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Holy shit. Even with the overwhelming polls, somewhere in my heart I don't think I actually thought it would happen. Ever, in my lifetime even, and I'm young. Damn! Dude, we have a biracial president! This is crazy. I might cry. This is awesome. Full of Awe. Score. Win. Love Love Love Love Love. Love Love. God, so much love in my heart. 'Yes we can,' indeed. I really hope no one offs him. God. Maybe life will get better, after all.

Again, I'm assuming no one reads my journal, so I'm not bothering with an lj-cut. Basically, my RL friends aren't House or slash fans, and don't appreciate my ranting. However, I personally find ranting cathartic, and it's the internetz, fools, I do what I want.

Anyway, House babble:

I've mentioned it before, but I like 13. Really. I couldn't really stand Cameron, but I really like 13's way of defusing House's barbs by not really playing into them. S'nice, and before this whole 'spiraling depression' thing, she'd been portrayed as a good doctor who was crazy indecisive about everything but her medicine. Also, OW is hot. Therefore, I like 13, and I really really really really like the idea of 13+Foreman, sitting in a tree.

So, I wanted to like this episode, but really, it was kinda meh. Chase was awesome in that scene with Foreman. It was nice to see Wilson again. I liked 13 best when she was being an unrepentant slut, but falling in love with the dying is kinda Cameron's shtick. Also, shame on Cameron for not bringing up the lesbianism when pitching the case to House. I understand it didn't go with the scene progression, but opening up with "I've got 13's girlfriend in the ER," House would've snapped it up if it was just a cold, and Cameron knows that. Either she omitted it because she doesn't want House all into the new fellow's business (which he would've found out anyway, again something she knows, so she just didn't want to see it), or it was a writer's choice to help with the order of the scene. Probably the latter, but I really hope we get to see more of the original cottages.

As for the "If You're Happy, I'm ..." I don't think it's possessiveness on House's part (he did let Wilson get married twice before, remember, and was the one to give Cuddy the ovulation shots) but rather the theme of 'change' has been lifted from the presidential campaign (Aside: I already voted, and therefore don't want to hear anymore. Unfortunately, the 24-hour news doesn't cater to my needs.) and transplanted into House. House doesn't change, hasn't changed for five seasons. He's still the unrepentant asshole know-it-all from S1. (Que rant for how House doesn't have a life, and doesn't do things- he mostly just let's things happen to him and reacts, except for maybe that time he electrocutes himself) Cuddy and Wilson are moving on, changing by getting a hooker-girlfriend or getting a baby because they want their lives to be more fulfilling, or to accomplish something more. Which is very human, but House is brilliant with a steady income and good job and all his toys (people) in one place, and his leg hurts. Anything more he wants has to contend with the pain, and yeah, he uses it as an excuse, but frankly he's not depressed or angry at his life. It's probably more than he hoped for as a boy used to getting shit for his antics and basically expected to be military after growing up hating it. He likes Cuddy and Wilson. He wants them to be happy. But he's an unrepentant selfish asshole, and he doesn't want them to be happy (-ier, because it's not like they're crying themselves to sleep) at the expense of his time and welfare. Also, change for him usually means (or at least is equated to) pain. So yeah, "If you're happy, I'm going to understand why you're doing this, but at the same time I don't really get it."

Quick bit, House POV:

Eventually, Wilson will lose his boyish good looks, his check will be alimonied-up to minuscule pennies, he’ll drop his need to propagate, he’ll stop dating. Cuddy figured it out, eventually, so will Wilson, and they’ll all take the new kids to watch experimental surgery and have cocktails on the hospital’s dime.

When we were young, we'd drink our coffee on cold days by inhaling the steam. It was so good to just feel the drink settle on my lungs. And then I got pneumonia, and I stopped doing that. But I'm sick now, and every time I breathe in, it feels like breathing in that coffee, or aerated pixie-stix, or something I probably shouldn't be inhaling. Gah.


With that in mind, I wanted to pass along to the void an essay by an oncologist for the NY Times entitled 'Healthy right up to the day you're not.' which discusses long-term vs. short-term health. Pretty interesting stuff.

Is the debate over yet? The media hyped me up for laughs and gaffes. This is boring. Biden is Biden, which means he says a sentence in a paragraph. Palin isn't screwing up, but she's boring too, and she strays all over the place. They both lost. The moderator's nice though.

Hi hi! This is me with a few hours downtime and not burned out. This hasn't happened in weeks. I've cut the long stuff.

I was able to catch some House. They promised me clinic hours this season, and I haven't seen them yet. Also, I want O'Shea/House fic. Hopefully (and I know this hope is in vain) he wasn't a one-off character.

If I can continue in this downtime-not-stress-time, I'd like to do or find a fic in which Crandall comes back to town, being his exasperatingly adorable self and trying to 'pay House back' by being a good friend. He and Wilson didn't interact much that I can remember, so he's not aware of all the drama-drama going down, and he's just friendly, and he already knows what to expect from House. He's picked up a journalism job in Jersey somewhere, and House goes over to mooch family dinners and mock/help his daughter's homework. Meanwhile, Wilson's realizing how much he misses House. It follows the last episode, with Crandall taking the place of O'Shea and some of the PI. Or something. All my attempts at Housefic are terrible, and I like side characters too much. Also, I procrastinate. I would actually love it more if someone else wrote it and I got to read it. I'm good at reading.

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Last night I got caught in the rain. Honestly, it wasn't raining when I left, and it stopped only a few minutes after I got home. It was Way Fun. Personally, I can't stand standing water (I don't go into pools, don't bathe, really hate handwashing dishes, for example) but in the rain, 9:30pm with the car headlights driving by and my umbrella and walking through the huge currents as the rainwater gushed to the drains was funsies.

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( Palin-babble )

I'm postdating this a day. This is the organization post for my 7-cross-8 fanfic that I started forever ago but just finished last week. Hopefully, this will be the turning of a new leaf of finishing things I start, but I doubt it. 'Specially now that I finally got cable.

I'm sort of pre-posting this here to check formatting and such before sticking at my ficwad account. I'll probably make changes to the pages within the next few days, and I'm openly soliciting suggestions from others.

Things I'd really like Dear Void's opinion on.

• Title
• Squall's POV section in chapter 2
• Un-warranted tense changes (I have a tendency to miss those)
• Names of in-game places and people that I didn't bother to look up (It's 'Dio', right? And Centra?)


• Also, I think I made up Dio's character. Suggestions are gold
• Do I need the POV changes in the chapter title? I think it's obvious, but I was doing it for organization's sake, as I was shuffling things
• How to beat Pantera Cantus in TWEWY

(Tentative) Title: Time Expansion
Rating: 'G', warning for light swearing, Gen., no pairings aside from mentions of Squall/Rinoa, Cloud/Tifa&Aeris although not together but that would be awesome.
Disclaimer: I own all the FF games, but not the rights to such.
Summary:Sorry to break it to you, Chickenwuss, but I don’t think we’re in Galbadia anymore. The mercenaries of Time Compressed Final Fantasy VIII fall into the war-ravaged land of post-Meteor, pre-Advent Children Final Fantasy VII, and just want to go Home.

Prologue: Rinoa. Chapter 1: Zell, Seifer, Irvine, Selphie.
Interlude: Seifer. Chapter 2: Quistis, Squall.
Chapter 3: Zell, Rinoa, Selphie.
Chapter 4: Cloud. Epilogue: Squall.

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I like House. But it's really, really bad television. There are too many characters that wildly vacillate character. But I still watch, yes? So please, directors, buy a steady cam so I can actually watch Dr. House. I have a widescreen, and I would love if Hugh's lovely face would take up maybe half the screen instead of out of focus blinds or a character in the foreground or a random black pillar. Please stop?

OMG cannot wait for next week. Wilson's pretty smile is pretty. Who the hell did the blood belong to?

BROS BEFORE HOS. WILSON==FAIL.

Also, CTB is a CTB. And Kutner is a dear. And Cameron is annoying.

Ooh, calling it now, That was totally Wilson's blood under House's name. Y/N/MBSo?

Okay, I officially am a Kutner fangirl. He's got Cameron's caring, but he goes about it in a silly pure way, rather than Cameron who went about it through deception and nagging. If she though House may be sick, there'd be a drawn out argument. Kutner just gets some blood (from where?) and tests it. Lovely.

Foreman's reviews were cute, but I still think that Taub is superfluous. The H/W bar scene just seemed odd.

So, we're back to new episodes, much much love, but I hope that the box set for Season 4 will be cheaper seeing as how it's shorter. Though I doubt.

First commercial break, and I've laughed out loud five or so times. Nice. Kutner is wonderful, and I loved the bit where he's talking probability and human condition and smart, and everyone kinda screws their eyes up as he totally digs at House. Wilson is also cute, not wanting to piss off his two most important people, although Amber is coming off less Powerful!Woman and more weepy and brittle, which stinks. At least we still have Cuddy.

Jessie Spencer is Hot. Let's just film him bowling and scruffy for an hour- new spinoff, I promise it'll get high ratings. Yum.

So, Sunday I visited home, and my father wanted to order something off of Amazon.com, and since he didn't have an account, I placed the order under mine. And you have to buy 25$ to get free shipping, yes? And I had my father's credit info. So I totally purchased The Crimson Spell. And now, it just hit me that I basically ordered gay porn to be delivered under my name to my father's house. GAH. Hopefully my brother will intercept, because although my father and I will never ever speak of this, I don't think he wants it in his face. But Ayano Yamane is the shit.

Jack has arrived! But late, always late.

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In all. That Sucked. Not cinematically, or due to bad writing, but it was a wonderful episode that tore my heart out, threw it on the floor, then ground it into the dirt for good measure. I'll probably pick up the start of the next series, but depending on what happens, I may be done with Torchwood.

So, it's come to my attention that in one of the projects I'm in, I'm the only group member who knows how to program in this particular program, at all. I do not recommend this situation to anyone. In any case, we're working in the lab, and they're reading and I'm transcribing, typing as fast as I can with my eyes shut, because frankly I type faster if less correctly that way. One of the guys, in an aside, says, 'You're just one of those people who type-type-type, aren't you?'

And I really am not, because I'm just terrible with words in general, and it all comes out sounding passive and I use too many contractions and clauses and run-on sentences.

But I got to thinking, I *type* everything. I can type ump-ty words per minute, and I know all the keyboard shortcuts, and I don't think I could write a paper by hand if I tried. I can barely read cursive, much less write anything beyond my name. And even that I spell out loud sometimes. Aside from notes in class, which is mostly numbers and equations (don't know cursive, but I can probably give you the greek alphabet) and I honestly don't take that many notes, I don't write. For Easter, (not v. religious, just love the candy holidays) I got a puzzle book, and there was a crossword puzzle that my father and I were doing (because again, I suck at words), and he commented that I wrote horribly, and I was holding the pencil all wrong because my hand was cramping.

Now, my younger brother, who is a high school student, has terrible handwriting, worse than mine, third grade level at best. But he actually has to paper-pencil stuff, where as I really, really don't in my day to day life. Most of my written correspondence is email, rough drafts of paper are even done on the computer, and besides working things out in equations, and maybe taking data to a lab book, I don't ever write anything.

End long, rambling story.

So, dearest void, do you ever write things down? Or should I short my Brio and Bic stock?



Unrelated note: Am downloading the Torchwood S2 finale. Hopefully Owen and Tosh don't get together (B/C he's a wanker), and Owen doesn't die for realz (B/C he's my wanker) and all the Janto fans aren't too thrown into a tizzy, because from what I've seen of the fandom, they could take the rest of us in a fight, easy. It sucks being an Owen fan.

McCain says he is a 'Realistic Idealist', without noting that the two are antonyms. He hopes for a world where 'our interests, and those of our allies, are more peaceful and secure.' Which sucks for our enemies, by the by. If we have allies, it goes to say that we have enemies. If we have enemies, our interests cannot be peaceful and secure. They can be peaceful and threatened, or they can be secure but through shows of force. Pretty sure that's how the world works.

I like McCain on economic policy and social issues, but he's trying to make the election about the War, and on that issue our views split and run to opposite sides of the room. He's hitting a bit on banning torture, developing China and India (which I think will lose him points, but I'm on fence with), and environmentalism, but that's just a quick and dirty epilogue to a war speech. Also, he talks about free trade with sudamericana, and I think that he should let the whole Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela epic play out before committing anything there. We have 'numerous overlapping interests' with China, but McCain wants them to fess up and walk straight before we are anything more than trading partners, which is v. kosh.

And he's back on the war. Tuning out.

Again, if he changes his war policy, or even downplays it in the upcoming months, I would be amiable to voting for the guy. Obama, I feel, would be a great vehicle for social and political change, even if I don't agree with his policy I'm interested in his ideas. But I don't think the democratic party will let me vote for him. Hilary... Really? She's just so... Not Bill. The only reason she's getting the Hispanic vote is because we think a vote for her is a vote for him. And it isn't. She plays politics well, and I'm frankly tired of politicking. Obama and McCain appear to be at least trying to stay on the issues.



On an unrelated note, my peanut butter cup cookies are done. Don't you wish you were here?