring out the villain. "So, Red Skull. He wants to rule the world... by dropping bombs on the East Coast... because he's eeeevil. OK, cool, now that that's wrapped up, let's figure where we can fit even more references to Chris Evans' buffness."

Seen Tucker & Dale vs Evil

Seen The Devil's Double. GOOD. SO GOOD.

Almost gotten caught up on True Blood. I've been watching it with my roommate while sitting on my new grey corduroy sofa, which is the love of my life right now, God's honest truth.

Spent way too many hours on Tumblr.

Started reading Dean/Cas fic despite the fact that I'm only like 3/4 of the way through S2 and Castiel hasn't even shown up yet. I just can't wait a whole season-plus, OK?! Also, I may or may not have stayed up until 6:30AM reading a high school AU. Going to work on three hours of sleep is ~~fun~~ very near to hallucination-inducing.

Watched some Luther. Heeeeey Paul McGann!

Tags: chris evans' buffness, corduroy sofa, eight you are so stylish, movies, red+evil that's all you need!, tv

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My five-years-ago self is SO PISSED at me right now

8/3/11 // 04:59 pm

Guys, this is terribly hard for me to say, but. . . I've come to a decision. It was a difficult one, and I'd like you to be supportive. Here goes:

I'm not going to see Deathly Hallows 2 in theaters.

I mean, I'll will if I want to at some point, but I haven't yet, and it's been weeks since it came out. My brother went when I was in NC and I didn't go with him because I felt more like going through old clothes and boxes of books to sort out stuff to get rid of. Not kidding.

I just have no interest in this last movie. DH is my favorite book anyways, and the last few movies have been disappointing. I felt like I should see DH 2, because I can't watch 7 books and see 7 movies and just not see the last one, right? But $12 (plus popcorn money) and 2+ hours, with nothing but a (probable) vague sense of having been cheated to show for it? MEH. I would like my lingering memory regarding the last movie to be looking at photos of Matthew Lewis at the premieres and thinking "Damn, Neville got hot!"

If I'm struck with the desire to see it all of a sudden, I will, but the list of movies I want to pay to see in theaters is pretty long, and there's always DVD.

So. Am I excommunicated from LJ?

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WHAT IS MY ORANGEST ICON?! AH YES, HERE 'TIS

7/9/11 // 04:28 am

Ugh, it's been awhile.

Bullet point post!

I moved into a new apartment on July 1st. I am now EVEN CLOSER to the Awesome Pie Place.

Internet was just installed yesterday. After being proud of myself for doing so well without Internet for a week, I promptly visited Tumblr at the first opportunity and stayed up until 3AM. *facepalm*

And right now it's 4AM. And I'm really tired, but I'm still on the computer. Welcome back, Internet!

I'M SO SLEEPY!

Ian McKellen is awesome, not that this is news to anyone ever.

Mom's been having some health problems, so I'm going to NC for 10 days starting this Thursday.

I've started watching Supernatural.

I just finished the episode where something happens and Sam yells out DEAN! in a very booming voice. OH WAIT. THAT IS ALL THE EPISODES.

I have also started watching Wallander.

And Game of Thrones. I'm halfway through reading the first book, too. That the book is so fresh in my mind makes all the changes and omissions really stand out, so I'm distracted from enjoying the TV show, so I might stop reading it 'til I'm caught up. I'd rather be pleasantly surprised later when I read new things.

I finally saw The Breakfast Club, after 26 years of never having done so.

I watched Another Country with my roommate tonight. Young Colin Firth, rrrrrowr. Though it's really weird that he looks so much younger but his voice hasn't changed AT ALL.

Colin Firth, you are messing with my brain, stop it.

I am so not into HP:DH2. At all. So the torrential downpour of tears at the last movie will be surprising, though still inevitable. But honestly, I probably won't even go to opening night. PoA was really the only good movie. . . so there's that.

Tomorrow. Midnight showing. MORTAL KOMBAT!

Dun dun dun dun DUN dun! Dun dun dun dun DUN dun! Dun dun dun dun DUN dun, dah-dun, dah-dun, dah-DUN!

I looked in the bathroom mirror and realized that I'm various shades of orange right now. And then I got back to the kitchen table and realized that my book was orange, and I am drinking orange soda. In my sleep deprived state, I thought this required documentation.