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As if I needed another reason to love Alexis Denisof - he recently took part in Course of the Force (a charity run prior to Comic-Con). And he did it dressed up as C3PO!

Here he is waiting for the light sabre (aka baton).

And here he is post-race at the doorstep of Skywalker Ranch.

I have a feeling "my" rabbit is not long for this world, if it's still around at all. (It's a wild rabbit I've seen in the yard a lot over the past few months and whose tracks I saw in the snow over the winter.) I say that not because the weather's getting warmer and more people are out doing things and driving places, but because I saw a fox in my neighbor's backyard this morning when I was leaving for work. This is the first time I've seen a fox in the neighborhood in a long time.

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In other news, it irks me that Steve Jinks isn't on the balcony with the rest of the cast in the "Warehouse 13" opening credits. I know it's a little thing in the grand scheme of things, but if they added Claudia into it, they should add Steve!

Yep, my memory's definitely going.

I had mentioned the other day to eternalmusings about wanting to see Outing Riley because Nathan Fillion's in it and because it looked cute. And she replied that I had seen it and that I enjoyed it. I remember nothing about this movie, other than what I remember from looking at the IMDb page the other day. Any other movie I've seen, even if I can't remember much about it, I remember something about it.

Then, today, I happened to look up something in my LJ for another movie because I couldn't remember exactly what I had thought about it and, in going back through the LJ tag it'd be under, I found a post commenting on watching Outing Riley.

Dated just over three years ago.

The post with the movie I was looking for? Dated just under four years ago.

*headdesk*

Also today - my dad, grandparents and I stopped back at the house between church and brunch and while we were here, my grammy reminded me I had said I'd lend her some books to read. And while I was pulling some books out of my 'to read' bookshelf for her, I found a book that I am currently reading that I borrowed from mashfanficchick at tribalforces. Granted, it was behind another book, but you'd think I'd remember it, especially considering it's a subject that's right up my alley.

I've been working my way through the links I've gathered (and in most cases are gathering dust) in my Yahoo bookmarks and am transferring them over to Delicious. I figured it would be easier to keep track of them that way, and I tend to think more of Delicious than Yahoo when I think of online bookmarks.

But it's been fun going through all the stuff I've accumulated. Some of it's just so *random*. And it's a bit like going back through my own fannish history.

A couple fun things:
How Fandom is Like the Mafia

225 Things Skippy is No Longer Allowed To Do at the SGC

In the beginning, there was canon. And God saw that the canon was lame, and God said "This canon is lame."

The Broccoli Test I was trying to explain this to someone the other day, so here it is.

X's Art X is FANTASTIC! She's just... amazing!

Well, as much as I want my laptop back ASAP, one upside to not having it is that I know I'm going to be getting a bunch of writing done - which I *am* happy about. :-D

Yesterday after I left the library, I wound up at J's house for a while - which is always fun. I had Chinese for dinner (somehow it's almost always involved when I'm with her, not sure why), and had enough left over that I'll be able to have another meal later this week. (Yay!) We also watched Kate & Leopold - which we both adore, although we were both in a weird mood and kept picking it apart. :-P And then we ended up watching the last couple minutes of "Legend of the Seeker" - which had me yelling at the TV, so it's a VERY GOOD THING that I stopped watching it when I did back in season one.

Also, my brain had a... moment earlier while I was trying to remember when "Castle" finished and now I think I ship Castle/Esposito. But I don't think this pairing exists anywhere outside my head - which is kind of sad.

1. I'm beginning to hate the media and its repetitive sound-bites and what-not on the same stories. I want to be aware of what's going on in the world, not what's going on with Tiger Woods or that someone thinks that the Disney Princesses (and especially the newest one) are too thin or that a couple trying to get onto a reality show crashed a White House dinner. (To an extent, I wouldn't mind hearing about the last one, but more in the sense of security issues and stuff like that and not in "OMG! They crashed the party!!!!11!" *rolls eyes*)

2. How does it take my laptop battery about an hour/hour and a half to charge while I'm on it and doing stuff, yet my cellphone battery takes about three hours to charge and it's *turned off*?

3. The College School is doing their Scholastic book fair this week in the lobby outside of my building (even though the actual school is across the street - go figure). But it's fun being able to look out the door and see them. It reminds me of when I was that age and how much I loved taking the flyer home so I could order books and then being able to pick them up and look through the other books they had for sale. :-)

4. So there's this delivery guy that has us as one of his routine stops and he comes about every two weeks. Well, a couple stops ago, he came in and said that he had a delivery for some spaceships with flux capacitors. The other girl that was with me hesitated and I made some sort of off-hand comment and we joked around for a minute or two before I directed him to go downstairs to see where they wanted him to put the textbooks.

Since then, whenever he comes, he and I will repeat this conversation in some form before I send him downstairs. He came in today and we were doing it and having a pretty "in depth" conversation when a customer walked in, passed us, then turned and gave us a weird look. Then she went a little further and did it again, at which point I dissovled into giggles and we had a good laugh.

I don't understand why a car magazine feels the need to put a model in a sexy outfit and a sexy pose on the cover of their magazine along with a car.

I feel like they're underestimating their audience by doing that. If you're buying a magazine because of the sexy women, something's wrong, IMO.

Also? Have they never heard of car porn? They can make it work with just cars in the picture.



(ETA: icon changed on mashfanficchick's prompting that this was a better icon for this post. And she's right.)

I'm feeling really girly at the moment. About a week and a half ago, I got a manicure. I got my hair trimmed yesterday. And today I got a pedicure. I'm not used to all of this.

But the pedicure was a really good experience. And in the time I was there, Melanie did to my heels what I've been trying to do forever - make them feel like real skin, and not sandpaper. I think I'm going to have to do this regularly for that reason, if not also for general foot health.



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After work today, I headed up to the King of Prussia/Valley Forge area to meet up with jackette, gomeisaneelie, and penguingal so we could look at a possible new hotel for tribalforces 2010. I enjoyed getting the insight of what to look for in a hotel for a con. (Granted, most of it I could figure out from the amount of cons I've been to, but it's still neat to see it in a 'if I was going to run a con here...' sort of way.) Afterwards, we went to dinner to discuss it and a few other things, like duties for next year's con. And then we sequed into general fannish discussion. :-D

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There was a bunch of stuff in today's paper about the races this weekend. (Still a bit bummed about not going to Dewey tomorrow, but I know that with NASCAR, it's a logistical nightmare.)

Generally speaking, I've never gotten the appeal of NASCAR. But I'm sure there are things that I like that NASCAR fans would scratch their heads at too, so whatever.

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I'll be glad when this week's over. For some reason, it seems like the days have been passing *super* slowly, and it's frustrating. Also, with having Monday off and having to work on Saturday, my inner clock's all messed up. (I usually have Fridays off if I work on a Saturday.) My brain's saying that it's technically Wednesday, even though I know it's Thursday, and I/my brain really wants it to be Friday. *sigh*. A couple more days and then I can start to get back on my normal schedule. And hopefully get some more sleep. (Which will help greatly in a lot of areas.)

I just heard that Alyson Hannigan had her baby on the 24th (on her birthday!). She and Alexis named the baby girl Satyana Denisof.

Martin Christopher (aka Major Marks on SGA and SG-1) answers fan questions on Mallozzi's blog.


Here's hoping April will be better than March writing-wise.