Could you describe the ruckus, sir?

Merlin premieres on NBC tonight. And I don't want to watch it. I don't. Really. I just finally watched the last 5 episodes of The Office, and wow, I totally picked the wrong time to give up on it. "Heavy Competition" was everything I've been missing from the show this season, and the season finale was fantastic, even though I was disappointed not to see Karen. Did they close her branch? I have so completely lost track of what happened in the first 3/4 of the season.

My friend who Knows More About Clothes than I Do, and is a kick-ass retail clothing store manager for a living also does not understand the giant bandanna/scarf thing this season, so I feel better about my lack of understanding it.

also, [paraphrased] conversation with said friend while in Barnes and Noble after lunch
K: *eyeing the humor section* Ooh! Zombie survival guide. A guy I went to college with just wrote some zombie book. I wonder if it's in the humor section.
Me: Dunno, the only zombie book I know of that's new is the zombie Pride and Prejudice...
K: Yeah! That one. He was a film major. [like she was] Figures.

Wikipedia informs me that he has also written several other books, including one about the history of porn, some spider-man thing, and how to survive a horror movie.

And speaking of Pride and Prejudice (not really)...Bandom Big Bang is, like, now. And I'm not reading in bandom (like I don't want to watch Merlin *sighs*) but I'm totally going through and picking out the AUs. The spn_j2 big bang is posting all summer too, but I just can't bring myself to watch the community. I don't think I finished reading the fics from J2_everafter either. I've got 256 things tagged unread, and that list is totally not going down. And some of the things I have tagged unread now are, like, an entire community, or a writer's whole fic tag.

And, in conclusion: I have chocolate chocolate chip ice cream. I can't remember precisely what it says on the carton, but it's got, like, little tiny chocolate-shaving chips, and I keep thinking that they're ice crystals like you get in ice cream that's been in the freezer too long, or that was improperly made. I think that every. single. time.

I feel like I should put things behind cut tags for rambling when I do this, but I can never decide which parts. Feel free to yell at me.

When I was in high school, I used to collect Happy Meal/Kid's Meal toys, particularly of the Disney animated movie variety. I've got a bunch of Lion King toys in a box, somewhere. I'm over it now, mostly, though I do tend to order kid's meals from Burger King still, so that I'm not tempted to get a giant order of fries. The Cat always needs new things to knock off of shelves.

But, the universe wants me to have plastic toys. I am now the (proud?) owner of a plastic, light-up Star Trek badge thing from a box of Frosted Mini-Wheats because my mother is trying to eat healthier. (My mother has apparently not seen how much sugar they put on those.) If the back of the box is to be believed, it's the Engineering one. I think when you press the button, a light shines out of the peak that is intended to look like you're being beamed up.

If I were a less lazy person, I'd find my camera and take a picture. Instead, I will link to the Fast Food and Cereal Premiums category on eBay, search term: Star Trek

I don't remember prizes from cereal boxes from when I was a kid. Maybe I didn't eat as much cereal as I thought.

I have a couple of Dreamwidth invite codes, if someone wants one.

I watched Last Chance Harvey on the flight out, since I didn't get my act together to see it in the theater, and I will watch literally anything with Emma Thompson in it. I'm not a huge fan of Bumbling Dustin Hoffman, but it seemed worth the risk. And it was better than spending 2 hours on the plane bored, but not by much because ( spoilers, maybe, but it's a romance, so it's not like you don't know how it's going to turn out )

I also watched He's Just Not That Into You (and wow, that imdb entry is by order of appearance. lame) - twice, actually - and I loved it. I adore Ginnifer Goodwin (and sort of wish I hadn't fallen out of the habit of watching Big Love, now) and, obviously, Justin Long. I haven't seen any of the past 3 or 4 movies that Jennifer Anniston and Ben Affleck have done, but I really enjoyed their parts in this. And, question: Is it just me, or does Scarlet Johansson play a lot of sort of unpleasant characters, or at least unenlightened and dubiously moral ones. Part of me wants to congratulate her for being willing to play people who are not cookie-cutter ingenues who live their charmed lives and meet their perfect life-mate. Either way, I'm more interested to see her version of Black Widow than I was a couple days ago.

I have about 15 things open in tabs from skimming through flist (reading page...whatever) this morning that I may or may not get to. Taking a break from the internet is sort of daunting.

I am bad at conversation in groups of people. Talking to groups, I'm fine with, and I can make conversation or fill dead air when talking to just one person for hours if need be, but by about 24 hours in, I had no idea who I'd already given the abridged version of the past 10 years to, and so my anecdotes sort of ran out of steam. On the bright side, I got food from all the restaurants I miss over the course of the weekend.

I have all manner of notes for all manner of fictional things, and haven't finished anything in longer than I'm happy with. I really need to sit down and string some words together.

I feel like I have other things I was going to say... Oh well.

...is about 12 hours too long.

Tomorrow I will:

• have something to say about a day spent wandering around New York City with my mother
  
• have something to say about The Norman Conquest
  
• go back and (re)fix my fail editing job on the stuff that I reposted
  
• find the rest of the fic that is in some random not-my-journal post on LJ.
  
• read all that fic that I've been ignoring for the past 2-4 days
  
• maybe actually write one of the plotbunnies that have been chewing on my shoelaces for the past 2 weeks.
  
• maybe finally make that post about why I am a horrible writer, in the hope that claiming my flaws will make them magically disappear

but right now, I am freakin' exhausted

I can't remember the name of my favorite M:TG card. It's been bugging me for three days now. This is only noteworthy insofar as it is odd that I have a favorite card, because I played for about 2 weeks, and I was horrible at it.

I have read a *ton* of NCIS Gibbs/DiNozzo fic in the past week, and I feel like I should rec some of it, but it's all a blur. I really need to get better at tagging things when I read so I can go back to them.

I'm feeling the need to write some Sam/Cam fluff, but the only Sam/Cam prompts at comment_fic are giving me angstbunnies.

Also, still have a couple dreamwidth invite codes up for grabs!