So I unexpectedly left with friends a couple of days after I came back and didn't have Internet access, which means I now just came back and have to catch up with everything and everyone after I didn't even have the time to do it ten days ago. A couple of things:

- The CSI Lyrical Challenge is officially over, but since I came back later than I had first planned, I won't have the stories up until Monday, which means anyone who hasn't yet sent their submission has two more days to do it. Those who are done can start posting now if they want to, or wait until all stories will be revealed. I'll make an 'official' announcement on Monday, of course, but before that I want to thanks everyone who participated. You all rock muchly.

- Something went wrong with Crack Van, since I wasn't given posting access, so, *shrug* I sent them an e-mail asking what the problem was, but they haven't answered yet. I don't even know if someone else is posting recs or not, so I guess I'll just post mine here.

- re: Duet: I love love love David Hewlett/Rodney. Love. More to come later, on how much and why I love him so, but yes. Love.

- I've been watching old episodes of Degrassi Junior High, and it saddens me to realize that a lot of the kids were really bad actors. I mean, I remember Can't Live With 'em being sad and powerful and true, and now, save for a couple of scenes, all I can think is that Neil was just extremely bad and awkward as Orphaned!Wheels. OTOH, Joey, I am happy to report, still rocks as much as he did twenty years ago.

And now, I'm off to watch The Little Mermaid, for which I've had a craving since I saw the sea the other day. I haven't yet given up my childhood hope that we will all one day be changed into mermaids, you know. Under the sea...

So I got home this morning to find a notification [Bad username: from crack_van] in my inbox reminding me that I signed up for CSI recs God knows how many months ago, and that my turn has finally come.

Damn. Damn damn damn.

I don't have a specific list, I have no idea which stories have already been recced, I have a gigantic pile of feedback to send on recent-ish (read: a couple of months old, or more) stories that I can't very well rec before I send said feedback, and August has already started.

Damn.

To follow, a short description of my trip (read: whining about how my sun allergy started acting up and forced me to use anti-histamines, to which I'm also allergic), possible comments on SG1 and SGA once I get my hands on them, and general catching up. Not before a full 25 hours, though, which is the time I estimate I'll need to go look through the Crack Van memories and compile the list of recs.

Damn

So I've packed enough clothes to last me three months, even though I'll be back in seven days. I have about 24 hours of music in CDs, 100 Mb worth of fics and books on my palm (thank God they weigh much less on it than they do on computers), a dozen DVDs and half a dozen of 'real' books, so hopefully I won't die of boredom. And! I found out there's a Casino there (wherever 'there' is), so I know I'll spend at least one night playing Blackjack while drinking whiskey and losing all of my money. Good times in perspective.

Have fun, everyone, and I'll see you next week.

Okay. Is this legit? Because I know they tend to downplay those kind of news -- and it's not like they found a permanent cure, after all -- but this is still pretty big, and it's the first time I've heard of it. I did a rapid search on Google news and got nothing, but the website appears to be true, so... *shrug*

New drug blocks HIV from entering cells

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Still haven't watched SG1, but I re-watched Letter From Pegasus, and it led me to think about Sheppard's family, which I always believed from Rising and on that he had none of. So many stories use the 'big fight with parents' background, though, that I was starting to wonder if I'd missed something, but the "Not all of us do" in his message to Sumner's family really indicated to me that he was one of those people. And do we know for certain that his father was in the military? Because I have yet to see one fic in which he isn't, and I can't for the life of me remember when/if that was ever mentioned.

*taps fingers rhytmically on the keyboard*

How long until SG1 & SGA air? And how long until the torrents are up?

*goes back to tapping fingers*

And in RL-ish news, I found out today that I apparently agreed at some unknown poiont in time to travel for a week with my mother starting this Sunday morning, and that the place we will stay at ("somewhere up North", apparently) has no TV. Cue panicked reaction, ranting about how we must bring our own tv and a dvd player and please, please, pretty please, let there be Internet access there. But of course there isn't, so I'll be MIA from this Sunday to the one after that, only able to relay on my palm for fics and music. These will be some sad, sad days indeed.

Several people did this back when Moebius first aired, but none of the versions I've seen satisfied me because I want to believe that the team we saw at the end of Moebius is ours, and for that the one we saw at the beginning has to be an alternate version. So ( here's my diagramCollapse )

And here's the the explanation: in black, we have Timeline 1, the one from which all others are diverted. Keep in mind that pre 10000 b.c. Timelines 1, 2, 3 and 4 are all the same, and that, as far as we know, Alt 1 and our timeline (T4) are pretty similar until 2003 (their version of Rising). In 2003 of T1 (their Rising/Before I Sleep), Elizabeth went back in time and thus created T2. Until 2004, T2 is basically the same as our own timeline except for a couple of things (no fishes). But in 2004 (Moebius 1), SG1 goes back to 5000 b.c. and thus creates a new timeline, T3, in which the 'new' SG1 team (Moebius 2) was born. Of course, pre 5000 b.c., T2 and T3 were the same just as T3 and T4 were the same before 4095 b.c.

Then in 2004 of T3, the new SG1 team goes back to around 4095 b.c. and that creates T4, our timeline, in which we and the characters we know were born and live, and in which there are fishes.

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To come soon, if I don't manage to sleep: version 2.0 including timelines from 2010 and 1969. Oh, and I probably got the dates wrong: 10000 b.c. was probably 8000 b.c., and I can't remember if it was 5000 b.c. or 3000 b.c., but you get the general idea.

ETA: Version 1.1 including 2010, is up. ( More explanation.Collapse )

Edited yet again to add some more stuff about 1969. ( Click me!Collapse )

New CSI spoilers (scroll down to the end of the page, in the last few paragraphs).

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I've finally gotten around to watching SG1, and my feelings are mixed. On one hand, I can't say I disliked it -- it had some funny moments, the introductions of the new guys was very smooth, the premise was interesting, etc.

But on the other hand, it felt like I was a long-time TNG fan watching DS9 in hope to catch some O'Brien and Worf scenes. Of the remaining cast members, only Teal'c and Daniel were really present, and we had two completely new ones and one not-completely-new, but still not original and very present one. It was a little too much, you know? ( Rest of the spoilery thoughts in there.Collapse )

I realized yesterday while reading a new SGA fic that it's been weeks since I've read anything anyone on my flist wrote -- stories, you realize, not entries (though I haven't been checking as much this week as I usually do, and almost not commenting at all). And I don't know why that it, exactly, but I suspect I have a harder time getting into a story when I 'know' the author, because I keep thinking about the fact that I'll have to say something if I read the story, and what if I don't like it, or what if I can't find something suitable to say, or if I forget to feedback for whatever reason? And I get nervous, and I analyze each sentence carefully, and then it's not much fun anymore, you know? Clearly that's a problem, in no small part because a lot of talented people are on my flist and I want to read good fics, damnit, but there you go.

And now, off to watch the third season of 24. Why did I stop watching after the second season, again? This show rocks.

1. Am already incredibly bored with all things HP. Yeah, that didn't last long.

2. The word 'I' bores me greatly tonight. Shall try not to use it in this entry.

3. Have spent the whole afternoon painting my heater in bright yellow. Result is pleasing, but activity itself was a bitch. Have only put six drops of yellow on the white walls, though, and none on the floor, so this is considered a success. We will ignore the stained cushion which really was kind of ugly, anyway.

4. SGA from torrentspy.com isn't one nice avi file but lots of little files, which annoys me greatly. Have no idea what I should download to make them work (probably WinRar, right?), and am too tired to try and find out. Hear McKay is still as wonderful and McShep still as slashy, so that'll suffice for now.

5. Am getting SG1, because people are all omg so GOOD!, but reserve the judgment to hate this new and improved version of SG1.2 SG1.4 -- forgot about the whole ascended thing and Parker Lewis, there.

6. Yeah, 'I' is kind of useful, isn't it?

7. Caught an episode of QAF US tonight, and realized that my hatred for this show was absolutely not as necessary as I previously thought it was. The UK version was a beautiful, beautiful thing, but this isn't bad, it's just soapy porn, isn't it? And fun porn, too. The only really good looking one is Brian, but Justin isn't too awful to look at either, and though I absolutely do not care for the other characters, the two of them will probably be enough to make me keep catching the reruns.

8, 9, 10... Many, many other things, about my love for Quantum Leap, and the way my genderswitch-CSI fic is just completely stuck and driving me insane, and how I keep dreaming about my teeth falling off and spending my days clutching at my jaw but too scared to go to the dentist, and the unwashable yellow paint I have all over my body and face that's keeping me from going out and other such things, but the night is more than half gone already, and I need to get some sleep.

Oh, but before that, meme-time. 'Twill be short, as the only fictional character I could fall in love with would be Rodney McKay. Our meeting would be wonderful: he'd yell at me, I'd cower, then I would dye my hair blonde and come back to yell at him. We would spend our days drinking coffee and eating chocolate while talking about numerous theories -- he would, of course, think me stupid, but as I passed the Mensa test he would probably tolerate me. We would have wild sex in his lab, then he would scurry off to write some equations -- still naked and all genius-y and hothothot, and I would jump him again. The perfect love story, really. I'd even let Sheppard join us from time to time.

Yeah, be glad I have hatred of Mary-Sues.

Took me six hours, but I've finally finished the damn book. ( Nothing original under that, but all very spoilery.Collapse )

And I'm an awful fan, but SGA will have to wait until tomorrow. Avoiding flist until then because I don't want to be spoiled for that either.

So it was a tie between re-reading Order of the Phoenix and re-watching the second half of the first season of SGA in preparation of new canon for my shiny fandoms and, unsurprisingly, Rodney beat out Harry. And really, until the Boy Wonder grows a spine, gains some IQ points and stops boring us to death with his mortal-enemy-blah-blah-blah-dead-parents-blah-blah-whatever, there's no way he'll win that battle.

That said, I'll be heading out in eleven hours to buy the damn book, because I want to make sure Rowling didn't get any funny idea and decided to kill either Ron or Hermione before they could get together and live happily ever after, because ohmyGod first almost-canon het ship since Sleeping Beauty eeeee!!!!!!!!!!

In less fannish news, the gin-induced headache of Tuesday evening is still here, and I had the (seemingly at the time) excellent idea to only eat fried cheese for dinner. A lot of fried cheese. And if you were planning to do that one of these days? Yeah, opt for potatoes instead.

Gin = V. Bad

Man, why did no-one warn me that the stuff tasted like crap and would give me the hangover from hell? Bleh + Ouch. Definitely sticking to whisky from now on.

Am v. v. ded right now, and I have weird sort-of-flashbacks in which I can see myself declaring to my friends my love for all things Verlaine & Rimbeau and their love story while eating orange juice-coated cheese and jam and reading poetry upside down, and then -- and this is the scary part -- agreeing to go to the swimming pool tomorrow which, eek! so I shall go and get some sleep to forget all of this.

But before that, here's a CSI Lyrical Twin Challenge announcement, by yours truly: I've sent out all of the lyrics, so if you signed up and haven't received them yet, comment here to let me know.

And now I go die some more.

The OC is coming back early this year -- link to Kristin's chat on Eonline, contains spoilers for The OC and other shows. If you only want the good news without being spoiled, then you just need to know that it's coming back before baseball season on *August 29*. That means we'll probably have to suffer through a gigantic hiatus after that, but man, less than two months to wait? I'm in Heaven! Except I'm a moron, and it's a another show premiering that night. No date set for The OC, but at least it's definietly coming back early, hopefully by mid-September or so.

I was hit by a plot bunny in the middle of last night, for SGA -- and it seemed so good and all very obvious, but when I woke up this morning and remembered it, it suddenly became even more obvious that this should be a SG1 story and not an Atlantis one. And now, I'm sitting here and trying to think of further details, and it's Nick and Gil & Co. coming to mind instead of Jack, Daniel, Sam and Teal'c. I didn't think it could work at first because the main plot requires supernatural/alien things to happen, but I think I've figured out a way to make all of it happen in the normal world, and I just don't know anymore. I may very well end up writing the three versions just to avoid making a choice.

I'm watching a TV movie (with tragic! infant! death!) starring a young Christopher Meloni who's sporting, would you believe it, hair! It's all spiky and covers almost all of his head, and it makes him look so very un-Keller. I suspect he's the one who killed the baby, though, because the poor wife is so obviously innocent and wrongly accused, and so he could end up in jail, having to bunk with, hmm, Chris Thormann, maybe? Who was obviously the one to kill Ryland instead of Tim.

Cue Grand Love Story of Oz: the Remix. Voiced over by Michael, one of the famous plane crash survivors who, upon being rescued, admitted to the murder of a certain "Locke".

Ahh, the joys of crossover (prison) love. Makes me want to request a new Sim, prison game just to play it all out.

Title: Essence
Fandom: NCIS
Rating: light R

Many thanks to the wonderful pinn2480 for making this much better than it originally was, and even agreeing to work on the last version in the middle of last night -- though I certainly hope it was only 'late evening' for her. All remaining mistakes are of course mine.

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