choo choo

You know it's been months since I've posted about Pushing Daisies, and that is a depressing thought. I'm pleased as punch that some of my favourite shows, like The Office and Battlestar and Doctor Who, are all coming back within the next month, but there's not going to be any new NED and CHUCK and OLIVE and EMERSON and DIGBYYYYYYYYY! until next fall, and it's just a hard wait.

SO WATCH THIS INTERVIEW WITH ANNA FRIEL AND LEE EFFING PACE. It'll make you feel better. ;D

ANNA: "I first of all loved the fact that my character was called Chuuook [I'm trying to approximate her awesome Northern accent, bear with me]. I was like: 'I wanna play a girl called Chuuook!' It doesn't sound quite as good in
American with the whole Chuck [she switches to her American accent here and even does a tiny ditzy hair flip... 'cause she's awesome]. I like my 'uuoo'."
LEE EFFING PACE: "Heh heh heh!"

ANNA: "We've got adjoining trailers so we'll get the scripts at the same time - actually the hair and make-up people get them first-"
L.E.P.: "-And we steal them."

ANNA: "It's driven very strongly by a love story, of a romance of two people who just long to be together... [she looks into the camera] and long to be able to have sex but they never will be able to!! [looks at L.E.P.] ...Together."

L.E.P.: "Kristin Chenoweth plays the waitress at the Piehole"
ANNA: "She's wonderful."
L.E.P.: "She's wonderful, a great schemey, fun character-"
ANNA: "And she's got great breasts!"

So yeah... it's a pretty fun interview. ;) And they both look gorgeous, even if I think facial hair is not such a good look on Lee effing Pace, but that may be because I'm horribly biased towards Ned and his fluffy hair, and kicked puppy faces and heart-melting smiles and... *ahem*.

This of course then inspired me to skedaddle over to Youtube to watch a whole slew of my favourite PD-moments, like our first emotional heimlich scene, and the cellophane, and "What do you need to be happy?" (which, how it manages to shake utter!cheesy and become absolutely perfect, I'll never know, but I'm glad it does) and a certain heart-breaking scene from the last episode at Christmas (*sniff*) that I apparently don't have the self-control not to transcribe.

( But I will perform a small mercy and put it behind a cut )

I have done two and three quarters of the five essays I have due by the fourth. I really need a fast-forward button. Or someone to give me an emotional heimlich. I think I'll go get one now.

Things I managed to do today:

• Set my lunch on fire
  
• Impressed myself by not panicking, but instead very calmly grabbing some baking soda, doused said FLAMES, and opened windows to prevent fire alarm craziness
  
• Succesfully did not set lunch v. 2.0 alight
  Still, I don't think a career in fire prevention and/or fighting would be a good path for me.

Battlestar has been on the mind a lot lately, what with the fourth season starting next month AFTER A YEAR. Doctor Who airing in April is also very exciting (except, um, WHEN EXACTLY, BBC??) but at least it hasn't been a year since an OMG!WTF!CRAZY finale. (Yes, I know I'm harping. Hush.) Anyway, I've managed to get one of my friends watching the show (and in a totally unexpected result, got one of her friends hooked to the point that she watched the entire series during reading week) and then I've since watched most of the series again while doing such exiting things as knitting and avoiding homework. Getting to bring up Cylons every time my Sci-Fi prof mentions our technology taking us over is another fun result. So, nothing too much has come of it - I just wanted to reaffirm to anyone in doubt that I am indeed a huge nerd. *G*

Ooh - I did read this REALLY nice interview with Tahmoh Penikett (he was being so sweet! And had great answers! And was like, "wait a minute, I'm driving around Vancouver and I need to get some gas, but keep talking!") which has really re-established my !!!HELO!!! love. I LOVE Helo. Prompting me to run about lj in a frenzy, trying to track down good Helo icons (dudes. I found freaking Boxy icons before I found Helo. WTF?), and flailing about the awesomeness of Agathons in general. I'm now kind of irrationally terrified that they're going to do something to him in this last season and if so -- I am going to carry on (á la Marian), let me tell you. Though I suppose as long as my Pilots are fine, I'll be okay. Eventually. (Still - I'm watching you, RDM, so step away from Helo)

Alright, so much for obsessing. I have five essays all due in the next two weeks and I'm declaring myself, starting tomorrow, officially in work mode. (I'm hoping by declaring it in public I'll shame myself into actually doing it) Still, please taunt me mercilessly if you catch me doing otherwise. I might cry, but it will be worth it.

Oy gevalt. The first week back at classes should not be so stressful. I'm sure there's a rule somewhere. BUT, essay numero uno is now finito'd (pending me going for an edit at the Writing Centre, which is really a super sekrit excuse for xtinethepirate and me to hang out - because CLEARLY we don't see each other enough) and now I feel free to geek my little geeky heart out.

First things first, I FINALLY saw Juno this saturday, after being pestered by family and friends alike, and indeed, as everyone says, it REALLY WAS THAT GOOD. Besides which, I wanted to see it ever since I saw the trailer in November, but could never quite sort out the time (nor funds) but now I have seen it and anyway, WIN WIN WIN. WIN. ( Cheese to my macaroni indeed )


It's amazing the kind of things I'll get up to to waste time and procrastinate. Missing TV because of el strike-o (I'm not sure what's up with the fake Spanish in this post. Just go with it) not being one of them, but being hit by such strong Jim/Pam missage of all a sudden (The Office! It's been so looooooong!), that I needed to seek out every baby!fic ever written about them (Oh, More Than That, how useful you are). Or in an amazing bout of self-indulgence, skimming through the crossover, Lending a Hand, that goldy_dollar and I wrote last year, trying to remember which bits Frances wrote, and which bits I did. General rule of thumb I found was that if it's awesome and Doctor-babbly then it's Frances, adjectivey and wordy = me. :) Old fic is fun. And at the low end of the scale, there's "lets watch my slippers dance in the mirror for half an hour while I actively avoid thinking about Sci-fi essays". It's a wonder I ever buckle down and actually get any school work done.

Anywho, me gusta the ficage, so would anyone be interested in ye olde drabble meme? Put a prompt in the comments and I'll write you a short story below. Basically any fandom you've seen me talk about is fair play, though be warned, Robin Hood prompts are likely to get FERVENT!DENIAL LAND treatment. I'm fairly certain the finale was just bad teenage angsty character death fic gone wrong, anyway. REAL canonical Robin Hood wouldn't kill off its leads.

YAY, DRABBLES.

I just finished my last exam! HEE HEE HEE HEE, take that, fall term! *runs around in circles*

Also, it is freezing here (well, -11, but that's cold for Halifax!) and thanks to all the rain we had yesterday, the sidewalks were doing their best impression of a skating rink. Was very concerned with getting to my exam without falling and breaking anything. But on the way back I could care less, and I had Tim's, and I sliiiiiid for joy! Whoa hoo!

Still on a tv!high from last night's Pushing Daisies episode. Might be on my way to a panic attack with no Ned (he's so HAWT!) to look forward to, though. Support Group! I need you to keep my sanity intact!

I could have gone to LitCrit this morning, but insead of listening to my THIRD lecture THIS TERM on A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Mary Wollstonecraft, I love you, but when you come up in almost ALL my courses, well then...) I stayed home and made Ned!icons instead.

I'm pretty sure Ned's popped-up collar jacket was the sexiest thing that's been on my TV in awhile, so to commemorate the awesomeness that it was, I made 26 (yep, 26!) icons of said collar and of Ned in it. These are the ways to be a happy fangirl.



( Ned, Ned, Ned, NED! )

New episode of The Office tonight, directed by the master, Joss Whedon! Who has a new show coming out! WHEE!!!!!!!! (Please don't cancel it, FOX)

If I claim that I've been travelling (nay, hurtling) through the vortex of time/space, will that get me extra points for my many long and unexplained absences? It will? Sweet. Then yeah, I've totally been hurtling through time and space and it was SOOOO awesome, I just didn't have the time to lj about it.

...

So clearly, I'm getting close to insanity, and clearly that really didn't happen. Let me break down the reality of my last two weeks or so: ( Cut for excessive wordiness )

And that's about it. In random news, I have of late been hit with a kind of ferved, though I'm sure temporary, obsession with CSI of all things. I know, right? There's not a bit of sci-fi/fantasy content to be seen, but I'm fascinated. I blame the fact that channel 14 shows about five episodes in a row every evening. And the fact that there's a super sekrit romance between two of the characters that no one else knows about. Because you know I could care less about the actual crime stuff.

Has anyone else ever experienced something like this? Care to share any stories about obsessions (however temporary) with things that you wouldn't think would fall even close to your realm of interests?

Mmm... lunch time.

...OVER!!!

I'm done! *twirls*

I had my third exam (out of five) this morning in the arena. And it was freezing. What I learned: writing an exam in a freezing cold hockey rink is not so much conducive to smart thoughts. I would rather have skated. But at least it's over! Haha - take that Literary Landmarks! Not to sound overly dramaztic or anything, but worst class ever! Taking a whirlwind tour through Western Literature from Chaucer to Salman Rushdie and more is not as much fun as you might think. Especially when you have to read and discuss something like T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" in only ONE CLASS and then are expected to come up with something Deep and Insightful to say about it in the exam. Oy. But still, not actually that bad an exam, and it is over! Goodbye notes!

And now I should really go food shopping, but it's too cold (TOO GAWD DAMN COLD! IN APRIL!) and I don't wanna. I REALLY should though, my food situation is getting desperate. In fact, in my possession there is only:

-half a box of cheerios
-one can of tomato soup
-one can of tuna
-a piece of chicken that's been in my freezer since Christmas
-some frozen vegetables
-and lots of tea bags and various assorted condiments that put together make nothing even close to resembling a meal.

Uh... I will go. Soon(ish). *grabs the tomato soup*

Anyway, in more cheery news, I'm finally d-loading the new Who ep. I only waited this long because I didn't want to let myself watch it (or even contemplate the ide of watching it) before my exam. But now, without another exam until friday, I plan to enjoy it throughily! And yes, I have heard one or two things about the Doctor and a kitten, and yes, I think it sounds heart-breakingly adorable, but I Don't Want to Know Anything! *blindfolds herself as she explores the flist* There, that should do it. ;)

And finally, I really miss Robin Hood! I know, it's weird, but... I just want more of my cheesy historical BBC crack! *wails* There needs to be more fic and discussions and snuggly-wuggly Robin/Marian OTPness. Hmm... I think I may have to write some of that myself though. Oh well, I guess there's worse wastes of time. *g* Those of you who haven't seen the BBC's new version of Robin Hood, um... save yourselves? No, it's awesome - just so damn cheesy and yet wholly addicting at the same time. And I want more!!!!!!

*goes a-searching*

Dude, there's got to be some Robin/Marian fluff somewhere.

Four papers down, only two more to go! And I got an A on one of them! Muah ha ha - take that school!

*blinks*

*emerges from essay hole*

So, what's been going on, fandom?

Lending a Hand chapter seven update on teawiles! Please, please read and review. Goldy and I will offer chocolate, tea or coffee and various other shiny, sparkly things as incentive.

*dances the dance of crazy crossover fun*