The Southern Lights

Today's super-annoying, very-first-world problem: despite all the free time on my hands, I am STILL behind on most of my TV shows.  Instead I watch marathons of Hoarders and Tabatha's Salon Takeover.  No, I am not proud of myself.

House: I have one more disc to go on last season... and then all of this season.  Still kind of facepalming over the last ep I watched, in which [VAGUE SPOILER ALERT] homedude turns out in the very last minute of the show to be a mastermind serial killer!  Who eats people!  Finally, something I find less plausible than House/Cuddy.  And I have watched none of this season.

White Collar: Haven't watched any of season three, though I think I still have most of them on my DVR, if it hasn't started randomly erasing crap again.  Grrr, this one I'm pissed at myself about because I really wanted to be caught up by the mid-season premiere, which was... today.

The Office: The last one I watched was the Halloween episode, maybe?  Though I may have missed one before that.  Again, theoretically, these should all be on the DVR.

Bones: I... may have given up on Bones.  I watched the first few episodes of last season and just sort of... stopped.  Plus, the friend I spent New Year's with, upon hearing that I was behind in the show, just went ahead and told me the major plot twists.  And it sounds like they pulled an ninth-season X Files reveal (Dude from Lost: "...until one lonely night when you invited Agent Mulder into your bed." Me: "THE FUCK YOU SAY?!").  The revolving one-dimensional interns, the increasingly-forced chemistry... is it even worth getting caught up?

Sherlock: I have downloaded all three eps but only watched the first one.  And been scrolling very quickly past my Twitter feed and some of my flist until I can watch the other two.  SOME PEOPLE ARE NOT VERY VIGILANT ABOUT SPOILERS.  This is Priority Number One, though.

I also want to watch all of Arrested Development again and go through my massive Avengers box set, though when I'm going to do that, I don't know.

But I am writing again!  Not, like, a lot, but more than none, which is what I'd been doing through the holidays.  But first, off to finish Mockingjay.  And then check if there's a fandom for that.  There's gotta be.

Saw Alice in Wonderland today, and it was pretty good.  Not astoundingly great, but worth seeing in the theatre.  But there was one thing that bugged me: they kept referring to the monster as "the Jabberwocky."  Am I crazy or should it be "Jabberwock"?  "Jabberwocky" is the name of the poem, as in "of or relating to the Jabberwock."  The creature is called "the Jabberwock" twice in the text.  That is its name.  Otherwise, it's like spying the bird from Poe's poem and saying, "Look!  It's the The Raven!"

SOMEBODY BACK ME UP HERE.  LET'S WRITE A MILDLY DISPLEASED LETTER.

So somebody on ontd_startrek posted a link to Akinator, the Web Genius, and I have been playing with that shit for way too long now.

Guessed on the first try:
Captain Jack Harkness
Angela Petrelli (Heroes)
Quinn Mallory (Sliders) --> this one made me go HOLY SHIT IT KNOWS MY MIIIIIIIIIIIIIND
Heffer Wolfe (Rocko's Modern Life)

Stumped it With:
Artie: The Strongest Man in the World (Adventures of Pete & Pete)
Private (Madagascar) -- though to be fair, it did guess first Kowalski and then Skipper, so it was damned close
Sam (Clarissa Explains It All)
Donkey Lips (Salute Your Shorts)

The answer to your question is yes, I did bombard it with old-school Nickelodeon shows just for the hell of it.

I woke up with a sore throat today, and my life is so boring that I kind of hope it turns out to be Swine Flu.  I mean, if it's the regular flu, tough shit, but if it's Swine Flu, I can throw myself an epic pity party.

So basically my point is: EVERYONE GET OVER THE DAMN SWINE FLU.  IT'S GOING TO BE MAD COW THAT KILLS US ALL IN THE END, SLOWLY AND WITHOUT DIGNITY.  Have you seen what new variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob does to the human brain?  Swiss cheese, bitchez.

Sorry, I have a RL journal for this type of nonsense, but no one reads that one either.  Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.