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aftertherockets) wrote2006-08-28 11:37 am
aftertherockets) wrote2006-08-28 11:37 am
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i could hold on forever
So, I worked a lot. Maybe I shouldn't have had that taste of a weekend all to myself. :p I did get down to see my family on Saturday, so that was good. I visited one of my aunts, who is also my car insurance agent, to renew my insurance, and then stopped to see my dad at work. That was nice, if only because his desk is covered in pictures of his new family all together. He says he doesn't have any recent pictures of me. Fun. Also! I got guilted into visiting my grandparents that I never see, and that was horribly depressing. I feel like I should go down there more, but I never have time, and...it's really depressing.
I hung out with my mother and sisters, though. And played with a new puppy.
Meet Cletus!
He's so little. And adorable. And I want him. One day, I will have a sweet little miniature puppy, too.
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I have thoughts, but they're mostly about the characters and my shifting degree of love or hate for them. The plots this season really sucked. Really a lot. I was bored through the first half of the season, but I thought it picked up by the end. The last two episodes made me cry a whole lot, and if it weren't for Nate's stupid crazytown breakdown, I think the finale would be one of my favorite episodes so far.
But, my love for David Fisher continues to grow. I can't get enough of each of his relationships with the rest of his family. I know Nate is supposed to be the show's leading character, but since I'm pretty sure my days of really liking Nate's character are over and only going downhill from here, I wish the show had shifted its focus to David a little more. Ruth was previously one of my least favorite characters, but I kinda love her now. And Claire, well. I like Claire a lot, but she didn't really get a whole lot to do until the end of the season, besides whine about her art.
Also, and I think it's a testament to the crappiness of the other storylines this season, but I was really interested in Brenda and her family. I like the new and improved and fucked-up-in-ways-I-actually-like-watching Brenda, and I wish we hadn't been forced to sit through all her obnoxious drama in S2 to get to this point.
So, that's all I've got, but I don't feel like just skipping ahead to the series finale anymore, so, on to S4, I guess.
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No. I did not have Conan O'Brien fall through the ceiling.
Hee. Yay for The Office!
Also. I love this picture. Clearly, for the adorable man in the background. NO, NOT TRACEY MORGAN.
Bradley!
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Sooo...no one's going to be in the office with me for a couple of hours, and I'm running out of work to do, so I kinda wanna do the top 5 meme again, and I'm gonna steal Teija's line:
Ask me top fives or I'll silently resent you!
Please? BOREDOM MIGHT KILL ME!
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Top five HP moments
Top five TV boyfriends
Top five badfic staples
Top five songs written before 1980
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HP moments:
1. In OotP, after the Trio learns about thestrals, and Hermione is freaking out about how cool they are and how she wishes she could see them, and Harry just quietly askes "Do you?" It kills me every time I read it.
2. Fred and George riding off into the sunset in OotP.
3. The Shrieking Shack scene.
4. The end of GoF, when Harry is telling Dumbledore about the graveyard, and Sirius is there the whole time with his hand on Harry's shoulder, and then he squeezes it so hard it hurts him. That's probably the thing I miss the most that got cut out of the movie.
5. Neville saving his mom's gum wrapper.
TV boyfriends
1. Jim Halpert
2. Josh Lyman
3. Logan Echolls
4. Dan Rydell
5. John Crichton
Bad!fic
1. OMGwoobie!Logan
2. Poorly constructed run-on sentences about OMGTWOOLUFF!
3. Buffy and Spike/Veronica and Logan/Jim and Pam/etc.etc.etc. ARE MEANT TO BE OMG OMG OMG OMG!!
4. Ghetto Wallace
5. But Donna, you're my assistant.
Songs before 1980
1. The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
2. Procol Harum - Whiter Shade of Pale
3. Lynard Skynard - Free Bird (!)
4. Miles Davis - Blue in Green
5. Billie Holiday - The Very Thought of You
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Top five WTF NOOOOOO! TV moments.
Top five song titles.
Top five things you do at work...instead of working.
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WTF NOOOOO! moments :)
1. "Personally, I want to slay the dragon." Cut to black. No more Angel ever. WTF NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
2. Xander getting his eye gouged out.
3. Lucky shooting at Wallace with his blank-loaded gun.
4. Beaver revealing himself to be Veronica's rapist.
5. Josh on the ground with a bullet in his gut and Toby's "I need a doctor!"
Song titles
1. Sufjan Stevens - They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From The Dead!! Ahhhh!
2. Hellogoodbye - Jesse Have No Money, Go to Prom Anyway
3. The Beatles - You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
4. The Decemberists - Of Angles and Angles
5. The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
Things to do intead of working
1. Obsessively refresh LJ
2. Read VM/Office fic
3. Email my roommate
4. Bug my friends on gchat
5. Pay my bills online
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I've never did watch S3 of SFU. And from your opinion of Nate here I'm glad I didn't.
JOOOOOOOOOOSH! I love that Bradley and his wife coordinate their outfits. And she looked SO GOOD! I wanted her to win, just, you know, because I love her by association.
Okay, since I'm feeling Joshy: top five Josh moments.
EEEE! I just watched that Emmy opening again. Dwights face KILLS ME!
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Yeah, and then I didn't even say anything to him about it, so it's not like I have any right to be mad at him. But still!
As for S3 of SFU, yeah. You didn't really miss much. The show sort of resets again in S4 anyway, so I guess you didn't really need it. :p I'm glad to hear from others that Nate takes a turn back up, though. I can't take much more of S3 Nate. :p
JOOOOOOSH. His wife does look pretty slammin' in that photo. (What? Save the Last Dance was on TV last night. :p) They're so adorable. Also, I spent way too much time on this Top 5. :p
JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!
1. Josh: I'm going to help you, 'cause you know why?
Leo: 'Cause you walk around with so much guilt about everybody you love dying that you're
a compulsive fixer?
Josh: No, Leo, no. It's 'cause a guy is walking down the street and he falls into a hole, see.
2. Donna: Josh? Josh.
He stands and leans over, looking at her in disbelief.
Josh: Hey, you’re awake. Your mom is here. Colin took her downstairs for some... I don’t know, some schnitzel, or something.
Donna: You’re still here.
Josh: Yeah. I’m still here.
3. Danny: I’m sure we all join the President in his joy, but I’m wondering if the President has a plan to fight the resulting inflation.
Josh: The President will do everything in his power to maintain the robust economy that has
created millions of new jobs, improved productivity and kept a lid on inflation.
Katie: But he has no plan to address inflation specifically?
Josh: Twenty-four PhD’s and a Counsel of Economy Advisors, Katie. They have a plan to fight
inflation.
Danny: Is the reason you won’t tell us about it that it’s a secret?
Josh: [sarcastic] Yeah, Danny. We have a secret inflation plan.
4.
5. Josh: All right, it was desperation. It wasn't out of a desire to do evil. He had a young
family and he barely spoke the language. He went to jail. He went to jail and you went
to school, and it was all a half century ago. Look what he did in two generations.
What room did you just walk out of?
Toby: I appreciate that that's what you think. Do I get to think what I think?
Josh: No, you don't, 'cause you don't know what I know.
Toby: What?
Josh: That I would give anything to have a father who was a felon, or a sister with a past.
That's it.
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I know what you mean about not having a right to be mad. That's why you have a LJ! So you can vent!
I don't plan on ever watching S3 or 4 of SFU. I skipped to the last season and I feel done with the show. If anything I'd re-watch S1. Plus, from having seen the last season I've been completely spoiled, so there's really no point.
HEEEEEEEEEATHER! I LOVE YOU JOSH MOMENTS. There are so many Josh moments, I bet no two people would answer that the same. Though, I bet your #3 would make most lists ;) OH, JOSH!
Oh, #4. When she touches his ear and he kinda leans in to it and loses his train of thought. AND THIS IS WHY I LIKED AMY.
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It's true. I think if I did the list again, I'd come up with a whole new set of five. Not to mention if were doing Josh/Donna moments. There are too many! In fact, I decided I needed to rewatch The Two Bartlets last night because of the Tahiti scene and your comment and I'd forgotten how Josh was wearing CJ's too-big pajamas in the beginning and Amy makes a comment and he gets all defensive about how he knows they're too big and it's adorable. Stuff like that! I don't I could actually nail down a top 5 favorite Josh moments. :p
Though, I'd probably always keep the secret plan to fight inflation. ;)
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Top five future pet names (or children's names?)
Top five office supplies
Top five ways to kill time
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DwightArthur. :pPet's/Children's names:
1. Gefilte (fish, natch)
2. Marlowe (cat)
3. I'm a dork, but I love the name Josh. I'm predisposed to Joshes. I'd name a boy Josh. :p
4. I used to love the name Grace for a girl, and then it got all trendy, so.
5. Rowan and Aidan are two other names I liked, but they've gotten all trendy, too. I don't know!
Office Supplies:
1. The little magnetic paperclip holder on my desk. It's got a little rolly thing on it so you don't have to fish for clips anymore.
2. Swingline stapler. :)
3. My blue gel pen.
4. Miniature neon colored Post-its.
5. Binder clips. I don't know why, but I love them. :p
Killing time:
1. Livejournal
2. Livejournal
3. Myspace
4. Youtube
5. Watching Scrubs
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Top five Angel moments
Top five things you love about Cap'n Mal
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Angel Moments
1. Angel: "I don’t know about you, but I had a nice day. You know, except for the bulk of it, where I was nearly tortured to death."
Doyle: "Yeah, well, you stood up."
Angel: "Oh, god. I was this close to telling him everything. I mean, one more hot poker and I was giving him the ring, your mom - everything. How is your mom?"
2. Weeeee little puppet man!
3. the sky is gonna open...
4. That whole locking the doors on a room full of evil lawyers and two bloodthirsty vampires thing. That was awesome.
5. "Personally, I kinda wanna slay the dragon. Let's go to work." *Slash cut* *Executive Producer Joss Whedon* *No more Angel ever* *CRIES*
Cap'n Mal LUFF
1. You do not fuck with Captain Mal. By association, you do not fuck with Captain Mal's crew. He's loyal to a fault, and I love that about him.
2. One of the greatest joys he gets out of life is sticking it to the man.
3. SEXY SPACE PANTS! /shallow
4. I'm not gonna lie, the self-deprecating sense of humor is a big part of it, too.
5. No matter what happens, he will always, always, always keep fighting.
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Top five moments from college
Top five reasons chocolate sucks
Top five ways that you would like to quit your job and/or kill your boss if there were no consequences
Top five things you want to do on your vacation (when and if you have one)
Top five 90s songs
Top five things that make you happy even when you're sad/depressed
(you can pick and choose from these... I kinda got carried away... also I 100% agree about the David stuff-- he's my favorite!)
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1. John Krasinski
2. Wentworth Miller OMG
3. I hear Daniel Vosovic is 80/20...
4. (This is harder than I would think, because I tend to have crushes on characters, not necessarily the actors. Like, I would bang Logan Echolls, but Jason Dohring? I dunno. There's that whole scientology married thing. :p)
5. Ewan McGregor
College moments:
1. The Christmas gift exchange in BWH sophomore year.
2. That time I drove around in a car with Mark and a few others for hours one night with no particular place in mind.
3. Two trips to the porn store on Aster's 18th birthday.
4. All the tapings for The Wire.
5. Pretty much any time all of us were having fun and hanging out in the living room of the apartment. So, like, fall semester senior year. :p
Vacation:
1. Sleeeeeeeeeeeep.
2. See something I've never seen before
3. Relax like woah.
4. Visit my uncle.
5. Eat something new.
Happy things:
1. Peppermint patties
2. Everclear (THE BAND! HAR HAR HAR)
3. Talking to my youngest sister
4. Buying DVDs (retail therapy!)
5. Driving in cool weather with the music loud and the windows down
...I couldn't possibly pick just 5 songs from the 90s. :p Though, Everlong would most definitely be on there. :)
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S4 I found was slightly hit and miss, too, but necessary to get through to S5, which I thought was really great. The series finale is one of the best things ever recorded, you won't regret it. I recommend NOT reading any online reviews because people include very glaring spoilers in their reviews. If I hadn't seen the episodes when they first aired, I would have been pissed. Hope the surprises haven't been ruined for you.
Top 5 favorite cartoon shows.
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(alternately: top five things that annoy you about the above sentence)
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Fine! :D
Top five SFU moments.
Top five saddest SFU moments.
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2. Coco Cox Arquette - if only because of the reason she picked it.
3. Harley Quinn - I'm sorry Kevin Smith, but no.
4. Banjo - Rachel Griffiths' kid.
5. Take your pick from Frank Zappa's kids. :p