sit down son

Work is long but getting less busy and still very fun, though it means I'm not online terribly often as it is EXHAUSTING. Feet are getting used to the strain, I have new shoes that are better than my previous black heels, getting paid is awesome.

Wobbling about in fandoms lately because most of what I do lately online is read fics or catch up on TV shows that I've gotten behind on.

Doctor Who was AWESOME and I loved it a lot and I am REALLY REALLY EXCITED FOR THIS SEASON. IDK, I know a lot of people get all disenchanted with shows when things change, but I like the changing, I like things not getting stale. And I LOVE the revamped TARDIS. Love it. Basically what I'm saying is that nothing ever really makes me STOP WATCHING a show unless there's one I love more on at the same time (and even then I will try to keep up), but any worries about not loving Eleven? TOTALLY GONE. SO EXCITED. MORE DOCTOR WHO!!!

...Yeah. coherency on that point is not good. ♥

BUT TO THE POINT! CALLING ALL DW/TW FANS!

Help me convince mythologiced to truly delve into this fandom and write the Captain Jack/Amy Pond idea in her head because it is seriously sort of awesome in all kinds of awesome and cosplay-y ways. LED A HAND, MY LOVELY FLISTERS!

It wasn't too long ago that I did something like this for my laptop, which felt like it was on it's last gasps as the time, physically. However, my father is like a laptop surgeon with access to artificial limbs that look and act just like the originals (but without the little stickers telling you what it's got on in the inside) and as such, my baby is pretty much back to perfect again. Except that dying jet engine noise, but god knows how I'd make that one stop.

However, there was no hope for my dying phone. I'd been using a Palm Centro since I got back stateside in September, and let me tell you- that phone was a hot mess. My mom had gotten it refurbed from ebay, them lost it and gotten a new phone that she could use easier and then it was found again so then they put my number on it because it was at least a bit better than my geriatric LG flip phone. To put it simply- I'd been due an upgrade since 08, according to Verizon. The Centro was pretty cool at first, but obviously a bit outdated and the QWERTY wasn't the easiest in the world to use. I adjusted, got used to it, made it work for me and got pretty handy with those tiny-ass keys. But then the OS started breaking down, programs would RANDOMLY STOP WORKING, it would sometimes shut off the phone part and then turn back on again, making strange noises, etc.

So last week when I got my first paycheck, I made a detour by the Verizon store with the sole purpose of getting the Palm Pre+. Now in a world of people obsessed with iPhones and Blackberries and going a bit *_* over the new Android OS, right down to the up-and-coming Nexus One... Yeah, there are probably a lot of people going WTF DID YOU GET ANOTHER PALM FOR. And to them, I will explain as I had to explain to the sales rep: I like it, it's slick, I believe a phone SHOULD FIT IN MY POCKET, I don't want a touchscreen QWERTY, but I think a touchscreen in and of itself is a fun idea. I've been using the centro for ages so the size of the buttons on the Pre doesn't bother me (when he brought that up I waved the centro at him and he laughed and said 'good point'), the idea of them sliding out is something I've been enamored of since I saw angryhamster's phone ages back and I do not want a bberry, thanks. No offense to the many and varied bberry users out there, I've heard tons of great things but I like being a little different and having a phone that's really weird for everyone else to use. Also, my camera phone has a flash. Take that, iPhone fanatics!

So those are all the reasons that nothing would deter me from my love of this phone. These are all the reasons I love it.

• It is small, sleek and fucking gorgeous. Don't believe me?



It's gorgeous. The graphics are crisp and clear, the sound quality is really good. It's loud enough for me to hear easily, the alarm wakes me up with no trouble, and I can turn those down without any hassle if I ever want them quieter for some reason. There's also the nice little switch on top that turns it on silent instantly, or vice-versa.

• It's got a wonderful touchscreen interface with easy to learn gestures, though I'm finding myself screwing up on scrolling on my laptop now, oops. It's a marvel of multitasking I can have 50 applications open and flick between them in three different views- icons card view, or full screen view. A full swipe across the bottom of the screen when an app is in full screen flicks to the next app, a half-screen swipe goes back in the application. Zooming in and out is a snap, I can access the launcher from any view, everything just FLOWS. Turning the phone sideways re-orients the screen. It's responsive, and while load times for newly-opened applications can take a few seconds, YOU CAN LEAVE THEM OPEN.

• It has a QWERTY keypad and when you slide that out, it automatically wakes up the phone without you having to unlock it (you can wake it up with the use of a button and a quick upward swipe on the touchscreen as well). Typing while not in a full-screened app searches the phone for applications and contacts, then offers the option to search the web- google (or bing, your choice), wiki, twitter or google maps. WHICH ARE ALSO REALLY SLICK AND NICE (I got lost today and had to use that one). The spacing on the keys is much improved from its centro predecessor, making typing a lot easier.

• It's webOS. This means that my entire phone is backed up daily. If I ever lose or break it, it can be restored by just...logging in, really. Inversely, if it's ever stolen, all the data can be wiped remotely. This also sort of explains how the internet is so seamlessly integrated into it.

• THE TOUCHSTONE. I don't have this yet, but I am itching to get one. It's a charger, of sorts, that you just set the phone down on. Seriously, it's a little stand, magnetic, that you set the phone down on and it just AUTOMATICALLY CHARGES IT. Furthermore, if you set the phone down while on a call, it automatically swaps to speakerphone. It also gives you a "nightstand mode," which I'm not sure of the details for yet, but I want it like burning.

• It is really fucking pretty and is like having my laptop (WITH INTERNET) with me wherever I go. Which is obviously a huge perk to a constantly connected person such as myself. I've even loaded it up with TV shows to watch on my lunch breaks. It's has 16G of space and can sync with iTunes. In short, I am in love with this phone and am pleased with peaches over everything about it.

I apologize to anyone who got stuck listening to me gush over it the past few days, but I really love this phone.

So I'm going to shut up now and try to stop talking about what little geniuses Palm are for making my PERFECT PHONE, and go...idk, enjoy the rest of my day off.

♥!

So, did I mention I actually got the job? OFFICIALLY. Filled out paperwork today, go in for my first day of training tomorrow. HOORAY. But not what I clicked "post an entry for."

GIVEN THAT, I had so not intended to be out as late tonight as I just was. WTF. Was out with Matt at one of his friends' place and it's usually pretty chill and quiet with people just hanging around drinking beers.

NOT SO TONIGHT!

I got to dance around and sing with youtube vids like I was back in Dublin. And then we (and by "we" I mean me and a few of the guys, one of whom was VERY DRUNK and had no idea what he was doing and was basically being steered by yours truly) did the Cupid Shuffle.

OH HOW IT BURNS! There was also JOURNEY and JACKSON FIVE and DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT and....you get the idea. I put on Mika once and discovered that RANDOM GUY I DIDN'T KNOW IS FROM SCOTLAND.

This is not coherent. It is merely to express my joy at getting to cut loose and dance and scream the female part of Dirty Glass at a line of guys because I am apparently the only girl they know who knows the damn song.

SO. JOB. DANCING. MUSIC. SORT OF SINGING.

HAPPY MEG!

WHY WAS I UNAWARE THAT THERE'S ANOTHER SHERLOCK HOLMES MOVIE JUST RELEASED?!

One where GARETH DAVID-LLOYD is Watson and there are apparently dinosaurs.



From what I understand it's completely awful but this is not stopping my overwhelming desire to have this in my life. Expect more on this soon.




askjhgag trying not to giggle and think that GDL can't escape the dinosaurs, even when he's no longer Ianto Jones. Sort of failing.

I DON'T HAVE A PROPER TAG FOR THIS AT ALL. WHAT.

So let's talk about SNOW. And the fact that even North Carolina, which is considerably Less South than Georgia, still doesn't really know what to do with it. Particularly out in the Eastern part because the ocean usually keeps it a few degrees warmer.

I honestly didn't believe it when I got a call yesterday from David's Bridal about how my "come see what the store is like on a busy day" thing would possibly be canceled on account of weather. This is probably from growing up in Georgia and how every time they would say IT'S GOING TO SNOW it...............didn't. Well, there were a handful of times that it did, BUT NOT MANY! And we're not getting into the Augusta Ice Storm of 04 right now, that's an entirely different wintery monster.

POINT IS, all day yesterday I was looking at the bright sunniness that was the weather and the Just Over Freezing that was the temperature and going "It's not going to happen, it's going to miss us by like, 30 miles again, it's so not going to snow." Then I was over at Matt's and we were watching stuff on Netflix and it was flurrying! Exciting! Watched another episode of...something. (I think it was when we were watching Dead Like Me) and then we looked out again and OMFG THAT IS NOT FLURRIES, THAT'S TOTALLY STICKING! Which was mad because it was 60 degrees on Thursday and the ground should have been way too warm for that. But there were a good couple of inches on the ground.

So we had a little snowball scrimmage and I got snow stuck in my glasses for a bit, but it's all good!

This morning I get up early-early for me and am just WAITING for the call that says WE'RE CLOSED TODAY, LET'S RESCHEDULE and watching the news and seeing them be all stay off the roads unless you have to, etc, hang out with us here on your TVs! So I was seriously expecting that call. I took my cellphone with me into the bathroom so I would hear it if it rang while I showered.

No call.

Eventually it gets close to when I'm meant to be there and my dad and I decide, well, they might be open? So he goes and digs out the car, I get completely ready, and we drive very slowly over there. Only got stuck on piled-up snow once. But like I said, this is still the south. No one was plowing or salting or whathaveyou, you couldn't see the lines on the road, everyone was just crawling along. We get there. THEY'RE OPEN! I go in and talk to them and make them go :O YOU TURNED UP! and in the end, the point was to see a busy day at the store. They'd had a ton of cancellations. So I'm rescheduled for tomorrow and I get to go back to sleep and enjoy the snow.

But it's still funny. And I think I got some accidental mad bonus points for going in IN THE SNOW!!

IN SHORT: SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi again, posting once more, don't get used to it! The following post is technically for Kate, aka mythologiced, because the Real World sucks and we both know it. But, it may appeal to any likewise literary-minded folks on my flist, of which I'm sure there are at least a few.



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So it dawned on me earlier as I was participating in
♚ THE Merlin Friending Meme! ♛ ► MY THREAD.
Which is not something I normally do, but hey, I like new people? But it dawned on me that I've barely updated in like, a few months. So hello, world! I'm alive.

So what's going on in the world of Meg QUICK RECAP!!

• Still looking for a job. Someday, this search will be lucrative.
• Applying to UNC at Chapel Hill for the archival science program. Went and visited it last week after mum dragged me into Raleigh with her so that I could judge her students' science fair projects. I wondered most of the morning how I got talked into these sorts of things as it involved me waking p at 4:45am. PAINFUL! But Chapel Hill is lovely and I only got a little lost. It's definitely where I hope to be next year.
• I'm still dating Matt. And like, officially dating him. On facebook even. Which still sometimes strikes me as surreal because I've been living in that transitory world for so long, where I'm always leaving for a long ways away very soon so there's no use getting attached. I'm still not entirely not-leaving, but Chapel Hill is not in the category of a long ways away in the least.
• I'm doing laundry, which I still hate, but I hate a little less when it doesn't cost me 8 euros to do in addition to having to haul it around. This is a plus.

Yeah, that's about it for the RL stuff. See why I haven't updated overly much? Not much going ON.

Now for the internetly/fandomy/televisiony stuff.

• Totally addicted to Chuck now. Oh my god, give me geeky spy shows any day of the week, I love it.
• WHITE COLLAR STARTS BACK TONIGHT. I think this may be the cutoff for Jeff Eastin's twitter war with Matt Nix--Go follow White Collar creator @jeffeastin if you aren't already!!
• I'm still sort of sad that I don't have Merlin to look forward to every Saturday at the moment.
• Doctor Who End of Time: Apparently not very liked by the fen 'round these parts, but I enjoyed it despite its failings. I don't tend to get upset with shows unless they like, kill people off that I really don't want killed off [IANTO] or do something really, really stupid and against everything I think the show stands for. I'm a pretty easy fan to please, honestly, when it comes to the canon material! Though some episodes do make me happier than others.
• SOMEONE OUT THERE: explain to me what was going on with Charlie being on Fringe last Monday? Didn't see the Thursday episode, was watching Grey's. But I am so confused. Also what's up with the Monday 9pm spot on Fox?
• SPEAKING OF FOX- I don't really believe they're honestly going to revamp Torchwood for an American audience. It might be wishful thinking, but I doubt they'll follow through on that one.
• Also behind on House on account of it being on at the same time as Chuck. Not cool, guys. Not cool. So many of my shows are in conflict with eachother!! Clearly this is a problem with the TV people and does not mean I watch too many shows. Obviously.
• Someday I'll finish watching SG-1 and get going on my to-watch list again. Provided people stop adding to it, that is.

RPISH NEWS...
Actually, I've been kinda lazy in this aspect of my internet life lately. Cardiff is doing well enough, quiet. Anachronismos is newly opened and doing pretty well for a new game, I think! I need to do stuff in both sometime in the near future...Also doing stuff in my musebox for shits & giggles.

FIC NEWS
Writing a Chuck/White Collar crossover and trying not to think about exactly how many WIPS I have in my files. But then, I don't usually post things/share them unless they're complete, so NO ONE HAS TO KNOW how many of those there really are!! But I do plan to finish/clean up/eventually post this one. So there.

Created chuckxbryce and made a rec list and really need to get around to doing some crossposting there...



UHM, that might be all for now. If you made it through, I SALUTE YOU!

EDIT: OHMG, I had forgotten and I was ever so proud. I have 30gp of free space on my harddrive now! Okay, this is a Big Deal to me because it had been pretty much FULL or ALMOST FULL for...a long time. I've been working on clearing it off and defragging and I now have 30 GB FREE! EXCITEMENT!!! Don't judge me.

See, now if I had the money to upgrade to Win7, I actually could.

[what went away, you may ask? all my old saved anime/manga fanart. I finally have CUT LOOSE! shocking.]

Oh how I love this holiday.

This year, instead of running around frantically trying to buy things which we will like and will fit, my parents decided to give us each $500. Soooo I'm really excited about that and getting to go buy things (WHAT AM I GONNA DO?! Thinking about upgrading to Windows 7, possibly. We'll see.) We each got one gift to open, mine was MAKE-UP AND PERFUME from Lancome, which I adore. My grandma got me a sweater she'd....already bought me when I was in Texas. Laura got me two scarves, Robin got me this nifty red neck...thing? It's not a NECKERCHIEF as it's like, stripes and looked and you wrap it around? But it's cute. And also a wallet.

But the most ridiculously awesome, nerdy thing is pictured below. (With the neck-thing and one of the scarves, which I wear in my hair)



Yeah.

I now have a Torchwood t-shirt. C/O Matt. I LOVE IT SO MUCH.


edit: FFFF I FAIL IN EXCITEMENT TO POST THAT.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS, FLIST!!

I have accomplished things today! Well, I did stuff yesterday too, mostly to the tune of a METRIC FUCKTON OF COOKIES, but that's neither here nor there and is mostly, in the long run, just going to make me fat because there are way too many cookies in this house, with plans to make MORE. Oh god.

TODAY, though, I went and got my hair done, it's back to being dark red without highlights, except where the old ones are still peeking through the red and it looks really awesome. It's the first time I've used a different hairdresser in....years. Which was a bit scary, but ultimately okay because she was really nice and did a great job! I love how it looks.

Afterwards, I swung by Barnes and Noble to put in an application because, uh, I need something to do for a while here. And books would be a good thing! They're overstaffed right now, but that might change after the holidays and they'll keep my application on file. Driving back from that, though, I was going past Anne Taylor LOFT, aka my favorite clothing store which I was dressed in from head to toe, including my coat (okay, not the boots, still, you get the idea), so I swung in there and applied as well. That one looks really promising, actually, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed because discounts on my favorite clothes would be awesome. Not that I NEED more LOFT in my closet, as it already dominates, but I won't object at all!

I'm also thinking about getting new glasses after Christmas, because mine are about two years old now and getting my eyes checked regularly is pretty important for me, as they spent a long time changing constantly. They've pretty much leveled out in the past few years, but one can't be too careful, right? I can still see fairly well, but yeah. I've been thinking about getting contacts again too, I imagine they've made a few advancements since the last time I had them. I've got an astigmatism, so your typical contacts don't really work, I've had to use the toric ones which tend to be thicker and less comfortable as they are WEIGHTED and twist around if you lie down with them in. We'll see!

I've been seeing one of the guys from okcupid as well, and he's actually REALLY COOL, I like him a lot. We get along really well and he's into Doctor Who and Torchwood, which is a definite plus. As is the fact that he's cute and doesn't pester me constantly. I really appreciate the space, it makes me not freak out and run run run as fast as I can away from anything resembling commitment, as I am prone to do. I made him come over last night and eat some of that aforementioned metric fuckton of cookies. Sadly, it didn't even make a dent. It's a work in progress, man.

RP ad here, just swing on by if you don't care~

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Had to happen eventually, you know. /spams you all and goes back to vocab

Taking the GRE tomorrow, should be.... fun.