This should have been for the 4th of July. iowagirl11 emailed it to me around that time because she knows me well, but I just got around to reading it today.

Holy Carp. It was funny.

If the Founding Fathers had used email and gadgets. Excerpt with mild profanity:

From: tomjeff@monticello.com
Sent: July 3, 1776, 3:21 p.m.
To: jadams@mass.col; benf@penn.col; livingstonipresume@ny.col; rsherman@conn.col; george@empire.gov
Subject: FW: RE: George

LOL I swear if he sends out one more swarm of Officers to eat out our substance I'm going to oppose with manly firmness his crotch with my foot. Got my back, G-Dub?

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From: rsherman@conn.col
Sent: July 3, 1776, 3:22 p.m.
To: jadams@mass.col; benf@penn.col; livingstonipresume@ny.col; tomjeff@monticello.com
Subject: RE: George

DUDE G-DUB IS WASHINGTON@MTV.COM

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From: livingstonipresume@ny.col
Sent: July 3, 1776, 3:22 p.m.
To: jadams@mass.col; benf@penn.col; tomjeff@monticello.com; rsherman@conn.col
Subject: RE: George

SHIT SHIT SHIT

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From: george@empire.gov
Sent: July 3, 1776, 5:00 p.m.
To: tomjeff@monticello.com; jadams@mass.col; benf@penn.col; livingstonipresume@ny.col; rsherman@conn.col;
Subject: RE: FW: RE: George

Gentlement or shld I even call U gentlement. U may not like evrything ido but at least I don't talk behind ur back. If U have something to say to me U shld at least be man enuf to say it to my face

HIS ROYAL MAJESTY
KING GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK
OF THE HOUSE OF HANOVER
SO ORDAINED BY THE WILL OF OUR LORD
"It's Good to Be the King" – Mel Brooks

There are so many hilarious details that I keep discovering. Like Livingston's email address is 'livingstonipresume@ny.col'. *dies laughing* And John Adams' emails end in 'SENT FROM MY iPHONE'. And then King George's email signature?!!! HAHAHAHAH!!!! And Thomas Jefferson accidentally copies King George when he thinks he's emailing George Washington?!! Saints preserve us! It's hilarious!! It all plays right in with my late 18th century insanity. I so appreciate when smart people create funny things for me to enjoy. *sigh*

PS On reading it a few more times, I think my favorite line is 'AND MY INDENTURED IRISHMEN'. I can't help but dissolve into helpless giggles when I read that.

Didn't they turn out nice? :)

There are new pictures of them and a cute cover story over at Entertainment Weekly. I can't wait! We're going to see it on Wednesday night if we can nab tickets today. *glee*

A real update eventually, I'm sure.

Well, there goes my two box sets. :) Actually, this looks to be quite fun. I think I'm most looking forward to Walter's short stories.

Love. L-O-FREAKING-V-E. I love this man. Click for more reasons to love him. Believe me, you really should click. Why can't his show be on when I can watch it? Honestly!

In other news, I may just post a real journal update one of these days. But for now, go over to GeekaChicas and share in the Star Trek: TNG love with me. More love and nostalgia. Alas.

But now, to home.

You guys, Alan has outdone himself again. (my brother) This is a fanvid made specifically at the request of Laura and me. We even requested the song. However, I had no idea it would be SO HILARIOUS!!! I really shouldn't have watched it at work...but i think I'm going to watch it again. The song is one of Laura's absolute favorites but the clips and editing are all Alan's genius. They are positively brilliant, especially if you know the show really well and understand what's going on in all of them like I do. *laughs insanely*

Title: A Little More Action
Fandom: Star Trek - The Next Generation
Song: A Little Less Conversation - Elvis Presley
Rating: PG-ish.
Summary: The lyrics of the song: 'A little less conversation, a little more action, please.' That sums it up QUITE well. It's kind of a mashup of TNG romance, comedy, and embarassing wardrobe moments...as well as a bunch of other stuff.

You know you want to fill out this meme in your own LJ! If you're super ambitious you can post pictures as your answers. (ahem, this is kind of directed at dear_prudence as she is on holiday and all...and I love the pictures she takes.)


These days I am...

Reading:
Watching:
Listening to:
Missing:
Hugging:
Eating:
Drinking:
Dreading:
Going:
Loving:

Here's mine to pass the time. (I am so useless today!) I don't have a camera with me, so I'll just post words.

These days I am...

Reading: A History of the Twentieth Century by Martin Gilbert (I'm stuck in the late 70s) and Bounty by Caroline Alexander

Watching: Scrubs as we get it from Netflix, John Adams during which I read along in my book to check for accuracy (way to go filmmakers!), Star Trek: TNG on WGN when I should be going to bed, and So You Think You Can Dance because I love it.

Listening to: My crazy mix CDs I made just for my car. It's almost like Eustace because I can't remember what I put on them and I love the surprise.

Missing: My brother Evan. It's his birthday this month. He'll be 21. I need him around to be a fan with. I also miss my brother Alan for the same reason.

Hugging: My sister, when she harasses me. I'm not a big hugger.

Eating: I'm still working on my manicotti leftovers. Oh, and I made cream puffs the other night in a fit of insanity. They turned out!!

Drinking: Water. Until I freaking drown.

Dreading: The fall when stuff gets busy again...I love doing nothing much. *sigh*

Going: Nowhere in particular. I walk a lot, but it's all within the same few miles.

Loving: the fact that it's summer. I LOVE that.


I am so lame that I might just go home. I worked an extra hour or so yesterday, so I can get away with it. Jeez! I can't believe how lame.

Strange thought process of the day:

I was wondering why these lyrics are in my head.

Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And everything you do,
Yeah, they were all yellow.

I came along,
I wrote a song for you,
And all the things you do,
And it was called "Yellow."

- Chris Martin (the OLD version of this song before there was Coldplay. I like it better than that Parachutes version.)

Weird. I don't own this song. I haven't heard it in almost a year. Why was I singing it to myself this morning? I'm not complaining. I love this song but it just seemed weird.

Anyway, I figured it out. I am wearing a lemon yellow tank top under a cotton jackety thing. I've worn it before. Emily (my cute coworker) complimented me on it this morning by saying "I love that yellow!" And immediately my brain started singing a song.

My brain does that a lot, actually. I remember when Lucia, Dan and I were driving from Chicago to Biloxi two years ago...we played the license plate game over our two-way radios between the moving truck and Lucia's Yaris. We had a running list and were trying to get all 50 states. You wouldn't BELIEVE how many names of states are in songs and how many of those songs I know. It seemed like every time they called one out, I had a song to sing back at them.

One of us: Louisiana!
Cecily: 'And I'm goin' to Louisiana for to see my Suzzyana singing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day!!'

...

One of us: New Mexico!
Cecily: "You'll seeeeeeee Amarillo! Gallup, New Mexico!"

...

One of us: Kansas!
Cecily: 'Everything's up to date in Kansas City. It's gone about as fer as it can go....'

It was the most fun when I had to sing the song to them over the radio. Hahah!! I love my crazy brain.

*~*~*~*~*

It went from super warm over the weekend to cloudy and quite cool this week. The cloudy and cool just makes me feel like curling up for a nap in a dim room. It's hard to focus on anything when I feel so comfy and sleepy. It's delicious, but I'm extremely ineffective. :D *stretch*

I finally got my videos uploaded and I'm going to stay at work a little late just so I can post a few pics here.

I was feeling all brave and so I invited iowagirl11 to hike Eagle Creek canyon with me on our day off last Friday. The hike can be broken down in to three major categories:

( The Good )

( The Bad )

( The Ugly )

Despite the pain and subsequent Aleve usage, I'm still glad I went. I don't know if Katie is, but I'm sure glad she was with me. The whole thing took a special brand of insanity. :)




Aren't we cute?

Weekend. Good. Scrubs. Food. Hike. Lovely. Pain. Church. Lazy. Friends. Family. Hot. UHG.

Today. Work. Clouds. Tired. Fine. Hungry. Monday. UHG!

Yeah. That's about it. ;)

I'll post about the hike a bit later when I get a chance to post pictures and stuff.

OH MY GOSH GO LOOK AT THIS!!!!!

Yes, I just made you go to my article first before you could go to the WIRED pictures. I'm an attention whore like that. BUT REALLY!!!!! Can you believe that? Just in case you didn't click on anything, I will entice you with this:



*dies* I can't wait until March.

It looks like they're filming another episode of Leverage in the 100 year old bank building that is attached to my building. I should go down and poke around. This building is gorgeous on the outside and inside and today boasts perfect weather, temperature, and everything else. Great place to film! :) If only I watched this show! Then I'd have motivation to stalk.

Cutest David Tennant interview Ever! I love that it's the Chicago Tribune. I love that it's just him and not a panel of blowhards (no offense, Russell). I love what he says about filming Hamlet. I love what he says about being a lightweight when she encourages him to have two drinks. "Well, let's not go overboard..." *squishes* Love him. I'm glad Doctor Who is moving on, but I LOVE him.

My boss is gone, which means I'm goofing off hardcore. Not that I haven't goofed off hardcore while he's here, but I feel less guilty when it's almost 3PM on a Friday and he's left for the week. Aaaaah. It's good.

Had a successful day at work. It's interesting how a lot of my job is thinking, writing down the thoughts and then combining my thoughts with other people's thoughts and trying to convince everyone that my way of organizing the thoughts is the most effective. Very very interesting. Gosh, I love organizing stuff and streamlining systems. I'm a techno dingbat but I can think and persuade, by dang it!

I think this is going to be a Eustace post though, when all is said and done. I've been listening to Eustace a lot the last couple days and he is just made of WIN! None of his usual sulky fits or ruts. He's pulling out some of my favorite stuff and I'm loving it. I was in a funk a while ago where I couldn't stand anything on my player. Then Eustace broke (mostly) and I didn't listen for a while. These last couple weeks have had me jury-rigging him so he'll work and I've been listening again. It's NICE.

What really struck me was just how much a few songs knocked me over when they came on. It was embarrassing, actually, because if anyone had been watching me when these certain songs came on, they'd see my big smile and I think they'd also see me visibly relax. So funny. :)

So anyway, I'm going to post that list of the soundtrack of my life over the last two days. Some of it is definitely not surprising, but ALL of it is stuff that really really hit the spot at the moment it played. If I could kidnap all of your mp3 players or car CD players, these songs are the ones I'd make sure you had.

1. With or Without You - U2
It's almost embarrassing to put this down, but I have to, as it sparked this parade of awesome songs. I've skipped this song when it's come on pretty solidly just because I've been listening to it since that album came out in nineteen eighty-whatever and, in all honesty, I was kind of sick of it. But something about it yesterday....it had been months since it had come up and I just LOOOOVED it. In all my Michael Jackson sad today, I have to put this album up there with Thriller as one of the best of the century.

( The rest of this week's soundtrack )

Tomorrow is yard work of DOOM, which will be good exercise. I'm going to get groceries tonight and then probably do nothing much. I have to admit that I've stopped reading my book about the mutiny on the Bounty because I know it's about to make me really angry....but I need to just plow through it.

Hm. I'm sure I can find some work to do for the next two hours. Maybe....

PS This icon makes me melt a little. Whoever got that screen shot and captured that LOOK. Woof!!

PPS Wow. Look at the Amazon top sellers in music right now. I wish I had the money to invest in a few myself, actually. My mother has the Thriller album and I don't. What is up with that? I remember my family had the vinyl LP of Thriller and I would sit and read the inner sleeve. It had that hilarious charicature of Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson fighting over that woman....Wow. We listened to that sucker for HOURS! That's one of the few albums in my family that's made it through LP, into cassette, and then to CD and finally electronic format. The only other albums that have done that are Toto IV, all the ABBA albums, a bit of Simon & Garfunkel, and the soundtrack to Top Gun. *snorfle* Yes. We're a dorky family.

PPPS I'm going to add Somebody Told Me by The Killers to my list above. This song is DANGEROUS because I can't help but go a little crazy when it comes on. It's got one of the best choruses in the history of rock music.

Uh oh.  That just gave me a crazy idea....

Haha.  Go go GeekaChicas and leave her an offering if you'd like to wish her further birthday good wishes. :D

We've been overcast for about a week now and this morning the sun finally peeped out. It's a gorgeous sort of cloudy/sunny day. I decided to take a quick walk down to the waterfront because I'd done some good solid work this morning and I deserved it. (No, I wasn't looking for Wil Wheaton. *shifty eyes*) It turned out to be rather...idyllic.

1. I left the building in the shade of 6th Ave. and as I was passing the historic bank building, I saw this butterfly. It followed my path for a ways, but I had to leave it behind because it seemed to be trying to get into the bank. Probably so it could withdraw money to go buy a hat at Bloomingdale's, or something. ;)

2. I headed East on Alder to go toward the river. I've done that many MANY times before and I always marvel at the new little stores or restaurants I discover every time. It's only 6 blocks! Today I just had to stop into Cameron's Books and Magazines, which is a little dusty shop that looks just like a used book store ought to look. Books stacked to the ceiling, piles of books everywhere, and dust. Lots of dust. It was really cool, but I knew I didn't have much time, so I left and headed toward my destination.

3. As I got to Naito Pkwy (which is our version of Lakeshore drive), I saw a man with a group of middle school-ish students. They stopped and asked me a question and it turns out they were on a photo scavenger hunt. Sounds like summer camp! One of the items on the list was to get a picture of a total stranger doing the hokey pokey. Ahem. So, at the crossing of one of the busiest streets in town, I did a bit of the hokey pokey for them so they could take a picture. THe kids were really cute. They were like 'We'll do it with you!' Snerk.

4. Finally got to the waterfront. All of the ships and special boats that have been here for the Rose Festival were gone by now, but it just looked LOVELY. Portland is a city of bridges just because the Willamette river runs right through the middle of it. It's what defines our 'west side' and 'east side' and I just love the bridges. (My favorites are the Fremont Bridge and the ever-gorgeous St. John's Bridge) It was nice to sit there and stare into the sparkly (yet very dirty) water and look up and down the river. It's a good vantage point.

My walk back was uneventful, but still gorgeous and inspiring. I started thinking of the hikes I've been planning and how I can spend some not work time downtown. It was a good walk.

Powells? He was at Powells??? During the afternoon?

Guess who works 3 blocks away from Powells? *raises hand* DANG IT! I could have made him sign....something. Or gotten an embarrassing picture! I know that out of the entire TNG crew, Wil Wheaton is probably the sig/picture that would make everyone the LEAST jealous, but it still would have been fun. Alas.

Interesting though that they filmed at the art museum. It's really a lovely part of town.

Update: Data's Ode to Spot in cat macros. :) I love that.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/2484796/Who-to-a-kill.html

Ok, the picture is UNDENIABLE. For all of you doubters out there, that's definitely THE GUY. I'm so excited!

That said, ( spoilers! )

Don't worry, I realize it's The Sun and totally unreliable....but you can't deny the photographic evidence. *glee*

The beautiful but useless official UK site for the Harry Potter movie just released these brand new shiny posters. I will save you the trouble of bashing through the site (it's SO annoying) and post them here, starting with:



Kind of looks like he's about to fall over, doesn't it? She's so gorgeous. I wonder if he's standing on a box?

( Click for the rest. )


I'm a little bit ridiculously excited despite all the normal life turmoil. Does that make me awful? I promise to update on life turmoil soon. I'm going to haunt WebMD for a while before I decide how I feel...

Positively inspiring: Chris Bridges reports on Twitter's role in the recent Iranian elections. What an awesome story. I <3 Chris.

Positively insightful: The ever-talented lemonlye does an interesting deconstruction of Twilight in comparison to other vampire writers. It's not full of hatred and angst and there are some interesting points I enjoyed. :)

Positively AMAZING!: This set of Star Wars Cakes from www.cakewrecks.com. Holy crap! I adore the AT-AT.

Positively giggly: These animated gifs from TNG. My favorite:


Positively irritating: I missed the final episode of Pushing Daisies. Why would you schedule something like that at 10:00 PM on a Saturday? Douches. All of them.

Positively ferklempt-making: HOLY CRAP PEOPLE! Robin Hobb just replied to a comment I left on her LJ. Personally replied! Robin Hobb!!! Now, I've had personal replies from lots of my favorite authors, but this one is special because I really wanted to know that she read what I wrote. I'm so glad that she did. She really is a gracious lady and I admire her a lot. If you really want to know just how cool she is, read her entire post. She's talking about how she decided not to continue with the Farseer characters for now just because she thinks that most people just didn't get the ending of the saga as it stands. She got so much negative feedback because she separated our two main characters that she decided to avoid all that angst and just not write more about them for a while and possibly EVER.

So, as someone who TOTALLY got her beautiful ending, I just wanted her to know that I (and lots of us) would grovel for more of Fitz and The Fool in any way she wants to write about them. I'm glad she took the time to read my comment and delighted that she responded. Even if she doesn't write more about those characters, she's been honest and kind enough to her readers that I'll be reading EVERYTHING ELSE she does write.

Positively positive: My job has turned into a job. I'm busy. I spend my hours on a variety of things, including thinking, training myself on the myriad of programs that will soon list me in the 'System Admin' slot, researching new programs and products, communicating with kyoot boss about said projects, and being rather terrified of my inadequacies. It's all going very well so far.

Positively nostalgic: I watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix this weekend and it was goooood to see it again. It also got me way in the mood for new Harry Potter stuff. Only a month until the new movie!

Positively literary: I finished Possession. Love Love Love Love!! I just started The Bounty, which is a non-fiction deconstruction of what actually happened with Bligh and the rest of those yahoos. It's pretty interesting so far.

Positively helpful: Church was so great yesterday. Great talks, good Sunday School and a FABULOUS relief society lesson from the Joseph Smith manual. Honestly. The nature of God becomes ever clearer. I'm working on becoming a 'faithful and consistent worshipper' at the temple, as Elder Bednar so counsels. I'm not very good at that right now, and there's no excuse. I have to figure out what's going to work for me.

Positively culinary: I made an enormous pot of veggie soup to eat for my lunches this week. It's vegetarian and very dense with veggies, so it can only be good for me. Laura made a great roast on Saturday night which we turned into BBQ beef last night. YUM!

Positively hilarious: My two younger brothers came over on Saturday night. We played Settlers and Monopoly and laughed insanely for 3 hours. Holy crap. Awesomeness. I love board games!!

Postively JUST for Livejournal: A meme from shriker_tam.

"The problem with Live Journal is that we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. Hence, I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don’t know about you."

Positively starving: Me. Time for soup.

Sometimes when I'm killing time I'll just blindly scroll down my enormous list of tags and click on whatever. Then I read those entries and giggle at my own silliness or marvel at stuff I've forgotten or whatever. Today my random click was the 'end of the year' tag, and the first entry was exactly one year ago TODAY. It was kind of creepy. Anyway, some choice quotes from my readings that made me giggle slightly:

June 8, 2008

Stephen Moffat is lucky he's not in my aura at the moment. He'd be eating pie plates full of horse pucky if I could get my hands on him. - Me in reference to the Library two-parter of Doctor Who Season 4, River Song, Donna's sad story, etc.

What the heck is 'my aura' anyway?

May 21, 2008
We've been watching the huge and never-ending Forsyte Saga. It's strangely addictive. These people are insane, but we really want to know what happens to them! Now I'm irked that I didn't plan well enough to have a steady stream of cranky British people coming from Netflix. - Me.

That last quote is funnier now that we're obsessed with Damian Lewis, who was the main character of TFS. Obviously that miniseries wasn't what got us obsessed. He played the most squicky awful character. Heh.

Anyway, after this narcissicm, it's time for lunch and then another meeting.

That's my next summer movie, but sneaky shots from the Deathly Hallows shoot are already surfacing. I'm sure some of you have seen some of the .... well, I'll just direct you to the crazy comm dhmoviepics if you want to be spoiled. My FAVORITE pictures are in this post. They show a few members of the cast driving out to see the exquisite Shell Cottage set for the first time on a beach in Wales. Check out Dan Radcliffe's reaction when he sees it. That would be my reaction, too. :D