memes are good when i'm bored

My iGoogle page (link, because the picture is way too tall to post).

My desktop (featuring The Littlest Ewok, who was vaguely confused by the concept of snow and would do a sort of hovering-sitting thing to keep from actually touching it with her butt).

Okay, so I am fully immersing myself in the Star Trek fandom (and by "fully immersing", I mean "reading the fic and not speaking to anyone". It's like the Buffy days! Speaking to people in fandoms is where I went horribly, horribly wrong, re: Doctor Who. I miss the days when you could say something as mild as "I love that episode!" without being told you're a horrible, horrible person). But I just read Break by , and I fell in love with Star Trek all over again. It makes me want to go see the movie right this second. It makes me want to finally get around to watching all seven seasons of TNG like I keep meaning to. It makes me wish that we'd had five or six more hours to devote to everyone's backstories, because if they were this eloquent, I wouldn't have minded my ass going numb to watch the neverending stories of Star Trek. Part two and part three are here, and I never talk about fic that I rec, I just rec it. So if I'm talking about it, you know that I must reeeeeeeeally love this story.

Watching Anthony Bourdain talk about the common "What would you have for your last meal?" question got me thinking. Vegetarians should look away now. I know that chicken would be on it. Chicken is my favorite of all the meats, closely followed by pork and catfish. When it comes to comfort food, I tend to go black. I still hate chitlins with the passion of a thousand fiery suns, but I go pretty black. Soul food is comfort food.

And yet, I've done enough cooking/eating to want to mix it up a little. So I'd start with a potato soup or French onion. My two favorite types of soup, they always make me feel very warm and satisfied. Then I'd move on to a pasta. I'm a big pasta-lover. Maybe some lasagna - actually, vegetarian lasagna. I had some a few years ago and I'm a pretty big fan. I'd like some more of that for my last meal. Then I want to move on to the chicken. I prefer it baked, not fried, since I tend not to eat the skin anyway, and baked's healthier. Baked chicken breast, seasoned. And I add 'seasoned', because I like my food to have a bite. I like it to be spicy, I like it to make my eyes water, and if most of my food doesn't make the room feel a little warmer after I try it, I'm not doing it right. So spicy chicken, please.

And then hot links. These are somewhat like a bratwurst, but if you want actual hot links, you should probably get them from a butcher. Preferably one in the ghetto part of town. Actually, if you want, you can just give me my entire meal from any rundown building that has a name that ends in 'Joint', 'Shack' or 'Hut'. Bonus points if the name starts with "Jimmy's" or "Leroy's". But I love hot links. Looove them. They're like bratwursts times ten. I want catfish, hot links and maybe some ribs. The kind where you can't pick them up to eat them because the meat just falls right off the bone. My husband makes some good ribs. That's why I married him. That, and he makes a taco that almost makes me cry, it tastes so good. And I won't even tell you about his chili, we'll be here all day.

For vegetables, I want greens. Spinach is an acceptable substitute, but I'd prefer greens. Preferably cooked with a little bit of ham or bacon. And another side can be potatoes. Mashed is good, but I like to cut them into slices, season them and bake them. It's like healthier potato chips. I'm going to pass on the corn bread, because for some reason it's never really done anything for me. Regular biscuits are okay, though. Dessert is brownies or a piece of pie - apple or cherry only. There's a lot of food I love that isn't on this list, but this is all my comfort food. My "it's cold out, I don't feel good and today is making me cranky" food.

hey, i'm back! for the moment.

I am loving the Lifehacker laptop bag series. Since I usually don't leave the house with my laptop, my laptop bag is a suitcase that doubles as my emergency bag - first aid kit, change of clothes for me and my husband, some food, cat food for the cat, flashlight, blanket, Powerade, dried fruit, soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deoderant and our pills. It's still a work in progress.

But I tend to favor oversized purses like this one (in black) and this one (in brown/gold). The more pockets, the better. This one holds my Kindle, my Sansa Fuze mp3 player, a book light for my Kindle, various cords/USB cords for both of them, my earphones, several Sharpie pens, antibacterial soap, my spare glasses, my moleskines (a small reporter one for any notes I need to take, my journal and my fiction journal), aspirin, my wallet, white-out, a lighter (I don't smoke, but you never know when you'll need one), coupons, a couple of granola bars, a bottle of Powerade (I'm still not up to drinking water, for some reason), some dried fruit and my lipstick and lip gloss. It sounds like a lot, but as you can see, it all fits in there with room to spare. (Everything is usually more organized than that, but I shifted things around/unzipped things so you could see all my stuffs. There's a package of toilet seat covers next to the antibacterial soap. Yes, I am a germaphobe.) And I just realized that my Kindle's not in there! Possibly because I am recharging it. Ooops. Take my word for it, there's enough room in there for it. The bag doesn't even feel heavy when I carry it around.

miso, miso! fighting in the dojo!

I've got to stop avoiding stuff because everyone acts like it's the second coming of comedy/tragedy/whatever. I tend to do that because it gets irritating hearing five million people tell me I MUST see something or I will DIE from the lack of it in my life. It took me months to get around to watching The Dark Knight because of that - and hey,  it was pretty good (although Bale, stop talking like that when you're being Batman. It's creepy). But every time someone mentioned The Mighty Boosh to me, they always described it as the BEST SHOW EVER and THE ONLY SHOW YOU WILL EVER WANT TO WATCH EVER AGAIN OMG and yeah, right.

So it pains me that everyone was right. Bastards. It's so weird, but it's one of the funniest things I've ever freaking seen. I kinda just want to carry it around in my pocket so I know it's always there.

yeah, like you've got free will.

Ear infections are somewhat annoying. Spent most of the day lying in bed, watching Obama-related stuff via Youtube and listening to The Mighty Boosh. Pizza for dinner because I can't be bothered, and I think we're out of the cheese I like. Finally got around to watching Big Love 3x01 and unsurprisingly, it was 1. really good and 2. full of good performances. Chloe Sevigny is really underrated. I think it's because she dresses like a psycho hobo. Time to go watch Oz and James Drink to Britain, because I love them and they are halfway married.