Sometimes I love my internet. We're driving down I-75 and I'm looking up locations of La Rosa's pizzerias and their menu so we can eat there in an hour.

Ain't technology grand?

Amazon is selling seasons 1, 2, and 3 of Supernatural for FIFTEEN DOLLARS all day today.

You know you want them.

(Also, Pushing Daisies for $20 and Doctor Who for what still seems expensive to me but is at least not the usual $80.)

Tags: supernatural

Supernatural is dead determined to rip out my heart and roast it on a spit for dinner this season. I won't be specific, since I'm pretty sure there are folks on my friendslist not caught up this week yet, but /GUH/, folks.

The last two episodes have been hilarious fun, fluff pieces (and Supernatural strangely does fluff and humor /really/ well) in the middle of dark and dire, with a very nice tie-in to the overall dark and broody arching plot (Changing Channels especially - holy cow, was that ending awesome!).

This week was pure Supernatural Important Shit Happens and You're Not Going to Like Most of It. Rips my /heart/ out.

A very interesting post on Supernatural as tragedy (in the literary sense.)

I love this show possibly more than I have ever loved a show before. Yes, even more than BSG. Except maybe its first season. Maybe.

Tags: supernatural

I love Deep Discount SO BAD.

Complete Farscape run - $74.38. Free shipping.

I have no self control.

They're actually having a huge sale in general, so if you've been waiting to buy anything... Sale lasts through Nov 29.

Tags: farscape

Best reference question of the week:

"I just need to know where your non fiction section is."

Everyone who has ever used LJ's tags at all should go post support for this idea.

Because it is really, really dumb to have a tagging system that doesn't actually let you /use the tags/ to search your entries in anything but the most basic fashion. I want my AND search! I want it bad!

It would probably be too meta to tag this entry 'tags', wouldn't it?

I do not know when this happened, but I apparently have come to adore walking in heels. I mean, this is provided that the walking distance is short and I am not doing it often and most the day is spent at my desk, but in general... heels! Awesome! Especially when they are ( really cute shoes. )

This morning I had a dream that I was preparing to visit damsel58 (my parents were coming, too!), except I'd forgotten and was packing at literally the very last minute. It was a bizarre mixture of 'excited' and 'stressed to the max'.

Then this morning I got to work and was reminded that rather than sleeping in as expected tomorrow, I was attending a workshop in Columbus and then headed off directly after for ALAO this weekend.

Maybe my subconscious recognizes my crappy memory and was trying to hint that I should PACK.

Tags: dreams

Saw Where the Wild Things Are.

Meh. Profound meh.

Meh enough that I actually rather regret the loss of my time. Also, depressing.

I mentioned to some folks that my grandfather is in the hospital again, so I thought I'd give a brief update.

He went in last week after some bleeding problems. They diagnosed diverticultis, which is not terribly serious and treatable, except that it had ruptured a blood vessel. He went home after a couple of days in the hospital, but a doctor's visit on Wednesday turned up blood in his stool, so he's in again until they can determine the cause and stop the bleeding. So hopefully not terribly serious, but...

The brother and family came down to see him tonight, which meant some quality time with the nephew, who remains really freaking adorable. Also, he told me just before he went 'I like your outfit. It's very What Not to Wear.' A pause, and then, 'Mostly the after. That's not always been the case.' I'm pretty sure he timed this so he was holding the nephew as a shield. ;)

Tags: family

Today, between noon and 10 pm, plane tickets dropped a hundred bucks. Although not as cheap as the ones I saw earlier, I have BOUGHT THEM.

Buying plane tickets always makes me so nervous. What if there is a problem with the time? What it the prices get cheaper? WHAT IF I MADE A MISTAKE? THESE THINGS ARE NON REFUNDABLE!

Bah. This is why I could never, ever be a gambler.

But they have been bought. Money has been spent.

As long as I don't decide to change or cancel them by 10 pm tomorrow.

Tags: travel

Have finished Catching Fire.

Have screamed, squealed, or otherwise made noises of disbelief, excitement, or frustration at least half a dozen times.

Have wished, desperately, that book three was done NOW.

I think that is the sign of a good reading experience.

I think I actually like it better than Hunger Games, which is saying something given how much I liked that book! If you like science fiction, young adult, dystopias, or any combination of the three and you have not read these books yet... what the heck are you doing, yo?

Tags: books

Awesome thing about being a librarian:

I have my grabby little hands on this without trudging my way up a waiting list!

Tags: books

Let me tell you how much I love chicken pad thai.

THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS MUCH!

Also, in rereading the journal I stumbled across my first viewing of Return of the King, and have thus put it in for the first rewatch in years. This movie really is good. And pretty. And I love the music. Mmm.

I've decided - perhaps as part of my renewed investment in posting here - to reread my journal from beginning to end. I've had this LJ since October of 2003, acquired shortly after I moved into my first apartment by myself to spend a year substitute teaching in Springfield.

I was very, /very/ peppy in 2003.

It's interesting, though, to read conversations and comments about friends who are no longer around, including a number of online friends who have faded into the ether. And to see my hopes and dreams and fears so clearly, as I prepared for grad school. And to remember the absolute joy that was much of my time at college, and with those people. I miss them. At some point in the future, I very much want to find the money to visit two of my former roommates in the DC area.

Did I mention that I was /very/ peppy in 2003? Also, incredibly obsessed with both Angel and Firefly.

Tags: nostalgia

Every semester I find myself under piles of grading, cursing myself for the amount of work I've laid out for myself. Every semester, I have at least one student who likes to whine incessently about the fact that they have to write in this class, or that there's an assignment due almost every week.

And yet, at the beginning of every semester, when I sit down and look at my syllabus, I can never bring myself to cut anything. Because at the end of it, I think that the assignments I make them do are /good/ ones and that the only way to teach them to evaluate is to make them do it, over and over and over again, with feedback.

Sometimes, I think being a teacher means being a glutton for punishment.

Tags: teaching

This morning I woke up from a dream wherein bethos and teza and damsel58 and also Kelsey and I had made plans where they would fly in to this library conference I'm going to tomorrow and hang out with me at this hotel 4 hours away, and then come home with me. I spent the whole dream fretting about them meeting my co-workers and how to explain that we had to take these 4 random people home with us in the university van.

My subconscious is really odd.

Tags: dreams

You know, I got so excited by Children of Earth... and then I freaking missed tonight's airing. GOOD JOB.

I guess I'll have to force the computer through the download afterall.

I am kind of ridiculously excited that Children of Earth is starting tonight! (9 pm BBCA). My net connection hates streaming and downloading, and since the air-dates are so close I decided to just wait for it to air. The buzz has been pretty phenomenal.

I never thought I'd be excited about /Torchwood/.

(Also, I kind of adore BBCA's promo shot of Jack and Ianto on their webpage. It cycles through, keep watching.)

In other news, I watched Virtuality last week or maybe the week before, and it makes me very sad. Although the pacing and a few other things are a bit uneven at the start, it levels out about halfway through and the characters and questions start to get really interesting. The end made me gasp out loud and then scream 'WHY DO YOU TEASE US SO, FOX?' I really want to see more of where this was going. A tiny tiny part of me hopes that maybe someone, somewhere, will pick it up and do something with it.

But even if not, it was an enjoyable hour and a half of sci fi, with some really interesting questions about reality and virtual (IE, 'electronic' or 'online', not necessarily 'fake') life and a media-consumer society and... gosh. All sorts of things!

YAY! Virtuality DID go up on hulu!

In “Virtuality,” Nikolaj Coster-Waldau stars as Commander Frank Pike, the leader of the crew of the Phaeton, which works for a business consortium that is offsetting the cost of the expedition by making the astronauts star in a reality show about the journey. To escape the ever-present cameras scattered throughout the ship, the crew members often escape into their “virtual reality” headsets, which allow them to interact—sometimes in surprising ways—in fantastical settings. - Created by Ron D. Moore and Michael Taylor, yo.