1. All of my parts hurt. All of them. My plan to resume the yoga once school starts again for the spawns is still just a plan, as school doesn't start for them until next week and I am very lazy. I may also do the 100 pushups that a lot of you are doing. Hopefully that will help, as I am pretty sure my bones are grinding together, turning to powder right now and I will eventually be eaten by a giant.

2. That is a scary visual and now I'm frightened. Good thing I'm not going to sleep soon, I guess.

3. Speaking of the Spawns and their schooling, I have not received anything from the school yet. You know, like, who their teachers are, school supply lists, bus schedules, minor, not-so-important stuff like that. I have to make a phone call.

4. Speaking of phone calls, I have to call my landlord about the fact that my house is falling down around me. I have to remember to mention the toilets, garbage disposal, dishwasher, and banister, all of which are broken in some form or another. Perhaps that can be my excuse for not paying my rent on time? Or maybe I should call now, well before the rent is due?

5. I am experiencing a vague dissatisfaction with various things, and I'm not entirely sure what to do about it. Mostly beccause I can't figure out exactly what it is that I'm dissatisfied with. I know myself and my impulses well enough by now that I don't actually DO anything when I'm feeling like this, because that way lies madness (and debt. LOTS of debt.). I'll give it a while, let it percolate, make about a dozen lists (OCD YAY!) and we'll see what happens.

6. I have so much music! I remember quite well a time when I could not actually fit 1471 songs litterally in the palm of my hand, and yet I am kind of desperately waiting for the day in the not so distant future when I'm all, "Fifteen hundred, pffft. Try fifteen thousand. On my fingertip." And, of course, that still won't be enough, because it will be the future, and I'll have all the music that comes out between now and then.

7. Mad Men! Psych! Middleman! Teeveeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

8. I forget what 8 was for.

9. The inlaws are simply not happy unless they are causing drama. This does not please me. I am not a fan of non-televised drama. I have no interest in them in general, but if this keeps up, one of these days here soon I will end up going off. At this point, not only do I really not even care, but I'm almost looking forward to it. (Danger, Will Robinson.) I was smart enough to clean up, grow up, and act like a parent, now it's her turn. It's only 32 years late, but it won't be too late until she's dead.

10. I need raisins and walnuts so I can make zucchini bread. I have neither. I suppose I'll have to go to the store in the morning.

11. Oh, Fall Out Boy. I kind of love your stupid faces, every one of you. I have less than no interest in your sex lives (real or imagined. Uh, unless a member of my chem is brought into the mix, in which case OKAY YES PLEASE!) (also, I originally typed 'sex lies' and then, trying to correct it, 'sex lieves' - TAKE THAT PETE I AM A LYRICAL GENIUS WHO IS BAD AT GRAMMAR TOO) but your real (?) lives are amusing the hell out of me. This whole week has been nothing but me verbally capslocking PETE at my coworkers, who, honestly, couldn't care less but are stuck in a 24x12 foot cell row of cubicles with me for 10 hours a night. "PETE!" I say and they just sigh and reply, "Put your headphones back on, Miss Anne." It's only going to get worse before it gets better isn't it? Also: patrick. I make hearteyes at you.

12. Tell me what to take pictures of.

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Conductor: This is 14th Street, Union Square. Transfers available to the 4, 5, 6, L, Q, R, and W trains. This is a Queens-bound N train. The next stop will be 14th Street, Union Square. 14th Street, Union Square will be the next stop.

--Uptown N Train, Canal Street

Overheard by: V

Conductor: This is 33rd Street. Transfer is available to the... street.

--6 Train

Overheard by: Murray Hill Schlub

Conductor: This is 66th street, Lincoln Tunnel.

--Downtown 2 Train

Overheard by: Close but no cigar

Conductor: Attention, ladies and gentlemen. This train will *not* be going to South Ferry, due to issues with the problem. I repeat: we will *not* be going to South Ferry, because of issues with the problem.

--Downtown 1 Train

Overheard by: Ladle

Conductor: There is no N train service across the platform. I repeat, there is no N service across the platform. (N train pulls in) ...that is an an N train across the platform.

--Queensboro Plaza

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So I created a journal specific to my upcoming travels:

http://peregrinatory.blogspot.com/

I'm planning on making this the kind of "Hey, where the hell is Eliza at now?" stop for friends and family and whoever else may be interested, and while this will still be my main journal the posts there will be more, um. Public friendly, I guess? Certainly non-fannish.

Okay, enough of that. Back to your regularly scheduled random shit.

After a lovely breakfast with amireal and a post-breakfast trip to Target to buy bubble wrap and food type things, I spent the rest of the day working on the house. Specifically, my horrifically large wardrobe. Y'all, I have more clothes than anyone I know by a very large margin. Most of it is cheap-ass Target/Primark/Forever21 type stuff that has somehow managed to not fall apart, and there's just so much of it. So I gathered everything in the living room and spent - and I am not exaggerating here - two hours sorting it all into piles, going back through the house to find more stuff, sorting that into the piles, until finally I'd found everything and it was in giant mounds on the living room floor. Then I decided the only way I'd figure out what I had and what I wanted and what I didn't want was to catalogue it all, so I took pictures of each item. My whole wardrobe is now uploaded to iPhoto, ready to be tagged. God I'm weird.

But I figure this way there won't be the question of what has been packed where, what I have with me, whether I do or do not own a black pencil skirt, etc. This way I can actually reference what I have without having to dig through boxes or my suitcase once I've packed it all up. I'm considering getting Delicious Library to help me out with this process (not to mention books and DVDs which is going to be a whole other nightmare) - anyone have it and would like to comment? Any other suggestions of ways to go about doing this that I just haven't thought of?

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Loud office chick: Oh my god, I found, like, four condoms on the bookshelf!

--Hudson St

Overheard by: Harriet Vane

Serious teen on cell: If you use a condom... It doesn't count.

--Murray Hill

40-something woman to two 20-year-old men: Don't believe any girl when she tells you she's on birth control. Take your condom and keep it in your wallet.

--19th St & 5th Ave

Overheard by: McCrum

Guy on cell: You're just mad because your dick is tiny and the condom slipped off.

--Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Powerwalking Indian woman: I mean, isn't that why I went on the pill? So guys can come in me?

--40th & Queens Blvd, Queens

Overheard by: Ohmarkus

Sides for SPN (der..what else would it be??) Episode 6.

( episode title, sides and stuff )

Okay, PSA: I missed Eureka tonight, and apparently there are a lot of spoilers floating around. So I'm avoiding my flist until we get a chance to watch it tomorrow after work, and if I talk to you between now and then, please please PLEASE don't spoil me. Thank you!!

Ren & Stimpy in Space Madness is probably my single most favorite cartoon episode of all time. (It's only the first fifteen minutes, so no need to watch the whole thing.)

CHICKEN POTPIE! CHOCOLATE COVERED RAISINS! GLAZED HAM! OOOOOH!

Title: Clouds
Characters: Sam and Dean (pre-series, ages 7 and 11)
Rating: G
Words: 100, drabble

"What’s that one look like?” Sam pointed.

Title: I'd Drive All Night Just to Get Back Home (formerly known as East Rapids)
Characters: Dean, Bobby, Sam
Disclaimer: Not mine. Which, come to think of it, SUCKS.
Rating: PG-13. Gen.
Warnings: Language. it's salty.
Summary: AU where John is missing, but Dean hasn't gone to find Sam at Stanford because he's been in the hospital for four months without telling anyone. The story opens on the day he's released, a little worse for the wear, when he places a call to Bobby...

PART TEN

All other chapters HERE

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Suit on cell: You know, in the 80s everyone and their brother were making limos in their basement.

--17th & Broadway

Overheard by: Vespa

(obnoxious pimped-out car revs up at stop sign, then tears down the road)
Old guy: That guy's goin' back to the future! 88 miles per hour!

--9th & Stuyvesant

Tough-looking woman to younger one: Let me teach you how to break into a car...

--27th b/w 6th & 5th

Overheard by: Kyle

Russian guy on cell (in Russian): I am not seeing her as a woman, I am seeing her as a potential driver of a vehicle.

--Lower East Side

50-something woman: I haven't seen a good pimpmobile since the seventies. I mean, what happened to all the purple, maroon, and gold? What is all of this crap with yellow hummers and black Escalades these days, it's like all the pimps went to finishing school sometime in 1981.

--Central Park

Overheard by: Graham Davis

Just a quick one that jumped into my brain and insisted on being written!

Title: Call Me When You Land
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jensen/Jared
Summary: Jared is on his way to Australia. Jensen receives an early morning phone call. (Set just before Jared flew to Sydney for the Supanova Convention.)

( Read the Story )

Have you ever noticed that in a lot of fanfic, when Sam and Dean's hands are being described during sex, they're often described as being callused?

But would they?I mean the boys lead a physical life sure, but aside from digging up the odd grave they aren't really doing a lot of hard manual labour, certainly not of the repetitive nature needed to produce calluses. For the record my personal fanon is that Sam bites his fingernails a lot, and that he lets his toenails grow until they are always scratching Dean in bed and he threatens to cut them with a machete.

And JAred and Jensen - PLZ they have not a rough patch of skin on their whole bodies. I have these gloves I got in NZ and they are kntited from yarn which is a mix of the finest merino, cashmere and possum fur, and they are ossibly the softest things I have ever felt. I bet that's how Jensen or Jared's hands feel. Not that I think about that much.

And another thing is where a character describes being able to feel the 'whorl of his fingerprint' - i mean try it.Yes, right now. Rub the pad of a finger over your lips, run your tongue over it, lick it. Feel any fingerprints? NO.

But damn you looked sexy doing that ;)

Can't remember seeing this but if so Please Forgive...

An interview with Kripke by a Toledo newspaper. One spoiler, but mostly talks about his past and links to Toledo and the ref's he tries to include in the show...and the music :-). If anyone wants the text sans spoiler let me know and I will post.

Clickity Click

This weekend I made a puffed apple pancake for Sunday brunch, which was quite good, and then this pasta salad, which was absolutely amazing, holy crap. I actually didn't have as much basil and green onion than the recipe called for and I was too lazy to toast the pine nuts, so I can only imagine it's even better if you actually follow the recipe more exactly. Seriously, though, I could have eaten that entire recipe by myself. Also I can't remember if I posted here about the big dinner I made for my cousin's last day at home with us, but that was quite good, too, a very filling Indian dish with black-eyed peas and coconut milk and tomatoes and lots and lots of spices.

Tomorrow I think I am going to get to work on a recipe I have for some sweet buns stuffed with almond paste and cream, and also chicken paprikash which I've never made before, and maybe try a goat cheese and tomato tart later in the week. And we have bags upon bags of blueberries in the freezer, and unfortunately nobody in my family actually likes blueberries, except my dad, who is rarely home, so I think this weekend might be my first foray into trying jam-making.

ALSO the fresh corn should be getting cheap soon finally, I think, so I can make my mother buy lots of that so I can try grilled corn and creamed corn and corn pudding and corn fritters and plain old classic buttered and boiled. Om nom nom nom summer.

(The point of this entry is not actually to bribe certain people into coming out so I can cook for them, but IF IT WORKS.)

I hope those of you who participated in and/or attended VividCon had a fabulous time! We can't wait to see what you creative folks come up with next.

WinCon Vids are trickling in but, for those of you still catching your breath from your latest deadlines, here's a gentle reminder that it's time to start putting those final touches on (or, you know, starting) your Superfantabulous SPN vids for WinCon!

You can read the original Request for Vids (with guidelines) HERE. Deadline is midnight EDT on Friday, September 12.

Comments and questions? Send 'em to winconvids (at) gmail (dot) com.

Looking forward to it!

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Camp counselor pointing to giant brass globe: Guys, look! This is America... And way out here is Hawaii...
Camper: I can't find where's The Bronx.

--Museum of Natural History

Overheard by: Autumn

hi everyone. I am new to the community, and wanted to introduce myself.

I'm a southern girl, living in atlanta and closing in on 30. I make and sell jewelry. I just put up my etsy shop (like not even an hour ago), and in the next few days will put up my pieces to sell.

I also plan on selling through lj communities and my own lj.

look forward to meeting all of you!

(cross-posted)

So I'm definitely not going to make the deadline for the j2au summer fic, which makes me really sad. I haven't written anything since I moved into the new place. Eh. I don't want to force the fic. It's all plotted out, it's just a matter of getting my mind to wrap around the words. It'll happen soon enough. For now, I'm just devouring other fics. New, old, whatever. If it's one of my two OTPs and longer than 15k, I've probably read it.

Anyway, I have a job interview on Thursday for a part-time job. I'm trying to get something for nights/weekends for 10-20 hours a week. Just something to help cushion my bank account and give me a little bit of breathing room. I want to get a couple of my bills paid off and start to pay my parents back. And get new furniture. I really want to decorate.

But this month, I'm just happy to eat. :)

DEAR FOX, FUCK THE FUCKING FUCK OFF.

They're trying to block the Watchman movie. FUCK. OFF.


WRATHFULLY YRS,
Bunners