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Jessa v4.0

Quoth Ogden Nash:

The cow is of the bovine ilk;
one end is moo, the other milk.

Well, you know.

I haven't updated in a long time, and it is the worst thing in the world to update with this. LiveJournal used to be my friends and my life, so I need and want to share this with you.

( My sister Mara was killed on December 18.Collapse )

A poem Mara recently wrote -

Guillemot Legend

In an Inuit story,
A sorcerer decides to punish the villagers.
He turns all the children into birds
and away they fly, on a long journey across day, night, night, day,
into an unknown land.

In your mother’s house,
we loved to stand in front of the mirror to see whose hair was darker.
Mine was!
You were jealous, but to your credit, you turned it into a joke:
For two weeks you called me Crow.

No, we don’t grow up.
We grow unknowable, winged. We turn into another species.
These days when I see a crow— her oily smarts, her mouth in a dead thing, inspiring a general sense of unease—
I think, “Sister, I know if there were a way back
We would be long gone by now.”

I have literally never cared less about the Golden Globes than I do this year.

Except.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
a. NICOLE KIDMAN HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN
b. JESSICA LANGE AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM
c. SIENNA MILLER THE GIRL
d. JULIANNE MOORE GAME CHANGE
e. SIGOURNEY WEAVER POLITICAL ANIMALS


JESSICA LANGE MOTHERFUCKERS. I've been breathing award season her way since the second or third episode this year. People who thought she was good last season should be falling down in the aisles in a slain-in-the-spirit way, because she's been so. damn. amazing. this season. American Horror Story! It's better than Glee because everything is!

YES. It is I, Jessa, back from the dead (where "the dead" = "caring too much about my job") to make a very important post!


From my "How I Met Your Mother" Yuletide classic, "The No 'No Homo' Code":

"Excuse me," Barney said, neatly crossing one leg over the other. "Having recently lost the daily pleasure of my lips, I understand your hesitation, Scherbatsky - or should I say, Scher-you're-not-sick-with-envy-atsky?"

"You shouldn't," Marshall said.


From "The Over-Correction," this week's episode of "How I Met Your Mother":

TED: And where's the worst abuser of my generosity, Barney? Or should I say, BORROW-ny?

MARSHALL: You should never say that, and I think he's out with Patrice.



I'M JUST SAYING. CHARACTERIZATION, MOTHERFUCKER; I HAVE YOU.

What if I came back to LJ in no fannish capacity whatsoever? Hmmm.

frausorge, is it your birthday?! Happiest of birthdays to you, my dear! Your postcard made me smile and is currently gracing my fridge. ♥

And a happy belated to beloved joyfulseeker, and thanks for YOUR postcard! I hope to see you sometime before the winter months, but if not, then I look forward to seeing you in Portland over the winter months.

Man, it's been a long time since I updated, and stuff has happened, but I lack energy at the moment. Maybe soon.

AO3 has nothing for From Beginning To End or Harry and Max. I feel so let down.

Today I got up, put my dishes away, went to dance class, went grocery and necessity-shopping, did 2 loads of laundry and put the clothes/sheets/towels away, washed more dishes, made chicken stock, swept and Swiffered my kitchen floor, vacuumed my bedroom floor, made asparagus and Arborio rice for dinner, and watched The Aviator. Leonardo DiCaprio's extra-special talent is his physicality. He inhabits his roles so bodily that I can forgive the boyishness when it's uncalled for.

God almighty, did I used to want to be an actress. At least once a month, someone random - someone at work, or in my dance class, or someone I'm interacting with at a store - will ask me if I do stand-up or improv. It kills me, this reinforcement that I could have, I could have, I could have, I could have, I could have.

I heard "Somebody That I Used To Know" on 102.7 KIIS FM today. Say WHAT?

ETA1: I so called Leslie Knope as winning the March Madness Fandom Steel Cage Elimination this year.
ETA2: I called Sara today to tell her about Sandoz crying to be let in because a squirrel was glaring at him and scolding him from a tree right outside my door. Seriously, this squirrel verbally beat Sandoz up. He was chattering angry and kneading his squirrel paws on a branch, and Sandoz fled inside super fast. My cat, ladies.

Spoiler Tags: Plots no longer ruined!
How many times have you visited your favorite TV show fan community only to find someone has carelessly posted an unknown plot detail without the courtesy of a spoiler alert? Release 90 is here to help: You can now add spoilers to an entry through use of the < lj-spoiler > tag. Though similar to an lj-cut, an lj-spoiler does not require a new page to load when clicked. Clicking the link will expand the hidden text inline. Plus, it works on both entries and comments. You can customize the text by using the format < lj-spoiler text="”Custom" text="”Custom" goes="goes" >. There is also a new button for lj-spoiler in the Rich Text Editor that can be used in the same way the lj-cut button is used.

Latest LJ update, I think I like you! So yeah, the end of Dawson's Creek, right? [You know what happens?] JEN DIES.

Also, this is my bad-ass new personal trainer.