Dear Diary, still on this bloody island. Today I swallowed a bug.

ahaha, so clearly the Fringe panel writeup is not happening. (besides, you can watch the whole thing on YouTube anyway, so it's sort of a moot point.) In my defense, I have had basically no braintime for anything but Job and Brother related stress. (now with bonus 'brother hired at job!' crossover! I am a GIGANTIC STRESSBALL.)
I still have not watched the new ep, no spoilers omg.

In lieu of creating anything, I have been watching so much TV. So much. Up to midway through season 8 in X-Files, which. Um. Does it... get better, at some point? Does Scully ever get to be awesome again? Because right now it seems to be the John Doggett show, starring John Doggett and also some pregnant chick who he saves and/or lectures. (The episode where he scolds her for going off on her own sdfajsgdfglkdf) I tried to go into it with an open mind; I really, really did. I want to like Doggett, because I don't like not liking characters! Watching shows is more fun if I'm fond of most of the characters! but I am kind of. Not feeling it. It doesn't help that the writing quality seemed to go downhill really fast. I mean, s7 had a lot of goofy episodes, but they were at least more or less coherent. What the hell was Badlaa? (Apart from awful.) IDK, IDK. Maybe now is the time to start reading fic.

Also watching (and enjoying the hell out of) Twin Peaks (noooo spoilers), although thus far my most pertinent observation is that Dale Cooper is basically Benton Fraser, if Fraser were American and also in a TV show by David Lynch. I can't decide whether they would get along really well, or if they would be just alike enough to get on each other's nerves. Cooper would totally love Dief, though.
(A quick trip to the AO3 indicates that this crossover has already been written. Fandom, ilu.)

So I, of course, did not finish Fringe. I'm on episode... six, I think. I am heading off to Comic-con in a matter of minutes, and I am still debating about whether to go to the Fringe panel. On the one hand, I don't want to be spoiled, and it will be inevitable if I go to the panel. On the other hand, I was spoiled for a fair amount of what I've seen already, and I still *enjoyed* it. And actor panels are often super fun, and I would get to see Jasika Nicole in person (<3333) and that could be cool.

Especially interested in hearing people who've seen Fringe, and can weigh in on whether it's better to be unspoiled.



Also, obvs, I am going to Comic-con, if anyone I know will be there, which is doubtful but what the heck. I will be Robin (animated Tim Drake) tomorrow, and Scully on Sunday.

Am finally watching Fringe. Have just hit season two. ( spoilers )

Someday, I will post things again.

New place acquired, we are moving in today, huzzah for last minute saves. Will update w/ new mailing address once I'm there and we have internet up, which might be a few days.

Argh, Small Potatoes. DNW. It annoys me that the writing in this episode is actually pretty funny at points, but gaaaaaaahhh, the plot. Haaate. My immediate dislike for this episode was compounded by reading this review.

( Spoilers for Small Potatoes, warning for rapey-ness )

On the bright side, my little brother totally gets it and says "I just want to hit this guy [Eddie] so many times." <3

Brother and I are on s4 now, and are currently watching Home. I think he hates me right now, judging by his exclamations of horror. Ohh, X-Files writers, what on earth were you *thinking*?

Man, there a lot of dead babies in X-Files, aren't there?

Was everyone else as taken by surprise about this as I was? I had absolutely no idea this was coming. I was never a Delicious power-user, though, so I wasn't really in a position to see the decline. (I still insist on typing del.icio.us )

My question is, is there a way to export *other people's* bookmarks from delicious? Like, search for tag x/y and then export all of that for future perusal? Or export a particular person's rec list? I mostly used my own account to save recipes, but I did a huge amount of searching to find fic. Damnit, Yahoo. *shakes tiny fist of rage*

Man, this is my problem with the cloud, or the idea that digital media will someday entirely replace print media. What happens when someone pulls the plug?
Maybe someone will do something for Delicious like reocities and the Wayback Machine did for GeoCities, but the essential problem- how ephemeral digital media is- remains. :/

Happy Hanukkah! I hope people's holidays are going well thus far.

I've started working on some things for the Lunar New Year exchange fest at white_lotus- I really hope I can finish a few things. It's been so long since I've actually finished art.

Also, I seem to have made a friend at work, which is exciting! (Especially because the first co-workers I was working with were. uh. When I asked them to stop using gay as a pejorative, the response was "I can't make any promises! lol." The lol was unspoken, but there.) But this person seems nice?

It is interesting to me that I seem to attract the same kind of 'first friend' wherever I go- high school, college, my first workplace, always the first person I connected with was a certain type of geeky, highly opinionated person. She is a fan- we actually connected when she saw I was drawing Katara. I'm trying to suss out what kind of fan- is she into fic? I'm a little concerned that she's going to be like the woman I met at the NaNoWriMo thing- fannish, but really dismissive of slash and fanfic, and that always makes me sad. I never know what to say. But then, maybe she's not, which would be neat! Well, potentially, anyway. Why don't we have a secret handshake or something? Wasn't someone working on that awhile back?

I am very excited about the white_lotus ATLA exchange! I'm still debating about whether I should sign up or not, since I failed so utterly at the ladiesbigbang challenge. *hangs head* But I kind of want to, anyway.
Regardless of whether I sign up or not, I'm going to try to do treats, so everyone should leave a comment on the treats page!