i have decided to be happy

I'm not gonna lie, Taylor Hall petulantly slamming his stick into the glass with a mouthed, Fuck is pretty good for me.

(I also have kind of a lot of feelings about that game, getting their asses beat 7:1 while being 4 - 7 - 2 for the season, and Taylor - who was supposed to be, like, their great hope to turn it all around, number one pick, etc. - still only has three goals and three assists, which is fine, but it does maybe kind of blow a little to go to Carolina where Jeff Skinner has 14 points already and is leading all the NHL rookies in scoring, and then to not manage a single shot on goal and get benched for the whole third period. So... yeah.)

(It's okay, bb, I'd probably slam my stick, too.)

FRIENDSLIST!

Hello! Do you remember me? Are you still here, even after I got sucked into hardcore fandom drift and more or less abandoned LJ for months at a time? I miss you! And I miss LJ, because for all the uses Tumblr has, it is absolute shit for having conversations, and having conversations with you was always my favorite part of fandom! Whenever I'm on Tumblr I feel like a cranky old lady (or possibly Steve Rogers) poking at the screen. THESE NEWFANGLED TRENDS, HOW DO THEY WORK?

Anyway. I actually gave LJ some money the other day just so I could have my icon spaces back, because clearly I need to accumulate seventy-five icons of the Avengers' stupid, heroic faces. Toss in some football (the proper kind that you play with your feet), a bit of Vampire Diaries, Haven and Game of Thrones and you've got my main fannish loves at the moment. Tell me about yours, lovelies! What are you up to? ♥

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Hokay. After a prolonged period of total bug-eyed freak-out last night over the new and not-so improved Delicious (they broke Delicious. I seriously cannot even) I think I have more or less reached a state of acceptance. I also bit the bullet and shelled out the one-time fee for Pinboard. I think it was $10.41 when I did it earlier? Something like that. So, do-able even on my budget, but the price will increase the more people sign up for it. My bookmarks imported correctly and comprehensively, I THINK; they're totally out of order, of course, but, you know. One thing at a time.

I was never a big user of the network function on Old Delicious, so I can't speak to how other services compare, but from what I can tell, the only thing that Old Delicious could do that no replacement service so far offers is the tag bundle function. However, I like that Pinboard is actively reaching out to fandom, which hopefully will mean no fuckery of the kind that Diigo is up to, like automatically making people's links private if they contain "bad words" like (brace yourselves) sex, sexy, or porn. Yeeeeah. That sounds super useful for fandom! KINK MEME MODS, ARE YOU LISTENING? People have already approached the Pinboard owner about tag bundles and he is looking at possible ways to implement them; if you want to weigh in with suggestions/comments for tag bundles or anything else, this is a Google Doc specifically set up for that purpose! I just added my two cents, and it's kind of amazing. GROUP HUG, FANDOM! We can get through this together! ♥

ETA There are a lot of useful links here as well, including a public migration spreadsheet and something that helps you find your old Delicious network.

Mom and I have gotten started on de-cluttering the attic, as a sort of on-going birthday present to her. So far we've sorted through most of the mess of wrapping paper, recycled bows and ribbons and I'm slowly working my way through a stack of old teaching materials to see what I want to keep for myself. (Major advantage to entering your parents' profession: tons of free stuff! \o/) Last night we unearthed a big pampers box full of my old shoes, from toddler to kindergarten. Sorting through them very nearly reduced my mom to tears, presumably because of happy memories, and not because of distress over how I've turned out. (I hope.)

Also, shit, I forgot how awesome/terrible September is. SO MUCH TV! In lieu of actually learning how to operate Twitter, let me put my reactions to some of the new shows in 140 characters (or totally not) right here:

A Gifted Man Patrick Wilson is pretty! I could predict everything about the medical A-plot before it happened, but maybe that's just a consequence of too many doctor shows. I'm really curious to see how the subsequent episodes go.

Charlie's Angels Oh, dear lord. The dialogue was painful ("I never knew my heart could hurt so much!" being my personal favorite), the acting was okay, but, I'm sorry, LYLA GARRITY IS NOT A STREET-WISE CAR THIEF. And it wasn't even entertaining! I so wanted to like this show, but, no. Sigh.

The Secret Circle I'm intrigued by Nick and Melissa. ... and that's about it for now. I like the cast, generally speaking, though I can't really tell if Faye is supposed to be a total psychotic bitch or a poor little middle-class girl, or both? It doesn't help that I'm getting basically zero chemistry from Thomas Dekker and Britt Robertson, especially with this show coming right after Vampire Diaries where everyone seems to have it in spades. I think I'll still keep watching, though, keeping in mind that sometimes shows take a little while to get going.

Ringer ... which goes double for this one. PLEASE, Ringer, get your act together. I want to love you! But you're going to have to ease up on the Very Serious.

The Playboy Club No.

Why isn't EVERYONE EVER watching The Vampire Diaries? IT IS SO GOOD. ♥_______♥

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In news that have nothing to do with vampires or heartbreak at ALL, I have new boots, raising my total of winter-appropriate pairs of shoes to two (2)! They are awesome and magnificent, and I kinda love them. Also, they make me want to buy and wear ALL THE TIGHTS. ♥tights♥

Flist, a question! I'm writing a paper on AAVE* and its place in/interaction with American society and culture. Does anyone have any hot tips for things to include? Blogs, books, articles, YouTube videos? If you do, throw it my way, please and thank you! ♥

* African-American Vernacular English/"Ebonics"

So... April 2010, huh.

Hello, lovelies! Contrary to appearances I am, in fact, both alive and in possession of internets! I am also, as of today, officially MID-TWENTIES, which still seems vaguely impossible to me on many levels, but there you go.

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Yay for having birthdays at home during your semester break!

I finally followed through on dusting off ye olde LJ - mostly by uploading new icons, WHAT - so now I just need to keep ACTUALLY UPDATING. I have miiiiissed you guys. ♥ Here's what I'm (mostly) up to these days, fandom-wise:

- Teen Wolf (it's robanybody's fault)
- Game of Thrones
- Doctor Who
- White Collar
- Haven
- Being Human US
- Football! The proper kind, not the NFL one.

And then, you know, other bits and bobs. COME AND TELL ME WHAT YOU ARE LOVING RIGHT NOW?

I decided last week to give Bones a try, since I know a bunch of people who love it and, you know, it seemed up my alley what with the crime-solving and the UST! And I AM actually loving the show (Bones! Booth! Hodgins! Angela! Sweets! Cam! Caroline! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥), so this is really not a reflection on my general enjoyment of it, but I just got done with the season three finale and ( Collapse )

BUT APART FROM THAT, I do really kind of adore it! SQUINTS AND THEIR CRANKY HANDLERS! ♥

I keep refreshing various official websites in a more or less desperate attempt to find out whether tomorrow will be a snow day and/or will it so through sheer power of mind. I feel like it would be justice on a personal level, since I left the house today at 7:20 foolishly thinking, If the buses are running, surely there'll be school! BREAKING NEWS: JUST BECAUSE THE BUSES ARE RUNNING DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN CLASSES WON'T BE CANCELED. Of course, I didn't realize that until AFTER a 45-minute bus ride had deposited me at my practicum school, which was dark and empty except for a few scattered teachers in the teachers lounge, where I got to hang out for the next, oh, TWO HOURS until I could take a bus back home.

Relatedly, it is COLD AS FUCK outside.

Please be a snow day tomorrow please be a snow day tomorrow please be a snow day tomorrow.

Actually, I am sort of enjoying this winter business, when I'm not arriving home with half my face and the front of my thighs frozen. I'd estimate we have about five inches of snow on the ground (where it hasn't piled up to 10+ around the curbs) which is, of course, not all that impressive compared to the SNOWPOCALYPSE I understand the American east coast is getting, but it's about as much as we ever get around these parts, not to mention the snow is covering a two-inch coat of solid ice most places. FUN FACT: city councils don't make it a point to stock large reserves of road salt OR sand in case of winter emergencies, since we NEVER GET THOSE AROUND HERE, RIGHT?

Okay, seriously, either the district school board's website crashed from all the traffic of people as anxious for news as me, or they took it offline to spite us. PLEASE GIVE US WORD, FOLKS. If I'm gonna have to get up at 6:15 after a more or less wasted school-free day, I'm gonna need some mental preparation to face that.

Anyway, where was I? Oh yes. We never get weather like this! PARTICULARLY we don't get weather like this for eight weeks straight, with only a few short interruptions. My poor dad spent like three hours this past weekend hacking ice off the sidewalk in front of our house.

WHY WON'T YOU MAKE IT A SNOW DAY, SCHOOL BOARD. THE ROADS CAN'T HAVE IMPROVED THAT MUCH! IT'S GOING TO FREEZE AGAIN TONIGHT! PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME WAKE UP AT ASS O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING TO CHECK AGAIN!

On a completely different note, I finally listened to the advice of the Internets At Large and watched Friday Night Lights. UGH, YOU GUYS. It is just as lovely and made me cry just about as often as I was led to believe. ♥ (I have yesterday's episode, but I couldn't bring myself to watch it yet. ( Collapse )