Maledicte

• Went and saw The Avengers yesterday. It was totally amazing. There were a few things that I thought went unexplained, and a few things I would have like done better (or not at all), but overall I was impressed with the movie, and enjoyed it thoroughly. I'd like to see it again for a more nitpicky viewing, I think, as there were several moments where I remember thinking, "Oh, that's sort of clever," and I can only remember one of them off the top of my head. So yes, another viewing might be necessary. (I don't think the Boyfriend will go again with me, though. Mayhaps my dad.)

• Actually, I can't stop thinking about The Avengers from what I like to think of as a storyteller's point-of-view, and I think there are definitely things that could have been done better. But I didn't actually notice them as I was watching, so I guess that sort of means that it doesn't really make that much of a difference.

• Avengers icons! (Though, if you're reading this on LJ, you won't be able to see it/them.)

• Things in general are ok. School ends after next Friday. I'm really looking forward to this.

• I'm very seriously thinking about how to make a presence online as a writer, and considering making a blog for this. But I keep getting held up because I feel like I still don't have an identity as a writer—in that I don't yet have a name that I want to publish under. I have some ideas, but nothing I'm satisfied with yet. Which means that I keep not writing about things that I'd like to talk about. And that in turn is making me feel like I can't write about them, like I've lost the ability. (As an aside, I've also stopped writing in my paper journal. I keep swearing to fix this, and then I don't. I don't think I've written in it for about a month.) Anyway, I'll have to keep thinking about this name thing.

• I'm excited for summer vacation, and I've a feeling it's not going to be anything like I originally planned.

• On January 22, 2003 in the library at my high school, ladyjaida helped me create this LJ. (You know, back when you still had to have a code to join.) Eight effing years, guys.

• I wish I had something special to post for this entry, but none of the fics I am working on at the moment are anywhere near completed. I can let you know that I am: 500 words into Before They Were Legends, 300 words into Currently Untitled ST:XI Kirk/Spock Fic, 500 words into Currently Untitles Covert Affairs Fic, and percolating on a Hawaii Five-0 Mary McGarrett thing (which I would like to get done this weekend).

• That last one, btw, is for leupagus's Promptfest: Mary Sue Edition. Many fandoms can be found there, not just H5-0. So, guys, go read the stuff. It's such a fabulous idea, so obviously I had to ask for a prompt. I feel like a lametard for not pounding something out when I actually got the prompt a couple of days ago, but I had things to do IRL.

• If you're at all in fandom and/or are in the Merlin fandom, you have to read this fic: Pairing: Pendragon/Merlin. It's meta in a totally awesome way and actually adorable. (Modern AU, in case you were wondering.) I might have read it three times since copperbadge recc'd it two days ago. (And I am resisting another reread right now because I need to finish this post and go to goddamned bed.)

• I got new icons! Look, it's a Tangled icon. Because I finally saw the movie. And loved it. And, obviously, that meant I had to have icons.

• IRL post... may or may not be coming later today (you know, after I've gone to sleep and gotten back up). I'm... waffling on how much of my life I want to share on Teh Internets. I dunno. I do this sometimes. Ignore me. Go read Merlin fic and/or the Promptfest things.

G'night and happy blog-anniversary to me.

• Guys. SO MANY NEW ICONS. I will never be able to use them all. But I loves them. And I am still adding to them. Mwahaha.

• I have been virtuous lately with my exercising. I feel pretty good about this. And also a little pathetic—I can't do sit ups. It's a little ridiculous how weak my abs are. I can do crunches, but that exercises a different parts of your abs than regular sits ups, I think. I was laughing so hard at myself last night. (I also collapsed on my face in my second rep of pushups. LOL.)

• In case no one has brained you with it yet, watch Sherlock! Seriously. It's awesome, and there will eventually be more!

• I. Uh. I started writing the two fanfics that I had vaguely plotted. I have other things to do! Why can't these fics leave me alone?

• Since I go out dancing on Tuesday nights, I usually grab dinner in town. And I found a place that has Free Dessert Night on Tuesdays. They have really excellent desserts, so this is an awesome discovery. Their chocolate cupcakes are super amazing. This makes Tuesdays way more awesome than previously.

• I want to see Inception again.

• I have even less things to say here than normal, I think.

• Since watching a bunch of comms for Sherlock, Merlin, Covert Affairs, White Collar, and Inception... my flist has exploded. Even checking it several times a day I have to go back multiple pages sometimes to see all the new things that have popped up. This is awesome as I've been inundated with fic. My Delicious is growing, too. Check it out!

• I have inception icons! And, as long as I am getting off my ass and putting up new icons—I'm only at 74 of 134, yike—I'm going to be adding Sherlock and Merlin and Star Trek XI icons asap. Because those are the things that I am like, "Man, why don't I have any icons for this?"

• Oh god, driving test in 3 days.

• I have a headache.

• I am going to start watching The Pillars of the Earth tonight. I have the first three episodes, and Eddie Redmayne is in it and he's adorable, so. Plus, I am a HUGE medieval England fan—particularly Eleanor of Aquitaine, and this seems to be about the events that will lead to Henry II becoming king. I am excited.

• I will also watch whatever my Hulu queue has for me.

• And in the midst of finding new icons and watching TV, I have to clean the house. My mother comes home tomorrow, and I won't have a chance to do any cleaning tomorrow before she gets home. So. Tonight it is. Luckily, I napped this morning—between getting home from the 8am staff meeting at 10:30am and leaving again for work at 1:30pm—so I am not exhausted. I WILL CLEAN ALL THE THINGS.

• And, though I will doubtless be unsuccessful—not the least because my subconscious is fucking with me—I will keep trying to forget. And when that doesn't work, I will put myself so far out there, that I will either be caught, or I will shatter. Either way.

So... my parents have gone off camping for a night; they'll be back tomorrow night. My neighbor (who's my mother's business partner and like an uncle to me) is going into town to spend the night with a friend who is having problems with the medication she's on. So I. Am blissfully. Joyously. Gorgeously. Alone.

The only thing about this is that I can't get into town to use the wireless there. And I can't get to the library. And I need books to read. I can be online all day here though. Even though it's dial-up. It's better than nothing.

So, I'll be spending the day writing. Which is something I really should do. Though I'm sure that I can write this story later too. It's all planned out. It just need to type it. Which bores me. Bleh.

Also: GIP. And more to come! 100 ICONS!

ETA: How do my parents manage to leave me with like... no food in the fridge? Sure, there's ramen in the cupboard, and I like ramen, but wtf?