I'm watching a Dexter vid and one of Dexter's S1 victims (Matt Chambers, the drunk from the second episode) pops up on screen...and suddenly I'm disconcerted, because I feel a rush of affection for him and I definitely didn't feel like that when I originally watched the episode, what with the character being a scumbag and all. Has my brain malfunctioned, or: wait! this must be a case of fandom overlap.

Ah. Because Matt Chambers is Sam Trammell is Sam Merlotte from True Blood. The universe is orderly again. No wonder I wanted to ruffle his hair.

Speaking of True Blood and the Sookie Stackhouse books, I finished them all up while on vacation with the family last week. Those were great trashy beach books! Now I am doomed to be constantly comparing the TV series to the novels, and let me just say a few things about ERIC. ( spoilers for the books and show so far...um, I guess? )

Current Mood: amused

Do you know what would maximize vidding progress, especially when one is fully cognizant of the restrictions on her free time? Not. stopping. to make. superfluous. icons.

(but just LOOK at him! what's a girl to do?)

I have spent maybe 90 minutes editing over the last two days and so I haven't accomplished anything. Except turning on the lights in my soul. Me? Dramatic? I haven't the slightest IDEA what you mean!

Current Mood: awake

I had to order a financial calculator for class and I might have gotten a little excited when it arrived. Holla back if you get your freak on for net present value! (don't holla...I will be worried if you holla) Also, it has taken me from mid-March until tonight to prep footage for one single solitary vid. Yeah, since ALL I have to do now is the editing, I'm so sure it will be done in time to submit for VVC. I'm still debating whether or not to cancel, since I'm involuntarily exiled from vidding and all things fannish and feel very out-of-touch (though I did manage to leave a few vid comments this past week, miracle of miracles). After years of complete indifference to the sport, I've started watching hockey and liking it. I watched a weird movie called Franklyn for love of Eva Green and pretty much liked that, too. There's an original Star Wars cast member who has an office IN MY BUILDING (he's not there all the time, but he does have an office) and I totally did not know this and rode the elevator in ignorance with C-3P0 aka Anthony Daniels.

Current Mood: moody

Thanks for the show suggestions on the last post -- much appreciated (and keep 'em coming)!

I was clearing stuff away to go to bed and then I nearly passed out from the shock of seeing THIS ( on a chair TOGETHER, I'm telling you! )

Current Mood: shocked

So, what's a fun-to-watch series, ala Arrested Development and 30 Rock? The snappy, smart kind of funny. Having fun in Netflix form is part of what keeps me limping along and I need MOAR.

Limping along pretty much describes my current state. I feel like I just drag my ass to the next hurdle and then pick it up and try to fling it over...then draaaaag some more. I'm prepping for another final exam and then -- from this Tuesday evening (post-exam) through the following Tuesday when the next class begins -- there will be a week with no assignments. This time I don't have delusions about grand creative endeavors taking place during that week, but at least it's some time to zone out and get together with friends and maybe read a few pages of a book (a real book, one not prefixed by the word "text").

Oh, re watching things, I continued my slow progress through the varied and wonderful filmography of Daniel Craig with Infamous. Which was rather heartbreaking! It's about Truman Capote and the writing of In Cold Blood. Craig plays killer Perry Smith and I am pretty well convinced there's nothing he *can't* play. Though I'll keep working my way through that filmography (current tally: Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Layer Cake, Enduring Love, The Golden Compass and now Infamous), just to be sure. Also, I don't think there's anything wrong with looking at photos like this from a photocall for The Golden Compass and imagining an AU James and Vesper with their lovely daughter Lyra. I AM TOTALLY IN MY RIGHT MIND. Not crazy!

Wait, I just remembered another way in which I am NOT CRAZY. Stress (and the fact that I do have to look relatively presentable for this job, in comparison to my previous one) has turned me into a makeup whore. A big old whore. It has resurrected my makeup collecting tendencies from my dancing days (when I had a legit reason, since competitive dancers make themselves up in a subtle manner, like drag queens) and then escalated them from harmless drug store cosmetic trawling to Sephora purchases. Which may not be crazy, but is stupid expensive. BUT: wearing YSL lipstick in 131 Opium Red to work this week actually made me feel less downtrodden and moderately sassy, SO: therapeutic value is how I'm writing it off.

Current Mood: exhausted

...why I'm increasingly convinced that I *am* Liz Lemon (albeit a downgraded version with a much less cool job and not nearly as funny and well, if I go on then it sort of misses the point).

Jenna: Wow, how Sex and the City *are* we right now? I'm Samantha, you're Charlotte and (pointing at Liz) you're the lady at home who watches it.

I finally got around to 30 Rock via Netflix (been in the queue for ages, queue go slow) and it's bringing much-needed doses of fizzy goodness. My second class is in the homestretch, which means a project due and then the final exam in addition to the regular homework assignments which by themselves already swallow my weekends whole. Yeah. Well, to quote a personal hero and hot-assed leather-wearing space cowboy: work now, freak later. And keep the 30 Rock coming.

Current Mood: amused

I gave up and put a photo on my Facebook (I was being all subversive and just had the default outline for a while, but how "subversive" can you be, exactly, once you've JOINED something?), so now I'm putting it here. To balance out that time I posted the pic with no head. Which, to be fair, was meant to be a jewelry pic and there was no need for my head to be involved, OK?

( this time not headless )

This weekend, what I need to do is: loads of homework (unsurprisingly) and my taxes.
This weekend, what I don't want to do is: either of the above. Tired now. Just want to numb brain with repeated doses of TV and gin.

Current Mood: blank

Confirmed by DVD (so much prettier than my various  DLs; oh, you people behind the scenes who do color grading and other shit to make the DVDs look good, I appreciate you!): I *do* love Quantum of Solace, even if I'm the only one. It still makes my heart all breaky. And plus, Daniel Craig is eye candy to the millionth degree; he has the glamour of classic Hollywood that's so rarely found today -- looks amazing in everything (nothing), but most especially tailored suit jackets, could eat him for lunch, kthxyum.

NOW I WANT TO WATCH THE COMMENTARY TRACK (Rob, Kristen, Catherine) ON THE TWILIGHT DVD. I read excerpts, and it's GOLD. It's loaded with mockery, a drinking game waiting to happen! A dream come true! If wishes were horses, vampires would fly (oh, wait, they totally DO)! Maybe this weekend.

Current Mood: drunk

HOMEWORK!!!??!?J@J:JOIUKF:SAHJFR:OHQ!AK

The End.

Since last post:

• Re VVC registration, yes, I got in (yay!), though I am still very much doubting I can get a vid (any vid) done in time to submit and am debating whether or not it will be fun to go while in this "vidder who does not vid" state. If I cannot be enthusiastic, I will just pull the car over right now, young lady!
  
• Work is busy and stress-inducing, but at the same time, I certainly haven't lost sight of the fact that I'm lucky to have a job.
  
• Second course (of 15, haaallllp) in progress and I really had trouble getting into gear. Having the first class end and then this one begin a week later...I thought that week in between would feel like a break and it didn't AT ALL and then the whole process started up again and I did not handle it well. Which led to the most un-fun birthday of my life, spent doing nothing but homework and a few remedial chores (we're talking the bare minimum) and every time someone from my family would call, I'd have a small panic attack about the time I was losing. When happy birthday phone calls from people you love are stressing you out, that is not cool.
  
• The good news is that I did get my rock-solid A in the first course and despite the trouble getting started in this one, I'm doing fine in terms of scores, etc. The occupational outlook for accountants and auditors is very bright and I'm excelling at the coursework so far. It will take every bit of energy I can muster to get through this degree, that's for sure, but I feel like this direction is sound and solid (as much as anything is solid) and no, that's not a train at the end of the tunnel, it's light.
• Did anyone else watch this week's ER for purely sentimental reasons? I gave that show up many years ago, but I had to watch the "special guest" appearances as a nod to a show that I *did* once love, a show that actually was my introduction to online fandom via a Usenet ER discussion group. *hee* Usenet, I know! I started watching Buffy because people in the ER group were talking about it...Buffy, then Angel, then online fandom which unfolded from that tiny point of entry, good old alt.tv.er :-)
  

Current Mood: frustrated

I was super frackin' speedy and oh, lawd, I hope I got in. But that is out of my hands and as such, will give impotent hands a purpose and fill them with MORE GIN! I am doing what I have been dying to do for weeks and weeks, namely, (re)watching Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace back-to-back (while wearing the necklace, of course. in my pyjamas, of course. because nothing goes with designer jewelry so well as a soft, old t-shirt and comfy drawstring pj pants).

Tags: vividcon
Current Mood: hopeful