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labellementeuseThe 2006 in summary meme.
January:
1/1/06
"Happy New Year! I've just finished work for the evening (Holiday season? *hollow laughter* Isn't it more normal to work extra hours at this time of year?) and thus, I feel like... a meme."
Things don't really change, huh. First line of substance:
7/1/06
"Spent Friday night at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sixth_light's house, as her family is away currenty and she's lonely. We watched a couple of old episodes of Smallville, which was fun- I used to watch Smallville religiously in the first season, it was the family show, but after that I didn't really watch it deliberately."
February:
2/2/06
"Because my love for music memes is deep and wide, plus I leave Wellington in five days. "
... Or alternatively:
3/2/06
"Something sad happened today; I left my place of work formally (although actually I'm working a couple of hours on Monday. but I was supposed to finish today so.) I don't talk about work much here, but I work at a convenience store in town and I actually adore my coworkers, which is kind of embarassing, especially because one of them's tanizard."
From this post, and wow, now I'm sad again, because last weekkeymash ditched us for better pay and prospects, which is great for her, obvs, but makes me do the :'( face all ovef the place. Actually, it makes us all do the :'< face. Don't believe me? Spend some money and Star Mart Grand Arcade today and look at the bottom of your receipt.
March:
2/3/06
"That comment meme thing, 'cause I'm bored."
*shoots self*
"God, remember when I used to have a life? Yeah, not so much anymore. I'm working two days a week as well as (supposedly) studying- it's the third week of term and I haven't done a goddamn thing so far."
Oh, March, halcyon days.
April:
First entry in April is this frankenmix, but first real entry:
"Went to a party last night that I was totally intending to come home from. Five (large) vodka and cokes and two Smirnoff Blacks (about 2 std drinks each) later... "Oh, oops, it's five past midnight, I missed the last bus home." Cut to half-past three, I collapse on the couch; cut to half past seven, I fall out of the couch and onto the bus. Cut to 10 am, I'm at work for nine freaking hours."
I could have done with a bit more of this last year. But I can't actually remember which party this was, so you know; I'm pretty sure it can't have been Tom's, because I didn't plan to come home from that one, but it's too late in the year for Sam's or Ben's. *shrug* probably was Sam's couch, though. Tane's 21st? *scratches head* this is going to really bug me now.
may:
3/5/06
"This is what gave me the impetus to post today:
There are many people smarter and better informed than me saying lots of important things about this elsewhere, so I won't bother, other than to say that Net Neutrality is important for every single person on my flist, and that should be obvious. Sign petitions. Stuff."
June:
this Frankenmix. First post of substance:
"Taking a leaf out ofblademistress' book because shit, otherwise I will never never never finish this essay and will spend the whole time banging on sixth_light's door begging her to put me out of my misery: essay-writing bitching, cut-tagged for your convenience! Send sympathy and anything you know about the ideational theory of meaning, plzkthx."
Wow, I still think that essay's a piece of crap. *squints* I really like the second paragraph, though. After that I no longer understand what I was trying to say, although actually "no longer" might not really be the phrase juste, since I'm not sure I understood what I was talking about then, either. *re-reads* Mm, I'm really not too proud of my work in the second part of that class, although I enjoyed it. Overall, I think my work in English was above and away my best work this year, and probably ever. Ho hum.
July:
1/7/06
"Oh, Superman Returns. *_*
I was expecting it to be awesome and it exceeded expectations. A lot. I am pretty much incoherent and I will add that there were, actually, things I didn't like but I so don't care because so good. Oh.
*babbles*"
Oh yeah.
August
1/08/06
"Fanon I don't get: Sam & Dean speaking Latin.">
And I still don't get it. from this post which included a bit of seat-of-my-pants latin transcription and translation that I'm still secretly proud of. Incidentally, did anyone notice that the kid in Croatoan didn't incant? That bothered me although I do think that "I need to make a call" was one of the most resonating moments in the ep.
September
1/09/06
"Anybody going to, or thinking about going to, Conspiracy II? Guests of honor Eric Flint, Dylan Horrocks, Isabelle Carmody and, um, some cyberpunk lady I've never heard of. I'm sort of vaguely considering it but, well, I probably wouldn't bother paying air fares and so on if no-one I know's going to be there. :P
October
1/10/06
"asdfghjkl. Um. So I was maybe a little spoiled for THE SPOILER but it totally didn't matter. *clutches heart* omfg. okay."
Yeah, that was my 'In My Time of Dying' reaction post. Damn, that was a kickass first episode - I know there are mixed feelings out there about the last three or four eps but say what you want, I loved the first few eps of this season with a pure and true love. They were also prety good tee vee, as these things go.
November
1/11 is friendslocked, and I'm not locking this, so 4/11:
"Dear Jo,
Friendly advice: dye your hair. DO EET NOW. Brassy red, chestnut brown, black, blue and green stripes for all I care, just... change it. As an added bonus, throw out all your whites. I LIKE YOU AND I DO NOT WANT YOU TO GO.
XXXXOOOOO
Me
PS: u r sooooo hawt rite now. *_*"
Yep, my 'No Exit' reaction post. oh jo. ♥ Hey, has anyone heard whether kripke carried through on cutting her out? *crosses fingers*
December:
1/12/06
"If I have to hear My Chemical Romance sing that song, you know the one, I don't even know the title and I am NOT looking it up.... if I have to hear it one. more. time?
Souls are going to writhe."
*sigh* yep. they're still not really over it although at least it's not #1 any more, I think.
So, in summary, my year? memes, uni, supernatural and a dash of f-locked bitching and whining. Sounds... totally unlike my year, actually, which is what livejournal is for. Excellent.
And speaking of TV, a week or two ago I met up with the very coolcocombat and like the evil, evil enabler she is, she showed me the first half of the Battlestar Galactica miniseries and gave me the second half, the first disc of the first season, the last half of the second season and what's aired of the third season to take home with me and play with. After going briefly crazy scrambling around to fill the gaps (I recommend United Video on Courtenay Place, gang; how much do I miss video stores that have a good selection of genre TV when I'm in CHCH? A LOT.)
Okay, first of all, if you're on my friends list and you like SF&F, especially but not limited to Firefly, things Anne McCaffrey and things Asimov and Bradbury, Star Wars, apocalypses, smart and exciting women, smart and exciting men and intelligent writing - go watch the miniseries. Just do it. You won't be sorry, I swear. (sennical, I think you in particular would dig this one. shoeless_sarah and lordofchaos. L and T, y'all don't have choice, I'm afraid, you're setting down and watching it basically the moment you have a chance, especially since I know for a face L has quite a lot of it sitting unwatched.
Second of all, in a shock for absolutely no-one, I totally love Starbuck and would really like to have her children a lot. Unfortunately, she's all hung up on being adulterous with her boss and dead fiance's brother right now, so I may have trouble getting her attention. My little sister's best friends Janet and Kate came round the other day to watch Heroes with Freya - I can't believe I've known them since they were three and yet I never knew they had such great taste in illegally downloaded television - anyway, I was watching BSG in the living room and they stuck their heads in and said 'who do you like'? and I said, Starbuck, and they said, well duh. everyone likes Starbuck. So I'm not very original but I don't give a damn. I also love, love, LOVE Laura Roslin and I'm pretty fond of Gaeta - I had so much love for him in Resistance.
The twins apparently like Tom Zarek and hate Lee, and they still haven't seen the third season so that's interesting; they're totally ready to be fannish, and not just fannish but the really snobby, elitist, determined-to-like-the-obscure-and-indie-characters kind of fan, which is hilarious and cool. In fact, I would be sort of amazed if they didn't already have livejournals or at the very least hang around the better class of website. So, Janet and Kate! If you're out there! I'm laughing.
Anyway, I was talking about BSG, wasn't I? Okay, I was going to wait til I'd finished the first season to post about it, and then I was going to wait until I'd finished the second season, and then I just had to get as far through the third season as has yet aired. So I'm all caught up, but most of my concerns and questions have now been addressed (although, guys, if you can direct me to good episode commentary and meta I'll love you longtime.) Also, it's an interesting artefact of my marathoning style that every now and then I got up, went and found an ep summary or a transcript or just a whole bunch of old spoilers, and read them before I could carry on. I have done this previously but mostly through stopping to read fanfiction rather than actually deliberately spoilery stuff; for some reason I never, ever do this when I'm watching a show as it airs, only when I'm marathoning (and usually only when I'm marathoning a show by myself.) Anyway, I think I do it because it breaks tension, but.
Six and Gaius continue to leave me mostly cold - I hated his guts in the miniseries and I'm still just not that fond - but on the cylon front I've actually become really intrigued by Caprica Six and Boomer. I really, really loved the episode late in the season that was just about them, and I think it's unfortunate that they seem to have lost the ability to express their desire to live with the humans (or perhaps they've lost the desire itself; Boomer thrroughout S3 isn't really acting like Sharon Valerii, cylon-who-thinks-she's-a-human. Which makes me sad, because although I love Athena she isn't maintaining that much of Boomer's character, and there are a lot of things about Boomer I was really keen on back when she thought she was human, mostly about her attitude. She was also the only girl we saw regularly interacting with other women, like Starbuck and Cally - and now she only really interacts with helo. I grieve for that lost female friendship, with Starbuck, although I really love that the show also takes pains to point out that this friendship has been lost, with that scene with Kara and Sharon (can't remember right now which Sharon) in the cell.)
Tigh kind of annoyed me for a long time, and I actually said to Meg - who I have successfully made watch the miniseries and the first season; she went through most of the first season independently, even! I'm so proud I could just scream. Anyway, I said to her when we were watching the miniseries that I was sick of his idiotic alcoholism and how they just never got over it. but somewhere in the middle of The Resistance, or maybe even in S3 when Ellen dies, I realised: actually, no. I'm not sick of it; I'm sick of the way most shows do alcoholics and their struggle with quitting and blah blah blah. But I actually kind of like the way Tigh's alcoholism becomes just a facet of his character; when he has a drink the show isn't saying OMG LOOK ALCOHOLISM, it's just saying, hey, we're watching Col. Tigh right now and he's a drinker; what does the way he's drinking right now say about what's happening to him? the show doesn't condone it or anything but it's not hung up on it and now I sort of like it.
I like Dee but I think it's a shame the show chose to have her and Lee get hitched, because of the angst. I like UST and I like a bit of angst but really angsty adultery doesn't do that much for me (although for Lee/kara I'll make the exception). Also, it hasn't passed my notice that most of the moresome resolution fanfic is Lee/Kara/Anders, not Lee/Kara/Dee or Dee/Lee/Kara/Anders, and I think that's... interesting although not all that surprising.
Anyway, guys: gimme some recs! fic, vids, and meta. :D
January:
1/1/06
"Happy New Year! I've just finished work for the evening (Holiday season? *hollow laughter* Isn't it more normal to work extra hours at this time of year?) and thus, I feel like... a meme."
Things don't really change, huh. First line of substance:
7/1/06
"Spent Friday night at
sixth_light's house, as her family is away currenty and she's lonely. We watched a couple of old episodes of Smallville, which was fun- I used to watch Smallville religiously in the first season, it was the family show, but after that I didn't really watch it deliberately."February:
2/2/06
"Because my love for music memes is deep and wide, plus I leave Wellington in five days. "
... Or alternatively:
3/2/06
"Something sad happened today; I left my place of work formally (although actually I'm working a couple of hours on Monday. but I was supposed to finish today so.) I don't talk about work much here, but I work at a convenience store in town and I actually adore my coworkers, which is kind of embarassing, especially because one of them's tanizard."
From this post, and wow, now I'm sad again, because last week
keymash ditched us for better pay and prospects, which is great for her, obvs, but makes me do the :'( face all ovef the place. Actually, it makes us all do the :'< face. Don't believe me? Spend some money and Star Mart Grand Arcade today and look at the bottom of your receipt.March:
2/3/06
"That comment meme thing, 'cause I'm bored."
*shoots self*
"God, remember when I used to have a life? Yeah, not so much anymore. I'm working two days a week as well as (supposedly) studying- it's the third week of term and I haven't done a goddamn thing so far."
Oh, March, halcyon days.
April:
First entry in April is this frankenmix, but first real entry:
"Went to a party last night that I was totally intending to come home from. Five (large) vodka and cokes and two Smirnoff Blacks (about 2 std drinks each) later... "Oh, oops, it's five past midnight, I missed the last bus home." Cut to half-past three, I collapse on the couch; cut to half past seven, I fall out of the couch and onto the bus. Cut to 10 am, I'm at work for nine freaking hours."
I could have done with a bit more of this last year. But I can't actually remember which party this was, so you know; I'm pretty sure it can't have been Tom's, because I didn't plan to come home from that one, but it's too late in the year for Sam's or Ben's. *shrug* probably was Sam's couch, though. Tane's 21st? *scratches head* this is going to really bug me now.
may:
3/5/06
"This is what gave me the impetus to post today:
There are many people smarter and better informed than me saying lots of important things about this elsewhere, so I won't bother, other than to say that Net Neutrality is important for every single person on my flist, and that should be obvious. Sign petitions. Stuff."
June:
this Frankenmix. First post of substance:
"Taking a leaf out of
blademistress' book because shit, otherwise I will never never never finish this essay and will spend the whole time banging on sixth_light's door begging her to put me out of my misery: essay-writing bitching, cut-tagged for your convenience! Send sympathy and anything you know about the ideational theory of meaning, plzkthx."Wow, I still think that essay's a piece of crap. *squints* I really like the second paragraph, though. After that I no longer understand what I was trying to say, although actually "no longer" might not really be the phrase juste, since I'm not sure I understood what I was talking about then, either. *re-reads* Mm, I'm really not too proud of my work in the second part of that class, although I enjoyed it. Overall, I think my work in English was above and away my best work this year, and probably ever. Ho hum.
July:
1/7/06
"Oh, Superman Returns. *_*
I was expecting it to be awesome and it exceeded expectations. A lot. I am pretty much incoherent and I will add that there were, actually, things I didn't like but I so don't care because so good. Oh.
*babbles*"
Oh yeah.
August
1/08/06
"Fanon I don't get: Sam & Dean speaking Latin.">
And I still don't get it. from this post which included a bit of seat-of-my-pants latin transcription and translation that I'm still secretly proud of. Incidentally, did anyone notice that the kid in Croatoan didn't incant? That bothered me although I do think that "I need to make a call" was one of the most resonating moments in the ep.
September
1/09/06
"Anybody going to, or thinking about going to, Conspiracy II? Guests of honor Eric Flint, Dylan Horrocks, Isabelle Carmody and, um, some cyberpunk lady I've never heard of. I'm sort of vaguely considering it but, well, I probably wouldn't bother paying air fares and so on if no-one I know's going to be there. :P
October
1/10/06
"asdfghjkl. Um. So I was maybe a little spoiled for THE SPOILER but it totally didn't matter. *clutches heart* omfg. okay."
Yeah, that was my 'In My Time of Dying' reaction post. Damn, that was a kickass first episode - I know there are mixed feelings out there about the last three or four eps but say what you want, I loved the first few eps of this season with a pure and true love. They were also prety good tee vee, as these things go.
November
1/11 is friendslocked, and I'm not locking this, so 4/11:
"Dear Jo,
Friendly advice: dye your hair. DO EET NOW. Brassy red, chestnut brown, black, blue and green stripes for all I care, just... change it. As an added bonus, throw out all your whites. I LIKE YOU AND I DO NOT WANT YOU TO GO.
XXXXOOOOO
Me
PS: u r sooooo hawt rite now. *_*"
Yep, my 'No Exit' reaction post. oh jo. ♥ Hey, has anyone heard whether kripke carried through on cutting her out? *crosses fingers*
December:
1/12/06
"If I have to hear My Chemical Romance sing that song, you know the one, I don't even know the title and I am NOT looking it up.... if I have to hear it one. more. time?
Souls are going to writhe."
*sigh* yep. they're still not really over it although at least it's not #1 any more, I think.
So, in summary, my year? memes, uni, supernatural and a dash of f-locked bitching and whining. Sounds... totally unlike my year, actually, which is what livejournal is for. Excellent.
And speaking of TV, a week or two ago I met up with the very cool
cocombat and like the evil, evil enabler she is, she showed me the first half of the Battlestar Galactica miniseries and gave me the second half, the first disc of the first season, the last half of the second season and what's aired of the third season to take home with me and play with. After going briefly crazy scrambling around to fill the gaps (I recommend United Video on Courtenay Place, gang; how much do I miss video stores that have a good selection of genre TV when I'm in CHCH? A LOT.) Okay, first of all, if you're on my friends list and you like SF&F, especially but not limited to Firefly, things Anne McCaffrey and things Asimov and Bradbury, Star Wars, apocalypses, smart and exciting women, smart and exciting men and intelligent writing - go watch the miniseries. Just do it. You won't be sorry, I swear. (
sennical, I think you in particular would dig this one. shoeless_sarah and lordofchaos. L and T, y'all don't have choice, I'm afraid, you're setting down and watching it basically the moment you have a chance, especially since I know for a face L has quite a lot of it sitting unwatched. Second of all, in a shock for absolutely no-one, I totally love Starbuck and would really like to have her children a lot. Unfortunately, she's all hung up on being adulterous with her boss and dead fiance's brother right now, so I may have trouble getting her attention. My little sister's best friends Janet and Kate came round the other day to watch Heroes with Freya - I can't believe I've known them since they were three and yet I never knew they had such great taste in illegally downloaded television - anyway, I was watching BSG in the living room and they stuck their heads in and said 'who do you like'? and I said, Starbuck, and they said, well duh. everyone likes Starbuck. So I'm not very original but I don't give a damn. I also love, love, LOVE Laura Roslin and I'm pretty fond of Gaeta - I had so much love for him in Resistance.
The twins apparently like Tom Zarek and hate Lee, and they still haven't seen the third season so that's interesting; they're totally ready to be fannish, and not just fannish but the really snobby, elitist, determined-to-like-the-obscure-and-indie-characters kind of fan, which is hilarious and cool. In fact, I would be sort of amazed if they didn't already have livejournals or at the very least hang around the better class of website. So, Janet and Kate! If you're out there! I'm laughing.
Anyway, I was talking about BSG, wasn't I? Okay, I was going to wait til I'd finished the first season to post about it, and then I was going to wait until I'd finished the second season, and then I just had to get as far through the third season as has yet aired. So I'm all caught up, but most of my concerns and questions have now been addressed (although, guys, if you can direct me to good episode commentary and meta I'll love you longtime.) Also, it's an interesting artefact of my marathoning style that every now and then I got up, went and found an ep summary or a transcript or just a whole bunch of old spoilers, and read them before I could carry on. I have done this previously but mostly through stopping to read fanfiction rather than actually deliberately spoilery stuff; for some reason I never, ever do this when I'm watching a show as it airs, only when I'm marathoning (and usually only when I'm marathoning a show by myself.) Anyway, I think I do it because it breaks tension, but.
Six and Gaius continue to leave me mostly cold - I hated his guts in the miniseries and I'm still just not that fond - but on the cylon front I've actually become really intrigued by Caprica Six and Boomer. I really, really loved the episode late in the season that was just about them, and I think it's unfortunate that they seem to have lost the ability to express their desire to live with the humans (or perhaps they've lost the desire itself; Boomer thrroughout S3 isn't really acting like Sharon Valerii, cylon-who-thinks-she's-a-human. Which makes me sad, because although I love Athena she isn't maintaining that much of Boomer's character, and there are a lot of things about Boomer I was really keen on back when she thought she was human, mostly about her attitude. She was also the only girl we saw regularly interacting with other women, like Starbuck and Cally - and now she only really interacts with helo. I grieve for that lost female friendship, with Starbuck, although I really love that the show also takes pains to point out that this friendship has been lost, with that scene with Kara and Sharon (can't remember right now which Sharon) in the cell.)
Tigh kind of annoyed me for a long time, and I actually said to Meg - who I have successfully made watch the miniseries and the first season; she went through most of the first season independently, even! I'm so proud I could just scream. Anyway, I said to her when we were watching the miniseries that I was sick of his idiotic alcoholism and how they just never got over it. but somewhere in the middle of The Resistance, or maybe even in S3 when Ellen dies, I realised: actually, no. I'm not sick of it; I'm sick of the way most shows do alcoholics and their struggle with quitting and blah blah blah. But I actually kind of like the way Tigh's alcoholism becomes just a facet of his character; when he has a drink the show isn't saying OMG LOOK ALCOHOLISM, it's just saying, hey, we're watching Col. Tigh right now and he's a drinker; what does the way he's drinking right now say about what's happening to him? the show doesn't condone it or anything but it's not hung up on it and now I sort of like it.
I like Dee but I think it's a shame the show chose to have her and Lee get hitched, because of the angst. I like UST and I like a bit of angst but really angsty adultery doesn't do that much for me (although for Lee/kara I'll make the exception). Also, it hasn't passed my notice that most of the moresome resolution fanfic is Lee/Kara/Anders, not Lee/Kara/Dee or Dee/Lee/Kara/Anders, and I think that's... interesting although not all that surprising.
Anyway, guys: gimme some recs! fic, vids, and meta. :D
