So, this weekend? Fucking awesome.

Saturday picara and I took Daddy to see Live Free or Die Hard for Father's Day. God I love that movie. Die Hards are the perfect action movies, I think. Lots of things blow up, there's a few jokes, and the good guys win. Also, it has Justin Long, the completely adorable Mac from the Mac/PC commercials. Who is completely adorable, as I may have mentioned. Also, Tuvok. Yes, I know. Tuvok! He's getting work! And Governor Devlin from OZ, who appears to have a contract requiring that he be in every movie ever at this point. And playing a good guy, which was, um, disconcerting. Anyway, I very highly recommend it and will go see it again with anyone who wants to. Yes, I am just that cool.

We took Daddy to dinner for Father's Day after the movie at Garfield's, which was really fun. They have awesome taco salad there. And we shared chocolate cake, which was yay.

Saturday evening picara and I watched like 10 episodes of Supernatural. We finished Born under a Bad Sign at around 11:15, and I still had to drive back to the City, but. The next episode was Tall Tales! So we totally had to go ahead and watch it, because it is the most completely awesome episode EVAR. Dean! With his cheeks all puffed out! Sam hugging the frat guy! Wrestling! On the BED! So that was also yay.

Sunday I had dinner with a couple friends from high school, Hannah and Julie, whom I hadn't seen in ages, and we had a great time. It's so cool to me how the fundamentalist Christian clique (or whatever you want to call it) from high school have all become so much more liberal. It gives me hope for this country. So, yay for all of you, because I have totally awesome friends, who were awesome in high school, and are even more awesome now. And I, while also awesome, evidently have a very small vocabulary.

Gods, my head hurts. I think it's because I've been sleeping too much, which is just fucked up. I should be able to sleep as much as I want!

I want to bake cookies, but I don't have the stuff to make cookies. I really need to go to the grocery store. Right now I'm eating cheerios out of the box.

I'm currently watching the pilot of SVU for the second time today. Chris Meloni is rilly rilly hot. Also, they showed another episode where he took off his shirt (and pants!) and he *does* really have that Jesus tattoo he has on Oz! Guh.

I haven't watched House yet. *loses at fandom*

Grr. I bought some CD-Rs so I could burn Twitch City and due South season 4 for picara, but they won't work. The computer keeps insisting that they're not writable. I tried a CD-RW I already had and it worked fine. I don't have any other CD-Rs, though, so I can't test to see if it's griping about all CD-Rs. Stupid computer.

I broke down and bought Oz Season 3 today. I bought jeans a couple days ago. Also a pair of cords from The Gap that I am totally in love with. I was going to buy them in another color, which they didn't have at the store when I was there, but Gap.com is closed, apparently. Who CLOSES their WEBSITE? Morons.

I'm still enjoying my vacation, which is almost over. I've spent quite a lot of time watching reruns of Law and Order: SVU. Also M*A*S*H and The X-Files. When I was at Best Buy buying Oz I noticed that SVU is out on DVD. I was tempted, but then I realized there isn't really much point to buying it. SVU is on TV an average of five times a day already. Same for M*A*S*H. And The X-Files just costs too much. Seriously, it's like eighty dollars a season.

My parents are thinking about visiting me Labor Day weekend. If they do, hopefully I can buy a bed then and they can help me transport it. In secret news we're not telling my parents: I bought a full/queen quilt already. (No, not the one on Ebay.) Mother wants to go shopping at Grapevine, which is going to be all kinds of fun on a holiday weekend, I'm sure. At least I'm not driving. She also wants to eat at Panera Bread. I eat there at least once a week, and any time I mention it to her she acts like I'm doing it specifically to make her jealous.

Well, that was definitely a bunch of unconnected (and probably boring) news. But I haven't updated in awhile, and I have very little to say. I do, however, have a new icon. It's by pearl_o. See? Dan is so very hurty.

I have decided that watching four episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in one weekend is not healthy. I just watched one about a cult, and there were creepy skeletons and pregnant children with guns. And not enough Christopher Meloni. And how sad is it that I find SVU more traumatic than Oz?

I have accomplished things today! I spent several hours at the library working on a couple assignments for Reference that were only due, oh, about 4 weeks ago. Go me! So I've nearly finished the Reference Questions assignment and the Reference Resources Comparison assignment, except for typing them up. In the process, I decided that anyone who uses actual BOOKS to look things up when the same information is available on the Internets is stupid. I mean, there's Who's Who, for example. Now, before the Internet, I'm sure Who's Who was a very useful resource if you needed to know who someone was and some basic facts about them. Now, though, you can use Marquis Who's Who on the Web, or just Google, so there's no point trekking to the library and hunting down books in which it will be difficult to find things because they don't have search functions. Ditto Encyclopedia Britannica, the Gale Dictionary of Music, the Gale Dictionary of Art, the Oxford English Dictionary, Contemporary Authors, Books in Print, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. So that's what I learned doing these assignments: reference books are stupid. Except for the World Almanac, which I am totally in love with. Every bit of information EVER is in the World Almanac.

I've been worried the past couple of weeks, because I'm so behind in Reference. I don't know how much time I have left, but it's not very much. I really don't want to take an incomplete, because I just want the semester to be over. I didn't know if I really had time to make up all the assignments I've missed, but I think I might be able to now. I hope so, anyway.

Ooh ooh ooh! I also got to try out my new wireless card on a different wireless network! The library has a wireless network, so I got to use my own laptop and access the Internet and everything, which was yay.

I took back one of my Oz DVDs and got two more. I have to watch them quickly because I want to get past the part where Beecher is Schillenger's prag, because, ow. This is why I'm watching season 1 and season 2 at the same time. I watch a painful episode from season 1, then move on to the boykissing in season 2. Though that's about to get painful too. And Blockbuster only has seasons 1-3.

A few fun things for everyone. First, Google "worst president ever."

Now, enjoy some weird music, courtesy of yours truly.

++Greenskeepers - Lotion - If you haven't heard this, you so must. "It rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again."

++Dan Bern - Cure for AIDS - Sometimes this song makes me really happy, and sometimes it makes me really sad. "The day they found a cure for AIDS everybody took one little pill and was okay. I slept with Cindy and Martha and Sue. I slept with Julie, Melissa and Jake, the day they found a cure."

++Bowling for Soup - Ohio (Come Back to Texas) - It mentions Denton County! Okay, fine, it's kind of stupid, but I <3 this song. "So when you're done doing whatever, and when you're through doing whoever, you know Denton County will be right here waiting for you."

++Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) - This one's for picara, who really likes that Dr. Pepper commercial. Hee.

++Closer to Mario - A mashup of various Mario-related sounds and Closer by Nine Inch Nails. I know. It's funny!

++Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie - Every OS Sucks - Okay, he'll gripe you out about not getting it from mp3.com, but their songs aren't on mp3.com anymore, or on CD, so whatever. Enjoy it anyway. "Every OS wastes your time, from the desktop to the lap. Everything since Apple DOS, just a bunch of crap. From Microsoft to Macintosh to Lin-Line-Lin-Linux, every computer crashes, cause every OS sucks."