The past 36 hours have been pretty much solid gold WIN.

There was the Mountain Goats concert, which was actually only John Darnielle. That was... incredible. Just, completely astounding. I don't think I've ever felt so bizarrely comfortable about a performer before... I don't watch a lot of YouTube videos and I've only seen a couple of pictures, but the expressions he made while he was singing were weirdly familiar. And oh, he did so many songs from The Life Of The World To Come and they dug into me. Between me and Julia we got almost the entire set on video... I haven't had a chance to review the recordings yet but they'll be up on the Tube of You soon enough.

Seriously, watching him whale on his guitar was somewhere between a drug trip and a religious revelation in intensity. I don't think I've felt a performance that deeply since my very first concert (Conor Oberst did a number on me, let me tell you), but this was a lot more positive an experience.

Concurrent and consequent to the concert (lol alliteration much) was ~*~meeting moorishflower and her mom~*~! It's always something of a shock to meet someone for real and see what the pics didn't get across... for some reason I was expecting her to be shorter, lol. xD But no, she was perfectly sized for hugging, as it turned out. ♥ She's entirely adorable and sweet and a lovely person all around. And her mom was really cool. xD Julia ended up talking her ear off until three in the morning, but we all had fun, I think!

I didn't make it out of bed to see them off, though; I stayed in bed until almost 5 with a killer headache. Seriously, somebody has been stomping around inside my skull; if I haven't taken a pill for it I've been in pain for the past two and a half days. But I did manage to tamp it down after a while, and then Julia and I went to the drive-in tonight. We caught the last half of Julie and Julia, and all of The Ugly Truth (mm, Gerard Butler.) and Inglourious Basterds again (mm, Shoshanna). It's COLD now, I brought my warm blanket and had to turn on the heat every half an hour or so for a few minutes. Drive-in closes for the season after the first weekend of October, maybe we'll hit it one last time.

I should go to bed now, probably. xD I might do a podfic before I do, since I'm awake and feeling kind of energetic and I have a lot of them to do for the fall free-for-all.

day one • a song
day two • a picture
day three • a book/ebook/fanfic
day four • a site
day five • a youtube clip
day six • a quote
day seven • whatever tickles your fancy

Playing catch-up...

ZooBorns is all new baby animals from zoos all over the world, all the time. All kinds of rare-ass younglings of varying stages of AWWWWW-inducing cuteness. :D



A slow loris rates about eight billion on the cuteness scale. :D

New podfics!

Symmetry in Orbit is a Star Trek Reboot/Firefly crossover about Pavel and River, the child geniuses, by betweenthebliss. Audiofic here. (10:44, 8.7MB)

Love in a Time of Science is a Fringe fic about William and Walter, by moorishflower. Audiofic here. (4:48, 3.9MB)

The Forever Kind is a Matt/Mohinder Heroes fic about Mohinder's failed relationships, and the one that works, by tiptoe39. Audiofic here. (4:51, 3.9MB)

Old Realm in a New World is a Supernatural gen fic about the brothers cleaning up the happiest place on earth after the end of the world, by wraith816. Audiofic here. (5:46, 4.7MB)

NOW I can go to bed.

I finished an actual story for the first time in, uh, over a month now... close to six weeks, actually, UGH... and it's Inglourious Basterds fic. What.

Alarm is a very short piece about Shosanna's alarm clock going off. I blame amory_vain and my sister for this whole mess.


I don't know when my parents will be home, but I've done the laundry and the dishes. Julia can do the vacuuming when she wakes up, eventually, and I'm going to... do more podfics, I guess. Try to finish something I started writing back when inspiration flowed like water from a tap, hot and cold running words burbling together seamlessly, liquidly even.


And I should probably read up for the psych tests I'm undoubtedly going to have this week. And do the back botany homework he never actually asks for. And I have to get a new white t-shirt tonight to wear for my forensics lab tomorrow. And probably clean my room...

Is the internet dead or am I just really boring right now? Hello? Is there anybody out there?

I'm trying to record another podfic and I keep tripping over my tongue. It's really frustrating.

I don't feel right, too cold on some parts and too hot on others and just really off-balance. I can't be getting sick, at least not right now. I can't afford to miss the first actual going-out-into-the-woods Botany lab. :( I wish I could take a nap but if I do I'll never get to sleep and never wake up for 8 a.m. and it'll all be a mess.


I've been doing podfics for people for the Fall Free-For-All, and oh my god, is there anything more nauseating than the time between seeing the recipient has downloaded it and getting any kind of acknowledgment at all? Like, even an "oh thanks", even a completely insincere one, is better than nothing at all for eight-plus hours. :( I know I need to be patient and wait and people will get around to listening to them, but. I suck at waiting. I need a zen master to come beat me upside the head with the baseball bat of mindfulness, or something.