one more miracle

The problem with updating my icons is that I subsequently want to make a GIP for EVERY ONE OF THE NEW ONES! Gosh. I have such a passionate love affair with icons. I've already got two or three from every new ep this season *facepalm* But right now I will use this icon, because I am declaring myself a Jo-friendly. Everyone seems to be taking the automatic tack of hating her, and I just think she's cute and spunky and fun.

My only problem with Jo is that she seems YOUNG, like, younger-than-Sammy young, and it kind of bothers me that she's being set up as a love interest for Dean. I mean, ( venturing into spoilers for 205 )

Today was a VERY busy day. But a good day! I had two classes at 8 and 9, then I cleaned my room, then I had lab at 12:30 and my DADDY arrived around 1. He had been driving from Connecticut since 9 to come see me :D He came to my lab and hung out for a while, met my professor and they talked and got along nicely :) Then I finished up lab and Dad and I went to where I was giving my presentation about my summer research, which went quite well. Then daddy took me SHOPPING and I bought three pairs of pants, yay. Then we went out to dinner, which was very nice. THEN (this is like a 5 year old's story, I'm sorry, I'm so tired) I sang in a choral concert and my daddy stayed even though he had to drive four hours to get home in order to go to a work-related thing tomorrow, and the concert went very well and I had to say goodbye to my dad and I cried. Again.

I love my daddy. A lot. It was so wonderful to spend the day with him.

And just to put the icing on the cake, I have a small bit of Danny squee! After the concert, as dad and I were leaving, I suddenly saw him in the lobby mingling with everyone else, and I stopped and said "Hey Danny!" brightly and he turned and said "hey!" with a big smile. Then he complimented me on the show, I said thanks and also thanked him for coming, and then there were cheerful goodbyes and I was on my way. But I was so distracted for a minute I actually missed what my dad was saying to me! Danny put the WHAMMY on me, ya'll. That smile... jesus. I am so smitten.

So it was a good day. I am SO TIRED. But it was good :)

Why does Microsoft Word SUCK SO MUCH?? I'm just trying to arrange graphs and text for my lab report, and it's making it irrationally difficult. So much of it is just counterintuitive. I've noticed this before when trying to work with images in Word, ARGH.

*grumbles and prods at stupid report* I'm ready to be DONE with you, okay??

In other news, I really like the new Evanescence single that got leaked. For some reason I assumed the band was dead, over, but hey, I'm glad I'm wrong! I love Amy Lee's voice. ETA: Call Me When You're Sober File snagged from killerweasel

Also, GIP!! I found this awesome post of Buffy quotes, and oh man, how much do I love??

*huge sigh of relief*

Money is NICE. I just went and checked my bank balance and it's over 400 dollars higher than it was, because I set up direct deposit and dude, I just got PAID. *does a happy dance* See, this is my third paycheck of the summer, but because there isn't a branch of my bank up here I haven't been able to get the money into my account (yet) (I know there are ways, so don't go listing them at me, I've got it figured out) so my first two paychecks are sitting in my UNCLE's account right now, which didn't really help me when I saw I could barely afford my new laptop charger. But now I have MONEY and I'm HAPPY and I need to refrain from buying a TV on DVD season, okay?? RESTRAINT IS KEY. I'm splurging massively very soon on a brand new laptop and iPod, so yes, no more spending money for me!

This is my 702nd entry! So belated happy 700th entry to me! \o/

I saw Superman Returns. I didn't much care for it. No spoilers in my thoughts (because it was a case of plot? what plot?) so I'm not going to cut them. Basically, Kate Bosworth can't act AND isn't pretty, so why she's getting work is beyond me. Brandon Routh - he DEFINITELY brings the pretty, and I mean like whoa (he's so adorable when confused! *pets*) but again, not so much with the talent. Has he heard of this thing called emotion? *sigh* You know what occurred to me? The kid reminded me of Lucas, from SPN ep 3, though it might have just been the floppy hair, and what i thought was "Oooh, what if Amy Acker played Lois Lane!" Cause honestly? She's got buckets more talent than Kate, and is loads prettier to boot. Why can't they cast WELL for these big budget things? It's not *that* hard. But yeah, that would have made the movie much more enjoyable, and also if the kid who played Lucas could have played the kid in the movie I would have been a happy camper.

In news of the very very sad, Sarah (um, the candlesandcloth one, from Arkansas - aka my sekrit lesbian lover with whom I'm going to elope at some point in the future and whom I love to tiny tiny bits) can't come to WinchesterCon :(:(:( I was SO looking forward to molesting meeting her. Like, a lot. Of course WinCon will still be mindblowingly awesome (MonaErinSarahCassiJackiLauraJaidaNanFaithJennifer I can't wait to meet you ALL! And MORE!) but I am very sad that she won't be there to bring it up to previously unheard of levels of AWESOME. I will just have to stalk her down some other way. Le sigh.

Sorry for the rambly entries. I'm at work waiting for an artery to equilibrate! *hands* Now, back to some jsquared porn! \o/

(Look, pretty Katie!)

So my boss was teaching me about the new kind of experiment and data collection I'm doing now, and he said, "You know you're doing a presentation at the end of the summer, right?"

I just blinked, laughed and said, "Yeah, kinda!"

I kind of knew that, but he had never mentioned it before so it was kinda in the back of my head - well, it's not anymore! I'm vaguely petrified. I have to do a Powerpoint slideshow with graphs and hypotheses and conclusions and everything. O.O

On the bright side, I got my first paycheck yesterday \o/

My Supernatural music vid is coming along apace! Just sent the first minute to my beta, waiting to see what she has to say :)

I've been watching as much of the World cup as I can - soccer is such a fun sport to watch. The Portugal-Netherlands game on Sunday was INSANE, absolutely insane. And then today I watched Spain-France, which my uncle taped for me - that was a great game! Both teams made a good showing, and it was tied up for a good long while, which kept the tension high. That last goal by Zidane was STUNNING. :D And I loved all the after game celebrations, hee. Yay soccer!

Um, this is about as random and rambly my entries get. Sorry! I just uploaded a new SPN moodtheme, by crecd060, yay! My old one was quite out of date, so it's cool to have pictures from later in the season in this one :)

Also, GIP! She's so beautiful *happysigh*