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it makes me sad that i watch so much tv (for me. but srsly, i'm up to 5 shows!) and you people never post about my shows anymore. i only started watching most of these shows so i could read my flist! :(

so, i have been loaning my coworkers books. first i gave t. the anita blake series (loved it, and is now annoyed that she has to go to the library for the rest because i stopped buying when they stopped being good), then i gave her night world (thought the first few were kinda dorky but otherwise liked 'em), and now she's reading vampire diaries (had trouble getting into them at first, but can't put them down now). i think i am going to give her weather warden next. is this a good plan? she originally asked for violent/gory vamp books, but then i just started shoving this other stuff in her face, and now i'm afraid that morganville won't be dark enough for her :/

(speaking of vampire diaries: i've read the books more times than i should admit in public, so it's making me kind of sad that we're two eps in and i have no clue what is going on. i am especially unhappy with damon's characterization, although i suppose he seems like this big of a douche in the books early on too. urghhhhhhhh. i don't think i can watch a whole season of this show. it is not lulzy enough.)

OH BTW. i read the hunger games by suzanne collins today. i feel like i am way late on this, but WHOA AWESOME.

lj smith has a new book out today. this is her first new book since 1997. is it the conclusion to her nine book series, which ended in an apocalyptic cliffhanger (and was arguably the thing i read most in hs, and was not at all arguably the thing that got me into internet and fandom)? no, it's a sequel to her twilight-esque vampire books, which ALREADY HAVE THE BEST SEQUEL EVER.

vd4 cannot be topped, and also i require more ash redfern. someone fix this.

(also, the new vd book matches the vd reprints, which i do not want to buy (even though, yes, they are very pretty). having a mismatched series is going to make me insaaaane. not on, publishers >:| )

got this one from kl ages ago:

1. Comment to this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.

( she gave me D. )

( FIRSTS, stolen from tia. )

stolen from myself, cos i was reading old entries and like this one:

My journal is called i'm just a zipcode man because i wanted to use the next line of the song for my subtitle.
My subtitle is i've got my house and i'll stay in if i can because i'm a hermit! and also i love mike doughty.
My friends page is called ( but i don't care to keep my fences ) because sometimes i like to have the company of others. sometimes.
My user name is a pioneer woman without a frontier because for starters, it's a line from one of my favorite movies ever (gypsy). but also it is how i feel most of the time- i could change the world if i just knew what needed to be changed!
My default userpic is a cow wearing heart-shaped sunglasses because that's how i roll.

i feel like i lost a day this week. i leave tomorrow night and i am incredibly unprepared. at least i have a duffle bag now? (it's pink.) (i am trying to make plans for saturday night without actually committing myself to anything in case i get a better offer. cos certain friends trump other friends, but i'd rather hanging out with a low-ranked friend than nobody. SO COMPLICATED. and everyone is too spread out for me to just pick a bar and tell everyone to show up. MURRR.)

anyway, i finished forbidden game today. i can't believe i read this entire trilogy for the "tunnel of love & despair" scene, but i did. it wasn't even as good as i remembered it being! i liked julian a lot more than i remembered liking him though. don't worry- i still hated tom. fucking boys named tom.

that means i'm on valiant now. yet another fucking boy named tom! it's like a goddamn epidemic. (tom: my anti-dan?)

and after this i have about ten books i want to reread, but i am out of reread points!! you guys, i don't know what to doooooooo.

at work today, i found out that one of my favorite decorators is actually married to possibly my least favorite decorator. WTF! and he didn't even say hello to me! this show would have been made of fail if i hadn't had two silly electricians keeping me entertained. (one of them was like "lisa, do girls like flowers? what about chocolates? WHAT KIND? and what do i do if this fails to make her love me?" oh electrician, i am SO the wrong girl to be asking!)

i have been listening to andrew bird's bowl of fire on repeat all week. oh god i wish i had an actual cd! i am quite smitten.

it really aggravates me to buy more or less than three books at a time (yes, that's right, i am kind of neurotic), to the point where i usually put them back if i can only find two, but i kept them today cos i didn't know when i'd have time to get back to the store. (worked all day today, working all day tomorrow, have three shows this week, babysitting friday night, and i also need to try to squeeze a trip to disney in there somewhere. and one of the other girls is going away next weekend, so lord only knows what my schedule will look like.) plus the sequel to cathy's book looked really cool (it was what caught my eye, not this one) so i want to read this so i can buy it. also bought valiant by holly black.

i think i might read forbidden game next though. or the last vampire. i don't know yet, cos the path forks after the vampire diaries and i don't know which direction to go in! do i want more vampires (and my fave vamp mythology ever) or more "the world is evil BUT I WON'T GIVE IN"? (oh MATT. jenny's version is so much better, but you are much more awesome than she is.)

also, i'm back to sort of liking stefan. WTF MAKE IT STOP. i think i'm going to choose to believe that damon's love for him makes him more tolerable. ::nods::

also also, i am kind of crazy in love with this video/song (yael naim - toxic):

you guys, get_medieval is OVER. ::sadface::

on the other end of the spectrum, there are strange fate rumors surfacing again, as well as a possible fifth vampire diaries book about damon. !!! but i'll believe it when i see it. (ljs lies more than lkh, y'all.)

-we have paused buffy (we were on "lover's walk") so that we can hopefully watch all of supernatural before the new season starts. booooooooooooys! ::flails:: the commentary on "phantom traveler" was most excellent, haha. (um, we are a little ADD over here, since we will be pausing supernatural in a few weeks so we can watch firefly with simplykatie. and i think we need to watch some avatar with her so she can learn how truly awesome lewis is.)

-the latest attempt to make me watch star wars was thwarted, which i am taking as a sign from god. :D?

-i have also paused the chronicles of amber so that i could reread the weather warden books cos there's a new one out this week. (fuck, i need to read faster.) there has been much debating of ages and timelines and much flailing over lewis and i am still enjoying the books a lot, which i was worried i wouldn't. that is largely thanks to lewis though, and my overwhelming love for him.

-ashley is reading the vampire diaries (aka, the much better version of twilight :D) right now, which is exciting and kind of hard because i do not want to spoil her but i want to flail about things. ::flails about things:: i keep replaying the fight scene from book 4 in my head and ndjacak GOD, i love it SO MUCH. favorite book scene of all time, yis. i need to stop talking about this now before i ruin the ending for ashley. ... ::flails!::

-new anita blake comic next week this month (wtf why are their pub dates so erratic)! i know i need to stop getting so excited, but EDWARD. FLAME THROWER. EDWARD WITH A FLAME THROWER. (well, that is speculation. but it's the second half of first death, which is about an early anita/edward job, and it looks like the valentine hunt, which is when he busted out the flame thrower. wait, that needs all caps. FLAME THROWER. better, yis.) let's hope they didn't ugly him up too much, yeah? also omg, they have the covers (or just random arts) of guilty pleasures 7 and 8 up, and descriptions, and "HOW FAR WILL EDWARD GO???" and omg, pls pls pls let my scene be in these comics :x (from the descriptions, it looks like my scene will be in 9, if it's in anything. november! oh november, hurry up.) the cover of first death is a/e, but edward has these really stupid looking sunglasses on, wtf.

-i hit 100,000 songs on last.fm the other day. since may 2005, about 11% of the music i've listened to has been by pearl jam. 2% has been "fool in the rain" by led zeppelin, which i think is hilarious. 2%! jenny is at 9%, and i only discovered her in january :D

I just got a MINT CONDITION copy of Heart of Valor. FOR FREE. Do you know (a) how hard it is to find this book and (b) how expensive it is on ebay? DO YOU?

I HEART TEH INTARWEBZ!!1!

according to my brothers and cousins, it is not normal to ask for reference books for christmas and then, upon receiving them, immediately plop yourself down in front of the tree and begin reading them. which i guess makes me abnormal. which i guess is not too surprising.

(i did not get a unicorn, at all, which makes me kind of sad. i DID get a pink mp3 player though! and a sweet reference book. and my parents got tivo, which is almost as good as me getting tivo! also, i felt like i did really good with buying presents this year, which made giving them a lot more fun. who would've thunk it?)


HEY how about some fic recs? i am reading sporadically and vaguely by fandom, in case you were curious.

After the Rain (BJT, daemon&surreal, gen) is pretty much spot-on for the daemon&surreal relationship for me. i have been spending a lot of time lately thinking about how needy daemon is, and so this was just perfect and i love it.

Everybody Knows (Boy Meets World, corey/shawn, corey/topenga) is so in character that you will think you are watching an improbable episode of the show. the mannerisms and characterization were just SO. PERFECT. oh corey. hee.

A Matter of Choice (Dark Visions, gabriel, gen) gets inside gabriel's head so well. he is one of those angsty bad boys who i think is kind of overrated, but then i'll read something that will make me fall in love with him all over again. this is that something.

Maggie's Kitchen (AB:VH, there is some anita/jc but mostly i would call this gen) has a MYSTERY and is very much in anita's voice. and also there is edward. that is never not good :D also, the idea of jc hiring edward to keep an eye on anita is now possibly my favorite bit of fanon ever.

if you want to see what else i'm reading between updates, i have a yuletide tag on my del.icio.us that is being updated whenever i read something awesome, so you can check that out if you are excessively bored.

I just started writing an LJS fic, and then I realized that the canon I was basing it on only exists in my head. Unless there's some book out there with a mysterious vampire illness that somehow relates to having a human soulmate. Which I doubt.

(I think I'm mashing together Kartane's illness with...Ash accusing Quinn? Quinn accusing Ash? Some vampire accusing some other vampire? OH maybe it was Hunter accusing Quinn? Of...something. Relating to his soulmate? And the human soulmates afflicting the Redferns especially? I think that's it? Or maybe that was in a later book? Possibly involving Jez or Delos? Is it bad that I can't remember this but feel like I should be able to?

I've been talking in questions for like, a year now, haven't I?

Ok ok, I'll reread the books and stop asking completely ridiculous questions. Because the books are *such* a punishment. Snerk.)


Also, new poll up at bjt_fan. If you're not already a member, you should go read the rules and join!

Title: Better Late Than Never
Word Count: 112
Series: NW - Witchlight
Notes: Ok, I'm cutting it a litttttle close on the time. Sorry.

...............

Galen watched the scowl on Keller's face melt away as she chased Alex around the yard, his shrieking giggles having given his hiding space away. *This is how all Saturday afternoons should be* Galen thought before being tackled by the violet-eyed boy. Keller leapt on top of them and yelling "Gotcha!" through the jumble of laughs and shouts.

With each laugh and giggle, he knew Keller's painful memories of growing up were being replaced by this second childhood being locked away with a five-year-old boy had given her.

He counted to ten and quickly scanned the yard before continuing their game of tag. Maybe she wasn't the only one making new memories...

title: Good Morning
word count: 121
series: NW
notes: Slashy goodness! And so marks my return to fic writing...

( LJS drabble )