Evil Wrapped in a Fangirl Disguise

I am no longer a teenager. Well, I haven't been since Sunday. Tom made the very "deep" observation that 20 is a forgotten year. You are no longer a teenager, but neither are you a full adult. Nineteen is sort of awkward as well. But, jeez, 20.

I find something bizarrely hilarious about that.

Anyway, it was a good weekend. Natasha threw me a surprise party. No one's ever done that for me before. It made me very happy. I have to say that I did suspect it a little. She kept acting really odd. "Oh, Mary, why don't you watch one of your new DVDs? You want to watch Firefly? I think you should watch an episode! ::on the phone:: Yeah, it's taken care of...No...Yeah...We need to do that. ::to me:: I'm going to go study in the lobby for a couple of minutes..." Who the frell studies for "a couple of minutes"? Heh. Very sweet of her and my other friends on the floor.

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Gypsy Woman came over the weekend and so on Sunday night I got to indulge in my Jack Davenport luv. And my DVD player really is region free! Rejoice!!

Saw Shaun of the Dead on Saturday with Mom and yesterday with Natasha. Friggin' hilarious. Mom and I knew we were seeing it with the right audience when *everyone* laughed at Chucky blowing up Britney Spears in the preview for Seed of Chucky. The audience last night was less receptive, although *I* was giggling during the whole damn movie.

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Something has finally distracted me from the Sparrington obsession that took control of my brain over the summer. It's all about Smallville now. Clark/Lex! How screwed up am I? I caught the marathon thing they did on ABC Family last weekend and was all "omg, how come I never got into this show?" and now it's my shiny new obsession thing. 'Cause it was time for a change. The show is actually pretty lame and kinda goofy and some of the acting leaves something to be desired, but, damn it, I'm loving it a lot.

I think it was time for a obsessive-fandom change anyway. I'd gone through, what I consider, the excellent Sparrington stuff and am patiently waiting for more excellent stuff to be written. But this is a whole, large, shiny, new fandom for me to explore, and that makes me happy.

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Kasey's seeing Flogging Molly this weekend. Kasey sucks. ;)

HAVE FUN!!

I have a mini-cold. Blah.

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Natasha is, *at this very moment*, reading some of my recommended Sparrington! Woo. And liking it! ("I want a relationship like that. But not like that, but like it." Because obviously she's not a guy and therefore cannot man/man relationship. (Or can she?)) Which is leading to discussion of what would/does happen when actors find out there are semi-pornographic things written about them/their characters on the internet. Most interesting.

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I saw Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow on Saturday night with Kay and Greg. I wasn't sure if I really wanted to see it, but I'm glad I did. Very pretty movie. Frankie was, like, the coolest thing ever. And Dex. Is there Frankie/Dex? There should be Frankie/Dex out there. And Polly didn't annoy me, so yea! So, yeah, just a shiny pretty movie that was entertaining for an evening out. Fun times.

I spent most of Sunday reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves - The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss. Started it in the morning and by afternoon only had about sixty pages left. Thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining. Sticklers unite!

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overjoy - OJ, dahlin', I'm so very very sorry about your story and the fact that more has not yet been written. :( School has been really time consuming, and I just started work on top of that. I'm hoping to write some more this weekend. Forgive me!

I couldn't be more depressed right now if I tried.

Yeah, ok, so I could. But then I'd be in a really sorry state and I don't want to go there. It's just been one of those days, y'know? My grandmother came over and said things that upset me, and that really did not add to the overall crappiness of the day. Although when I told Tom and Mom about it tonight, Tom jumped in with some really good points against what she said. So, cheers Tom!

I have found that watching tons Coupling (with and without commentary) and reading fluffy Sparrington really does help cheer me up. (Prescription for pain: Take two Jack D's and have him call me in the morning. Ahem.) And it appears as though Neesha is *finally* reading one of the recs. Thank goodness.

I had something else to say here, but have completely forgotten it....Oh! Yes. Watched "The Mutiny" with the parents tonight (and they watched "Retribution" alone, bah) so *finally* got to have Lt. Bush on the scene. Oh how I love him. (*heart* Paul McGann - I think this may call for a heavy search of McGann movies to rent while in Seattle. Whee...) I also massively heart Styles and Matthews. And Archie, though to a slightly lesser extent. (Sorry, Archie!) Ioan was v.v. wet most of "The Mutiny". It suits him. *tee-hee*

I'm still really looking forward to getting back to Seattle. Hopefully I'll feel less...slighted by people. Plus less free time to wallow in self-pity. :) See, school *is* good for something.

Speaking of which, Tom starts school next Tuesday. Sophomore in high school. Scary stuff. AND he'll turn 16 on September 2nd. Even scarier.

Look, just writing that out made me feel better. Go therapeutic journaling.

Oh, small question for anyone actually reading. If I were to post a small prologue to something, would anyone be interested in reading it and giving me outside opinions? I'm worried it's to, erm, repetitive and a bit cheesy. Neesha seems to like it, but what does she know. :P (Kidding!)

It's been a couple o' days and I haven't posted, so I thought I might. ;) Not that anything has actually happened though, 'cause that would be ridiculous. I have continued to (over)indulge in my POTC/Sparrington/Norrington/Sparrow obsession(s). And connected to that, by Mr. Jack Dav, I've finally finished season three of Coupling and will now have to wait for who knows how long for season four to first finish its run and then come out on DVD. Argh.

Oh well. Doesn't anticipation just make things better once they finally get there?

We all went to Moses after church to get away from the non-AC'd house. Mom and I saw I, Robot, which I really enjoyed. And I was right about it, too! It only took Asimov's rules and went, "Huh, what can we do randomly with these?" basically. Also, I <3 Alan Tudyk v. v. much. Sonny! Whee! I kept thinking that it would be kinda cool to see J. August Richards from Angel in a movie like it, though. From like the first shot of Will Smith. Go Gunn!

Mom and I are going to Seattle tomorrow. She has to buy stuff for Valentine's and Mother's Day at the convention thing. So it'll be just Monday night and Tuesday morning, but still. It's there, not here.

Sparrington strikes again.

The other day I happened to catch the beginning of Pirates of the Caribbean and now my frickin' love for Norrington and Jack is back with a vengeance. I even had to bring back my crappy icon. *points*

So now I really want to see the movie again, but am avoiding it because of Orlando Bloom. (Want to know a secret? I don't like him.) For me, the movie is all about Jack Davenport and Johnny Depp. Come to think of it, Kiera Knightley's pretty good, too. The interaction of those three at any given time is great. And I <3 the commentary with Jack and Kiera.

Damn Orlando for keeping me away from the movie! And damn Jack and Johnny for being such a draw!