Diary of a Suburban Squeen

Mreugh. I keep thinking of random things to LJ about, because I haven’t posted properly in absolutely ages, and then they all fall out of my head and it’s vee trag. I will try and remember some of them. Stand by your beds, as my boss would say.

♥ I got crack_vanned again – woo! \o/ I’m sure it’s not de rigueur to make a song and dance about it, but fuck that, this is me. I have now been recced there for NCIS, Life on Mars, and New!Trek. Also, my NCIS story Requiem (following the season 6 finale) has been nominated for an award (I would link, but I um, can’t find the site). All in all, what with that and the absolutely ridiculous amount of Trek fic I’m writing at the moment (also on the go: a second ST/Spaced crossover, and an outsider!POV on Kirk), I am quite feeling the writing joy (to which katie__pillar can most definitely attest!).

♥ I have watched so much OTH lately, my head might actually explode, even though I skipped most of season 2 once I learnt that Naley was decidedly non est. My God. I love that show so much. It’s amazingly, awesomely ridiculous. Luke was SO UNBELIEVABLY ANGST-RIDDEN about going back to basketball after Keith’s death that it quite made my evening.

♥ Oh em gee, G. Brown, just call a general election. You’re going to lose anyway, and better to do it now before the Labour Party makes more of a tit of itself. Further to that: please allow me to announce my shame in re EU elections. I received my postal vote but have failed to send it off. I am a political failure and deserve to be shunned.

♥ Entertainingly, I learn from the ever-erudite Yahoo! Entertainment News that whilst he was at the MTV awards, someone burgled Eminem’s hotel room. He just wasn’t having a good night…

♥ Speaking of entertainment “news”, how ridiculously out-of-hand is this Susan Boyle thing getting? I just want to slap everyone who’s felt their professional life is incomplete without making an official comment on the subject. Fuck you all.

♥ As I am sure everyone has gathered, “Staycation” 2009 went stunningly well. I had a very restful week, and bopped around doing the following:
i. seeing dinosaurs, birds, mammals, marsupials and prehistoric marine creatures etc etc etc;
ii. seeing three nuns photographing a diplodocus skeleton;
iii. watching season one of OTH;
iv. lunching with Katherine and Helen (on separate days);
v. dining with K, H, and Katie (on the same day);
vi. dining with Emma and Ben;
vii. watching Much Ado with Xanthe in Regents Park;
viii. going to see Cobra Starship (awesome);
ix. picnicking by Barnes pond;
x. shopping in Kingston with Katie and Helen.

♥ I love Sheldon so much.

Sheldon: I see no large upcoming expenditures, unless they develop an affordable technology to fuse my skeleton with Adamantium like Wolverine.
Penny: Are people really working on that?
Sheldon: I sincerely hope so.

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Actually, further to the whole "staycation" thing [a linguistic note: the word "staycation" can never be said without airquotes and a little hunch of the shoulders to indicate its inherent ridiculousness], I thought I should make sure I keep everyone updated with what I'm doing. So, over the next week, look forward to a positive deluge of happy, productive posts, because I will be:

- Lunching with Helen and Katherine
- Museuming
- Going to see Much Ado in Regents Park with Xanthe
- Heading to Charlton to have dinner with Ben et al
- Cooking at least two new recipes for my Great 2009 Cooking Challenge
- Cleaning the bathroom floor
- Hopefully writing more Star Trek fic
- Probably other exciting things


ETA: In less exciting news, however, I just stuck my finger in a pan of boiling water.