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My very exciting life:

--Dbag was doing his whale song thing again today. This is where he sits in his office and makes weird burbling noises to himself. It's very distracting.

--Fannish ridiculosity that makes me happy: Charlie Brooker is following @big_ben_clock on Twitter. BONG.

--Chop onions --> rub eyes = NO.

--Dinner tonight was avocado and onion pizza. OM NOM NOM.

--Possibly the funniest SGA parody/meta-commentary in the universe

--I did some art! Which is awesome, because it's been ages since I've done any. I forget how much I like art-ing until I'm doing it.

--I got my assignment for A Ficathon Walks Into a Bar! James May walks into a bar and meets Fran Katzenjammer. That interaction is not going to go at all well. :D

Thing I beta-ed: Hell, Rising From a Thousand Thrones by mad_maudlin. Stargate/HP Lovecraft fusion. There is not enough ♥ in the universe to tell you how much I love this. It's fucking great. Go read it now.

Dbag called in sick today, so I was a bit busy.

I did have a chance, though, to finish going over this new piece of technology that we've taken on in order to make the IP attorneys' lives easier. I'm not too happy with it, to be honest; I've managed to work out how to make it do what it needs to do in various situations, but it's not exactly the most streamlined thing in the world and I am truly dreading having to explain to Dbag how to work it. Not because I don't know, but because I know he's going to get flustered. I should draw this up as a flow chart, actually. ("If you can make it do what it's supposed to do, then do that. If you can't, then try this. If that doesn't work, then try this.")

Then I find myself going, "Dear IT people. You should be able to make this piece of technology be better. It should not, you know, require a flow chart of ways it can go wrong."


Then I got a haircut.


In other news, my brain is coming up with weird fandom ideas right and left. Today on the T on the way in to work I decided that what the world really needs is Top Gear fic with the King of Spain as the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car. Jeremy could be all, "So you've spent the last few years in Canada, is that right? Didn't you find it a bit frenchy?" and "Now, you've started this initiative to give eclairs to children, the 'No Child Left Without Custard' initiative. And I just have to say that I applaud you, sir. We need leadership like that here in Britain." And since the King would be used to driving zambonis he'd have a really good lap time. Y/Y?

Also, we watched a bit of Mythbusters and it was the "waving a red flag in front of a bull episode." And when they got into actually testing it, one of them said, "so we borrowed some angry bulls from our friend Rodney the rodeo clown..." And my brain immediately decided that it needed Rodney McKay, Rodeo Clown. Honestly I have no idea how that would work - how would you get Rodney to have become a rodeo clown, how?? - but it would be awesome nonetheless. SGA fandom, get right on that.

If I ever did drugs I'd probably just try to sell you insurance. (/gratuitous Eddie Izzard reference)

Looking at the visuals - Atlantis really is a special snowflake! Oy.

Edit:
Which, okay, now the episode is over I can share some (non-spoilery) thoughts.

1) I have now watched 3 whole episodes of SGA! (I watched Vegas just before this) It's almost like I can pretend I know the canon! Woot!

2) If I could just watch this show with a bitchin' soundtrack and no talking, I might actually enjoy it. The dialogue is just so incredibly awful, though. If TPTB had made SGA as, like, a 5 season long music video, I probably would have loved it. It's so gorgeous! Lovely sci-fi visuals! Aliens! (okay, not alien-looking enough, but no sci-fi aliens are ever alien enough for me - damn humanoids) Hot actors! But then they have to talk and, just, no.

3) Actually, I think that's all I really have to say. SGA fandom, keep on keepin' on, please.

This is my 2,000th LJ entry. To celebrate, I give you... SGA crack AU (They are forms. Yes, forms). Please direct your blame to busaikko and this fabulous crackficlet.

Pushing the Envelope - John/Rodney, 420 words.

( I finally write SGA and it's this??? )

I had a bizarre SGA dream last night that involved parallel universes, time travel, two John Sheppards and three Rodney McKays, one of which was a woman. It was a very "hijinks ensue" kind of dream ("And then Rodney trips over the cable and accidentally activates one of the tracking devices on the ship, bringing him into contact with his future self, who has just been kidnapped by the evil emperor of the planet Groonish!"). Alas, I woke up before one of the Rodneys could save the day.

It's foggy today and the view outside the windows is really beautiful.

Alyson bought me a tote bag that says "evil herbivore" and another one that says "I reject your reality and substitute my own." Awesome. We were joking last night that it would be funny to have one that says "But Rwanda doesn't work very well. Infrastructure's fucked." But then I decided I probably wouldn't take that to the grocery store, you know?

I'm reading through the Yuletide brainstorming post and feeling lots of glee. I've had my requests ready for ages, but seeing all the possible fandoms just makes me grin like a maniac. I can't wait.

Ummm, hi!

Items.

--Happy birthday to anoif who is awesome!

--Nerdtopia! Gah, so many things to READ! *makes lists, hits up public library catalog* About the only one of these I've actually read is Dear Genius, which is one of the most marvelous, entertaining, and insightful books ever. I need to own it, actually.

I'm secretly a total whore for nonfiction (in addition to the way I'm a totally un-secret whore for fiction and poetry). I just tend to get fascinated about a subject, devour materials on it, and then move on to something else two weeks later. I think that's a large part of why librarianship appeals to me - the work I do is always changing. Which is not to say I never get bored. But I can't imagine focusing on one discipline for the rest of my life.

--Along those lines! I'm sort of tentatively thinking about planning a multifandom librarian ficathon. Would anyone be interested in that? Would you still be seen with me if I created a community for it and named it after a DDC number? :D

--I really want someone to write me an SGA McShep fic where the boys get trapped in a game of Zork that someone uploaded to the Atlantis computer. It would start like this:

"Major, I thought I told you not to touch th--"

West of House
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.

>"Oh no, oh no, oh nononono!"

Pardon?

>"Sheppard, if I get eaten by a grue it will be all your fault."

Of course, I don't have enough SGA knowledge to actually write this, alas. But in my mind they'd be stuck there together in some sort of Ancient Game Boy and have to work their way through the treasures to get out, and it's a good thing Rodney sort of remembers the difficult bits. Yes, I am a serious nerd.

--I read some more popslash but none of it really worked for me. Hmmm. It's weird that I sort of jumped right into SGA without really knowing the canon and still enjoy it, but popslash doesn't seem to be working the same way. I wonder if it says something about my tastes or about the general tone of popslash v the general tone of SGA, or what. Probably both.