Yesterday the following exchange happened.

Roommate L: There's nothing on tv, you pick.
Me: ooooh, Avatar![: the last airbender, not james cameron]
L: Uhhhhh, okayyyyy, well, you watch that, I'll go shower.
2 episodes later,
L: um, so, can we watch the rest of it?

MUAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. So yeah, after midterm stuff is all finally over I think we'll be marathoning it before Thanksgiving.

Well, the last few days have been super busy, and I thought about posting about it all in depth, but meh, that would be even more teal deer than this will already be, and I'm lazy. So I'll just do bullet points.

- NFFR's Secret Santa Exchange! We've begun posting the works, and people have been getting great stuff so far.

- YULETIDE. OH, YULETIDE. I got not one but two gifts, and they are both exquisite and glorious and super awesome, and you should all go read them and tell the author(s?) how awesome they are.

Five Futures Kassandra Saw, and One that She Could Not, a really perfect look at Kassandra and Andromache and Helen in the lead up to and aftermath of Troy, a Bechdel Test A+ that still integrates their relationships to the men around them, and ends suprisingly hopefully while still maintaining that wonderful agonizing doooom of the Trojan women.

On Howliday, a Magic School Bus fic in which Arnold REALLY wishes he'd stayed home today, of course :D The kids and the Friz are all exceedingly perfect, and I just want more of this!

( Christmas! I read a lot and mostly lack drama )

I'm way behind in fandom stuff - NFE fics to comment on, vids to make, fic to write - but RL has been busy and awesome this week.

I've had one of every class now (and three of Latin), and I think everything's going to be good this quarter.  Philosophy just really isn't my thing, I'm coming to understand, but that's okay - at least the prof seems cool.  History will ROCK; this prof is supposedly quite strict and stressful, but I love him so far, and we're going to be doing cultural history this quarter - studying not the people/places/events but the cultures, the way values and ideals and such shift and drive those discreet events.  Plus it's the Enlightenment and the French Revolution at the end of the quarter, and I looove those. PLUS, I already asked and got cleared to write about Jacques-Louis David for my research paper.  Apparently art-analysis history and lit papers are a thing with me?  I don't even know, but it'll be fun.  I have to choose 4 or 5 of his paintings and analyse them wrt the themes we'll be discussing.  Perfect for David, who moved away from rococo with his history paintings, and was a member of the Royal Academy, and all that jolly good cultural stuff.  And he survived the Revolution, so he'll be good to examine as a continuity through the period. Soooo excited for that one.  Then in Lit we spent the first class period acting out the first 54 lines of Hamlet :DDD It was ridiculous and hilarious and completely awesome.  We're doing Hamlet, Henry IV Part I, and Twelfth Night, also Dr Faustus, Donne's poetry, Paradise Lost, and some of Milton's other poetry. BEST. EVER.  Only 6/12 chapters of PL, though D: BUT STILL. akdhaohrioa guys  I love literature SO FREAKING MUCH.

Latin's cool.  I'm freaking out, but it's cool.  I guess. I should be making vocab cards and practising present indicative active conjugation and memorizing principal parts of verbs, but you know. (THERE ARE 264 FORMS OF EVERY LATIN VERB. Only have to memorise four, though, apparently, and then a slew of rules will teach me how to do the rest. I might die.)

80's dance tomorrow night :D  So tomorrow afternoon we'll probably go to the store, and then down to Pike for various stuff (including el mercado, woot!).  

I want my new sheets.  

TV!  SUPERNATURAL TONIGHT OMG MIGHT FAINT.

Nikita is pretty darn awesome so far.  I didn't expect to like it, maybe just because it took SPN's place?  Maybe because the previews looked a tad lame.  But it's great!  Nikita herself is amazing, and I love Alex, and Jaden, and Thom, and Michael, and Birkhoff, and Amanda...everyone except Percy, yeah.  Also as of 1.03, I want Jill to stick around! She was cool!  But anyway, this show is awesome.  It melds perfectly with SPN, too, because Division kids are totally like angels and also I think a lot of them might be vessels. 

Oh, also! We watched the premiere of My Generation last night, and what a trip! oh man.  It's perfect, it brings back so many memories, and I really like everyone so far.  Want to see more of Caroline annnnd Rolly and Dawn.  And what's his name, the 'rockstar.'  So far he just holds everyone together, and I want to hear more about who he actually is.  OH and I love Brenda!

Watching Rizzoli & Isles, which I still adore and which has gotten better, I think, as the season has gone on.  And I think I've figured out their pattern - we do an episode or two that is more case-centric (like tonight's, which is omg homicide at the Boston Marathon!) and then an episode dedicated to development of character/relationship (they still try to tell us that Jane and Maura aren't girlfriends, but they are.  Last week's episode was all about them gossiping about each other's lesbian alter-egos).  So much fun!! 

Also, have I mentioned that I desperately want to be back at school?  I got a wall-sticking dry-erase calendar thing today and have been talking to one of my new roommates (who is totally nice, yay!), and it's just time.  Sigh sigh.  I'm going to try to make the month go by with things like starting to organize and pack now, and visiting friends who go to school nearby, and listening to the Herodotus lecture series I got from the library.

Not so fun things:

Driving around on family errands all evening and then waiting until 9 for dinner to find that mom made something I really just don't eat (fish. i just. eh. seafood is not my thing at all).  Which is not a problem; I have leftover chicken and delicious strawberries.  But I would have eaten an hour and a half ago if I'd known that I didn't need to be waiting on what she was making.  And this is on top of me forgetting to eat all day, which didn't matter all day because I was busy so I didn't notice, but now my stomach is eating itself. BUT. None of this really matters, I'm eating now and I have ice cream for after. 


Fun things!

Salt!  It was a really great movie, very fun, all action and suspense (but the good kind, not the scary kind), great acting, great plot twists, and I thought it handled the Russia/US international relations thing well.( spoilers~ )


Also fun has been watching the So You Think You Can Dance finale tonight.  I haven't really been keeping up with the show but I so love it because it's not bad celebrities, it's these amazing dancers.  And the three finalists are so dorky and adorable and fantastic, and I love them all!

I HATE losing to my little brother. Hate hate hate. It doesn't matter how often I tell myself to be the bigger person, to just be chill, every time he beats me at something I get this clenching feeling in my throat because it's Not Fair. He's my baby brother - I should beat him all the time. But no. Every single video game, every single card/board game (with the exception of Scrabble) - he is always better than me, and he always beats me. There should be a rule against this, seriously.

In other news, I finally watched the commentary on episode 7 of Generation Kill. Broke my heart all over again. I don't think I'll ever forget this show. It's something I definitely want to buy and always have, because it makes me think so much (though my thoughts on it never really get much of anywhere). Everything's just there, and you want to think about it, you want to find the meaning in it, but then you realize that it's all real, these are all real people, this is the stuff the actual Marines actually said and did, albeit portraitized, and that just leaves me stumbling for a mental foothold.

In other other news, I got stuck in ficcing today, so I made some icons instead. I can't use them right now because I just revamped my icon list (I want those 100 icons!! But I am stopping myself. Noooo giving in to temptation!), but I sort of want to show them off.

( some SPN, some Morgana, some Pevensies )

* on this one, the text is, of course, from the title of be_themoon / be_themoon 's beautiful fic lovely in my sight. That poem, Mnemosyne, has ever since struck me as perfect for Susan and Lucy, sisters of win, so I stuck it on here.


Okay, back to the fic.  Casfest due in a week, extended femgen deadline in two weeks. Flaaaaaaaail.

Tom Felton signed with a record label.  This makes me ridiculously happy, partially because I've checked out his stuff on YouTube and he seems legitimately talented to me (I prefer his playing over his singing, but the whole package tended to come out well, IMO), but mostly because it's Tom Felton and I'm a big fangirl.

Also, there's this website where I go when I want to a) look at clothes while b) making fun of people via other people's wit.  It's the great blend of shallow-ness, pretty things + insults, and I love it.  Anyway, I was getting caught up today because I haven't checked it in awhile, and there was this fabulous entry regarding Ewan McGregor, whom I simply adore.  Oh, and Jessica Alba, too.

Ugh.  I woke up at 8am today to go play soccer, which was a really good decision because I like soccer and I like hanging out with my friends and exercise is good, but now I'm really exhausted.

And and and, I want to see Inception!  Supposedly it's very Bourne, which I approve of mightily. Maybe I will do that tomorrow, if all the showings have stopped being sold out way ahead of time.

ETA: It also must be said that Mr. Leo DiCaprio is looking MIGHTY FINE. And Marion Cotillard is in Inception! How did I not know this before? Why are they only promoting Leo and Ellen Page? Huh huh huh?

I forgot to eat dinner tonight because I went off to choir rehearsal instead - which was extra fun tonight. We got volunteered to do the music for the Our Lady of Antipolo mass in a couple of weeks, but none of us are going to be there, so we didn't have to do anything while our director was running through the stuff with the lady in charge.  So we had a dance party on the altar steps and all down the aisles (horribly blasphemous, possibly; terrificly fun, totally) with our background music the Kordero and the Ama Namin, and it was great fun with lots of dizzy spinning and fake ballerina leaps.

Anyway, I'd forgotten dinner, so I was sitting here with my stomach growling and realized I should eat, but when I went into the kitchen there was a huge cockroach scampering around, and it almost went over my foot, and it was really creepy.  I trapped it with an I-can't-believe-it's-not-butter container and I'll make my dad take it outside tomorrow, but SERIOUSLY.  I saw zero creepy bugs all year at school, and now they are all over the place.  It's really not cool.


Oooh, in happy things - I am a little obsessed with Sara Bareilles' new song King of Anything, and that video for it is awesome.  Really gorgeous and really fun.  Yay music!

To-do, fandom-wise:

femgenficathon  due July 31.

Castielfest  due August 9.

Narnia Fic Exchange due August 30.

And then I also just signed up for spnsupporting, which, praise the flatbread, has no specific deadline.  Plus I want to finish my Lucy/Ramandu's daughter, and I still have that half-done Anna fic floating around.  And an Edmund LWW vid, and an end-of-Who5 vid.  And I want to write poetry, too, but I never have time or inspiration for more than a few lines.

Also I bought, when I got The Magicians (arrrgh), Stardust, so I want to read that, and I've yet to finish Good Omens, and my brother got the new Rick Riordan for his birthday so I want to read that, too, and I have to sort through all my family's Pratchett to see what I've not read yet and what I want to steal, and also I am long overdue for a reread of the Madeleine L'Engle books.


I did the friending thing today via an awesome female characters friending meme, which is really cool.  Yay new friends!  I talk about myself and my life and my fannishness all the time here, obviously, but it seems to be the thing to do to put up a little something by way of welcome and introduction, so.

Hi, I'm Meto, I'm a going-to-be second year college student.  American, West Coast, of European-mutt descent.  Only girl of four kids in my family, liberal, mostly-non-political, Catholic.  I'm studying literature and history, and I have no idea what I'll do with it - probably teach? I love reading, and writing, and music; I like to swim and to play soccer though I don't do enough of either anymore.  My favorite fandoms are Narnia, Supernatural, Merlin, and Dr Who/Torchwood, though I can easily get gleeful over any number of tv shows, movies, and books.  My greatest ambition in life is to have a room devoted to my personal library with wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling rows of shelves, sliding ladders, and lots of well-loved and also plenty of untouched and pretentious books.  I also like to bake and to paint my nails and to watch Disney movies.  Annnd I've run out of things to say about myself.  Welcome welcome new friends, I love finding other people who love the same crazy stuff that I do!