Consonants and vowels all together, equally

So last night I dreamt that sistermagpie and I were at college (my alma mater) with Chris Pine. He was kind of douchey and annoying but also super endearing and I liked him a lot in a "bad dog, don't say that" sort of way. Some chick tried to get me to get him not to run to be an officer with some club or other and said that no one would vote for him and I was like "so what do you care if he runs then?" which is so club politics at my college I can't even.

Anyway we watched two movies over a weekend, maybe for a class? The first one was in my room really late at night and was a Japanese movie about a hapless young rich man who funds a heist so he can be part of it. Chris slept on my couch. Then M and I went to his room to watch something else with his roommate. After the movie M and I were getting ready to go (and it was totally college because my purse had all these earrings in it) M said we should have a goat farm (maybe there was a goat in the second movie?) and while Chris's other roommates were emerging from their bedrooms putting their socks on after their mid-afternoon naps to go down to the dining hall for dinner I went off on this riff (and if you've met me in person you can imagine) about how no, we shouldn't because then we'd be those women making artisanal goat cheese probably in Amherst and also M is a city girl whose concept of horticulture was 1) put a seed in a pot 2) cover with dirt from some place 3) magically grow a plant. Then we went down to dinner.

Later I was in an elevator and he was all "So! You and M!" and I was all "Me and M what?" and he was like "Together!" and I was like "no and also you're an idiot."

Also at some point we watched him on video playing that Chumawumba song on drums with some people only it was one of those bullshit stand up drum kits and also he was always a little behind for his cymbal crashes and such and I cringed for him.

You are super excited I woke up and posted this from my phone, aren't you? Everyone's like "damn maybe she should only post about her fic!"

aethelflaed2 and I are moving! We found a really great place and signed the lease last night. The next two weeks will be full of packing, moving, and unpacking, but at least it won't be full of randomly not having hot water for a couple of days, a tub that leaks like crazy, or broken kitchen cabinets that don't get fixed. We'll be closer to the subway and in a much more fun and interesting neighborhood. So that's a big source of yucky stress removed.

I'm feeling a little better than I was earlier. Well enough to reply to comments and emails and such. Hopefully soon, well enough to be writing again. The stbb is posting on the 12th, but it's pretty much done so that's not a worry. My space_wrapped date is the 11th I think, so that will be fine, and then Yuletide, and it would be nice to get a couple of other things done but we'll see about that!

Today was a pretty brutal and horrible day. I'm sure I'll be back to my usual positivity by the end of the week but right now it's really rough. Any happy-making things you can point me to would be greatly appreciated.

I may repeat this request tomorrow.

So since work was slow I did a huge tumblr spam in honor of today. First, I found videos of a whole bunch of folks who have something in common with me:

Rick Springfield
Shelley Long
Barbara Eden
River Phoenix
Keith Moon

Then the Monkees:
Saturday's Child

Then a bunch of magazine covers from the third week of August, 1969:
Vogue
Cosmopolitan
Look
TV Guide
Sports Illustrated

And saved the best for last:
Life cover
Gene Kelly

Met friends for burgers and hotdogs in the park. It's a great place to do something casual after work as people can come and go; it's like having my own bbq without having to do any of the cooking. Oh, and the guy at Starbucks gave me a mini red velvet whoopie pie.

This is a mixture of fannish and real life things from the last 48 hours or so.

• I'm helping to run a crossover challenge on jim_and_bones that we're calling Worlds Collide, so if you ever wanted to write some fic about any Chris Pine or Karl Urban character you should go check it out. I'm really excited about the response so far!
  
• Damn it rained a lot Saturday night and Sunday. My cat is afraid of the rain so she hid for most of the day, poor thing.
  
• I got lunch at Cosi today for reasons that aren't particularly interesting (I usually bring my lunch) and damn if they didn't leave out the chicken from my cobb salad. So I marched right back down there and got it, damn it, and he gave me extra. Just this weekend I'd been feeling like getting what's owed you and setting boundaries was seen as being entitled, so it's weird how some guy at Cosi made me feel a little better about that sort of thing.
  
• Relatedly, I'm trying to get over my anxiety about crossposting. I've been poking at various Harry Potter comms for the crossposting of the sequel and various adjacent fics--so far I've racked up two h/h comms (one of which I was already a member of), two d/g comms, a rarepairs and a rarehet comm (hurrah for ron/padma). Of course there's also hp_girlslash and deamus; that goes without saying. (I also trawled around for new icons, yayness!)
  
• Speaking of which, the Pansy/Parvati I posted the other day and crossposted at hp_girlslash got picked up by both quibbler_report and femslash_today which is pretty groovy. Reward for psyching myself up to crosspost!
  
• They had a Ralph Bellamy fest on TCM Sunday and wow, Ralph Bellamy was the Ralph Bellamy in a lot of movies. In Headline Shooter he was even engaged to a newspaperwoman who leaves him for a more exciting newspaperman, though he wasn't played by Cary Grant.
  
• My tummy is full of pasta made by hoshizora and sauce made by ali_wildgoose who were nice enough to ask me to stay for dinner when I came by to pick up my shades.
  
• Fandom is bliss, but I'm feeling overloaded on the pop culture blogs. Any recs for things I can put on the reader that aren't about either culture or social justice activism or current politics/geopolitics/economics etc, I'd be much obliged.

Three things!

So one of the reasons I've been a little out of it the past week and a half or so is that, well, I was actually out of it for a bit, last weekend and early this week, and went underground for a bit. And then late this week I spent time chasing the food truck Colicchio was doing as part of the HBO Game of Thrones promotion. I only caught three nights out of the five, but got to eat a sublime pickled egg, a bit of squid-inked seafood stew, lamb and duck, venison and the aforementioned headcheese, plus a lot of lemon cake.

This morning I wrote two things about Rebecca Black's Friday (here and here) that sped around tumblr, which is a nice but slightly odd feeling. Mostly: there's nothing wrong with the song or the video. And there's nothing wrong with what Fallon and Colbert did last night, either, though I wish some people didn't need their blessing in order to see what was good about that song.

Apparently you can get subscriptions on AO3 now, which is pretty neat. I'm at clio_jlh and fandoms in the immediate queue include Harry Potter and Star Trek! (If you want to do that cool thing, astolat has the code here.)

I've been so worried lately, and thanks to all of you for being nice about it. Let's talk about stuff that's making me happy!

• New Nigella on my TV! She's seriously my anxiety cure, you don't even know. And she likes rosé, which I do too. (See below.)
  
• Saw Red yesterday noontime at a $6 matinee. It was really fun! Bruce and Karl and Helen and Morgan and Malkovich were all adorbs, as was Brian Cox's old Russian.
  
• Then I went on a very NYC shopping spree around Union Square, picking up some staples at Trader Joe's (they have frozen pork buns now!), bread and jam at the green market, rosé at the wine store, and some spicy beef broth noodle to go at Republic.
  
• The jam deserves its own bullet. I adore the jam from Beth's, which you can also order online. I picked up Raspybarb (raspberry rhubarb) which is the flavor of my favorite pie. I also got some rhubarb chutney (so good on meatloaf) and some garlic rosemary jam (excellent on toast topped with scrambled egg). I ate bread and jam for dinner!
  
• startrekbigbang and rpf_big_bang are posting! So many great stories already!
  
• Yuletide! I'm pondering what fandoms to nominate other than WKRP. Undercovers and Hawaii 5-0 at the very least, and Community as well because that fandom isn't that big. I'm thinking about nominating the Green Hornet movie even though it's not out until next month because hey, Kato fic.
  
• It's fall, and it's properly chilly and breezy and the leaves are falling and when it's not raining the sky is the most gorgeous blue. And the cat has gone back to demanding a permanent position on my lap.

I've got chicken stock in the stockpot, I cleaned the bathroom, and I'm reviewing fic. And then I'll do a last read over my rpf bb fic which goes up tomorrow! Eee!

So I got a new job a few weeks ago and they said my first paycheck would be today, but it would be mailed to me. And the bank account, kinda negative because I totally forgot to budget for commuting expenses. But I got home last night and there was my check, in yesterday's mail! I am once again a productive member of the global capitalist economy, for good or ill.

I am celebrating with a Fresca.

So as some of you may have heard, about three hours ago I was leaving to meet some friends at the movies and I was robbed at gunpoint in my lobby. He took my bag, which had my wallet and phone, and worst: my fucking writing notebook. It really sucks because I'd finally just gotten over about six weeks of writer's block, and now I'll just have to rewrite all that shit.

I mean, what matters is that the cops got here in like, seconds, that I'm safe, he didn't hurt me at all, and he only took things that can be replaced. Luckily my keys were in my pocket, so I am home, on my computer, waiting for said friends to get out of the movie and maybe stop by.

HAHA, all that drama about the iphone and now it's gone. HOPE YOU ENJOY THE $40 AND THE OLD SHITTY IPHONE, ASSHOLE!

I have decided that I will shamelessly postdate when I forget to post fic on Thursday. I literally completely forgot, because I'd been writing another story. However, it's up now, and I even found a Mai/Zuko icon to go with it, so I rock, clearly.

Sadly I wasn't able to go to DC this weekend as previously planned. This means I can go to a birthday party and possibly watch silly Shakespeare things with bhanesidhe. But it also means I'll miss folks who came into town, which is a drag. Happily, I'll be able to go down to DC for a quieter weekend with P____ and the gang in DC next month.

Per oneangryrabbit's suggestion, I checked out tower.com and got HIMYM season 3 and the new snow patrol album for $28 and free shipping. Insane! Of course, I'm not sure the packages will arrive before February, but still, cheap!

Re this week's Top Chef, it's not that I thought the eliminated chef would get much further, or that the judges were wrong to eliminate that person, but I felt that the unfortunate chef's teammates' behavior was uncool.