My brain hurts

between Nietzsche and Pound (in general may I say: fuck you imagists. you and your rules...) i've head a headache for several days. (Admittedly the vodka hasn't helped)

LJ made me happier earlier today with a declaration of her Halloween costume:
sexy Emperor Palpatine.
*shudder* I'm not sure if I hope she's kidding or not... it certainly would be unique...

How you know your friends are geeks

They respond to your new hairstyle like this:

• "Love! It's very Willow season 4."
• "Nice... kind of a Cordy pre-death thing going on"

and my favorite (a text from lj):

• OMG ur DubDub! (aka Wendy Watson)

So that should give you an idea of my new hair. Possibly I should dye it red and go for the whole DubDub aesthetic... hmmm

I'm so over 2009

it's been a weird year (to say the least). And i am sooo ready for 2010. Here's why:

• Dr. Who (oh yes)
• Leverage season 2, part 2 (January 2010)
• Joss' Cabin in the Woods coming out on my birthday in February
• Possibly graduating in May with my masters, assuming I survive this semester... and next semester

So fire up the Tardis and let's skip to 2010...

My stuff came! Yay!

Watching Dollhouse DVDs in the comfort of my !!**no longer empty**!! apartment it occurs to me that it's tough to be a geek girl--watching the episode The Target, I'm not so frightened by the idea of Matt Keeslar's character playing "the most dangerous game," but rather thinking, "I would let Matt Keeslar chase me through the wilderness and kill me. That might be a nice way to die." Sick, I know.

Finally have a bed to sleep on, forks to eat with, books to read, and a couch to sit on (etc). Slept for hOuRs last night in the joy of pillow-top goodness. Now it just needs to be unpacked (anybody have the # for magic unpacking elves?) and my Ikea desk needs to arrive... and then I have to put it together. Such is nesting...

Hee, hee--towards the end of Stage Fright the paramedic says "He's cyanotic." And automatically, I think of Simon... and the faux EMTs... it's a Whedon-Pavlovian response.

In case you were curious...

I took a commanding lead in the geek-off today due to these reasons:

• asking the hairdresser at Vidal Sassoon to make me look like Claudia on Warehouse 13.
• geeking out over my Tardis USB hub
• while wearing my snappy new D20 earrings
• and reading Top Ten (on the train, in public, oh yes).

Between my rise in the rankings and new Frye boots all have to say is... suck it, LJ!

Conclusive Proof

...that diets make you bitchy:
my cat's been eating this healthy well-balanced catfood for a couple weeks and she lost some weight (she's petite but 11 lbs. she can stand to lose a few), gained a lot of energy, but got crazy. She wasn't her normal docile happy self, but a cord chewing, me biting devil-cat.
Yesterday I bought her a bag of the full-fat multi-meat-taste kibble and within a day she's calm and happy and wonderful again.

Happiness in the whedonverse

Buffyfest issued a joking-ish list of 'happy' times in the Whedonverse.
I beg to differ--there are some profoundly happy moments in Joss' shows. And in response I offer this list, which came to me in the middle of the night:

Happy Moments in the Whedonverse

• Tara and Willow so happy dancing that they float off the floor (in Family, I believe). Sure we all know (now) their miserable fate, but it's a transcendentally beautiful moment.
• As is Tara and Willow singing in OMWF (though, admittedly, Tara is under a spell)
• Zoe and Wash in bed discussing Zoe's death. Adorableness.
• Inara and Mal enjoying a cup of 'engine wine' at the end of Shindig.
  
• The whole crew of Serenity eating dinner together like a happy (if slightly dysfunctional) family at the end of Safe.

Almost-could-be-considered-Happy:

• Anya all adorable pre-wedding (though we know how that turned out...)
• Fred. In general, but especially when she got all excited about tacos. She was such a spark of happy in the dark show.
• Spike's sacrifice at the end of Buffy season 7. He's ready to go and seems happy (kind of) to give up his life (so he thinks). And it's just so fitting it's almost happy.
• Can I count the 'We are as gods' fantasy? Please? It makes me happy every time.
  

Another one?

19? Seriously, Duggars, seriously?