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I has a new profile! With lists of stuff!

TfSB Timeline Questions: This is mainly to remind myself to scour through Nanowrimo 2009 to answer a few questions, but I wouldn't say no to help because ye gods, do I not want to flip through that mess of typos and embarassingly missing words and suchlike. and to think it's been printed and bound like that, and what's worse! downloaded like that! And what's even worse, professionally published like that. *facepalm* Proof read and edit, Sickle, even if you don't want to read the work for a few months; it's embarrassing. ( Read more... )


30 Days of Doctor Who: Day 25 – Favorite Who Actor ( Read more... )

30 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 25 - Something that you wish happened but didn't ( Read more... )

40 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 25 - Favorite kiss/love/sex scene? ( Read more... )


Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
True Blood: ( Read more... )
Human Target: ( Read more... )
Heroes: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Philip Fry
** Strictly and buddhistically speaking he's not a god so much as the ultimate teacher.

Friday's Entry: ( Read more... )

Saturday's Entry: ( Read more... )

Monday's Entry: ( Read more... )

Today's Entry: ( Read more... )

Dreams: ( Read more... )

Doctor Who Review, "Cold Blood" ( Read more... )

Doctor Who Review, "Vincent and the Doctor": ( Read more... )

Meme - 30 Days - Day 28 → This year, in great detail: ( Read more... )

Quotes of the Day: living_by_luck, re: Lost finale

Someone, somewhere said:

If you watched it for the characters, you loved [the finale]. If you watched it for the mythology and the simple unanswered questions, you felt like you got conned.

Anon and chaosvizier

If anyone pisses me, I'll curse them with a long and horrible murder by an 'Extremely Inefficient Weapon'." - ANONYMOUS

("Why a spoon, cousin?" - "Because it will HURT MORE!" -CV)

Links of the Day:

Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Lost: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
Watchmen: ( Read more... )
True Blood: ( Read more... )
Jackie Earle Haley: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


Stars, "Heart"

Life in Sickledom, the Abridged Version: Easter Vigil (3 hour Mass! 4 hour total!) last night was exciting, awesome and then OMGMAKEITSTOPITSMIDNIGHT. Easter benediction today. Pope sightings galore. Also, lamb and chocolate egg. Mmmm.

Fandom in Sickledom, the Abridged Version: Still dying to watch latest SPN - WHY IS EVERYONE SO SAD?!? - and flailing because didn't realize that Ashes to Ashes and Doctor Who started up again.


Meme: The Colours of My Life via oakenguy ( Read more... )


Links of the Day:

Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Lost: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
Ashes to Ashes: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Heavingdeadcats, here

Accomplishments of the Day: Wrote a cover letter and sent in an application (conservation research analyst). Went outside. Listened to made_of_fail_pc. Lost viewing in the immediate future.

Meme - Flickr Questions: ( Read more... )

Meme - 30 Days - Day 09 → A photo you took: ( Read more... )

Videos of the Day: Tim Minchin, "Dark Side" - Holy piano solo, Batman! ( Embedded )

Tim Minchin - "So Fucking Rock" - Holy air drums, air guitar, lip-synching and piano-playing, Batman! ( Embedded )

Links of the Day:

Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
Lost: ( Read more... )
Random Fandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Chance, Human Target

Today I signed up for a week-long ski trip with the international students, because it would be good for me to be social, and I'll never again have the opportunity for an event that cheap, and because my parents think I should.

Skiing scares the shit out of me, I'll have to say. It's the speed and the thought of falling downhill, like there's a precipice at the end of the hill and I'm just going to fall off. I can ski decently well, but it feels a bit like I'm about to freakin' die of fear.

The fear of speed is a lovely little psychological scar from the time I was riding a particular bastard of a horse ( Read more... ) So that's why the sensation of speed freaks me out, and why I don't quite enjoy skiing. But I've signed up and I'm going to go and hopefully make friends and have people to hang out with for a week somewhere in France. And two days after that, in March, I'm hopping over to Rome again, because I've got to experience Easter Mass with the Pope and all that jazz.


Apart from that, I've skimmed through 420 job placements in the biology section of a search page, eaten cake, watched Nightmare on Elm Street 2 and failed at life.


I was trolling through my old entries yesterday looking for stuff, when I came across the entry for March 21, 2008 and I realized, with horror and disappointment and defeatism, that I'm at the same place as that post. Almost two years later, and I'm in the same fucking corner.


Meme: Comment to this post and I will tell you a reason why I like you/love you/think you're fucking awesome.

Meme - 30 Days - Day 06 - Whatever tickles your fancy: ( GIFs )


Video of the Day: Craig Ferguson speaks on his past problems as an alcoholic and why he will not ridicule Britney Spears and her shaved head crisis. ( Embedded )

Alternatively, a happy animated video of Nom Nom Noms. ( Embedded )


Links of the Day:

Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Watchmen: ( Read more... )
Lost: ( Read more... )
Random Fandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* "Loneliness is Better When You're Not Alone", Hello Saferide (listen to it)

A horrible day was had by Sickle.

Firstly, there was the Waking Up At UnGodly Hours, followed by the Interminable Waiting of the Doctor's Waiting Room. Seriously, why give me an appointment if I'm going to be taken in half an hour later? And this appointment was just half an hour after they opened. Just how behind can you get in that little time?

Anyway, Doctor's appointment was had and we've confirmed that my face isn't going to fall off in a horrible mess any time soon, and that a little creme will clear the eczema right up. Yays.

Cue the Trial of the Pharmacy. My doctor sent the prescription directly to the pharmacy "for convenience". (Sear those words into your brains, readers, because you'll have to recognize their bloody corpses in the morgue a few sentences from now.) So I go to the pharmacy after my doctor's appointment, and they don't have the prescription. The girl working there says that prescriptions sometimes take up to two days to make it there, which is either utter bullshit (because some people really need their medicine right the fuck now) or she said days instead of hours, which doesn't make linguistic sense, especially since the word for hour in Dutch is uur (and the words for day are similarly alike). So I go again later that afternoon. Again, they don't have my prescription. I go home, call the doctor's office and get them to re-fax the prescription. I go to the pharmacy a third time and get my meds. If I'd been given the prescription from the get-go, this could all have been avoided.

In the afternoon I also tried to sell my look-brand-spankin'-new books at the second hand store I went to earlier this week, armed with the knowledge that the owner would be there today. I lay the books on the table, he glances at their covers and restacks them, then says, "I'm not interested." I doubt he even read the titles. I even had a Hugo and Nebula winning SF book - The Left Hand of Darkness which is a Good Book and he was probably all, "If it ain't yella I ain't buyin'." To which I say, curse you, Bookman!

I was really upset over this dismissal, though. But that's just because my hormones are in full drive and I'm all wibbley and angry at the same mother-lovin' time and this makes for strange and sad and frustrated times.

Anyway, my CV's all done now, looking awesome and professional only because poisoned_sleep is a wonder and helped me out tons with hands-on innitiative. So that's good. (Except in regards to poisoned_sleep, where adjectives like awesome and amazing and astounding are more apt. Alliteration ftw \o/)

To make up for the suckitude that was the day, I've been listening to my old Rayne fanmixes (Firefly's River/Jayne, that is). I made pancakes for dinner (which were on-nom-niscious but not near as filling as they ought to've been). I have a load of Doctor Who related stuff to watch - deleted scenes, commentaries, Sarah Jane Adventures with Ten cameos.

I've also been reading through watchfic_dir and having an utter blast. I love the fic I'm finding! (See epic fanfic list of loooove.) I think I have a new OT3 (if I ever had one - I think I only ever OT3ed Peter/Gabrielle/Sylar of Heroes, which may or may not actually count as a threesome at some points in Lana @ capn_mactastic's fics). Anyway, Dan/Laurie/Rorschach is the threesome to end all threesomes, especially in post-plot when they're all shacked up together. I mean, Dan/Laurie is canon and Dan/Rorschach was very slashtastic in the movie (both restrain the other from rash fighting moves, they were crime-bustin' partners, Dan's NoooOOOOoooo!, Rorschach's bean-thievery, it just goes on and on). Also, the dynamics are fascinating, because of course one partner is all "No! Sex bad! Impure!" but caves, and another is all "I'm taking the reins and flying with it" and the third is all pudgy and squishy and adorable.


( Dreams! With giant shoes, giant spiders, patty-cake otters, evil angels, Freddy fucking Kreuger, pianos and missing keys! )


Links of the Day:

Watchmen: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Lost: ( Read more... )
Heroes: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Sandman, Neil Gaiman

Today we continued proud tradition of Sickle Failing At Mornings. I did, however, manage to recycle and photocopy selections off of two books I'm going to sell second-hand (although one's in perfect condition - the other is already a second-hand). Then I tried to work on the lion mane's article, but failed due to having papers I needed be in my house, whereas I was not.

The books are The Mammoth Book of Monsters (some good stories, some appalling, and one - "Rawhead Rex" - burnt disgusting images in my brain**) and Deprivers (brilliant concept*** which dies horribly along the way, especially with a complete abandonment of the main character for other POV's - not a multiple POV-book, no: abandonment - the first and last part of which would make an awesome movie****).

I've also tried cleaning up another corner of my room, which translates to my staring hopelessly at a myriad tangle of pantyhose I didn't even know I had - my mother showers me with the bastards - wondering where the hell to stow them so I could use them without them strangling me in my sleep like horrific disembodied octopuses.

Then I watched the first bit of Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut because obsessions are healthy. I'm behind on The Daily Show and am not upset over this. Must rectify, of course, because I do love Jon Stewart.

I've also been listening to A Perfect Circle's Counting Bodies Like Sheep (To The Rhythm of the War Drums) thanks to darling seschat's Best 25 of 2009 Fanmix. Upon first listening to it, I went 0.0 then *flail* then OMG! Because it seemed perfect for The Master. And now, while yes, it is Masterly (war drums, yo!), it's also perfect for Freddy Krueger (yes I will watch the classic movies as recommended by queenanthai and yes, before even thinking about watching the remake, Jared Padalecki and Jackie Earle Haley notwithstanding). I've also found a brilliant fanvid of it, featuring Schindler's List (major WARNING for distressing and upsetting visuals). Also, the song's really really awesome all by itself and makes me want to thump around the room in a bizarre modern-dance fashion like a crazy wraith on crack.

Meme: via qthewetsprocket:

India Foxtrot Yankee Oscar Uniform Charlie Alpha November Uniform November Delta Echo Romeo Sierra Tango Alpha November Delta Tango Hotel India Sierra, Charlie Oscar Papa Yankee Alpha November Delta Papa Alpha Sierra Tango Echo India Tango Tango Oscar Yankee Oscar Uniform Romeo Lima India Victor Echo Juliet Oscar Uniform Romeo November Alpha Lima. :) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Mike Echo Mike Echo

Links of the Day:

Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
The Sarah Connor Chronicles: ( Read more... )
Sookie Stackhouse Novels / True Blood: ( Read more... )
Random Fandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* A Perfect Circle, "Counting Bodies Like Sheep"
** Baptism-by-urination. With drinking. What's a dismembered priest to that image?
*** Hi Rogue!
**** Blue-glowing people for the win!

Life: I has lion maps! Now I just need to calculate the distances the furballs covered, do some graphs, bang my head against Access some more for new maps and then mellow out in the glory of a job well done. For about two seconds, after which I edit, prepare the databases and work on the presentation.

I called Ma today (missed call from last night) and it was Not Good but then it was Okay. I'd say more but it's already 2 am and I'm a fucking moron for staying up this late. Maybe tomorrow, when I need to vent.

Also, it's very, very windy and the universe picks right the fuck now for something in the neighbour's balcony to start pouding away loudly. Argh. I want to sleep without random annoying noises! Woe.

Nano: Still 249 words shy of today's minimum. *sigh* Icarus is finally saying he's an angel, though, so that's a plus.

( Excerpt )

39759 / 50000 words. 80% done!

Meme Of the Day: Quiz: Which Supernatural Angel Are You? ( Read more... )

Music of the Day "Shatner of the Mount", Fall on Your Sword - "Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain. Why is he climbing a mountain?" Remix of win. ( Embedded )

Quote of the Day: Douglas Coupland, Eleanor Rigby, here

The thing about meat with me, though, is how it speaks to me about the human body. All of us are stuck inside our meaty bodies. I've always imagined that regular people are happy to be inside their bodies, whereas lonely people yearn to ditch their carcasses. I suspect lonely people wish they could forget the whole meat-and-bone issue altogether. We're the people most likely to believe in reincarnation simply because we can't believe we were shackled into our meat in the first place. Lonely people want to be dead, yet we're still not quite ready to go - we don't want to miss the action; we want to see who wins next year's Academy Awards. More to the point, the lonely, like all humans, yearn to meet that somebody who'll make us feel better about being trapped inside our species' meat-and-bone soul containment system. Oh God, I sound like a prison warden.

Links of the Day:

thedailyshow's Not Funny: Reporter detained in Iran for ties to the Daily Show
Critics Fear 'Twilight' Books Send Disturbing Message To Girls - Wow, the crude summary for the series is rather shocking.

Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* "The Icarus Wind", Thea Gilmore

Life: Productivity was reached! I'm half-way through making maps of all the lions showing their home ranges. Tomorrow, calculating areas and, hopefully, getting the maps presentable with all that fancy stuff like legends and titles and shit. I hope to get some writing on the discussion done this weekend, or at the very least stick on some error bars (stupid science). Oh, also? I was full of uncoordinated fail at Zumba class today, but eventually had fun regardless.

Nano: Pending. It's late, I've just had dinner and I want to mellow before getting down to it. Granted, I also want to continue the going-to-sleep-early thing, which is...not technically going to happen seeing as I'm past the "early" concept. But! Uh...Heroes, then sleep, and I may just say "Epic 'nah'" to Nano for today. There's the weekend, after all.

Video of the Day: Ask a Ninja - "What's the difference between ninjas and crazy people?" ( Embedded )

Links of the Day:
Random Fandom and General: ( Read more... )
Supernatural: ( Maaaasive and unending, like SamnDean's angst )


* Jon Stewart

Today's been pretty quiet: woke up late, groceries, lunch-lunch (as opposed to my weekly fare of snackified-lunch), internetting... I also spent four hours going through and chucking out two boxes of stuff, dragged out from underneath the bed. Ye gods, did I have random and useless papers stowed away. (I may be keeping a few of these papers, because I am, at heart, a pack-rat.) I also had coffee, which made me feel energetic for a while, but then the magic devolved into nausea and stomach pain. It's still going strong. Bleh.

I finished Kung Fu Dunk yesterday (YouTube is awesome!). I really liked the movie, although it's not anything amazing, story-wise. Aw hell, I loved the movie. What's not to love? It's funny, has all sorts of martial arts ass-kicking ranging from the hilarious to the gorgeous, an adorable leading man, and, while being partly about basketball, doesn't fall into a sports-movie slot.

I watched Supernatural 5x01 yesterday, and I swear, I have never giggled, sporfled, laughed and paused-and-ranted so much whilst watching one. ( A few spoilery comments. )

I've got Carrie as this weekend's horror movie. A bit excited about it because it's got all this hype and I'm finally watching it, but I'm not expecting anything spectacular.

There's an international student party at a disco in Leiden tonight - starting in half an hour - but I don't have anyone to go with, still feel like I'm going to hurl on my shoes and, most importantly, don't feel like going at all.


Links of the Day:

( SPN 5x01 Reactions )
( SPN Fanvids )
( Random Fandom - Icons )
( Random Fandom - General )
( Random Livejournal )
( Random Webdom )


* Supernatural, 5x01