Evil Wrapped in a Fangirl Disguise

- I really like moving documents from my writing folder into my completed folder. It gives me a sense of accomplishment.

- I kind of don't care who wins Project Runway or America's Next Top Model. Haven't really been paying too much attention to ANTM, but I do like the two girls who are left. PR is just...kind of dull. Maybe that is why they're advertising a Tim Gunn breakdown back stage at Fashion Week?

Dear Tim,

Next time you bake biscuits, please remove your jacket before putting on the apron. Or quit wearing three-piece suits and teasing me like that. Geez.

Love,
Me

PS. Though you are adorable in your full suit and flowered-apron. ♥

- ( FlashForward and a certain guest star from two weeks ago )

- Saw ginnith and sdrohc_ratiug yesterday. It was excellent to see them, especially ginnith. Hadn't seen her since...April? I've kind of been Miss Crankypants lately, so they knocked me out of my head a little bit. Even if they didn't realize it. :)

- I really need a mental wellness day. Or week. Vacation? If I had cornflakes, I would cry into them.

- Watched Up with Mom and ate chocolate cake. Bawled like a baby. That movie kills me and I love it.

- Massage therapist called. Said she liked the article. Go me!

I still haven't watched the last two episodes of Torchwood. And now I'll have another one to watch after tonight. Traveling kind of knocked me out of my show groove. It's not that I don't want to catch up, it's more that...I'm feeling generally kind of meh about it at the moment. For no particular reason.

Part of it may be distraction from shiny new (to me) shows. How come no one told me NCIS was funny? Y'all fail. And so far I like everybody, which is really great and somewhat unusual. Generally there's at least one character I like less, but these guys are all so...I don't know. They all just fit. But I've already formed ridiculous attachments to specific characters.

Project Runway finally had it's season finale. Which seems to me should have actually aired closer to Fashion Week, but whatever. ( The winner )

And Top Chef returns next week. Here's hoping to a slightly more interesting season than last.

Meanwhile, ( Top Model )

Now, the thing that's amusing me at the moment? The cast of SpongeBob SquarePants dubbing classic movies. There's Casablanca, Singin' in the Rain, and The Godfather. The voice choices in Singin' in the Rain are kind of brilliant given the movie's plot.

How is Heather Cover Girl of the week if she's not even on the show anymore?

I won't say who got kicked off this week (posting during Top Chef commercial), but I was so glad to see her go!

My day was basically unproductive. Well, Tuesday was pretty unproductive, but that was in a fun way and I felt not at all guilty about it. Today was a day of not being able to focus on anything and it all basically comes down to the fact that my exploratory narrative for Modernism is due Tuesday and I haven't done anything for it besides think about it. Which is fine, because it doesn't take me that long to write five pages and exploratory narratives are easy since they're basically a diary entry detailing thought processes during research. The thing that I'm worried about is the fact that I don't really have an interpretive question. I know I want to write about Woolf's To the Lighthouse and that I'd like to explore the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey and the power dynamics between them, but I don't know what sort of question to ask.

I'm drawn to them because on the one hand Mrs. Ramsey is a very Victorian woman, urging Lily Briscoe to marry and start a family because that's what women should do. She worries about Lily and how she'll end up alone if she doesn't marry. On the other hand, Mrs. Ramsey strays from the ideal Victorian woman and the submissiveness of that position in her actual interactions with her husband. He's still in power, but he's basically still in power because she lets him think he is.

At least, that's how I read it. Looks like I might be pulling out Foucault again. I'm never going to get away from his History of Sexuality, am I?

Anyway. I'm a little frustrated at my lack of focus today. I've had some fic ideas that I've jotted in my notebook and I couldn't even focus enough to work on them today.

But, I have been reading Wizard of the Crow, which is a good thing because I really should finish it before writing the author paper and it's 700+ pages. And now I've painted my toe and finger nails and they're all shiny and the polish fumes have probably gone a little to my head. Other than that I've watched America's Next Top Model and Top Chef and blathered at my mother about how I'm kind of liking Torchwood better than Doctor Who.

( Speaking of Torchwood... )

Tomorrow EB's picking me up and I'm going to the aunt and uncle's for Thanksgiving. Have never actually had it at their house before, and this is only the second time I've had it somewhere other than home. This will also be the first time I see their new house and new cat. Exciting!

( Reality TV Night )

Speaking of television, I kept putting off checking out Traders because I need to waste more time like I need a hole in the head. But I have very little self-control and finally broke. I cannot ignore the call of David Hewlett. I just can't.

I've seen the first four episodes now. Going to d/l the rest of season one today. I am seriously screwed. It's going to take over my brain. (But make the wait for more SGA bearable.)

Also, I didn't know Patrick McKenna was in it! As soon as he showed up on screen I got a bit goofy.

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Today is SU's mission day and so all classes before 2:00 pm are canceled. I'm spending the day working on my skill-building essay for Ethnic American Lit. It's not going so well. I know what I want to say, but it's taking forever to figure out how to say it. Thankfully, I think I finally have the introduction written.

Spent twenty minutes around two this morning coughing and wishing I would die. I've only had this cough for a week, but it feels like forever. I feel for my roommate.

I am DONE!

English paper ended up longer than I was planning due to my failure to double check the length. Philosophy paper ended up a solid eleven pages with a decent bibliography. Astronomy test kind of iffy, but overall I think it's fine. Mostly all I care about is the fact that I didn't completely blow anything and now I'm done for roughly three and a half weeks. Time to focus on reading for pleasure and not for torture class.

Greg's picking me up later this afternoon and Mom's supposed to come tomorrow (weather holding) and take me back over the Cascades. I'm mostly packed now, just a few smaller things I need to grab, plus my laptop. Need to make sure everything of mine is unplugged and off the windowsill. I've already vacuumed (next quarter we are *so* vacuuming more often) and now I just need to do some dusting.

But right now I'm just gonna sit here with my Pepsi and Hot Tamales (with more kick!) and not do anything, at the same time I won't feel guilty about not doing anything because there is nothing left to do! Yea!!

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I spent yesterday watching a lot of TV. Really shouldn't have, but I did. SciFi was doing their daily mini-marathon thing with Andromeda, so I watched that for a couple of hours and then used it as background noise. Before yesterday I'd only ever seen a handful of random parts of it, enough so I knew who everyone was. And obviously enough to be having dreams with Harper making faces at me in coffee shops (I still don't know where that came from). Anyway, I enjoyed the two episodes I actually watched, even if I didn't entirely understand what was going on, and it made good background noise for writing.

Also watched America's Next Top Model. Disappointed in the winner. Still don't care for Tyra Banks. I find her...annoying. And everywhere. Caught the beginning of season two of Project Runway. Hiedi Klum is so much better than Tyra. So much. Should be an interesting season. It's cool that Daniel Franco has actually made it past the first official elimination. Really liked Santino until Chloe won the second challenge. Then he went backstage saying, "They didn't want to give me first place twice in a row." That's not cool, dude. Then there was the bald guy with the scary crying. Wow, man, get a grip. If that's your reaction to a simple question your *first time*, how're you gonna react later? Oh! The weirdest thing happened just as Hiedi was kicking someone off. Bravo just...switched to infomercials with no warning. I had to go online to see who was booted. Very annoying.

Then, of course, ( Veronica Mars )

Also watched SGA's "Critical Mass." Don't have anything to say that everyone else everywhere hasn't already said. I liked it. Sure, it wasn't the best episode ever, but it was darn entertaining. And Sheppard and McKay are *SO* married. There's no denying it. (Meanwhile, I may have accidentally slipped into OTP territory with them.) Okay, so I didn't actually watch the *entire* episode, because I've been busy, but I watched the good stuff and ( it was nice to see )

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Since Dad is going to be laid up at home for awhile, I think I'm going to make him watch the six hour Pride & Prejudice. Mwuahahahaha! He never should have told me how much he liked the new one. Which was actually pretty sweet. Near the end he asked me how much time was left because he had to use the bathroom and didn't want to miss anything. Aw. He missed a little bit of Darcy's "do you still hate my guts?" speech, but other than that, nothing. Definitely time to take advantage of the bed rest and bond over Jane Austen. :)