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+ eckerlilas wins tonight! ♥ I hope she, shutyourface, fiddleyoumust, ericaplease, and harriet_vane (and others I'm sure I'm forgetting) had an awesome time at the Discos' show tonight. PICS OF THE STEAM PUNK KIT, I WANT THEM!

+ Happy birthday to harriet_vane! Here's to a new year, full of exciting travel plans and a new place and hopefully lots of positive thoughts and events!

+ Spent the day wigged out because I couldn't remember the last time I'd seen my wedding ring. I don't even wear it 99% of the time, but when I was digging out earrings to wear this morning I didn't see it in its spot, and I couldn't figure out when I'd last worn it or where I might've put it. Searched before work, then after work I dug through all backpacks, bags, totes, and pockets before finding it.

All that stress for a hunk of pressed metal and crystal?

+ Spent half my work day using one of the department's confocal microscopes. IDK, it's good that the manager wants to help me learn the system, but she's a physicist, not a cell biologist, so I'm not sure that her advice will give me the result that I need. But at least I know now how to work the set-up, and I didn't bleach my samples, so I can always sign up for more time and re-acquire images with a higher magnification and redefining the original Z plane where I want, rather than where she thinks the cells look best.

+ Hey, new Against Me! album. I'm enjoying you. (Even though you're just different recordings/demos from Searching for a Former Clarity.)

+ Billie Joe Armstrong's teenaged sons have a band? And he produced their first album? I can't decide if I'm intrigued or if that convinces me even more that it's all about who you know.

+ So TAI's following in the footsteps of other DD/FBR bands? I'm sure I'll be sad about the departure of MGC and the Butcher at some point, but a) I'm enjoying his Animal Upstairs project, b) I'm curious to hear the new album without their influences, and c) I feel like, if there's any truth to the rumors about how Tomrad was given the heave-ho, we should enjoy some irony.

+ Time to settle into bed and set the TV so that I fall asleep watching today's French Open matches. I hear Rafa's match against Isner was more epic than it should've been? And that Nando's hair is making the FO its last stand?

+ I mentioned this in an email to why_me_why_not and jmc_bks. The world doesn't need more schmoop, right? But ( this pic cries out for it )

+ Last random thought for the day. Why did hero_living follow me back on twitter? I enjoy Rudy's (or whoever posts in lieu of Rudy) positive thoughts, but I didn't realize they followed people back. :/ Fourth wall, I like you.

1. Ugh, busy. Other than email chain and popping in to see individual LJ entries, I haven't had much time to spend on the interwebs. Have I missed anything important that y'all haven't sent me in the aforementioned email chains?

2. Dear Playbill, it's awesome that you're interviewing Stark Sands about his role in American Idiot, but it'd be even MORE awesome if you spelled Billie Joe Armstrong's name correctly.

3. ♥ Butch Walker + Shane Valdes. It's a marriage of music/film geeks.

4. Did anyone else watch the premier of Treme the other night? I had some thinky thoughts about it - from the style that David Simon et al. seem to favor to John Goodman's character (and his character's daughter) to the living conditions of the upper middle class white folk to the people of color to the presence of Elvis Costello and the Rebirth Brass Band - but my brain is too tired translate the chicken-scratch notes I took as I watched. (Srsly, Aaron laughed when I got my pen and paper out.)

5. There are some ridiculously attractive men being photographed at Monte Carlo. And those same men are even playing tennis. *crosses fingers for Rafa and HotSauce*

6. Happy birthday to eckerlilas in about 15 minutes. I hope 33 is the best year yet. :)

+ Being a homeowner is a drain on the pocketbook and time. Seriously, I yearn for the days when I could just call the landlord or building manager when something went wrong. Now? The siding of the garage needs to be replaced. Not a difficult job, really; we should be able to do it in one weekend. We got the trim down and MrIris refitted a stud so we could widen the door. I think the rest of it is going to have to be done by him and someone else, though. It's better for the state of our marriage that we don't do some things together, and using power tools in small spaces is one of those things.

+ Two postcards arrived in one day! One from the inlaws, who are celebrating their 40th anniversary with a trip to Alaska, and one from a_carnal_mink. Babe, Chuck's behavior with Cammy during his marriage? Totally fits my definition of tacky.

+ Thumbs down for The Incredible Hulk. How did they talk Edward Norton into doing that? Also, dear comic book artists/authors/directors, please to be finding a scientific advisor to explain when your sci-fi surpasses fictional and becomes utterly ludicrous. Somehow Bruce Banner's own brain and blood cells became a gamma radiation source after exposure to a laser? And a single tube of blood can magically be replicated to liters and liters of gamma-containing blood? Your science makes my brain hurt, and it was already reeling from the terrible dialogue and cliches.

+ Stone Temple Pilots this weekend. *cough*

+ Also. Tabby finished the Tom/Jon/Cassie thing that we started as textporn ages ago, and she made it HOT, okay? Go, read 8 x 10. (Warning for girl parts.)

+ Jeremy Scahill on Wednesday. *fangirls again*

Happy birthday, a_carnal_mink! ♥ and hugs

I hope it's fabulous. :)



There's a multitude of things I meant to post about.

1. Voting for the 2007 OWL Awards has commenced and will continue through the end of the month.

Links:

Rules and FAQ. (no log in needed to access the Award info and help desk)

Vote. (must be signed in to access the ballot)

Also, thanks to whoever nominated Death Eater's Wife in the Something The Dark Lord Made category.


2. There was a valentine in my mailbox this morning! why_me_why_not, there's a huge supply of those for you, too! :D


3. Anybody know what's up with the TAI show listed for 12April at the Warehouse on last.fm? I can't find any info on it at the Warehouse's site (it's not on their calendar), their mailing list, LiveNation, Ticketmaster, the Houston Free Press, TAI's website or myspace, or the FBR site. (I haven't done more than a cursory search of their myspace, because I despise myspace's layout. It makes my brain bleed.)


4. ( political matter below the fold )

ETA 5. Dude. We have a cupboard under the stairs in my house. I've lived here how long and only just connected the extra closet with that phrase? MrIris was running around getting ready for a business trip, and I'm getting ready for work, and he couldn't find a specific jacket, so I asked him if it was in the closet. "What closet?" he asked, since he'd checked the bedroom ones. "The one under the stairs." A fit of giggles followed when I realized what I said, which he did not appreciate. Now I need fic where Harry lives next to the odd sports equipment, vacuum, and mop that occupy that cupboard, and acts like a cloak-check boy. :)

Because it's been a craptacular day all the way around, I'm in the mood for some lovin'.

So. Comment with your name, friends, and I'll tell you something I admire, like, love about you, something about you that makes me smile.

Random icon use, because I'm suffering hockey withdrawal lately. Nothing but football's been on the tube at my home for the last week.

Anyway. While I waited for my gel to finish running, I thought I'd check the f-list.

And... good things, man!

1. The merry_smutmas reveal is up, and my guess as to my Secret Santa is correct: glockgal created the utterly fabulous One particular morning for me. If you haven't already seen it, go take a peek. It's not work safe, but it'll get you worked up! (Just as a warning for any new friends, the art in question is a piece of smokin' hot goodness with explicit Fred/Harry/George slash.)

Tonight, perhaps, if I get home at a decent hour, I'll go over my fic and post it at twinspiration.

(Heh. Ya know, if you look at the tags for the fest, you realize that Fred/George only appears once, but Fred/George/other appears three times. Do they only get naughty with a third party, in most readers' eyes? I'd love to think about that, in terms of what feels comfortable for twincest as a pair vs. in a threesome.)

2. Some anonymous person put my name in the love meme. ♥

Happy birthday to septembergirl80 today, and to the_con_cept tomorrow. I wish both of you a healthy, happy, successful day and new year.

( Love for Lisa )