Claire

Oh man, I got home so late tonight. I had all these awesome plans of Doing Things and also, y'know, updating my journal since it's been a week, oops, but basically we put away groceries and made dinner and now we're watching Revenge (oh Revenge, be more Revenge-y <3) and it's basically about to be bedtime. Chronological time is so unhelpful. :(

So! I have kind of had an eventful week or so since I last talked to non-twittery parts of the internet. (Apologies to those of you ON twitter, who have been putting up with me being whiny and ridiculous at great length already.)

( Skip for wittering on about minor illness. )

Despite the whole "the world is 15 feet underwater" issue (which persists even now, thanks body), I actually didn't feel too terrible on the weekend itself, so like a mature and responsible human I kept my initial plans for the weekend which were to zoom down to Wellington to hang out with the locals and gorge on hockey.

( Wellington! Hockey! Many exclamation points! )

So. That has been my week. HOPEFULLY this weekend will hold a lot less being outside where it's cold/doing grown up mature things/feeling like pants, and a lot more of me getting to sit on the couch and yell at the TV. Hopefully most of that yelling will even be the joyous kind. At any rate, I plan to be a total lazybones and huddle up indoors.

...and this post was about tail off into "so you guys should talk to me and tell me what you're up to/tell me about what you're interested in talking about at the moment!" because I feel like I've hardly spoken to 99% of the internet in ages and that sucks, but I'm also going to be realistic and accept that I can't try and hold a comment party when I'm going to be away from my computer for the better part of the next 18 hours. So, uh, placeholder for tomorrow? :D? Although that being said, if you don't mind the Slowest Replies in the World (what's my record again, Dave? Like... seven years? *shame*), you should totally comment at me anyway, because god knows I will appreciate the hell out of having something to read at 7am tomorrow when I stealth-check my email on my phone.

Okay, so I realised last night that I am, in fact, kind of an incredible dumbass. I've been running around like a maniac trying to get things sorted for May and June and August shenanigans and... haven't really given a lick of thought (outside of 'do i have a bed to sleep in, y/n?') to the fact I'm going to be in Wellington for about forty eight hours NEXT WEEK. Oops. *sheepish*

So, I get in to Wellington around 3.30pm on the Friday afternoon, at which point I anticipate meeting up with ms blue_raven at some point shortly thereafter.
Saturday day is convention-related shenanigans, as will Sunday morning be (regrettably, the only useful-to-me-and-not-obscenely-priced flight back is at 4.30pm on Sunday, so i'm only around till, like, 3pm, I guess, since I'll have to get myself to the airport.), but I should be available for breakfast/lunch/coffee/dinner type meetups if people are keen. I have tentative plans for Friday night, but if people want to try and get together for a fangirly dinner (or drinks, I guess?) out somewhere on Saturday, please comment below, or email me, or, uh, suggest somewhere good to eat? I would love to see as many of you lovely local people as possible, so just give us a yell. And I think you all have my cell - comment if you don't, and I can email it to you.

So I'm thinking this might happen in several parts, mostly because time keeps getting away from me, and bite-size chunks are all good, right? Okay, good, glad you're all with me here. Overall disclaimer: I make no claims as to the veracity of word-for-word quoteage because nine times out of ten I was writing in the dark, while laughing so hard I could barely see straight, and in such circumstances it's hard to be accurate. Also, I don't think any of the quotes that will turn up later will be attributed, mostly because half the time I was too busy missing ten other hilarious comments in writing down one and additionally have no idea who actually said most of them. Not at all to protect the guiltyinnocent, or anything like that. :D

( Fangirls Create Mayhem En Route To Wellington, Family in Taupo Traumatised by Hugh Dillon, and a Whole Lot of Nerdery Going On, Or: Thursday & the Drive Down. [2476 words, 1x photo] )

super rapid quick update.

Jewel Staite is teeny tiny and adorable and did I mention? Adorable. We only saw her panel as we decided that paying for autographs/photos wasn't really in our budget and we could take photos during the panel for free. Um. Yeah. Also, she is YOUNGER than most of us. Which is... trippy. I did not know that. Also, she was in an episode of SGA?! And I did not know this! Flist? SO FIRED. (I kid cos I love.) I took a large number of very bad photos (we were only like six rows back and it was very loose ,but she was sitting down the whole time so it's pretty much just her head) and also a bunch of video-as-sound-recordings, since my phone is being exceedingly 'special' at the moment and won't record sound or take photos.

But yeah. We also saw John Billingsley (?) who neither of us would've known from Adam, but he was hilarious and great and is nearly making us want to watch Enterprise just because he was so cool. That way leads madness, I know.

We took off after Jewel's panel to the LotR exhibit again (yes, we are using our 30 or so hours in Wellington efficiently!) and saw that again (Boromir is still the most realistic wax figure thing I have ever seen, ngh) and saw all the new stuff from, like, RotK and all. It was awesome. I may have accidently spent a lot of money today. In my defence, I found the two disc edition of Narnia very cheap, I found what seems to be a first edition in hardback of the orange bible (!) and, um. Okay, I suck and am weak but it's just so PRETTY I had to get it. I may have also bought other stuff like maybe a geeky picture to hang above the computer but we're NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT NOW KAY? And yes, there may a little bit be a zed-pee-em in said picture. *facepalms* *gleefully*

Also, we found a video shop that had SGA tonight and, um. Yeah. Me? DOOMED. My credit card? Having accidents TOMORROW. Kat? Prepare for incoming. Heh. I mean, it's no due South. But god is it just... good. I. I swear, the bit? With the balcony? In the second episode? I was in convulsions of glee on the couch. This is GOOD SQUISHY.

I also wrote, like, two hundred words of highwaymiles in a cafe at lunch so... go me? (Okay, strictly speaking, I wrote about a thousand words but there were two very failed attempts to start with, so. heh. Again, this will be a deadline going WHOOSH experience, I feel.)

Hope everyone in Iowa is having a great time, I will sadly be unable to ring as I never got anyone's numbers and, um, I maybe have like two dollars left on my phone anyway if that. Also, Kat? Dunno if you got the phone message this afternoon, I tried to queue it up so you got Duck (so many Ducks in my life. This is not a bad thing) and Miranda Otto. My success may have been limited. (Actually, you're probably sitting there going öh, so THAT'S what that weird call was, oops?)

Also, is it just me or is the SGA theme song sort of lifted almost in its entirety from that of SeaQuest DSV? With a side smooshing of JAG? ...just me then? :D