For the Secret Diary fans:

Real identify of Belle

That was a surprise, for sure.

Um, been a bit out of sorts since my sis moved out in late August; was browsing apartments on Craigslist, found one up her alley, and within five days she was gone. She was the sister I was the closest to and I didn't see her for over a month though she lives close (she doesn't have a car, school/work takes up time, so). And school has started again, and then my insomnia came back, and my work and school schedules don't create a lot of time for therapy (on a waiting list)...

I can't watch HIMYM live so it has collected on my HD (I know what happens, just not particulars). When you're 7 eps behind, it can be hard to find the time to get caught up (or the motivation). I'm thinking Christmas, maybe =| House is rather cool this season, though (besides the Chase drama. But, hey, House and Wilson are being all Odd Coupley =D, and Lucas just came back. Thought the premiere was superb.)

Liking V, even if Tudyk's character isn't a good guy (so far). Love Elizabeth Mitchell, but that's a given. Gonna suck when it goes off the air for 3-4 (?) months. Reminds me of LOST's ill-conceived third season break. To do that to a new show? Oh, ABC. Least you have some awesome comedies.

But, anyway! Any other crazies out there who have adopted Windows 7? Pre-ordered in July for less than half the price, installed it and I am so very, very glad to be rid of Vista. It even, somehow, fixed my slow XP partition (no proof of this beyond timing, but that's enough for me. Haven't actually used my XP partition in a while, though...) Boots up so much quicker, and the slideshow desktop feature just is so very nice. =) For a few days, seemed like my poor, ancient All-in-One A940 would be unsupported, and as the scanner is the only one I own that actually does a decent job of scanning documents, the disappointment was major. But, works now :) (tiny joys)

Doctor Who special tonight I actually want to watch; second before the end, right? I don't know if I'll check out Tennant's new NBC show if it gets picked up; with the way networks competitively overload nights (looking at you, Thursday ::cries a tear for Fringe::), it'll be opposite something I love.

Damn, I wish LOST S5 was out (three weeks) and the weekend was longer. But who doesn't want the latter?

Edit: damn rapid posting! Hit enter and then =p

Has everyone with a DS heard of Scribblenauts? I really hope so, 'cause it's awesome.

Now, I normally never pre-order games or go anywhere before my morning classes (attempt to squeeze as much sleep in as possible), but Gamestop had this wicked cool pre-order bonus: Scribble Hat!
( Rooster Hat! )

I originally was just buying it  with hat more for the resale value than anything, but dear god, the geek in me is freaking out - I want to wear this thing (not in public, but probably at Halloween :D ).  I haven't liked a pre-order this much since Wind Waker's ridiculously cool pocket watch (lasted 2 years and I think my brother has it buried some where, but it was so very AWESOME). Way better than the feather pen stylus I got (and lost - it was clear, for god's sake) from Club Nintendo for Phantom Hourglass (US Club Nintendo kinda sucks).

Anyway, though I should be playing Persona 4, I can't help be in love with this game (tons of levels, ability to summon a Rick Roll and Keyboard Cat, as well as have God fight zombies and become a Zombie!God). Seriously, if you have as DS, you need this game.

School's started once again and I'm having sleep issues, so sorry about the lack of posting. Couldn't change my class schedule (tried, got on a waiting list - no dice) so my work schedule is all screwed up now =/ Last week it was school for an hour, work for hour-and-a-half, back to class, then work again; not fun. I work on campus, but split-shifts like that throw me some. At least my books were cheap this semester (profs were fine with using older editions - saved $150!)

What I did on my summer vacation: worked, didn't go to the beach, and practiced my Japanese writings skills by writing HIMYM fan fiction in Wordpad/OpenOffice in that language. For a while there I'd been captioning my fan art in Japanese anyway, so it's a bit of a natural extension. Makes it a good deal harder to be "caught" at it, too >_> I may not actually write/draw much smut (borderline stuff, mostly), I still get all anxious about discovery, so. Issues, have some if you please ;)

It's rather fun practice as well =) Haven't actually written down fan works in a long while (last was back in my Niles/Daphne days, actually), so it's a return to something I really enjoyed, though without being a teenager any longer ::shudders:: which makes everything better.

For my Bio lab (need to take some Bio and Chem for grad school program admittance), we're taking care of Milkweed bugs. Not sure if mine is female or male; thought it was a girl yesterday, got home, thought it a boy, now I'm not sure. Might be too immature, though I did get one of the larger ones. Olive or Oliver. ::shrugs::

Anyway, know what I love about Glee (besides all the characters except Terri)? Half the songs they perform I haven't listened to, 'cause they're not in my usual musical purview (big indie rock fan here), but their versions are so fantastic, I don't care. It's such an awesome show. I really like Rachel, though she tries way too hard, and who can't ♥ Will (AV Club's right: he's a saint).  I can barely believe he sang "Gold Digger" last ep, too; the singers/actors on this show are fantastic =D That and Rachel's "Take A Bow" - new favorites.

Bones is next week, which will be awesome, though it seems as thought the amnesia plot is being dealt with real fast, huh? Considering the response to it and the AU finale, guess that's good.  As long as B&B are being cute together (and Hodgins and Angela get back together, 'cause they just have to!), I'm good.

Hey, I bet a bunch a people watch Mad Men here (or they should). Noticed that two fellowship squints have been on it recently? Mr. Nigel-Murray is the new Brit secretary (PA) and the annoyingly chipper Daisy is Peggy's (♥) new roommate . That's two kinds of awesome right there.

Man, I'm really never going to change my layout, am I? (-_-;;) Love Ten II and Rose, but, really... Just don't really want a default layout, like to mess with it, but I always get distracted.

It's gotten cold recently; like, the second school started - BOOM - it's fall. Buzzkill there. Strange, strange. We weren't using the AC this summer, so in a way it's a relief, but at the same time, a few more 80 degree days would have been nice.

Thus ends my homework avoidance.

A good deal of you have seen her in "The Guild", right? 'Cause you just have to watch it, gamer or not. Still haven't seen her in the Dollhouse "Epilogue" special ep, but I have seen this:



When does The Guild's third season start?! :D Love her little embarrassed face at the end. Ah, she's my newest girl-crush - that red hair　and those wide, green eyes! The whole series makes me want to give an MMO a try...

Don't kill Tidus! (But really, please do =3) Really hated Blitzball in that game and the horrible job with the laughing sequence between him and Yuna on the boat (god, that was hard to defend at the time). What I love is VIII ♥♥♥♥♥ and IV :)

Game by the Hsu and Chan artist from EGM; he's awesome, love his blog posts and the comics he put up. And now that EGM is out of publisher's limbo, maybe he'll be back in the magazine (or not. Still unclear if the mag is completely out of business, just know I got stiffed on the rest of my subscription when it first went under.) Hadn't been to his blog recently, as I've deserted my bloglines account (mostly 'cause of the reformat of my Vista partition), but been visiting the 1UP RPG blog for news on Dragon Quest IX's launch in Japan. Trying to figure out which game to play next, besides Scribblenauts and the new Professor Layton. That Shin Megami Tensei DS game might be it, I'm thinking.

LOST Comic Con! Oh, the delicious tidbits released :D Those alt-universe (?) videos with Hurley and Kate, and Emerson's Hurley audition XD, great! That memorial video was a bit wrenching (Charle! D: - couldn't help tearing up there, though rewatching S3, I didn't like him all that much, not till the end. It was his Locke-dislike; you dis Locke, you're on my not-from-Jacob list.) Damon and Carlton's panel (DarkUFO) and Doc Jenson's Totally LOST videos are keeping me informed and entertained and generally spoiler-free, since Darlton is pretty good at that sort of thing (I mean, Fork in the Outlet? and The Donkey Wheel an actual wheel? and Faraday ;_;) And I thought E3 or the Tokyo Game Show would be the place to go to for geek fun...

Dollhouse casting news :D Can't wait to see "Epitaph One" when the first season releases Tuesday. Would like to rewatch from episode 6 on, actually, which makes me feel a bit bad (though Ep 2 rocks), but c'mon, those who've watched know what I'm talking about =|

Finally, saw Hitchcock's Rope last night for the first time (loves me some Hitchcock; Rear Window, one of my absolute favorites). God, what a fantastic movie. The seemingly all-in-one-take editing, the story - blood-curdling, that Brandon, his reasoning - the acting (the Stewart!). Really should have seen it sooner. Would recommend it to one and all.

Doing this from my tablet 'cause my wrist prefers it. Really should have tried this sooner.

Anyway. Auctioneering is distracting and time-consuming, I'll tell ya. I have so many boxes right now =/ Least the post office is close. Really should try. out their pick-up service one of these days.

Work is good, helping one of my bosses with her tenure preparations. Thinking about beach plans for August, heard about some good deals (though, frankly, I hate the bench but it's a family thing, so...)

Have watched Days 1-3 of TW CoE and have attempted to avoid spoilers, considering the Internet has apparently exploded or something in response to it.  (Thus, have avoided LJ like woah.) Have an idea or two about what happened due to icons seen and too frequent visit toontd and io9, though.

Hmm, NPH for the Emmys host rocks, go Michael Emerson!! and Doctor Horrible ♥ But FotC's Jemaine nominated but not Bret =O I love Jemaine, but they're a pair, you can't split 'em up! Elizabeth Mitchell's Juliet deserved a damn nomination, too >=( (as did Jenna Fischer, really. Pam was great this year.)

If the voice cast of Futurama actually changes, god, the miscarriage of justice there D: Leela is not Leela without Katey SagalNor Fry without Billy West. And Bender!? You can't replace him, damn it! I was so excited for its return, don't screw it up now, Powers that Be.

 Boy, my handwriting on this thing is not great (-_-;;)

Man, the Opera browser seems a little unstable, maybe I should give Safari a try...

If you like Whedon, Buffy and vampire slash (hell, even if you don't like that, read it - the art's beautiful and the writing is quirky fun, plus lots of cameos from the TV series) check out this funky 3-page comic on Dark Horse's site: The funny-sexy awaits you

I followed the Buffy comic for a bit after I finished the TV series - have the first two graphic novels - but haven't bought the third. Occasionally I'll hear a rumble or something about what's going on, but like the DW comics, I don't follow them much. Though the Buffy comics at least have Whedon and writer-support on some of the plotlines, thankfully, and that first graphic novel was awesome :D (see: awesome picture of awesome)

Hey, anybody else watching Nurse Jackie? Edie Falco was great on 30 Rock (and The Sopranos, of course) and she doesn't disappoint in this series either; I'm just really loving it . True Blood has been absolutely awesome so far, too, - Baby-Vamp!Jessica is so cool to watch (and sweet with Hoyt) and Jason is bearable at last! And Eric's haircut - thank god, I really didn't like it before.

Real life stuff: work's okay, since I finally got paid (accounting error delayed it for six weeks >=( ), and I have a love-hate relationship going with microfiche/film. =\ I'm thinking that's pretty common. My sleep schedule is weird again and my left ear is plugged up currently, so back to the ear drops it seems. And it has at last stopped raining. Three whole sunny/non-wet days we got in the entirety of June. It's nice not to have to bring an umbrella with me all the time now.

Anyway, hope everyone had a great 4th of July whether you are American or not =) Mine was quiet, which is really all I could ask for in a house as full as mine

Edit: what the hell is greased lightbox doing? Hope this fixed it.

NPH on Batman: The Brave and the Bold

I don't know about you, but I'm going to be rooting for the Music Meister :D

Weird premise, I suppose, but it's TV, and aren't they trying to make a Spiderman musical right now, anyway? Truthfully, while I was a big fan of Batman the Animated Series some years ago - didn't miss an ep or special (there were specials, right?) - I've never seen this one nor much of Batman Beyond. I'm sure they're a lot of fun, they couldn't have lasted this long otherwise - kids and comics fans being rather a fickle bunch, I believe (see: One Piece's lack of success, not just from the relentless editing, either). I was big into the 90s X-Men cartoon (who wasn't?) and rewatched it around 2003, and then got into the comics and  X-Men Evolution (X-Men 2 affected me somewhat intensly) of all things (watching mutants in high school is entertaining, I guess). The canon pairings were to my liking (of course I shipped), though I also slashed Nightcrawler and Cyclops, 'cause Nightcrawler rules and I like Cyclops a great deal, though I know he is considered so very, very lame. (-_-;;) Is he any better in X-Men: Origins, I wonder.  Liked the whole Phoenix saga in the comics especially (which was among one of the reasons X-3 was such a disappointment; that, and killing Cylcops off so early =p)

Anyway, since I stopped reading the comics, I'd heard about the new launch of the Wolverine AU cartoon, where Xavier's school is blown to kingdom come and only Wolverine and Storm are left to head it (I think Kitty Pride is mixed up in it also). The trailer I saw for it looked fantastic, very well animated, exciting, etc., but I still haven't watched it. SInce I'm not all that in to Wolverine - he's cool and all, but I already read his origin story, don't need to see it as well ('course, I'll probably catch Origins when it comes on cable next year...) - don't know if I will anytime soon ::shrugs:: Of course, is someone awesome guest stars on it... ;)

Hmm, digressed a bit there. I'm gonna have to download that music ep for sure. I assume he's done voicework before I'm unaware of, which is a bit surprising to me, considering how excited I got when I found out Kingdom Hearts' Squall was voiced by David Boreanaz =D (only the first KH, unfortunately). It'll be great, of course, so it looks like I've got this and my beloved Futurama to look forward to in the world of animation over the next year =)

Futurama is back!

     Oh, I love this show, only wish I had supported it more when it was on the air (I fell in love with it, like so many others, though the DVDs). Since the movies were fine but not great (though the first was pretty awesome) and the fourth's ending rushed, I'll be glad to watch the crew's further adventures. Groening and some of the writers did a few interviews after the last movie's release, so they've got some good ideas about where to go next.

     Gonna be twice now fans (and their DVD-purchasing power) has worked with a cable network to bring a network show back from the dead. Family Guy can be funny at times ("420" this year was very funny, and NPH and Josh Radnor did a pretty funny cameo, too) but Futurama wins by a wide, wide, really just huge margin. =D Here's hoping that they shall not be boned again ;)

I tend to disappear a bit in the summer, so fair warning -_-;; Too bad DW isn't on, but hey, at least TW has a date now (but man, July 20th?? Too long a wait considering we don't have any DW to obsess over for another, what, six months? Is it Christmas or November for the next one?)

Last weekend my brother - home from Philly for my sis's birthday - ripped up our living room carpet, which we wanted to do, mind you, but we still have carpet tacks to remove and wood to clean. We've moved all the furniture around, rounded up the ridiculously long internet cable going into our modem and I finally started going through my very large manga library (about half of which is lodged in bookcases and cupboards in that room).

Back when I got into manga/anime in 2001 or thereabouts, I swore off pretty much all American media (excluding The X-Files, interestingly enough), and once manga started to be frequently translated and released over here, I acquired a lot. I've rather an eclectic library, I think. I started with the basics of Sailor Moon and Akira, 'cause that's what was out at the time and I'd seen the latter's movie. But then I've got GTO, Battle Royale, Rurouni Kenshin and...Marmalade Boy (which I quite enjoyed). MPD Psycho only got licensed a couple years ago, but I'd been reading it for years, and now I really only buy untranslated manga, so I never picked up more than a volume. (Watched a bit of the live-action drama for it a few years back; think I liked seeing flowers growing out of living brains on paper more than on film.) I've got Card Captor ('cause it's Clamp) and Saikano, not to mention Angel Sanctuary, which is not adored enough, really (is it the incest? It's probably the incest.) I enjoyed them all, but besides having a lot of shojo series, playing the numbers game, I probably have about an equal number of seinen and shonen books (Ranma is exceedingly long, after all). ::shrugs:: So, I'm gonna try to do something with them, 'cause they're just sitting around here.

Oh, I've decided to start watching LOST from the moment of Benry's first appearance =D While I did think the first ep of S2 was fabulous 'cause of Desmond and Mama Cass ;), I don't have all that much of an interest in watching the Tailies struggle and inevitably lose against the Island's wishes, seeing as how they are all gone at this point. Excepting Bernard, of course. Anyway, Emerson rocks. Just watched him as Henry the Balloonist in "One of Them"; he plays Sayid sooo well. Was prepared to be half-killed in order for the plan to succeed; gotta love 'im and his perseverance. And look, he begins pretty much covered in blood, and I'm betting that's the way it'll end, if someone like him can ever really be killed, anyway. 

Nice to see Charlie again and watch Sawyer being all douchey to Jack (and pretty much everyone, actually; I'd forgotten about how much he tried to be dislikeable). But it's gonna be a bit till Drunken-Sailor!Desmond appears, which saddens me, but Benry! &hearts

Please tell me the few remaining Heroes-loving members of my f-list have seen this:


Oh, Mylar(and M-squared) xD I really have to love io9 for sharing this (Has an added Petrellicest video in the posting :D)

I really seem to love Drunk-Super-Canadian!Robin. I want to see more of her XD If possible, with Sleepy-Drunk!Barney.

( Huzzah! )
 
Hmm, that was long. Oh, I still haven't rewatched the finale of LOST. Have to before it comes off On-Demand, but it's so painful to watch... I haven't watched the second DW special at all, because I just can't muster the interest. I hear the fanboy is funny, but I'm starting to feel like I did after Doomsday, with the need to coax myself into caring. Maybe that was just my dislike of Martha, though; emo!Doctor, in hindsight, was pretty entertaining, what with his Rose-deprivation producing suicidal impulses (ooh, entertaining sounds pretty terrible there, doesn't it? Intriguing to watch, then.) Without Rose I'm all "Eh. What else is on/around to obsess about? Oh look, HIMYM." The third special sounds interesting, though, with the one casting spoiler I've stumbled upon. But that's in November, I think? Or Christmas? Apparently Tennant's last ep is crazy or something 'cause new spoilers appear each week ::sigh:: So difficult to avoid/resist them all...

Well,Torchwood starts their week-long shortened third season in what, a month or so? But it's been neutered, right? ::sighs, will miss the crack:: Still, Gwen.

And Glee is awesome =) And damn it all, Heroes is opposite House which is opposite HIMYM next year and LOST may switch nights again >=( Do Not Move LOST again! 10 pm is too late for it when you have to get up early! Also, ratings/ad revenue! Just pair it with Penny's Flash Forward on Wednesdays or something. C'mon!  ::feels childish, but still!:: I need a DVR bad (-_-;)

Ever since I heard about the twist in Fringe's finale, I've wanted to watch it.

( Fringe, Bones and LOST finale talk )

Hmm, I actually hadn't planned on waxing poetically about Bones, go figure. Anyway, Fox's fall schedule annoys me. I wanna watch Glee, but it's opposite LOST (not till Jan, thankfully); wanna watch Fringe, but it's opposite The Office and 30 Rock (the former's last season rocked something hard and how can I miss Jack and Liz?); House is opposite HIMYM, though HIMYM loses out there just 'cause House is an hour and more annoying to catch online due to length. I guess I should be thankful Dollhouse hasn't moved after all, regardless of what that will mean for it's chances at acquiring new viewers. (-_-) Gonna be using hulu and torrents a lot next year.

Well, that's why I'm not watching the HIMYM finale live tonight; I've seen a total of two episodes live this season ("Benefits" and "Meet the Stinsons"), and the former was talked over. I've gotten so used to watching it online, so what's the point of changing it now? I'm definitely not going to miss the next season of House, either, considering what happened in the finale. It's like with Doctor Who to me now, since I've only ever watched that using my computer. LOST will forever be a live show for me, however, 'cause it's LOST, dude.

Also, I think my Vista partition may be dying. I only reinstalled my tablet driver, 'cause my tablet is wonky and seems to favor that partition, and now it doesn't want to start except in safe mode. Word of advice: when creating a dual-boot system, pick and stick to a favorite OS and create a third partition for sharing files between the two. I now have near identical installations among the two 'cause I kept switching between them based on what was working when. It's convenient and it's not. =/ It's nice to have a backup to rely on when one breaks down (and it's not completely effed as I can access Vista's files), plus I need the Vista partition for warranty purposes, but it's still a hassle. Especially the driver searches for both (ugh). Well, XP perfectly plays MKV files, a task Vista has never been able to do, so at least I have stuff to watch while I do research on my new problem.

Let's jump right in:

( LOST )

Oh, and to sign off with a non sequitur, my new mail notification in Windows Live Mail is NPH yelling about the unicorn in the road in Harold & Kumar 2 xD

It's hot, it's cold, it's rainy, it's windy...it's inconsistent =/


( Squawk! )

Ah, to have a Tivo right now would be great. Maybe Fox will move House to a different night again so I don't miss HIMYM every week ::sigh::

It has been raining for three days straight, though it's finally starting to taper off; reminds me of a couple years ago when the entire month of April (or May) was cloudy and depressing. Don't even really need sun, just no more rain, please. Guess I'm lucky, though; my poor bro in Philly has a leaky basement and totally incompetent contractors.

( Needs more Wilson (as always) )

( HIMYM )

Hey, have the True Blood fans on my flist seen the trailer for season 2? Man, it's beautiful:



I may be switching to Fios (damn Comcast and it's rate hikes!), but want to keep HBO just for this (since FotC is done and all), though Grey Gardens was also very good.

( Dollhouse )

I was almost late for my second final of the day, Politics of Diversity; I registered to the class late, after I dropped Children's Literature (reading 50 books in a semester is just too much, thanks), and have the second section's syllabus so the exam time is different. Probably would have been fine to take it later, same exam questions and all, but at the time, I was running...

But I need to process LOST (thankfully not pre-empted by Obama's speech).

( I spent some of today reading about paradoxes on wikipedia )

Hey, my allergies are driving me bonkers. Not only was it 94 or so degrees yesterday (now it's 59 =/ ), I can barely breathe today. I think I'm gonna try that Neti pot thing, maybe that'll help. Only one more final to go, too, so something positive there.

No LOST this week (though I did watch the special, though I loathe clip shows and there wasn't near enough Island crew screentime), so some different reactions.

( Office - Time to make the donuts )

( Dollhouse  )

My sister texted me after class that NPH hosted with Kelly Ripa this morning; guess Regis is out sick? Or does he take weeks off on occasion? I don't know, but I loved it when Anderson Cooper hosted with her - the famous AI bit was great; does Brian Williams ever do that? I love him, and a trifecta of awesome sub-hosts would be nice. NPH is on Jimmy Fallon tonight, too; I have no idea why, but I'll probably catch it on Hulu tomorrow.

Oh, I started watching Ashes to Ashes after catching a bit of it on BBC America; remember thinking without Sam I wouldn't be interested, though, man, that Gene Hunt is fun to watch. Alex being separated from her daughter - no way she'll want to stay, right? Second season just started; gotta catch up.