Her Life is a WIP

I'd like to tell you about my day. This morning, I woke up - not without difficulties, I might add; getting up is never the best part of a work day but lately it's become a real challenge - showered, got dressed and got out of the house with Cookie. I woke up too late to have breakfast so I brought one of our Starbucks tumblers to work with me. Then I worked: no crises to avert, no problems to solve, just regular work, which was ok.

Pretty ordinary day, right? Right. Then ( THIS HAPPENED )

Aka Fassbender's Shame premiere.

( Here's the longish story )

Short story: we went to the Shame premiere, waited till Michael Fassbender arrived and then just basked in his sexiness and charm. The man is just the cutest, he took the time to sign many autographs, accepted to pose with several fans so that they coud get their pictures with him and was a really good sport; he was adorable.

( Some pictures of our evening )

Can you believe it? We actually went from an ordinary, everyday day to seeing Michael Fassbender in the flesh ♥ ♥ And just because Cookie saw a poster for the premiere in the street #Fate

[ETA: Cookie posted her own entry and she was nicer to the couple of other people that we saw as she mentioned and posted pics of them as well as Fassy.]

Today is one of those days that make you wish you'd stayed home. Not due to anything bad happening at work (it's not even 10.00Am yet, so that's a relief) but it's all grey outside and it's been raining all morning - it looks like we fired Summer and jumped directly to Autumn - and I'm cold and tired and, really, that kind of weather is for staying home with a cup of cocoa and something good on the telly or a good book to read.

The good news is that, as of yesterday, our university closes at 6.00PM sharp so even if we wanted to, we couldn't do a lot of overtime *approves* Plus, you know, I'm on holiday next week so I might be tired today but in my head I've already started conting down the days and that is a great feeling.

I'll have to be disciplined and finish writing my thesis during the summer but I'm impatient to do so and really motivated (especially now that I've received the encouraging and enthusiastic feedback from my supervisor regarding the first chapter I sent her) so I think it'll be done with a minimum of tears. Note that I'm expecting some tears, just hopefully not too many lol

Plus, I'm really looking forward to my break: three days in London with Cookie and her mates followed with four days in Alsace with part of the FP and then later in the month two days in Frankfurt to see Panic! at the Disco with another combination of the FP (permutation is the spice of life and everything *g*) and Cookie. Should be fun :-)

PS: Ahaha, I stole a kiss from the girlfriend in the corridor and as my lips were leaving hers, one of our co-workers got out of his office; I thought they were all away lol Technically, I'm pretty sure everyone knows we're a couple even though we've never said it as such - we talk about "the bedroom" and "the study" and when asked about our vacation plans we haven't hidden the fact that while I'll be in Alsace, she'll be in Brittany with my parents, so, you know, we might as well spelled it out but, obviously, we avoid any kind of PDOA at work. Then again, I let a chérie slip the other day. But we weren't close to anyone so it went unheard. We like to live dangerously, see? :-p]

ETA: Oh and I don't know if you heard but XMFC has been nominated at the Teen Choice Awards in the (among others) Choice Movie Chemistry category. Honestly, best nomination for XMFC ever Y/Y?

Omg why can't I go to sleep at a reasonable hour?! I always hate myself after a while. I've felt like a zombie at work all day. Though, technically, I did go to bed before 2.00AM last night, just like I wanted, but turns out 1.50AM doesn't make such a big difference! Still, it was before 2.00AM. Small steps and all that.

In the spirit of spreading the XM:FC love, I'm sharing this Erik/Charles fanvid. It only lasts 28 seconds but those are 28 seconds of pure, unaltered, joy. I'm usually not a fan of fast pacing in fanvids but it worked for me anyway. And another one, based on an accoustic version of All You Need is Love

And! To prove that I can talk about something else than XM:FC - with difficulty maybe, but I can - here's a little picspam. You know the meme when you post a picture of what's inside your bag? This follows the same principle, only the pictures come from my mobile. I have many photos stocked over there - my BIL is always mocking me because I'm always taking pics of, well, everything - and I'm gonna share a selection taken last week. Guess it could be a sort of A Week in the Life of Mouse kinda thing. ( Inside the cut, around a dozen of pics )

I know, XM:FC was mentioned at one point and a picture of James McAvoy sneaked in. Guess they're never really far from my mind these days, it can't be helped :-p

So I saw XM:FC four times, apparently? It's a compulsion, I can't help it! We're doing a little competition with the Untitled Posse and so far Cookie is winning with 5 viewings. She cheated, though; she was supposed to go see another film with a friend of hers on saturday and she changed her plan and they went to see XM:FC instead. Pretty unfair, if you ask me!

In case you're wondering, it never gets old. On the contrary, you anticipate every little scene and since anticipation is half the pleasure, well, that's a LOT of pleasure for just one film. Almost too much to bear, actually, but so worth it omg!

I'm gathering a bunch of interviews, clips, articles etc. over at this tag (12 13 links so far but it's still growing) and as far as said interviews go, I think my favourites are the one where they explain the hand gesture they chose when their characters use their powers - with little gems like "I fingered myself with one hand in the end" thanks to James McAvoy and the infamous cross-dressing story - the one with the "if I could make you fall in love with me you could just fly me anywhere" line and that one where I finally found out what the whole caddy cart incident was about - as I was telling people, it's not everyday that actors can claim they almost killed their co-stars lol Oh and it's not an interview but what about that lovely Fassbender/McAvoy fanvid?

And just now I watched that Behind the Scenes video. [ETA: Omg, you have to watch that X-Ponies First Class: Pinkamina's School For Gifted Fillies vid, it's brilliant ♥]

My addiction is nicely fed, as you can see :-) And I'm not even talking about the fics or the fanart etc. If you have more to share, be my guest, btw!

Ok, now, I need to go and read the new Erik/Charles that have been posted. I've worked on my paper all day before leaving for the cinema so I'm behind. It can't do!

After seeing this adorable .gif of an interview with Fassbender and McAvoy, I realise I must have (well, I hope?) a lot of photos, interviews and vids to hunt down and catch up on!

If I'm thinking about McAvoy on his own, I've started catching up, already, mind you. Case in point, I went to bed at 4.40AM last night because I watched Children of Dune in one sitting. Cookie abandoned me to go to sleep at one point, pff sleep? What is this sleep you speak of? Though I guess I could have gone to bed a little bit earlier but then one thing leading to another I found myself at the 1stclass_kink meme, taking great delight in reading all the prompts that were posted and I felt compelled to add some of my own, as I'm wont to do. Before I knew it it was past 4.30AM. Time flies when you're having kinky fun!

Admittedly, going to bed so late wasn't that smart a move. Especially as I got up this morning at 8.30AM so that I could start working on my paper early. I'll gladly admit that working on approximately four hours of sleep wasn't the easiest thing to do but then the articles I'd selected included gems like "... growth of stories featuring previously taboo subject such as underage sex, incest and real person fiction (RPS)" and, you know, all of sudden my brain was 100% connected lol

Also, I just realised that all those years spent reading slash fan fiction and kinks? Was just RESEARCH! For the class I've been taking this year in general and for the paper I'm writing at the moment in particular. As Cookie said when I showed her the quote and explained to her how we've been doing academic work on fan culture all these years, "Congratulations to us!" :-p I should totally keep taking that class next year, that way I'll be able to justify all those nights spent reading fics instead of sleeping \o/

Now it's 4.00PM and I'm done with my paper for today, Cookie has woken up from her long nap (she's been sick all week long and is slowly getting better) so we'll see if we're doing something tonight. In any case, freedooooom!