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so I really haven't been updating, um, almost at all.

DRIVEBY.

TV: I am keeping up on - uh, nothing? I kept up on Merlin! at least the last three weeks. and enjoyed the finale very much, while being amused at the weird mixing up of myths going on (as always). Sam and Kat have found Psych through my older brother and are devouring it, so I've seen random episodes of it while they're watching. It's really, really fun, and relaxing, though it totally hits my embarassment squick buttons all the time. some Glee, too, though I tend to skip loads of it and mostly watch the Kurt parts and the music.

my dad: came home tonight. He's exhausted and not feeling well, and I'm kind of unsure as to how this is going to work without us all feeling a deep desire to murder things, but at least he's out of the hospital.

college applications: in process.

other stuff: I'm doing puppeteering every night this week for this thing my church runs. my choir concert is this Sunday. finals are next week, but they shouldn't be that hard (not cumulative, yay!). Mostly I just want to get this school year and my applications done and turned in, and then watch TV for ... a REALLY LONG TIME. Law and Order: UK! (JAMIE AND FREEMAAAAAAA.) The Good Wife! (KALINDA.) Supernatural! (fairies, I hear!) Psych! the whole way through this time! The Event, which I am deeply behind on. .... that might be it. I can't remember. (OMG DOCTOR WHO CHRISTMAS SPECIAL SOOOOOON.)

other things I will be so happy to have more time for! the 3-sentence ficathon. :DDD GUUUUYS IT IS SO MUCH FUN and so low-key and stress relieving and beautiful. Come play with me!

 you guys you guys today I went to the library and they had The Demon's Covenent in omggg. I haven't been able to place it on hold because that is a bad idea with my parents and the titles, but with it there I could just check it out SO I DID. 

those who told me Covenant was even better than Lexicon? OMFG *HIGHFIVE* I DIDN'T KNOW THAT WAS POSSIBLE BUT APPARENTLY IT IS? ;alskhdlkdhdk YEEEEEES.

SO SPOILERS. 

( THIS BOOK. you should all read it. :D )

in like personal news and stuff I am doing all right. my dad is in ICU still because he is being a bit stubborn about actually, like, eating and drinking and doing the exercises he needs to do, but he's not in any real danger beyond the normal risk for all people recovering from heart surgery. I have my driver's license and have spent most of the past two days ferrying people around. :P I am at 45K for NaNo and hope to win today or tomorrow. We shall see. <3333 love you all. I am so thankful for you guys. 

FUCK. YES. 

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/theeagle/

After a downright awful day due to mood swings, this is just what I needed. (Actual tears over how happy I am this movie is coming out, you guys. ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF.)

having watched this trailer some seven times now (no shame, y'all), I can report that the euphoria is remaining. 

ETA: just realized I should do actual update. too tired and still kind of upset to say much, but my grandfather had a temporary recovery and now appears to be going downhill again. It's very likely he'll die soon. My father will hopefully be getting heart surgery soon after Thanksgiving. I'm staying on schedule for NaNo just barely. Mostly stuff is kind of crazy.

Title: Going To Be Famous
Vidder: be_themoon
Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Music: "Mainstream" by Thea Gilmore
Spoilers: For entire show.
Summary: This is a story about a war in which everyone is fighting for John Connor. It is also a story about a war in which everyone is fighting for their families and their souls and their right to be human. Things get complicated, sometimes.
Streaming/Download: Streaming at Vimeo and download at MediaFire.
Warnings: Violence, people dying.
Notes: This is for paraka, who won me in the help_pakistan auctions. This is almost a month late, but it is in fact here, and I hope you enjoy it. Thanks so much for donating! Many thanks go to wordsatourbacks for a wonderful indepth beta (omg, somebody HAS to write that Jesse/Lauren story).

( Heads up, they'll say, history was a big mistake. )

tonight I met 5 people from Fight Club, and it was epic, and also everyone should read The Demon's Lexicon. and apparently Diana Duane's books too.

I dunno if I'll be able to go home.

 because I have to learn not to procrastinate, am feeling incredibly stressed and a little bit freaked out. paperwork! airplanes! packing! no time to do anything tomorrow! homework! transcription!

*deep breaths* 

So - well, very very busy, and then gone until Wednesday the 20th. <3333 love you guys! catch you on the flip side.

 1) There is a guy at my gym who looks like this. (I have mentioned this before. Every time I say it, I wonder if he actually does look that much like him, and then I see him and come home and google James Murray again and go '... yeah, he really does.') Today he cut his hair, looked even more distractingly hot, and I spent far too much of my practice time ogling him. (I have such a crush/hero worship thing for him going on. It is sad. But it is not like I actually expect anything out of it, so we're all good!)

2) OW OW OW OWWWWWW hurt so much everywhere from team practice. But my technique is getting better, I can do actual push ups, hang off things a little longer, campus better, and I am so freaking close to that teal. (WANT. WAAAAANT. It just got it's rating - V3. WANT.)

3) We have weekly quizzes in Astronomy, graded on a curve. Today I got my results from last Thursday's. I got a 55% - 11 out of 20 questions answered right. My grade went UP 3 points to a 104% total. Whaaaat.

1a) WHY IS HE SO GOOD LOOKING.

First, the internet at my house has been being awful recently, so I may be pretty absent in the next several days. UGH UGH UGH so annoyiiiiing. 

So, TV stuff! 

The Event pilot. 
( 3/5? maybe a 4/5? )
Supernatural S6 premiere tonight! I look forward to watching it tomorrow. :D

What else? L&O has been back, though I have to wait another week for the episode all about Matt. (MATT <3333). I am hopeful that we will get a lot more this season about his fantastic boss Harriet, because I adore everything I've gotten about her so far. 

MORE IMPORTANTLY. Nikita! 

( I think I have a new Show. )

Now VID RECS.

Well, just 3. Cold War by emthiessen on LJ, a video around the Doctor Who S5 finale. GORGEOUS. "This is a cold war, do you know what you're fighting for?" You guys know how the finale gets me - this vid is all about WHY, I guess. 

I have not, in fact, abandoned SPN, despite my love for Nikita. Man With A Thousand Faces, a Gabriel vid. OH GABRIEL. Sometimes I just adore you. :(

When You Were Young, another Doctor Who S5 vid, because apparently when you put Doctor Who to The Killers I will fall over myself to watch it. Oh Amy&11! "We're burning down the highway skyline on the back of a hurricane that started turning when you were young." I LOVE THEM SOOOO.

 am sick and exhausted. Feverish with a sore throat and achy joints all over. Yay. 

Flist, may I request cheering up? I tried using yesterday's White Collar, but that didn't work out so well. (TRAUMA.)

I had stuff I was going to talk about, but I'm having trouble remembering what.

 So this Tuesday starts my senior year of high school. The fall is going to be interesting - I'm only taking three dual-enrolled classes (Astronomy, American History to 1876, and Pre-History to Medieval Humanities), but I have to study for the SAT, the ACT, and the World History, Literature, and Mathematics Level I SAT Subject Tests. Also get applications for colleges together, and figure out where I want to go. I'm a big fan of Yale and Brown, and my chances are a lot better now that [redacted awesome news not allowed to tell until Wednesday], but I still really need to have third and fourth and fifth choices (I don't particularly want to apply to more than five schools, but I will if necessary). Hopefully I'll be visiting colleges some weekend this fall, which should help me figure out. Part of the problem in finding the schools I want to apply to is that - well, I have no idea what I'm going to major in. If I do Social Work, I would go to grad school for it, so my majors in college are wide open. Aaaaah.

Also, I really, really like teaching people. It's in my genes, guys! All girls in my family are doomed to teach. :P This Friday at co-op, I went in so that they wouldn't have to come back and pick me up before going somewhere else, and one of the Chemistry students had forgotten to do his homework, so I sat down and helped him with it. It was loads and loads of fun, and I don't even really like Chemistry. I just... enjoyed teaching it to someone. I didn't even mind that it was taking over an hour of my limited computer time that day. 

Okay - in the next few months, you can expect my NFE, one White Collar vid, and one as yet unknown fanfic and vid (from help_pakistan). And then I'll probably be pretty quiet on the creation front for a while, though I might do some casual vidding for relaxing purposes.

(AAARGH can I be 18 now stop it LJ with the adult notifications it is less than two months!)