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Hey, did you guys hear that there's a Tropical Storm KARL?!?!

WELL, PUT ON YOUR WATERPROOF PANTIES, 'CAUSE YOU'RE ABOUT TO GET WET.



Do not be deceived if you find yourself in a sudden calm - you may just be in (dun dun dun)

( THE EYE OF THE STORM!!!!!!!! )

Following the ontd_pinto theme of "Whut Wednesdays"...

- Has anyone ever seen the show Lexx? It's a German/Canadian sci-fi show from the '90s. This shit is the stuff of nightmares. Dan is watching the entire 5 seasons of it. NIGHTMARES, I TELL YOU.

- Adorable whut.

- ZQ dancing whut (thanks to snoewhite)

Yes, this is a random post, I know. I haven't posted fic in forever, but I'm working on some stuff, and I have some ideas, and it will all be worth it in the end!!

AWESOME NIGHT TONIGHT.

Went to eat dinner in the bar in our building....discovered that they have on their menu THE FUCKING GRILLED CHEESE CHEESEBURGER!!! Do you know what I'm talking about? It's a cheeseburger between TWO GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICHES! OMG. Dan and I split one. It was amazingly delicious. I told him that if he ever sees me eat an entire one of those, he should shoot me immediately. [Unless I'm pregnant.] [I'm not.]

THEN. We took our new favorite drink (apple cider + spiced rum) and went for a walk. And discovered my new favorite secret place in all of Philly. Fucking amazing space down by the river, 5 minutes from our apt that neither of us knew about it until Dan discovered it a few days ago. I want to go there every day. And it makes me wish I smoked pot because it would be the BEST PLACE EVER.

Then came home to watch Whale Wars :-/ Sad episode tonight about the ramming of the Ady Gil. Gah. I knew it was coming, still kind of emotional :-( Seeing the captain/owner's sadness at losing his ship is just heartbreaking.

Yesterday was the last day of Beer Week in Philly, so Dan and I set off on a valiant quest. We were trying to go to a specific Beer Brunch, but there was no one there, so instead we decided to bike around South Philly in search of a different new bar that we'd heard of. We biked A LOT and sweated our asses off because it was so hot and humid, it felt like the freaking rainforest. When we finally found a decent looking bar, we went in, I asked for some napkins to wipe the sweat off my face, and the bartender asked me if I wanted a towel :-/

We ended up going to four different bars that had, like, gourmet menus AND gourmet / expensive / high ABV beers. omg, sooooo good. we ate and drank at each bar...Dan spent $18 on one 12 oz. bottle of beer (18% ABV), we got to try some new things from our favorite breweries, and got TRASHED. Also watched some World Cup and somehow ended up buying a pack of clove cigarettes and smoking a few of them (sooo good, but it makes me a total hypocrite since I basically made Dan quit smoking). Then we came home and passed out by 8:30 PM. No pictures, 'cause I had no idea what an epic adventure it would be, so I didn't bring a camera :-(

So that was yesterday. Today I realized that I need to post right before work every day so I can get some emails, because today i got none - i was also super busy, so it probably would have been a bad idea, but since when has that stopped me?

Anyway, the point of all this is that - I NEED A MEME! A good one. So here's the meme:

TELL ME WHAT MEME DO YOU WANT ME TO DO. I WON'T EVEN CHECK TO SEE IF IT'S A REAL MEME. SO JUST MAKE SOMETHING UP AND I'LL PROBABLY DO IT.

IT'S NOT EVERY DAY YOU GET AN OFFER LIKE THAT, BBS!

Had to share this. It's a gorgeous letter from one soldier to his lover (another soldier) in WWII.
Warning: It will make you cry. May also inspire fic.

WWII Love Letter

- finally updated my Master Fic List! I hope I remembered everything!

- I'm probably taking a bit of a hiatus from posting fic for a week or so while I work on some longer stuff. We'll see if I can keep that resolution. But if I can, it will all be worth it in the end!

- In case you were wondering what Zach sounds like in my head right now, it's totally Todd from Bright Side.

- Question: A while ago, someone on my friends list or maybe a friends-of-friends list posted links to download a bunch of Lady Gaga's songs that aren't on her full album - like unreleased stuff, etc. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? NEED MOAR GAGA.

- I've been writing Pinto drabbles/ficlets all week, OMG, soooooo fun, I can't wait to post them :-D

- I left work early yesterday because i felt all woozy. I called Dan to see if he could pick me up, but he was already walking around in Center City, so I ended up meeting up with him and getting Five Guys burgers for lunch and then going to suit shopping with him. OMG. SUIT SHOPPING IS HOT. He ended up getting black pants and a black vest and a hot purple stripey shirt...omg. I might post a pic later...

- The reason we were getting dressed up was to go to this event for an LGBT org where my uncles were being honored. It was on a top floor with great views of the city, lovely wine, delicious food (sushi bar!), and got to see some family there, which was nice. Needless to say, there were some seriously dapper looking guys there, and Dan held his own ;-)

- Work is getting busy, fic is getting neglected, but i'm squeezing in my LJ reading and commenting, ahhhhhh!!!

- Now do this! Please? :-D From perdiccas and ewinfic

Post a picture or video in the comments you think describes me. Leave no explanation. Post this in your journal. Profit! :)

BRB WATCHING STAR TREK XI! WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

Taking verizonhorizon's advice to update here with my random hilarious insightful okay mostly just random thoughts.

- Kirk's face when McCoy is getting him on the shuttle is really hilarious. I never noticed that before.

- Pike is hot. I did notice that before but it's worth mentioning.

- I don't think it's the normal viewer reaction, when the Enterprise comes out of warp into the battle with the Narada, to think "OMG, there is so much love in this movie." But what can I say, there's Kirk and Spock and everyone's working together and it's just like...LOVE!

- Engineer Olsen is dumb.

- Spock looks pretty fuckin' relaxed in that Captain's chair.

- Okay, this has always bothered me - why does Spock squat down on the transporter pad? don't get me wrong, i love it, it looks totally hot and badass, but I always assumed that it was so he could, like, take off running the moment he was on the planet's surface. But then when he gets there, he just stands up, looks around, and THEN runs. so, i'm just saying...what was the point?

- i still kind of love spock/uhura. also, they were totally doing it at the Academy. i mean, they were at least making out. I loved how in the shuttle bay Spock looks around all guiltily before he assigns Uhura to the Enterprise.

- hey nero, did it happen?

- "Permission to speak freely?" "I welcome it." No, actually, I don't think you do, Spock, stop lying. Also, I was bummed to learn that "Are you out of your Vulcan mind" was a line used in...I think it was Wrath of Khan? and wasn't specifically written for this movie. Although, I do give major props to the TOS writers for that one.

- I want Spock Prime's jacket. But not to live on an ice planet. Leonard Nimoy's nostrils are epic. I claim them.

- "also my mother was human, which makes earth the only home i have left" - i watched that line extra carefully because i just saw an interview where they were saying that they were all cracking up / breaking down so hard that they actually had to take a break in order to get that scene right. would have loved to be a fly on that wall...

- I SEE YOU ROMULAN JOE QUINTO! I HEAR YOU WIL WHEATON!

- SPOCK, IT'LL VERK.
TELL LIEUTENANT UHURA THAT I LOVE HER VAGEEN.
VAGEEN? JESUS.
or at least, that is how the scene goes in my head.

- Before the movie is over, I just want to take this time to make one of my favorite observations about this movie, which is just that in addition to being so badass, everyone on the Enterprise is freaking amazingly good at their jobs and at handling emergency situations, and here is the reason that Kirk is/will be an amazing captain - because he just automatically cares so much about his crew. When he screams "Sulu" and jumps off the drill to save him? I don't know if he knew Sulu before that, but if he didn't, that's some pretty hardcore loyalty right there. And then he knows everyone's name, like Chekov's on the bridge, and then he's all "I won't allow you to do that Mr. Spock." Plus he has swagger and a massive cock. Sigh. I love Kirk.

- you can totally tell that ZQ's fingers are glued together in the scene with Spock Prime, because his fingers are too relaxed. come on, Zach - ACTING!

- Sadness, movie is over, I must collapse into bed immediately. LL&P.

Party post on ontd_startrek! I had all these ideas for macros, but I'm sorry, I just can't handle a weeknight party post :-/ Oh well.

I did have fun last night at the claiming post though, that shit was hilarious. I am now the proud owner of halfbreedchild's TINHAT, but I will of course let her be the one to wear it, since she can rock it like no one else. Seriously. OF ALL TIME.

My other favorite thing that happened was when hilsongirl offered to trade Bruce Fucking Greenwood to mintcloud in exchange for me. DUDE - I AM WORTH BRUCE GREENWOOD?



NO. NO I AM NOT :-/

Also, and perhaps most importantly, I claimed all of the monkeys in the world. So, I consider myself a winner.

( WALKING POST! )

And here's the other reason I can't do party post tonight - EPIC PINTO fic is epically eating my brain. I'm sorry, I hate to taunt you, I really do, but I have to talk about this. It's over 11,000 words and I still have a whole bunch of scenes to write. I am so in love with this fic, I want to live in it. Well, I kind of have lived in it, as it's drawn so hard on my own experiences - without the gay sex, of course (sadly). That's all I'll say without giving away what it's about. If I were at all capable of writing in some sort of linear fashion, I would post it as a WIP, but yeah, that's not happening. I still might post it as chapters when it's done, depending on how it can be broken up. What do you guys think, say the fic was like 20,000 words, would it be better to post it all at once in parts or drag it out and post a chapter a day or something even if it's complete? Which would you be more likely to read?

Ahhh, fuck, maybe I will make some party post macros...