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Soooo haven't updated in forever.

1. As you all know, I went on a CRUUUIISE. It was the first time my sheltered midwestern ass had ever been outside the US, so it was pretty exciting. My favorite was Cozumel even though all we really did there was drive around in an open-top Jeep avoiding hitting these huge iguanas and feeling like we were in Jurassic Park or something. And we went on a tequila tour and drank really good really expensive tequila. It was so beautiful there and urgh, I got sunburned SO BAD despite putting on sunscreen that morning and that had to be the night we had the formal dinner back on the ship so I was supposed to look all nice and was very...pink :/

LOL, days before I left there were all these news stories about stuff like E. coli break-outs happening on these cruise ships and one or two them was actually the cruise line we were on so people kept going "Oh, uh-oh" when I told them I was going on a cruise. Well, I know how to wash a hand and apparently so did everyone else cause as far as I know nobody got sick.

Also, we were in New Orleans for a day and got to hang out at one of the Mardi Gras parades when we got back (It is decidedly G-rated in the daytime). So we screamed for free shit (they were throwing everything from cups to bags of potato chips, it was kind of funny) and then ate at an amazing seafood restaurant.

Bluh, so there may be pictures from this trip later, I don't know. I never take pictures but Shep's mama is trying to get to me a disc full of pictures she took.

2. Uuum, I watched the first season of Hell On Wheels. Is anyone watching this show? It didn't blow my face off, but it's good. Colm Meaney, if you've never seen him play an asshole before, makes a very good asshole with a sorta complicated vulnerable side. One of the big highlights for me is that Christopher Heyerdahl (Alistair 2.0 in SPN!) is a semi-regular as the seedy security officer. And there's plenty of eye candy - the main character reminds me a bit of Viggo Mortensen (yum?) and I'm really starting to ship him with the predictable love interest of one of the lead females (the inclusion of female characters really isn't bad, considering the setting). The downside is that there are definitely a couple mostly bland characters, though one of the two I find really boring I do start to warm up to a lot at the end of S1.

3. I am no longer living with my parents. I don't think I could stand it anymore if I was.

4. As it seems to come up in half of the articles/rhetoric against gay marriage that I come across, I am forever perplexed at the "What's next? LEGALIZED GROUP MARRIAGE??!?!?!!? OMG" idea spouted by people who clearly believe it is this fool-proof weapon of argument that will shock all of us into clutching our pearls. Like, LOL, you must not have heard me correctly when I said that I really do not care what other people do with their sex/love lives as long as it's negotiated and desired between consenting adults.

5. Oh, and I saw This Means War. Both positive and negative opinions about the movie seem unanimous in stating that the real love story is between the main dudes (Ebert actually said, "Clearly they are gay.") This is fact.
Now, I don't think Chris is a terrible actor, but in a movie where he has many scenes with Tom Hardy he is out-acted, to the point that it was almost distracting. I'm not much of a fangirl of Tom but I am a fan (as much as I can be while only having seen him in a few things).( spoilers )

Please tell me the new delicious site is just having some kinks and isn't going to always be like this. If I click on a tag that's supposed to have over a hundred links, all I get is one page of the most recent bookmarks with that tag. The navigation links at the main page only go up to 4. My tag bundles are gone.
I would have moved all my bookmarks if I knew it was gonna suck this bad.

FF.NET NEEDS TO DIE.

The site has apparently been eating up almost everything that people are using as breaks (there is some way to put lines in which I haven't even figured out, a lot of people have been using asterisks or whatever). Which without a doubt compromises the quality of your work. As in, every section looks like one section without any kind of gap at all. And this is happening to everything, which means authors are having to go to a whole lot of work to re-upload stuff that's too old for them to still have a copy to edit. I was able to edit my latest fic. I'm really not sure how motivated I am to fix everything else. Jesus, that stupid site. The best you can hope for is that the readers are becoming aware of the problem.

Does support care? One person on ffdotnetrants recounts:

I e-mailed them and got a response last night.

A very terse, stupid response.

Me:
"It would appear ff.net has EATEN all of my section breaks.
In some fics I use asterisks, *** centered. Those are gone. A few others that use asterisks and o's in various formats seem to have stayed.

Please advise on how to fix this without having to upload EVERYTHING again.

~psycochick32"

Response:
"The site is designed to omit certain formats and fonts. Use something else.

--
James
FanFiction.Net Support"


UGH UGH UGH. Apparently this problem has come up, gone away, and come up again, which makes me seriously not want to devote the time to fixing anything.

I AM GOING TO BED.

The BSG fandom in general is getting on my nerves lately. It's never been my favorite, actually, since I've never really felt like the LJ communities had quite what I needed for a place to flail even when the show was still airing. These days it seems like most people are either only there for their precious ship or only there to bash a ship (or so you'd think by the way they talk) or to bash the ending of the show, which all is okay from time to time but makes for a pretty disgruntled/unfriendly atmosphere. ( me having petty annoyances, blah blah )
Anyway, if you can't get over your post-finale bitterness for a show - I find myself asking this in many fandoms - why stick around? Is it just to read predictable slews of happy-ever-after fic? Whatever. I give up. Caprica time.

And whoo, somebody finally put out a Caprican Buccaneers t-shirt on cafepress: http://www.cafepress.com/+cbucs_dark_tshirt,391303386. WANT.

Even though I have loved Harry Potter for years and could be pressed to occasionally peruse fanart or fics, I don't know if I will ever be involved heavily into the actual fandom. I think the reason for this is because it is so intensely popular that there are wankers everywhere. The age and demographic is so universal that finding people you can actually agree with and relate to on a lot of things seems kind of dauntingly difficult, especially when there is an overwhelming amount of characters/ships/theories involved, both in- and outside of canon. In the past week, I have only dwelled briefly in my post-OOTP movie excitement, and I'm already pissed off. *sigh*...Wankers who bitch about how they hate the movies because, "My favorite part of the book isn't in the movie whine whine.." like they literally don't understand that it's impossible, when adapting a book into a movie, for them to be exactly the same. And this dumbass today who accused Sara of not being adequately obsessed because she is not currently rereading any of the books for the third time in preparation for the next one. Uh-huh. Even though her reasoning was that she wanted the books to feel new to her when she picked them up to reread them for as long as possible. Even though she's been in-and-out of hiatus on finishing her Marauders-era fic for years, but is not giving up on it. It feels like the fandom is full of a bunch of snobby losers who compete over how many tiny-ass little details from the book they can remember and who's theory is going to be right. OMG SHUT UP. SO NOT MY FANDOM TODAY.
This is kind of making me realize that I'm extremely favorable to smaller fandoms. I mean, BBM has a small bunch, and that was the first fandom I really got into on LiveJournal. I just like fandoms that strike a good balance between sadly inactive and unpleasantly huge. Even though some people might get bored with the lack of bustling activity in a smaller group of fans, I've had experiences of running into the same people on different websites or message boards, and I think it's kind of cool. And you could even argue that a small fandom has louder staying power than a big one after the show is cancelled or the books are finished, etc., because it's easier to make friends. People form really interesting relationships through fandom (christ, just ask "the wives") and sometimes that keeps them coming back when the actual subject of the fandom isn't currently the first thing on their minds.
Oh, and of course the other advantage is troll patrol. In a huge fandom, when the idiots are just everywhere, it gets to be kind of a mess that people can't really fix by banding together. But when everybody more or less knows each other and suddenly some total psycho shows up out of nowhere, you get more of a one-against-the-rest level of ultimate wank combat.
It's kind of funny when I go on and on about stuff like this when I haven't actually been involved in tons of fandom life...