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My journal, now somewhat infrequently updated. Come and go as takes your fancy. Lurkers welcome.


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Things deteriorated rapidly after my last post re: re-watching QaF season 3. Namely that I watched season 2, some of season 4 (4x01 is completely bearable on account of the hair is still good and Brian and Justin are so completely gone on each other it's ridiculous), read a truckload of old fic, starting writing 27 new stories about Brian's complex soul, promptly got back into Gale/Randy and watched this video 800 times, then resigned myself to having to watch some fucking teen show about witches this autumn. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN.

More on my QaF US renaissance: I have foregone seasons one and two, half of which I never even saw in the first place, and gone straight to season three, and I am totally fucking loving it. I had forgotten everything: Stockwell, Gardner Vance (HOT), Ben-on-steroids, Justin leaving Brian and Brian still paying his tuition (LOVE), Ethan's ridiculous facial hair, some cute Brian & Mikey friendship stuff (I still love them, okay, whatever). I find most of the dialogue atrocious, and I take Gale Harold's occasionally plank-like acting (and I still adore him, it turns out, so I completely forgive) to be a tacit protest against this (there is no good way to deliver some of that rubbish), but as character driven drama it totally works for me and everyone has SUCH GOOD HAIR. BRB, finishing the entire series tonight. (Then I'm stopping, because as I recall, seasons four and five were preposterous.)

I just got back from the Edinburgh Festival and have only now realised that Hal Sparks was there, and I didn't go and stalk him and find out about his Gale hatred. REGRETS.

I seem to be having a teeny tiny Queer as Folk (US) renaissance. It's fun! Though after all these years, I still question many of Gale Harold's acting decisions.

This SN piece has been sitting on my hard drive since 2008, and it's time for a clear-out. I release you, little story!

Sports Night, Dan, Casey, gen. ~3000 words.
Filler, somewhere in between April is the Cruelest Month and Bells and a Siren.

( Net Worth )

Thinking about football, and contemplating England's, you know, anti-climactic yet emotionally devastating exit from the World Cup, it occurs to me that you never see an England player do the sign of the cross and thank the Good Lord as he runs onto the pitch. And a lot of players from teams that actually occasionally win stuff? They do that.

This is so clearly the problem: we don't have God on our side. Also we can't defend. Or score. But surely we would be able to do both of those things if God was on our side. He would Make It So. So, like. Get yeself to the church, young Wayne Rooney.

So in my wide ranging travels across the internet this morning, I've come across a whole bunch of comments about how England and England fans are smug and cocky and generally awful in a number of ways. And I don't wish to appear defensive - the failings of England football fans are many - but there seems to be this perception that we all think England are the best team in the world and we just can't get enough of ourselves... and I think it's erroneous! Or at least, if that appears to be the case, I can only suggest that it's a mask to hide a very fundamental insecurity. Yes, we love football and we think we invented the game and as a country we go nuts at World Cup time - but we haven't won anything in a very long time and we know it. We have witnessed our own mediocrity time and time again. Our hopes are always sky-high but the experience of supporting England is one of constant crushing disappointment and has been for at least as long as I've been alive. So, uh, take heart, anti-England folks! (Most of whom weren't on LJ anyway, but whatever.) Soon we will doubtless be crushed and disappointed again! And we know it!*


*alright, we sort of know it. we also think we're going to WIN... which we are!! :D

Who are some good non-fantasy young adult writers working right now? Anybody know? I know nothing of YA literature after Judy Blume. Is there a new Judy Blume? Or do their have to be vampires and/or wizards to catch the attention of the young people nowadays?

Related: what is your favourite Judy Blume book? And do you know how old you were when you read it?

This is actual serious important and intellectual research I have to do, I promise.

The Good Wife finale. My thoughts are varied and complex. But if I had to summarise, I would say something like fuck yes Alicia Florrick.

Okay, my thoughts aren't complex at all. I love this show so goddamn much. Can season 2 possibly be as good? I REALLY HOPE SO. There is not a single character I don't like. I even like the kids, and Will's law student lady friend whose name I don't know! Cary is hilarious, Alicia behaves like an adult (AN AWESOME ADULT), Diane and Gary Cole are hot, Kalinda is Kalinda, Will only likes himself when he's around Alicia. OH, SHOW.

I am on tumblr now because it seemed like the cool thing to do. Since I generate no content for any of the nine hundred social whatever sites I am signed up to, another one seemed like a good idea. Yes? Yes!

In upcoming events news, I have got my World Cup wallchart and I am excited as fuck.

Expect the volume of my posts to increase over the summer as the deadline for submission of my thesis approaches. (it's this september! how did that happen?)

I'm marking exam papers. It's taking a long time, since between each paper, to counter the sense of encroaching despair, I have to stop and watch tennis for two hours. A lot of students are unable to spell the name of that little-known American author, Ernest Hemingway, despite the fact that it's written on the exam paper.

Send help.