Oh, crap. I've turned into a Harry Potter fangirl.

NO! I swore it wouldn't happen to me! I was different! I had never read the books! I was above it all! And then I listened to a bunch of stupid people at work and read them and THEY'RE SO GOOD!!! I read five hundred pages of Goblet of Fire last night! FIVE HUNDRED I TELL YOU! And then got up to read a huge chunk of Order of the Phoenix. Gah.

And the self-loathing should be arriving...right...now...

*bangs head against the table*

Iconage today courtesy of Colleen, who sent me a wonderful link. The message accompanying this one was "16 is my personal fav. Sexay. I love a nice wig."

This is from Perfume, which is nowhere to be found this side of the Atlantic. And dammit, I am not amused.

Meanwhile, Canadian Amazon has the Snowcake DVD that is also not available in the US. I wants. I wants so much.

I can't come close to the Empress' post about the Spice Girls reunion, but dammit, I am THERE. *hums if you wanna be my lover..."

I should go clean something. I have to work this afternoon, and I'm not too terribly please about that, since John Krasinski is hosting the Office marathon and OMG I LOVES HIM SO MUCH!!! He's cute, but I'm actually not attracted to him, but I would TOTALLY MARRY HIM just so I could be Jim's wife. Yes, I realize I'm a little crazy.

Happy birthday, Jesus. Sorry your party is so lame!

Oh. My. Goodness. How amazing was the season finale of The Office??? I loved it. It kind of made up for the way they stomped all over my Jam ship at the beginning of this season with all the Karen-ness (Please. Please. Leave. You are Quincy Jones' daugher. Don't you have better things to do?). Almost.

It was so sweet. I loved it. Also happy about Ryan getting the job. I love Ryan.

I have a paper cut on my tongue from stamping (twice, the USPS decided this was a good week to raise the price. I hate them.), sealing, and return-addressing 500 envelopes in about an hour and a half. I rock.

But the paper cut---oww.

This did, however, give me a chance to watch the next episode of the Tudors online. And now I think I need to go confess what I was thinking about when Thomas Moore was rambling about the disease of Luthernism (tee-hee. As someone who spent three years at Lutheran university, good luck taking them out. They PAINTED OVER THE BLESSED MOTHER. They have no shame.), because he. Is a. Saint. *sigh*

Maybe I'll go watch Emma again...(can it still be again if you've pretty much had it on loop for three months???)

Sooo, finished with classes, and freshman year and wow exams are way more stressful when they count.

Still haven't really wound down yet, Friday felt like school because I had an exam and then was cleaning out my papers and stuff from my office/study, and yesterday I spent working and drinking friends through their problems at night. You know, I might be a better friend if I listened more and was a drinking buddy less. Hmmm. Nah.

I was working at the information desk the other day, kind of wandering because nobody needed any information and there wasn't anything for me to do except read the copy of Van Wilder's Guide to College or something that somebody has left on a table (actually quite funny). So I decided to sort through the MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF HARRY POTTER CRAP that goes along with this whole thing. Now, when you pre-order the Harry Potter book, you get to choose a Snape side, and then you get a cute (nauseatingly so) sticker or bookmark that has a bunch of different sayings on it about Snape. Usually they're pretty generic, like Snape Good or Evil? Friend of Foe? (what I'm forced to wear as a name tag...gag), but we got new ones in. The good one was pretty normal, but the bad one- honest- said, "Snape is a very, very bad man."

And I started to laugh so hard I could barely breath.

Have I reported on The Painted Veil? I don't remember. Anyway, I watched the DVD, and it was amazing. Actually really like the book, which I don't think is too spoilery because my readership doesn't...well...read. Also, the repression? Kinda hot.

Like in dating, if you are considered in demand, then you can raise your price, as it were, and afford to, say, only date "hot" people.

That is how the law of supply and demand was explained to us in discussion this morning.

And no, I don't know what it had to do with anything medieval. I've been trying to figure it out all morning.

I do know, however, that I got an A on my totally ridiculous Black Death story/academic paper complete with footnotes. After six weeks of "OMG, this is a REAL PAPER , so please don't have anything stupid in it," I got mine back with one comment about how he'd like to have seen more of my character. What? *sigh*

The Office was amazing last night- a feat that's becoming more and more rare as the weeks pass. I love this show, but sometimes I think the reason that the British series was so good was that it was so short---they only had to fill twelve episodes. Dawn and Tim could have a defined character arc, and they didn't have to kill time with all this Karen nonsense.

Still. Best show ever.

Well, except maybe for How I Met Your Mother.

Saw Fracture a couple of nights ago with Kate. It was actually quite good, way better than I thought. Anthony Hopkins was good as The Creepy Guy, and Ryan Gosling was quite gifted in the role of Guy Who Takes Off His Jacket 120 Times In a 113 Minute Movie And Also Does Pull-Ups In The Morning For No Good Reason. We get it. He's hot. Still good.

Okay. This will fall under the Too Much Information category for most if not all of my readers, so just warning y'all.

But one of the trailers was for Martian Child, which was completely heartwarming and adorable. I am in love with the ENTIRE Cusack family and bought Must Love Dogs shut up , some more than others, and I'm pretty sure I started spontaneously ovulating during this trailer. John Cusack as a widower with an adorable little kid who thinks he's from Mars? October 26th. I'm there.

See? Told you it was too much information.

Before I go tonight, I'd like to draw your attention to one of the most obscure and ridiculous items I have ever seen in my entire life, and may, in fact, be one of the primary reasons that the rest of the world hates us---because we guilt foreign celebrities and Teri Hatcher into performing in dumb-ass charity videos. Not that I didn't laugh my ass off.

GAH!!!!!!!!!

Little Miss Sunshine won!!!!!!!! It actually won!!! Over Dreamgirls!!!!! I'm thrilled!!!!!!!!

Also, HELEN MIRREN!!!!!!!!!! LOVE HER!!!! And The Office, American Ferrera, Jeremy Irons, and Chandra Wilson. (How much did we love the "And the other one in rehab"??? I think this might become a defining quote of my generation. Okay. That may be going a little far. But I love it.)

But LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE!!!!!!!!!! This makes up for them passing over Steve Carell and Abigail Breslin for individual awards!!!

I'm so happy.

Also, Baileys= liquid joy.

Yeah, like inbreeding works well in cows, not so much in people.

You cannot go wrong with polygamists on Numb3rs, especially if they are of the creepy old fat dude marrying the young woman after he's killed off all the competition variety. I'm so weird.


So. Yeah. G-Dub addressed the nation last night smack dab in the middle of what was supposed to be a new Criminal Minds/CSI:NY block but wasn't because he decided we all needed to know some more about Iraq. And I am not amused. *sigh*


If I wasn't so pissed about the having to wait another week for brand-new CSI goodness, I guess I'd be kind of pleased that he did talk, though, because he looked very contrite and admitted that perhaps things aren't going quite as swimmingly as we would hope, and I think that's what people need to hear. (The "I talked to our allies in Europe" thing kind of made me giggle a little bit. I'm sorry. Isn't it pretty much just Blair?) Personally, I don't think more troops is the way to go, because I don't think you can win against people who are willing to blow up their children, but I don't have any better ideas, so whatever. War is hell. Maybe it's time we all just realize it.


All Office icons all the time here today, because it is new tonight and I actually get to watch it, and Imladris sent me a loverly site yesterday full of loverly Office icons. So that's what you're getting.

Mmkay, what else is going on in my life? Nothing. Worked Tuesday, and had crazy people come in and try to exchange stuff ten minutes before we closed and they reeked of smoke and were quite weird and I didn't like them because they bought a crapload of stuff right at closing when I was ready to go home. Buggers. Also only made three bucks in tips. Boo.

Yesterday I did nothing. I think. Can't really remember. Oh, went out with Kate for coffee. Interesting. Very, very interesting.

Have been watching bunches of movies, lately, though. Finished I Heart Huckabees, which was quite hilarious and very good. And I officially love Jude Law again, even if his accent did kind of come and go.

Then I watched Shakespeare in Love, which was quite possibly one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. It was funny, and interesting, and moving, and had Geoffrey Rush who I seem to be inadvertently stalking along with Cirian Hinds as they show up in every single movie I watch. Anyhoodles, I loved it. If you all are going to get me the same movie next Christmas, this would be a good one. :D

Finished the night (it was like one thirty by this time) with Veronica Guerin, which was also a fantastic movie, featuring the Lovely Cate Blanchett who apparently the Empress adores and worships. Which is...kind of creepy, actually. But I digress. SOOOO sad though!!!! She had a son!!! Why must the good die young!?!?!? *ahem*

Yesterday we did The Woman in White, which was your typical Masterpiece Theater goodness with Guy Who Loves Keira Knightly From Love Actually playing the main guy. I love anyone and anything connected to that movie, so we loved it. Creepily good. Love Wilkie Collins.

Finally, working my way though the non-Patrick Swayze miniseries North and South, which is quite lovely in the Bleak House way. It has Anna Maxwell Martin (squee!!!) who is dying (sad), and the main mill guy who the main girl totally loves and wants to get it on with but can't admit it because he is of a different class is quite hot, actually. It's quite good. I'm considering buying the DVD.

Finished Philip and Elizabeth---great book. Fantastic. Loved it. I should be British, because I love that royal family so damn much. All of my monarchy love is just going to waste over here because we had to be so damn independent. Sheesh.

The Empress and I are planning to see Children of Men this weekend. Even the apocalypse is more fun if Clive Owen shows up. ;p