1. I am EPIC late for work - as in, I'm supposed to BE in the office by now - but since I spent a while lounging around in bed and am already late... whatever. ;) I fell dead asleep yesterday early this morning before posting... this, I realise, is the upshot of having a laptop which can be used in a semi-horizontal position, rather than my usual desktop computer which keeps me upright... for better or worse.

2. Anyways. A couple of quick things. I was tagged by irnbruise and alex_kingston for a handwriting meme:

a. Write your LJ username
b. Write your two favorite bands/groups at the moment (not overall, just currently)
c. Write either I ♥ k-pop ; I ♥ j-pop ; I ♥ c-pop (this isn't really for anything, just to see how you draw hearts xD)
d. Write the name of your favorite person of all time (e.g. Yamada Ryosuke)
e. Write down your recently favored person (e.g. G-Dragon)
f. Tag 5 people to do this meme

( pardon the illegibility )

3. Quick fly-by flail: I'm done tracking my audio of the awesome Superband concert. ♥ SO MUCH LOVE. Can't get over its amazing. ( audio and some pro-shot video! )

4. ALSO, JULIA @ BROADWAY JUKEBOX. OMIGOD YOU GUYS. She sang soooo many things, like Unusual Way and LOSING MY MIND (THE LOW NOTES IN THIS ARE SEX, YOU HEAR ME? SEX!!!) but but BUT my favourite? The fact that we finally have a FULL VERSION of her singing I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miz. AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Guys, do you know how obsessed I - and a legion of fangirls, thanks to Mr Rudetsky - am with having her sing that? THIS OBSESSED <-- literally I had spliced together two fifteen-second clips of her singing different parts of the song during interviews so I could pretend to myself I had a full version. AHAHAHAHA NOW I DO. And it is unbelievable. She acts the craaaap out of this. I want to flail more and will probably do so in comments but now I must run. Although I have to add: Julia is doing a show on May 18! XD Possibly not a solo performance, but whatever: this more than ever confirms to me that I need to be back in NY in May, y/y?! OMG. Why is everything falling into place for crazy epic amounts of flail AGAIN?

5. And now I am INSANELY late for work and really REALLY need to get going, ackity ack. OFF I GO.

1. I think people need to write a thesis about the phenomenon of peanut mist. So I've been eating peanuts for the last hour or so - when I cracked the first one open, it kind of sent up a little POOF of mist. What was that?! And don't tell me dirt. Because I've already eaten it. :P

2. HAVE YOU MISSED MY RANDOM?! Hee. It's been three days. Filled with work (yuck), movies (ranging from yuck to yay) and good friends (MUCH yay). Balanced out pretty well, I'd say.

3. Epic work day of epic fail - it's the main reason I disappeared for such ages. Honestly it was terrible. I went out for dinner with my sister and brother at a lovely fish restaurant in Greenwood (mmm, I love cod SO MUCH), and then for gelato (peanut butter & cookies and cream XD) after that, but had to go back into work because something was due first thing the next morning. (Even though I got the draft in on time, my stupid boss took ages to clear it, which makes me BITTER but argh, let's leave that can of worms closed, shall we?) I think the day that I realised I could work throughout the night in time for a morning deadline and ACTUALLY DID SO was a bad bad day for me - because it set a precedent. Once I've done it, staying all night is no longer off-limits, you know? No matter how tired it makes me or how plain stupid it is. Also, I hate that I stayed for HOURS on what should have taken me, like, two hours. WHY SO STUPID AND UNFOCUSED, ME? Grrr. Darn job.

4. So that was bad - but I went home, slept until noon-ish and went in to work. Was in NO MOOD to work, so didn't, and had an epic chat with irnbruise about, you know, awesome movies and awesome actresses (Isabelle Huppert ftw, seriously), among other things, and that was GREAT.

5. Airport after, to send mirime off - it was great having you back, Ka. ♥ And thanks for spotting Julia going to NYC with me. I'm so glad we got to do that together! XD

6. Met noldoparma in Borders after that, at about 9.15pm, figuring we'd have our usual epic chat over dinner/dessert/whatever. AHAHAHAHA. We didn't know what we were about to embark on. I think we stayed a couple of hours at the Borders bistro, chatting over calamari, and then we moved on to TCC (mmm, green tea freeze with red beans!) for QUITE a few more hours... until 3am, by which time we were ready for more food. So we moved onto McDonald's for... supper/breakfast/something, and ended up talking until 5am. If you did the math, that's AN EPIC EIGHT HOURS OF CHATTING. Like, a legit WORKING DAY, guys. We spent all of that chatting about EVERYTHING: politics, philosophy, work, our childhoods, art and fandom and everything ELSE in between, and omigod. Honestly, one of the most epic chats of my LIFE. Thanks for sitting there and picking through my brain with me, J. ;) It was fun.

7. Collapsed at home after that at about 7am, and slept 'til 4.30pm (!!!). Then it was time for a TON of movies: three, to be precise. Let The Right One In was creepily atmospheric, and I'm GLAD I subjected myself to it (I don't usually watch horror/vampire movies except for very good reason i.e., well-reviewed, as this one was, or epic lulz i.e., Twilight). Best movie of the day. Then, Marley And Me. AUGH. The ending made me cry, because it WAS sad, but the film was so manipulative. PUPPY PORN, for one thing, but it just... wasn't well-written, or particularly engaging, and Owen's character seemed SO neglectful to me of his family. Did not like. Third film was Last Chance Harvey - I would watch Emma Thompson in anything, and she and Dustin Hoffman had a nice chemistry. A sweet little film, not AMAZING, but nice. It was like Before Sunrise for the geriatric crowd, and set in the stone-washed loveliness that is London rather than Paris. I want to go back!

8. I decided to pretty up this rather boring entry with a minor pic-spam of my favourite film actresses - inspired by chatting with Leslie about Isabelle - and EEK. It ended up taking me SO LONG to find pictures and put them together. But, worth it.

( I need to go where people are serious about acting )

9. Brunch at 11.30, eek, and then work after that. I'D BETTER GET TO BED NOW.

Play a game. Write short sentences. Three words each.

Useless at work. Could not concentrate. Why so faily?

Chatted with irnbruise. Wonderettes on Sunday. Colour me jealous.

Fantastic yoga class. Seriously, not kidding. No premature death.

noldoparma stressed out. Consumed skinny pizza. Truffle mushrooms ftw.

Played Rock Band. Suspect am addicted. Although hopelessly uncoordinated.

Using brother's laptop. Internet in bed. Heaven on earth.

Tomorrow will fail. Must give lecture. AND write speech.

Therefore must sleep. Though only 2.10am. A feat, yes?

You... respond similarly? XD

1. HERE'S A NEWS FLASH: MY JOB = FULL OF SUCK. Well, okay, that's not a news flash, it's a friggin' sad fact of my life. But I'm pretty certain I'm never going to get to go home at a normal time again - not for the next week... make that month (year? decade?), anyway. I am very much not looking forward to having even less of a life than I already do. And yet that is what shall happen. Fuckity. I whipped out a four-page paper in a few hours (again earning my stupid boss' five-figure salary for her) and went home at 11.30pm and STILL I'm not done with the work I have to do.

2. Is it any wonder that I actually looked up my vacation quota for the rest of the year? *weeps* Turns out I have 30 days, if I use my FULL quota, accumulated over years of service. How tempted am I to go back to NYC, like, yesterday? Also, I am having a minor Twitter war with curtains and llyfrgell right now, and I want a New York bagel with cream cheese and irnbruise has offered to buy me one if I go back! SURELY THE BEST REASON TO GO BACK TO NEW YORK EVER, Y/Y?!

3. Also, I super hardcore want to go back because llyfrgell watched The Marvellous Wonderettes on Sunday and I flailed about it with her and am now missing the show MORE THAN EVER. I want to see it again SO badly, especially with the original cast, and I'm bummed that Farah is leaving in early March. SAD. :( BTW, new icon inspired by Meredith and meepette - wtf, guys, I really did NOT make the pink & green connection until you pointed it out to me! How perfect is that, though. XD

4. I guess the one good thing about being made almost entirely of flail is that, no matter how depressing my work life can get (and trust me, it's heading in that direction as of today), my fandoms can and always WILL sustain me. SO MUCH AWESOME TODAY.

5. Julia's new hairstyle - or lack thereof - is worrying to me. She needs a hairbrush. Hair aside, however, she looks great in this interview for her Oklahoma production of Tommy. She talks about having been on SATC! XD And then she sings a bit from Tommy here. Again, I feel the need to reintroduce her to the concept of a hairbrush. But I think she is going to be FIERCE as Mrs Walker, who's with me?

6. Here is Reason #5,385 why Meryl Streep is better than you. You know, aside from the 15 Oscar nominations, her sass and her general awesome? She recently said in an interview that she needs to start recycling the expensive dresses she only wears to award shows - and she's gone and done just that: recycling a dress at the BAFTAs yesterday that she first wore thirty years ago, in 1979. WTH, SERIOUSLY. Way to make the rest of us feel like slovenly failures at life, Meryl. Unlike you, I'm going to look like this in thirty years, I know it.

7. The FLAILIEST thing I discovered today, however?? It's Emil-related, of course! I don't think it's FAIR, but his kids have inherited his musical ability - certainly his daughter Anya has a gorgeous voice (and is also gorgeous, which is good for her since, you know, her dad, bless his heart, really isn't). So I happened upon her Youtube channel, and she uploads videos of her singing duets with her dad while he plays the guitar. CUE MY BRAIN EXPLODING. Oh my god, seriously - they harmonise like crazy, and it's KICKASS, and they sound amazing AMAZING together. OMG OMG OMG OBSESSED. Plus they cover awesome English songs, like Two Of Us by the Beatles, and my personal favourite:

Falling Slowly - from Once the movie

SO. DAMN. BEAUTIFUL. ♥ ♥ ♥

8. Right, it's 3.45am. And it's not like I won't have a shit-ton of work to do tomorrow. I'm an idiot. Bedtime.

THE BAD	THE GOOD
Did not DO very much at work all day, even though the mess that greeted me in my inbox was ridiculously daunting D:	Did not massively oversleep for or sleep DURING work. ACCOMPLISHMENT. Also, chatted to irnbruise and weazel_luv XD
For some reason, found my office in equatorial Singapore to be ridiculously cold (yes, even after sub-zero NYC)	Figured out how to open the damn window to let fresh (warm) air in and did NOT give in to urge to put on a jacket
Decided to go for a swim after work and found the pool closes at 6pm on Wednesdays, WTF	Went for a run jog slow shuffle towards death instead
As a consequence, am aching all over and will probably regret this in the morning	But hey, at least I actually DID steel myself to get out of the house for a slow shuffle towards death for the first time in, like, six months
Got all weepy at night because...	... I tracked the first of my N2N audios! OMG. Why is it that I ALWAYS, INVARIABLY weep at I Dreamed A Dance!?
There is simply NO bad about:	A new Dick van Dyke interview about Mary Poppins! I LOVE THIS MAN.
If you consider obsessing about new fandoms to be bad, OMG, Marvellous Wonderettes has TAKEN OVER MY BRAIN.	It's awesome workout music! Also, Beth Malone is a SWEETHEART. I listened to her CD at work all day. It made me HAPPY. :D
No time no time no time...	... for all the AWESOME movies I want to watch that are currently out in cinemas.  I'm literally going to be watching three films on Saturday, I think, and one a night from now on, and that STILL won't be enough.
I drink WAY too much...	... Coke Zero. Mmm. One bottle at lunch, and another Coke Light after my so-called 'jog'. Can we say soda as substitute for water/health?

Ha, that was fun. Okay, bedtime. Why is it 3am already, AUGH!?!?

1. Happy birthday, dividingday! Hope you have a marvellous day. :D

2. Dude, LJ, why are you so fucked up? What is with the seriously fugly and stripped-down posting/commenting options these days?

3. Omigod SO ILL. It's one of those maddeningly slow illnesses - the annoying creeper version rather than the kind that just explode all over you - so I woke up on Saturday (at 5pm, go me!) with a slightly worse cold and cough, my voice a little bit gone. Thankfully I didn't sniffle at all throughout the show (so my audio should be clean). And I get up this afternoon (surprisingly, at 1.30pm!) and I'm done: the snot is green, I'm sneezing, and ARGH.

4. I'm supposed to be meeting a friend of mine from uni (who's now based in Taiwan and brought his wife over here for her birthday weekend), but I'm soooo lazy about it. I can't even pretend to be ill as my plan for today is to go out and catch up on movies since I can't do anything much else.

5. Though, then again, my back aches from the being ill. Yuck. I guess that doesn't matter though, as long as I don't fall asleep during the shows?

6. I got a full tank of petrol for under $70 yesterday. WTF. That's, like, almost a 20% drop in what I USED to pay. \o/

7. I was SO remiss yesterday in posting about the concert I went for. I was catching up on some internet flailing (mainly of the Mamma Mia variety), and then I fell dead asleep. Anyways: I haven't seen Emil Chau live since I started this LJ, so you guys have NO IDEA how scary my flail over him can get. Ahem. In other words, consider this fair warning that what follows is INCREDIBLY self-indulgent and flaily, and so is best kept under a cut: ( WTF IS THAT AMAZING. ONE OF THE BEST CONCERTS I'VE EVER BEEN TO EVER )

8. Anyways, audio will be tracked. Once I get around to tracking Act II of Wicked and STOP listening to this one song over and over again, argh.

9. And then I caught up on everything I've not been reading over at Simply Streep, and AIEEE. Meryl is on the cover of Entertainment Weekly! I HOPE that they're selling both covers and she isn't just on the subscriber's copy or something, because I do NOT want cover with Twilight boy. DO NOT WANT. Must haunt bookstores over the next week. Also, these pretty much made my life: Meryl on Obama and on religion. Can I be this smart and together when I grow up, plz?

10. Man. That took me almost 1.5 hours. O_O I'm going to stop now. :P

... but I've been away aaaaages in interweb-time and I figured y'all have missed the flail. SURELY YOU HAVE!!??? FOR I HAVE A LOT TO FLAIL ABOUT.

All I can say is:

1. THANK GOD my dad has decrepit old bones, more decrepit than mine. He used the internet while I was in the shower and then promptly fell asleep, while my considerably younger brother and sister went out drinking. Since I am old but not THAT old, and also averse to social interaction/mingling, INTERNET TIME FOR ME. AND FLAILING FOR Y'ALL.

2. My sister's screening was SO FUN. *weeps* My sister is TALENTED, y'all. I'd share her clip, but I can't because it's not uploaded to youtube yet. It's one of my favourites from the night (almost two hours of mini-clips by animation students throughout her university), some of which were SO professional. EEEEE. GET A JOB AT PIXAR, mirime, and support my theatre habit!!! ;)

3. CAPSLOCK FLAIL TIME. ( MISSED ME, GUYS???? )

4. The cat just leapt over the armchair and then onto the floor and now it's staring at my feet. *weeps* Do not want to get scratched, aieeeeeeee!!!

5. OMIGOD. LIFE IS KIND OF AWESOME RIGHT NOW. WICKED TOMORROW. :D

1. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, sunspawn!! Have a GREAT day, hon. ♥

2. WTF MOSQUITOES. How long are your lifespans, SERIOUSLY.

3. Okay so I'm not a narcoleptic after all. Guess you guys were all right on that count. :P Five hours of sleep last night - I was REALLY good and went to bed at 2.30am yesterday - worked out pretty well for me. Did not prevent some epic sleepiness at work, but those usually coincided with, you know, the mid-morning and mid-afternoon moments when it would probably happen anyway. I'm so enamoured of this 'getting enough rest' thing that I'm actually going to go to bed again! Before 2.30am! Why, soon I'll be sleeping at 10pm! (Although first I would have to leave work by 10pm in order for that to happen, hmmm.)

4. I have not been remiss in my Julia/Broadway love. REST ASSURED. ( thoughts on Keys )

5. IN THAT VEIN. Guess what I'm going for in January? :D Scott will be having a CD release party at Birdland on Jan 12 - I've already booked a table for weazel_luv, my sister and myself. XD I'm not counting on Julia being there (the guests haven't been announced yet, for one thing, and for another, I refuse to set myself up for a disappointment), but if he gets HALF the people on his CD to turn up, it'd be awesome - hai, Norm? Heidi? Sutton? And Lisa and Megan? YES PLZ I WANT SOME OF THAT SINGING AWESOME. So yeah, I'm excited. :D Thanks, irnbruise, for helping with the booking! :D

6. OH HAY. New Julia google alert! I love that she bawled Seth out over the car thing, mwahaha. Way to not read your own emails, Seth. I got inordinately excited about the fact-drop that she played Bianca in Kiss Me Kate in her first professional production because OMG the thought of Julia singing Too Darn Hot is, well, TOO DARN HOT. Except I keep getting the movie mixed up with the stage production - Ann Miller sang (and danced a ridiculous tap number to) Too Darn Hot in the 1953 film, but it isn't actually sung by Bianca onstage. BOO. GOT ALL EXCITED FOR NOTHING. Not that I'd actually ever be able to HEAR Julia sing Too Darn Hot, since this was millions of years ago - but well, the idea was nice while it lasted.

7. 30 ROCK, ZOMG!! I've decided to use my mealtimes productively by finishing up Season 1 of the show (so that I'll have a chance of catching up to Season 3 sometime in this millennium) when I haven't got new episodes of The Colbert Report to keep my food company - and EEK. Fighting Irish was a HILARIOUS episode. MOLLY SHANNON! I love Molly Shannon. I also loooove Tina Fey (I LOVE that moment when she sighs and says she needs to go and talk to her food, LMAO) and Alec Baldwin. (Who was randomly awesome as a slightly decidely evil lion in Madagascar 2, btw. Can you imagine the amount of flail that will ensue in my head when more news on his next movie starts leaking out?) Am really bummed that the box set for Season 2 isn't on the shelves here yet, or I'd just get that and save on download time. ARGH.

8. Now I'm watching Ann Miller sing and dance. Fuckity. I hate that she never danced WITH Gene Kelly. (They were in On The Town together, so he choreographed for her, a bit, but they never danced together. Instead he danced with Debbie Reynolds and Vera-Ellen until their toes bled - literally.) I think she's the only female tap dancer who could match him step for step and tap for tap. She's AMAZING. (High praise, from me, for I have fandorked Gene - and Fred Astaire, though to a lesser extent - for A LONG TIME.)

9. How's this for cheesy-awesome Broadway dance number? :D I think Madeline Ashton needs to be on Broadway RIGHT NOW.


- I looooove how this HUGE splashy production number goes from jazzy Broadway and sizzling tap to DISCO (it starts to go south at about 2:48!), LMAO. It's so bad it's AWESOME!
- Meryl does Marilyn! and belts! ♥ And awww, dumpy!Goldie and totallynerdy!Bruce Willis!
- FAVOURITE dance moment: 2:05! So sassy!
- Oh, Death Becomes Her, ILU. You so awesomely cheesy. I need to watch you again, stat.

10. Okay, how did I get distracted typing this for an HOUR?! AUGH. BED NOOOOW.

11. ETA as my iPod syncs - yoga yesterday broke me. *weeps* I can't straighten my arms without them hurting. WTF. I don't even remember what it is I DID to get them that way!

1. Okay, thanks to irnbruise? I am hungry. Also way too excited about January. :P This is so not good at 1.38am on a random morning in late OCTOBER COCKTOBER... <-- click click click, you know you want to! (It's old but it's new, kind of, and what is Julia doing with her FEET.)

2. Also, my computer freakin' HATES ME. At least it's busily done downloading House 5x06 (I WANT TO WATCH JOY NOW, except, oops, haven't watched three other episodes yet!!), but it's refusing to let me do anything else with a modicum of speed or efficiency. So, multi-tasking and chatting is out. Bah. I'm not even overloading the system with iTunes and Photoshop, WTF; it just keeps FREEZING ON ME.

3. Thanks, ALL of you, for your kind words on my last entry about how my life fails a lot. I appreciate the sentiments, and would reply except computer is dying. I don't really want to spam you all with comments days after the fact though, so just.. thank you. ♥

4. I have been in the spazziest mood EVER in the history of EVER. My bosses are still steering clear of me at work, and I HAVE been doing things, but in a ridiculously inefficient manner. I just spaz or sleep or... just surf the net instead of doing the day-to-day, not really onerous things I'm SUPPOSED to be doing. For example? We're actually supposed to spend tomorrow moving to our new office, and I haven't even started PACKING yet. So I envision a long long night staying back just to pack. Feck.

5. I think maybe it's... emotional fallout from the last few months of working like a crazy person. (That's how I'll explain it, anyway, rather than using the more plausible explanation that I am a lazy bastard.) Yesterday's stupid accident did not help my mood and I really was just... argh, last night.

6. So guess what I did tonight to get myself out of that funk? I so did NOT watch Mamma Mia for the fifth time. OKAY YOU CAUGHT ME. And... WHAT. DON'T JUDGE. It made me happy. Happier than in a loooong time. Plus it was great to see it again after a three-week break. :D I'm done now though - DONE. The main reason I went tonight was that I felt I COULD reward myself with a 9.20pm screening after work... especially since it's really not going to be in cinemas any much longer, I think.

7. ( Moment of Cute )

8. I apologise. I get sooooooo flaily. D: Right now, I'm going to try and watch one House episode before going to bed at 3am (!!) so I can get all caught up tomorrow night. I envision icons from Joy starting to pop up anytime now (I'm actually surprised I haven't come across any yet, which is kind of nice), so I'm going to be strong and NOT FLIST TOMORROW. If you think I need to be informed of anything exciting going on fandom or flail-wise, PLEASE POST HERE KTHX. :D

1. OMG I HAVEN'T POSTED IN THREE DAYS. WUT. Have you guys missed me? (Don't answer that. :P)

2. Thank god for a weekend of considerably LESS fail than the week that preceded it. I spent it... sleeping, flailing, running errands, and most importantly, did NOT go back to work as I had originally intended to. Which means I'm going to DIE tomorrow, and possibly over the next five days. But at least I got the time off to chill out. I needed that. Really a LOT.

3. Started Saturday off with a late-night supper with noldoparma (what, I left work at midnight, that counts as Saturday, right?!), then ended up sleeping at 7.30am *cries*... but managed to get up to run errands and even go for yoga! Which KICKED MY BUTT. I guess I thought I had hit a point when I COULD handle at least the basic class and not want to completely die during the process... but turns out it REALLY depends on the instructor you get! I was kind of tired (duh), and so I figured I'd go for an easy class - and for some reason, I thought the instructor I had selected was one I'd had before, who was pretty chill during the lesson. WRONG. This guy was INSANE. I wanted to weep DURING the class, and am still hurting from it now. Which is GOOD, I guess. But but. *cries*

4. Then, since there are literally NO movies I actually want to see in cinemas this weekend (Nights In Rodanthe, what?!), I decided to have a nice little TV night all to myself. I brought food home (and OF COURSE proceeded to spill sauce all over my bedsheets, argh!), put Pushing Daisies on... and LOVED IT. Well, what I saw of it, anyway. Because it turns out I was SO TIRED that I fell asleep during the second episode! By the time I woke up it was noon...

5. ... and by the time I woke up AGAIN, it was 4pm! *cries* This time it really WAS just a matter of being completely tired out though. Because I think I drifted off to sleep at about midnight or 1am. Which means I crashed for 14 hours or something?! Certainly I was planning to watch MORE TV (i.e., House, PD), but I DIDN'T. *weeps*

6. Then I woke up. AND OMG TINA FEY. ON SNL. AWESOMENESS. Predictably, there be TINA FEYLIN ICONS. But after that, I watched the OTHER scene on SNL with Palin, and cried/died laughing. ( Amy Poehler KICKS ASS )

7. Also, Sarah Palin in the White House, as linked to me by irnbruise, is a LAUGH RIOT. So much fun to be had by clicking everywhere. Suffice it to say I've spent far too long on this site. Click on the door MORE THAN ONCE, kthx.

8. And hai, guess who ELSE has been busy this weekend? That's right! ( Julia Murney!! ) XD

9. Did anyone else wonder why Cheno's Xmas album was named A Lovely Way To Spend Christmas, but did not feature that song on the album? Bah. Turns out the iTunes version has TWO EXTRA SONGS. I downloaded, of course, and am sharing to spare y'all the full download. ( A Lovely Way To Spend Christmas | The Lord's Prayer )

10. Can I say that Sendspace has been MAJORLY hating on me lately, so y'all should be grateful for my perserverance. It took me ALL this evening to upload Cheno, and all of last night to get Julia/Julie through the servers. (Then I fell asleep and couldn't post yesterday, fail.)

11. FINALLY. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, teh_maskmaid!! Hope you have a FABULOUS day, and that the new Cheno tracks add to everything else good that I hope comes your way today! ♥

12. So... you guys think I did good in coming back from my three-day hiatus?! ;) I also spent AGES this evening catching up on my comments, btw. Like, HOURS. *cries* But I'm all caught up and I think I shall go to bed now. Another work week beckons. *sobs*

1. You know you're addicted to LJ when you haven't posted in... what, a day? And even then, it feels like forever. I'm behind on email and comments and posting, I know, but my internet connection at home has been screwed up for a while. Two nights ago, it wouldn't log onto the internet for a heart-stopping hour (INORITE!), by which time it was late even for ME, and then yesterday EVERYTHING worked except LJ. ASKLJDALDJLA.

2. I was so tired, anyway, from sleeping next to no hours over the last week, that I went and caught up on a bunch of sleep. So much so that I only got up at 2.30pm today. And only because I got google-pinged by weazel_luv.

3. You know why? EVITA PICTURES, ZOMG!!! Oh god. I want to be in Sacramento SO BAD. In other news, I have spent the last two hours making five billion icons from four photographs. If that isn't sad, I'm not sure WHAT is. :P

4. Anyway. Yesterday was... kind of a sobering day. It was the last day for one of my best friends at work - and geez, she's only the one who trained and taught me everything I know. So we had the requisite rounds of celebration: a big lunch out, a tea party that took up the rest of the working day... as befits the sadness that is both our lives, however, and surprisingly fitting given how we spent so much of the last six years, we wound up staying at the office later than everyone else. She had work to finish (SHE's CRAZY - ON HER LAST DAY?!) and stuff to clean out, and I didn't have any plans so hung around to wait and take her out for one last dinner. We left at close to 10pm (!!!), and wound up eating all manner of unhealthy things at Chomp Chomp (mmmm, char kway teow and oyster omelette and a glass of lime juice LARGER THAN MY HEAD), then having a huge rum-and-raisin ice-cream mudpie at a teenybopper hangout nearby. I'll miss her so so much - and it's ridiculously sad, because now I am officially the OLDEST person in the desk. Well, in terms of number of years stuck in the same place, not age. (She was there a month before me.) ARGH, WTF.

5. Only upside? She's going up to New York for her masters. I'LL SEE HER IN JANUARY. :D

6. Lots and LOTS of birthdays today! :D



7. I'm so amused by all the pretty on this entry because of birthdays. XD

8. Oh, also! Happy birthday, Singapore. DUH. Totally forgot. ;P We turn... (oh god I had to check) 43 years old today. Clearly I'm not going to be anywhere NEAR where the crazy crowds and my brother will be. He's actually marching in the parade this year - leading a contingent, if I'm not mistaken. I think I'll just go book-shopping and lazing around instead. MUCH preferable.

9. Since I haven't posted in SUCH ages, a meme! Snagged from curtains: ( one word at a time )

10. Pia Douwes!! ♥ lfae, thank you SO MUCH for the songs. SHE IS SO AWESOME. AND SO SASSY. And she sings all these songs I KNOW, except in a totally different language. *weeps from the awesome*

11. It's RAINING. Really hard, and god. I love it. The sound, the feel, the smell of it. ♥

1. EIGHT. DAYS. TO. GO. How can this flail be contained! And I've discovered that the prospect of this trip is doing wonders for my ability to just be all Teflon-like and allow shitty working hours and other random annoying things to slide off my back more easily than they otherwise would. I CAN'T WAIT.

2. Had a rather sobering experience today, however. My godmother - I'm not religious in the least, but my mom had recruited godparents for all the kids in the family to take care of us in case something happened to our parents - has been suffering from cancer for the better part of the last few years. She's been an amazing trooper: every time she's licked it in one part of her body, it returns somewhere else, and now she's back in ICU for another bout of chemo. Visited her with my (extremely tardy) younger brother tonight, and it was... terrible. She'd lost so much weight since I last saw her, which can't have been more than three or four weeks ago. And really, I can't imagine doing what she does - getting up after being knocked down so many times, and still she's fighting with every breath she's got. Gah. Amazing.

3. It's at times like this that I wonder - why am I doing, well, anything that I don't really want to do? Life's too short. Even if I crash and burn doing something stupid but which makes me happy... better to have crashed and burnt than stayed safe indoors, no? Sigh.

4. Onward to happier things: I have a Friday 5 for you guys today! And be proud, I've managed to whittle it down to two Julia songs out of five, as opposed to four last time. :p And hey, if you're wondering, isn't it still Thursday? NO. It's 1.06am here and I've been itching to spam everyone with these songs for a week now, at least. ;) Plus, you guys get ready-to-play samples AND downloads! :D

1. I think I broke the one site I found online with lyrics to Sing Happy. Apparently I've been visiting it so often that it decided to just die on me. RANDOM.

2. I'm in a ridiculously spammy mood. To wit, have some Idina goodness:

God knows she's had to sing enough dodgy versions of Defying Gravity to last her a lifetime (one word: techno), so it's nice to see her sing a really poppy, lovely version of DG. Actually, the videos from this event are pretty awesome. She breaks her mike stand in Better To Have Loved, bwahaha!

3. Iconage-wise, I am finally at Act II of The Wild Party. Which means I'm just about due to icon Idina in Life of the Party. I'm hoping this won't result in 2,332 icons.

4. Julia Murney singing She Goes - practically a religious experience in itself, y/y?

5. I have started making album art for my iPod. I am DEAD. THERE IS NO TURNING BACK. I KNOW THIS. Anyway. If anyone happens to want very simple but perfectly functional cover art for Birdland 2006 and Joe's Pub 2003...


6. I am a little bit obsessed with The Last Five Years recently. I was reading this thread on broadwayworld.com and someone mentioned that they'd put the entire musical the right way around in their playlists, just to listen to it all the way through in chronological order. Unfortunately, this involves me cutting up my versions of "Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You", which upsets me greatly. I'll probably end up doing it at some point, though, just so I can make that playlist. Fingers and toes and everything crossed that the Jason Robert Brown concert I'm going for on Friday will be good. And that whoever sings I Can Do Better Than That - if someone sings it - can belt the crap out of that song the way Sherie, Julia and Lauren do...

7. Edited to add: No one is allowed to marry Brian d'Arcy James except me. NO ONE. I just listened to him singing Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas from his Christmas album. I LOVE HIM. AND HIS VOICE. And oh god, now I am actually looking forward to Shrek on Broadway. Even though it could very very well be dire (I am SO not optimistic that it'll be any good), at least it's him, and Sutton, and LIVE. ASKLDJADJLSA.

1. FLAIL. SO MY TWO FANDOMS ERUPT AT THE SAME TIME. SEISMICALLY. THIS IS INSANITY. CANNOT STAY ON TOP. BUT, AM FLAILY.

2. HOUSE. ASKLDJALSJDLASJDLASDJLASDAS. PROMOS. NEW SCENES. CANNOT DEAL. LIKE, YOU KNOW, CUDDY. WITH THE TANK TOP AND THE SEXY AND THE "PLEASE SIGN HERE". THERE SHALL BE FLAILAGE. THERE WILL BE, I PROMISE. But I'm afraid that this had to take second place to my other fandom of the moment...

3. THE RELEASE OF HQ PRESS REELS OF THE WILD PARTY OMG OMG. Thanks to the lovely irnbruise, who gifted the press reels, Julia Murney and Idina Menzel fangirls across the world - well, across LJ, at any rate - have FINALLY had the opportunity to see a freakin' awesome live performance by these two ladies in what is surely one of the best musicals ever written. IT HAS BEEN EIGHT YEARS, PEOPLE. This stuff has been hidden from view for the better part of eight years. Thank god I've only been a Julia fan for two-three months, or I imagine my brain would have imploded today after finally getting such undeniably awesome Wild Party crack. Even so, I was basically a complete wreck and totally useless at work all day, but the marvellous weazel_luv was kind enough to sustain me throughout the work day by posting a pic-spam of epic win (see here - warning, NSFW! Julia in her skivvies, LOL!). I rushed home like a crazy person to download and watch (and make icons, which is what I've been doing all night, omg!). MUCH FLAILING ENSUES IN TEH CUT.


4. SO MUCH FANDOM HAPPY RIGHT NOW.