Evil Wrapped in a Fangirl Disguise

Saturday two of the poplar trees at home blew down, missing the house by feet and various other semi-important things by inches. I'm so glad I'm not at home now. Unfortunately, now that trees have actually blown over, next time we have a big wind storm my fear of being smushed won't be completely ridiculous. Luckily, my room's mostly between lines of trees. Which is usually a pain, because that means in the summer I get the full afternoon/evening sun without the benefit of any shade. What were they thinking randomly leaving a spot open in the trees?

I'm rambling because it's late and I'm tired, but not quite tired enough to go to bed. Point is, we lost trees. It kind of freaks me out. The end.

Classes freak me out less. I know it's only the second week (first full week) of the quarter, but I can see better now how I can fit all of the readings into my days. Now I think the only stress causing thing will be papers and that's not at all surprising.

I've got the new SGA to watch, but I think I'm going to hold off until later this week to watch it. It seems like people mostly enjoyed this last one, so that's a good sign. Plus I've seen pictures and, well, Sheppard's not hard on the eyes. None of them are. Which is no different than any ep, really. (Except for maybe that one where John develops that nasty skin condition and the ability to scale walls like Spiderman. Seriously, the skin involved with turning into a bug gave me a little case of the heebie jeebies. I don't like skin related things.)

Now for some writing. Or maybe more Yeats. Or bed. Woo.

So, next week is the 200th episode of SG-1. I'm mildly annoyed that they keep showing special previews for it during Eureka. I mean I understand that they want to advertise it because it's a big accomplishment for any show, but I would have liked to have gone into it without seeing some of the stuff they're going to pull.

Comments for SciFi Friday this week are particularly blah and not really thought out. I'm lazy and have got nothing.

( SG-1 - Uninvited )

( SGA - Progeny )

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The clouds tonight were really interesting.

( Pictures )

I spent two and an half hours this morning on a tractor raking hay.

It was exciting, let me tell you. Actually, it was very zen-like. And not boring for the first hour+. After an hour the song that was stuck in my head got boring. I reverted to "Henry the Eighth," because if anything is an earworm, that song is. (Except I can't remember the beginning of it.)

So yes. Raking. It was an experience. I didn't suck at it and I didn't break any equipment worth lots of money. I also didn't injure myself or others. Plus, we finished that field. All in all, a productive morning. It did mean only four hours of sleep last night, but whatever.

In other not-revolving-around-me news, apparently the designer accused of being less than honest wrote a note to the Project Runway blog denying the allegations. I liked the designer fine. I'm interested in seeing more if they don't get kicked off. However, there is no excuse for NOT USING THE SHIFT KEY. See how easily I used it there? It works well for signaling the beginnings of sentences, proper nouns, and acronyms. You can also use it to emphasize something. The shift-key is handy. It is your friend. Use it.

Okay, so I'll admit to not using shift sometimes, but only to make a point or for stylistic purposes. And it doesn't always bug me, but, yes, I do have issues with the reasoning behind not using it.

Yeah. Eureka premiers on the SciFi channel tonight. As does Dead Like Me, which I highly suggest that people look into. It's a fantastically weird show.

I spent 2.5+ hours re-roping fifty year old Venetian blinds. It would have taken less time, but I had to do the right side three times before I got it completely right. By the third time I was frustrated and really just wanted Grandma to shell out the cash for new ones.

But I felt really accomplished when I finally got it right! Go me! With my mad Venetian blind fixing skills.

Grades also came out today.

Ethnic American Lit: A
Asian Religions: A-
Art of the Film: A-

So, yes, all around a non-sucky kind of day. Except for the wind. That was gross. But helpful for the farm, so I guess I won't complain too much.

The stupid weather has cost us roughly $50,000. Not good. Grandma's been complaining about it and I mentioned it to Mom today because, really, I don't have to finish my four years of college in four years. Or I could go somewhere else that's less pricey. (I REALLY wouldn't want to though.) But Mom assures me that we'll be fine and that Grandma just likes to complain.

Have been dusting this morning. My god! You could plant crops on the bottom shelves of the end tables.

It's not just dust anymore; it's dirt.

And I dusted not that long ago, too!

It will get even worse now since a lot of the fields that had things in them have been harvested. When the wind really picks up, whole fields will move miles.

Bleh.

Reminds me of the story in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle in which one girl did not like to bathe. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle instructed the parents to let her get as dirty as she wanted and then plant radish seeds on her in the night. Soon they were pulling tiny radishes out of the dirt that had layered on her face and arms from not bathing. Eventually, the little girl started taking baths again. Can you blame her? I wouldn't want someone gardening me.

No, not really. No corn smut this year. As far as I can tell...I think someone would have brought the corn smut to my attention.

Corn smut. Heh. Sorry. Really. It's just fun to say. (Corn smut!)

Had a really great, traditional-like dinner tonight. Corn on the cob from the neighbors, hand-mashed potatoes, salad, pot roast, green beans, beets. Mmmm. Frozen mini chocolate eclairs! Less traditional, maybe, but just as good.

I miss these types of dinners when I'm at school. Or in Seattle. They don't really go all out like that unless it's a holiday or a family get-together. Harder to do homegrown, too.

And now there's a big box of freshly picked peaches sitting right here next to me. They're huge! There's a couple in there the size of softballs. Mmmm.

Speaking of corn, they harvested all of ours the other day. No more worries about children of the corn or corn people or, hell, even crop circles. (Except the neighbor still has a field of field corn right next door.) Now I can see all the way down to north end of our property. Yea.

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Yesterday Neesh and I went to Cave B and had lunch and desert and omg was it gooooooood. ::drool:: Then we went to Wal-mart and came home and watched Sci-fi Friday.

( SG-1 - The Powers That Be )

( SGA - Condemned )

I could probably go on, but now I'm bored and restless and don't really feel like it. So there. :p

After Sci-fi Friday we just generally listened to music and looked up quotes and talked about stuff. And then I completely didn't get up for the meteor shower (whoops). Oh well. I'm sure it was lovely.

And now Neesh got me hooked on Jason Mraz. And I got her listening to Tom McRae. Decent music trade I think. :)

Corn smut!

ETA: Dude! Those guys on SG-1 are sneaky bastards. Watched "Space Race" on Thursday and was just now looking up who played Eamon and Warrick. And Eamon is also Fifth! And Chaka, once. But Fifth! I thought he sounded kind of familiar. I love that they're constantly re-casting people. :)

I'm now blaming my babbling tendencies on too many Sprees.

Wasn't going to say anything about SG-1/SGA except that, even though certain things were slightly disappointing, I'm willing to forgive because I'm still high with the excitement of the shows being back, and omg I love them (but not the credits). But now I find I think I'm going to have to actually blather about them.

( SG-1 - Avalon Pt. 1 )

( SGA - The Siege Pt. 3 )

This is devolving into...something. Better stop and just say I'm ridiculously happy.

I think I'm just easy to please.

Also, they start showing Firefly on Sci-fi next week. Shiny!

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Still don't know what blew up last night. But now Julia's got me connecting it to the random bizarro noises sometimes heard in the house. Bah.

I want to know what it was!

In the meantime, I found one of my absolute favorite pictures of home. Fall sunset looking east.

I'm just testing to see if I can figure out how to post pics. It probably won't happen, but here's to trying!

( Testing, Testing, 1...2...3 )

OMG, it actually worked!