Lady Adventure

...the hell?

"NBC [...] is busy developing a much larger-scale project with the help of Battlestar Galactica creator Ronald D. Moore. The still-untitled drama is being described as “an adult Harry Potter set in a world ruled not by science but by magic[...]”

::blinks::

...

?????

Good news: JAMIE BAMBER! FREEMA AGYEMAN! ON THE SAME SHOW!

!!!!!

Bad news: ...Chris Chibnall is writing it.

Helpful linkety thing

I have a better solution: why don't we put them BOTH on Doctor Who? They can totally fight crime there. APOLLO/MARTHA 4EVA.

After watching the end of season 3 of BSG, I am again filled with love! So I made icons.

( He's a Tigh-rate )

So, these past two weeks kind of sucked out loud. Week one, I had my 19th Century Women Novelists paper due, which even though I started three days before it was due -- THREE -- still had me up til 5:00 AM the night before it was due. However, thank God for time zone differences, because this meant I felt (relatively) unguilty about making Meera read it. And this past week, I had a 1500-2000 word essay due on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, which meant that I started writing on Saturday and didn't stop until yesterday morning. Yeah. But now I don't have to worry about writing papers for another 5 weeks! Of course, then I have FOUR due in one week, but I'm choosing to ignore that for now.

In more entertaining school news, yesterday was the Ides of March, and we started reading Julius Caesar. Apparently, it wasn't on purpose. Heh. Also, tomorrow we leave for Oxford!

Kirstin got me a t-shirt that says "Saving people. Hunting things." for my birthday. She wins.

( Speaking of Spoon... )

In conclusion, I found this on Maya's Livejournal and had to share:

This book reminded me of a dreadful TV show about Romantic Heroes, in which the opinion was expressed that every woman wanted to marry Heathcliff, Mr Rochester or Mr Darcy.

I took offence, both for myself and for my beloved Mr Darcy. I mean, can you imagine them all in a room together?

TV PRESENTER: Boys, would you like to talk about your interest and hobbies?
ROCHESTER: Well, there’s the compulsive lying. And then there’s the cross-dressing.
HEATHCLIFF: I enjoy long romantic walks on the moors-
TV PRESENTER: Oh, that’s nice!
HEATHCLIFF: And then I round off the day by hanging a puppy.
DARCY: …
TV PRESENTER: So, do any of you have a special lady?
ROCHESTER: Well, I may have gotten the syph from my score of mistresses. And I have this illegitimate kid. And I do have a wife, but she’s crazy and in the care of a drunk, so that won’t stick.
HEATHCLIFF: Oh snap, I have a wife too! I beat her.
DARCY: I am as yet unmarried, madam.
TV PRESENTER: Thank God for that… So, uh, what would you consider your greatest, uh, fault?
ROCHESTER: Some narrow-minded fools frown on tricking defenceless girls into bigamy.
HEATHCLIFF: So I practise incestuous necrophilia. Don’t be a hater.
DARCY: Sometimes I’m a little judgemental. And aloof at parties.
TV PRESENTER: *hides behind Mr Darcy*

Hee.

Clearly, Helo is not the only one on BSG who needs superpowers. They can start the Galactica Justice League!

ETA: ( Which spoon character am I? )

Heh. This is actually somewhat appropriate. "I have an evil twin?".

Important realization of the day: Anders on BSG is eerily similar to Kyan from QE.

This of course begs the question of how Starbuck's hair got as bad as it did...

Today I returned to the workforce. I spent the entire day alphabetizing a box of papers for one of the counselors. I fell asleep. And I'm still not done, so THE FUN WILL CONTINUE.

Also, last night I had a dream that ended up with me playing soccer with Helo. So naturally, during all the alphabetization excitement I figured out what position everyone would play: ( The BSG Soccer Team )

5 Guilty Pleasures Protected
The first player of this game starts with the topic of "5 Guilty Pleasures"* and people who get tagged need to write an LJ entry about 5 Guilty Pleasures as well as state this rule clearly. In the end you need to choose people to be tagged and list their names.

I find this meme needlessly overcontrolling. Maybe I didn't want to state that rule clearly! In fact, if I had access to a latin dictionary, I would totally write it in Latin, because then would it not only be unclear to non-Latin speakers, it would probably be unclear to Latin speakers as well because I suspect my recall is atrocious!

And maybe I want to choose people to be tagged now! Or I would if anyone actually updated anymore who hasn't been tagged already! So there :}P*

I tag:
-[your name here]

My 5 Guilty Pleasures (Protected from what? I am foncused.)

1. Sci-fi television
2. fantasy novels
3. chocolate truffles (I almost wrote truggles. Weren't they in Math Blaster? Or maybe that was troggles.)
4. pirate coats
5. lj icons

In conclusion: I am really cool.

( Excerpts from amusing BSG chat )

Heh.

ETA:

*Primus ludor illi ludi incipit thematem quinque indecorum delectationum... I'd do more but since I can't even remember what the "must do stuff" verb constructions are called, much less how to form them, it's pretty darn unlikely. I wish I knew where my "pocket" dictionary was. Eheu! Ego habeo nullus dictionariorum!

In two words:

HOLY CRAP!

In a good way, of course. See also: things shouted every time something large and man-eating came onto the screen (every five minutes, basically). Special shout-outs go to Colin Hanks, the guy from "Early Edition" who resembles Russell Crowe, Billy Elliot as Jimmy the Budding English Major, a very piratey Andy Serkis, the boat guy who looked vaguely like Ryan Stiles and was hot and who I personally thought of as "Captain Swedish Meatball" because I can't remember his name except it turns out he's actually German, the freaky little kid who looked like the creepy girl from "The Ring", and Joseph Conrad. Kong and Naomi Watts and Jack Black and Adrien Brody = similarly awesome. My only quibbles were Adrien Brody's random mad car thievery driving in icy conditions skillz and Naomi Watts' lack of frostbite. It was 22 freaking degrees in the parking lot after the movie got out, and I still can't feel my feet. She should have been an exciting shade of blue. I mean, sure, a 25-ft monkey probably gives off a lot of body heat, but she was running all over the place without him on top of the Empire State Building. Wind chill like whoa. Seriously, Peter Jackson, I can't rationalize it away that much. Also, it turns out Adrien Brody did his own car stunts, which makes him therefore the most intense person ever, but doesn't explain why they are part of a playwright's repetoire. He does however win for shooting the stupid velociraptors from Jurassic Park. Hurrah.

You should all go see the movie and see what I'm babbling about. Unless you have a really short attention span and/or get freaked out by man-eating dinosaurs, man-eating bugs, man-eating iguanas, man-eating leeches, or Jack Black.

Oh, did I mention the random apparent homages to The Emperor's New Groove? That was weird.

ETA: a completely unrelated HOLY CRAP! man-eating hair!