The new challenge at picspammy is kind of awesome, so click the banner for mine (WARNING: spoilers and blood). A few other of my favorites so far are this Watchmen one, this House one, this Into the Wild one (Emile Hirsch keeps impressing me and I think he has a shot at my Honorable Mention List...not sure yet) and this Disney one. Plus lots of others.

Computer is running well and I have everything all put back--some of my album art on iTunes is messed up, but that just gives me a chance to be OCD all over again, which is always fun. David's coming tomorrow and we're hitting Max Brenner (Chocolate by the Bald Man, of course) and then HBP. We're officially the oldest people on the second and third floors of this dorm, according to the survey at the floor meeting. Both in spirit and in technical age. Ho-ho.

ETA: OMFG YAY!

Today was an epic fail. I went to work and had a massive, staggering allergy attack, and I also had to stand in a ridiculously overheated corner of the restaurant behind the counter to answer the phones with the result that by noon I actually thought I was going to pass out. Even the customers were like "dude, go home." One of the other waitresses force-fed me a ton of orange juice, and I staggered home and took Benadryl and fell into bed around 1:45, and didn't get up until after 5:00. :P Thank God I have off tomorrow, because I totes think I would die if I had to go in. I've never called out or left early before, ever, so I know they're not mad, but it was a bit embarrassing.

I broke down and bought a new iPod off of eBay last week (so much for waiting and saving up, ho ho), and it came today, and once I dragged myself back out of bed I loaded all my crap back onto it, and it looks pretty good. It's a 120GB and it's sort of black-silverish, and the display is really fancy and I dig it.

I also wrote an e-mail in response to an editorial in the paper (I KNOW, MY GOD, DO I DO ANYTHING ELSE EVER) because I was annoyed at a Watchmen DVD review--it basically said "the DVD sucks because the movie sucks and it's even LONGER, and the movie sucks because The Comedian beats up Silk Spectre." I wrote this semi-prissy e-mail about how violence can be used to prove a point and how the characters' lives are meant to point out how combining hypersexuality with vigilante violence is a bad thing and how the film was really geared towards fans of the novel and is meant to be shocking, etc., and the guy actually wrote back and said I had a point. (I then had a similar but unrelated conversation with my mother, for the thousandth time, and I said "just because it's got a bit of the old tolchocking doesn't mean it's not worth a good viddy, little sister!" She was less than convinced.) That was kinda fun. And I watched the Director's Cut with my dad; I really like that they put the Hollis Mason stuff back in, since I love Dan and it helps expand his character (and we fast-forwarded through the sex scene, because, come on). And now I have the 'digital copy' on my new iPod, yay.

And a meme, stolen from sexyjohnlennon:

Post a picture in my comments of what you think describes me when you think about what/who I am.
Give no written explanation. Just an image.
Post this in your journal and see what images you get.

(picspammy: Someone stop me, for God's sake; this is getting out of hand.)

This was going to be a srs post with lots of life-type musings and bullet lists and whatnot, but I'm just too tired to be srs. I came home from work and took a nap, which I don't do often. O____o And then I saw today's WB entry and realized the universe wanted me to be slothful and silly today (and my Photobucket monthly bandwidth just started over again), so:



( Not dial-up friendly, but many LOLZ beneath the cut. )

No new "House" and "Big Bang Theory" makes me :(. DH was fun, though, wasn't it?

Lazy Saturday. I have tons of reading to do, so of course I'm t00bing around on Lostpedia and watching old mobisodes, finally. (I so used to ship Michael/Sun. You know, back when Jin was a jackass and not a totally sweetheart/DILF badass.) I usually don't like shows that require homework--I just kinda want to watch and that's it--but "Lost" is the exception. It's so worth it.

( And on that note, brief thoughts on 'The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham.' )

Next Friday I am leaving for Cornwall at 7:30 AM, and we're going to Stonehenge and stuff--which means I cannot see Watchmen opening day. D: D: I am a sad panda. The trip sounds like it'll be awesome, but still. The irony's killing me: Stonehenge is rather old. IT WILL STILL BE THERE ON SATURDAY. There's really no rush. I think we're shooting the movie on for Sunday night, anyway.

And I have a project and I need help: I'm assembling a list of uploads of the Best Original Song nominees 1998-2008, and I already have a bunch, but I need a few more. Yaaaay, got 'em all!

( Behind the cut! )

Being quite lazy and relaxed. (Am back at my mom's, of course; those things never last more than a few days.) Hung out with la_belle_ange and 619slemabov1 and traded nifty gifties and saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Got a bunch of certificates that are already begging to be spent. Continued to be addicted to picspammy (best 2008 "Office" moments | best movies seen in 2008--SERIOUSLY, SOMEONE STOP ME). Working tomorrow and Monday at my old summer pizza place; I haven't worked a Sunday in years & they're usually a lot more hectic, so wish me luck.

Also: I found this awesomeness several weeks ago when I was studying for Brit Lit II and I thought it was fitting and also awesome. I've been meaning to link here. Hee.

I don't at ALL approve of this news about Watchmen, but at least the comments are funny. It's so shady: Fox didn't figure this out? I mean, they 'contacted' them early on, but then they...didn't notice they were filming and spending millions of dollars and...? UGH, FAIL.

Thank you to: lexy_, paperwitch, 823freckles and bibsy for the holiday cards! ♥ I hope all of mine arrived. ;)

LONDON COUNTDOWN: 17 DAYS.

Awesome week is so far awesome:

SUNDAY
- Circus leaked and ONTD freaked the hell out, predictably, dubbing the incident "Britmas '08." :D And the CD itself is slammin'--she does a Joker laugh in "If U Seek Amy"! ("Can somebody take me home / ha ha hee hee ha ha ho!")
- "Desperate Housewives" was bananas; Creepy Dave is awesome (HAI, eco49rvra!)

MONDAY
- More or less pwned my Old English translation test, the one that counts for 25% of my grade
- Finished early, went to Starbucks, came back and watched a clip from the 2007 Beowulf, which immediately looked like Schindler's List next to the 1999 version that we also sampled. Laughed hysterically along with rest of class ( ... )

OK, I didn't even think I cared about the Olympics that much, but this kid chap is freaking AMAZING. World record!!! (And I really, really, really like that tattoo.) \8D/ !!!!

(On the phone with David trying to figure out the best plan for acquiring Beedle the Bard in December. Awesomely enough, he just so happens to work at Barnes and Noble.)

P.S. saerech is very kindly sending me a Regal Cinemas gift card, and Watchmen is FINALLY at my library (I reserved it, like, two weeks ago). YAYZ!!