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I've been thinking about this blog lately. I'm mostly succeeding at keeping up with facebook and twitter, although I have a pile of unread messages in my fb inbox. I'm mostly not-succeeding in keeping up with email. But at least briefly, I miss hearing a little more about friends' lives. I also miss hearing a little more about non-lj friends' lives and reading food blogs, but returning to my RSS feed is still far in the future. Sometimes I miss those days of sitting around in a law office and wasting time on the internets all day... ;)Work. Intense since February. I don't even want to start on that right now.Instead, maybe I'll go find a new icon or two. Like Zachary Quinto as Spock. SO HOT.ETA: Apparently today happens to be ZQ's birthday. So while I'm looking for icons, all I find are birthday picspam posts. Not. Helpful.ETA, again: Lest anyone think I am not wasting time on the internet at all these days, let me state for the record two things. After the awesome of Star Trek 2009, I've been re-watching TOS episodes I loved in childhood, on youtube. (Turns out CBS has put up all the eps!) And second, I've spent way too much time watching videos of the Norwegian dance company FRIKAR, who combine the traditional hallingdans + breakdancing + capoeira and who were featured in the Norwegian Eurovision win. Those are my current obsessions, just in case you were wondering.the audience: homethe feeling: mercurialthe bard: Sam snoring Tags: being shallow, dancing, life (8 sparks | spark a light)

I'm happy to announce that I've finally taken the time to visit the band's website + YouTube, and listen to the new vocalist for my favorite Finnish gothic metal band, Nightwish. Anette Olzon was announced as the new vocalist back in May 2007, but I hadn't been staying informed about the search for a new vocalist after Tarja left/was fired/whatever. Today I watched the video for their new single, 'Amaranth'. And I like her! Her voice is different than Tarja's, but I think it works fine with the band. A little less deep and smooth than Tarja's, perhaps a little more sharp. Nonetheless, for the present, I see no reason for Nightwish to fall from its place in my heart. And I like the single -- very fantastical and dramatic, as befits Nightwish. Mostly importantly, Emppu's hair is still long and blond!Yes, I realize this opinion is vitally important to all the readers of my blog. Yes, I realize it's rather bizarre that I love Finnish gothic metal. Yes, we can return to our regularly-scheduled raptures about food and folkdancing now...the audience: homethe feeling: satisfiedthe bard: 'Amaranth', Nightwish Tags: being shallow, music (11 sparks | spark a light)

So, I've started watching Full Metal Alchemist. Since finishing Babylon 5, I have watched a few episodes from various fun TV shows, but I haven't continued watching more than a few successive episodes of any of them. (Although, I'm waiting for my second Rescue Me Season 1 disc from Netflix; I may continue watching that series.) When I visited Dan briefly before going away to camp, he showed me the first couple eps of Full Metal Alchemist, and when I visited him this past weekend, we watched half a dozen more on Sunday afternoon. Last night, I procured the full set of episodes for my hard drive. :)I swear, within the first few minutes of every single episode so far, I mutter, 'I'm so confused...' (Then, I slowly start to understand what's happening, and by the time I start watching the next episode, I forget I was confused about the previous one and get confused all over again!)Also, Edward has great reactions when people refer to his height. It seems...familiar, somehow. Heh heh. I am endlessly amused to consider myself an 'ultra hyper super shorty' (from episode 4)Lastly, Edward's new mentor/superior being the 'Flame Alchemist'? Awesome.the audience: homethe feeling: optimisticthe bard: Melissa, Porno Graffiti [FMA opening song, internal] Tags: being shallow, tv shows (18 sparks | spark a light)

This is the slowest. work day. ever. The only task I had today was to continue cleanup in the aftermath of last week's massive brief -- i.e., shuffle papers and move boxes. I go away from my desk, shuffle some papers, come back, and only like 10 minutes has passed. Uuuuuuugh. So, nothing for it but to write a random lj post. I'm a child of winter, and I love the snow and Christmas lights of that season with all my heart. I've been enjoying this year's fall, though. :) The past 2-3 weeks have had some days of cool, crisp, wood-scented weather. The leaves had satisfactorily changed color when I visited Lebanon, a couple weekends ago. The deep greens and browns of fall clothes look good on me, and I have a fuzzy new orange sweater. I discovered another apple variety that I like (Pink Lady, in addition to Fuji), so I haven't dreaded the rows and rows of apple bins as much as usual. There have been a lot of greens at the Farmstand, and I enjoyed making kale last night. I also went through the rituals of fall baking -- roasting the amber cup squash from Lebanon for a pie and rubbing butter into oatmeal and brown sugar for an apple crisp. There's cranberries from NJ in the apple crisp, which is exciting and new. One of these days, though, I worry I'll go back to just opening up a can of pumpkin puree for pies. Bah. It's SUCH a lengthy process to roast, scoop, and prepare the $SQUASH; I used a food processor this time, which took a longer time but should produce a smoother result. I think I would be hard-pressed to choose a favorite B5 opening sequence. sylvansafekeepe told me, I believe, that S4 has his favorite theme music; I agree that its combination of epic and militant is cool, possibly the best. However, I have to say that the S5 music is growing on me. I really like the quotes-montage, because so many characters have such distinctive and evocative voices (like, oh, Kosh...and Kosh...and other people), and the music's sweep somehow evocatively ties the voices and images together. It turns out that the S5 dvds have the episodes in a slightly different order than the Lurker's Guide. So I did actually watch the episode jere7my recommended, 'Day of the Dead'. ( spoilers under the cut, for form's sakeCollapse )And, in the most shallow comment yet for this entry -- I also started to watch 'Strange Relations'. Hmm...yeah. I have a huge crush on Byron. ...guh. I sense that a re-haul of my icons is coming soon.the audience: One South Broadthe feeling: lethargicthe bard: a siren in the street below Tags: babylon 5, being shallow, cooking, job, random, seasons (7 sparks | spark a light)

My last set of icons felt personally appropriate and generally useful, so that new-icon-urge did not appear for awhile. However, it has been creeping up on me, and yesterday it appeared in full force. Thus, I have a new, exciting icon set! I'm very fond of my new default icon, the wizard Howl from the Diana Wynne Jones book & Miyazake movie Howl's Moving Castle; 'reviews' for both aremay be forthcoming. I'm also very excited about several icons from the FFVII movie Advent Children. Still obsessed with silver-haired boys. And, of course, I have an appropriate icon for my dancing posts and an icon of my adored duo of doctors. (I think it's likely I'll re-watch both seasons of House, M.D. over the summer. I should buy the DVDs, since it's clear I like the show well enough to support it financially.) This is the first time in awhile -- perhaps since the beginning? -- that I haven't had a Severus Snape icon, but don't worry, I'm still obsessed with him...as you can tell from the picture on my info page; I'm just settling into a long wait for HP7.I've also rewritten my bio, now more pithy and less chatty. (My whole writing style needs to be less chatty, as this parenthetical illustrates.) The bio contains an excellent movie quote, since everyone knows I like to sprinkle those everywhere in my life. I've also re-titled my journal, and I've quite satisfactorily revised my interest list. I think it's a good snapshot of both long-held and new interests, and I like the unique interests I have -- not just because they're unique but because they're odd and fun interests.Hmm, perhaps now I should do some work while I'm, y'know, at work.the audience: One South Broad, Philadelphia, PAthe feeling: excitedthe bard: secretaries talking Tags: advent children, being shallow, dancing, fandom, firefly, flame bearer, harry potter, house md (6 sparks | spark a light)

	...as we discover at the poker game, Wilson has a razr. Squee! A beautiful phone for a beautiful man.OK, enough with the completely frivolous posts for now.the feeling: enthralled Tags: being shallow, fandom, house md, technology (1 spark | spark a light)

(although maybe I'll finally get one, one with the flat screen AND high definition that I've been wishing for, with my tax refund)Home never changes. It's still the place where I can relax on the daybed, enjoying wireless broadband and premium cable. I can catch up on watching tv and reading TV Guide, fitting into a day or two all the visual pop culture that I've missed over the last couple months or however long it's been since I was last home.So far tonight, I tried starting an episode of Stargate: Atlantis, but it was some ep where McKay gets stuck in a dark compartment of a shuttle that goes down underwater. He's amusing, but I'm not fond enough of him, and I got bored about one minute after the credits. So I watched an amusing and endearing Monk episode, where he tries his hand at a cubicle-drone job. Then, there was a Sex and the City ep I hadn't seen and the second half of a House ep I had seen, of course. So. The point of this post. While reading this week's TV Guide, my eye happened to fall on a little update about recent happenings on 24. NOTE: LINK CONTAINS SPOILER! This little development, in fact. (And if you're there, check out the 10-pages-and-counting of reaction on his TWoP forum!) Well, that settles it. I'd heard this season was good and was considering watching it, but no more 24 for me. I might, someday, get around to watching Season 1 all the way through, because I still suspect it may have been the best. But other than that, nope! No more reason.But otherwise, I'm going to stick with shows where there is character development and snappy dialogue, but I don't need to obsessively keep up with it every week lest I miss the latest pivotal and shocking occurrence. House, M.D. is the show for me. :)the audience: the home of my youththe feeling: humph!!the bard: Russian prostitutes on L&O: SVU Tags: being shallow, house md, technology, tv shows (4 sparks | spark a light)