Eliyes

"I'm an apex predator, damn it, cuddle me!"

I wish the lunalae of my thumbs weren't off-centre. I can deal with my nose being not-straight in two seperate ways, but the thumbnail thing bugs me.

I made pineapple curry chicken with couscous for dinner, and it's delicious.

I made just the right amount of pineapple chicken curry, but waaaaay too much couscous. (I pretty much always overestimate how much couscous to make.)

Therefore, I will probably take couscous with me for lunch tomorrow. Any suggestions of what to have it with? (I have more pineapple. Also more chicken - and beef, and I think pork.)

Tai left a copy of The Great Book of Couscous in the washroom, so I will consult that as well.

Things this morning:

♦ There's a notebook page of point-form headcanon for Bucky & Toro & music in front of my monitor. It's in my handwriting. I remember thinking all this stuff... I don't remember writing it down. o_o

♦ While I was asleep, a friend sent me an AIM message asking "is there a love thing between magneto and prof x?" After considering all the possible interpretations of the question, I just sent back "yes". Maybe when I'm more awake and we're both actually online I will try to explain a complicated comic book relationship older than my mother. X3

♦ There is Generator Gawl fanfic on my flist this morning! :O *flails arms around*

♦ Why do I keep trying to write stories from Living Lightning's pov? I've never even been able to track down the books he was in. (Except that one page of Great Lakes Avengers.)

It's gotten to the point where I can hear a snippet of a song and think "that sounds iteresting, I'll look it up when I get home" and then it turns out that the part I didn't hear has Jimmy Buffett in it.

XD

eliyes: ...
eliyes: Superman was turned into a cat?
eliyes: Superman was turned into a cat!
eliyes: there must be fic @_@ *terrible whirling eyes*
taichara: *eeeeeeebils*
taichara: there must be fic with Stinky!
eliyes: XD
eliyes: oh God,
eliyes: A Stinky Supie-cat SHOWDOWN
eliyes: Superman!cat: *crouches on outside of window*
eliyes: Stinky: *crouches on inside of window making TERRIBLE FACES through the glass*
eliyes: Peej: *initially thinks Stinky just has an unsually dark shadow today*
taichara: or Lois is conveniently~ unavailable and Superkittieface gets dropped off with Peej ~~


(For those following at home, the Stinky we are referring to is Power Girl's cat in her most recent series, not the one from JLE.)

(We then went on to speculate on whether Superman and The Eradicator would still have their psychic link while Superman was a cat, which leads to many hilarious mental images of a 200,000+ years old interplanatary death machine cuddling a teeny Supercat and talking with him very seriously. Often while Kon & Krypto, Lois, or Peej look on in bemusement. X3 )

"Four years, seven months, and an odd number of days."

"Six years, four months, and an odd number of days."

These are the answers of Lt. Areel Shaw and Dr. Janet Wallace, respectively, when Kirk asks them how long it's been since they broke up with him.

Take one pita (medium-ish), cut it in half and open resulting pockets. Then peel one apple and cut the flesh into thin slices. Layer apple in each pita, sprinkle liberally with cinnamon+sugar mix, add the rest of the apple, and eat. It's like apple pie, but crispy and fresh! :D

Fruit of the day: Delcious Monster. (I am not kidding, that's what it's called.)

Books I bought today:

Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold. A Vorkosigan book, yay! Now I can get some background on Mark! *excited*

Pegasus In Space by Anne McCaffrey. I read the one before it, and a bunch that take place decades later, but I never got my hands on this one before.

Sassinak by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Moon. I used to own this, but my mom's dog destroyed it. Been jonesin' to read it again, so I snapped it up.

Space Opera which looks to be an anthology of music-themed scifi short stories, edited by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough.

Fiddler Fair, which is a poorly structured collection of short stories by Mercedes Lackey. Another one I used to own and wanted again.

Reserved For The Cat by Mercedes Lackey. Haven't read anything else in the 'Elemental Masters' setting, but eh. *shrugs* This is about a French ballerina, and you see, once a long time ago, before Lackey took issue with her Tregarde books, she promised a book involving the vampire character in those which would involve French ballerinas. My memory of that, combined with OH HEY TALKING CAT (which I am, alas, a complete sucker for) is why I bought this 'un.

These last two are both Star Trek (TOS) novels --

Renegade by Gene Deweese (or possibly DeWeese -- it's always DEWEESE in the text on and in the book). Spock and McCoy apparently killed! Kirk doubting the Prime Directive! One of the few at the store that didn't involve Klingons and/or Romulans! eta: Involves Klingons.

The Tears of the Singers by Melinda Snodgrass. This one has Klingons in. But it also has Uhura on the cover wearing pants, and is furthermore some kind of metaphor about seal-clubbing, I begin to suspect. But it has Uhura singing, so I will put up with it. Probably.

Notable non-book purchase of the day: TMNT (2007) on DVD. Turtle power, dudes!

♠ Woke up to be shown my idiot/SMRT/talented cat in a paper bag. Went back to bed.

♠ Received delivery of new chair. Went back to bed.

♠ Got up and put together new chair! Three times! Ended up calling the store to ask what to do, since the instructions flat-out contradicted themselves. Still not sure I did it right, but I can sit in it.

♠ Signed up for cliche_bingo which, if you like to write fanfic, make fanart or fanvids or fannish photomanips, I think you should chekc out. :3

♠ Went grocery shopping! Mysteriously came home with less than I expected to. There was no THYME ;o;

♠ ATE BATMAN MMM CRUNCHY EMERGENCY BAT-RATIONS Got indigestion from fried, uh... *shifty look* ...chicken. Yeah.

Yesterday:

♦ Went to Staples and bought a chair!

♦ Went to my FLCS and bought a) Vol.1 of the Starman Omnibus, and b) the Great Darkness Saga (in comics -- can't find the trade). Oh, and a pretty d6.

♦ Went home! Sat in my old chair and was spilled onto my arse as the seat snapped right off the base! Good thing I went to Staples, eh? X3

♦ Watched an episode of Bonanza *massive face-palm* This is all teriyakibroth's fault -- she lured me in with DeForest Kelley. As promised he said, "I'm not a doctor -- I'm a convicted killer!"

♦ Found logfiles of an adorable and addicted RP where I played Sora (from Kingdom Hearts) post-KH1, when we didn't know what if any sequels there would be. He is so adorable, I wish to squish him. *does so*

♣ I keep having this plotbunny that involves NeXtwave, so yesterday I bought the NeXtwave TPB. We'll see how that goes. eta conclusion: Ehhh. :(

♣ I have Willie Nelson's cover of "Cowboys are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other" stuck in my head.

♣ boostlethon Summer 2009 sign-ups are a-go-go! I've registered; have you?

♣ Also purchased yesterday: a Lupin III pin! (green blazer) And a chibi Kurama pin. As psychedelic as they look against my backpack, I think I'll take them off of it; Lupin especially has gangly limbs sticking out to catch on stuff, and I don't want to lose them. I find myself amused that I can look at the Kurama pin and immediately know which story had the illustration it's based off of in it. X3

♣ In February, I came across a geeky Valentines mix, which included the song "She Make It So" by Warp 11. Yesterday or the day before, I found the band's website and I'm a little disappointed; their lyrics are really repetitive from one song to the next, one album to the next. I suppose that makes it all the more impressive that the songs "He's Dead, Jim", "I'm Dead, Jim", and "It's Dead, Jim" are so different, especially as they come one after the other on one album...

♣ Ely: *turns on iTunes*
iTunes: Download new version? :D?
Ely: Sure.
iTunes: You already have it! Gotcha!
Ely: wtf ._.

ETA: so of course when I tried to listen to my iPod on the way to work, it didn't work properly. *sigh* Why you gotta lie to me, iTunes?

IMPORTANT! Just because a sunburn has ceased to hurt, does not mean it's time to stop moisturizing! *carefully does not facepalm because she might be tempted to scratch the trainwreck of her forehead* *lets her Elizabeth icon facepalm for her*

Also and unrelated! I have received a package from a Kiffies! :D Thank you very much! :D I have sixteen of these little guys on my fridge, but they all have red scarves and, obviously, magnets on their butts. They are in a fish formation. XD Anyway, this little dude will have a happy home here in Elyville, I promise. :D

I have made an appointment with the doctor. *sigh* As I am not showing any symptoms, they can't swab me, but I will go in and talk with him/her/other. That's this evening.

I have so much laundry to do... ^^;

Dear tech support dude who (hopefully!) doesn't actually read my journal: I swear I am not usually such a great bloody idiot. It's just the first idiotic thing I said flustered me, and it went downhill from there. I do actually know that WAN and LAN are not the same thing!

,-_-,

~Ely

I am le confused.

How is it that the last episode of SGA has caused me to write Sam Carter/Jack O'Neill schmoop?

Puzzled like a jigsaw,

Ely

♠ Caught the last 15 minutes or so of a random episode of the new Biker Mice From Mars today. Rimfire is Modo's nephew? Weird!

♠ So, I did this thing where I figured I'd ask my roomie for season 1 of SGA on DVD, and my parents for season 2. Only I messed up. My parents got the SGA message (and it's in the living room right now, in a sparkly bag with coloured tissue just kinda on top; I swear, they don't even try to curb my spelunking ways any more) BUT I actually asked my roomie for season1 of SG-1. And I apparently even confirmed it, when she asked if I was sure I didn't want SGA. Naturally, I have no memory of this lapse in sanity (aliens!) but now I have season 1 of SG-1 on DVD. I guess I'll be watching me some SG-1, then! And picking up season 1 of SGA for myself some time after Christmas.

♠ Bad fic idea #1: Rodney McKay versus/deals with Sedna! (As most of you probably didn't learn Inuit mythology in grade school like I did, here: Wiki provides.) And no, not as a Goa'uld. She would eat them for breakfast. I mean that literally.

♠ Bad fic idea #2: An SGA/NCIS crossover with McKay/Gibbs! Probably as something that happened before Rodney went off to Atlantis, and now a Marine's been murdered and some of the Atlantis crew were sorta there (I'm thinking the guy was part of their security contingent, and was murdered in a hotel room). There would probably be a cameo by John's ex-wife, and screencaps from And Never Let Her Go might possibly be used for inspiration.

♠ I saw the final half hour or so of the NCIS episode where they bury Kate. ;_; Kaaaaaaaate! (Is it my imagination, or is the shifty redhead director played by the same woman as the evil redhead hypnotist-psychotherapist on Eureka? And what is with evil hypnotist-psychotherapists? The final boss in Birds of Prey (the TV series) was Harley Quinn, and she was an evil hypnotist-psychotherapist! Dude.)

♠ Bad fic idea #3: SGA/NCIS again. McKay/Gibbs again. Maybe Gibbs could use his Snow White-esque animals-love-me mojo on McKay's cat. (Look, Mark Harmon is way prettier than Jewel Staite. I am trading up, here, people!)

♠ Bad fic idea #4: Rictor/Darkstar. Just, no. Why is my brain doing this to me? What do they even have in common? Being mutants, knowing Bobby Drake, and being on the Paris Corp-X team. She is too old for him.

♠ Work progresses on my latest stab at my random_30 prompts. I have something in the works for each of y claims, but I'm worried they're boring. :/

♠ Me so tired.