Spain has not won a competitive game against Italy since 1920!*

Omg, guys! I've just been completely sucked in by this night's Spain/Italy match. Forget about nail-biting, this was full-on chew your fingers off and get started on the forearms. So. Tense. No goals - none - the entire match, although Spain had like a dozen or more almost-goals (Italy a few less). And then there was the prologa - um, extension** - and still no goals. So we go to freaking penalities or PKP*** and I was just - zomg. Gah! And then we score, and they score, and then some more scoring and all the while I'm just standing there in the Bad Habits pub with Elisa, surrounded by smoke and Spaniards, Italians and your occasional Other Nationality, neck aching from staring at the closest of five - five - screens, my hands inching up over my chin, mouth, and then nose like it's some sort of horror movie and I'm just thinking, "Come on, Casillas, you beautiful boy****, be the awesome goalie you know you are." And then we won! 4-2! We won! I say again, we won! We had to wait until the very last penalty, but we won! Oh, the relief! The shaking knees!

I'm so excited and happy and I don't even care about football!

And omg, we play Russia next. Russia! They were scary-good yesterday! (However, we did beat them already. *firm nod*)


* Spain up against 88 years of curses, omens: History firmly on Italy's side by Bob Lenarduzzi
** My knowledge of football terms is mainly limited to spanish, alas.
*** It's what Elisa calls it.
**** Born 1981. "Boy" it is.

Yes you are, you're brilliant.*

Yesterday was a Good Day - and yes, it really does deserve the capital letters. I was unexpectadly invited to a BBQ ( Read more... )

And then there was the football, but you have my previous post for that.

And today I watched Doctor Who: Turn Left. ( Read more... )

Links of the Day:
Print Driver Covnerter and PDF Creator - .doc -> .pdf covnerters
Lost: Top 30 "WTF?!" Moments
Speaklolspeak.com
calapine's Doctor Who Fanfic: Tapestry (Doctor/River)
darthsemicolon's Doctor Who Essay: Rare pairings month: Nine/Martha (The Constant Doctor) and unfinished fic.
the_constant - Lost/Discworld Desmondd/Penny AU fic.
Calon Song's Webpage - Music galore!
7 Incredible Natural Phenomena You've Never Seen
Bad Gods
Cat's Can Fly - Photographic Evidence
lozenger8's Picspam: John Simm - Guh!
Wordle: The "I Believe" speech from Neil Gaiman's "American Gods."
The Jargon File
Lostpedia: Bad Twin - a book in the Lost universe, released as a real life semi-canonical tie-in novel. ( There's this quote )

( Which is very similar in concept to this one by Tim Minear. )

* The Doctor, Turn Left

Once more, with feeling.*

Bear with me, folks, I'm messing about with CSS code, trying to put up a header.

The fact that I have no clue about code in the first place is making things a bit difficult. *sigh*

Edit: Fuck yes! this one finally did it!

.headerimage{
background: #000000 url(http://banner.jpg) no-repeat top center;
padding-top:267px;
}

Where 267 is the height of the banner in pixels.

Now, this one's letting me do some nice touches. And colour names in html is handy. One word of advice, don't do the whole Custom external stylesheet URL thing, just stick the appropriate code into Custom stylesheet.

Now, if only I had a really good banner...


* Common expression.

What is to give light must endure burning.*

Things about Turn Left I forgot to mention:

1) That was totally Persephone's Eavesdown Docks.
2) Doomsday music in Donna scene? Or just that other really sad lone-female-singer one?
3) I think The Help would know English, thanyouverymuch.
4) Donna totally Yattaed after time-and-space travel. ♥

I still can't think of the Italian's and Wilf's salute without breaking out into tears.

ETA: The kind folks over at henrygalelovers are rewatching Ben-centric episodes for the duration of the Lost haitus. We're on 2x14: One of Them now. (Lostpedia's Entry) unstoppablei sums the episode up nicely: I rewatched the episode and sat there the whole time muttering, "Michael Emerson, you are absolutely AMAZING."

ETA 2: I made iconses.


Links of the Day:
unfolded73's Doctor Who: Turn Left Picspam Review
henrygalelovers start coming up with names for themselves ourselves. So far, there's Bunny/Bunnies of Benjamin and Benny/Benji** Bunnies.
teaji's Doctor Who Fanart for Fanfic "Human Nature"
Blogspot: Eric Forbes’s Book Addict’s Guide to Good Books - THE EYES OF MIRIAM BERKLEY (Author Photographer)
Neil Gaiman's Top Ten New Classic Monsters - Weeping Angels at #3
officialgaiman lists the Locus Awards Winners and takes photos of baby raccoons!
amplificathon's Archive: Audiofic
Doctor/Master Fanfic Archive: The Prydonian
best_enemies's Anonymous Porn Meme


* Viktor Frankl
** In my head, I call him Benji and I don't know why. But Benji it is.