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exsequarFirstly: Happy birthday ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
glamorous_nymph! I hope it is a lovely one. ♥
Secondly: LOOK I HAVE A JACOB PITTS ICON. He's so pretty siiiiigh. I maaade it! And I feel I should share the original picture with you, because HOLY PIERCING EYES BATMAN. *___*
Unfffff. His fucking mouth.
Speaking of Jacob Pitts, I rewatched some of Justified episode 2 today (and right after I tweeted about it, Brian Schechter tweeted only the words "Justified episode 2" - it was creepy) and man, I forgot that Tim (JACOB PITTS) has some really great scenes there! I love the conversation he has with Raylan about watching targets when he was a sniper in Afghanistan. I want more character development like that, and more one-on-one hotass dudes time! C'mon show! Overall, though, I'm REALLY loving Justified. A lot. You should watch it!
So I had a whole bunch of things planned to post about, and then I randomly clicked on a tab in which I've been going back and reading all my Dublin LJ entries. I found one where I talked about Niall, near the end of my time there, and god, it's SO OBVIOUS that I was completely ass-over-teakettle for him, and he was for ME, and we did nothing about it until my last week there. Why do we fail so hard? I don't say this lightly, but - I love him. I do. We've been an ocean apart for two years, yet I feel closer to him than most other people in the universe. We've maintained a beautiful friendship through emails and talking all the time, and he's just - so important to me. I love him. I do. I think I might do something about it this time I'm back in Dublin, because even though we can't really be together, I want him to know how I feel. *decisive nod*
Okay, current things! On Thursday, I was starting a new big experiment I've never done before. And it was my second to last day in the lab. It was a day of total fail - the fire alarm went off twice for no reason, a machine I was using cut out, etc. Long story short, I was in lab until past 11 PM, and ate Cheez-Its for dinner. Awesome. So needless to say, I was exhausted, and the next morning my alarm made nary a dent in my rock-like slumber. I woke up at 2 pm, woozy and confused, and went OH SHIT. I emailed my boss and rushed in. She told me she hadn't laughed like that in a while! Haha. Anyway, it was a great motivator to have such limited time (I had a dinner party to be at at 7:30!) and I got a shitload of science done in a very short time. I got one very exciting result! As in, the first result that made me go "oh wow!" all semester. Better late than never right? :P So that was my last day of experiments. On Monday, I'll give my research presentation, then I'll be done! *hands*
Apparently, I "matched" with four guys from speed dating - three engineers and a computer scientist. Hilarious. All three engineers have emailed me, which is sweet, but I honestly don't really remember which they were, except for one of them, and he's pretty zany. Which can be a good thing, but I don't know. I'm dithering. Anyway, my roomies poked and prodded at me until I just said yes to the one who set a concrete time and place, so we're going for brunch tomorrow! *hands* We'll see. I highly doubt this will turn into anything (these guys, like, embody my problems with Dave multiplied by a billionty, and rather made me miss him, honestly) but it could be, if nothing else, a nice brunch and conversation. Plus, it's at Zingerman's, which is kind of what Ann Arbor's famous for - it's a whole block away from my house and I've NEVER BEEN. So he wins at setting up a date, haha. He might actually be the one who liked Supernatural - I can't remember! That would be fun.
On Friday, Emily and I went to Noah's for dinner with a bunch of his friends, which was fun, and then we all went out. We went to a bar called the Jolly Pumpkin where they distill their own liquors, and I had I had this AMAZING cocktail called a Cran Strawberry which was their in-house cranberry vodka and muddled strawberries and OMNOMNOMNOM. Amazing. And a huge plus, the waiter was SO CUTE I COULD HAVE DIED. He had short curly hair and this really deep, sexy voice and unfffff. I left my number on the receipt because he was so hot I just couldn't NOT, but obviously nothing came of it. No way a guy that looks like that is single, and no way he finds me attractive anyway. :P
Hmm, boy-crazy, ME? And to think I let a perfectly nice one go. /o\ Gah, I don't know. I still wonder if that was right. But then I think about how much more intensely I feel about Niall than I did about Dave, and I probably did. Just that one happens to live in my town and the other is across the ocean. :-/
Lalala, rambling entry is rambling. I'll just put it out of its misery. I really should go to bed, so I can be up and at em for my brunch date. Do you realize that this is kind of my first actual date with a guy that I don't already know quite well, or that I'm not already seeing? Yeah. Guess it's time!
glamorous_nymph! I hope it is a lovely one. ♥Secondly: LOOK I HAVE A JACOB PITTS ICON. He's so pretty siiiiigh. I maaade it! And I feel I should share the original picture with you, because HOLY PIERCING EYES BATMAN. *___*
Unfffff. His fucking mouth.
Speaking of Jacob Pitts, I rewatched some of Justified episode 2 today (and right after I tweeted about it, Brian Schechter tweeted only the words "Justified episode 2" - it was creepy) and man, I forgot that Tim (JACOB PITTS) has some really great scenes there! I love the conversation he has with Raylan about watching targets when he was a sniper in Afghanistan. I want more character development like that, and more one-on-one hotass dudes time! C'mon show! Overall, though, I'm REALLY loving Justified. A lot. You should watch it!
So I had a whole bunch of things planned to post about, and then I randomly clicked on a tab in which I've been going back and reading all my Dublin LJ entries. I found one where I talked about Niall, near the end of my time there, and god, it's SO OBVIOUS that I was completely ass-over-teakettle for him, and he was for ME, and we did nothing about it until my last week there. Why do we fail so hard? I don't say this lightly, but - I love him. I do. We've been an ocean apart for two years, yet I feel closer to him than most other people in the universe. We've maintained a beautiful friendship through emails and talking all the time, and he's just - so important to me. I love him. I do. I think I might do something about it this time I'm back in Dublin, because even though we can't really be together, I want him to know how I feel. *decisive nod*
Okay, current things! On Thursday, I was starting a new big experiment I've never done before. And it was my second to last day in the lab. It was a day of total fail - the fire alarm went off twice for no reason, a machine I was using cut out, etc. Long story short, I was in lab until past 11 PM, and ate Cheez-Its for dinner. Awesome. So needless to say, I was exhausted, and the next morning my alarm made nary a dent in my rock-like slumber. I woke up at 2 pm, woozy and confused, and went OH SHIT. I emailed my boss and rushed in. She told me she hadn't laughed like that in a while! Haha. Anyway, it was a great motivator to have such limited time (I had a dinner party to be at at 7:30!) and I got a shitload of science done in a very short time. I got one very exciting result! As in, the first result that made me go "oh wow!" all semester. Better late than never right? :P So that was my last day of experiments. On Monday, I'll give my research presentation, then I'll be done! *hands*
Apparently, I "matched" with four guys from speed dating - three engineers and a computer scientist. Hilarious. All three engineers have emailed me, which is sweet, but I honestly don't really remember which they were, except for one of them, and he's pretty zany. Which can be a good thing, but I don't know. I'm dithering. Anyway, my roomies poked and prodded at me until I just said yes to the one who set a concrete time and place, so we're going for brunch tomorrow! *hands* We'll see. I highly doubt this will turn into anything (these guys, like, embody my problems with Dave multiplied by a billionty, and rather made me miss him, honestly) but it could be, if nothing else, a nice brunch and conversation. Plus, it's at Zingerman's, which is kind of what Ann Arbor's famous for - it's a whole block away from my house and I've NEVER BEEN. So he wins at setting up a date, haha. He might actually be the one who liked Supernatural - I can't remember! That would be fun.
On Friday, Emily and I went to Noah's for dinner with a bunch of his friends, which was fun, and then we all went out. We went to a bar called the Jolly Pumpkin where they distill their own liquors, and I had I had this AMAZING cocktail called a Cran Strawberry which was their in-house cranberry vodka and muddled strawberries and OMNOMNOMNOM. Amazing. And a huge plus, the waiter was SO CUTE I COULD HAVE DIED. He had short curly hair and this really deep, sexy voice and unfffff. I left my number on the receipt because he was so hot I just couldn't NOT, but obviously nothing came of it. No way a guy that looks like that is single, and no way he finds me attractive anyway. :P
Hmm, boy-crazy, ME? And to think I let a perfectly nice one go. /o\ Gah, I don't know. I still wonder if that was right. But then I think about how much more intensely I feel about Niall than I did about Dave, and I probably did. Just that one happens to live in my town and the other is across the ocean. :-/
Lalala, rambling entry is rambling. I'll just put it out of its misery. I really should go to bed, so I can be up and at em for my brunch date. Do you realize that this is kind of my first actual date with a guy that I don't already know quite well, or that I'm not already seeing? Yeah. Guess it's time!
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Date: 2010-04-25 05:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-25 05:47 am (UTC)(I've never been on a date. Ever.)
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Date: 2010-04-25 12:44 pm (UTC)<3<3<3
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Date: 2010-04-25 02:17 pm (UTC)to distract from my comp related insanity?no subject
Date: 2010-04-25 02:51 pm (UTC)Justified is a new show on FX. It's based on a short story and a character created by Elmore Leonard. The basic plot outline is that this man from Kentucky, Raylan Givens, is a U.S. Marshal. He's posted in Miami, but he gets in trouble because of his brand of do-it-yourself justice, so he gets shipped back to Kentucky and has to join the Marshal service there. This sets up a whole lot of really interesting reunions and collisions with Raylan's past. It's both entertaining and gritty, very grounded in the reality of Kentucky but not extremely dark. The lead guy is played by Timothy Olyphant, who you might know from Deadwood, and is supremely adorable:
He wears that hat all the time and it's pretty sexy. He's basically an old school gunslinger, and the plots often come around to whether he can draw faster than a mark or not. It's taken a few episodes, but Tim's really settled into the role and I enjoy him so much. He's all affable charm, southern drawl, laconic wit, but it really means something when his ex-wife says "You are the angriest man I have ever known". He's fascinating. (A better description than I could come up with, from the New Yorker's review: "“Justified” is a modern Western, and Olyphant’s character, fittingly, is a man alone, proud, hurting, elusive, and magnetic.")
Raylan has a couple Marshals who help him on cases, and they're very entertaining as well. One is played by JACOB PITTS, the man of the piercing eyes up there, and the other is played by Erica Tazel, an actress from the Firefly episode "Safe". The three of them are really fun together, and I hope these two get more screen time cause I loff them. (Particularly Tim (Jacob Pitts), obviously. :D)
Hearts hearts.
So, yes! Justified! I've only touched on the surface, but the writing is excellent, the acting phenomenal all around, and the stories are most riveting when they're digging into Raylan's very colorful past and past acquaintances. It's my favorite new show in quite a while, and I hope you'll give it a chance. :)
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Date: 2010-04-25 06:05 pm (UTC)Seth BullockTimothy Olyphant has a VERY special place in my heart. Also, that sounds awesome in general! \o/no subject
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Date: 2010-04-25 06:24 pm (UTC)I see your gif and I raise you one:
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Date: 2010-04-25 08:08 pm (UTC)Unfortunately the gif doesn't seem to want to get into motion for me - I only see a still! Which is hot ENOUGH, of course. Mmmmmguh.
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Date: 2010-04-26 07:40 am (UTC)clearly Timothy is too hot for LJ was frozen into submission.
I can 'reanimate' (that's a very distracting picture I've got in my mind now...) him by double-clicking on the gif and giving LJ some time to stop ogling and going back to work. But you're not missing that much, he's just scratching his tummy....
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Date: 2010-04-25 08:03 pm (UTC)I hope you have fun on your date!!! And I hope he's the one that likes SPN.
CLEARLY ONE DAY WE HAVE TO GO OUT DRINKING TOGETHER. *cliiings*
♥!!!
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Date: 2010-04-25 08:07 pm (UTC)Well the thing is, Jacob Pitts' roles are never "serious", per se. He's always pretty snarky and a little bit of sarcastic comedic relief, and it's GREAT. He's just also smokin hot while doing it. And you know what? I've been watching Eurotrip trailers and clips and even in those I find Jacob Pitts TOTALLY BANGABLE. So I am fully confident that if I can go in that direction, you can do the reverse. :D Because christ, Paula, he's HOT. It's something in how he moves and is just so easy in himself. Love it. <333
It was a very nice date! Really just a very pleasant conversation, and I think I've made a new friend, but that's about it. :) He WAS the one who likes Supernatural though, which was fun!
UM CLEARLY WE DO. I need a Paula in my liiiife! *grabbyhands*