Christ. What an amazing sci-fi adventure.

Spoilers for Torchwood: Children of Earth, Day One to Day Five.

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Just FYI, got more Dreamwidth invite codes - just say the word.

Tonight, there's Emmy's birthday party, and I'll squeeze in some gym beforehand.

But now, now I really want to watch the last two episodes of Harper's Island. Yes, I mainlined the show last weekend. No, it doesn't even approach the brilliance of And Then There Were None and lacks the ironic humour of Scream, but hey, intrepid young heroines and falling ( spoilers! ) and more red herrings than a Scandinavian buffet!

If any of y'all here has also seen it yet was too ashamed to admit it in their ljs, I made this so no one can see who voted. & ;-) Without further ado: ( Harper's Island POLL! )

hermine was asking for something pretty, or happy; something to make her smile and distract her. Knowing her fandoms and interests and finding an alignment with mine, I made this for her:

( James T. Kirk banner, of sorts. )

Found an interesting interview with Michael K. Williams of The Wire fame.

69 versions of the documents modified, screened for confidentiality, printed, ordered, checked, scanned, re-checked divided, & sent
+ 13 hours at the office today
+ 7 hours partying last night
+ 4 hours slept afterwards
+ 3 glasses of wine
+ 2 tequila shots
+ 2 big projects
+ 1 broke bike
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100% exhausted Mona

Oh, Mr. Murphy. I wish we weren't such steady companions sometimes. Every workday since last Friday, sweetcolleague & I were waiting for further data input - and now that it shall arrive tomorrow, no, really, totes serious, tomorrow afternoon!, it couldn't be any more inconvenient a time: the information will take us hours and hours to integrate, and tomorrow's the big, long-awaited Office Summer Night's Party. & :-(

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At least it meant that I could leave early-ish today, go to the gym for a good hour, and then bake lemon-cranberry muffins* that smell heavenly. (No, I haven't tasted them yet, but trust me, the the batter was delicious. & ;-)

* No time tonight; bed now, but I can provide the recipe later?

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Torchwood: Yes, I watched it and enjoyed it. I haven't forgiven Rusty for ( spoilers for TW2! ), but I still like Gwen a great deal, and to me, this show has always been captivating in its cheesy monsters-and-aliens glory, not to mention Cardiff as the centre of the world, or canon bisexuality.

If you care for a cool Torchwood review, check out Selena's. I look forward to her thoughts almost as much as to the series. & :-)

I'm hardly a keen critic of newspaper or political magazine news on-line, fragmented and biased as they may be. But today? The differences of headlines I came across were striking.

Large screenshots under the cuts.

( How Obama Was Received in Russia )

( On the Uigurs and the Han in China )

As for the rest - the content, the connotations - I guess I don't need to babble on for long about the importance of more than a single source of that elusive Truth.

Granted, the articles may have offered a more differentiated view, then. And yet: the first impression, the browse-by image to your retina remains powerful.

Honey, I'm HOME. And it's still LIGHT OUTSIDE.

\o/

This calls for a drabblefest: I'm feeling festive creative.

Give me a - relatively specific, please - prompt(words, sounds, images), and I'll try my luck with 100 words.

Fandoms: SGA, Star Trek, The Mentalist (what?), True Blood, and...well, feel free to try any other show I know well. & ;-)

( We prefer the term 'guestage' around here. )

In conclusion: Stockholm's Syndrome rocks!

Second date with Butler!Boy went well: I wore a cute grey dress, he was a good guy and lifted my bike into the streetcar, and we ate our way up & down the sushi menu at the Japanese restaurant of our second third choice, which means ( foodie talk! )

Also, have some icons. I separate for fandoms because I care:

Stargate Atlantis: ( Rodney McKay, and also my John/Rodney OTP )

Star Trek XI: All of the main cast, almost? ( Kirk, Bones, Kirk/Bones, baby!Spock, Sulu (lots of him), Chekov, Uhura! )

True Blood: ( 3 Lafayette icons. I apologise for the gratuitous nudity; these seem to be the only ones of Lafayette online in high-ish quality. I wonder why... )

By the way, did you see my new blog design? I like it. It's simple. LIKE ME.

I just made a simple gazpacho: amazing, especially when it's so warm outside.

In the same vein, for the first time ever, I also bought a bottle of white wine - ( a Pinot Grigio 2008 )

In fannish news, I'm disappointed that not a single person commented upon my mcshep_match drabbles. I don't wish for hordes (not hoards; where would I store those?) of slavering minions but welcome criticism or pointers too. I just find that it's most frustrating to spend that hour between coming-home-from-work-at midnight and 1am writing drabbles, and have not one single person find it worthy of one single word of comment.

Yeah, yeah: entitled fanwriter is entitled, cry more, etc. pp. But it's my lj; I can whine if I want to.

...okay, enough of that. Have some icons:

( Icons Star Trek, Leonard McCoy aka 'Bones' )

( Icons of The Mentalist, if only the characters I have an interest in. 0 :-) )

I did, indeed, watch ( The Mentalist )

Finally, a The Wire secret on fandomsecrets!

( Under the cut. )

I can see it, too.

Happily returned from a two-day trip to my uni city, where I had the kind of meet'n greet that would've made my consultant date last Wednesday green with envy. ( Friends, friends, friends )

So yeah, the imperative word is happy.

I know that all of fandom has seen this vid, but honestly, it doesn't just spoil all other Kirk but pretty much all. Other. Fanvids for me: it's perfect. No, really.

This is exactly the kind of girl Kirk is:

Circus by Britney Spears, vidded by butterfly(Star Trek XI).

Diana, I hold you personally responsible for humming Britney all the time now. There's only two types of guys out there / Ones that can hang with me and ones that are scared. And oh, what a brilliant cut from McCoy to Spock right there. ♥

Light-years away from the above one in quality, but look, I like Kirk/McCoy, so do have a vid featuring them, too:

Star Trek - Give Me Novocaine (Kirk/McCoy) from SafetyTARDIS on Vimeo.

Speaking of that pairing, if I wade into the fic, ( I need tissues for my bleeding eyeballs )

Went to see the Reboot for a second time, in the original version. Alone, alas: Shy colleague had his aunt die (no, really), geeky colleague had to work long hours, and my business graduate date for next week had a wine tasting.

After I'd left work - early! - at 7:30pm, I went to the gym for a furious session, took first a shower and then a taxicab to the movie theatre. Decadence, thy name is - well, my name. But after a week of work and stress and work and stress and work and stress and you totally catch my drift, I thought this was okay: no good public transport access, and the cinema's located in an area where ('specially after 1am) no one would think to cycle around on a bike. Come to think of it, it's a lot like many US places.

::ducks::

Now, brief comments only, and also cut because I do realise not everybody is in love with Kirk (a good thing; I'm not trying to justify this): ( Star Trek, Wine & Dine )