It's so weird to think I should be at the airport in an hour or so - I fretted all day about not leaving myself enough time to pack... and now I FEEL I am done packing, and yet it took, like, 20 minutes and now I'm sitting here wondering if I've forgotten something. I mean, I don't NEED anything I can't buy when I'm there, when it comes down to it, but you know. Still fretting. Especially since I had a MINOR crisis with losing my spare phone (the one that can be used in the US) and now my dad got me another one and I can't get my SIM card into it because I'm something of an idiot whose opposable thumbs apparently stopped working in the past 24 hours. AND I just discovered a ticket snafu on my credit card which pisses me OFF. Dammit. I shall have to get that sorted when I'm finally in the US... fail fail FAIL.

In any case, I thought I'd better get this post out of the way, before I go recheck my bags and stuff, shower and get ready to head to the airport. I'M OFF, GUYS. Everyone who celebrates, have a marvellous Thanksgiving!! I'm SURE my hiatus is a COMPLETE LIE, based on what has ensued following previous 'hiatus announcements', but well... it's a tradition, and my hiatus notice is PRETTY. See:


♥ ♥ ♥

SPAM ME WITH JUST ABOUT ANYTHING THAT STRIKES YOUR FANCY. I DEMAND IT. XD

Oh. Holy. God. HOUSE IS BACK. BACK BACK BACK. I don't just mean after, like, two weeks. I mean the show is BACK. The characters I love, the crazy way everything just fits, thematically, from POTW through to the interactions between House and Wilson, and Chase and Cameron, and OMG THE HOUSE/CUDDY ASDL;AJDJASJFSDHFSDFLSDAS.

( she'll be red and delicious before she knows it )

I have actually watched this episode, like, three times tonight while typing this up. I love it. I've not felt so compelled to rewatch and rewatch and REWATCH in a very long time. LOVE LOVE LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE. ♥ ♥ ♥

OMG teevee hiiiiiigh. XD

1. Enormously quick drive-by post to say - no, I'm not dead; yes, my life has been mostly boring (honestly, it's just been work, stoning at home, catching up on emails/comments and planning for NYC). I was GOING to go to bed when LJ conked out a while ago, but I hit refresh one more time and its back, so...

2. Went out for a MASSIVE Japanese dinner with friends - turns out I might be somewhat allergic to crabs, who knew. Basically, we were celebrating a friend's birthday, so went for a nice blowout meal. Which involved, honeatly, more king crab than I've ever had in one sitting. It came as tempura, steamed, to be cooked in gorgeously sweet Japanese soup... usually I have one pincer and give up because I'm lazy. This time I ate everything and now I itch everywhere. *weeps* It was worse right after the meal, when the crab was working its way through my system, but I'm itching even now. Auuugh.

3. I WANT. OMG Meryl and Alec, why am I not in the US on Christmas Day?? This movie is probably going to be released in my stupid country in, like, May or something horrible like that. :(

4. Speaking of movies, I did watch a couple over the weekend: Capitalism: A Love Story & Humpday over the weekend, both okay - I liked the former alright despite its sledgehammer moralising, but then again I'm growing up in a more-or-less socialist system, so I must be biased... The latter was promising but grated on my nerves after a while - really was that much bellyaching required to decide whether two straight guys should get it on for a porn video?? Too much verite for my cinema, methinks.

5. My mourning for Wonderettes continues apace... not that the show's even closed yet, and I'm going to see it again before it does, but whatever. I have done very little today except listen to various audios on a loop. Did y'all know that, aside from belting awesome, Ms Victoria McSassy Matlock is also incredibly talented at arts, crafts and painting? I'm not sure how one person can be THAT much artistic rolled into one, but she is <-- her new blog, featuring her little sewing obsession, her paintings, and on the sidebar, her Etsy store with her custom-made jewellery. INSANITY.

6. I understand from my flist that something MASSIVE went down with this week's House - certainly there is capslock spam everywhere the likes of which I haven't seen in many a month. My download is done, but I really need to go to bed and sleep off this itchiness... I shall watch and flail tomorrow!

7. ITCHY ITCHY. Bedtime...

1. It's been a WEEK since I've posted. Whaaaaat. Where does the time go? Oh well, it just means less verbal diarrhoea for you guys to wade through... or it just means that it ALL COMES AT ONCE, like I expect it will in this Omnibus Post of Doom. Heh.

2. Work. Holy god, WORK. Last Wednesday was legit one of the worst days - WORST DAYS - I have ever spent in the office. I left work at 9pm the night before, dragged myself back in by about 5am, and WORKED and hammered my brain into submission and wrote something like 11-13 paragraphs, NONE OF WHICH WAS USED, and basically wound up in a stairwell crying. Yeah... really NOT a highlight of my career to date. And to just add insult to injury on that bad, bad day, I went in search of some Japanese food in this particular restaurant... only to discover the restaurant had closed (temporarily, for renovations, but REALLY, talk about shitty-assed karma, huh?). SIGH.

3. So HOW have I rewarded myself for that much fail? I think it's called an epic EPIC marathon of TV over the weekend. Basically, I watched over half of Season 5 of Desperate Housewives AND got caught up on the new season, and just finished watching House, Bones, Glee AND 30 Rock. A++++ me - bringing couch potato-dom to new heights of obsession every day. ( THOUGHTS )

4. WOW THAT WAS A LOT OF TV. Amidst all of that, I still managed to find time to meet friends on Sunday afternoon to FINALLY watch Julie & Julia - OH HAPPY DAY. I have such a craving for French food right now, and am about three million times more excited for It's Complicated. ( some disjointed thoughts on the movie )

5. Everyone needs some pretty damn awesome Bebe Neuwirth in their lives. No lie. All fact. Courtesy of illusory_thrill.

6. I really need to go to bed, though I'm not sleepy at all. Good thing I'm away from regular work for the next two weeks and can use that time to recover my sanity. Oh, and buy tickets for NYC. XD I'm so tempted to get tickets for A Little Night Music RIGHT NOW, guys, but the tickets are so expensive and Telecharge isn't offering up anything AWESOME. Are they holding blocks of seats in reserve and only releasing them later? Should I wait a bit? Will there be discounts? Because ticket prices for this show are LEGIT INSANE. Oof.

1. So it's ten minutes past midnight and I JUST got back into work. What a way to start a day, huh? It's not like yesterday wasn't a particularly bad one, it WAS - one of those when I felt tragically undervalued, underpaid, put upon, and just generally aggrieved with everything. (Yes, ESPECIALLY so, apparently I CAN feel even worse than I do on a regular basis at work.) I was in such a bad mood I actually told my boss when she tried to make a joke that "I'm sorry, I'm not inclined to find anything funny today." Oops. A+++ for me on maintaining interpersonal communication at the workplace. The really tragic thing is that I KNOW I need the extra quiet hours to work on this stupid paper, so instead of giving up, I'm back here and planning to spend the night - I figured it'd be easier to go home, shower, and come back fortified with food and not have to deal with the commute in the morning. In other words, I would SO not be averse to y'all SPAMMING ME WITH HAPPY. Please. Anything to get me through this night would be much appreciated.

2. Let me get things rolling. I was truly in the worst mood ever until momentsofbeing4 posted the newest trailer for It's Complicated. OMG YES YES YES. ♥ I cannot - absolutely cannot - wait for this movie. The new scene at the very end of the trailer PRETTY MUCH KILLED ME DEAD FROM THE LOL-ARITY. I'm so going to watch every interview and read every article featuring this cast. EVERY SINGLE ONE.



3. Also, I DID watch House when I got home earlier, just to make myself feel happier about coming into work. ( A few thoughts on House 6x04 The Tyrant )

4. AND yesterday I watched Bones. ( Bones 5x03 The Prodigy In The Plain )

5. WHY. WHY in god's name are all the awesome stars and shows going to OKLAHOMA to put on shows?! SERIOUSLY!?!?! I would kill to be able to watch this production of Sweeney Todd, at the same theatre that hosted Ms Murney in Tommy (if I'm not mistaken?) earlier this year. Because holy FUCK, Jeff McCarthy as Sweeney Todd would be the most. epic. match of voice to role in a looong long time. (I know whereof I speak, I've heard him sing Epiphany live, UNPLUGGED, and it was EPIC TIMES.) And then to add Emily Skinner as Mrs Lovett?!?! FUCK ME. That 'A Little Priest' would actually be an eargasm waiting to happen. I WANT. FOREVER.

6. And NOW I am going to stop procrastinating and go do what I'm here to do: work. Bah.

1. I AM ALL CAUGHT UP WITH BONES. That's right - I watched something like... twenty episodes in the last two days and OMG I AM SO IN LOVE WITH THIS SHOW. Really I just want to hug it and everyone in it and KAFHJLADGFHDLSFKLADAS. ( lots of random happy Bones-related thoughts ) Hell yeah I love this show. OMG. Anyone who wants to flail with me is CLEARLY WELCOME TO DO SO.

2. I watched episode 4 of Glee - it's the best one so far, but still didn't feel QUITE right to me. There is something awkward about that show that just screams... artificial, and seriously, I've seen shows that are similarly hyper-real (like, say, POPULAR), but Glee is still not... hitting that proper groove just yet. That being said: I think they're warming up and possibly heading in the very right direction i.e., the one in which Sue Sylvester truly DOES become Bobbi Glass and TAKES OVER THE ENTIRE SHOW. Yes please, Jane Lynch is awesometimes. Sue mentioned "Singapore", you know, which I enjoyed. Heh.

3. And so... yeah, that's about how I spent my weekend. Watching a shit-ton of Bones, accompanied by junk food, the occasional book, too many cupcakes, NOT catching up on comments/email/my flist... and, right now, dreading the thought that the weekend is over and I'm heading back towards work when I next get up. Do not like. The one thing I DO wish I'd been at this weekend - it was so disgustingly hot here that I can feel it sweltering through the airconditioning, walking out to get dinner was AWFUL - is the Broadway flea market. So tell me, guys, what was your haul? Keep me entertained... I like living vicariously!

4. Wondering what my next huge tv catch-up should be. Yes yes, I know, BSG, which I swear is being shifted hastily up the queue. But I'm thinking I need to catch up on my Desperate Housewives before I get completely spoiled. I hate when I get so far behind that it becomes virtually impossible to avoid spoilers. Also, there's Dollhouse and United States Of Tara, and everything else is going to return and I SHOULD watch Flash Forward, right... ARGH. I need to quit my job so I can watch movies/tv/theatre 24/7, who's with me. Sigh.

1. Wow, I totes failed at writing up my recap of the House season premiere yesterday - I was GOING to, and had gone and trawled through pages of TWOP fanwank in preparation (just to see if I was alone in thinking what I did about the episode), and then I FELL DEAD ASLEEP. Nice. So I'm a little less impassioned about it right now, which would make for less bitchery - yay for you if you click on the cut! ( apparently I'm in the minority here? )

2. I really really REALLY would freakin' kill to be at the Signature Theatre at any point over the next few days. The Kander & Ebb concert going on down there featuring Ms Murney is actual five million kinds of awesome and it hurts me to think I can't see it for myself. God. That said, another interview with Julia popped up, and I have this to say to what she has to say:

My favorite show is probably Chicago because I did it at camp as a kid (very appropriate for kids), and then again in college, and I harbor a secret desire to try to tackle Velma in NYC.

OH HOLY GOD YES PLZ. SDFLJLFHLASDFLAHDASDA. I have said, FOREVER, that Julia is my dream Velma; if only I could ever see that happen I would die happy, probably. It was really nice to know it's on HER radar too. ;)

3. And really I should sleep. Apparently this was just an explosion of ranty words. Sigh.

1. I really have to go to bed, I have comments and my flist to catch up on, and it's so HOT these days I feel like I'm melting even though I'm indoors with the air-conditioning on. But I just had to say happy birthday to my little show that could, even though it's technically not even September 14 here anymore:


♥ One year in NYC and still going strong! ♥

Oh show. You have brought me much joy, much music and much flail. I couldn't be more grateful.

ETA: BWW article! - interview with Roger Bean & current cast. :D

2. Instead of watching more ACTUAL episodes of Bones, I got caught in a Youtube loop of all of Emily Deschanel's appearances on the Craig Ferguson Show (most recent was just two weeks ago). Craig is absolute hilarity and I love it whenever he interviews my favourite people. And Emily is kind of adorably goofy (and just so impossibly BEAUTIFUL) in person. This interview - from 2007, so obviously no spoilers - made me LOL so. hard.


My FAVOURITE thing is Craig's suggestion for an alternate version of Bones.
"Dem bones, dem bones!" LOLOLOL

3. Still on Bones: for those on my flist who watch the show and are fans... since I never followed Bones when it was actually airing, I didn't have all the season finale cliffhanger angst etc involved with Season 3. OMG, WHAT even was that last episode, I do not know. Was what happened to Eric Millegan's character really just... a plot twist that landed unfortunately for him? He didn't want to leave the show or anything? Man, the writers' strike sure effed up a lot of seasons that year - the whole big twist to the Gormogon thing is just... surreal. ALSO I WATCHED THE FIRST TWO EPISODES OF SEASON FOUR, AND ANGELA/HODGINS WUT WUT WUT. WHERE DID THAT COME FROM. D: D: D:

4. Okay, bedtime for real now.

1. SUPERBAND EP HAS BEEN RELEASED IN SINGAPORE ALSDHKFKHSDLHDSLFHSDKLFHALHSDSAAS. I wasn't expecting this - they talked it up for a late August release in their concert, and then the release date kept getting pushed back, until it was 7 September and I checked a Chinese forum and it apparently still was nowhere to be found, even in Taiwan stores. So I wasn't holding out much hope when I went to Vivocity for a movie today... I even briefly contemplated NOT walking over to the CD store (which are SO HARD TO FIND in Singapore these days, so many of them have shut down!) and just grabbing dinner before my movie instead. I'M SO FUCKING GLAD I DECIDED TO CHECK ANYWAY. Because, OMG SHINY AND NEW:


OBSESSED.

( so much flail and pics under the cut it's obscene, omg )

2. I SHOULD really talk about the important message movie I watched - The Cove - which was really good, although not quite as heart-stoppingly tense as the reviews would have it. I must admit that I came awfully close to wanting to disavow eating sashimi after watching it, because omg those dolphins, wtf. Those final blood-soaked scenes were BRUTAL. But I'm weak and selfish, with no self-control, and I need my regular doses of mercury poisoning, so.

3. Couldn't bring myself to work ALL of yesterday and after spam post, I attended a two-hour meeting (a lot of it completely pointless), which means I am SO EFFED next week... but argh, I am TAKING my weekend off, I don't bloody care. Especially since my boss informed me that I would have to keep working until I drop dead. I think this was said at least PARTLY in jest... one would hope, anyway :P I was going to go to the doctor tomorrow morning and get my ear cleaned out for good, but... I can't TELL if I'm just used to the tinnitus now and don't notice it anymore, or if the problem's cleared itself up. ARGH. I think it's kinda still there, but not as bad as it was earlier in the week? IDK. I'll probably go to the doctor anyway. IF I CAN HAUL MY ASS OUT OF BED.

4. OMG why am I so hungry now even though I had a Carl's Jr burger and fries for dinner. I guess it IS seven hours later. Maybe THAT'S why... OKAY, BEDTIME.

1. Okay, so anyone who's even vaguely a Julia fan has already been digging through her newly functional official site (seriously it has been 'under construction' for 100 years, give or take a decade), but whatever, I felt the need to squee about the photo gallery. The rest of the site is pretty standard stuff - albeit very nicely done and very comprehensive (it's so GOOD to see a gorgeous, up-to-date site for Julia!!) - but the GALLERY, OMG FAVOURITE. Aside from the fact that there are tons of photos that are completely new to me, DID YOU GUYS GO THROUGH EACH PIC AND READ THE CAPTIONS? So snarky and so clearly in Julia's voice, OMG I LOVED THEM. ♥ ♥ ♥ Honestly they made me lol. My particular favourites... ( under the cut ) So yeah, I think I'm making icons at some point soon... XD

2. Wow, it feels like AGES since I've flailed over Julia. As timeofyoursong pointed out... :P I still love her, I do - I went back and listened to Julia singing Life Of The Party again the other day, and holy crap, she might not hit that crazy high note Idina does, but wtf are those riffs of awesome she's tossing about, I don't even know.

3. I'm eating bite-size Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies at 1am. Be jealous.

4. Today was movie day!! :D I'm trying to get caught up now on the movies that opened while I was away in Aspen, and saw:

a. Bruno, which was really not as funny OR as good as Borat - it just felt way more scripted/contrived and I didn't care for it as much. Not that there weren't moments of inspired insanity: Paula Abdul's appearance was GOLD, as was Bruno's reference to Mel Gibson (LOLOLOL LOVE). Other favourite bits remain the ones that riff on politics: his attempts to fix the problems in the Middle East were HILARIOUS. Otherwise, not as good as I was expecting/hoping for. OH WAIT I LOVED THE MUSIC VIDEO THAT CLOSED THE MOVIE. OMG the guest stars of WIN ahahaha!!!

b. The Proposal: excuse me what is this supernova level of hotness that Ryan Reynolds is radiating. Really now. I'm not going to pretend he wasn't the main draw - I invited my friend to the show by proposing "dinner and Ryan Reynolds" - but I thought it'd be a fun night out, since everyone seems to have really liked the film, plus the cast! Sandra Bullock! Who's ALWAYS fun in shows like this and really should just never try to move beyond her comfort zone because that way lies disaster. Betty White, Mary Steenburgen etc... And YAY I LOVED IT. Beyond getting to appreciate Ryan's really sexy ripped body adorkability, the movie really was one of the best examples of the genre in recent years. Not that it had all THAT much competition - I was trying to think back to the last rom-com that had me raving when I emerged from the theatre, and it was Definitely, Maybe (also with Ryan - how strange and coincidental!!)... and I wouldn't even call that film a rom-com per se. So The Proposal is, like, the first proper rom-com in ages that I've really LOVED. I just liked the sparky, RIDICULOUSLY antagonistic banter between Ryan and Sandra's characters so much - omg, when the tables were turned and she needed his help? And he MADE HER PROPOSE on the streets of New York? EFF, LOVE FOREVER.

5. The only thing that would've helped me enjoy the show MORE? Being able to hear. I'm still suffering from a nasty NASTY case of waxy build-up in my right ear, so am half deaf and have been experiencing tinnitus for the better part of three days. Yuck. FAIL FOR ALWAYS.

6. One last thing before I go to bed - I'm trying to be responsible and turn in early (for me) so I can do real work tomorrow - I need to flail over my LUNCH today. HY suggested we go to this AWESOME sushi place in town, and I looooooooved it. OMG, I got the chirashi set, which came in a bento box that really didn't look like much. I hadn't thought it'd be enough food for me... but really I couldn't even finish it, because the raw fish (so fresh) was packed down and there was so much awesome with the preserved vegetables and tamago and ♥! Not to mention unagi chawanmushi and clams in the miso soup, plus aburi softshell crab maki AND hotate mentaiyaki to share!!! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE. I need to go back. Everyday. Om nom nom nom.

Yes, I am actually... OFF. I can't believe this, and won't believe it until I'm in the plane and it's taken off, but I'll be gone for a week. ACTUAL CANNOT BELIEVE I'M DOING THIS.



No idea how real this hiatus is going to be - I certainly managed to post plenty in May. And I'm even planning to post from the airport later if I have the time. But just in case internet access is patchier than I would like, here's the official hiatus post.

♥ Feel free to spam me within an inch of my life. ♥

NOW I NEED TO SHOWER AND OMG FINISH PACKING.

Oh god. I should really really be asleep NOW, because it's 2.30am, I haven't done a lick of productive work in, like, a week, and I need to be at work and focus tomorrow (I always say this), BUT I'M NOT SLEEPY AT ALL. This only means I'm going to be catnapping at my desk again, simply because being awake during the day is just so naturally inimical to my system. Argh, stupid. I have so much WORK to do, and so many other things I have to see - movies, theatre, etc - in the next week and a half that I'm kind of breathless at the thought of it. And yet here I am, predictably trapped in an epic fangirl loop of flail. Very predictable indeed.

I really like it when fandom collisions happen though. There are Disney fans on my flist, surely? ( Oh look, Emil Chau meets Disney! )

That kind of got away from me there. Better go to bed now. At some point: really, Emil Chau (kind of) meets Broadway.

I am six years behind on comments. I WILL REPLY TO THEM. I PROMISE. Maybe. *weeps*

WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT THE WHAT.

HERE ARE SOME TOTALLY INCOHERENT THOUGHTS, WRITTEN ENTIRELY IN CAPSLOCK. FEEL FREE TO IGNORE, I KNOW I'M THREE MONTHS LATE ON THE FLAIL.

( HOLY CRAP MY BRAIN IS FRIED SIX WAYS 'TIL SUNDAY )

In other news, I was completely useless as work. One of my colleagues had her last day today and we went out for Japanese to celebrate and wish her well. I wished it was MY last day.

And that is all, really.

1. Minor friends-cut has been done! If you feel I have erred (either in cutting or NOT cutting you) and/or want to be added back, please message me now or forever hold your peace! (Comments are screened and, if necessary, will remain screened for discretion!)

2. WORK IS MADE OF FAIL. Seriously now. I should not be awake at 3.07am, but I am. And I have to be back at work in far too few hours, rewriting an entire paper again. After I left at about 1am. D: D: HORRORS.

3. GOOD THING MY FANDOMS MAKE UP FOR THE LOUSY. OMG seriously there has been SOOO much random lollerskating/random flailworthiness involved in my fandoms over the last couple of days:

a. It was just Meryl's 60th birthday on June 22! :) I missed it, because I suck big time, but girlie_girl_23 didn't and her lovely tribute is here.

b. Next To Normal: The Abridged Script <-- omg I howled laughing at this, especially the way ALICE RIPLEY always and only refers to herself in the third person as ALICE RIPLEY, and Bobby, poor guy. *weeps*

c. Random thought: Alice is actual going to be bereft when her FB account reaches its maximum number of users, isn't she...!? And that's coming up soon, she just needs, like, 2,000 more people...

d. Official site for Julia's upcoming show - the Cy Coleman revue. She is looking classy. David's goatee, on the other hand, amuses me far more than it really should. So who's going to see this, other than Not Me?

e. OMG the Wonderettes universe is going to expand! - I swear I flailed when I got that google alert: now we get the story from the point of view of the Crooning Crabcakes! I'm hoping it includes - other than Billy Ray - Johnny and Richie as well, so there'll be shout-outs to my Wonderettes. ♥

f. And as a perfect example of how my life is full of random lollerskaty flail, guess what show's coming to Singapore in August? CLEARLY I would rather be watching Beth in this show in Aspen (OH GOD I WANT TO GO SO BADLY), but I guess I can make do with a local production of Spelling Bee. SO RANDOM A COINCIDENCE, AMIRITE?? It's the last show I thought would get a run here, just because it's not well-known at all (usually we get Phantom or Les Miz or some such well-worn chestnut of a show, ad nauseum).

g. Also, I got this comment on one of my random House!flail posts and was ridiculously amused. I can't decide if poster was being sarcastic, LOL.

4. Also, I think I am legit insane. Today I decided to embark on a flail project of complete insanity. OMG. Details... at some later point. XD BUT THE PROSPECT OF IT EXCITES ME.

5. How is it that I am wide awake NOW, when I am flailing, but will be half-dead when I'm at work, trying to work? Urgh. I PROMISE TO CATCH UP ON COMMENTS SOMETIME IN THIS MILLENNIUM.

ALSKFHALFHSDLFHSDLFHLSDFHLDS.

Now that we have that out of the way: I have been stoning at home, watching many episodes of Bones and marvelling at how adorable Booth and Brennan are. A+++ way of entertaining myself? I'D SAY SO.

Then I came across possibly the cutest thing in the history of my Wonderettes fandom ever. Basically, it turns out the wonderful Bets Malone has been regularly updating a blog on her NYC adventures after she booked the Marvellous Wonderettes - THAT'S RIGHT. *gasp* A regularly-updated blog on Wonderettes! It's AMAZING. My new favourite thing EVER in the WORLD. It's so darn cute how HAPPY and EXCITED Bets is about the entire adventure, from meeting the new Wonderettes girls (that would be Farah and Victoria) through to recording the cast album and getting her hands on the vocal selections for the first time ever. It's kind of TOO CUTE TO BE BELIEVED. ♥


♥ SEE. ♥

( my FAVOURITES under the cut! )

ICONS HAVE ALREADY BEEN MADE.
xitian will probably be updated soon, once the batch expands further. XD

GO EXPLORE. But if you want quick flail, these are my favourite posts: cast recording (Beth recorded video of Bets from her booth, so you can hear Bets singing and Beth's harmony!) and Wonderettes field trip in NYC (cutest. thing. in. universe.) - I am only upset that the second post does not have enormous photos like the other posts do, because I would KILL for a photo of Cindy Lou vamping it up.

I'm not entirely sure why the universe is conspiring against me and keeping me from the internet before/on my trip TO the US, but there we have it. I had a little computer snafu trying to transfer stuff to my computer, so ended up leaving the house later than planned. And then my brother and dad decided to get out of the car and have a late-night snack before sending me off... eating into planned internet chillout time at the airport pre-departure. And NOW I'm in Qatar, oh good ol' Qatar where I appear to spend a great GREAT deal of my transit time, and they want us to board two hours early! ARGH. I know that there's a bus that has to take us to the plane, but COME ON.

Sigh. In any case - I never had the chance to post my hiatus post, so this is it, before I dash off to get on the plane way too early. I'M GOING TO BE IN NEW YORK IN... LESS THAN 20 HOURS, GUYS. :D I am kind of stupidly stupidly excited.

People I'll be meeting over the weekend or in the first few days: I WILL have email access if nothing else, thanks to weazel_luv being awesome and gifting me her Starbucks account ♥, so send me emails to set things up as necessary. SEE YOU ALL SOON. OMG OMG.



ALSO, FEEL FREE TO SPAM THE HECK OUT OF THIS ENTRY.
JUST BECAUSE. XD

IT'S 5.51AM ON A WORK NIGHT. I HAVEN'T SLEPT YET. OR REALLY PACKED FOR MY TRIP. I HAVE, ON THE OTHER HAND, WATCHED 13 EPISODES OF HOUSE IN THE SPACE OF ONE DAY AND AM ALL CAUGHT UP. 5X23 WAS LEGENDARY, GUYS. LEGENDARY. TO THE POINT THAT I MADE A SHIT-TON OF ICONS RATHER THAN SLEEP, BECAUSE I. HAD. TO.

( MORE RANDOM FLAIL - SPOILERS AHOY )

ALSO NOW I HAVE TO PACK FOR NEW YORK WHEN I GET HOME TOMORROW. I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING, BTW, WHAT EVEN IS MY LIFE.

I'M SOOOO LATE TO THE HOUSE FLAIL PARTY, GUYS. I FAIL. HOW DID I LET THIS SHOW GO FOR SO LONG? BUT I'M BACK NOW. So, you know, flail with me if you like? :D

p/s I am sooo behind on comments and checking the flist because I've been busy watching House. Will deal with that when I can, promise!

1. THREE DAYS. CANNOT FATHOM THIS. Even though work is starting to fall in my lap again, and I really should do some of it because so much of it is due to my sitting around doing a whole lot of not much, right now my only concern is to keep from falling ill before I have to take off for the trip. Being barred from entering the US at this point is really NOT at all high on my list of priorities, nope. OMG CAN'T BELIEVE I'LL BE SEEING WONDERETTES IN LESS THAN FIVE DAYS ALSDHSADHASLDSA ♥

2. Also, I find it hard to focus these days because all I want to do is be a huge enormous dork and curl up in a corner with my stash of X-Men comics and devour them like the good little nerd I am. Today I tried to explain to my boss why Wolverine doesn't age and has apparently been through a litany of world wars in the recent past. Nerd extraordinaire, that is indeed me.

3. Cheno is a ball of cute, I just had to say. I love that the pay-off to that interview is a nice, long, glorious stretch of Over The Rainbow. Also, I SEE HER IN CONCERT NEXT MONDAY. \o/ The excitement, it is EVERYWHERE!

4. Speaking of which: native New Yorkers, where is there a good place to snag free internet? Do I have to start living in Starbucks? (Is there even free wireless there?) I have my perfectly portable little netbook, so that's fine, but I still need to know where I can go to get net access... in case the friend I'm living with has maxed out her internet time (entirely possible). I'm also trying to figure out what the weather's gonna be like: I'm sure I can easily buy anything I'm missing, since it isn't the absolute dead of winter this time. But I'm guessing I'll need an umbrella at least...

5. MORE of alphabet meme, I intend to FINISH this before I go to NY!! ( F - em - L )

6. I LEGIT TALK TOO MUCH. How is it 2am already!?!? Okay okay OKAY. Bedtime... if I'm not distracted by comics, that is. XD

1. URM. FOUR DAYS. Just four days more, guys - this time, in four days, I will literally be boarding the plane for Qatar New York. OMG. I can't... even BEGIN to process this, it doesn't feel real at ALL. I mean, I have tickets for most of my first week of shows, and at least half of the second week, and I've been planning this for a while. STILL. NOT GOING TO BELIEVE IT, as usual, until I'm actually THERE.

2. In other news, longest, laziest weekend I've had in AGES. We had a full three days off thanks to Labour Day (May 1) falling on a Friday. I had SOME grand plans of catching up on tv (god knows my flist is going to explode when the next House episode airs, and I am FIVE MONTHS BEHIND), or do something a little more productive... and yet, I spent most of it asleep and being lazy. Truth be told, I actually kind of like the sound of that. XD

3. Friday was family day - lunch out for my brother's birthday, at a fancy Chinese restaurant where basically we proved that, genetically, we all have a song playing in our heads at any given moment. Seriously we all just kept... humming out loud during the meal, while scoffing down epic amounts of beef and cod and god knows what else. I came home and napped after that, as I had gone to bed at some ridiculous hour of the morning, and then out for dinner to my aunt's place again. She's doing better after her second round of chemo, not having quite as bad a reaction to it as the first round, so ♥. Then I came home and... spent the entire night flailing at weazel_luv over Wonderettes. GOD KNOWS WHY. (I AM SEEING IT WITHIN THE WEEK, GUYS. ASFHALFHLSDHFLSDHFLSD.)

4. Saturday: I had plans to go for yoga, which were completely thwarted when I got up at 3.30pm (sigh). Instead, I watched X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which I actually REALLY liked. I know it's been critically savaged, for the most part, but I loooved it. Turns out I'm just a huge X-Men/Marvel fandork, I guess, because I just... had the best time settling back into that universe, watching all the characters I love pop up in flesh, blood and celluloid, and... it was just FUN. (I also loved X3: The Last Stand, so yeah, I really am just a huge nerd with really poor taste in movies. I'm not apologising though, these movies make me happy!) I am a sucker, apparently, even for not-entirely-well-wrought romance, and bought into the Silver Fox thing by the end. URGH, ME. No spoilers, however. Let us, for a minute, discuss the masculine pulchritude on display in that movie. ZOMG HUGH. JACKMAN. When I saw the trailer, I KNEW the movie could have been an absolutely god-awful pile of steaming manure and I'd have loved it anyway just because Hugh gets to run all over the screen being sexy and hot and growly omg omg. And that he did, in epic amounts. What surprised me is that I also found Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool ridiculously sexy. SHUT UP. In his six minutes of screen-time, he didn't even bare these, but I was still done. OMG HOTNESS. Now I have to go watch Definitely, Maybe again. I did NOT, however, like whoever played Gambit. Taylor whatever or somesuch? Urgh. Not that Gambit's one of my favourite characters, but... it just didn't work for me. He wasn't anywhere near charismatic enough.

5. During the movie, I had the insanely pressing URGE to delve back into the comics again - now, try to believe me when I say that I really AM far from being the biggest comics dork around. ( I don't think anyone really believes me, do they? )

6. AFTER the movie, to get back to my weekend - I went to a colleague's house for an awesome potluck dinner. ♥ He made chili and corn on the cob, other people brought corn muffins, mashed potatoes, ice cream (I contributed some not-so-great salad that wasn't popular anyway with all the OTHER things on the table), and it was just fun to sit around chatting about... movies, work, anything, everything. Honestly the people I work with are about the only reason I haven't lost my fragile grip on sanity in the past six and a half years I've been at this job. And it's been FAR too long since we had one of these chat sessions, so that was good!

7. Then, on Sunday, I managed to get up in time for my 2pm yoga class: which, although it was the easiest of the easy classes, I almost died in. GOD. I have not been back in weeks, because I've been lazy and the thought of inflicting pain on my really just completely inflexible body didn't appeal. So, being out of practice, that - predictably - became a self-fulfilling prophecy. A+, me. I'm already sore, and am going to hurt like the DICKENS tomorrow. In fact, I was apparently so tired I went for lunch, came home, and SLEPT FOR FOUR HOURS. Straight through dinner on a worknight. EPIC FAIL. That now means, of course, that it's 2.46am and I am WIDE AWAKE. AUUUGGGH.

8. ALSO, YOUTUBE LOOP. AIEEEEEE. Chiefly, there was Alice and Emily belting their faces off in I Will Never Leave You, one of the few times I've SEEN them sing that song unattached at the hip. YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT, GUYS: can we say omigod sexy SASSY belting times a million. 2:31 is legit an ORGASMIC EXPERIENCE, when they belt in opposite directions but sound PERFECTLY in sync, omigod. (ETA: OMG, 0:55!!! How. Cute?!) Then I found Bebe videos, and although she really doesn't have the best voice on her, god I LOVE her sass. She's SUCH a killer Velma, and probably the only person I'd want to see in the role over Julia (that's right, REPLACE IN CHICAGO, JULIA, PLZ). And yay, Bebe singing from Cabaret! I LOVE her line readings more than anything else. Mmmm, dripping with sarcasm and sass. I heart you, Lilith Bebe. ;)

9. And, because apparently this isn't already epic long enough, I figured I should get started on my alphabet meme, or I won't be done by the time I hit NY. To wit, here's the first five letters of the alphabet, accompanied by a lot of flail and a handy Twitter-ready summary for each. ( That would be A-E, in case you didn't know )

10. OMIGOD THAT TOOK FOREVER. Wow, I am going to have to seriously cut down on the time I spend on the next 21 letters or I am going to die. D: I shall now attempt to go to bed at 3.47am even though I'm WIDE AWAKE (damn the nap) and hungry (no dinner). Blaaarrrgh.

OKAY SO I SHOULD BE WORKING. AND FOCUSING. BUT HOW CAN I FOCUS WHEN THERE IS THIS:


THE MARVELLOUS WONDERETTES SING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM (16 APR 09)

OMG OMG OMG. Every time I think my obsession with their talent and their voices and FOUR-PART HARMONIES might be just a tad excessive, I am reminded that no, it really REALLY isn't. My life is kind of made right now.

My completely incoherent very brilliant analysis of the video:

EPIC AMOUNTS OF LOSE: the damn plane flying overhead.

EPIC AMOUNTS OF WIN: EVERYTHING ELSE. Especially:
- 0:01: the adorkability that opens the video, with the girls hamming it up for the camera ♥ ♥ ♥
- 0:16: I KNEW the harmonisation would get me. And OMIGOD just listen to them go, OMG!!! Also, I looove it when Victoria leads off. How gorgeous is her voice!
- 0:34: EEK. Victoria and Beth steal a look at each other. FUCK. I THINK MY HEART STOPPED FROM THE CUTE.
- 0:54: WTF WTF MISTY WTF IS THAT. HOW THE HELL WHA ASLDDHLDLADA. Dude. She sounds SO. GOOD. when she takes leading harmony. Fuckity.
- 1:11: Again, Misty, WTF SERIOUSLY.

I AM SO OBSESSED WITH THESE GIRLS. AND THIS VIDEO. AND THE BELTING, WHAT EVEN.

p/s I am behind on comments, I know, I'm sorry - I crashed and fell dead asleep last night, eek. Will get caught up!