I woke up at exactly 7am this morning, which also happens to be the time I'm supposed to be at work in the morning. *facepalm* I know I set my alarm last night but it was completely shut off when I woke up.
So that's it! No more staying up to watch Star Trek TNG on TV anymore! It's just too late. (But oh, it was "Clues" the episode where Picard orders Data to lie. AWESOME!)

But speakng of Star Trek TNG. Some of you have already seen this but I HAD to post it:

Star Trek The Next Generation Fan Video
By: Alan (my brother)
Title: A Little More Action
Song: A Little Less Conversation - Elvis Presley
Rating: PG - maybe
Description:
First of all, I love this song. It's one of my favorite songs, EVER. So, combine that with the awesome of ST and holy crap, you guys! If you EVER were a ST fan you will LOVE this! I laughed so hard and wanted to watch it over and over again.
I think one of my favorite parts was that shot of Data from "Starship Mine" when he's mimicking the small talk. OH GAWL, it's just so BRILLIANT! The cuts are so fantastic and I never would have thought of half the scenes he put in it.



HERE for the ViddYou link if you prefer.

There are times when I wish that I knew more about what was going on in professional sports.

Like...when a professional NBA player walks past my desk and I can't PLACE HIM! *headdesk!* I vaguely recognize him but I'm not sure who he is. He's probably from the Blazers...maybe.

If I were more into sports I'd enjoy working here a lot more. LOL

[ETA] It was Monty Williams, one of the assistant coaches to the Portland Trail Blazers. HAH! He said hi to me as he passed by again and so I got a good look at him. lol
I WIN!

Just to clarify, I'm not having a bad day this just struck me funny. That, and I'm so BORED!

I've been going on Facebook for my amusement for the past half hour. Facebook of all things!

...just a few minutes left.

Is it wrong that I kind of like this layout? Heh, Becca would hate it.

"You tell those spiders, Ron."

I kind of like the one with the bats too...

Well, now I've gone and dunnit. I've changed my layout to one of the LJ ones. I'm not sure if I like it enough to keep it. But I was getting sick of my own. It looked so disorganized and...yellow. lol

I think the plan after work today is to go home and take a nap. I'm pooped and I don't feel well. Hopefully, I'm not getting sick. *crosses fingers* I'm so delirious in fact that when I went to the soda pop machine to get a Coke I accidentally pressed the wrong button and got a Dr. Pepper instead.
No matter, I don't mind it. But honestly.

[ETA] Okay, I don't like this.

[ETA 02] Okay, this is better. It'll do for now until I can find something I like better...

Interesting meme:

"The problem with Live Journal is that we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. Hence, I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don’t know about you."

:D

Yay! A Meme!
28 Questions
Nicked from sassy_lion though I swear I've done this one before...

1. Your Middle Name: Elizabeth. My Grandmother's middle name as well.

2. Age: 26 - completely and utterly unhip. I think I'll post about that a little later.

3. Single or Taken: Single - by subconscious choice I suppose.

( Yay! Pointlessness! )

Happy 31st Birthday Matthew Bellamy!

You are yet another testament of my unrelenting taste in older men. I would have sworn you were closer to my age, but whatever. You're still hot and talented and that's all that matters.

Now, *takes hold by the shoulders and shakes him* WHEN is your new album coming OUT?! and.. WHEN are you going to be coming over here on your tour?! WHAT does an American woman have to DO to get some cooperation around here?

Honestly!

Oh, and may I just say that I adore your hair?

Companion for Eleventh Doctor Announced

Hm. Cool. As of right now, after everything we've gone through with Ten and those companions, I'm pretty much open to anything as long as it's new. So she's cute and young as Matt Smith is. Bring it on! I want that brand new, I can conquer the world feeling!

That may be the only thing I'll have to get used to. This cast is way young this time around. But again, bring it and let me be entertained!

Book Meme!
Swiped from narniadear

List three characters from ten of your favourite books. the challenge is to guess what the books are! for the sake of consistency, use all first names.

01) Agnes, Walter, Nanny - Maskerade bitwhizzle 02) Mel, Charlie, Con - Sunshine narniadear 03) Jake, Carl, Ethel - A Time to Kill narniadear 04) John, Beth, Josephine - Little Women narniadear 05) Mina, Lucy, Abraham - Dracula asatomuraki 06) Cissy, Barney, Able - The Blue Castle bitwhizzle 07) Jack, Catherine, Clarice - Silence of the Lambs narniadear 08) Mark, Jude, Daniel 09) Horace, Tiffany, Rob - Wintersmith narniadear 10) Charlie, Margaret, Adeline

Well, these are mostly the books that I could remember I read that aren't as obvious as, you know, "Legolas, Faramir, Sam". *rolls eyes* But I really like any one of these. :D

Back again, this time with less depressing thoughts. I'm kind of bored which enables my mind to wander. This is where it happened to land within the past few minutes and I found it amusing:

If I Met _____ At This Very Moment and Could Say Only ONE Thing to Them
What would I say? Let us begin a list, shall we? This is, of course assuming that I'm perfectly comfortable with speaking my mind to people I've had on my computer desktop.

Damian Lewis
Because he's my current obsession right now and I'd probably keel over if I actually met him in person because of that all I can think of right now is:
"May I touch your hair?" And after he started running I'd yell after him, "I LOVE YOU MY GINGER SNAP!"

But if I were slightly more sane I'd probably say something like, "What happens to Charlie? We're obviously not going to get to see anymore... TELL ME!"
Just slightly more sane...

Nathan Fillion
"Top Ten Favorite Next Generation episodes - GO!"
That of course, would be the ice breaker.

David Tennant
"Would you like some of my sandwich? No, let me rephrase that. You will have some of my sandwich and you will allow me to get you another sandwich. Okay?"

Patrick Stewart
"Why didn't you come out to sign autographs? I came all the way over there and I was wearing heels for heavens sake! GOSH!...August 21 2008 of course!"

Richard Armitage
"Would you make a voice post on my journal? *digs phone out of purse* Oh yeah, it'll just take a second. Just say hi and, I don't know...say my name a lot."

( See more... )

Okay, that's eleven I think. If anyone can think of any more I'll add them. *shrugs* Truthfully though, if I ever came across any one of these guys I'd probably only be able to get out, "Oh...hai..." before saying something incredibly unintelligent.

Well, that killed about a half hour.

You simply cannot eat cherries, spit out the pits and still look dignified at the same time. You just can't.
That's probably why Damian Lewis has never eaten any pit containing fruit on Life actually. Hm. Interesting.

Yesterday was kind of dull, which is the way I like things. Heh, no wonder I write. I came home, cleaned up the kitchen and Alonzo's bowl for which I'm sure he was quite grateful because he did what he always does when I clean his bowl. After I put him back in and he swims around for a few minutes he goes all the way to the surface level of the water and zones out. He lets his butt and tail hang down in the water so he's almost vertical and he just sits there like that. I've had a few people ask me if he's dead before.
Weird fish.

After I cleaned, I read some more of my book. It's kind of getting sad. I know it won't be permenent but still. *sniffle* I then went to the store to get some food and junk and something for dinner. I wrote some more to my short story. I really am flying blind on this one. I have an idea of how I want it to go and a rough outline but still. It's meant to be a short story so my brain is kind of freaking out just slightly.
I guess it's knowing that it doesn't have to be as detailed or involved as any of my other projects. Makes my brain short circuit.

One thing that was definitely determined yesterday...well this past weekend as well. The TARDIS is downright filthy! Inside and outside it just needs a thorough cleaning but I DON'T WANNA! Once the sun came out this weekend and revealed the dirt for what it truly was, I was screwed. It's raining right now but that won't last and the sun will come out and ruin everything again!

I'm seriously considering asking Sean if he'll do it if I pay him. I don't want to do it that desperately. But it is a serious situation so SOMEONE has to do SOMETHING about it EVENTUALLY! There's melted chocolate in the back seat. Just a little bit but still...Dad would cry.

Oh, and how lame was the finale of HIMYM last night? GOSH! There was too much time filled with that stupid goat through the episode and we only were rewarded by the two sentences that Bob Saget said at the end. I was amused by the examining of Marshall's previous statement of "I can jump that far..." but still. Meh!

Turns out I was supposed to be here at six this morning. Woopth! I'm really not sure why because the work load is declining like...well like a drop in a roller coaster. It just started at the middle of last week. Ironically enough, right when we got our temp in to help. Needless to say, she's not here anymore. *flails arms helplessly*

I feel good today. I believe it's because I went to church yesterday, fulfilled my duties and plunked around on the piano for Relief Society AND because I wrote the first bit to my first ever short story.

There is one thing that I've learned about my brain that I have to keep up on or all I would do is stare into the abyss all day long and wonder why. I have to keep my brain busy.
For example:
Friday night, I came home late from the parents' house after watching the Shakespeare Retold movies with Sean and Mom. (Sean really liked Much Ado with Damian Lewis btw. :)
Cecily was finishing up a movie when I got home. After that was over we went to bed and I'd had this strange urge ever since I got home to pull out the copy of Hamlet I bought whilst in Stratford. It's the copy in which I marked all of my favorite passages.

I lay in bed with my reading lamp on, flipping through the play and stopping on the pages I'd marked last year and read through them. I started on the soliloquy "I have of late - but wherefore I know not..." that goes into "What a piece of work is man." and began to memorize it.
It's my favorite out of the entire play and thus far, I have about half of it memorized just having gone over it a few times before I go to sleep. After that I think I'm going to move on to "O, my offence is rank..." I LOVE that one because Claudius knows he's screwed but he tries so hard not to be, to kind of redeem himself.
There's no real point to any of this. But I'm liking it for some reason.

So yes, I'm reading a good book, studying some Shakespeare and I've gotten the first bit of a short story down. I feel a little accomplished. Just a little bit.

I wish I could post some of the short story here just so people can tell me whether it's making sense or not. As I read through it it all makes sense in my brain because the story came out of my brain and so even if there are gaps in the details, I already have the information so - it's just kind of hard to keep track of.

I'll try it when I've got some more of it done.

Went to see Star Trek again. It's still good! I noticed a lot more of the effects and camera work this time. That opening sequence - yeeeesh! I actually cried this time. Last time I just got a little teary. It's SO sad yet fantastically awesome!
Still love Bones. Still not enough Scotty. Still best movie since TDK. :D

BLAST! The Temp showed up! I don't know what they expect to happen from this. I really don't.

Work is finally over and ze veekend ish here! YAY!
The temp didn't even come in today and I still finished all of my stuff with time to spare. I really have no idea what people are thinking with this. We needed her three months ago! When I was writing love letters to my bed and poetry about my blanket! Gosh! But it's calming down finally and I'm able to get breathers during the day and still keep up, which is nice.

I'm at the parents' house right now. My goal is to possibly get Sean to watch some of Damian Lewis in Much Ado when he's actually English (He's only seen the man in Life and BoB as an AMERICAN! Gosh!) or maybe to get Gary to watch some more of Life in general. "You can't handle his ride!"
But wait! Gary's out of town this weekend. Poop!

Mom will definitely want to see Macbeth. It's really good. Very well done.

I'm just happy that I'm free right now and have some peoples to talk to rather than just myself. I get boring when I talk to myself anyway. *twitch*

I did start a new book yesterday. Reading, not writing. There's No Place Like Here. It's about a woman who's obsessed with finding lost things, missing socks, keys, earrings, people - anything. Then she gets lost herself and finds herself in this place where all of those things go when they're lost and just can't be found, including people. I'm just at the beginning of it still but it's way fun and everything's Irish and hilarious.

It's good to read a book. I haven't read a new book in a really long time.

...probably going to go see Star Trek again this weekend. That'd be good.

Happy Friday!

Dang! I forgot to say "yea even more impressive than the locks of Patrick Dempsey". lol It is too!

To explain my previous scriptural entry:
Cecily rented some of the Shakespeare Retold series. We knew that Damian Lewis was in Much Ado as Benedick but I believed it was going to be weird because they weren't doing the actual Shakespeare. Just the story and modern everything else.
It was most fun, actually. His hair was FABULOUS in it! I love it and I covet it at the same time. The man is just crazy!blessed! I am glad, however, that the goatee was short lived in the movie. Blegh! It's just not allowed.
He was hilarious and adorable. "Me...love...you." He's an actor that you have to watch constantly because of his facial expressions. If you miss some of his expressions, you miss some of his performance. It's that constant and I love it.

This version of Much Ado had some MAJOR Doctor Who peeps in it too. Billie Piper played Hero and she was adorable. Tom Ellis was Claudio (The hot Doctor in the Master episodes series 3), Sarah Parish was Beatrice, Derek Riddell played Don aka the bastard brother known more commonly as Keanu Reeves. It was really funny how many DW peeps were in that. I felt left out for Damian's sake.
But you know, it also makes me wonder if he actually auditioned for the Doctor. He would have been ginger...

We also watched Macbeth with James McAvoy who was BRILLIANT and Keeley Hawes who played Lady Macbeth! The camera work and lighting in this version was just wonderful. It was also the fact that Richard Armitage showed up as Macduff and scared the crap out of me.

Seriously, this is how it went:
*Camera pans over scene and over Richard Armitage coming into the scene then pans down to his hands.*
Me: *inaudible gasp* *starts convulsing because I was so shocked I forgot his name for a second*
Cecily: *looks up from knitting* "What?"
Me: "It's Richard Armitage!"
Cecily: *looks at TV as camera pans over again* "WOAH! Back that sucker up!"

It was a very pleasant surprise. But Richard, [Larry]don't you ever do that again.
So yeah, I recommend watching those. They're good fun. :D

I'm in a pleasant mood today. It might be because I got to sleep in a little bit and the day is going by faster because I'm actually working a normal shift. It may be because I got an awesome dose of Damian Lewis last night. (That sounds kind of awful.) It also may be because it dawned on me yesterday that I should turn Dominance into a short story.
DUH!

See, I've been seeing basically just the one scene in my head between the two characters. I think it would be very fitting and somewhat cool if I just stuck with that scene and explained the entire thing through lots of dialogue and some narrative. The story would end with the escape. :D
I have to revamp my plot outline and ditch characters but it'll be fun and I'm glad I've got some focus to it now.

Oh, I feel I should mention that my nerdiness has leaked around the work place. Yesterday, Frank, one of the managers here - nice guy, came up and leaned on my lower cubicle wall and said, "I hear you're kind of a Trekkie."
At first I was going to correct him and say "TrekKER thank you very much." but it wasn't necessary at the time. I nodded my head and said yes. And we discussed the film. Apparently he's a hard core Original Trek fan and he loved the movie.

Now everyone's been asking me how I liked it. I guess a TrekKER should know, right?

Another conversation yesterday that was a little amusing yet eye rolling:
Doug: "So how did you like Star Trek?"
Me: "I liked it very, very much. I'll probably go see it again."
Doug: "Well they need that. Not just Star Trek but any big movie that took a lot to make."
Me: "Well it's already broken 'Star Trek' film records, which isn't much but.."
Doug: "So they've gone where no man has gone before?"
Me: "...I can see the cheese dripping from the ceiling."

Doug's kind of the resident smartass.

Almost the weekend!

And Laura said -
Behold I have seen the hair of the Damian of Lewis and see that it is good. The goodness thereof far exceeding any that stand before him; yea even David of Tennant. Verily I say unto you, the hair thereof surpasses even Eric of Bana in its goodness. For behold, I have seen the thickness thereof and the color thereof and the curl thereof and see that it is good.

It is good in mine eyes and for my hands to runneth over and through. And verily I say unto you, the Damian hast hair that surpasses all hair amongst men yet behold, the growing of the red goatee is an abomination unto me. For it hast caused me to cringe and squirm and twitch unto all unpleasantness and therefore it must be cast off of thine face. For thine clean shaven face, oh Damian, is pleasing unto me. I say, be wary of thine facial hair; for if thou wishest to develop thine beard I say unto you, yea.

For I have seen thy beard in all manner of length and know that it is good. Thou shalt think, therefore, before thou growest thine goatee or moustache or any manner of facial hair thereof. It is an abomination unto me; and if thou growest such facial hair thou shalt be damned and causeth me to scratch out mine eyes. Behold, Damian, it causeth you to appear as a used car salesman - though attractive you still shall be, nevertheless, I say unto you, it is not pleasing unto me.

Blessed art thou Damian, for thy hair is great in all of creation! When mine eyes are cast upon it, it is then that I weep for the greatness thereof. Know, Damian, that I lovest thou more than thou ever shouldst know and shall watch thee in all manner of thy films and television and interviews and photos that are posted upon the internet and elsewhere.
***

*snort* It's all true.

It goes back to when I first heard the official news that the next Trek film would consist of a Kirk prequel. Oh yay. That was my general reaction. I had become so entirely sick and tired of the entire Kirk part of the 'verse that I wanted to protest. We finally get him killed off (With all due respect to Leonard Nimoy. *pats*) and The Shatner goes and writes Trek based NOVELS with plots that happen to bring Kirk back to life as part of some sort of Romulan plot or...something.

I wasn't feeling it. There is SO MUCH a person can do in this 'verse and what do they do? Go back to Kirk. *throws hands up in air helplessly*

I then saw the first teaser trailer for the film. It was "meh" because all it consisted of was the building of the first Enterprise in the Federation Fleet. Whoop-dee-doo again.

THEN, and this is when it started catching more of my attention, my brother e-mailed me a picture of what the full ship was going to look like in the film. It was WRONG! They souped it up, made it look sleeker than the original tinker toy assembly of magnificence that we all know and love from the OS and films.

Then I heard that Chris Pine was cast as Kirk - The pinhead from The Princess Diaries 2? WRONG!

Then I heard that Karl Urban was to play McCoy. Hella WRONG!

I also heard that Zachary Quinto was to play Spock. WR....okay, that kind of fit for me.

THEN I heard that there were Romulans in the mix with the plot for the film. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! As everyone in the freaking universe knows, Kirk never ran into Romulans until the actual series which would have been the future for this film.

Shortly afterwards, I heard that the Romulans were from the future, so it was a time thing. I put my accusing pointer finger away for the moment...okay.

All of this build up towards the end of last year and the beginning of this one sort of faded away only leaving a hint of skepticism in the back of my mind.
Then I saw the movie on Saturday.

You know what? I was WRONG!
( I have been and always shall be your fan. )

So, to those of you closed minded, dedicated, obnoxious, Trek fans who refused to go see this because it wasn't with the original actors or they changed the ship or for whatever reason, (You know who you are!) I just have one thing to say:
You douches are missing out. Even Leonard Nimoy liked it!

This movie is definitely tied with The Dark Knight on my list of Awesome Movies of All Time. It is literally that good.

Besides that, not much went on this weekend. Mother's Day was nice. I got to sleep. Cecily cooked dinner for all of us on Saturday and that was mega-yummy. ST had awesome trailers before it...aaaand I've now got a crazy old lady crush on Zac Efron. [See 17 Again]
I don't want to talk about it. *shakes head in utter shame*

Well it is done. I've purchased my Star Trek tickets for tomorrow. *does happy dance!* There's just something so thrillingly awesome about a Star Trek movie. It may be just me - in fact, it probably is just me but I love the 'verse so much that I just get giddy excited in anticipation of another ST movie. :D

Interesting fact of the day:
Gregory Peck's full name was Eldred Gregory Peck which I must say is much better than Cary Grant's actual name: Archibald Leach. Not joking.

Eldred, however, made me think of some sort of fantasy novel character. Here's the little tid-bit I wrote off the cuff in my e-mails to Cecily this morning:

"And Eldred took up his sword, looking the demon in the eye, heat from his anger swelling in his breast at the sight of his dying love lying a painfully short distance from his touch. A roar burst from his mouth setting the heartless smile of the demon faltering as he launched himself at the creature. Her voice cried Eldred's name shrilly, the ghost of the sound echoing off of the walls of the canyon when Eldred made for the kill.

Though Eldred was young and strong and strikingly handsome, he did lack one very important aspect of the human equation: brains. His love watched in horror as Eldred leaped towards the demon completely forgetting that said demon had any limbs at all. At the very moment Eldred would have made contact with the eyeball of the beast he was knocked completely out of the air by a well aimed swipe of the creature's claws. Eldred was pushed to the side and smacked against the canyon wall with a sound like a large metallic stone slamming into a plate of slightly softened butter after being dropped from a height of one hundred feet.

Eldred slid down the canyon wall like the dripping mollasses he felt like as the demon returned its attention to Eldred's beloved. She screamed helplessly, completely ignoring the very large, thick, perfect for eye poking stick lying right next to her. Her yells for Eldred became louder and more shrill to the point that Eldred, picking himself up after his stone-smashing-butter incident, believed that his ears might bleed.

He got unsteadily to his feet and shook his head believing that he could hear things rattling around inside of it like a maraca. The image before him came back into focus and again, Eldred took up his sword rethinking his approach for the second time around..."
***

It fits doesn't it? I may just use that name for real somewhere. Oh, and yes, it really bugs me when the damsel in distress doesn't try to help out her man in any way she can when he's clearly in over his head. Any woman with brains wouldn't just lay there helplessly gasping and weeping, honestly!

Speaking of nifty names, I'm quite proud of the one I thought up for the male character in Dominance. Balin. Pronounced "BALE-lin" not "ballin". Maybe I should spell it Baelin. *shrugs* He'll be called "Lin" generally, which I like. It fits him pretty well. The female character's name is Chase simply because I like the name for a woman.

The day is nearly over and then I shall be FREE! Free as a bird! WEEEEeeeeee! And then Star Trek tomorrow. HEEE!

Quote of the Day:
"Hate is a prison. But you know what Rick? Prison is a prison too."
- Detective Charlie Crews *weeps!*

Okay, so...okay.
Maybe someone else can help me figure this out. I have been coming in to work for ten hour shifts since...since I don't even know. We've been trying to keep our heads above water since Christmas and are barely succeeding.

So would someone please explain to me WHY I was called away from my desk yesterday just so I could watch people try to hit a pinata with a stick? It had to have been at least twenty minutes that I was forced to waste. There were two pinatas and no little children present.
No, the pinata is not a symbol of any kind for the paper mache wad of frustration I've been feeling lately. This was an actual pinata that I had to watch get knocked down while candy flew all over the production floor.

It's also very unproductive to call me away from my desk for a department meeting that lasts no less than an HOUR when I'm busting my butt trying to get all of this stuff done and out the door.

I was already cheesed off yesterday as some may remember so I think what set me off about this was when Claire came in my cube about an hour after the pinata crap and said, "So are we behind on getting orders out?" she looks around my desk, "Looks like it."

No, I'm not behind. This is what it looks like when we're staying caught up. And maybe, just maybe if you let me stay here and do what I'm SUPPOSED to be doing instead of pulling me away for stupid pointless crap I'd be able to keep up better!

Okay, I'm done with that I think.

I'm actually in a pretty decent mood. I got some laundry done yesterday and I'm almost finished watching the first season of House. :D It's fun to remember why I fell in love with the show. I made a batch of House quote icons a while back and it's been so much fun watching the episodes I originally got those from. I should make more.

Once I'm finished with that, I'll go on to the second season. :D *hugs her DVDS*

One thing that I've noticed though. Cameron was insane! lol I'm watching this now after my Hugh Laurie Crush of Champions and I'm just focusing on the characters and she really had issues to be crushing on a guy like House. Granted, I have enough issues that would probably enable me to do the same but that's not my point. lol
Chase was such a bastard in this season. No...that's the wrong insult - weasel is better.

Mom and Dad come back from Denver today...much to Gary and Sean's chagrin probably. I might go over there after work today as I haven't seen Mom in a while. We can watch the next episode of the lamest cycle of Top Model together too. Wooo!
I wonder if Gary gave Rock Band back to his friend yet. *grin*