unhyphenated american

- Do laundry
- Read new Dean Koontz book
- Make V icons (ABC you still suck)
- Pity those working retail

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ABC, you totally suck for putting a months-long hiatus 4 episodes into a new show.

... gacked from mahoni

1. Write down the names of 10 characters.
2. Write a fic of fifteen words or less for every prompt, using the characters determined by the numbers. Do NOT read the prompts before you do step 1.

1. Seeley Booth (Bones)
2. Tempe Brennan (Bones)
3. Olivia Dunham (Fringe)
4. Sam Carter (SG-1)
5. Jack Bauer (24)
6. Fox Mulder (X-Files)
7. Sydney Bristow (Alias)
8. Bruce Wayne (DC comics)
9. Charlie Crews (Life)
10. Rachel Berry (Glee)

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Cute cast interview videos for 5x10 here! There's also some awesome BTS stuff, and some sneak peeks. Beware of spoooooilers!

Wow, John Francis Daley is soooo Sweets. And David is just so adorable that it's unfair.

Fox has some promo stuff out regarding season 8! You can find it all here, but I wanted to call your attention to the parts that made me jump up and down... namely Renee!



Official promo... cute! Darker hair, and of course the freckles get airbrushed, but still supercute!



So this one is important because spoilerTV lists it as a shot from 8x01, and I had heard somewhere that Renee wasn't going to show up until episode 4. Hopefully, that 'someone' was wrong.



Okay, so Photoshop and compositionwise this picture sucketh, but (1) Renee is there in the main cast, (2) she's right next to Jack, hee! and (3) I'm happy to see that the newbie 'names' (namely Katee and Freddie) are in the background where they belong ;)

You can find HQ versions of these pics over on spoilerTV, btw, as well as promos of the other, non-Renee characters.

(Hat tip to jimkeller24)

No Christmas cards from me this year. I'm poor and I kind of loathe the post office, especially around this time of year. It's lovely getting cards in the mail... not so much fun when you're sending out your own :D

Random Thanksgiving poll! Because I like polls and I haven't made one in a long, long time!

Poll #1489685
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 11

Those of you having turkey... how big is it?

Cranberry sauce: jellied or actual berries?

Around what time do you have Thanksgiving dinner?

Leftovers?

Favorite side dish?

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being happily full and 10 being gastric implosion, how completely totally STUFFED are you going to be after Thursday dinner

How in the world did authors ever research things for stories before the Internet? I mean, without going INSANE?

In the last few hours, I've written about four pages. I won't say more than that because I might jinx it. During this time, I've tried to muzzle the inner editor. But I knew from the get-go that I couldn't NaNo this story... not this one. It just isn't in me.

So, during the last few hours, I have looked up information on

• tides


• air pressure waves


• the idiom 'given way'


• estuaries


• fjords


• the word 'limn'


• lynx


• french names


• birds related to ravens and crows


• the word 'laconic'

... to name a few.

I mean, seriously.

Sorry for all the posting today. I'm just so giddy with excitement that I DON'T HAVE TO WORK AGAIN UNTIL 11/30! Woo!

For the first time in a long time, SNL has... made me laugh.



Will wonders never cease?

Houston, We Have a Baby: Astronaut's Wife Gives Birth

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
Talk about one proud papa. Astronaut Randy Bresnik is beaming with joy at the arrival of his new baby daughter, who was born late Saturday while he circled the Earth.

The astronaut announced the birth of his baby girl Abigail Sunday morning after two days of waiting for news aboard the linked shuttle Atlantis and International Space Station. His wife Rebecca had the baby in Houston Saturday night at 11:04 p.m. local time on a day that also included Bresnik's first-ever spacewalk outside the station.

"Momma and baby are doing very well," Bresnik radioed Mission Control. He thanked the flight controllers there and all of NASA for their support.

"On behalf of the planet Earth ground team, please accept our heartfelt congratulations," Mission Control said.

Bresnik and his wife had expected their daughter to be born on Friday to avoid a potential conflict with the astronaut's two spacewalks for this mission. He's due to venture back outside the station on Monday. Bresnik is just hoping for pictures soon, and lots of them.

"Hopefully, I'll be able to hear and see the pictures and be able to talk to her maybe on the [Internet Protocol] phone and see some video shortly thereafter and be home, hopefully, only a few days afterwards," Bresnik said in a NASA interview before the mission. Mission Control planned to set up a space-to-ground communications link between Bresnik and his wife so he wouldn't miss the baby's arrival.

I got my hands on the Rifftrax of Twilight. Just watched the first five minutes, but OMG. I might need to make some icons or something.

"Bambi meets Godzilla: The live action remake!"

"Wish I'd brought more than a cactus, though."

"Nobody forks with the chief of police."

"I'm just going to stand here and hold this cactus for a while."

Oh man... this is the only way I will ever be able to watch this movie without poking my eyes out.

Regarding my to-do list:

Today I did get my eyebrows done... and mocked some Twilight freaks. So that's cool.

I also made some V icons, and (re)watched some episodes of Glee with seldear.

Oh and I bought a few Christmas decorations at the dollar store. Gotta get to them before they get all picked over.

6 icons, mostly Jack/Erica

Teaser


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I had another crossover dream last night: SG-1 and Glee.

As you might expect, it was freakin' hilarious.

- Clean bathrooms
- Get eyebrows done
- Go see The Blind Side with auntie
- Continue to mock anyone and everything having to do with Twilight

Getting off to a slow start this morning. Not good since we're expecting rain today (grr) and that will screw up the commute.

Had a dream last night where Booth found out he has a doppleganger who's a vampire. Bwahaha. I think they discovered a doppleganger Sweets vampire too, which is almost as hilarious. I wonder if vampire!Sweets would still get crap about his age.

*watches new Bones*

*IMPLODES FROM TEH CUTE*

This show needs to come with a warning.

Viewer discretion is advised: This show will melt your brain with adorableness.

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( Cut for spoilers and rambling )

Major Nidal Malik Hasan's military superiors repeatedly ignored or rebuffed his efforts to open criminal prosecutions of soldiers he claimed had confessed to "war crimes" during psychiatric counseling, according to investigative reports circulated among federal law enforcement officials.

So, let's add this to the reasons that the men and women of the military might have hated Hasan's guts even before he decided to go full-on jihad. Along with proselytizing his religion and trying to convert others to it, calling suicide bombers heroes, etc.

Oh, but let's not jump to conclusions. Remember, Hasan had been harassed by other soldiers for no other reason but that he was a Muslim! He just couldn't take it any more! He snapped!

On Nov. 4, the day after his last attempt to raise the issue, he took extra target practice at Stan's shooting range in nearby Florence, Texas and then closed a safe deposit box he had at a Bank of America branch in Killeen, according to the reports. A bank employee told investigators Hasan appeared nervous and said, "You'll never see me again."

Meanwhile, Obama is refusing to help Congress's investigation into why the red flags raised by Hasan's behavior never merited any action. Hunh?