Evil Wrapped in a Fangirl Disguise

Because sometimes you just have to say "screw it" and treat yourself to a new red leather bag.

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Dooney & Bourke had a page ad for their calf large luna in InStyle magazine and I kinda fell in love and then I kinda obsessed and finally just went, "Hello, paycheck."

And today it came and I took it out of it's plastic and, oh, it felt like butter. Mmmm. It is a thing of beauty.

My head is kiiilling me and I feel all sore and crappy. Ugh.

But Amazon has shipped my Torchwood DVDs! So that's a good thing. I'd say that it's nice that Amazon will ship pre-orders so that you get them roughly the day whatever you've ordered comes out, but in this case I don't think I'd be able to find the show anywhere around here anyway. Plus, there's no way I'm going to drive around in the snow hoping that the next place will have them. Yea, shopping online.

Now I'm going to go curl up with a blanket and one or two Red Vines and watch CSI.

Went downtown with olivelavonne and mandapanda0521 for movie, lunch, and shopping. The original plan was to see Perfume, but that matinee was later than we would have liked, so instead we saw Children of Men. Excellent. I'd definitely recommend it.

Barnes & Noble was doing this really wonderful "Buy 1, Get 1 Free" sale for their multiple disc DVDs. So I bought season one of Bones and got a season of Jeeves & Wooster for free. Woo. Good deal if you ask me.

Other than that there's been lots and lots of reading. Good think I like to read, right?

Senior Synth - Fr. Cobb hasn't taken the Lord's name in vain or sworn yet, but he's a lot funnier than I realized he would be. Especially when it comes to analyzing the advertisements in The New Yorker. Who knew page ads of cars were hilarious?

Modernism in Art and Lit - Dr. Tung, in the meantime, has said "shit" several times every day. It's kind of hilarious. Today he bounced around the front of the room in a button-up shirt and sweater-vest. There's just, I dunno, something fantastic about that to me. As I told Fr. Cobb last year, I like Tung because he's engaging.

Buddhist Philosophy - Frustrating. Sort of. Yesterday we were still going Buddhism 101-type things and covering some vocab. Which is good if a little boring. However, the professor only actually spelled out about a third of the words we talked about, making it very difficult to take notes on. How can I know that what I'm reading is what we've talked about when I don't know if the pronunciation is going to match the spelling?

Grr. Yesterday I got fed up with it so the whole second hour was devoted to keeping my head down and writing (original and fanfiction). It makes the time go a lot faster and I really am not missing anything (so far).

Tonight we're going to see Doubt at the Seattle Rep. I'm really looking forward to it.

This last weekend Mom came over and I got to go shopping. Got some seriously nice things (like a snazzy jacket and shoes) and some seriously silly things. How can I not get the only Colonel O'Neill action figure at Suncoast? I mean, come on. He was all alone. He needed buying. Now I need Daniel Jackson to go along with him. This will lead to moments of intense immaturity on my part (and the part of my roommate). But, hey, when you're a senior in college you need moments of intense immaturity.

Back to watching BSG. Only three episodes left and I'll be caught up! Except for the webisodes.

Yesterday was a good shopping day. I got three of the four things I set out to get: the soundtrack to Superman Returns, the new Muse CD, and the first season of the new Doctor Who. Wasn't able to find the soundtrack to PotC2, but the trip would have been worth it for the DVDs alone. A little pricey, but anyone who knows me knows that I don't really care. I mean, I did buy all four seasons of Farscape and those are worth an arm and a leg. If I want it, I'm going to get it. Anyway. Also got some really neat earrings and a new bag from Target. Yea Target.

Had Chinese food for dinner and talked about Captain Jack (not Sparrow) and then came home and watched the final two episodes off of the DVDs. So now I'm caught up with last season and rather sad I don't have more with me right now.

Luckily, SG-1 and SGA started tonight to distract me.

Anything under a cut is going to have spoilers.

( SG-1 - Flesh and Blood )

( SGA - No Man's Land )

Randomly, a visit to the set of Neil Gaiman's Stardust. There's even a picture! (Exciting, I know.)

Cheers!

Seattle is lovely. The weather has been beautiful.

Saturday Mom and I picked up Natasha to go kitchen/bathroom supply shopping for the apartment next fall. I feel like a dork for getting excited about cutting boards and shower caddies, but whatever. I'm used to feeling like a dork.

We also saw Superman Returns. If you've ever talked to me, you probably know how I felt about this movie. I liked it. I plan on seeing it once more in the theater with Mom and Dad because they will understand the love I have for this look at Superman mythology and heroes in general.

It also made me hate Smallville just a little bit more. Man, they've screwed it up pretty well, haven't they?

Despite watching Sci-Fi's marathon of The Twilight Zone I have yet to see their preview for SGA with McKay. I've seen the Sheppard one tons, but since I don't have great internet here, I can't exactly watch the new one on the computer. But, hey, I love the commercials they do show and every time I see one I get more excited that both shows will be back in a week and an half. Woo.

Anyway. Will be going home either the fifth or the sixth. Probably the sixth.

Yesterday Sara came over with mashed potatoes (hand mashed!) and meatball-things. We traded episodes of Farscape and Space Above and Beyond. Good times.

Today, Natasha and I walked downtown so that I could buy my own copy of BSG season one. I'm so forcing the miniseries on my parents over break. Also bought a Vienna Teng CD. I've just recently gotten into her music, and I really like what I've heard so far. Especially "My Medea." (Woo, mythology!)

Meanwhile, I have four and an half pages written about Paradise Lost. Need about four more pages to finish it. And then I am *done*.

Apparently last night Natasha had a dream featuring MacGyver. And she doesn't even *like* the guy! Ha.

Spent the day with my mom and most of it at the mall. Bought some stuff at Lane Bryant. Bought Stargate (the movie), Eerie, Indiana, and Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge at Suncoast. Yea. Like I don't have enough stuff to watch. And then we went back to my aunt's house and I crashed on the couch.

Watched Bones and House. Loved the scene with House and the little girl. And House and his iPod. And just House in general. Chase was also adorable. And, the thing I've been waiting for, Nip/Tuck! There was a lot of cringing on my part. I don't like stuff that has to do with skin, so the woman and the couch was a little ::shudder:: ew. But, y'know, fun times. I've missed cringing at it every week.

Caught part of Smallville on ABCFamily. "Heat," I think it was. With Desiree. Made me kind of sad because Lex and Clark used to be so cute together. And now they suck, like Jeff, in the bad way. Woe. Explained to Mom about the real reasons for Clark being so "Your wife's an evil bitch!" to Lex. Y'know, the reasons where the subtext is more than just subtext and Clark and Lex luuuurve each other v.v. much and Clark's jealous and mad that Lex got married to a girl. Pointed out that the show is much more fun if you read stuff into it.

So, anyway. Classes start tomorrow/today. For everyone but me! Somehow I worked it so that I have Wednesdays completely open. Woo. Except I plan on working at night starting next week. But other than that...It will be nice to have that break mid-week to regroup and catch up and do homework and slack off.

Faux busy day. There was a wedding near the Tri-cities, so we had to drive out there to set up some of the flowers/arrangements. Didn't take too long, but it was uncomfortably warm in that hall and I do not envy those people. Something like 800 guests.

Dad said that there was no way they would do the same wedding/reception thing for me. Apparently my parents plan to help me elope. Which, all in all? Would be totally fine by me.

Afterward, we did actually make it to the Tri-cities and went to the mall where there was precisely diddly-squat playing at the cinema. So we went to an late lunch/early dinner at Red Lobster. Mom called it "linner," which lead to me trying to teach my parents something new. But do they make things easy for me? No. No, they don't.

"Do you know what the word is for that? When you connect two words and make a new one?" I said.

Dad answered, "A conjunction?"

"No, that involves an apostrophe."

At that point I'm about to do the whole, "Fine, I won't tell you" routine. And then our waitress came by.

"Well, why don't you tell our waitress what it means?" Mom said. The waitress turned and looked at me and I'm just going "why?!" "We have an English major at the table," explained Mom.

"Oh," the waitress asked, "what are you going to do with that?" Because you can't tell people you're an English major without having them ask you what the hell you're gonna do with your life. It's just not done. But apparently her daughter's getting a sociology major, so she understands.

ANYway. All I wanted to do was share knowledge! Finally got to explain what a portmanteau was. And then it turned out our waitress was a teacher! And had been a librarian! So we talked for a little while about opportunities and things. It was nice.

Later I spent part of lunch defending McKay to my parents. Who rather snidely said that he acts like a twelve year old. And I argued, "Well, not *all* the time." (Mom's also getting tired of his "are you sure this water's sanitary?" routine.)And then tried to defend possible emotional and social reasons for McKay's behavior. Also blamed, um, less strong writers on the show. Don't know if I succeeded.

Neesha stopped by and watched Sci-fi Friday with me. That was nice. Nothing really to say, mostly because I need to re-watch "Origin." And ( Runner )

Tom used a crutch to squish a GINORMOUS spider tonight. I haven't laughed so hard in a really long, long time. There were even tears involved. Heh. So funny. And then I watched The Red Green Show and that just made the evening funnier. And Colin Mochrie (sp?) was on! With Harold. It was great.

Mom and Dad came over Thursday night for the various gift shows in Seattle. Mom spent Friday and Saturday buying stuff for the flower shop. Fun.

Friday Dad picked me up at the dorm after I had my meeting with Dr. Cumberland. It went really well. Really liked talking with her, but still not sure what I think of her in class. We came up with a topic for my research paper, but I think I'm going to change it a little. The idea we came up with had to do with a Classics Illustrated edition of Frankenstein and comparing it with the actual text. But that's going to require hunting down an out-of-print comic. Or finding another version. Which takes *time*. Not a whole lot of that lying around here. So, over the weekend I found a version of Kafka's The Metamorphosis. I'll run that by her on Tuesday.

So Dad picked me up and we went to Kay and Greg's where we watched I Love the 90s, Part Deux and I Love the 70s. Then we went and picked up Mom and spent the night watching the Sci-fi channel. Claudia Black was on SG-1! She was awesome and hilarious. Li'l bit of a girlcrush there. I even had a Stargate: Atlantis related dream. Don't remember it very well.

Saturday we went to the mall and I bought Coupling Season 4!! (Jack!) And Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars!! (Yea!) Also bought a couple of CDs. That night, instead of going to a movie - we were all too tired, we stayed in and randomly watched Ginger Snaps. Not entirely sure just what I thought about it. Didn't think it was a total waste, at least. Then we watched some crap movie on the Sci-fi channel with John-Rhys Davies.

The "major" thing that happened Saturday? A little while after the crap movie finished, I finished reading Barefoot Gen. Really enjoyed it. But it kicked my ass. And then it used my kicked ass to wipe up the floor. Damn, but it was upsetting. At one point near the very very end, I had a slight panic attack at one of the pictures. All I could think was, "OMG, get it away. I can't look. I can't look." I *cried*. It killed me.

Today we saw Nana Fran and went to Barnes & Noble, where Mom bought Jon Stewart's book about America. Then my parents went home. And, yeah, that's about it. Neesha finally gave me her opinion about the very small piece of writing I sent her last week. So I sent her another piece of fanfiction. This one was finished! And even got feedback for already! Score. So, that's awesome. Makes me want to write more. Which is a very *good* thing.

But now, it's off to bedforshire with me.