The Road Less Traveled

Friends Only

2008-01-18T06:32:31Z

I've decided to go friends only from now on. I write mostly about the trials and tribulations of my life and (more interesting I'm sure) fandom. It's nothing too exciting or important but I'd like to know who's reading. I love meeting and talking with new people, so feel free to friend me and please comment here to be added because I probably won't notice otherwise.

Happy New Year

2008-01-01T20:52:59Z

Here's to a fantastic 2008!

I'll be Home for Christmas

2007-12-20T12:47:07Z

My Christmas vacation starts in 25 minutes and then I'll be heading to my flat to load up the car and heading to the parents' for my 5 days off. I'm super excited just to get away and relax and see all my family. I'm am, however, condemning myself to dial-up for the entire time I'll be gone, but it'll be worth it.

In case I'm not around again before then, I hope everyone has a very Happy Christmas or whatever version of holiday cheer you partake in. And for those of you who get to watch it live: enjoy Voyage of the Damned!

Snow!

2007-12-16T11:31:42Z

I love snow. Actually I love how snow looks before people are out driving on it and walking on it and messing it up. The thing I love about snow the most however is the way it sounds when you step in it. That sort of crunch sound that is unmistakably "stepping in snow". So, tonight when I was going out to clean off my car so that I could get to work, and I stepped out the door of my flat and heard that sound, I was all happy. It also made me think of Rose stepping out of the TARDIS into the snow at the beginning of 'The Unquiet Dead' and how you can hear that sound. Which is another reason that I love Doctor Who (How'd I get from snow to Doctor Who you ask? Everything can relate back to my fandom of choice. It's like magic.). There's just so much attention to detail and I love it and (spoiler) Rose is coming back!!!

And that's why I love snow.

My Computer

2007-12-12T08:47:55Z

I talked with my dad earlier tonight (well, last night) and he said that the people fixing my computer called and it's fixed! It was the motherboard and they replaced it. Everything else seems to have been fine and most importantly, all my unbacked up France pictures are safe (and now backed up). This is very good news!

Not to Sound Vain or Anything

2007-12-11T17:56:34Z

I just got back from getting my hair cut and I have to say, I look adorable. I love my new hair cut!!!

What this computer really needs, right now, is a Doctor.

2007-12-04T10:35:55Z

A few weeks back, my shiny new laptop went ka-boom (or, turned off and wouldn't come back on no matter what). Luckily (ha!) it was right before Thanksgiving so my parents were able to bring me my old desktop when they came to visit. They also took my laptop with them to some place in St. Louis that Toshiba referred me to.

My dad took it in the other day. The bloke at the shop said it sounded like the motherboard had gone. This, it is not good. I just hope that it can be fixed and/or replaced in a Very Timely Manner. Like now-ish. Cos my desktop is starting to act even funnier than it did before I replaced it. I fear for my sanity if it goes too.

Real Life? What Real Life?

2007-11-27T13:50:12Z

My real life sucks. This however, does not.

Rose is coming back!!! SQUEEEEE!

No! Thanksgiving, Turkey!

2007-11-22T09:53:30Z

To those of you who celebrate: Happy Thanksgiving!
To those of you who don't: Happy Thursday!

Please Computer God

2007-11-22T05:14:41Z

My almost brand new computer (3 months to the day) has died. I tried everything I could think of. I checked the troubleshooting part of the user's manual. I called tech support. I have to send it in to be (hopefully) fixed. I'm lucky in that it is still under warrenty. I'm unlucky in that I'm the idiot who went to France, took 300 pictures, and then didn't back them up anywhere. I am going to kill myself (then regenerate and kill myself again) if I lose those pictures. I'm such a freaking idiot.

Finally!

2007-11-21T11:31:48Z

I am now officially up to date on my f-list. This is a glorious thing. Course, I'll be not up to date on my f-list as soon as I go home and go to bed, but right here, right now: current!

Ice Skating

2007-11-15T14:18:02Z

My dad and I were talking the other night about what he and my mom might like to do/see/whatever when they are down for Thanksgiving. I mentioned that there is free ice skating at the local rink starting this Saturday and going through the New Year. He then remarked that he couldn't even remember the last time he went skating. I got an evil grin and said, "The last time I went skating, I was in France." And then I was happy cos it happened and sad cos it was over. The trip, not the skating. But anyway, ice skating in France for the win!

Cookies!

2007-11-11T11:31:41Z

Tonight I made Snickerdoodles. And they are fantastic! I must now resist the temptation to eat them all in one go.

Hug it Out B****

2007-11-08T07:51:26Z

Okay, I get why WGA is striking, really I do. And I get why some actors are refusing to cross the picket lines. I'm sympathetic to the cause. But, they've stopped production on The Office now and I'm not amused.

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=282973&GT1=7703

Seriously though guys. I need my TV so that I don't have to deal with all my Real Life Issues. So, hug it out bitches!

That is all.

I Love Books

2007-11-02T04:44:18Z

No really, I love 'em. I've always known that I love to read and everything, but I didn't realize just how much until the other day. I was laying in bed, finishing up a book before going to sleep and I nearly started crying. And not even because there was anything particularly sad about this book, just because I was really really enjoying the story and didn't want it to be over. Coming to the end of a book (or series of books) is a lot like saying goodbye to a good friend for me. I wonder if others feel that way as well or if I'm just that messed up in the head and asocial...

Happy Halloween

2007-10-31T07:28:29Z

Hope everyone has a fantastic Halloween! I've got candy if you're in the neighborhood.

Book List Meme

2007-10-25T10:52:29Z

Through random surfing on LJ, I came across jlrpuck's journal and stole this meme.

The following books are the top 106 books tagged as "unread" according to LibraryThing users. Bold what you've read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Put an asterisk by those books you've read more than once and underline those on your "to read" list.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a Novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
~~Great Expectations~~
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a Memoir
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a Novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a Novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Dune
~~The Prince~~
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's ashes : a memoir*
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States : 1492-Present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit*
In Cold Blood : a True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

Well, I've been looking for something to occupy my time. Guess I've found it...

Viva Cancellation

2007-10-23T05:21:19Z

CBS canceled Viva Laughlin. After just two episodes. This makes me laugh. You just can't do Blackpool without accents (and David Tennant)...

TV Meme

2007-10-22T10:40:21Z

Stolen from laeti

- Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.
- Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it.
- If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order)

21 Jump Street
24
7th Heaven
Adam-12
Aeon Flux
ALF
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alias
Ally McBeal
American Idol/Pop Idol/Canadian Idol/Australian Idol/etc.
America's Next Top Model/Germany's Next Top Model
Angel
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Arrested Development
As If!
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Batman
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beverly Hills 90210
Bewitched
Black Books
Bonanza
Bones
Bosom Buddies
Boston Public
Boy Meets World
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Caméra café
Chappelle's Show
Charlie's Angels
Charmed
Cheers
Clarissa Explains It All
Cold Case
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coupling
Cowboy Bebop
Criminal Minds
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dancing with the Stars
Danny Phantom
Daria
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
Davinci's Inquest
Dawson's Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Degrassi Junior High
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dexter
Dharma & Greg
Different Strokes
Doctor Who (All of new Who, none of old Who)
Dragnet
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Due South
Earth 2
Emergency!
Entourage
ER
Even Stevens
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Ties
Family Matters
Farscape
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Flash Forward
Frasier
Friends
Full House
Futurama
Get Smart
Gilligan's Island
Gilmore Girls
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Gossip Girl
Green Wing
Grey's Anatomy
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Hannah Montana
Happy Days
Heartbreak High
Heroes
Hogan's Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Instant Star
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
Hell's Kitchen
Highlander
Jackass
JAG
Jake 2.0
Joey
John Doe
Kaamelott
LA Law
Laverne and Shirley
Life on Mars
Little Britain
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Malcolm in the Middle
Married... With Children
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Millenium
Mission: Impossible
Monk
Moonlight
Moonlighting
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My Life as a Dog
My so called life
My Super Sweet 16
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
NCIS
New Doctor Who
Nip/Tuck
Numb3rs
NYPD Blue
One Tree Hill
Oz
Parker Lewis Can't Lose
Party of Five
Perry Mason
Phil of the Future
Pokémon
Poltergeist : The Legacy
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (British)
Reaper
Red Dwarf
ReGenesis
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road Rules
Rome
Roseanne
Roswell
Salute your shorts
Saved by the Bell
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sesame Street
Sex and the City
Silk stalkings
Six Feet Under
Sliders
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South Park
Spaced
Spongebob Squarepants
Spooks
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans
That 70's Show
That's So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Brady Bunch
The Champions
The Colbert Report
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mighty Boosh
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Muppet show
The Mythbusters
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Pretender
The Real World
The Secret World of Alex Mack
The Shield
The Simpsons (does it count if all viewings were in a language you don't speak?)
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Watch
Three's Company
Top Gear
Torchwood
Tru Calling
Twin Peaks
Twitch City
Two and a half men
Two of a Kind
Ugly Betty
Undeclared
Un paso adelante
Veronica Mars
Who's The Boss
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace
Wings
Without A Trace
WKRP in Cincinnati

So, do I watch too much TV, or not enough?

Pushing Daisies - No Spoilers

2007-10-21T08:43:22Z

I've finally gotten around to watching the pilot of Pushing Daisies and I really really like it. It's cute and smart and the lead actor is adorable. Hope it keeps up.

The Kids are Alright

2007-10-21T08:09:03Z

Just a quick comment/slight spoiler for Supernatural 3.02

What's up with evil children calling for their mommies (Or, alternatively, their mummies. Yes, I'm looking at you, Empty Child)? What is up with shows having kids (or those who resemble kids) be all evil? It's so freaking scary. Hmm, that could be the point. Either way, I'm tired of watching stuff in the little screen to save myself from being too freaked out. Make scary adults!

Tip of the Day

2007-10-19T07:24:37Z

Tonight at work this guy came down and said he couldn't sleep cos he had a cold. I suggested NyQuil from the suit shop. He got all excited and said he didn't even think of that. Then he bought the NyQuil and a bag of pretzels (total: $3.15), gave me a twenty and said "Keep the change. For the medical advice." I can go out to dinner this weekend. Which is fantastic cos I've been craving some Mexican.

I'm Finally Wireless

2007-10-18T22:36:25Z

So I finally plucked up enough courage to call AT&T's tech support to get my WiFi going and despite the fact that the guy (Chris - and he sounded hot) probably thought I was a complete idiot, I'm now wireless! It's exciting. If you're me at least.

Book List

2007-10-17T07:20:36Z

I'm nearly finished with this fantastically funny book called Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson and I'm trying to decide what to read next. Now, a long time ago, I had a list of all these books that I wanted to read, but in the chaos of moving not less than 4 times, I seem to have misplaced said list. So I guess I'll have to start a new one. And hope that I can remember what was on the last one.

I think I want to start with either The Dark is Rising or the His Dark Materials series, but as I don't have these books and am fairly low on cash at the moment, it will probably come down to what I can find at the library. Hopefully with the film adaptations coming out, the books will be fairly easy to come by.

Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions for what should be on my "To Read" list, please, don't be shy.

It Sure Beats Stories of War and Death

2007-10-17T05:22:23Z

When I see a headline about a women being fined for cursing in her own home, I have to read it. And if it didn't amuse me enough to start with, it all happened in good ol' Scranton, PA. Hee.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21334238/?GT1=10450