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*makes list*

omg. things to do today:

• Put on shoes.
  
• Take DVDs to post office. (and nique's)
  
• clean bathroom sink.
  
• Sweep computer area.
  
• take out kitchen, bathroom and living room trash.
  
• sweep under window, move chair back there.
  
• make list of bands the library has, update card with new address, and pay fine. CDs would be good, too. Or maybe not, since, apparently, they don't have a record of one of the cds being turned in, and a search of the area around your computer has produced nada.
  
• add STTNG, DS9, and selected Voyager discs to Netflix queue (you need a copy of Hunters/Prey that isn't taped off commercial broadcast, baby).
  
• add random Highlander.
  
• Speaking of Highlander, WATCH NEW MOVIE TONIGHT AT 8 ON SKIFFY. There might be naked Adam Pierson.
  
• Buy new boots, since the old have holes.
New shoes TOTALLY counts. Really.

• Buy bras, since you snapped one too many underwires.


• Find party supply store, see if they have more little alien party favors.
  
• Use Borders gift card from parents.
I now have more de Lint. Yay.

• LAUNDRY. This can't be stressed enough.
  
• Get the melted Jolly Rancher off the floor.
  
• Clean computer desk off.
  
• Connect new printer, test it.
  
• Sort out rebates and send them in.
  
• Eat something.
  
• SWEEP FRONT STAIRS before they create a NEW CAT.
  

As a final note: timjr, I LOVE YOU.

I would like to note this, for SF/F authors who are wondering.

Having your main character raped by page two is not edgy, interesting, or ground-breaking.

It's actually pathetic, cliche and dull.

I say this, because I picked up a cyberpunk book called something stylized with 'angel' in the title by some wacko named Marianne de P-something or other a while back. And from the back and a brief flip through the pages, it seemed like it wouldn't be bad--cyberpunk meets LKH, with a bit of Domino thrown in, I thought.

But, no. It wasn't. It was just bad. And not even the kind of bad I'd want to force myself to read. Let's put it this way: Keith deCandido's Halo: Ghost book was better, and I don't even know a frakking thing about the source material.

It was bad for many reasons, but mainly because, by page two, you knew the 'heroine' had been gang-raped at her boss's order, to 'break her spirit'.

OH EDGY LOL.

Yeah.

It's sad. The Jani Killian books kind of spoiled me, y'know? Just enough cheese mixed with politics, action, wacky genetics and a heroine who resembles Aeryn Sun Domino herself, really. *coughsIdonothaveatypecoughs*

Stupid fanfic writers make the baby Jesus cry, you know.

In other news, I picked up a book called 'Recursion'. Seriously, people, that's like waving a red flag in front a bull. And so far, way better than most of BSG season three.

eta: It kind of helps that this book is mostly not taking itself seriously. I mean. The lead character's name is Herb. HERB, people. That's like naming your kickass heroine DAISY. And Herb accidentally created the Replicators. Bad Herb. No cookie, man, no cookie.

*stares at Skiffy*

THAT IS A BLACK CARD SITUATION, END OF CONVERSATION.
eta: Big big spoilers, y'know.
( spoilers for Skiffy's showing of Highlander: the Source )

what. the fuck. was. that.

I. Just. Highlander: the Source, as Rose said, was maintaining a certain level of bad and then. The end. WHYAT. DID YOU IDIOTS RUN OUT OF SCRIPT????

A flashback montage of SCENES FROM THE MOVIE is NOT a good ending to a movie!!!!!!!!!

And then you gave us a crappy shippy fanvid. WTF.