Hi there. My name is Gaby and I am a twentysomething US citizen. I spent nine months travelling overseas in New Zealand (with some Australia) in late 2009 and the first half of 2010, so I'll type with some Kiwisms and some Americanisms. My own unique lexicon.

I started this journal in late 2003 though I didn't really begin using it until 2005 (despite at least one post per month since July 2004), which is when I incidentally started college and when I went Friends Only. I've got some public posts here and there, but they're mostly of a fandom sort. But not all purely fandom posts are public either.

Feel free to add me. I'm pretty sure I'll add you back.

Current TV favourites: The Good Wife, Pretty Little Liars, How I Met Your Mother (lovely rebound!), Community, The Vampire Diaries, White Collar, Blue Bloods

Just a few favourites that are on hiatus and I'm eagerly awaiting their return: Being Erica, Lost Girl, Drop Dead Diva, Leverage

Also watching way too many others to name and I may behind, so I won't list them here, but take a gander through my icons and chances are, I've seen it and liked it enough to get some icons (but like I said, I could be behind).

Old loves that haven't died: Veronica Mars, Alias, Gilmore Girls, Everwood, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse, Angel, Firefly, The Middleman, South of Nowhere, Wonderfalls, Life, Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies, The American Embassy, jPod, Ghostwriter, Arrested Development, Better Off Ted

And I could list many more shows in many other categories, but this gives you a fair sampling, I think. I'm probably forgetting some shows in my above categories, too.

last update to this post was on: March 7, 2011 at 4:07am (GMT-5)

LJ implemented this thing where you can crosspost your comments to Twitter and/or Facebook. This should be obvious, but I would like you all to refrain from posting your comments to my journal to Twitter and/or Facebook since the vast majority of my posts are friends-only. I have a public blog over at WordPress and that's fine so long as you do not make reference to this social network if we are friends on the other social network. (I would highly dislike any connecting my specific persona here to a persona I have on those other social networks. Take, for instance, you have my Twitter name blahblah. I ask you to not say "this is blahblah's LJ post on whatever-topic." Furthermore if I want social networks linked, it will be known on both sides. I can link to WP here, but I don't want LJ linked there. You can link to my LJ [and a specific post's contents if the post is public -- ask permission when it is not because maybe I was just too lazy to make it public, never assume] when we are on LJ. You dig?)

If you have Firefox and the Greasemonkey addon, you can install this script to make those boxes go away.

If you have Chrome like me, I've discovered you can click on Install and then click on Continue when it asks you to be sure you want to continue. When you open a new page on LJ, those boxes go away.

My Chrome trick may work for other browsers, but I cannot confirm that. I have found this link listing Greasemonkey alternatives for browsers such as Opera, IE, and Safari if my Chrome way does not work for you and your browser.

Finally if you have a paid or permanent account, I have a feeling that it may be possible to remove those options on your journal only by making edits to a layer, but that will take some digging into code, I think.

Edit: Apparently you can just go to your Custom CSS and add this bit of code:

.b-repost-item {display:none;}

So it's not limited to paid or permanent users because all users can use Custom CSS. "Repost to" will appear, but not the boxes. This will make it work on just your journal (unless you view other people's comment pages in your style; then it'll work on other people's journals, too), so it is best to implement the userscript to prevent YOU from reposting your comments on OTHERS' journals to Facebook/Twitter and add the CSS so OTHERS (and YOU) don't repost their (and your) comments on YOUR journal to Facebook/Twitter.

Edit again: Another bit of CSS you can add:

#fblo {display: none;}

With this code (which you can put before or after my first bit of code, doesn't matter) people can't see the Facebook option for the "from" field. You know, Anonymous, Logged in user, Facebook, Open ID. The code I just stated gets rid of the Facebook line completely.

to the officially sanctioned poll, I know I have a lot of non-straight or straight-but-not-narrow readers that fit the demographic the WB is looking for, so how about our own poll with the female characters of The Vampire Diaries:



You can also vote on WordPress :)

On Wednesday, I got a nice little surprise in the mail: season 1 of The Vampire Diaries on DVD. Just under two weeks BEFORE the street date of August 31st.

Now everyone who has read my other Vampire Diaries posts (either here or through the things I choose to reblog on Tumblr) knows I honestly couldn't care less about the love triangle that perpetuates on the show because the show has so much more to offer than just that. (See this wonderful fan vid about the female agency/power on the show. Spoilers for everything but the season finale because, well, the vid went up before the finale hit TV screens.) But I'm supposed to write a blog entry on which Salvatore brother I'd take home based on this poll, which will allow you to get exclusive content before the DVDs hit stores should you partake.

So I chose Stefan. ( Why? Here's why with spoilers. Also reasons for Damon.Collapse )

But, now I've said my piece and I have to end with a disclosure:

I have been hired by Warner Bros. WBWord division to raise awareness for The Vampire Diaries: The Complete First Season – which arrives on Blu-ray/DVD on August 31. Visit http://bit.ly/9APlGp to pre-order your set and vote for which vampire brother YOU would like to take home!

-- reposted from WordPress

So The Vampire Diaries was epic awesome.

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But I'm feeling a bit confused on Supernatural.

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Yeah, that's pretty much it. Who knows what season 6 will bring?

And now to sleep off this headache.

It's so funny! Yay Enver! Glad to see you're still working post-Dollhouse!

Off to bed now.

GHOSTWRITER IS OFFICIALLY COMING TO DVD, BITCHES!



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BEST NEWS EVER!

21 Jennifer's Body icons
3 Needy and Jennifer
1 Needy and Colin
17 Needy
6 Mean Girls icons
3 Karen
2 Gretchen
1 Ms. Norbury

Teaser:
JB04. JB14. MG05.

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I talked a bit about the Emmys on Twitter, but for those of you that don't venture out there... P.S. My tweets, for those of you on the filter, tomorrow should be under a cut, too.

( a courtesy cut :)Collapse )

So I can't remember anything else, heh. All in all, I think it was a good show though and major props go to NPH for it.

I'm back from seeing Jennifer's Body! YAY!

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And in other news, I am feeling ever so slightly better today. Not 100%, but I think I am well on my way to being well for my flight on Tuesday. Less than 100 hours and I am still in the same situation I was in when I had less than 200. *facepalm*