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. 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.

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.