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I should know better than to read death!fic. It makes me deeply unhappy when all should be fuzzy and bright. On the plus side it gives me an excuse to go and re-read all the happy fic again though, which has reminded me that I might not have recced annlarimer's Don't and idhenson's wonderful Five Other Uses Danny Butterman Found For His Notebook. I'm afraid of writing in this fandom because people are so good. It's fantastic.

There was a guy sitting next to me on the bus yesterday who ate an entire pack of Starbursts on the ten minute ride, one after the other. By the fifth or sixth one my teeth were hurting in sympathy because those things are sweet. It was hilarious in an oddly weird way. Maybe he was hungry.

Never go into HMV when there's a sale on DVDs. Picked up the MIB boxset and Bad Boys II, the latter proving my theory that Hot Fuzz will exponentially increase sales of Bad Boys II, Point Break and Cornettos. A bought Cornettos the day after we made her watch it; she said it'd given her cravings. Now I've bought one of the few - only? - cop genre films I own amongst over 100 DVDs, solely because of HF (that and it was only £3). Yet Simon said on the commentary that they had to write to everyone involved in the movies they showed in order to get permission to use them. Seems a lot of effort to go to when they're providing free publicity anyway.

Speaking of The Pegg, I just got Big Nothing as part of my free trail of Amazon DVD rental, so I'm off to watch that with Miko. Not expecting much but hey, Simon Pegg. For free. I'm not going to say no.

Back. Starving, tired (due to delayed flights I missed the easy, quicker trains and got back two hours later than planned. Bastards), feeling travel-dirty and infuriated that the porters weren't there for me to pick up my Hot Fuzz DVD. I'm getting seriously pissed off at the amount of times I have to attempt to pick up a parcel before they'll deign to be there. Four times for Advent Children last Saturday and I can see this turning into the same sort of thing.

So much for the Head of Security telling me two months ago that he'd ask the porters to set definite times that they'd be there to hand out post. God forbid they might have to interrupt their little tea breaks together over in Lonsdale or Graduate. It's not like we're paying for them to be there or anything.

Yes. This is the bitterness that comes from having a DVD you've waited weeks for - and paid for - on the opposite side of a locked door and looking to stay that way for at least tonight, on top of about seven hours travelling including a slightly bumpy flight that I spent most of silently freaking out (I have a love/hate relationship with flying. I love heights but don't trust modern technology to keep me up there. It's not a comfortable outlook.)

On the plus side, had fun in Dublin. Saw bog bodies and a freaky Naural History Museum filled with countless stuffed animals. It was fascinating in a very creepy way. Have decided we need a Captain America's in Lancaster, because dude. Cool place.

Must talk self out of another trip to porters in galeforce winds. Bad idea. Yes. It's not like they'll even be there.

There was something else I was planning to be bitter about too and I've forgotten what it was. So just know that I am bitter. In general. About everything.

Actually it's probably a bad idea to talk to me before the morning. Yeah.

edit: Bit the bullet - or rather, the galeforce winds - and went down to check again. Porter was there. Have DVD.

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Feel vaguely silly now. Yes. But. That flight really freaked me out! And I really like this movie!

...I know. Digging myself to Australia. Shut up. ;)

So I preorder Hot Fuzz weeks in advance, at the 'expensive' Amazon price of £16.99 instead of play's £15.99 because they had pretty 'artcards' with it. They dispatch it and then drop the goddamn price to £15.98.

I *don't care* that £1 makes no difference in the great scheme of things. I don't care that it wouldn't pay my bus fare. I only care that Amazon are the sneakiest little bastards on the planet.

Giving you a card of FAIL here Amazon. Total fail.

In News Of My Life, hotel for Ireland is sorted (it was the one I thought it was and yes, I have a room and yes, it's easy to get a taxi to from the airport though I can't have an early check-in and there's going to be entertainment finding somewhere to get changed. At least I'll have a *bed* to sleep in, which is a definite plus.) Now I just need to find out which church I'm meant to be heading for. Somehow.

I really need to start filing things like invitations in an easy-to-find system. Really.

edit: Also while I'm on LJ (since I don't know how much time I'll have before Ireland on Wed. morning now): Advent Children was confusing but pretty. Wish they'd do a movie for FFVIII which I actually *understand the background* for. Plus it never gets old watching the universe annoy Squall for funsies.

I bought way too many clothes today but the 'rent paid for some. Yay! They're all very pretty clothes. Double yay! Got cool black shoes (finally) but wore them while shopping and they rub like a bitch. Sort-of-yay!

Left all my jackets in Lancaster because I thought it was too warm for them but now suspect I'll be wandering through the centre of Dublin in a corset top at 2pm with nothing to put over it. Will look mighty foolish. Back-up plan needed.

...Nope. That's all I got.

Derren Brown is a shockingly, delightfully rude man. Not sure what I was expecting from Tricks of the Mind but it certainly wasn't Noel Edmunds and rimming included in the same sentence (something which has scarred me for life, Derren, and for which part of me will never forgive you.) I'm only a couple of chapters in because I keep forgetting it's a very interactive book - he expects you to make pendulums and do card tricks and such - and I keep picking it up about 3am for 'something to read before I go to sleep'. Have to say, the pendulum trick is pretty nifty though. Ideomotor movement. Why can I learn new words and facts easier from a delightfully rude Derren Brown than mindlessly dull English tutors hm?

And why am I excited about the Hot Fuzz DVD when there's still more than a week before I'll get my hands on it? *Why*? I can't remember being this excited about a DVD release before. On related-lines, kinda sad Miko won't be here to come see Run, Fatboy, Run with me in September. I'd forgotten how fun it is to have the same fangirly passion as someone you see everyday. I'll have to get hill2k and dukedee to come and fangirl with me instead. ;) And maybe by the time Pegg/Frost have the next one written and filmed she can come back for a visit.

I just realised that the several fics I've memorised, over many months, in one fandom, are all by the same author. Even though I watch two fanfic comms for that fandom and read anything with my favourite pairing. I'm not sure if that says something about me or something about the fandom.

Seen 17 episodes of Heroes. Still speechless at the sheer awesome of it all (and the Stan Lee cameo had me flailing into falling off my chair. The man gets everywhere! Like sand...) May have more coherent thoughts when I've seen the whole series. But I love Hiro, bless his geeky little socks. And Mohinder is useless but very pretty. And in the last couple of episodes? Peter is getting very cool. I foresee possible bitterness in my future.

Sssshhh. Say nothing. I'll hamstring anyone who spoils me for this, ;) It's that good.

... one of these days, I'll get dressed before 1pm. Really.

Random call from the parentals who are, unexpectedly, stuck in Florida for another twenty-four hours. Boo-hoo, sucks to be them. ;) But they wanted me to find a phone number for them, because they have friends coming to stay on Monday... and they won't be getting home until Monday. Only, after several fruitless internet site searches and spending £1 on directory-bloody-enquiries (who speak waaaaaay too fast, I think I made an idiot of myself trying to keep up) I got told they're ex-directory. So, this'll be entertaining. I did say they were dumb to have people coming to say the day after getting back from a holiday. Sigh.

One of these days I'll get to watch the Joseph result show without interruptions. Really I will (and I just realised that this time last week I was watching Hot Fuzz. The DVD cannot get here fast enough.)

edit: Dad just texted back to say thanks for trying. Aw. That's... unexpectedly sweet.

Random observation: You know, I'm genuinely starting to think His Webbyness is setting the Joseph competition up for Lee to win it now, by eliminating people likely to give him serious competition. Daniel last week and this week getting rid of Craig in favour of Ben who can't hold a note. That said, Lee sounded so beautiful singing with Josh Groban, I can totally understand why. I'd fix the competition too. Also, am I a bad person for wanting Lee/Josh slash now? They were singing to each other. I'm so glad I happened to be recording at that point.

Yayyayyayay Hot Fuzz! There was some sort of technical fault for about 25 minutes at first and I had "Nooo, you cannot ruin my all-week-plans!" panic but they fixed it and omgitwasawesome. I thought maybe I'd built it up in my head too much and it'd be disappointing but no, it's still up there with the best.

I don't know -- couldn't say -- if I like it more than Shaun, having watched it again. Maybe I like Shaun the tiniest fraction more because Simon Pegg seems more comfortable -- not better mind, just more *comfortable* -- playing the 'normal' guy for funsies rather than the straight man. Not that anything about him and Nick Frost is straight ahem.

Loved it. Thinking to see it again tomorrow. Anyone in Lancaster, 6:30pm in Bowland. You know you want to. Go on. ;)

Miko went with me and loved it too. To the point where she was non-too-subtly asking about Simon Pegg on the walk back and I promised to lend her Shaun. ^_^ Mwahaha, Pegg-love! Spread it around.

In more disturbing news, His Webbyness saved Lewis? Whiny-weasel-Lewis? Clearly he thought Daniel was simply too much of a threat to Orlando Bloom Lee, who I agree with kindoftrouble on and think it's pretty much his competition to take now. He was awesome this week.

Wow. 'm crazy tired and I miss a proper keyboard. Plus, laundry day tomorrow. But Hot Fuzz was awesome and that's what counts. ^_^

I wrote stuff. No idea if it was any good or even answering the question half the time but eh. Done. Bizarre.

Parents called *from America* to ask how it went and I had wtfness. Crazy amounts of money when they could've just emailed.

I want this. And sleep. And food.

Am finished with uni (I think). This is... I mean, finished. Dude.

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Hot Fuzz tomorrow! :D

Spider-man 3 was... okay. I wasn't expecting to be overwhelmingly enamoured since I'm a Batman girl and always will be but I was at least hoping they'd have cracked the little problems that have always made me more apathethic towards the Spidey movies in general. For some of them they had -- I liked it more than the second one -- but there were whole new things to go 0_0 at. A couple of times I genuinely thought they'd jumped the shark, only for something shiny to distract me in the next five minutes. Also ( spoilers )

In short: enjoyable but not wonderful. Looking forward more to PotC 3 later this month.


In other Things of Fun (and sticking with my current Pegg-Frost-Wright obsession - Edgar Wright is adorable you know, especially when he throws his head back for his Evil Overlord Laugh) found this last night and watched it several times, marvelling more each time at just how off their faces they are on something, though Simon's waving a can of beer around which might be a clue. The first and second Cake Flushes are worth watching too, if just for the utter bizarrity but that they're in no way sober ( makes this one my favourite. )

Simon Pegg also wrote an interesting article on the differences (or not) between American and British humour, which is interesting to me because I always leaned toward the 'different type of humour' camp before. It's vaguely reassuring (especially when I affectionately wind friends up all the time and sometimes worry how it'll go with different cultural humours when I finally meet the Inmates) to know it'll probably translate pretty well. Mostly.

Beaker is looking less well by the day and I've lost hope of it being moving stress that'll wear off. Wondering what to do since I still can't quite work out what it is and I'm still useless with medicating fish. I'd also like to fix it sooner rather than later because Kermit is starting to go stir-crazy in the small tank but I don't want to put him back in the bigger one in case he catches whatever Beaker's got. Something to work on today.

Doctor Who is *finally* back on at 7pm. It's been ridiculous reading stuff where people reference its "Saturday 7pm" slot the last few weeks because it's been more of a half six or half seven or twenty-five minutes to infinity slot. Haven't decided if I'll watch the Joseph thing this week, since I'm still woeful over last week and I should catch up on work, given that the Badminton Horse Trials are on 'til 4:30pm so it's unlikely much work will be done until then.

In unrelated-to-anything news, finally bought Hal Duncan's Vellum last night. Figured I need inspiration this week and it sounded interesting. Hopefully it'll get here Monday or Tuesday so I have time to use it as inspiration. In the meantime I'm thinking I'll re-read some fic, starting with seperis' Sleep While I Drive which is still my favourite fic ever written.

Think I've run out of things to make this A Stupidly Long Post. I'll probably be mortified and go back to cut everything when I see how much flist space it'll take up but maybe, just maybe, I've now said everything I can possibly ramble about and will do some work.

...Maybe.