Her Life is a WIP

Work is deader than dead today - I knew it wouldn't be particularly busy (Friday after bank holiday? In July, even? Slim chance of that) but I thought a couple of my co-workers would be there, except it's past 10.00AM and I'm still the only one present so maybe they took the day off, after all. I wish I hadn't given mine back, btw, but there you go. At least it's all quiet.

Speaking of bank holiday, I had a lovely day. Very relaxing. We slept in, I lazed around in bed while Cookie watched the Défilé - our traditional military parade - and then we went our separate ways; she met with her mates to see HP7 and I spent the afternoon at my sister's. Emma is - so far, at least - a quiet baby and Chiara seems completely smitten with her, it's the cutest thing. We had waffles and Nutella for our little afternoon tea, I talked with my sister, played with my goddaughter, hold my niece, it was just very relaxing :-)

Back to the Défilé. Every year, an army is invited as "guest star". This year, it was the Overseas Territories, and the French Polynesia troop made quite an impression, especially when they performed the Haka. In case you'd like to see it, it's here. Oh, and someone posted the the fireworks under the Eiffel Tower in its entirety; the theme was musicals.

Fannish wise, we're caught up on both White Collar and True Blood. I really enjoyed both episodes, ( White Collar first ). And then ( onto True Blood ) [ETA: Damn. I apparently screwed up the cut for TB and I only just noticed, sorry!]

Apart from that, I've downloaded the premiere of Falling Skies and Alphas. I'm not expecting much of either of them, much less Alphas - an American show about superheroes? Chances are it won't be Misfits - but I never expect much of Summer shows except for them to pass the time, so. Besides, I have White Collar and True Blood for the good stuff. No, wait, there's another show I'd like to give a go that seemed cool, Franklin & Bash. Just need to find a download.

Some shows are so adorable, aka how I watched White Collar 2x07 and kept giggling and cooing at the screen due to its level of adorableness. Incidentally, I have a question: "Prisoner's Dilemma", an ode to Peter and Neal's epic love story, Y/Y?

I have many favourite scenes/lines in the episode - Neal sulking when he's not getting his way or pleading to get his way is a joy to see - but Peter's "there's a reason why they made me work with a male CI" comment was quite inspirational. What does he mean "that's why"?

Does it mean that T-FBI-PTB don't always have a problem with inappropriate relationship between FBI agents and their CIs and they actually wanted Peter to complete his set of Pretty and Smart Brunettes with Big Blue Eyes? Because they knew he already had Elizabeth, but they wanted Peter to have one of each sex so they gave him Neal? Aww, how incredibly sweet of them! They do care about their own, at the FBI!

I can't believe there're only two episodes left to watch - how long will we have to wait for the rest, btw? Same thing with True Blood. I'm gonna miss them. And I still surprise myself whenever I think "miss" and "True Blood" in the same sentence but there you go. I will miss it. I'll miss Eric and Pamela and Lafayette and Jesus. Good thing it'll be Back-to-TV season soon and I'll get SPN back as well as Community - just to name two shows on opposite ends of the spectrum.

Which reminds me that I need to check the list and summaries of the new shows coming up this autumn. See if there's something that strikes my fancy. I already know of The Walking Dead but the trailer freaked the hell out of me (sharks, zombies and clowns - bane of my existence) so I don't know if I'll watch it. Or maybe with the FP. Because GD is always as scared as I am at stuff like that and seeing Sam mock us for being wusses and not be afraid is always amusing me. We'll see :-)

Oh, and this has nothing to do with anything but I'm in an Eames/Arthur kick as of today and on my quest to find fics to read I also found this entry, another fandom remake of Softer World. I usually enjoy those a lot but I'm especially smitten with that one.

Wtf - am I supposed to be working when everyone else who's also supposed to be working is watching/listening to the France - South Africa match?

Seriously, I'm taking a break too, it's only fair. I'm having a twitter-chat with Sam and GD and Z and T and having a good time :-) Of course, with everyone watching the match and tweeting about it and all those others who are not watching the match but are tweeting about it anyway, twitter is on the verge of collapsing! Well, it died a little earlier and I'm totally blaming football for that. ETA: Ha, it just died again!

Unrelated now but related to my previous post. I'm going to make an effort and try (emphasis on "try") to watch True Blood a second time. I'm not promising anything, though. I've watched an episode last night but Sookie grated on my nerves the whole time and Bill made me want to kick him in the head the whole time. Not exactly what I'd call a positive reaction *cough*

But for Eric and Godric and Pam's sake, I'll make a valiant effort and try again. And if I really can't stand Bill and Sookie, I'll have to content myself with fast-forwarding the episodes to the good scenes. Or, you know, just visit YT and watch those Best Of Character vids. It'll have to do. Wish me luck!

Hey, luvmax1, Happy Birthday to you! I hope you'll find some time in your busy schedule to celebrate and have fun *hugs*

If there's a sleep virus spreading all around, I think I caught it. I've been ridiculously tired lately and I thought I was better today except I fell asleep while watching The Simpsons, meaning around 8.00 PM, and I woke up not that long ago. That was unexpected.. And bloody annoying too because now it's 10.40 PM and I don't feel tired anymore. Just headeachy. So okay I usually never go to sleep before midnight but still. Thank you so much, body!

I have reasons not to feel too grumpy, though - I just watched the Panic at the Disco Fantasy Festival interview and it filled me with glee. Oh, boys, you never fail to make me smile and want to clap my hands in delight ♥ ♥

Oh and spéciale dédicace to moimoietmoi; I watched the True Blood premiere and you'll be happy to know that you might not be the only one who likes it. That is, I enjoyed the premiere and am downloading the second episode to see whether the interest will keep or disappear. I do have mucho love for Sookie. We'll see how it goes.

Unrelated now but I've been thinking about my writing lately - or the lack thereof - and after talking with fiddleyoumust and telling her that as a victim of writer's block - which, admittedly, is a sort of permanent status for me - I had no WIPs waiting for me, I realised it wasn't strictly true.

I found in the drafts sections at gmail a series of WIPs. Six to be exact; two TS, two SPN, one SPNRPS and the most recent one, a PATD thingie. Which is nicely eclectic as far as fandoms go, imho. Some of those have real sentences and paragraphs, some don't - they just have the skeleton, ie just dialogues and nothing else.

So I guess I have been writing stuff. Just, very sporadically and with no real purpose but, yeah, there are words written over there.