( Regarding Supernatural, is it just me or... )

So now, you know what I'm craving (but I like cherry best).

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126: geeky
780: making Christmas, making Christmas

I blame pinkfinity for this. Thank you, loff.

I've been meaning to write a decent-length SPN fic for some time, and I love writing gen, so I was really happy when Heidi told me about signups for spn_summergen. The big reveal is now live, so I can be all public and say that I wrote Fire of Known Origin for missyjack, who, um, doesn't know I exist. dettiot did the beta and hand-holding. Can I also be proud that I wrote the only first-person fic in the fest? I'm proud that wrote the only first-person fic in the fest. It was easier than it should have been, which is either totally great or totally frightening.

Fire of Known Origin. Supernatural gen, Dean-centric, rated R for violence and language, ignores the information and events from "No Rest for the Wicked" and "Malleus Maleficarum" but is otherwise canon-compliant. missyjack's prompt was "Dean in hell (crack or horror)."

( Before I sold my soul, I had been convinced that Hell looked like Disneyland. )

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126: thirsty

This morning, I was coming out of one of the toll plazas I have to go through on my way to work and there was a little congestion around the exits. That's par for the course in New Jersey, so I kept my usual eye out for the crazies that populate my morning (and afternoon, and weekend) commute.

A car length or so in front of me was an old Honda with a bumper sticker that said "Mystery Spot" in large letters. So I cut off some guy in an SUV to get closer to the Honda to see if the letters underneath it said "Broward County, Florida."

They said "Santa Cruz, California."

Good thing the guy in the SUV wasn't going very fast. I wouldn't even have had a good excuse if I'd caused an accident.

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It's official. The world is coming to an end. Armageddon has nothing to do with the flaming tree that fell on one of my libraries today, nor the library who was without air conditioning today when the heat index was 109F, nor the air conditioner in my bedroom breaking at the beginning of a week-long heat wave. Oh no.

THIS is why the world is coming to an end: AC/DC album to be a Wal-Mart exclusive.

In Dean's words, "SON OF A BITCH!"

I hate Wal-Mart. I've got nothing against cheap clothes/makeup/what have you. Lord knows I love Target and H&M above all other things and read The Budget Fashionista on a daily basis. But I hate Wal-Mart. I feel like I need one of those decontamination showers they had in Silkwood every time I leave a Wal-Mart. Every Wal-Mart I've ever been in is dirty, poorly lit, disorganized, and full of people acting trashy.

I hate Wal-Mart, and what adds insult to injury is that I love AC/DC. Back in Black is my default album for driving. I love screaming along with Brian Johnson. (And Sydney be damned; whoever wrote Highway to Hell must have been from New Jersey.) So now I'm at this conundrum: Do I brave a Wal-Mart and give them $15 of my hard-earned money and get an album I'll probably like and which might even be good enough to forget that I paid Wal-Mart $15 to own it? Or do I not give the money to a band I like because Wal-Mart is the only one carrying their album? It's not going to be available on iTunes and a Wal-Mart only deal means that it's unlikely a lot of libraries will want to buy it.

What do you do for money, honey, indeed.

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126: angry

I. Television.

A. Numb3rs
i. I am going to miss Megan so much!
a. I wonder if Larry is going to move out east with her.
b. Figures the one female character who never put up with any of Don's crap is leaving. I mean, I know Diane Farr is pregnant again and leaving the show and really, who could blame her? But I'll miss her.
ii. I threw up in my mouth a little at the idea of Charlie and Amita getting married
iii. Colby is NOT to start dating Liz under ANY circumstance.
iv. I really, really miss the Don&Charlie interaction this season. There's been less of it in season 4 than in any of the others. I'm sure some of it is because of on-set strife, but isn't that why it's called ACTING?
v. For next season: Even less interaction? Charlie and Amita getting married? New cast member. Who?

B. Supernatural
i. It's so obvious they're short on episodes this season. I do like the episodes I've seen but there aren't enough of them and I feel like the important storylines are rushed.
ii. Dean HAS to die and go to Hell. He's going to be dead all summer and I'm going to cry. I think the reality of this is just starting to hit me. I know he's coming back because the show is going into a fourth season, but WAH!
iii. I do like Bela but I'm pretty over Ruby.
iv. In the meantime, I've signed up for spn_summergen. Because I don't have enough to do!

C. America's Next Top Model
i. Order of elimination for finale: Anya, Fatima, Whitney
ii. I still miss Lauren
iii. Tyra's megalomania is SO GRATING.

II. Books
A. Books I've read lately and liked/am liking
i. A Little Friendly Advice by Siobhan Vivian
ii. All We Know of Heaven by Jacquelyn Mitchard
iii. Adios to my Old Life by Caridad Ferrer
iv. the Sorority 101 series by Kate Harmon
v. Paper Towns by John Green
vi. This is What I Did by Ann Dee Ellis
B. Books I've read lately that didn't really do it for me/are not doing it for me
i. Absolute Brightness by James Lecesne
ii. Generation Dead by Daniel Waters...but as this one goes on it's getting better.
C. Reading list for after ALA Annual
i. Black Hole by Charles Burns
ii. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
iii. Mac OSX Leopard: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
iv. Whatever else from the adult fiction section looks interesting, because I have to read adult fiction while I still can.

III. Other life things!
A. I freakin LOVE my new MacBook Pro. Lily the iBook had to go to the big hard drive in the sky, so now I have a new 15.4" MBP. I'm probably going to get a skin for it from SkinIt, because everyone and their grandmother has a MacBook and although I love my Lenore sticker, I'm going to need something a little classier if I'm going to be taking the laptop to conferences. They have skins with fleur-de-lis on them, w00t!
B. Running is going pretty well. I've decided that when I can run from my apartment to the town high school and back (3.7 miles), I get a pink 8GB iPod Nano.
C. Lots of writing and speaking engagements coming up, so yay for that. Maybe a few of them will pay.

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( spoiler for SPN 3x04 )

And damn it, I have ANOTHER fic idea. DO NOT HAVE TIME.

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126: nerdy

because she made me an icon.
( SPN ficlet, 168 words, appropriate for all audiences, contains bad pun )

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126: accomplished

( I write SNL-inspired SPN ficlets that are not appropriate for children )

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126: determined

I'm reading this YA novel that shall remain nameless, and here's what I don't get.

It's canon that one of the characters likes Jensen Ackles. It's also canon that on Thursday nights, this character gets together with three friends and they watch Gilmore Girls DVDs.

But if it's Thursday night and Character A likes Jensen Ackles, why are they not watching Supernatural?

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126: cynical
780: the rivers are full of crocodile nasties

I don't have time for another fandom, I swear, but these are presents for pinkfinity. 100 words each, both appropriate for all audiences.

( In which Dean changes a license plate and Sam hits back )

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126: amused
780: rover, wanderer, nomad, vagabond, call me what you will