these summer nights are hot and still

peridium @ 2013-05-21T17:05:00

2013-05-21T21:05:45Z

Oh my gosh, is anyone still here? Hi, guys.

Nowadays, you can find me on Tumblr at brynmyrddin and on Twitter at ohemperigee. Come, join me on one or both of those places!

transcendental love is greater

2011-11-08T22:41:08Z

I'll probably make a longer entry later to do that meme, but for now:

It's a pretty simple and fun meme, and I haven't done one of these in quite a while. My thread is here.

if I lose everything in the fire, I'm sending all my love to you

2011-07-10T18:50:39Z

Hello, flist! The one perk of my dad coming down yesterday was that I got to take advantage of his car and finally see X-Men: First Class. Which was exceedingly delightful, despite the awkward racism, and I have filled my manpain quota for the next three years (so I guess I'll have to skip the Jon Snow chapters when I finally get my hands on A Dance with Dragons).

So. Tell me, because I know you guys know... where's the fic? :D? The good fic? The long fic, preferably? UST would also be a serious bonus. Point me in the right direction and I will be grateful for eternity!

(Sidebar for anyone who's seen Roswell... wow, it was so disarming to be watching the film and to suddenly see a closeup on Michael Guerin in a helmet looking shocked. And then I couldn't stop seeing him in the background. I WOULD RECOGNIZE THAT BADBOY ALIEN ANYWHERE.)

lured in by the lovely way you keep showing up in mystery

2010-01-24T07:11:36Z

To amuse myself, I took a TV meme from citibyrd.

Name a TV show in which you have seen every episode at least twice:
Avatar: The Last Airbender. Up until I stopped watching How I Met Your Mother, I could have said this for that, too.

Name a (current) show you can't miss:
Well, I don't watch anything as it airs because I have no TV, but I make sure to very quickly watch new episodes of 30 Rock, Community, Modern Family, and American Idol (hush now).

Name an actor that would make you more inclined to watch a show:
Neil Patrick Harris!

Name an actor who would make you less likely to watch a show:
Oh, I don't know. I'm bad at thinking of people I don't like.

Name a show you can, and do, quote from:
So many. So, so many. How I Met Your Mother, 30 Rock, Community, Modern Family, The I.T. Crowd, Lovespring International, The Office...

Name a show you like that no one else enjoys:
Well, most people I talk to say they only enjoy the audition episodes of Idol, when those are always my least favorite part of every season.

Name a TV show which you've been known to sing the theme song:
Half the reason Miles and I watch TV shows is to sing the themes. How I Met Your Mother, 30 Rock, and The Office are our favorites. Doctor Who is fun to whistle along to.

Name a show you would recommend everyone to watch:
Avatar: The Last Airbender. Also, 30 Rock.

Name a TV series you own:
On DVD? Firefly and Avatar: The Last Airbender.

What is your favourite episode of your favourite series?
Yikes, this is a difficult one. I don't know what my favorite series even is. I'll just say that MILF Island, from S2 of 30 Rock, is brilliant.

A show you mean to watch, but you just haven't gotten around to yet:
I have a Notepad document with over forty TV shows I want to watch sometime. Among these are Boston Legal, Psych, Babylon 5... endless variety!

Ever quit watching a show because it was so bad?
I've sort of stopped watching How I Met Your Mother. Apparently it's improved again, but I no longer have the heart.

Name a show you aren't interested in watching, not in the least:
Two and a Half Men. Because it's terrible.

Name a show that's made you cry multiple times:
Criminal Minds has definitely made me cry more than any other TV show ever has-- and I cry a lot at TV shows. Avatar also makes me cry pretty often whenever I watch it.

Oldest TV show you like?
Um... I used to be obsessed with Roseanne.

Newest TV show you like?
Community and Modern Family!

What do you eat when you watch TV?
Sometimes Goldfish or random junk food. Very occasionally we get chicken pot pies from the market and eat those while we watch.

How often do you watch TV?
Pretty much daily.

Do you have a favorite talk show?
Ellen is always the right answer to this question.

What's the last TV show you watched?
The Office.

What's your favourite/preferred genre of TV?
Dramas that are also comedies? Comedies that are also dramas?

What's your least favourite genre of TV?
Reality shows where the point is to manufacture drama and to make everyone involved look like a terrible person.

What was the first TV show you were obsessed with?
Probably Pokemon.

What TV show do you wish you never watched?
I used to watch Fear Factor a lot. Poor decision in retrospect.

What's the weirdest show you enjoyed?
Maybe Lovespring International?

What TV show scared you the most?
I guess probably Criminal Minds.

What is the funniest TV show you have ever watched?
30 Rock, because Tracy Morgan could do or say anything and it would be hilarious.

Which do you think is the best TV series ever made?
I am not knowledgeable enough for this question. I know the best TV show I know and love is Avatar.

Also, I am decreeing that there is meant to be a damn apostrophe in this stupid song title and I shall no longer make the poor apostrophe hide between parentheses. Sean Van Vleet, ihu.

I never knew the taste of blood 'til now

2010-01-05T22:32:02Z

LET'S TALK ABOUT JOSH PECK.

No, wait. LET'S LOOK AT JOSH PECK.

perculious and I have recently discovered that Josh Peck's smile is, in fact, an acceptable alternative to morning coffee and can be used as an alternative energy source powerful enough to heat entire households.

Here we have your basic wild Josh.

Here is your smiling Josh before he lost all that weight. Clearly, the magic smile was unaffected by weight concerns, as it still holds just as much sparkle here.

OH MY GOD.

Seriously. Just ... seriously.

And, of course, the happiest Josh of all.

See?

with their tanks and their bombs, and their bombs and their guns, in your head

2009-11-25T17:31:33Z

This is how I feel about New Moon, having now seen it:

1. I seriously, seriously want to marry Alice Cullen. I mean, I know Jasper got there already and I actually love them, so that's fine. I'm just saying, if she gets tired of him, I'm right here. She is so beautiful and awesome.
2. Good work, Taylor Lautner. Really, just... wow. Way to probably triple in size since the last time.
3. I think the fact that Stephenie Meyer doesn't understand pacing and plot becomes even more evident when you put her stories on the screen.
4. ♥Charlie♥
5. What a terrible, terrible movie. When can I see it again?

The girls behind us were so into it, it was amazing. One of them clapped delightedly every time a werewolf appeared on the screen.

now out of the woods and out in the day, I see there's too many prophets here

2009-11-16T15:04:20Z

Dear How I Met Your Mother:

If tonight's episode is not the greatest fucking episode to ever grace my television screen (well, my computer screen), you and I may very well be through professionally.

That is pretty much all I have to say! Other than, unrelatedly, if you're not watching Modern Family you should be. Same goes for Community.

Less than a week until Thanksgiving break and one day shorter than that makes the time until my nineteenth birthday.

a gathering of angels appeared above my head, they sang to me this song of hope

2009-09-24T02:42:40Z

You can tell I'm avoiding doing work because I'm making a post on my LJ! I think it will be a rather belated post about How I Met Your Mother.

:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

I'm sort of intellectually aware that this was kind of a weird episode, but I can't actually process it because of how happy it made me! I've watched it twice through already and will probably do it a few more times before I'm satisfied.

I'm just so very very pleased that they're doing Barney and Robin right, you know? They're obviously so perfect for each other and so into each other but that doesn't change the basic people that they are (Barnman and Robin! ♥them♥), as it very well shouldn't. They don't realize they weren't lying. :DDDDDD

Oh yeah, and Ted makes me lol forever. I've actually come around to being exasperatedly fond of him, despite it all.

it seemed everlasting that you would always be mine

2009-09-16T14:29:05Z

1. Yesterday I accidentally enraged a male classmate by telling a different male classmate/friend that he shouldn't watch Supernatural, because it's not a good show. The sudden defensiveness was amazing and hilarious! I couldn't stop myself from telling him how he had surprised me with his dudeliness because one generally forgets that initially, SPN's target demographic probably wasn't fangirls. He then whipped out a big notebook full of nothing but his weekly TV schedule and gave it to me. Wow. I put stars next to the ones I approved of! (Bones and-- no lie!-- Suite Life on Deck.)

2. I am so fucking excited for How I Met Your Mother to start up again, it's actually ridiculous. This will be me:

3. To complete the TV theme of this entry, I have been watching 30 Rock recently! I'm about halfway through the first season. It's so good, flist.

and now that we're done I'm gonna show you tonight

2009-09-07T17:51:49Z

I get really overinvested in fictional things. (I am unsure as to whether this is one of my best qualities or one of my worst.) This combined with my tendency to cry at the drop of a hat at any sort of moving scene, in books or TV or movies, in which it is shown just how much people are capable of loving each other means that-- well.

My roommate and I watched the last two episodes of the third season of Bones last night and I pretty much lost it crying at the end there. My poor roommate got to awkwardly hand me tissues. I am always hopelessly charmed by people who are thrown together and who end up being really close and oh god, the pain, flist. ;_______;

On the other hand, I've found... not as much good Booth/Brennan fic as the world deserves, but an acceptable amount. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) I'm too afraid to go looking for the "Sweets, Booth, and Brennan have a totally awkward but strangely hot threesome and they all troll each other into sexy oblivion" fic I want.

you laugh until you cry, you cry until you laugh

2009-08-18T21:37:27Z

I would so happily read Outtakes From Harry Potter: Pointless Scenes of Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, and Hermione Granger Arguing, Joking Around, and Generally Being Adorable Best Friends.

Which is to say that I finished rereading Deathly Hallows yesterday afternoon and have mildly stunned even myself with just how desperately overinvested in the trio I am. Is this an unpopular opinion? I am unsure. But I love them so much. I totally cried, which is a bit weird since I don't remember crying at all the first time I read that book, except maybe when Hedwig died. This time around I probably cried at least a little every hundred pages.

Instead of doing anything productive with my life, this will be my cue to listen to Stephen Fry's audiobooks of the series. And also to pick up with reading a fuckload of fanfiction. How can I not want to find out why Draco Malfoy fled to San Francisco to become a stereotypically effeminate gay barista with a pierced ear and dyed hair?

can we fast forward to go down on me?

2009-08-09T18:15:14Z

Oh dear, I haven't posted in forever. OKAY!

-- Still obsessed with Harry Potter. I suspect all of the other HP-nostalgic fandomers are beginning to move on again, leaving me behind them still totally engrossed in having trouble thinking of non-HP-related... anything.
-- What is the deal with Panic! at the Disco? How is it that I care vastly more about them now that they're Brendon, Spencer, and some other awesome dudes than I ever did when they had Ryan and Jon? The answer may have something to do with how Not Happy I am with Ryan Ross at the moment, but also with how troublingly adorable Brendon and Spencer are being.
-- I HATE WORKING RETAIL. I really can't complain, as I only do it part-time and I get to stop for three months in two weeks, but wow, what a shitty sort of job to be in. It makes me hope fondly for cubicles and spreadsheets. At least then my back wouldn't hurt so much. :(

Now we see, once again, why I rarely update-- my life is far from interesting. Oh yeah, and I changed my layout.

heroes or phantoms, there's no turning back from this

2009-07-27T17:55:50Z

I continually wonder to myself why I don't post more, but I'm pretty sure it's because my life is really repetitive! I go to bed, I wake up, I either go to work or I don't. That's pretty much it. Lately I've mostly been reading Harry Potter fanfiction-- I had the poor (or not?) judgment to sign up for harrypotterbang just because it's good to give me some kind of deadline to finish things I would want to write anyway-- and working on my fic for bandom_hc.

It is really, really fucking hot here lately. And for once I mostly don't exaggerate; it's been in the 90s and apparently will continue to be throughout the week. Additionally, I live in the Seattle area, which means that almost no one has air-conditioning.

It's less than a month until I go back to school. I honestly can't wait. I miss it.

despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage

2009-07-21T22:08:40Z

PERHAPS I SHOULD POST.

I actually saw Half-Blood Prince at the midnight release a week ago, but whatever, it's never too late to spill my thoughts on it! Plus I'm going to see it again tonight with my parents, I believe, so it's appropriate.

-- I REALLY LOVED IT. I'm incredibly easy to please with the HP movies at this point, but I still loved it. It was so pretty. I wish the Burrow hadn't been randomly burned down and the quick tossed-in "sweetheart" to let us know about Remus/Tonks was just silly, but other than that.
-- In my very biased opinion, Draco was by far the best part of it. He was just so perfectly scared and trying so hard and failing anyway and generally being a spoiled sixteen-year-old asshole who suddenly has way more responsibility than he actually wanted. I love Tom Felton dearly just for making my favorite come across correctly.
-- ♥RUPERT GRINT♥
-- The whole theater went "AWWWWWWWW!" really loudly at the Ron/Hermione bits. As they should have, because ♥
-- Harry/Ginny was actually fairly sweet! I enjoyed it! I do not think I will ever find that pairing interesting the way it got done in canon, but it was pleasantly cute in the movie with the absence of the chestmonster.
-- I could just be delusional, but I really think Dan has gotten much better at acting and that it showed this time around.
-- I cried a little after Dumbledore died. :(
-- Seriously, just *________*

Also, I signed up for and claimed a prompt for bandom_hc! It is the best prompt.

gerard and mikey are heirs-in-hiding of kingdom occupied by neighbours, and the rest of mcr/brian are their knights/vassals etc. after period of depression gerard rises a rebellion against invaders, loses, gets captured, imprisoned and awfully tortured for a year until the rest of mcr manage to save him and bring him to loyal healers (panic?). long rehabilitation ensues :D

I've written about 2500 words so far and I'm enjoying it thoroughly.

we're one, but we're not the same

2009-07-08T16:53:07Z

I MET ADAM LAMBERT AND ALLISON IRAHETA LAST NIGHT.

Also Kris! Also also Anoop and Scott! And I sort of bumped into Megan and awkwardly avoided Sarver and purposely kept a huge distance between myself and Danny Gokey.

So basically, I went to the Idol tour show in Tacoma last night, because I'm a loser and I do these things. Second year in a row, hurrah. At the very beginning of the show, there was some weird Ford Fusion text-in win-backstage-passes trivia challenge, so pretty much on a "why not?" whim I texted in right away. They sent me a trivia question, which I answered-- incorrectly, I might add. A few seconds later, they sent me the correct answer along with some unsubtle advertising (did you know the Ford Fusion gets 34 MPG?) and then a few seconds after that, I got a text telling me I'd won two backstage passes for after the show.

Naturally, I texted citibyrd, who was there too, and asked if she wanted to accompany me. And being sane, she said yes.

OH MY GOD, it was ridiculous. We were part of the very first, quite small group that got to meet them! First we met Allison. ajfk;ds she's little and fucking adorable and I somehow didn't know that she has braces, but that was adorable too, and she's such a seventeen-year-old girl. We talked about how they were all nervous to do this show and how she's scared for tonight's show because it's so soon after this one, and I love her. ♥________♥

And then eventually Adam came in! He's beautiful in person, seriously, and so tall (also, his hair is perfect). We just kind of stood there and awkwardly stared at him for a while before we got up the courage to approach, and-- guys, he's so sweet. We got to shake his hand and he smiled and was genuinely nice to us and we talked about the ridiculous Idol advertisements and Muse, and then we got him to sign our group picture things we'd been given and he writes "[NAME]! YOU ROCK!" before his signature. It's the cutest.

I'm amazed I survived the experience of having my picture taken with him, honestly. He's warm and very cuddly-- he put an arm around my shoulder and sort of pulled me up against him and leaned down a little, and then when he let go of me he squeezed and then-- rubbed his hand up and down on my shoulder for a few seconds before stepping away from me.

Kris was also really sweet-- he asked our names and shook our hands and happily signed our pictures, and then when we came back a few minutes later with the girls who hopefully will actually send us the pictures they took of us and the Idols, REMEMBERED OUR NAMES and was happy to take a picture with us.

We also quickly snagged Anoop and Scott's signatures, and then Adam had left the building so we figured we were done with this ridiculousness.

I CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE THAT HAPPENED. HOLY FUCK. Assuming I get the pictures, I will eventually post those as well, and maybe a picture of the paper I have with all their autographs.

what's so good about dying?

2009-06-23T03:43:03Z

NEWSFLASH!

You should do the decent, compassionate thing for no other reason than that it is the decent, compassionate thing to do, you fucking assholes. YOU DO NOT LIVE IN A VACUUM. OTHER PEOPLE SURROUND YOU AND REACT TO YOU ALL THE TIME.

Unless you want to cut off all social contact forevermore, you have some responsibilities as a human being. Yes, these do include, if you are a writer of fanfiction, giving survivors of abuse and trauma the tools to use their own responsibility to avoid things that could hurt them. Reducing the options to "cheerfully open yourself up to being triggered without complaining" and "get out of fandom entirely" is not even remotely okay or good enough.

Why the hell are we even talking about this? How is this an issue? How?

:( Hold me, flist. (And if you disagree me with, honestly, please let me know so that I can defriend you.)

and you can sleep in a coffin, but the past ain't through with you

2009-06-21T19:02:28Z

I'm pretty sure I'm preaching to the choir here, or at least I hope I am, but just so we're clear:

Extending a little bit of courtesy to protect fellow fandom members and, you know, fellow people from serious emotional and possibly physical pain by slapping on a warning is easy, fast, and always more important than your hurt feelings, the supposed element of surprise in your story, or your bullshit excuses about "strength" and "getting over it."

I'm going to recommend that everyone read this excellent post by impertinence, in case you haven't already and particularly if you're unsure about the importance of this, but only if you're feeling up to it-- it's hard-hitting and graphic and could be seriously upsetting even if you don't have personal experience in the area. Here: Warning: Very explicit discussion of sexual assault and the nature, anatomy, cause & effect of triggers. Is itself triggery.

MORE LIKE ZAC WHAT THE EF IS RON WITH YOU

2009-06-19T21:07:42Z

Okay, let's get this show on the road! Because strikesoftly sort of asked, ages ago, and I will take any excuse.

AKA Zac Efron, AKA Zefron. AKA the little awkward boy from California that, through a series of ridiculous moves calculated to make me and a bunch of teenies love the shit out of him, could.

Zefron was born in San Luis Obispo, California, and raised in Arroyo Grande, California. His dad worked as a power plant engineer and his mom worked as a secretary at the same place.

"I lived a normal childhood in a middle-class family," Efron insists.

"When I was younger, I didn't even know this business existed."
[from here]

His dad was the first person to notice he was talented, apparently, when he was eleven, which led to singing lessons and appearances in a number of productions, which led to appearing on actual TV, which led to some actual central roles, which led to... High School Musical.

Wasn't he a cute little frog?

There are a lot of reasons to love Zefron. He's pretty much inherently lovable. I'm going to quote that article up there again to make my point.

Unlike most cute teen idols who take the news that young girls find them attractive as a license to behave like ill-bred jerks, Efron has a refreshing honesty and a disarming modesty that put him light years ahead of his competitors.

"I could show you 500 kids in L.A.," he says, stretching out on a sofa in a suite at the Hyatt during his recent stay in Toronto, "who are my height, weight, hair colour and age. We're a dime a dozen. Why did I get the parts I did? Who knows? But the minute I start thinking it's because I was special, that's when I know I'm in trouble."

And from that time he was on the cover of Rolling Stone being a hotass:

"This is my favorite place to eat breakfast, because you don't see the SUVs with the blacked-out windows here," Zac Efron says as he sits at a greasy diner in Toluca Lake, California. (The name is Patty's, but don't tell the paparazzi.) Efron is wearing mirrored sunglasses and a brown knit hat, which, in the summer sun, is making him sweat. He hasn't had a decent shower, because the hot water in his nearby two-bedroom apartment was shut off today. "As long as I stay boring, I think I'll be fine," he declares.

So that's your strategy for success? Just stay boring? "Yeah, seriously," he says. "I'm going to try."

Let us not make the mistake of associating him only with his lolarious role in the High School Musical movies, as glorious as it is! As we learned from 17 Again, the boy can actually act. He's funny. Plus:

VAN SANT: Your character in the film is 37 years old, and you’re playing him as a 17-year-old. What was it like playing somebody so much older?

EFRON: At the time, it was the most unique opportunity that presented itself. There were several roles that I could have done where I would have played essentially another high school student, or they were romances or stories in a high school setting, and there were lots of things that people wanted to turn into musicals. But the whole idea of playing a 37-year-old guy as a 17-year-old was just the most exciting prospect for me. I was really intrigued by the idea. I’ve always been kind of an old man, so to speak.
[from here]

OTHER STUFF:

-- He's culturally Jewish and personally agnostic.
-- He's twenty-one years old and his birthday is October 18.
-- He has two Australian shepherds named Dreamer and Puppy and a Siamese cat named Simon.
-- Being on Summerland caused him to pick up surfing. He also enjoys golf, skiing, rock-climbing, and snowboarding.
-- He has a brother named Dylan who's four years younger than him.
-- As a kid, he was bad at sports. Apparently he failed at both baseball and basketball.
-- He has contact lenses, but never bothers to wear them.

Okay, we can do the fun part with the pictures now.

YES, YOU.

I have a big thing for his arms.

They are essentially the reason I gave in to his charms.

And then, you know, there was his face. :(

And, um, just... IDEK. *___*

(See how he loves his fans? ♥)

One of the amazing things about Efron is that, even when being caught in the middle of a media firestorm like the one that surrounded High School Musical, he's able to maintain a mature and valuable perspective.

"It wasn't the hype that made the movie," he insists, "it was the fans who took control. That's what I love."
[from here]

In conclusion,

...okay, not actually in conclusion. Yes. There's more!

Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens can't keep their hands off each other.

The "High School Musical" co-stars - who have been dating since they started filming the Disney franchise in 2005 - looked closer than ever as they partied at Teddy's bar in Los Angeles after the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday.

A source said: "They were holding hands, dancing close and always had their arms around each other."
[from here]

If you can't bring yourself to love Zac Efron by himself, you should consider loving him and Vanessa Hudgens together. They're two great tastes that taste great together!

:D?

When asked about being nominated for Best Kiss, Zac, 21, told MTV, “I think we’re [me and Vanessa] the only boy-girl human-on-human kiss. That might be a disadvantage. (laughs)”
[from here]

Yeah, remember that time they went to Hawaii?

It would seem they actually could not be a more attractive couple.

MY POINT.

Let's have some videos!

Here he is with terrible (and kind of adorable) hair attempting to troll the viewer a little and talking about his crush on Leonardo DiCaprio.

Doing a fail!rap with Lucas Grabeel.

Embedding's disabled on this one, but here's Zac and Vanessa playing with Barbies on the set of High School Musical 3.

The HSM3 bloopers are full of excellence. GUYS. GUYS. WE FORGOT OUR PANTS.

Zefron hosted SNL! It was amazing.

Especially this part.

And, of course, if you haven't watched it (I don't know how this would be possible, but hey), Bet On It. Because it is the most ridiculous fucking thing in the world. Zac Efron. ♥

Despite being on the cover of every teenie magazine in the world, you should love Zefron because his head, while somewhat orange and disheveled, is not big.

But instead of smugness - or even a sense of security - the greatest surprise about Efron is his uncertainty.

"In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me," he says, answering a straightforward question about red-carpet premieres.

Startling as it sounds, does Efron really believe his future in the industry isn't assured? "Well, no, but I plan for that," he says.

"I think the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted."

Efron seems well aware of other former teen stars who have crashed and burned, either by disappearing off the big screen or indulging too heavily in Hollywood's party scene. It's a cliche he wants to avoid.

"There's a time for celebration and I partake, sure," says Efron, who has just reached the legal drinking age in the US. "But you know, it's important not to let that become too big of a distraction. The more you have access to, the harder it is to remain focused.

"You know what, I do not want to fall victim to that, it's too easy and too often done. It's out of style anyway, I think too many people have done it before me, I'm not going to. It's uncool, yeah. I think the rebellious thing to do would to actually be successful."
[from here]

Like this:

"I'm definitely not the best actor in the world at this point," he says. "But hopefully, with time and effort and smart decisions, that will change."
[from here]

Because... he's always been a stud?

1. When was your first kiss?
I want to say I was in fifth grade. It was in a tree fort. It was over a game of Truth or Dare, but it turned into “make out with the other person.” I was like the only boy and there were a bunch of girls up there. I was pretty stoked.
[from here]

THIS CONCLUDES MY WELL-ARGUED CASE FOR THE DESERVED LOVE OF ZAC EFRON.

take a train to Rome or home

2009-06-17T02:50:23Z

I had my first day of work today! Mostly I watched way too many repetitive instructional videos and then shadowed a girl who was working at the service desk, but I did get to do a little ringing stuff up and things on my own and it wasn't too bad at all.

Recently I have fallen in love with Lupe Fiasco. *____* I downloaded his two albums on a whim and have been listening to them way too often. I also got Megan to listen through a little future-roommate-ly :D?ing magic. It's very good music for blasting with the windows down while I drive through downtown Bellevue.

I am so out of practice with writing, and so it's taking me forever to actually work on my fic for easthighstory, but at least I'm doing it.

Here is my heart and here is my song.

2009-06-06T01:02:50Z

HELLO, NEW FRIENDS. ♥

I needed a reason to actually post anyway! Also, I'm perilous over on DW if you'd like to friend me there, too-- sometimes I crosspost, sometimes I don't, but I do comment slightly more on my DW flist just because it moves much slower, not that I won't try over here.

I had a job interview on Wednesday; it felt like it went quite well. I don't have any idea if I'll actually get the job (it's just retail, though I'd love some money), but it was nice to come out of something that tends to give me panic attacks feeling pretty good about what I'd just done.

THINGS I LIKE: My Chemical Romance, Gerard fucking Way, High School Musical, American Idol, stupid stupid Zac Efron (I believe I still need to post about him for strikesoftly's benefit), Watchmen, Avatar, How I Met Your Mother (Barney ♥ Robin ♥♥ ROBIN/BARNEY ♥♥♥), Doctor Who, Star Trek, and uh... lots of other stuff. :D? I've been slowly(ish) watching Lost with blindmadness lately, plus rewatching Boy Meets World. ♥my childhood♥

in all this chaos, we found safety

2009-05-19T18:40:21Z

Over the last week, I finished watching the remaining three seasons of How I Met Your Mother; this included watching all twenty-three then-existing episodes of the fourth season in one day. I dreamed about Robin and Barney that night.

Which brings me to the fact that I love them. I seriously don't think I've shipped anything so hard in years. I want to do nothing but watch an endless show of their stupid/awesome shenanigans around New York.

I'm really glad I managed to stay relatively unspoiled, despite being pretty much eaten up by curiosity. I don't think I would have been as first delighted, then horrified, then even more delighted if I'd known even a little of what was going to happen.

I'm also really happy with how they've ended up handling Robin and Barney so far. I was worried because I wasn't sure anything they did could be quite right-- obviously they need to be together, or at least I need them to be together, but it would be stupid and out of character for them to just jump into something happily at this point. So this uncertain-but-hopeful ending for now leaves things in a perfect place for next season and I don't even know how I'll wait until then.

Also, the rapidfire Mosbying exchange was one of the best things ever. I've watched it about five times already.

The rest of the episode wasn't that exciting-- the thing with the goat was especially pretty boring and disappointing considering all the buildup-- but I didn't really care, because I'm attached to these characters anyway. The roof-jumping was pretty cheesy, but it made me happy, especially the moment of Barney looking at Robin and then deciding to make the leap. I'm also really glad Ted sucked it up and took the damn teaching job. I found myself liking him a lot more throughout season four just because, while he remained a pretentious douche, they took to acknowledging that as a real part of his character.

But my only real thoughts are these:

♥ROBIN AND BARNEY♥

This entry crossposted to LJ from DW because it is that important.

peridium @ 2009-05-01T11:25:00

2009-05-01T15:30:50Z

Before I forget and as I avoid finishing this essay!

I'm over here at Dreamwidth: http://perilous.dreamwidth.org/

If you'd like, feel free to subscribe/give access/whatever you want to do. I will cheerfully both subscribe and give access to absolutely everyone who does one or both to me, but if you'd prefer me to just subscribe to you, let me know! ♥

For your time and for having to read yet another DW-related post on your flist, have a picture of Corbin Bleu.

Voices in my head tell me they know best.

2009-04-21T20:52:32Z

I was going to try to summarize the past few days, but I think that instead, I will picspam one Zachary David Alexander Efron for you!

Seriously, I can't deal with him.

Look at this fucking beautiful face.

Especially when he does shit like this.

NEED I EVEN MENTION HIS FUCKING ARMS? JESUS CHRIST, ZAC.

But it's okay. Much of his time is taken up by being a fucking adorable dorkface.

Basically: you should love Zac Efron, because he loves you too.

Almost as much as he loves Vanessa Hudgens. But not quite.

Everyone loved who they knew from afar.

2009-04-13T15:58:36Z

Oh, second-floor lounge. How you puzzle me with your mysteries.

Life: it is strangely awesome. ♥

But now I'm standing at your front door singing.

2009-04-01T15:40:50Z

So, I'm not the kind of person who even really attempts to do anything for April Fool's, because a) I'm too busy being gullible and getting tricked myself, b) I'm lazy, and c) I'm really lazy. Instead of actually trying, then, I sent my mother a text message about half an hour ago with the blatant lie of "I'm pregnant. :("

About a minute later, she texts back "Me too! And it's twins!"

Apparently I'm soon to have two half-siblings. Their father, she claims, is David Cook.

ETA: And also apparently, it's my grandparents' anniversary today. They got married on April Fool's Day.