Imaginary Gardens

Television Shows I Want to Watch in Their Entirety: ( Read more... )

Television Shows I Want to Watch Most Of: ( Read more... )


* Lee Lovigner

Today was spent running a single errand which involved taking the train to the Hague, then the tram to the ass-end of the city (it was beyond my city map) and slipping along ice fields to the closest DHL to send an envelope bearing a health insurance card. Not counting transport, this stint cost fifty-eight mother-lovin' euros. For an envelope! And last night I scoured the internet looking for courier service that was available in my city or not a ridiculous distance away, like Amsterdam or Rotterdam. *sigh* What can you expect, though: we haven't even got a post office anymore, just kiosks with postage capabilities.

Errand run, I went home and cleaned out my desk's drawers. The trash, oh lord, the trash one can stash!

I've also updated the epic crushes masterlist to add Rorschach, because he's a keeper.

( Photographic and gif. evidence (and spoilers!) as to why there's a part of my cortex (and a puddle of drool on my desk) with his name on it. )


New Music of 2009 ( As best as I can recall - I'm probably missing loads. )


Links of the Day:

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


* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done
** Yes, I can love something I compiled.

Masterlist of Sickle's "Omg, I'm So Obsessed" Crushes:

This is a list of actors, writers and fictional characters whom my brain's latched onto at some point or other. This isn't a list of people I find hot (that list is way longer and does, of course, include some of those listed here). Rather, it's the people I've developed an unhealthy obsession for at some point in my life, who've fascinated me for some reason, who's work I've tracked down like a bloodhound or took over my POV-analysis lobe. In other words, uber-crushes without, necessarily, the sexin'. I'm undoubtably forgetting some.

Below, then, is the list with photos and a brief reason as to the why of the obsession and the person's main features.

WARNING: Will eat your dial-up alive.

Early Youth: ( Read more... )

The Early Teen Years ( Read more... )

The Late Teen Years ( Read more... )

The Early Twenties ( Read more... )

The Late Twenties ( Read more... )


Is there a pattern? A type? ( Read more... )


Video of the Day Merlin Children in Need Special - Bwuahahaha! ( Embedded )

Links of the Day:

Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Misha Collins: ( Read more... )


* Mae West

I hope everyone's start to 2009 went smoothly, or at least passed without too much ado. My first day of the year was spent in a pretty lazy manner, what with the sleeping and eating. Of note, I've checked out the two Kenya travel guides we've borrowed from the library and I've burnt 2 DVDs-worth of stuff out of my 'puter. I feel like tackling a fanvid. (Hey, it could happen.) So that's all good.

That's all, folks. Just posting to give y'all a snuggle.

PS: I'm still all a-glee over my mood theme. ♥

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IMDB's Top 250 movies as voted by our users

Bold the one's that you've watched. (Even if you can't remember it.) I haven't counted the ones I've watched an itty bitty bit of, though. ( Read more... )


Links of the Day:
Lana's Heroes Fanfic: Sleepy Snuggles
sue_denimme's Doctor Who Picspam: The Many (Weird) Faces of Ten
leonidaslion's SPN Fanfic: While You Were Sleeping and request for SPN iconmaker recs
sinister_morgue's Supernatural Icons Tag
On metaquotes, queencallipygos is absolutely hilarious - "...if anything can go wrong in a particularly weird way, I'm going to be the one that it happens to."
My general formula for my students is "Follow your bliss." Find where it is, and don't be afraid to follow it. - Essay by Joseph Campbell
Neil Gaiman interview - He's so young!


* "Shadow of the Day", Linkin Park

I was going to post about the awesomness that was finishing my SBB course and the drinks we had afterwards, and also about my being such a geek that I went to a symposium on a Saturday morning.

However, I've been html-ing LotD for the past 2 hours (and I still have oodleplexes to do), so y'all are going to have to wait a bit more. On the other hand, links! \o/

Epic Links of the Day:
Batman: ( Read more... )
Lost: ( Read more... )
Firefly: ( Read more... )
Heroes: ( Read more... )
TSCC: ( Read more... )
John Simm: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki: ( Read more... )
Random YouTube: ( Read more... )
Trailers: ( Read more... )
Icons: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )
Neil Gaiman: ( Read more... )
News: ( Read more... )
cleolinda: ( Read more... )
qthewetsprocket: ( Read more... )
aelora: ( Read more... )
versaphile: ( Read more... )
ursulav: ( Read more... )
phatmgreeneyes: ( Read more... )


* Jensen Ackles

( YouTube MasterList Link Dump )


Torchwood reactions in previous post.


* Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Things done today:

1) Internetted (thrice)
2) Babbled about Doctor Who finale on livejournal
3) Got put on waiting list for Self study textbooks at library
3b) Chatted happily with both librarian and porter/secretary guy.
4) Sudokued.
5) Ate stuff.
6) Listened to the first half of Neverwhere.
7) Failed at museum-ing because my open hours aren't in synch with the world's.
8) Resolutely did not break into a blubbery wibbly mess. Go me. (But then, I'm not really feeling much of anything most of the time. Not caring, it is of the not good.)

Not a very good list, all things considered. It's days like these that really put one's lifetime into perspective - whether you see it as an hourglass or a giant stack of calendars. Point is, today's been a waste of day, a wasted day. Might as well not have lived this particular day out, and now I'm not getting that time back.

I still desperately want to knit. (And get back to playing the piano, but getting knitting needles is a tad cheaper. And yes, I've tried drawing piano key's but I really do need the sound to relearn piano-playing, not just the visual "fingers go here".) The thing is, I do know how to knit - well, the actual knitting part of it, I can't make anything other than a long strip of knitted yarn. I never learnt how to cast on, because mom always did that for me and never actually did it slowly enough or with enough patience of me to learn it. (Which, you know, sucks.)

Links of the Day:
( Knitting. )


* Carole Berman and Jennifer Lazarus

( Sickle complains. )

I got quoted twice on ljdq! \o/

And while Doctor Who fans reassure me about 4x12, both with evidence and filming sightings, I still, at heart, am chanting versaphile's Giant Bold Capslock.

Also, a bunch of stuff happened yesterday, which was a Good Day, but it's 7:30 and I'm sick and tired and I want to go home. *whine* Yeah, internet went cablooey again at home. But I want to watch the Confidential! *continues to whine* *spasms* *moans dejectedly*

Adding interests longer than 5 words by fooling LJ: e.g. "How I Met Your Mother"

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32;i&#
32;met&#
32;your&#
32;mother

Remove spaces. Stick it to the man LJ.

c/o koperlink here.

( Book Meme 2 )


Links of the Day:
ageless_aislynn's Massive Doctor Who Picspam Review: 2x12 "The Stolen Earth"
YouTube: a kid who looks like David Tennant- "The Truth about David Tennant". - D'aw + Ha!
unfolded73's Doctor Who Picspam Review: 2x12 "The Stolen Earth" Part 1 and Part 2
Guillermo del Toro Interviews on The Hobbit, Hellboy and Gaiman's Death.
wolfma links to Dalek porn. :)
kink_meme_mod's Master List - Ah, reading material galore!
eliade's List of Fan-fiction Kinks, Tropes, and Clichés
Passive-Aggressive Notes.Com
Saying "Thank You" in all the world's languages.
qthewetsprocket's Doctor Who Confidential Picspam - Le squee!


* George Herbert

I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

Today was Market Day, so I went out for a walkabout and ate delicious things in small quantities. ( Read more... )

So I carried all this to De Burcht, which is an old and tiny little fortress on a *gasp* hill. Seriously, it's tiny. And, with the wonders of flickr**, you can see it for yourselves. ( A guided tour. )

...and I've just got back from watching the Netherlands/Russia game*** (1-3) at Einstein's. Damn fine match, and holy smokes are the Russians good. But the Dutch game 'em a hard time, which is nice. No more orange in the streets, alas, as the kids get sent home. However, tomorrow's Spain/Italy. Elisa and I and off to a bar to watch it :)

There's two YouTube videos that I really want to share, and they're totally getting embedded, yo, because they're that awesome. ( Read more... )


Links of the Day:
Lostpedia: Dharmcakra
henrygalelovers requests Ben-centric fiction sites
newbieguide's Doctor Who Post - A collection of LJ communities, by topic.
themonkeycabal's Doctor Who "Silence in the Library" Massive Picspam Review
Wikipedia: Keelhauling
Zoos ask, what do you do with an aged lemur? - Increased longevity in zoo animals and their health.


* Bill Shankly
** I love flickr. So many African wild dog pictures for my paper came from here. So many awesome pictures.
*** Please keep in mind that I don't particularly care about football, or know much about it. Still, European Cup and all.

After a few hours of fiddling with Powerpoint, I now have a title slide. Whoo-to-the-hoo. That should not be the sum total of today's work, but it is. Le suck? Much. I might as well go home and take out my contacts (ye gods, please) and have some supper. I wonder if anyone's eaten the plate of Bananananana cake I left out with a little Eat me! flag-onna-toothpick. (I made two over the weekend, one for the picnic and one for personal consumption.) Going off to a Belgian bar Olivier later with flatmates to say goodbye to Lydia, the Italian on exchange who's leaving the house. I knew her for only a little, but I really liked her and we got along nicely. Shame.

( A list of Stars' songs on YouTube )


* Edward Tufte