But you know, I'm not hating it. I was having a shitty week in which my recurring back injury recurred and I had to crawl around my house, so just being able to walk upright is a bit of a thrill, and I have power and heat and some food. Also, wandering around with a puppy in the snow is cute. Scout normally hops around like a deranged bunny, but this is so deep that she sinks all the way in and then is bewildered by her predicament.



(click here for a few more pictures)

Current Mood: sore

2010 is off to a challenging start. I'm saying "challenging" because that sounds vaguely optimistic. This is my new policy statement, or like, WHATEVER: when I have LJ time, I'm using it to leave comments and give feedback and such, because let's face it, we care about what people have to say to *us* and not about what they post, right? Oh, please, don't even try to contradict me, you know it's the truth ;-) And while we're being frank, I'm finally cutting loose any guilt about trying to keep up with people who haven't shown any interest in me, my life, my vids, etc. I'm not exactly difficult to keep up with as of late AND I wasn't put on this earth to fangirl anyone AND I don't have the energy to invest in one-way communication. Done and done.

A few two words about TV: MODERN FAMILY. Where are mah Modern Family bitches? Seriously, it's super funny. Laugh out loud funny. Worth typing the words "laugh out loud." I thought it looked like an Arrested Development ripoff and I was not having any of that, but after hearing Good Things From a Variety of Sources, I decided to marathon it and am happy to admit that I Had It All Wrong.

Friday Night Lights is having another great season, Big Love is finally back, Seeker is still the good crack, various and sundry shows need to return from winter hiatus already, I'm nearly done with Twin Peaks on DVD, I'm in the third series of Spooks/MI-5 and am slowly making my way through the complete Bond movies (not just watching bits and pieces when they're randomly on TV every second weekend) so that I can say with full knowledge that I love Daniel Craig the best. Sean Connery may have been unseated (roughly 30 minutes into my first watch of Casino Royale), but he's a very happy second -- Thunderball was the most recent watch and it gets props for the insanely long underwater hand-to-hand combat sequence.

Oh, wait, is anyone on my flist obsessed with perfume? Do you scour eBay for vintage finds and do swaps and splits with other perfumistas and read fragrance blogs and have a gazillion of those little sample vials, upon which your very existence depends? If so, WE MUST TALK, CALL ME (or the equivalent).

(I didn't even bitch about school! that's because it's assumed)

Current Mood: bitchy

( Dexter S4 finale )

( and there's...more )

It's raining virtual gifties! Y'all rock! *snuggles*

Dudes, I kind of enjoyed the first tax research memo I had to do for the current class, but Tax Research Memo the Second is considerably more brain-frazzling. And due tomorrow, I might add. Caught between "too tired to keep working tonight" and "but there's no other time to work on it before class tomorrow"...so I make a post to LJ, because that will help somehow?

BUT. Vorenus is here to tell you (link snagged from queenofthorns) -- in case you needed updating, because I surely did -- that the Rome movie is still a thing that is ALIVE! My Rome DVDs are aching for a rewatch and I think that's just the catalyst for it.

Current Mood: stressed

( FNL 4.05 )

Outside the cut, the standard tag that I feel compelled to add to any Friday Night Lights post: if you're not watching Friday Night Lights, you should be. Honest to God, I don't post about much and I preach about even less, but I will lovingly sing the praises of FNL (sometimes in vid form). And the first three seasons are all on DVD! It's like a prize that you didn't even know you had won, so go and collect your winnings!

Current Mood: melancholy

...at long last, watching Star Trek movie!!  \o/

Also, what to do about dog who has bandages on her front legs (and they're hot pink and purple bandages, awwww!) and reacts to my attempts to remove them the same way that she reacts to attempts to trim nails?  That is, growls and rolls on to her side and rubs teeth on me in pre-bite warning.  Poor lovey, she had a tooth cleaning today and the bandages are from IV anesthesia. I won't push her on them now since she had a rough day (lots of tired, sad blinking going on, which I have to admit, is pretty darn adorable), but a T-giving throwdown may be on tap.

Current Mood: thankful

Well, now that I've been spoiled by wording choice fail not placed behind a cut over at supernatural_tv, I don't know if I even want to watch the episode. And that will force me to work on a tax memorandum instead, WHICH IS TRAGIC.

Current Mood: bitchy

The vid: Pour Lui (James Bond movies)

I had to find *some* escape from reading mountains of tax code, so here is a vid commentary. On a vid that very few people have watched! But that is OK, because I still really want to talk about it. I love Bond and I love Vesper and I love them together and apart and alive and...not...and I am obviously still processing this corner of fannish obsession. Approach the cut with caution, my friends. Images and ever so much talking underneath.

( you're gonna hate me when I tell you everything )

Tags: vid commentary, vidding meta
Current Mood: crushed

RELIEF. My advanced finance course is OVER. Worst one yet. I feel flattened by the grind of trying to pull off this work/school thing, but the next class (federal taxes, which really *does* sound better than finance, no lie) begins in a week...so I can only be road kill for a couple of days and then it's time to scrape up 2-D cartoon!me and keep moving. I'm not ready to exercise the option to take a term off yet. I have to save that one up for when the laser is about to saw me in half and Goldfinger is all, "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to DIE!" Obviously, once the Goldfinger/laser/crotch scenarios kick in, it will be clear that I have lost it.

I got new music along with my Legend of the Seeker DVDs (continues to be much-needed crack, fondly reminds me of early Farscape) and after listening on the way to/from work today, I'm totally obsessed with the most amazing song. No, I'm not saying what it is because I'm superstitious that way, but it's simple and sad and elevated to brilliance by the narrative structure...the lyrics have a story within a story and it's a must-vid, even though I don't yet have any idea what source to pair with it. It's going to keep burning my sad, pulpy brain until I figure it out. Help.

Current Mood: exhausted

I did a minor re-edit of the (latest) Bond vid on October 6th -- not hugely different, but the downloads have changed since the original post, so I'm mentioning it.

A word about Top Chef: ( and my 4WAY OTP OMG )

Elsewise, stress levels kinda sucky...have a couple of days off in the next week, but the "vacation" days are to finish a project for class and then prepare for the final exam, so nothing fun/illicit in there (unfortunately). Though Netflix has started to bring me the delicious cheese otherwise known as Legend of the Seeker, so I will make strategic use of that for sure!

Current Mood: stressed