The Other Sandy

Where does one go to squee now? My LJ flist is dead. I know even fewer people on DW than I do on LJ. Tumblr is no place to hold a conversation. You need an invitation on Discord. I just want someone to squee with me about Infinity War. Is that too much to ask?

Is anybody out there? Do you want to squee with me about Infinity War? Are you willing to let me squee at you about Infinity War? Please please please DM me.

I remember when summer was all reruns all the time and I could turn off the TV for four months and catch up on my reading or backlog of videos. Now I think I have just as many shows in the summer as I do during the regular season.

Hawaii Five-0 -- Yes, I know this isn't really a summer show, but I stopped watching it last December and CBS is just now rerunning the episodes I missed. I'm trying it again because I kind of miss it, but ultimately I miss the way it was when it was good. Everything that made me stop watching it is still there (seriously, why is Jerry on the show at all, besides Lenkov's seeming determination to give a main role to anyone who has ever appeared on Lost for more than five seconds?). I guess I'll just have to sustain myself with Tumblr GIFs.

Humans -- I only started watching this because Colin Morgan was in it, but I wound up liking it more than I thought I would. The show doesn't really cover any new ground in the philosophical debate of at what point does an AI become human, but I'm interested in seeing what's going on with Anita/Mia and Leo, and I love what the show is doing with Niska. Also, the actors cast as the synths are uniformly outstanding.

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell -- I only made it through the first episode. The special effects when the characters were using magic were very cool, but that wasn't enough to sustain my interest when I didn't care for the plot, the characters, or any of the actors.

Killjoys -- This is one of my favorites. I love the characters and their interactions. The action scenes are a nice bonus. The thing I love most is the portrayal of a man and woman working together, trusting each other implicitly, respecting each other's abilities, and loving each other platonically. There is no sexual tension between them at all; they love each other like the found family they are.

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How's your summer viewing going?

Goodness, I actually went out and did something for once and I totally forgot to post about it.

Last Sunday, John Scalzi made an appearance at my library to support his new book, Redshirts. Scalzi didn't do a reading from Redshirts on the theory that we're all capable of reading ourselves and nothing would be gained by him reading it to us, so instead he read two snippets from other works we've all been sworn to secrecy not to discuss (there was an oath and a code phrase and everything--it was hilarious), and he also performed a sketch with Mary Robinette Kowal based on Redshirts, where he was a senior officer for the Universal Union and she was an attorney representing the redshirts in a class action lawsuit. I especially liked the diatribe about crew losses due to exploding control panels and how surely the Universal Union could afford a few fuses. During the Q&A session afterward, he spent a good chunk of time answering my question about how he came to be involved in SGU. Scalzi was great fun as a speaker. He also signed my book (in red Sharpie, of course) and complimented me on my Miskatonic University Dept. of Library Sciences T-shirt.

So, I was watching the Stargate prop auctions on eBay as a spectator sport again and decided to bid after all. I thought the SG-1 communicator earpiece would jump out of my price range like the SGA earpiece did last week, but it didn't. I won it with one bid. It didn't even go for half my maximum bid!

I also wasn't planning to bid on the Genii portable lamp thing until I read the description more closely and found out it worked. That one was more exciting. I upped my maximum bid by $10 at the last minute, and that made the difference between me winning by $5 and me losing by $5.

Since I now have one prop from each show, I think I'm set unless something really super awesome yet still affordable comes up in the next round of auctions.

I just can't believe how little things have been selling for this time around. Previous Stargate prop auctions have never had anything even close to my price range.

The season 3 premiere of Heroes was just shown at Comic Con and there are links to spoilers all over my flist. The sheer volume of them is wearing on my willpower. I need a pep talk. Somebody tell me how much more I'll enjoy the season premiere when I see it if I don't spoil myself to heck and gone in the next five minutes.

I've been a bad LJ friend lately and not commenting on entries I should have/wanted to comment on. Spanish class ate up much of my free time and I was averaging 7-10 days behind on flist posts. Now that finals are over, I'm attempting to dig myself out from skip=380. As soon as I catch up, I'll try to be more active on my flist. I just always felt so stupid adding comments to entries or participating in polls 8 days after they were posted.

This week is spring break at Ye Olde Community College where I take Spanish classes. I also had some vacation days at work that I needed to use or I would lose them, so I decided to take this week off from work as well as school. As a result, I've been a big giant slug all week. I've been watching TV, burning CDs into iTunes, and reading lots and lots of fic. The only remotely productive thing I've done is to play some vocabulary games in My Spanish Coach on my Nintendo DS. I could get used to this. I suspect I will be very disappointed when I go back to work (and class) on Monday.

Today was the last day. I have to go back to work tomorrow. ::cries:: Is it too late to ask for another week off? I read an insane amount of fic this week, the vast majority of it very good. I also probably looked at over 1000 icons, but I think I only snagged 4 (and made 3 myself). I also watched 7 DVDs.

1.) Watched the men's final at Wimbledon this morning. I can't believe Roger Federer won. Not that he isn't good, but he played like crap for 4 sets before finally getting in gear in the 5th.

2.) Read fic in 3 fandoms: Stargate Atlantis, Supernatural, and Man from UNCLE.

1.) Read lots and lots and lots of fic in 2 fandoms: Stargate Atlantis and Supernatural, including some Supernatural/Lost and Supernatural/Star Wars crossovers.

2.) Tried to work up some enthusiasm for the new season of Doctor Who but was unsuccessful. I think I'm going to give this season a pass, at least until the last couple of eps when Capt. Jack comes back.

My vacation is half over. ::sniffle::

1.) Read a whole lot of fic in 2 fandoms: Stargate Atlantis and Supernatural.

2.) Watched eps 16-19 of Peacemaker Kurogane.