one more miracle

Stolen from sorchasilver, a TV meme!

Pick your five favorite TV shows (in no particular order) and answer the following questions. Don't cheat!

1. Supernatural
2. Friday Night Lights
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
4. Bones
5. Firefly

(This is kind of a "now" skewed list - I love far too many TV shows!)

( The questions! )

I do so love TV! I'm in the process of deciding what to watch next. I feel SO BEREFT without any more Bones or Big Bang Theory to watch! I finished both in the same night, after months of devouring them together. It's strange - they're completely different shows, but my emotional focal point for both is the same. An oddly matched pair (a geek meets a sexy yet semi-awkward cool person) that is obviously magnetically attracted yet cannot seem to acknowledge it themselves. Both do a sort of yo-yo of requited and not. And it's VERY FRUSTRATING. But I love them both so much. (OMG PENNY GROW A SPINE!!!!!!!!)

I am going to continue with Freaks & Geeks, because it is all kinds of charming, but I need something else as well. Generation Kill? True Blood? Legend of the Seeker? How I Met Your Mother? Help, o wise and all-knowing flist! Tell me about characters I will love (without spoilers!), because that is my key to loving any show.

In other, sad TV news, Stargate: 90210 is made of a million kinds of fail. At this point, I'm wondering how the fuck these people ever gave us Atlantis. SGA was not close to perfect, but it was deeply charming and showed real heart sometimes. I'm wondering if that was truly a result of the cast and its glorious chemistry, because I'm seeing none of that in the SGU bits we've gotten. UGHHHHHH.

In other happier news, I'm LOVING Naomi Novik's His Majesty's Dragon. LOVE!!!!!! Will Laurence, come here and be my empathetic, elegant boyfriend right now!! I fell in love with him within two pages and he has only endeared himself to me further. It's fascinating living inside his head because he is such a product of his time, but lacks any sort of malice in his prejudices. For instance, when he's shocked and appalled by a female dragonrider wearing men's clothing, and muses that riding dragons must be very trying on her slight frame, he's not repugnant, simply a fascinating example of the mindset of that time. He has no hostility towards her, merely surprise and curiosity. I love himmmmmm somuch! And Temeraire, oh Temeraire! *draws a lot of hearts*

Now I'm going to watch last week's Leverage, which I somehow forgot about!

Joss Whedon is my favorite person ever. No really. I know this isn't new news, but. A Special Edition release of Serenity has been announced for this summer. YAY! I can own it in widescreen!! And yes, this is the only movie I would buy twice. Joss has this to say about the new edition:

( Joss is my god... )
Oh Joss. *beams* New key art, anyone? (Thank GOD) And CAST COMMENTARY YAY!

In other news, I have ordered the entire first season of Farscape. This is ALL Lindsay's fault. As well as Mona and Erin's and anyone else who's flailied to me. But mostly it is the fault of the completely hotass picture Linds posted of Ben Browder and Claudia Black the other day. ROWR! I can't wait :D And here I thought I was gonna resist the whole mainstream scifi thing and stick to the "brainy" stuff like Firefly and BSG - ha! It was only a matter of time, only a matter of time.

I also ordered Sorority Boys, because crossdressing Michael Rosenbaum is too good to pass up for 6 bucks. And I don't even watch Smallville! *hands* See what fannish osmosis can do to a girl? I also ordered The Departed at the same time *salivates* I can't wait omg.

I found out, randomly, that a good friend of mine is a country fan! So I'm going to show her Kane and hopefully she will fall head over heels and I will have a fellow Kane fan to squeal with! YAY! Hee.

I continue to listen to the new Fall Out Boy album on repeat. IT'S SO GOOD OMG. I also read two current articles about them in the bookstore today, in Rolling Stone and Spin. Pete Wentz is gorgeous, but a bit of an attention whore, lol. But he also seems pretty cool. And did I mention gorgeous? :)

Speaking of FOB, could one of my fellow fans come to my rescue? SOMEHOW I don't seem to have a copy of Sugar We're Going Down! *boggles* SO bizarre. I have all three of the albums, I do, but somehow that song is just... missing! Weeeeeird. It must have gotten lost in my new laptop move. So if someone could sendspace it to me or something, that would be awesome :D starlight1013@gmail.com

And that's all my random for the day! Funny, not one mention of SGA or SPN o.O Who knew?

I survived my test and I felt reasonably confident with almost the entire thing! Except for the last problem, but that was only four points out of 250, and a couple parts of other bigger problems. But yes, I was never like O.O OMG WHAT DO I DOOO. So that's done with and finished and... of course I have my orgo final in a week. BLEH :P

I also got my final take home essay question for my Modern Lit class, and hmmmmm. It's definitely something I'm gonna have to sit and ponder, and it's also gonna be complex because I have to incorporate 6 different works from the semester. But I can do it! \o/

In other news, the holiday LJ layout is SHINY! The pretty stars and the swirl of colors in the middle and the pencil in lights and the wreath and moon! N'aww! So pretty :D

I'm chillin out in the library computer work room (because my computer HATES Word and Excel and Powerpoint, and I need to use those extensively for my bio lab) and listening to Serenity, the first ep of Firefly, and it makes me happy :D I love my iPeanut! *cuddles it to chest* OH SIMON TAM MY LOVE FOR YOU KNOWS EXACTLY NO BOUNDS. NONE. "So when I tell you my sister makes me look like an idiot child, I want you to appreciate my full meaning." Ohhhh, TAMS. Almost as close to my heart as the Winchesters.

Okay off to actually accomplish something :P

I can't NOT, in all conscience, rec this video, because it is one of the best I have EVER seen. Originally linked by femmenerd:

I Enjoy Being a Girl by absolut3destiny - A multi-fandom video set to a showtune about the CHICKS THAT KICK ASS. These chicks include: Starbuck, Buffy, Sydney, Zoe, and Veronica Mars. YES, ALL OF THEM. Absolutely awesome and hilarious and fun and I squeal and clap every time I watch it. GOLD, people, GOLD. Off to watch it for a third time, you all go and download it!

Five milligrams of endothelin-1 - $1300

I was going to make this a whole mastercard thing, but I can think of nothing priceless related to that. But just look at that number! If you're wondering what endothelin-1 is, it's the hormone I've been treating the blood vessels with at work. And 5 mg is not much at ALL. It's a TINY amount. And it's THIRTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS!! (!!!) Absolutely INSANE. And apparently I've been using it at way too high of a rate, for reasons too complicated to fully explain - but it really wasn't my fault, that's what my professor told me to do! So I'm trying to cling to that instead of self-flagellating ruthlessly, as I am wont to do. Oy.

Today was a really crappy day. That was kind of the reason, but I was also feeling vaguely sicky, and my mood was negative and bitter ALL day. After dinner I just had to go out for a run to clear my head. I ran hard, harder than I had been, and it hurt but it also felt good. I'm not feeling so omgtheworldsuckseveryoneshouldDIE anymore, which is good.

Tigana continues to absolutely blow my mind. No one's died yet, though there have been two CLOSE calls, so I'm really nervous about who's gonna bite it. Because SOMEONE has to - Kay's books always leave me in tears, and besides, there's a war just starting. So. UH OH. *chews fingernails*

I watched Ariel with Meg tonight. Simon is so much love omg. I fall more for that man every time I see an episode of Firefly. Oh SIMON. Competence is so fucking sexy. "Your patient should be dead." And then the LOOK he gives that incompetent idiot, sdljfhasdkfjhsad. Makes me want to jump his bones. Um. Not that I don't want to ALL THE TIME. *ahem*

.....ASDFKJHADFKJHDKHASDKDJ!!!!! *POINTS AND FLAILS* OMGOMGOMG!!!! I just went to IMDB to see what Sean Maher's got on his plate (the answer is a big fat NOTHING, unfortunately) and THIS WAS HIS PICTURE!!! *STARES AND STARES AND STARES* Wow. Just. WOW. I hadn't SEEN that one before!! (How is that possible???)

Wow.

And on that note, farewell my lovelies!

(How much do I love this image for the enthralled mood? Awwwwwwwww)