Castiel Is Dead

In case you've ever wondered what I sound like, I ganked the speech meme that you've been seeing everywhere.

Your name and/or username
Where you're from
The following words: Aunt, Roof, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting Image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught, Orange, Coffee, direction, naturally, aluminium and herbs
What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
What do you call gym shoes?
What do you say to address a group of people?
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
What is the thing you change the TV channel with?

Read this passage from The Speech Accent Archive:

"Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station."

I had to take today off for a very simple reason. I can barely move. It's sad. I'm sore all over, and the parts of me that aren't dealing with muscle strain are sunburned. Blargh.

Tomorrow, I get to see the Star Trek exhibit in Sacramento! I'll post deets when I get back. Maybe I'll even have pictures. At the very least I should be able to get some knitting done on the way down and back. That'll be good. I should probably head to bed.

( For cho_malfoy )
ETA: Ack! I'm filling prompts at the inception_kink meme. Somebody stop me before I start ruining people's lovely, porny prompts.

There was a fairly epic Sailor Moon post on ONTD. Someone linked to a Sailor Senshi maker. And there went my evening.

( My Sailor Senshi, behind a cut for those who aren't interested )

Everyone feel free to ignore this post. I just need to let off some steam, and my opinion probably does not mirror the opinion of anyone else.

For some reason, the last several days, I've encountered several fics in which one of the characters is shy. Not a big. Shyness is common enough, whether it's the normal state for a person or because they get shy around people they're attracted to.

The thing that annoys me was that in all of those fics the shy person stuttered. Shy does not automatically equal stutter. In my experience, shyness leads to inability to speak or inability to say the right thing (mixing up words or having horrible tactless word vomit). Yes, I'm using my own experience with shyness as a yardstick here, but I don't necessarily think I'm that far off the mark. I've only ever heard one person in my life stutter and it wasn't because of shyness. Writers, please try to come up with some other way to indicate that your character is shy. Kthnx.

(In case you're curious, I rarely blush and I can almost always meet the eye of the person I'm talking to. Maybe I just fail at social awkwardness.)

laugh track - LOL

cho_malfoy and I were discussing how we should have a sitcom. Towards that end, I think we should do stupid things set to a laugh track. We plan to start by taking shots of whiskey and/or irish cream before cleaning and packing. Wish us luck!

So, cho_malfoy just posted about Fan History. For some reason, I decided to see if my foray into FanFiction.Net (aka The Pit of Voles) was on there. It took me five minutes to remember my username on there, but sure enough, there was an entry on me. Turns out FF.Net has an automatic bot that updates users.

I shouldn't have looked. All I feel now is shame. I wrote a coda to the second Matrix movie, if that tells you anything. *shudder* To make matters worse, I decided to look back at the posts from right after I started on LJ, way back in 2001. My shame was compounded. I'm never doing that again. I would put bright, blinky text reminding myself never to do that again, but I don't need anything else to be ashamed of.

Is it Tuesday yet? Could I be any bigger of a loser?

Yesterday, I pre-ordered Supernatural Season One on Amazon, and now I can't wait for them to get here. I'm getting really impatient and twitchy and I'm probably driving everyone up the wall.

My first reaction to stuff tends to be inane and incoherent. Also, I tend to have a cascade of images instead of one thought, so I wrote down the first concise thing that came to mind.

( Shoes! )

I really couldn't help myself on this one.