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apocalypsos... because I forgot it was Black Friday until after I left the apartment to go get a new ethernet cable. DUH.
Yeah, my ethernet cable has gone to the big knotted mass of used electronics accessories in the sky. I thought that it was just the little snapped-off plastic tab on top of the plug that was making my internet connection so iffy since it made it wiggly in the port, but after sliding back the cover a little further it was pretty obvious that at least two of the wires are broken inside the casings. NICE.
This would be the point where I gnash my teeth and wish I could afford to buy a wireless router now or that Santa were bringing me one tomorrow rather than possibly on Christmas.
Anyway, I'm currently typing this up on Thursday night while watching March of the Penguins (and now it's Friday morning and I'm sitting in Panera -- look at me, I'm a time-traveler! Ooooo!), and when that's done I'm going to try to catch up on the fannish stuff I've missed in the past two weeks and write some fic and dye my hair and maybe possibly if I can summon up the energy I'll wash dishes and laundry, though not together.
Er. I may be getting my second wind after ... well.
So I had to work Wednesday night into Thursday morning, and we can't leave early or anything on the days before or after holidays or else we lose our holiday pay. There's your set-up.
At about seven o'clock we order lunch from a local place with great hoagies, and I got an egg salad hoagie. I also, not long after eating it, got lots of fun stomach cramps. So I took a couple Tylenols since it was the only painkillers I had, and that's when the nausea set in. Oh, faaaaaabulous.
I was pretty much walking around for a while saying, "You know what? I'm just going to run into the bathroom, puke, and then I'll feel better." Yeah, right. Right after our lunch, which was from one to 1:30 in the morning, I started feeling really dizzy and lightheaded. I've never fainted before, but I was really starting to feel like I was going to keel over and slump facefirst into the concrete floor. So I walked over to the coach's desk, sat down in her chair, and said, "Call the first aid guys, I'm about to pass out."
So then there was a crowd of people around me and an oxygen mask on my face and every single person who showed up asking, "Are you sure you're not pregnant?" Which led to the following discussion:
First Aid Guy #3: "Are you sure you're not pregnant?"
Me: "Not without divine intervention."
First Aid Guy #1: "I got, 'Not without a miracle.'"
First Aid Guy #2: "Oh, I got, 'Not a snowball's chance in hell.'"
Me: *shrugs* "I like variety."
So, yeah. Because I couldn't leave without losing my holiday pay, Backup Bossman let me sit in his office for the last three hours of work and alternately take hits off the oxygen tank and puke like crazy. That was a fun time, don't you know?
Backup Bossman: "Feel any better?"
Me: "Um, hold on." *pukes into garbage can* "... no."
And I thought coming home and sleeping it off would help, but I woke up, took a shower, ate a little to see if my stomach could handle Thanksgiving dinner or the car ride there or anything remotely more active than a ten-year-long coma, and ... uh, NO. I crawled back into bed and slept the rest of the day away. URGH. I missed out on my yearly massive mound of sweet potatoes, damn it.
Okay, now nobody say the phrase "egg salad" around me unless you want to be drenched in a half-digested version of it.
*****
Okay, I will admit that I totally cracked and spoiled myself on the guest judge, but ... but Sarah Jessica Parker. I mean, I loathed Sex And The City and hated her on it, can't stand her as an actress and am bored by her personally, and yet seeing her walk into the workroom gave me SO MUCH GLEEEE. Seriously, as much as I might dislike her -- and she was really cute this episode, I'll give her that much -- designing for her is SUCH a fashion coup I was excited for the designers.
(Hard not to, really, seeing Chris just completely break the fuck DOWN over her. AWWWW, big guy, I love fangirls and I love you, so seeing you be a big blubbery fangirl makes me giddy. :))
And now, the outfits!
Kit and Chris -- Very cute, and I did love the French touch that they put on it, but I don't know. I'm touchy when it comes to leggings. You so have to be a complete twig to pull them off, much like skinny jeans.
Ricky and Jack -- Oh, Ricky. You seem like a sweetheart but you also cry at the drop of a hat. Your dress was hot, though, although I'm willing to argue that a belt makes it a two-piece. Whatever, I'd totally wear it.
Rami and Jillian -- From what I remember of it, it was okay. Honestly, at this point I can't remember it at all.
Victorya and Kevin -- I can really see why it won. It's lovely and nicely designed and from what I could see of the Bitten portfolio it worked with the rest of the collection. Having said that, I'm not sure I personally would wear it. But I still think it's gorgeous.
Elisa and Sweet P -- Okay, how wrong is it that this was my favorite and I would wear it? I mean, it's Elisa, the woman so flaky her middle name is Dandruff. But she's not a horrible designer, really. She's just got questionable judgment. VERY questionable judgment. Take away that stupid train from last week's dress, toss on some different shoes and that's actually a pretty nice dress. (And only one seam? Impressive, at least to me.) And the Bitten dress was nice and flowy and I really think it showed that with someone there to ground her Elisa can manage to make some good stuff. (I covet that cape a LOT.) I was hopelessly amused by Sweet P's reaction to almost every decision Elisa made, which was basically, "BWAHAHAHA ... wait, you were serious?!"
Marion and Steven -- Aw, Marion. I was hoping he wouldn't get auf'ed because he was very nice, but yeah, that top was awful. Heidi (I think it was) was right -- the thing got longer the entire time they were on stage. Which ... heh. Now that it's on the Wall of Shame, we should probably just casually see it throughout the season to see how much longer it gets. If it swallows Christian one of these days, I say we give it a cookie. :)
Christian and Carmen -- You know, I can't completely hate a guy who goes in to pitch to Sarah Jessica Parker and ends it with, "Can I have a hug?" I mean, he's a smug jerk but, HA. Man, I've been there. I'd like to think I'd do the same thing with Jensen Ackles in the room but I'd so be all stammery and nervous like Chris. Anyway, the dress was ... okay, how about I skip how fat the dress made his skinny model look and move on to how horrid that jacket was? *gags* And what sucked the most was that after rewatching the first episode I kind of started to dig Christian's design, at least in concept. I didn't like that black fur thing on the front, and the fabrics leave me cold, but if it were a bit more any-other-color-than-that I might have gone for it. Not enthusiastically, but still.
*****
Oh, thank GOD. I couldn't decide whether I was terrified or hopeful Megan might make it to the end, because it was either going to be surprisingly good or a train wreck with, like, clowns and monkeys and cream pies and lots of tears.
However, how much do I love MG right now? I think the elimination was a wake-up call for her, because she's been very well-behaved snce then. And she's so wee and dorky and French Canadian! I knew it was her dress that got the highest bid, too. I'm a little worried about what happens to the crispy parts when you sit down wearing it, but it's so pretty. *pets it*
I do understand why Biddell won, though, and loved his dress as much I liked MG's. It was such a gorgeous color and it really was elegantly tailored. I was really impressed because when he spoke about it with Brian he just sounded like he was slapping it together.
And Lucian! Oh, Lucian, let's pretend you're straight and make out.
I mean, REALLY. I think you and Biddell should just have angry sex and get it over with. And I don't even LIKE Biddell.
Also:
Kendra: *looking around frantically in the fabric store*
Brian: *pops up out of nowhere* "Hi, Kendra!"
Kendra: "Hi, how you doin'?"
Brian: "Did you miss me?"
Kendra: "No, not really."
Brian: "Oh, okay!" *wanders off*
HEE. Sometimes I love Brian beyond the telling of it.
*****
Okay, see, now I'm going to cry.
Because seriously, I am loving what they're doing with this show, I really do. I mean, things that you think are going to just be quirky little asides or in-jokes for the audience (and would be on any other show) eventually turn out to be really important. Take Dan's internet searches. All those times he was looking up information on the people he was tracking, I kept wondering when it was all going to come back to bite him in the ass. And on any other show nobody would notice, but on this show the FBI guy is actually finding all of this evidence that Dan's leaving behind. It's fabulous.
And Livia! Livia who punches drug dealers and drives a really hot car! And, "slant"? Aw, wee Livia. *hugs her*
And Dan with wee Zach! Oh, man. BABY. Kevin McKidd and a BABY. I'm not even one of the people watching because he's hot and my ovaries still went kablooey.
I just ... I have this really bad feeling that it is going to get cancelled (and not that we haven't seen the writing on the wall but STILL) and then people are going to get their hands on the episodes and be all, "Oh, man, why was this cancelled?!" And then I may start hurting people with sticks.
*****
BRYCE! *squeaks* Aw, man, that's awesome. I mean, Chuck is very cute and Casey is like a big pile of sex and Awesome is hot but that doesn't stop Bryce from being a yummy piece of ass.
Yes, sometimes I just like to revel in the superficial. He's hot, damn it!
Having said that ... aw, poor Chuck. The government really doesn't want him to get laid, poor thing. If it's not spying on his shiny new girlfriend it's sticking its tongue down his throat in an emergency situation.
Also, Casey rules the world and Morgan/Anna makes me throw up a little in my mouth. Not that that's quite an accomplishment after the way my stomach's behaved the last few days, but still.
*****
I think I'll save my Heroes meta for another post, since I've got two whole episodes to crack wise about, but I do have to post two pictures.
The first is my new haircut:
... and the second is a picture my mother took of Tucker that is just begging to be lolcatted:
Okay, every time they have a commercial for the flatbread Sammies from Quiznos I think, "SAMMICH!" and have to open the picture folder of my Zen to look at the photo from the last con of Jared hugging Jensen. AWWW.
Yeah, my ethernet cable has gone to the big knotted mass of used electronics accessories in the sky. I thought that it was just the little snapped-off plastic tab on top of the plug that was making my internet connection so iffy since it made it wiggly in the port, but after sliding back the cover a little further it was pretty obvious that at least two of the wires are broken inside the casings. NICE.
This would be the point where I gnash my teeth and wish I could afford to buy a wireless router now or that Santa were bringing me one tomorrow rather than possibly on Christmas.
Anyway, I'm currently typing this up on Thursday night while watching March of the Penguins (and now it's Friday morning and I'm sitting in Panera -- look at me, I'm a time-traveler! Ooooo!), and when that's done I'm going to try to catch up on the fannish stuff I've missed in the past two weeks and write some fic and dye my hair and maybe possibly if I can summon up the energy I'll wash dishes and laundry, though not together.
Er. I may be getting my second wind after ... well.
So I had to work Wednesday night into Thursday morning, and we can't leave early or anything on the days before or after holidays or else we lose our holiday pay. There's your set-up.
At about seven o'clock we order lunch from a local place with great hoagies, and I got an egg salad hoagie. I also, not long after eating it, got lots of fun stomach cramps. So I took a couple Tylenols since it was the only painkillers I had, and that's when the nausea set in. Oh, faaaaaabulous.
I was pretty much walking around for a while saying, "You know what? I'm just going to run into the bathroom, puke, and then I'll feel better." Yeah, right. Right after our lunch, which was from one to 1:30 in the morning, I started feeling really dizzy and lightheaded. I've never fainted before, but I was really starting to feel like I was going to keel over and slump facefirst into the concrete floor. So I walked over to the coach's desk, sat down in her chair, and said, "Call the first aid guys, I'm about to pass out."
So then there was a crowd of people around me and an oxygen mask on my face and every single person who showed up asking, "Are you sure you're not pregnant?" Which led to the following discussion:
First Aid Guy #3: "Are you sure you're not pregnant?"
Me: "Not without divine intervention."
First Aid Guy #1: "I got, 'Not without a miracle.'"
First Aid Guy #2: "Oh, I got, 'Not a snowball's chance in hell.'"
Me: *shrugs* "I like variety."
So, yeah. Because I couldn't leave without losing my holiday pay, Backup Bossman let me sit in his office for the last three hours of work and alternately take hits off the oxygen tank and puke like crazy. That was a fun time, don't you know?
Backup Bossman: "Feel any better?"
Me: "Um, hold on." *pukes into garbage can* "... no."
And I thought coming home and sleeping it off would help, but I woke up, took a shower, ate a little to see if my stomach could handle Thanksgiving dinner or the car ride there or anything remotely more active than a ten-year-long coma, and ... uh, NO. I crawled back into bed and slept the rest of the day away. URGH. I missed out on my yearly massive mound of sweet potatoes, damn it.
Okay, now nobody say the phrase "egg salad" around me unless you want to be drenched in a half-digested version of it.
*****
Okay, I will admit that I totally cracked and spoiled myself on the guest judge, but ... but Sarah Jessica Parker. I mean, I loathed Sex And The City and hated her on it, can't stand her as an actress and am bored by her personally, and yet seeing her walk into the workroom gave me SO MUCH GLEEEE. Seriously, as much as I might dislike her -- and she was really cute this episode, I'll give her that much -- designing for her is SUCH a fashion coup I was excited for the designers.
(Hard not to, really, seeing Chris just completely break the fuck DOWN over her. AWWWW, big guy, I love fangirls and I love you, so seeing you be a big blubbery fangirl makes me giddy. :))
And now, the outfits!
Kit and Chris -- Very cute, and I did love the French touch that they put on it, but I don't know. I'm touchy when it comes to leggings. You so have to be a complete twig to pull them off, much like skinny jeans.
Ricky and Jack -- Oh, Ricky. You seem like a sweetheart but you also cry at the drop of a hat. Your dress was hot, though, although I'm willing to argue that a belt makes it a two-piece. Whatever, I'd totally wear it.
Rami and Jillian -- From what I remember of it, it was okay. Honestly, at this point I can't remember it at all.
Victorya and Kevin -- I can really see why it won. It's lovely and nicely designed and from what I could see of the Bitten portfolio it worked with the rest of the collection. Having said that, I'm not sure I personally would wear it. But I still think it's gorgeous.
Elisa and Sweet P -- Okay, how wrong is it that this was my favorite and I would wear it? I mean, it's Elisa, the woman so flaky her middle name is Dandruff. But she's not a horrible designer, really. She's just got questionable judgment. VERY questionable judgment. Take away that stupid train from last week's dress, toss on some different shoes and that's actually a pretty nice dress. (And only one seam? Impressive, at least to me.) And the Bitten dress was nice and flowy and I really think it showed that with someone there to ground her Elisa can manage to make some good stuff. (I covet that cape a LOT.) I was hopelessly amused by Sweet P's reaction to almost every decision Elisa made, which was basically, "BWAHAHAHA ... wait, you were serious?!"
Marion and Steven -- Aw, Marion. I was hoping he wouldn't get auf'ed because he was very nice, but yeah, that top was awful. Heidi (I think it was) was right -- the thing got longer the entire time they were on stage. Which ... heh. Now that it's on the Wall of Shame, we should probably just casually see it throughout the season to see how much longer it gets. If it swallows Christian one of these days, I say we give it a cookie. :)
Christian and Carmen -- You know, I can't completely hate a guy who goes in to pitch to Sarah Jessica Parker and ends it with, "Can I have a hug?" I mean, he's a smug jerk but, HA. Man, I've been there. I'd like to think I'd do the same thing with Jensen Ackles in the room but I'd so be all stammery and nervous like Chris. Anyway, the dress was ... okay, how about I skip how fat the dress made his skinny model look and move on to how horrid that jacket was? *gags* And what sucked the most was that after rewatching the first episode I kind of started to dig Christian's design, at least in concept. I didn't like that black fur thing on the front, and the fabrics leave me cold, but if it were a bit more any-other-color-than-that I might have gone for it. Not enthusiastically, but still.
*****
Oh, thank GOD. I couldn't decide whether I was terrified or hopeful Megan might make it to the end, because it was either going to be surprisingly good or a train wreck with, like, clowns and monkeys and cream pies and lots of tears.
However, how much do I love MG right now? I think the elimination was a wake-up call for her, because she's been very well-behaved snce then. And she's so wee and dorky and French Canadian! I knew it was her dress that got the highest bid, too. I'm a little worried about what happens to the crispy parts when you sit down wearing it, but it's so pretty. *pets it*
I do understand why Biddell won, though, and loved his dress as much I liked MG's. It was such a gorgeous color and it really was elegantly tailored. I was really impressed because when he spoke about it with Brian he just sounded like he was slapping it together.
And Lucian! Oh, Lucian, let's pretend you're straight and make out.
I mean, REALLY. I think you and Biddell should just have angry sex and get it over with. And I don't even LIKE Biddell.
Also:
Kendra: *looking around frantically in the fabric store*
Brian: *pops up out of nowhere* "Hi, Kendra!"
Kendra: "Hi, how you doin'?"
Brian: "Did you miss me?"
Kendra: "No, not really."
Brian: "Oh, okay!" *wanders off*
HEE. Sometimes I love Brian beyond the telling of it.
*****
Okay, see, now I'm going to cry.
Because seriously, I am loving what they're doing with this show, I really do. I mean, things that you think are going to just be quirky little asides or in-jokes for the audience (and would be on any other show) eventually turn out to be really important. Take Dan's internet searches. All those times he was looking up information on the people he was tracking, I kept wondering when it was all going to come back to bite him in the ass. And on any other show nobody would notice, but on this show the FBI guy is actually finding all of this evidence that Dan's leaving behind. It's fabulous.
And Livia! Livia who punches drug dealers and drives a really hot car! And, "slant"? Aw, wee Livia. *hugs her*
And Dan with wee Zach! Oh, man. BABY. Kevin McKidd and a BABY. I'm not even one of the people watching because he's hot and my ovaries still went kablooey.
I just ... I have this really bad feeling that it is going to get cancelled (and not that we haven't seen the writing on the wall but STILL) and then people are going to get their hands on the episodes and be all, "Oh, man, why was this cancelled?!" And then I may start hurting people with sticks.
*****
BRYCE! *squeaks* Aw, man, that's awesome. I mean, Chuck is very cute and Casey is like a big pile of sex and Awesome is hot but that doesn't stop Bryce from being a yummy piece of ass.
Yes, sometimes I just like to revel in the superficial. He's hot, damn it!
Having said that ... aw, poor Chuck. The government really doesn't want him to get laid, poor thing. If it's not spying on his shiny new girlfriend it's sticking its tongue down his throat in an emergency situation.
Also, Casey rules the world and Morgan/Anna makes me throw up a little in my mouth. Not that that's quite an accomplishment after the way my stomach's behaved the last few days, but still.
*****
I think I'll save my Heroes meta for another post, since I've got two whole episodes to crack wise about, but I do have to post two pictures.
The first is my new haircut:
... and the second is a picture my mother took of Tucker that is just begging to be lolcatted:
Okay, every time they have a commercial for the flatbread Sammies from Quiznos I think, "SAMMICH!" and have to open the picture folder of my Zen to look at the photo from the last con of Jared hugging Jensen. AWWW.
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Date: 2007-11-23 12:44 pm (UTC)Make it 2x4s and I am there! There will be massive rage going on. I started out watching this thing as I was curious about McKidd and, just, YES. So much love for the whole thing...yeah, writing is on the wall and dammit I need an eraser. *sigh*
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Date: 2007-11-23 12:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-23 12:54 pm (UTC)Oh well...
Date: 2007-11-23 02:08 pm (UTC)A person told me it was yours, but I looked at your masterlist and couldn't find it.
Is it really yours? I was watching PR 3rd season finale yesterday and now I'm dying to read it again.
Love!
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Date: 2007-11-23 02:18 pm (UTC)And I'm one of those that started watching Journeyman simply because I loved McKidd in Rome and thought he was hot (but not as hot as Titus Pullo) but I'm stayin' for the story and dammit I'll be so pissed off if they cancel and why the hell WOULD they cancel with a freakin' writers strike going on? With what would they replace it??
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Date: 2007-11-23 02:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-23 02:36 pm (UTC)Sending reiki to your internal organs.
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Date: 2007-11-23 04:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-23 04:07 pm (UTC)New haircut, good.
LOLcat, awesome.
*pets*
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Date: 2007-11-23 04:19 pm (UTC)I feel a bit guilty, because I watched the first three episodes or so, then lost track of it, then didn't start watching again till this week. But DAMN. (Also, Dan's kind of a... really slow learner, isn't he?)
Project Runway/Supernatural fic
Date: 2007-11-24 07:52 am (UTC)Re: Project Runway/Supernatural fic
Date: 2007-11-24 08:06 am (UTC)