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1a. My present state:


1b. My desired state:


1c. Oh, exams. :|

2. After spending the past two hours trawling through AHBL con posts, I really, really wish I could fly to BC for the con in August! I also kind of wish that I'd spent those two hours studying...

3. I don't know what pretty boys prancing around and fake!kissing has to do with saving the earth, but, hey, I'm all for it! Oh, Suju ♥

4. So, what's with the all the clamouring for Dreamwidth accounts lately? I suspect the main difference between Dreamwidth and the other LJ-copycats that people have attempted to migrate to (e.g. IJ, GJ) is not one of function, but rather: "all the cool kids have one!" That being said, I'm quite content to be on LJ, in the suburbs of fandom. I'll jump on the bandwagon with the last stragglers if fandom in its entirety migrates over.

Sorry Sorry is ridiculously catchy. I've had it on repeat non-stop for the past half hour. I hope the rest of the album is as good as this!

eta: And speaking of Korean music, I randomly downloaded Songs for Ophelia by Ibadi on some music rotation community yesterday, and oh man, the entire album is just gorgeous. Try out one of the tracks here! I highly recommend the entire mini album.

1. Psych is my new show du jour. It a comedy revolving around a fake psychic detective and the wacky hijinks he gets up to with his partner. For me, it started out by being a spot-the-SGA-actor game (so far, I've got General Hammond, Radek Zelenka, Dave Sheppard, Jeannie Miller, Peter Grodin, Kavanaugh, and Halling/Todd :D), but now I just watch the show for its own sake. ;) It's hilarious and wacky and totally doesn't take itself seriously. Shawn, the main character, is just outrageous and solves crimes via "psychic powers" (but he's actually just very perceptive). You kind of have to overlook some of the bits (like how the entire police department is kind of useless for the most part -- though I am rather fond of Lassiter, despite his failure at apprehending the correct suspect -- how murders are kind of just hand-waved away, how everyone is set up to look foolish compared to Shawn...). Okay, that didn't sound like a ringing endorsement. Y'know, just...turn your brain off when you watch it. It's a lot of fun, with witty dialogue and crazy character antics. And random guest appearances by pineapples. Also, I've had the theme song stuck in my head all week.

2a. Last night, part of the dream I had involved a large snake flying through the air in a park. And I had to exorcise it, otherwise it would haunt me.
2b. On Saturday night, I dreamt that, somehow, I was Rodney Mckay and I had switched bodies with Sam Carter. I was in Sam's body, looking at myself in the mirror (and incidentally, trying on a sweater that I had bought two weeks ago), and then, somehow, I was kissing Rodney, who was technically me, so my dream!brain was thinking, "hey, this is kind of cool, but I'm kissing myself, which is kind of weird," while my somewhat-lucid!brain was thinking, "self, you are kissing Rodney McKay -- how awesome is that??"
2c. On Friday night, I dreamt that I was the, er, "tasty morsel" (idk..!) of two vampires (not of the Twilight variety..!). There was also something about a dog with chocolate chips as fur.

3. SGA technically hasn't ended yet for me because I have yet to watch the very last episode. *bites lip* (I remember hearing about the cancellation of the show only one month after I became head-over-heels obsessed with it. How completely and utterly unfair is that, I ask you?)
Anyway, here's a coloured sketch I did over the weekend:

( Teyla, warrior princess extraordinaire )

eta: 4. This picture has just made my night -- eee♥!

Oh Kim Heechul, how are you so awesome crazy? ♥

1. Wonder Boys will never not be delightful to watch (though their previous performance was a bit better). The dance moves! The slinky slinky hips! Hee! How cute are Sungmin and Taemin? And that boy from 2AM (I think...? 2AM and 2PM...are they two different bands? dear_whimsy??) has awesome facial expressions.

2a. So, funny story. Last week, people on LJ were saying how they watched SGA 5x19 and how alkdjfs;k awesome it was. Thing is, the episode is due to air on January 2nd. For a moment, I had thought that maybe I skipped forward in time! Yes, that would mean that I missed out on a week-and-a-half of vacation time, but maybe it would also mean that I had somehow finished all my grad school apps! But then common sense kicked in and I realized the episode was leaked online -- and of course I rushed to download it. I've watched it several times since because it is just that awesome. The downside was that I still had to do all my applications myself (two done, three more to go! or four more. IDK.)

2b. 5x20, the show finale (D:!!!), was leaked online as well. I kind of want to watch it, but at the same time, I really really don't (and not just because of the McKeller line). I never did watch the Season 10 finale of Friends -- I've watched almost every episode of that show at least twice, but not the finale. In my mind, if I don't watch the ending, then it hasn't ended! How's that for awesome logic?

3a. Does anyone know where I could obtain the Merlin soundtrack? I found a handful of torrents, but none of them had seeders. :(

3b. I haven't been actively seeking out Merlin fic, but I came across this Merlin fratboy!AU and it's pretty fabulous (check out the sequel too!). The thing I like about fanfic, compared to original fiction, is that no matter what kind of crazy setting you throw the characters into, they are still essentially the characters you know and care about (the assumption here is that you're reading good!fic ;) none of that fanfiction.net stuff). It's like going out with good friends instead of meeting new strangers.

7. I've lost my train of thought. There are cherries downstairs and I want to eat 'em.

1. Ahaha, I need to find this place on campus.

2. So the other day, I was walking around on campus and I saw a Samoa lying on the ground and I had to stifle my giggles for fear of seeming like a lunatic. What's so funny about a Samoa, you say? READ THIS, OKAY. (and you shall never look at Girl Guide cookies the same way again... BUT SERIOUSLY, WAIT FOR THE MARSHMALLOW PART. I SWEAR IT'S WORTH IT.)

3. Ahaha, oh, Japanese entertainment.

School and Other Icky Things are still gnawing away at my brains, but at least my GRE is over and done with (and wasn't the Most Awful Thing Ever, thanks to a ~*~miracle~*~ -- I really, really hope the computer didn't make a mistake) and I just handed in my thesis proposal this afternoon. So there's only nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight things on my to-do list.
Not being active on LJ for so long (being an active lurker doesn't count) and now coming back...feels weird. I want to get back into my LJ-groove~

1. CUTEOVERLOAD.COM: this site never fails to make me smile. I get such a goofy look on my face when I browse this site. Kitties and puppies and duckies and tiger...ies and UGH SO MUCH CUTE MY HEART IT CLENCHES SO ♥

1.5 I showed the site to my friend who loves babies 'cause I figured, hey, kitties and puppies and duckies and otter...ies are baby animals! Same deal, right? But nooo, she's all babies > cute animals, and I'm all, babies are overrated, and wargh, bad memories of a baby shower D: I never ever ever want to go to a baby shower again askd;lfj

2. I am still omgmassivelove over SGA. I kind of want to jump into the fandom fray, but the fandom is so big and established and it's all kind of intimidating, so I think I'm going to stick being a wallflower until this obsession passes. In other related news, I bought the first season on DVD (I confess, I bought it just for the extra features) and I hope it gets here this week. Then I can sit glued to the TV screen all weekend and marathon the show all by my lonesome.

3. So continuing with this getting-hooked-on-TV-shows-that-no-one-on-my-flist-watches trend, I stumbled across this new BBC show Merlin and decided to give it a shot because, dammit, I miss fantasy. The entire cast is gorgeous and the setting is pretty and the special effects are actually quite good and the plot is rather cheesy, but so much pretty and cuteness *waves hand vaguely* And did I mention that Merlin and Arthur are the same age and gorgeous and snarky with each other and alternately save each other's lives and there is so much slashy tension that you don't even need to don slash-goggles? As far as the female characters go, I'm not particularly impressed by Guinevere, and Nimue is a jerkface, but Morgana is all sorts of awesome and she doesn't let anyone be the boss of her.

Anyway, there are some lovely screencaps and totally brilliant summaries (beware of spoilers though) to be found here. I've been watching the episodes (5 episodes out so far) on Youtube (the video quality's quite good).

4. Omg, there is such thing as a liopleurodon. :O So didn't know that. Charlie the Unicorn is more educational than I'd thought.

1) Since everyone's talking about Twilight:
I've read the first two books, about half of the third, and an awesomely cracked up summary of the fourth. I don't know whether to crack up or to be horrified by Breaking Dawn (I'm kind of leaning towards D:!! because I have a thing against babies but that's another issue for another day). I...don't think I will be finishing this series. Let's just say, if the main appeal of the books stems from inserting yourself into Mary Sue Bella's place, I would not want to be in her shoes for a good portion of Breaking Dawn.

2) Pyjama Party MV
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...SUNGMIN/PINK SNAKE OTP!
It's interesting to note that both SJ-H MVs featured a group of girls...BUT THE SPARKLING GHEI CANNOT BE MASKED. SJ-T is about a different music genre, SJ-M is about a different language, SJ-KRY is about pretty boys singing pretty ballads, and SJ-H IS ABOUT THE SPARKLING GHEI. TRU FAX.

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Okay, that's enough crack for one afternoon. I'm going back to marathoning SGA. But oh wait, SJ-M's Bravely Going Forward just came out. DILEMMA. :|

Does anyone have any songs by Apocalyptica that they can upload, or, alternatively, know where to download their songs? I've been trawling through Finnish rock music LJ comms with no luck. :(

I only have two of their songs, but they are both aldkjfas;j♥ brilliant and I highly recommend! Classical instruments playing rock music is A+++ in my book.
[cello instrumentals]
Until It Sleeps
Path

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And now for the obligatory SJ part of my entry:

I've been listening to the Super Show album, and now, more than ever, I wish I could have somehow gone to Super Show. a;lsdfjsd there just has to be a DVD coming out. :x:x I'm especially fond of their version of 룩셈부르크 because it's so energetic and fun and wah, HOW MUCH DO I WANT TO SEE THAT LIVE (KANGIN&SHINDONGLOL♥). Also, Siwon on drums♥...! Siwon on drums is all sorts of awesome (see this, where he fills in for TRAX's drummer, for example).

Jin's Lovejuice (lol;;;) is starting to grow on me. Although the lyrics are in English, I have no idea what he's singing about -- and I think I'd rather keep it that way.

I was doing some Googleimaging, and it occurred to me that Heechul and Hankyung with their flaming red hair and bleached blond hair, respectively, somewhat resemble Axel and Roxas of Kingdom Hearts fame.




Heechul with his unique features and wacky hair really does look like a cartoon character. XD


eta: Oh man, it's past 1am and I really need to stop looking at Hollywood Bowl pictures and start on the damn data kd;ajf. >__o;;