Castiel Is Dead

Today hasn't gone according to plan. I got woken up an hour early by a text from my university's campus security. They were closing part of the main street next to campus because someone was killed in a drive-by shooting in front of one of the dorms. Usually, there isn't a lot in the way of violence like that here. I totally feel for the victim and his or her family.

Of course, I was planning to go buy my textbooks today. I think I'll wait until next week.

Replacement plan: Go see the first show of Fright Night. The Cinemark theaters have this early bird thing where tickets are cheaper if you go to the first show. Awesome. However, the bus was over ten minutes late. I hate being late to a movie, even if I know I'm only missing fifteen minutes of commercials and trailers.

New replacement plan: Go grocery shopping. That went okay up until I got home. Guess who forgot and left her keys in the apartment when she left earlier? Yeah. I locked myself out. Good job, me. I had to talk to two people and try to track down someone else before I got back in my place. All this time, it was super hot and I was carrying my groceries. Thankfully I didn't buy anything that needed refrigeration.

Final plan for the day: Do as little as possible. That plan is succeeding. However, I haven't been sleeping well so now I have the migraine from hell. I'm nauseous and my shoulders hurt and I just want to go to bed.

In conclusion, WHERE IS MY POTTERMORE EMAIL?

ETA: Forgot to add (since I haven't whined enough) that I can't shower because there's a beetle on the wall in the bathroom, and I'm a big baby who freaks out at the thought of being attacked by bugs. Cry moar, I know.

Tonight, I'm going to see Bruno Mars and Janelle Monae (!) with cho_malfoy. And that's not what I'm posting about. That would be too normal.

There's a post on ontd_spnparty about season 7. Mild spoilers over here. The majority of the comments so far are extremely negative in general, and hateful towards Sera in specific. It's one of those things where I feel a thing enough to rant about it, but not enough to do it in the post and deal with the wank.

My thoughts: I don't vehemently hate Sera. I don't loathe what's happened to the show. Sure it's not as good as it used to be, but everything changes and most shows degrade over time. Anyone who thinks otherwise is imho rather deluded. Everytime I see people bitch about season 6 and what a shitty job Sera has done and blah, blah, blah, I feel my inner Becky make an appearance. I just want to tell Fritz fandom that if they hate it so much that they should just leave. Seriously, the people who are still enjoying it are being brought down by all the Debbie Downers.

And for the love of Cas, stop with your idiotic petitions. TV isn't a democracy; you don't get a say. Plus, much as I love Ben Edlund, the show would suffer if he ran it because nobody would be able to rein in his cracktastical tendencies. So, certain peeps in fandom, STFD and STFU.

I've made two offers on the community that you can find here: year of postcards and box of Nevada.

Why would anyone post a lot of pictures online? I've spent most of the last four days going through the pictures from the San Francisco SPN convention adding descriptions and tags. It's exhausting. Is there an easier way to do it? Am I just going to have to toil on Flickr, adding them? Ugh.

On a related note, pluggity plug. You should look at what I've been spending all my time working on. Here's a tease:


I would like to draw your attention to the sliver of skin on Jared's hip. Mmm.

I'm sure anyone who's a Supernatural fan knows there was a convention in San Francisco this last weekend. I had the good fortune of being there and the better fortune of having a brand new camera to play with. I took two videos (which will be under the cut) and some pictures (which I'll link).

( Image and video heavy )

Just stopping by briefly to reflect on how easy it can be to put me in a good mood. For example, while I was getting a drink at Keva Juice (mmm, Keva Juice), the radio was playing "Na Na Na." And a guy on the lower quad had his iPod turned up loud enough that I could tell he was listening to "The Fame." Little things are making me smile today.

My adorable, perfect nephew is one week old today. To celebrate, I got my very first flu shot. I've never cared in the past whether or not I get sick. There's just no way in heck I'm going to get anyone's cute, cute, cute baby sick.

The other 'exciting' news for today is that I'm nearly finished with one of my classes for the semester. I just have two more assignments to finish and turn in for Edu 214 and I'm done. I'll be only slightly ahead of the end of the semester, but at least I can still say I finished a class early.

I should probably mention: starting November 1, for the first time I will be helping to shape the young minds of America. I'll be helping to teach a unit on greenness for a high school environmental science class. I am nervous and excite all at the same time. And in foreshadowing to how I'll probably be as a teacher, instead of working on my presentation last night, I was playing Plants vs Zombies. Yeah... I'm gonna be awesome.

In the interests of support and full disclosure, I currently identify as queer. I say 'currently' because I believe sexuality and gender identity can change as you age. I say 'queer' because it takes less time to explain than what I truly identify as.

For those who take the time to listen, I'm a gender queer, heteroromantic asexual. I don't identify as male or female. I have no interest in sex. I do find guys more romantically interesting than girls, although I'm not likely to start dating anytime soon. Yes, I'm happy. Yes, my family and some of my friends know how I identify. As to the rest of the world, I'm not openly out. It's not a matter of hiding or fear. I just don't think it's something to discuss since it's such a tiny part of who I am. It's more important to me that people know who I'm related to, who I'm friends with, that I'm a college student and a fangirl and so on.

That's me in a nutshell.

ETA: My state doesn't celebrate Columbus Day so I always forget about it, which is probably a good thing because the idea behind Columbus Day makes me RAEG.

Minor spoilers for the episode under the cut.

( Anyone up for a love game? )