life is a single skip for joy

→ Feeling okay this morning. I should have set my alarm to get up on time so I could make up some hours at work. Fooey.

→ I wanted to review the first two episodes of Pushing Daisies and Friday Night Lights, but that's like... four? whole episodes, and I'm way too lazy for that, so here's a brief bit of... squee, if you will.

If you think about it, these shows fall on opposite ends of the spectrum. One is high fantasy, very fairy-tale like, and one is very grim and reality-based. (Even moreso than regular dramas, if you watch it, you know what I mean.) But what they have in common is that both of them are gloriously executed. I don't think there is a night on TV right now that surpasses Wednesday in terms of the awesomeness and quality that comprises these two shows. They make me happy. They make me feel. Basically what I'm saying is... Yay! Pushing Daisies and Friday Night Lights! For fitting as much awesome as humanly possible into one hour of TV. Thank you, Thank you.

→ zelda_zee called my attention to this meta by xparrot which is about different fannish types and how we're all getting something different out of the shows that we watch. I thought it was very interesting and insightful. I think I'm a little bit of both types suggested. I think I weigh in on the intellectual side, but there's a good chunk of the emotional fanning going on over here too. Obviously I have favorite characters (though not with every show, several of my shows I simply love everyone!) but I tend not to have OTPs. I tend to multi-ship my favorite characters.

Actually, this reminds me of a post that chloris67 made the other day about OTCs (or favorite characters) and multi-shipping but then simply having one OT3 (Jawyercita, Kara/Leoben/Sam...) it's pretty unrelated to the fannish types discussion, but here's a link. Because it's interesting!

→ I finished reading Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (the first of the novels that True Blood is based on) and have started the second. ( minor book and show spoilers, all about Sam )

→ I'm having woes about Supernatural. I quit the show and I'm perfectly happy with that. But it seems I can't escape it either way. I guess over the summer I'd forgotten how many of you (my flisters) watch and review that show. And, I'm not going to lie it's a bit overwhelming. (And yet underwhelming at the same time... if that makes sense.)

There are several varied and numerous reasons why I've given up that show for good, and I think I might make a giant post of reasons, maybe later today. (This post is getting too long.) But my point in bringing it up now, is that it does put this huge divide between me and my flist. At least when I hated the fuck out of that show last year I could still discuss and hate it with you. Now, A) I'm not watching so true discussion isn't an option and B) Everything about it infuriates me. I mean, we're talking Mrs. White, flames on the side of my face, breathing breath, heaving breaths, type hate. So yeah. DIVIDE. It's huge and un-ignorable, and frustrating. And I'm no longer making coherent thoughts. Ignore me.

→ I am so excited about Pushing Daisies tonight. You have no idea. (Or maybe you do.) I think I have had this icon set as my default for weeks. That's how frakking excited I am for this show to come back. The other day I was talking to falseeeyelashes briefly in comments and we were talking about Lost in Austen and she says that it makes her feel cozy and I thought it was perfect, and a perfect way to describe how Pushing Daisies makes me feel. Just... wonderful and a little sad sometimes too but it's the sweet kind of sad not the "heart ripped out" kind of sad. Anyway, I cannot wait. Even though I'll have to. Working sucks, but DVRs are better! *grin*

→ I didn't say much about this week's TrueBlood, so here goes: ( cut for episode spoilers that started out teeny and then got BIG )

→ stolen from anno:
01. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.
02. Go to Flickr Image Search or Google Images and search for that word.
03. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results.
04. Put this in your own journal so that I can do the same.

TrueBlood 1.03: I really liked it, save for some little things. I said to onelittlesleep that it's definitely one of those cases where the things I do like help me to unsee the things I don't like.

( ep spoilers )

Also digging? The theme song!
Bad Things, Jace Everett
(thank you, wingedseraph7!)

I just saw the trailer for the next episode of TrueBlood, 1x03, Mine, courtesy godhatesfangs. And holy!crap it looks awesome! I am so bummed we don't have HBO anymore! (Starz and Showtime instead, ugh!) It looks so good.

*squirms impatiently until she can download the episode*

→ First. Excuse me. It is lecture time. FLIST! WTF? What is wrong with you!?!?! Why have I not heard of this until now?!?!?! Anthony Stewart Head? Singing his beautiful and talented lungs out!?!?!! Come on! You guys disappoint me. I was so excited when I saw that I think I PEED. Repo! The Genetic Opera. WATCH IT AND TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS. I don't even mind that you-know-who is in it. (And thank you, Kayla, for the link.)

→ I sort of, haphazardly?, inherited the conmama comm. So there's that. It's been a big week for me comm-wise I suppose.

→ I watched the pre-air screener TrueBlood 1.02 and, like I've noticed some others mentioning, I think I liked it even better than the first episode! I'm definitely excited about the forthcoming episodes. Very excited!

( I already have theories. Theories that I do not like! )

→ I also watched the first two parts of Lost in Austen and holy moly it is super cute! I really enjoyed it. And I recognized the lead actress from Kinky Boots I think. I recommend it to everyone. It's just fun and sweet.

→ Also? I love my new icon and am getting more and more excited for Pushing Daisies by the day.

→ kiki_miserychic posted this really adorable video of Ellen and Portia's wedding right here. So lovely. I hope my mom got to see that. She loves Ellen.

→ I think... I think... I may actually be close to writing something soon. I've been reading some fic over the past few days, and it's been giving me lots of motivation. I hadn't been doing much reading lately. Maybe that was my problem all along!

→ I love the hell out of Joshua Jackson. (I was always a Pacey girl.) But I don't know if I can bring myself to watch The Fringe. I mean, I just don't think it's my kind of thing and I watch too much frakking television anyway. Who knows, I may change my mind.

→ However, I did watch True Blood and really liked it! I mean there were parts that I wasn't in love with, but the parts that I did like really made up for it. I'm anxious to see the rest of the season. Also? Speaking of HBO shows, I'm really excited that Entourage is back. But after rewatching all of season 1 and half of season 2 with dayln03 I realize now that maybe it's not as good as it used to be. This makes me sad. But I will still watch!

→ I pre-ordered the Pushing Daisies DVDs today (I'd been putting it off) and I am so excited for that show to come back I can hardly stand it. It makes me feel warm and happy and giddy and nostalgic and sad and everything. (I'm also really excited for Friday Night Lights to start back up, even though I'm afraid they're gonna frak it up this time around.)

→ I think I may drop out of bsg_lims. It's not the pressure or the fear that I won't do well. (I never thought I'd get this far, really.) But I honestly hate having to vote for my least favorite icons and give reasons why. It's actually painful. I spend far too much time thinking about what to vote and why and how to word it so I don't hurt anyone's feelings... and it kind of just makes me feel like a big douchebag. And feeling like a douche bag is not exactly on my list of fun things to do.

→ Things at the library are going really well. It's been busy, but I'm enjoying the challenges and I really enjoy helping people. Their gratitude is so rewarding. The only thing I don't enjoy is the fact that it's the third week and people are still coming to me baffled that we don't own and won't lend out textbooks. But I'm hoping I won't have to answer those types of questions for very much longer.