I am a slave to the Bravo network.

Or at least their reality shows. I got caught up in the Project Runway marathon they were showing yesterday and realized I liked Jeffrey a hell of a lot better these days than I did when I was suffering through new episodes. At least the bastard had talent, which is more than I can say for Vincent, and hell, back then I hadn't had to suffer through Ilan. *gags*

I did watch last night's Top Design, too. ( Spoilers )

So, yeah, if you're new here from the friending meme, hi! *waves*

As you can see, I'm hopelessly addicted to Bravo's creative reality shows (but only their creative shows -- The Real Housewives can all get run over by a bus and splatter in a pool of Botox and silicone on the road for all I care) so while there are new episodes of Project Runway, Top Chef, and Top Design to be had I will be discussing them at great length. They and The Amazing Race are the only reality shows I'm hooked on. Travel, food, and design? YAY. :)

Let me boil it down for the lot of you who haven't been around a while -- I'm a twenty-nine-year-old single woman living with a toothless Siamese cat and two chinchillas in Northeastern Pennsylvania. This is why I tend to get a wee bit geeky about the Scranton references on The Office. ;) Anyway, I am the Dean and my little brother Bryan is the Sam, complete with being annoyingly taller and needing a smack upside the head more often than not. I work at a CD/DVD factory, where I unfortunately don't get a discount on DVDs and wonder if the security guards would get the irony in me trying to steal one of the "Stop Piracy!" posters all over the factory.

I'm trying to become a published writer and have been working on a book series about a guy from the Scranton area with uncontrollable magical abilities for something like five years now. *crosses fingers* For fun, I write fanfic. Yes, I see the one-track-mindedness of writing fanfic for fun and original fic as (hopefully in the future) a real career. Don't judge me, damn it. *giggles*

Fic-wise, I have pretty much no barriers left. I'm pretty sure Supernatural and Project Runway broke me -- before getting hooked on both I never wrote slash, porn, incest, or kink. So there you go. I tag all of my fic by fandom, so if you want to find it I've got them listed on the right side of my layout. Plus, if you're an SPN fan (which you should be, because it's an SPN friending meme, right? ;)), I've also got them tagged as "wincest" and "non-wincest" just in case the Sam/Dean is not your thing and you just want to skip directly to the gen and het. I also write pretty consistently ... every couple of days I'm posting something.

My current fandoms are Supernatural, Heroes, Ugly Betty, The Office US (still haven't gotten a chance to write in that one just yet), Grey's Anatomy, Dexter, and Top Design (although that's mostly because I'm desperate for Project Runway and I'll take what I can get). I still watch Veronica Mars although they're really starting to lose me this season, I watch Doctor Who although I probably will never write fic in it because it just doesn't attack me with plotbunnies and I get antsy with Britishisms anyway, I watch Boston Legal but usually don't make a big deal out of it, and I watch The Dresden Files although it's not latching onto me quite the way I'd like and I'd much rather just stick with the books. Fandoms that have lost me include Lost (right about the time that the plot got too convoluted and ridiculous, away I went), Jericho (*yawn*), and Buffy and Angel (the last couple of seasons of each ruined my goodwill, I think). Shows that I loathe with an unearthly passion include American Idol, The Apprentice, Seinfeld, and Sex and the City. I'm sort of a crime junkie so if I'm not watching crime shows on A&E I'll watch reruns of Without a Trace, any Law and Order, and CSI until I'm blue in the face, no matter how bad I know the science is. In fact I'll tune into CSI Miami specifically because the science, logic, and acting are generally just that bad. I'm also a bit of a disaster geek -- I've seen pretty much every episode of Seconds from Disaster and have episodes of Air Crash Investigation on my MP3 player.

I tend to gravitate towards fictional characters who are utter bastards, either outright or underneath everything -- Nathan Petrelli, Jayne Cobb, Dick Casablancas, Denny Crane, Dexter Morgan, Alex Karev. Which is really weird, because on reality shows I can't stand the utter bastards. Heh. :)

Hmm, what else? Uh, I barely if ever finish everything on my plate, not because of a diet or anything, just some weird thing I have. I lived in DC for two years and loved it (with the exception of a wee bit of personal drama due to miscommunication, but it happens ... *shrugs*), but I'm really grateful to be back in PA because I just like living in a small town more. And I'm way more comfortable in the sweltering heat than I am in the blistering cold, meaning I'm just loving this February. *eye roll*

So that's me in a nutshell.

Help, help! I'm in a nutshell!

EDIT: Winchestercon is in LA this year! Los Angeles! Dude, you don't understand. I've never been farther west than ... uh, New Orleans? Yeah, I think that was the farthest west I've been. Now all I have to do is leave the country at least once and I can die happy. :)

It's a good thing I wore a cardigan, too, then.

As soon as I sat down in Panera in my "Every time you see a rainbow God is having gay sex" shirt, a little girl and an old woman sat down at the next table. Okay, yeah, so maybe wearing this in public was a bad idea. I give, I give. *zips up sweater*

In the same vein, the sign outside a Florida theater showing a production of "The Vagina Monologues" changed the sign outside to "The Hoohaa Monologues" after a complaint. Bajingo and va-jay-jay were their next options on the list, I imagine. My favorite line is this one: The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler's award-winning international hit play, is an attempt to celebrate the vagina as an object of empowerment, rather than of shame. There's some way to go with that one, clearly. Yes, clearly. *eye roll*

Because I had to write it, damn it. (Sam/Jess, PG)

Okay, so you know that story going around about Sandy's roommate talking about how cute and funny Jared is and how they get him to change lightbulbs for them?

This is the first thing I thought of.

*****

( The Lollipop Guild )

*****

BWAHAHAHAHA!

( Quick sort-of spoilery comment about tonight's SPN )

Oh, man, this show.

( Supernatural )

You know what someone needs to make me?

You know, since I'm a dumbass who writes, not ... uh, arts?

( Spoilery comment in regards to tonight's SPN episode )

Man, I wish I had some real artistic ability. I had something vaguely resembling in high school but it wasted away to nothing because let's face it -- I'm a better writer. :) Although if I did have artistic talent right now, I'd mostly use it to design my own tattoos, draw the Books of Boggs characters, and redo my layout so that it looks like a book or a cluttered desk covered in notes or a library shelf or something.