Push the Envelope

Um, so, I am unbelievably excited for RENT to start. I think it'll be magic.

Borrowed from katherine_b

YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, I want to know 28 things about you. I don't care if we've never talked, never really clicked, or if we already know everything about each other. I really don't. You are obviously on my flist, so let me know with whom I'm friends!

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favourite Film:
5. Favourite Song or Album:
6. Favourite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favourite memory of us?
14. What is your favourite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarky) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favourite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent:
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!)
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?

My feelings about Barty Crouch Jr as portrayed in HP and the Goblet of Fire the movie have completely shifted since discovering DT elsewhere. To think, I used to consider the tongue thing creepy! I still wish they'd cast Dumbledore differently. He is far too angry. Not approachable at all. I thought he was only supposed to be scary toward his enemies.

Got over my cold, which is very good. Work was okay. Now back to reading until the melatonin kicks in. Hurrah for phone updates!

I like the new Doctor Who companion because she is Scottish and has red hair and freckles.

I'm moving tomorrow between 9am and 5pm, so fair warning if anyone feels like lending a hand loading and/or unloading the truck. :) Let me know.

Also: check out my super cute new old couch. $10! :D I am doing well when it comes to this mid-century theme.

I am doing less well in the sense that I hurt my shoulder and it just keeps feeling worse. Massively inconvenient at the moment, a hurt shoulder.

I realized I haven't posted any photos from San Francisco. These are just the digital photos since I haven't developed the film I shot. The entire gallery is here.

HEY GUYS.

There is a TARDIS shirt on Woot. You only have until 10PM west coast time to buy it. http://shirt.woot.com/

Oh yeah, and it has the DeLorean too.

I have returned from San Francisco. I feel like I've been gone forever, and then not at all. I'll write more later, but for now I will just say that I saw and did the vast majority of what I had hoped to see and do.

Also, Virgin America is posh.

And everything here seems especially damp after the gorgeous San Francisco-in-spring weather.

So far, I am in love with this trip. I feel good about the public transit, Alcatraz was absolutely brilliant, the atmosphere of the Phoenix Hotel is impossible to fully describe (also, I wonder whose tour bus is outside), we had delicious Burmese food for lunch (srsly, yum) and I have heard so many languages spoken today.

Also, flying was everything I remember it being, except modified for a jet rather than 4-seat plane. I loooooooove the feeling of changing altitudes. I kind of just basked in it. And then just...flying. It is such a happy feeling, having that perspective, looking at the horizon, seeing mountains made tiny, the itty bitty toy cars on the roads. I can see this stuff in photos and sattelite images, but those aren't the same as seeing it in motion, all of these tiny people absorbed in their Very Important Affairs - now such small pieces of the whole.

All right, this is getting dorky, but the fact remains...I am beyond happy that I have three more days here.

Third row tickets to Dar Williams in April! HURRAH!!

Pre-ordered Decemberists Hazards of Love CD and gatefold LP! HURRAH AGAIN.

Not exactly new news, but: March 24th! The tracklist alone of the new Decemberists album sounds so fantastically excellent.

1. Prelude
2. The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone)
3. A Bower Scene
4. Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga)
5. The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All)
6. The Queen's Approach
7. Isn't it a Lovely Night?
8. The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid
9. An Interlude
10. The Rake's Song
11. The Abduction of Margaret
12. The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing
13. Annan Water
14. Margaret in Captivity
15. The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)
16. The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise)
17. The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)