I missed a memo and suddenly it's Jan 7th?

[charloween]

1. Adventure to Ikea yielded more decorative boxes, come curtains, and a tidier living space after a few hours of shifting piles. Next up is a few poster frames and I might be able to trick people into thinking my room belongs to a mature adult.

2. iTunes is being cheeky. It's swinging between hopelessly goth and stuff like "I'm Too Sexy". The good news is that Oingo Boingo approaches both poles, depending on the song, so I've got a good chance of hearing more Oingo Boingo. I fear that I don't make enough of my love for Oingo Boingo. I do love Oingo Boingo.
2b. My headphones have a 10' cord. I'm over here (*gestures thisaway*) with a laptop and the iTunes is over there (*gestures thataway*) on the ol' desktop. If I don't actually stand up and move I'm at the mercy of shuffle.

3. In the past week I've defeated Merlin (measurably better than I'd feared) and the first two seasons of Bones (snarky, pretty and stuffed with unrepentant constant gimmicky shark-jumping). The good news is that I'm back from house-sitting and presumably have my own life to live for a while away from the television. The problem with Bones is that it makes me want to go back and re-watch Angel, but so much of Booth's character is the punchline to who Angel is. Was.
3b. I don't have much to say about the DW casting announcement that I haven't said elsewhere. I might collect all the bits to a single post. I'm a bit sick of DW, though, and I can only imagine how nauseatingly overbearing it might be in the country where it actually gets marketed.

4. Tomorrow the union's got a meeting where we might be voting on the employer's latest offer. We're over 60 days into the strike, and everyone's sick of being on strike, but the rumors are that this offer falls short of our bargaining team's goals. It'll be a very interesting meeting. Interesting ...and bloody long. The novelty of watching eggheads trying to jump into administration wore off around week 2 of the strike.

5. It may be that the crazy trip to the Obama inauguration is just a crazy idea and not a viable enterprise. This is why group projects are annoying. Just because someone says they'll book the car rental doesn't mean they'll actually go through with it. It started out as a neat idea and it's descending into something logistically impossible. Another few days and I'm going to have to decide whether or not to pull out.

Comments

[underhand-glory.livejournal.com]

I am watching AtS properly for the first time and funnily enough it's giving me an urge to watch Bones-- which I am resisting since it's ruined for me now by events which I will not spoil you for.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

The best thing about Bones (nearly through the end of the third season) is that they haven't yet lost the kids-in-the-playground mentality. Everyone seems to be having a lot of fun on the set. Plus, they don't do those flashback-recreations which piss me off: another point in its favour. I do know that Sam-from-Freaks and Geeks joins the show in the fourth season, and I've heard that he's annoying.

Boreanaz is way hotter when he smiles, and he doesn't do that enough on Angel. (Plus there's the unforgivable Doyle Incident...)

[tiny-wings.livejournal.com]

I watched a bit of Bones, I liked it. For now my obsession lies with Fringe, however. And Terminator, a little bit. Until Dollhouse starts, anyway.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

I watched the first handful of episodes of SCC (and serrico raves about it) but I haven't worked my way up to, like, actually finishing the first season.

And I'll have to hear that Fringe is beyond fantastic before I'll give it a look. I am interested in the longer episode format, but I watched The X-Files, I suffered through Lost getting bogged down (though I've heard it's better now)... is Fringe fantastic?

[tiny-wings.livejournal.com]

I find Fringe fantastic. The episodes are more self-contained than the Lost episodes (which by the way, has gotten back to awesome in the last season and I cannot wait to see what happens when it begins again in February). Each episode has its own plot, but somehow the resolution of that plot ties in to a larger pattern, which they are working on discovering.

I haven't watched a lot of X-Files but I think Fringe is different enough to be its own show, and not just like a rip-off.

Plus I'm a sucker for Joshua Jackson. And John Noble, again, does crazy particularly well.