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So, we're out in the middle of nowhere where there's no cell signal, but at least we have internet. My aunt, who's been staying with my uncle for a few weeks, had to get internet so she could do her job.

By the time we got here yesterday evening, my uncle was already doing loads better, and the hospice nurse who was here at that time was saying different things than the daytime hospice nurse had been saying. He's still not doing great, but he's doing better than we had expected to find him when we got here.

A couple of my aunts booked immediate flights to come out here, and they're getting in this afternoon, so I'm heading back into Austin with my mom to go home, because as much as I am cherishing this time with my uncle (we all watched Forbidden Planet last night, even though mom, dad, and I were almost falling-down exhausted, because my uncle is a huge classic sci-fi [and westerns, for that matter] geek; I also learned that Bug has no choice but to become a geek because it's genetic, one of my least-geeky aunts even has a Forbidden Planet reference in her facebook ID), I literally cannot breathe inside his house, between his near-constant smoking ("what's it going to do, kill me?" -- his words) and the overwhelming stench of cat pee, and even just all the second-hand smoke is really bad for me to be around, especially because of Bug and also because I'm allergic to it, so.

I am glad I got the chance to come up here and see him, and I wish I could stay the whole weekend with my parents, but I've got to think about Bug, too.

Thank you so much to everyone's comments on my quick post yesterday. ♥ you all.



And completely unrelated, but I miss playing with, like, the 99% of you guys I'm not currently playing with. :(

Guys. Please pray for my uncle. My mom just passed word to me that he's taken a turn for the worse and may not make it to Sunday. I'm about to quickly pack whatever I may need for the weekend, then I'm heading down to my parents' house to go up with them for the rest of the weekend to be there with him. I just talked to my dad and he said my aunt got a wireless router there, so I will have some internet, but I don't know how much I'll be around until whenever it is I get home.

Anyway. Please just pray for him? He's so far along that I know better than to pray for him to get better, but just please pray that it doesn't hurt?

I have no brain for RP right now.

Like, despite my entry suggesting otherwise on Monday, I haven't checked any games at all this week, despite my best intentions otherwise. Every time my mouse hovers over the IJ login thingie in the corner of my browser, to switch journals and check games, I just get a little "meh" and decide to do it later. Except later never comes.

Idek, I love all my characters, I love the games I'm in, I'm just ... so not feeling it right now, y'know? I think it's all the RL stuff finally catching up and all that, but ... idk. I have journal entries to write and a thread to respond to, and I just don't wanna. I got an email earlier this week from a couple people in one game, who had a plot and wanted to include me, and instead of going "HEY AWESOME, LET'S MAKE THIS WORK" I just made up excuses for why it wouldn't work to include my character in their log. Partly it was because of the "meh" that I'm feeling, and also partly guilt that if I did say yes, I'd be dragging down their log with my meh and the fact that I still have another thread to respond to in that same game that I haven't and GOD I JUST SUCK. :X

idk if I should just request a hiatus from that game until my meh goes away, or just quit and let someone else have the characters I've got there, or what.

I've also been at my computer at least all afternoon (aside from stepping away briefly to do household stuff), and I've had no inclination at all to sign into AIM. I've opened AIM, but then just closed the window without signing on.

I think I'm just going through an antisocial spell for whatever reason. :/ This icon. It is me right now. I try to give a damn about anything rn, and I just can't. :XXXXXXX

So, somehow this weekend turned into a massive black hole. Like ... I distinctly remember being at home for long periods of time, camped out on the couch with hubby, watching our marathon-TV stuff that we do on weekends (currently Stargate, Alias, and Farscape), and I had my laptop within reach, and stuff that I knew I needed to do (tags, journal entries, stuff like that), but ... I don't know how nothing at all got accomplished. Aside from baking a chocolate-cherry cake on Saturday afternoon, working Saturday night, and my parents & uncle coming over Sunday afternoon. Everything else is legit a huge blur of nothing I can remember. I'm not even positive how much I remember of the TV we watched, aside from Smileyface being gone (but thankfully not dead, at least) from Stargate (sadface) and Dr Daniel Jackson being back and non-ascended, and Sloane's wife being for-real-dead now on Alias, and you guys can just stfu about spoilers because THESE SHOWS ARE NOT RECENT. AND JUST SO YOU KNOW, VERBAL KINT IS KEYSER SOZE AND ROSEBUD IS HIS SLED AND DARTH VADER IS LUKE SKYWALKER'S DAD AND BRUCE WILLIS WAS DEAD THE WHOLE TIME.

...

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Sorry, what was I saying?

Oh yeah, apparently this weekend existed in a black hole. Or something. But on the plus side, I was complimented a bunch of times on my purple cowboy boots at work on Saturday.

And now today I catch up on games and also continue the ~dramaz~ that are taking over my current Main Family on Sims 3. (started out with a female sim, who started dating this one guy who, it turned out, had already had a girlfriend, but she convinced him to dump his current girlfriend and date her anyway, and then she got pregnant and decided she didn't like him anymore, so she was a single mum for a while to her little girl, and then she met this other guy who was more swoon-worthy, who also currently had a girlfriend, but she got him to break up with his girlfriend, too, and he married her, and they have a toddler now -- the first daughter is child-aged, though she's turning into a teen in the next couple of days -- but the husband's been cheating on his wife, first with his ex-girlfriend, and now with some random floozy he met while he was at a bar promoting his new movie, and in the same day he knocked up both his wife and his floozy, and then his wife came home from work to find him making out in the hot tub with the floozy -- neither woman knows she's pregnant yet, though right after the wife got home, the floozy excused herself to throw up in the toilet -- and then I had to go make dinner on Friday and haven't been back to the game since, so I'm looking forward to creating Moar Dramaz.)

... THIS IS MY LIFE WHEN I CAN'T FREAKING GET A JOB. I make up soap operas in Sims 3. xD

( Cut for TMI-ish-ness. )

Semi-related: omg I'm still tired ALL THE TIME.


Completely unrelated: OMG DINOSAUR PETTING ZOO AT WORK NEXT SPRING.

( Cut for family drama. )

OKAY GUYS. I need help, and the people I usually go to for second opinions on proofreading things are unavailable.

I'm proofreading the announcement piece for this summer's film series at one of my theatres. For the past few years, I've only done proofing on the film notes (a full page on one or two of the movies being shown, with background on the film, actors, and/or director, as well as an as-spoiler-free-as-possible synopsis), but this year I was asked to proof the announcement piece, as well, which lists all the movies, the times and dates they're showing (so I have an excel spreadsheet to cross-reference to make sure all the times and dates are correct), and a quick one- or two-sentence (sometimes three!) blurb about each movie.

And I'm having An Issue with one of them.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, 123min/b&w) James Stewart (proofreader's note: SWOOOOOOOOOOOON), John Wayne and Vera Miles. Directed by John Ford. One of Ford's late masterpieces, this legendary film also includes two of Stewart and Wayne's finest screen performances. A senator, famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells his story.

The Issue I'm having is with the section in the blurb that I underlined. The way it's phrased, it sounds (to me) like we're saying Stewart and Wayne each had two of their finest screen performances in this film, though I think what it's trying to say is that each actor had one of his finest screen performances in this film, but that's a lot bulkier to try to fit into the blurb, especially considering space constraints.

ANYONE HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS / THOUGHTS / WHATEVER? OR SHOULD I JUST BE LESS NITPICKY AND LET IT SLIDE?



(Also, if you're like me and are an oxford-comma-loving pedantic grammar nerd ... I covered that bit with the major cast en masse at the top of my e-mail with Things To Fix.)

You give me any character or characters that I have played (past or present) and I will give you 1-3 links or images of alternate Played-Bys for the character. I might even explain the choice(s).

Which reminds me I need to update my current character list with my endgamemods characters.

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I'm kinda torn on who did April Fool's best yesterday.

On the one hand, Think Geek always delivers with fun new things, like the Admiral Ackbar Singing Bass, Hungry Hungry Hippos for the iPad, and the Keurig meals.

But on the other hand, Google's 8-bit maps (for NES) ("blow on the cartridge to fix the bugs" ... I REMEMBER THOSE DAYS) and their Gmail Tap were both hilarious, too.

But on the third hand (what?), insanes is pretty freaking awesome, too. xD And I totally have to write a novel about zombie kittens now.

All in all, I think yesterday was probably a pretty awesome April Fool's Day. :)



Oh yeah, and then there was this: @OMGFacts reported on the casting of Michael Cera as Finnick Odair in Catching Fire.

Who held me as Taylor Swift at insanes?

Because, like. I covet her hair and all. And I think she's mad adorbs.

But I'm totally not nearly as cute as her. And my hair is more frizz than curl, trufax. BUT I'M GIGGLING ANYWAY.

Also, I wanna see the application for me, dammit!

Okay so. Hubby and I are several episodes behind, and hubby's trying to make a case on waiting to watch them until closer to October, under the assumption that the season will end with a cliffhanger, so since we're at a not-entirely-cliffhanger-y point at the moment, it's easier to wait a few months to watch it so that we have less of a wait on a potential cliffhanger.

However, he uses twitter about as often as we get an extra day in the year, whereas I check it multiple times daily (shut up) and am wondering about some tweets I've seen, which makes me want to say "SCREW THE POTENTIAL CLIFFHANGER, LET'S WATCH RIGHTNOW."

So I have a question for those of y'all who watch The Walking Dead and are actually caught up on it.

( Under the cut for people who are even less caught up than I am, as well as people who Just Don't Care. )

So, if we're mutual twitter stalkers, you may've seen my tweets Tuesday night about this, but after seeming to be doing SO MUCH BETTER on the morning sickness front over the weekend (despite working 12.5 hours straight on Saturday and 12 hours on Sunday -- whether or not you regularly watch America's Got Talent, you should at least tune into the auditions this summer, especially the Austin auditions because those were filmed at MY THEATRE last weekend), I took a drastic turn and absolutely tanked this week. ( The rest is cut for possible morning sickness TMI-ness. )

So ... that's how my week's been going.