I moved to South Korea. Over a week later, and I think I'm beginning to realize that that... actuall happened. Huh.

So a little while ago, pathstotread linked to some very nice vids, of awesome women being awesome. And it made me want to make icons! Which I have not wanted to do in a while. I was planing to do more than two fandoms, but I figured I should post what I've got, as I feel like I'm starting to run out of steam. If I make more, I can always just post them too. Hanyway, here's what I've done so far:

( firefly )

( avatar )

I've seen this around, and I thought it looked like fun!

1. Answer each of the questions below using the Flickr search engine.
2. Choose a photo from the first three pages.
3. Copy the URL of your favourite photo into this site
4. Share!

Questions: name, favourite food, hometown, favourite colour, celebrity crush, favourite drink, dream vacation, favourite dessert, what I most want to be when I grow up, what I love most in the world, one word that describes me, my username (I sort of cheated for this one, since "eldritch flame" did not come up with any good pictures).

( Voila! )

Some people have written something for each question, but if I tried to do that I'd never get this posted, so I figured I'd just leave it at the pretty pictures.

How long do mp3 players tend to last? Mine seems to have kicked the bucket. I had it plugged into the computer to charge, and when I unplugged it, it turned on (which it sometimes does), so I turned it off. Then less than a minute later i tried to turn it back on and nothing happened. Nothing has continued to happen periodically all day, and I'm thinking nothing is all that will ever happen. Woe. I don't think I've even had it all that long; maybe a bit over a year now. Do these things really bite it that fast?

Can I just say? ( spoilers for doctor who 4.02 )
It's looking like series four maybe won't suck!

Stole this from pathstotread...

( q&a meme )

One of my oldest and best friends was visiting from Montreal the other day  and, as we often do when we are together for any length of time, we decided to rewatch a few episodes of the X-Files. As I had recently purchased season 6 (for only $20! I still can't believe that, really), we decided to watch a bit from that season, including the third episode of the season, "Triangle". You know, the one where Mulder goes out to the ghost ship and ends up back in time, except most of the people he meets look like people he knows in the present? Yeah, that one.

And here's the thing. I knew it was coming. It hasn't really been that long since I last saw this episode (I used to rent them from the library back when they were more like $120 per set), and I have seen this episode a few times now. And yet when the end of the episode came along, with Mulder about to jump off into the ocean, and the "In case I never see you again" smooches, despite all this I STILL SQUEED AND FLAILED LIKE A CRAZY PERSON.

Even though it's been years since I was at all the into the X-Files (although I'm cautiously optimistic about the upcoming movie), even though I'd pretty much lost interest by the end of the series, even though it wasn't even the real Scully he was kissing. I just. I have such a shipper's heart I can't help myself. I feel floaty even just thinking about it.

And luckily for me, my BFF had a similar reaction, so I didn't have to feel too embarrassed.

Oh my fuck, my smoke alarm has been beeping intermittently for the last hour-and-a-half no reason what so fucking ever. It's three o' fucking clock in the morning! And it's not evenly spaced beeps, or anything, either. I timed them. And sometimes there's just two beep and other times there's, like, seven in a row and my building supers are away on vacation and the replacement dude is only available during business hours and IT NEEDS TO BE SLEEP TIME NOW. Fuck.


ETA: And almost fifteen minutes later with no beeping, I am willing to conclude that livejournal is magic. Yay!

When you see this post, quote from Doctor Who on your LJ.

Well, pathstotread posted this meme in her journal, and being that I am currently in the midst of a major DW addiction (although I have managed to not rewatch Utopia or The Sound Of Drums again. Well, not in their entireties, anyway), I could hardly pass it up. So here are two quotes for my sweet, lost OT3:

DOCTOR: Rose! I've just remembered!
ROSE: What?
DOCTOR: I can dance!
ROSE: Actually, Doctor... I thought Jack might like this dance.
DOCTOR: I'm sure he would, Rose. I'm absolutely certain. But who with?

and

JACK: But closing a rift always leaves a scar, and that scar generates energy, harmless to the Human Race--
DOCTOR:But perfect for the TARDIS, so just park it here for a couple of days right on top of the scar and--
JACK: Open up the engines, soak up the radiation--
ROSE: Like filling her up with petrol and off we go!
JACK: Into time!
ALL THREE: And space! (high-fives all around)
ROSE: Whoo!
MICKEY: My God, have you seen yourselves? You all think you're so clever, don't you?
DOCTOR: Yeah.
ROSE: Yeah!
JACK: Yep!

( and one more, non-ot3-flavoured quote from Utopia )

And I'll have the new episode tomorrow! Hopefully!

I have now watched Utopia and The Sound Of Drums three times each. Since Monday. I-- I think I need help? Or fic recs.

You know what I hate? People who come into the store where I work and just wait expectantly. Because obviously I must know what they want by now, right? I mean, okay, sure you come into the store fairly often and always get the same thing, fine. That much about you I can usually remember. But d'ya know how many people come in every weak or every day or every minute and buy the same frakking thing? Many, many people. And d'ya know how much of my rather shoddy memory I want to devote to remembering everyone's orders? Somewhere in the vicinity of NONE AT ALL. God. Do these people not get that I hate my job? And yes, I do remember what some people get, but that's usually because those people are nice and pleasant and talk to me like I'm an actual human being, they don't just stand there with their self-importance fairly oozing off of them and making stupid comments about how they know I can get it if I just try. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

...

Okay. I think that's gotten it out of my system for now. In other, much happier news, yay for the finding of apartements! Gotta focus on the positive.

Hokay. So, I have a couple of questions of varying importance.

Firstly, how does one add a banner to one's lj? Is this something only paid accounts can do?

Second, um, -ly, is it possible to make a website (such as, for instance, a television network's site that is showing streaming episodes of their shows but only if you happen to be in the States) think that I am in the States? I seem to recall reading once that there was a way to do so, but the specifics of such an undertaking have escaped my memory.

Thirdly, what the hell else was I going to ask? Seriously, I know there was something else I wanted to know. Ah, well, I'm sure it will come to me at some point.

I'm a bit behind the times with this, but I have never made a picspam before - I almost made one for The Pretender, but I chickened out got too busy with schoolwork - and I wanted to take my time. Hanyway, this was originally inspired by hobviously's picspam of awesome, and was further inspired by bantha_fodder's subsequent picspam. So, onward:

1. This is a picspam.
2. It's skewed towards girls, because girls are really really pretty.
3. Everything that is included was found in my randomly-updated My Pictures folder, so there's some new and some really old.
4. It is not at all dial-up safe.
5. It's incredibly random.
6. EVERYONE should make picspams of awesome, because they make me happy. And, y'know, the world exists to please me.

( The one who lives inside my mind... )

This picspam has been brought to you by:
Don't Die In Me by Mirah
Dazed, Beautiful and Bruised by Catatonia
March Of The Sinister Ducks by Alan Moore (I think?)
and, um, the letter Theta.

Well. That was fun.

What could make OK Go on treadmills even better? OK Go Lego on treadmills. Awesome.

Noah Grey's photography is some of the most beautiful stuff I have seen in ever. From the somewhat eerily stirring, to the amusing, to the utterly adorable, it's all just gah. So pretty.

This was just too good not to share.

I can't tell if the guy in the pink shirt is the awesomest one, or just really annoying.

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