Nov. 7th, 2006

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The girl that plays Lucy Diamond on D.E.B.S is crazy hot. I'd hit that so fast you wouldn't even know I'd ever been anywhere but her bed. /randomuptoolatecomment. Looks rather like Danica Patrick, IMO. I didn't think it was going to be an amazing movie; it started out a little weak, but I ended up thinking that it wasn't bad. Mostly because of the Jordana Brewster hotness. (Did I really just find a picture of her with her arm around Eliza Dushku? That much hot in one picture should be illegal.)

"If You Hadn't But You Did" is a funny song. Especially when done by the Cheno. I want to be a backup violist for her. For anybody, really. T'would be cool. Get to reherse with good singing type people.

That Chinese girl on Studio 60 played the viola, and I was like "Yay." Though I understand all the "Why viola and not violin" stuff. The viola'd need to be 21 inches to be right for the wavelength of the sound that comes out to resonate right for its specific (lower) range, and "full-size" (though there isn't really a full size, it's considered more or less such) is 16 inches. So it's harder (read: more expensive) to get a good sounding viola (because you can get a really nice sounding one without it being 21", seeing as how nobody could play that, but it'd have to be a high end thing, while good violins are comparably really cheap). But she's totally right about there being a shortage of good viola players. That's why all these violin players end up playing viola, because they can't get a seat in whatever orchestra on violin because there are 600 people auditioning on violin, but there are only say 150 for viola (though the section is smaller) so you've got a better chance. I did the opposite, though. Got fed up with the crappyness that is the viola part in almost everything and taught myself to play the violin, cello, and string bass.


Enterprise episode "Stigma" doesn't suck as badly as I thought. I knew the story but missed the episode when it aired, and I figured it was going to be bad because it was the requisite AIDS episode, but it isn't horrible. I'm only about half way through, though. I do understand where the people that thought it was a cop-out are coming from, but it hasn't seemed horrible. Better than nothing, IMO. The fact that they didn't then mention that T'Pol had this progressively fatal disease for 3 more years then was pretty bad, though. (But when they did resolve it? There was much Vulcan gay in that. T'Pau was such a lesbian.)

It is making me giggle how mind melding is a metaphor for gay sex (and was treated as such back then). Because if you think about how many Vulcan mind melds there have been over the course of the many years of Star Trek and replace each instance with gay sex, it's rather entertaining. Makes a couple of my pairings explicit canon.

Line. (Paraphrased)
(random chick) Feezal: I'm a woman; that's all that matters, right?
Trip: Urm, I've got to go. (Like "Well, it does sort of matter in the fact that I dig the guys, but I'm not going to tell you this so to defuse a potentially awkward and outing situation, bye.")
Trip then goes and talks with Malcolm. Some random talk, and then:
Malcolm: You haven't given her any reason to believe . . .
Believe what? That Trip is interested in her, or that Trip is straight? It is the homosexuality/AIDS allegory episode.

Yay Trip/Malcolm. I only really started picking up on all of the Trip/Malcolm recently, as the first time through I was a bit Trip/Archer and majorly zooming in on anything Hoshi/T'Pol. 'Tis loads of gay in that there show if you know where to look.


Man, I missed Hugh on that late night show (I always get them all mixed up, Jay Leno I think it was). I thought it started 30 minutes later than it actually did, so I missed the first half. Curses.

I'm working at the voting thing (not the real voting, unfortunately, but volunteering at the fake voting for kids) tomorrow, so I'm missing all my classes. Bad, however, in that I got nothing done tonight and if I'm going to be working all day tomorrow, I'm not going to have time to get stuff done during classes like I would normally do (as we do nothing in any of them) and I've got to leave for minimed at 5 after (unless I can bum a ride home) only getting home at about 4:50 after liberal union, so no time there. Going to be up pretty late Tuesday night, it's looking, if I want to get anything done. Probably will be up late and still get nothing done, though.

My joints have been giving me hell today because it's all rainy. Bad.

There's a major eyefucking bit in the Enterprise episode "Vanishing Point" between Hoshi and T'Pol that made me happy. Okay, so T'Pol can't so much see Hoshi, but Hoshi can see her and is still staring her in the eyes for a long time. Like 30 seconds. I've got to figure out how to rip that from the DVD to make it into an icon. My brother has to return the DVD tomorrow, though, so I'll have to figure it out and then remember to get the episode again so I can do it.

My dog is moaning. This stupid whine-moan. It's annoying. It's because he wants me to play with him, and I would except for it's 12:20 am and he's big and therefore loud when he stomps around the floor right above where my father is sleeping. But I feel bad for not playing with him. If he just wanted me to pet him, that would be okay, but when I tried to he started jumping around and thrashing his tail and it took a really long time for him to calm down.

*goes back to finish watching "Stigma"*
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Election not looking as good for the Democrats as I had anticipated. I wonder how much of it was the Kerry thing that screwed it. Because, compared to all the stuff that the Republicans have had hit them lately, that was nothing. Yet it was really close to the election. And though people seemed to be making a big deal out of it, it was mostly through jokes about how that was going to lose the election for the Democrats, not even seriously. But polling before seemed to be much more Democrat favorable than the results that are coming in now are. I'm doubting the Democrats are going to get the senate, as it's pretty much looking certain that they're not going to get MO and out of the 5 big contested states, they could only lose one and still take control. MO is going to be the one. And the other states look pretty Republican leaning to me.

Didn't pass a couple of things I wanted passed (tobacco tax? I was a fan of that bitch), passed a whole bunch of stupid crap changing the town charter for my municipality basically giving the aldermen unlimited power, and my district is stuck pretty heavily republican House-wise. Which is dumb, as I pretty much live in the ghetto. Though I suppose the district probably incorporates the rich people on the other side of the town too.

So yeah. Worked at the fakey kids elections today for like 7 hours. Craziness. Talked quite a bit with this law student from SLU, though, who was cool. Got a headache again, so didn't go to the liberal union meeting. I think that makes two in a row I've missed. Bad.

I've had really really bad headaches for the past four days or so, and they're getting really annoying as I can do even less work. I'm thinking they're yet another stress manifestation. I'm not even trying to do anything anymore. I can't. I was feeling better but now I'm not and as it stands, I don't even know if I'm going to pass this quarter because I've been doing so badly and really don't see being able to do any better, as I'm just sinking farther and farther under.

So. To recap. Election: bad. Headache: bad. Me not doing work and never going to get in to college: bad. House episode: good.

Speaking of. OMG, House slipped up. Now Cameron knows. She doesn't believe it was just a joke. No way. I think she can figure it out. She knows now. Which is yayyayyay for Cameron/Cuddy shippers como yo. So is Cuddy yelling at House and then finding out it was Cameron who really did it and that Cameron had a good explanation and then looking like she was fighting to keep the disapproving face on just for show but was really proud that Cameron stood up to her like that. When Hugh said the line something like "Because I can't come up with any more amusing things to say", he totally slipped up at the end and started laughing. I wonder why they used that take. A little quirky smile would be like House, but that was a little too much of a laugh. Were I the director, I would have reshot that scene.

Yeah, and I watched House because my little sister had her parent-teacher conferences so both of my parents had to go to that and couldn't take me downtown for the tour of the medical school. Because even though I didn't really care about the lectures today (this time I actually wasn't interested, not just apathetic, as they were glaucoma and diabetes and I don't care about glaucoma and I know diabetes), I really wanted to go on the tour. So I'm rather pissed about that, seeing as how it was probably the one of the extra minimed things that I wanted to do most and they both didn't really have to go to her conference. So good in that I got to watch House, bad in that I didn't go on the tour. And bad that there was no SVU because of stupid elections.

Also bad? The 6 million emails I had yesterday and today from all these different people reminding me to vote for their endorsed candidates. And I really want to know who's got my name and is giving it to everybody, as I'm getting regular mail every day from random stuff I don't care about. Such as yesterday's letter from the Cheech and Chong fan club. Or some kind of marijuana people. Personally? I'm not a fan of drugs. So you're just wasting your mail on me.

Oh, oh, oh! Ha! Perhaps not as bad as I thought, the elections. The Republican (Talent) has some 60,000 more votes than the Democrat (McCaskill), but the 53% reporting is only hickville MO, it appears. They just mentioned vaguely that St. Louis and Kansas City haven't reported in yet. What, both urban with some 8 universities between them? Meaning young people and African-Americans have pretty much not been counted yet, so there's still a chance. I was wondering why they weren't just calling it as he's got a 4 or 5% lead. This is why. I still don't hold out a whole lot of hope, as MO has been pretty Republican in the past bunch of elections, but it's not as far gone as I had thought.

So yes. Cautiously optimistic seems to be the phrase of the day. Call me cautiously pessimistic.

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