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Three fic recs for you:

someidiothasice wrote a fic in response to a Pinto prompt that I left at stxi_sinfest!!
Yummmm...

And 1lostone wrote one in response to my pervy anonymous Pinto prompt!! To the hotness!

Speaking of Pinto, OMG - I recently discovered Airplane Mode, AKA the hottest Pinto fic ever. I've seriously read this fic every night for the past three nights. It's hot. Also, funny. And awesome.

I've been working on fic all freaking week, only occasionally interrupted by the need to do actual work. Want to know something about my writing process? I can write, like, 3 pages of banter in 30 minutes, but it takes me 15 minutes to come up with an adequate synonym for "thrust". Argh.

And then tonight I got distracted by the Party Post at pinto_fic, which caused me to go and devote my precious time to making things like THIS. TOTALLY WORTH IT!!

This weekend I will be distracted by the amazing weather. Big plans to leave the apartment! So if everyone could just stop posting fic for a while so I don't have too much to catch up on, that would be great ;-)

It's been an awesome weekend for GQMFery!!!!

First there was the thing about Madonna and ZQ.

Then there was the surprise party post at ontd_startrek. I did a bunch of macro posts in the comments that I'll probably post here later, too. I'm still kinda hanging out there - IS ANYONE WITH ME????

Then there was PROOF THAT PINTO EXISTS IN THE WILD!!!!! I DON'T CARE THAT EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON MY FLIST HAS POSTED THIS, YOU ARE SEEING IT AGAIN, AND I DON'T THINK YOU ARE COMPLAINING:



ETA: I JUST LEFT A COMMENT AT THE PARTY POST, AND MY CAPTCHA WAS PINTOES ACTION I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried!!!!

Then, this happened - ALAN CUMMING AND ZQ IN THE SAME PICTURE!!!!! WHAT THE WHAT????



WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO PARTY DURING THE OSCARS, BBs????

I THINK I'M GOING TO gqmf_live AND YOU SHOULD TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally, I posted the long-awaited threequel to the Therapy AU, so if you're into that kind of thing (namely, banter), check it out. If you've already read it, you will understand why I got a little excited when I read this quote by Chris Pine (found via thalialunacy): "I talk to myself, especially in the car. I do it to work through ideas, or if I'm pissed off. I use the interior of the car like it's a [therapist's office]." AH HA HA, WHEEEEE :-D

This morning we went to my parents' house. I had to sort/clean out a bunch of STUFF...and when I say "stuff", I mean papers from elementary school through college...look through school papers, notes, projects...pictures and gifts and notes from old boyfriends...stuff I collected throughout my travels, everything from a photo album from my first family trip to Europe when I was 11, through TONS of brochures, postcards, etc from my three months studying abroad in London...etc. I am so protective of that stuff - IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MEMORIES, MAN! (name that movie), so it was really hard for me. I got through about half of it and I was shaking at the end from the adrenaline and from just sucking it up and throwing stuff out. DON'T GET ME WRONG - I still saved a LOT! Luckily my parents were very supportive of me saving stuff...they were all "don't throw it out if you don't want to! you can always come back and sort it again in 5 years!" - but they did want me to kind of cull the madness and put most of the stuff in boxes. It was easy to throw out all my old college notes (keep in mind, I had gone through this stuff 8 years ago and decided to SAVE all that! so i guess it does get easier over time). But I still saved all of my school papers and creative writing projects from 8th grade, haha!

Oh, and did I find some TREASURES! Oh man, like a little journal/notebook that I spilled my guts out in (i never kept a diary, so when i wrote in this journal it was like these urgent outpourings, mostly professing love or angst for various real or fictional people). That little book also caused some serious pain when some girls at camp discovered it and read it out loud to my friends when I wasn't there. BUT - now that I can look back on it, I TOTALLY plan to quote some of it here for the LULZ :-D

Okay, moving on to the next part of the day, then we went to an Asian market to get some ingredients to make Vietnamese pho. Found lots of cool stuff at the market and then some stuff that was SERIOUSLY ODD. For instance, there was a sign that said:
BEEF AND GOAT
TESTES
PIZZLE

I could not make that up. There was also lots of stuff in the meat section, like your usual tongue and pigs ears and feet but then there were also veal LIPS - LIPS????? I think they had fur on them still! And then there were the "Chicken Uteri". WTF!?!?! Okay. I would eat it in another country to be honest, although it would help if Anthony Bourdain was feeding it to me, but still. It was ODD. (Oh, and in case you thought I could write a whole post without a Star Trek reference, there was also something labeled something like "Thi la")

Speaking of chefs, if I may have a small tangent, did anyone ever watch that show "Take Home Chef" with Curtis, the tall, hot Aussie?

( Tall, hot Aussie )

THEN, when we were looking for a parking spot back at our apartment, we passed a car with a bumper sticker with the following slogan: "Chimps. Yes, you can eat them."
Again - WTF?

Then, because it's obviously just that kind of day, I gave in and read Pinto tentacle-porn. And made related macros.

What other weirdness have you got, day? Hit me! I can take it!

I'm really enjoying the country ice dancing routines way too much tonight. I guess the theme is folk music and there have been 3-4 routines set to country music, and the guys are all cute in jeans and hats and chaps and shit and they're doing all these cute little moves and it's totally making me want to break out the "bad country" and "good country" mixes that a friend made for me a while back. and then since country music songs are all stories, it's totally leading to AU ideas for fic...which is basically the last thing I need right now. :-D

PEOPLE! I HAVE ANOTHER SNOW DAY TOMORROW! THIS IS AMAZING!







Bonus Kirk/McCoy apple porn!!

Tagged by falleneve!

A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."

1. I got married in July. Zoo on Wheels came to our wedding. They brought an armadillo, a blue-tongued skink, a prehensile tail porcupine, a corn snake, and a great horned owl. It was awesome.

2. Also, I had an impromptu father-daughter dance with my dad to Lady' Gaga's Just Dance.

3. I have a thing about wanting to see celebrities. One time I saw Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman and their kids on safari in Tanzania. Another time I saw John Oliver from The Daily Show in Union Square in NYC. Ummm...that's about it for my celebrity sightings. :-/

4. I hate ironing. Seriously hate it. I have a huge pile of clothes on an ironing board in my bedroom that has been there/growing since September. No exaggeration. If I'm really desperate, I will iron one shirt. Sometimes I'll get something dry cleaned just because it will get ironed too. I honestly consider just bringing everything to the dry cleaners and asking them to iron it all.

5. The third time I saw Star Trek was on our honeymoon in Guatemala. We went to a bar that had bootleg movies (everything in Guatemala is bootlegged) and asked them to play Star Trek on this big screen TV they had. When we went back to the bar the next day, we realized we/they had left the TV on with the Star Trek menu screen. When we turned it off, you could totally see "Star Trek" etched into the TV....

6. I've had a few obsessions in my life. In chronological order, they include: Beverly Hills 90210, musicals at my high school and the people who starred in them, Cabaret/Alan Cumming, Buffy/Angel, Pirates of the Caribbean/Johnny Depp, and Star Trek!! I'm sure I missed some in there, but those are the main ones...

7. When I'm really full, I have to chew gum. I heard once that it makes you hungrier to chew gum, so somehow I translated that into believing that it aids the digestion, so now it's totally a mental thing. I hate it when I ask someone if they have a piece of gum and they say "no, but i have a mint" - i'm like, "why would i want a mint? i don't want to eat more!"

Ha ha, thus ends my life story.
Here is a picture of Zachary Quinto for your time.



I'm being a rule breaker and not tagging anyone. Do it if you want to. Suck it, #C!

Quick post with two movie recommendations. First, let it be known that I watch a lot of movies (at home, not in the theater) and that I am NO critic. Seriously, I think everything is good. Except GI Joe. And X-Files 2. And I didn't really think Sunshine Cleaning was as great as other people thought it was. ANYWAY. Two movies that I watched recently that I liked were:

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - I swear I didn't just like this because there was a drunk girl named Caroline (though it didn't hurt). It was like the hipster version of teen movies (and I loooove teen movies) + Michael Cera. So, yeah. And it wasn't too long. And there was a band made up of gay high school boys. And John Cho was in it for like 5 seconds. Do you see what I'm saying? There are a lot of reasons to like this movie!

The Brothers Bloom - I had no idea what to expect, but this movie was great! From the whole intro narrative which was awesome, to Rachel Weisz being adorable, to Adrian Brody (and his clothes!), it was all good. It was a little long and could have ended like 3 different times, but didn't really drag and was pretty entertaining throughout. Let's put it this way - I closed my computer while I was watching this movie. If that doesn't say something, I don't know what does.

See what I mean, I am no critic. But that doesn't mean my opinion doesn't count, right? :-)

In light of last night's sucktastic Eagles loss, we're watching Invincible. Varsity Blues might be next...

Saw Avatar again today in IMAX 3D. I think that may be enough to hold me over. The DVD won't be the same at all but I think I may actually still like the movie on DVD.

I broke down and bought the full Lady Gaga album. Yay for the "complete my album" function on Itunes! My Ipod is going to be all Lady Gaga and The Decemberists now...weird.

Apparently I decided that I need to love Karl Urban more, because I started watching a bunch of interview on Youtube. It's working.