she says I like long walks and sci-fi movies

FLY-BY MOOG-POST TIME AGAIN:

- I seem to have accidently started watching Robin Hood, oh dear. Richard Armitage, however, continues to be smoking hot in everything, particularly when wearing leather and looking tortured a lot of the time, and/or wielding a sword (ooh-er), and so this is a valid life choice on my part.

- WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH MY LIFE NOW THAT BSG HAS ENDED? jsdajhdjkhk it's like a proper pang of loss, you guys. I have thoughts on that, but right now I don't have the time to type them up. Rest assured that I will back with those highly exciting opinions.

- Tomorrow I am leaving on a jet plane going to stay with the ever-lovely rionaleonhart, who I fully intend to subject to the wonders of Merlin, and the League of Gentlemen, and also hope neither of us manages to write so much that our fingers bleed, which is always a possibility. Riona continues to be slightly devastated that my username does not, in fact, come from Final Fantasy, and so will possibly be disappointed if she is expecting a Moogle to step off the train tomorrow afternoon - I had never heard of the Final Fantasy Moogles until she mentioned them. I have asked that I see a Moogle while I am staying with her, for, er, my bettering.

- How are you all, my lovelies?

- I KNOW! To make me feel sliiiiightly better about Robin Hood (the shame, it burns), tell me about the fandom you shouldn't really be in but you are anyway, or resisted being in for years until one day your defences were low and it sucked you in against your will.

Now away to watch Lewis!

QUICK PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: I shall be watching BSG 4.5 two weeks behind the UK. I do not want any spoilers. Like, at all. And if I find out who the final cylon is before I see it revealed on the show? PEOPLE MAY DIE.

Er, that is to say: please, please, BSG-people, please lj-cut posts about it.


RIGHT THIS POST IS ENTIRELY POINTLESS: I will attempt to bestow order upon it by making it a numbered list of rubbish, instead of just me saying stuff in no order. Bow to my superior nonsensical skillz.


1. I'm off to see 'The Oresteia' in February, in York (awesome). Clytemnestra is one of my favourite women in the classical world, and I love the Oresteia for, like, showing her as bitchy and petty instead of whiny and weak like approximately many other texts.

2. Does anyone else find it difficult not to just go spending all their money in one big splurge when they finally have some to spend? My birthday/Christmas money is burning a big fat hole in my, er, bank account.

3. Being Human starts on BBC3 on Sunday 25th January! Moar George and Mitchell! Apparently the first few minutes are crucial, according to the BBC, so get ye sat promptly. Admittedly, this is a bit of a challenge for me, as I usually miss the first couple of minutes of things due to underestimating how long making my dinner will take. DD:

4. ALSO pilates continues to be unbelievably amazing. I can't say what, if anything, it's doing for my weight, as I seem to be unable to actually stop eating like a total heifer, but it's definitely making me more flexy-bendy, and, without wanting to sound like a total wanker, it feels like something I do entirely for myself, like I'm just taking these 10 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes/half an hour in the evening to ignore everything else that might be going on and focus on just stretching that little bit further.

5. I've been re-watching Grey's Anatomy. I still like Meredith. I still like McDreamy whilst simultaneously wanting to punch him in the face a lot. I still like Meredith/McDreamy, and do not like Izzie. I am quite clearly a fandom pariah (I should really do an unpopular fandom opinion post, except then you would all de-friend me and I would be cast out into the cold space of lj all adrift and alone and whatnot)

6. I'll do a fic round-up of 2008 soonly: it will have markedly fewer fics in than the one for 2007 had, but then 2007 did have the advantage of having Life On Mars take over my brain and force me to ignore revision in favour of writing the gay. Who needs an edcayshun, amirite?

7. I want to write some Derren Brown/David Tennant. Would anyone be interested?

8. I have already written David Tennant/Matt Smith. Er. idk how that happened.

Belatedly, happy new year! I hope you all have a fantbulously brillisome 2009, right?



IN CONCLUSION:


MY BODIES IS SQUISHED IN MY SPINES

ALSO

( Einstein and Eddington )


ALSO OH MY GOD

( BSG 4.5 promo )


Lol, you wait 8 weeks for a post and then two come along at once.

HOLY JESUS

Battlestar SO GOOD, seriously.

I'm not quite sure how exactly I'm supposed to not watch the next six episodes in this run without exploding.

Fly-by post time, and I should BE ASLEEP, god.

- I am (clearly) no longer in Greece: pictures should be coming soon, maybe, and, er, more talkings on this topic. For now, Greece = awesome but Athens was the scariest place, I swear. HOW IS THAT CITY SO BIG? On the top of the Acropolis, I took roughly umpteen zillion pictures of the Vast Sea of Athens because I couldn't quite get over how much city there was. Wows. 



- I WANT BSG S4 RIGHT NOW. I am going a little bit insane. The Americans have seen it. The downloading people have seen it. The UK can (legally) see it next Tuesday, when it is on Sky, but I CAN'T, because my laptop doesn't have enough disc space for me to download it (on a side-note, I have, like, ~600 megabytes left on the C drive, and I'm thinking that's not good) and I don't have Sky. I NEED ME SOME LAURA ROSLIN. 

And can I just say, as I don't remember if I've said this here yet, I am not spoiled for s4 of BSG. Please do not spoil me for anything. Thank you. (are the dvds out yet? plz?)

- I now have a puppy! His name is Morris, and he is a whippet, and if I never have to clean the kitchen floor again from puppy-accidents, it will be Too Soon. I still have a slight phobia of dogs, but I seem to be doing all right with this one. He's grown so much in the two weeks we've had him, it's weird. Also, I really want to wear some proper clothes again (read: clothes I like); having the dog necessitates looking after the dog, which brings me into close contact with skanky dog smell and being chewed and licked by the dog and cleaning up after the dog (ew, though not like that), so I've basically been wearing old, ripped, jeans and some variation on back-of-the-wardrobe, everything-else-is-in-my-suitcase-and-I-need-something-to-wear top, with a giant nasty sweatshirt. Mmm, fetching.

- I have just bought a student railcard (primarily because I'm bumming up for a St. Andrews Open Day in a couple of weeks, and staying with the delightful missfoxie, hurrah! but also because I plan to go see other people - Maddie, Loz, d'you fancy some Moog-time outside the OT3 gay-up? - during the summer, and, y'know, I'd quite like cheap train fares) and the photo on it makes me look like the undead.

- I just watched Sin City on the tellybox and have only got good praisings to say. :D Moog likes. Lots of voice-over/narration and heavily stylised. ftw!

- Am off to the cinema tomorrow with my mother: we don't actively want to see anything that's on, but we want to go to the cinema (dark, film, chocolate, non-dog-clothes. Yes plz). We're thinking about Son of Rambow, because if not, we're consigned to Awake or 10,000 BC (which I can't stop saying in the voice of Voiceover Dude, you know, like, TEN THOUSAND B.C.), so, er, Son of Rambow y/n?

Sleepy tiem nao. Zzzz.

Numbered post time! This is the only way I can adequately convey a sense of order and meaning to a post which would otherwise just be disjointed and pointless. Hurrah?

1) That little box on the front page that tells you how long it's been since you last posted is mocking me, I swear to God. How has it been a month? That is impossible (well, er, except for the part where it has actually been a month but shhh logic). 

2) I have now watched BSG season 3, after an inordinately long time of not doing so, and nnnnnngh, I really liked it. I actually prefered it to season 2: I am now a leper, I am aware of that. Here are some thoughts that turned out slightly longer than I was expecting: 

To conclude: LAURA ROSLIN = VERY VERY HOT. The end.

3) I've been spending some Christmas/birthday money recently. New acquisitions include BSG: Razor (which I have yet to see, so shhh your spoilers), Alias s3 and Labyrinth. I have somehow managed to exist for 17 years without seeing David Bowie as the Goblin King (awesomes!), and this must be hastily rectified.

4) ASHES TO ASHES. TOMORROW. GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENE. And Keeley Hawes is really really lovely and I heart her.

5) Torchwood is back on our faces! Glee! Here are some thoughts: Hey, I didn't say they were particularly erudite thoughts.

6) I've just finished reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman, and I feel completely justified in telling you all to GO AND READ IT NOW and begging those of you that have read it to say things about it to me. Must converse about shiny book. I heart Wednesday. Do you heart Wednesday?

7) I'm tired and I hurt and I feel sick, so my diet has consisted of sandwiches and other bland food products for about two weeks now, but I am damn well going to eat some Ben and Jerry's Half Baked, and I don't know whether I should watch Razor, Labyrinth or some Alias with it. Does anyone else eat a whole carton/pint of ice-cream in one sitting or is it just me, oh dear.

8) BAFTAS ON SUNDAY HURRAH.

Obligatory Birthday Post time.


And to you lovely people who wished me birthday glee, thank you all so very much, loverfaces! xxxxx

Grand thanks and praise and glittery sprinkles for Loz and Maddie, both of whom wrote me glorious birthday fics which I shall cherish until the end of time. They can be found here and here, respectively. 

:DD at all of youuu.