Man, was I bored last week. Stayed in every night to get over being sick as quickly as possible. And it worked (for the most part.) This week:

Monday-- Impromptu shopping and dinner with jenn_ness. Thanks Borders, for sending me an awesome coupon I had to use to put it all in motion. Unfortunately the Ninth Doctor was not in residence at the Glendale Borders, so I got "My So-Called Life" instead. Watching it again is like a big ball of curly-wurly time stuff curling in on itself and being able to talk to my fifteen year old self: painfully moving, not quite as good as I remembered (imagined?) it would be, and almost impossible.

Tuesday-- Company Christmas party at Disneyland. Great, fun, too short! Got down there a bit late as a school bus clipped our bus while getting on the freeway, resulting in half an hour by the side of the road and accident reports for all. Still, ran all over the park, went on lots of rides, had fun. We were both amazed when midnight came. Could have sworn it was only 10.30 or 11. Of course, once my body knew what time it was, I was exhausted and slept most of the way home.

Wednesday-- As B just pointed out, I need to get some sleep. I'm a wee bit cranky today and my pet peeve (repeating myself) is coming into play A LOT. Christmas tree shopping with the roomie and an early night. Thank goodness.

Thursday-- SWEENEY TODD SNEAK PREVIEW! Which is great, cause I really really want to see it, and I'm really really sure I'm probably going to hate it so I very much didn't want to pay for it. Win-win!

Friday-- Christmas tree lighting and holiday carnival here on the lot. Should be fun, and then an early night to rest up for the weekend o' Disney.

Saturday-- Disneyland with playmayt in the morning, holiday party afterwards.

Sunday-- Disney games and movies with playmayt, including Song of the South! Should be fun.

I thought scheduling the ever-loving life out of the next two weeks would snap me out of this funk. It did well enough for the weekend but today is grey, blue, and various shades of ugh.

Friday-- Dinner at Pitfire and four one-act plays by Noel Coward: Well, dinner was kind of the highlight of the evening. The plays were alright, actually kind of reminded me of Roald Dahl's surprisingly dark short stories. Some humor in the dim bits of life, but mostly lots of unhappiness. Yay? The Unintentionally Hilarious award goes to the waltz sung in the last play. Anybody seen All That Jazz? Remember that awful sexy sex airplane sex musical number with the song "Take off with us/ Take off with us...?" The first two lines of the waltz had exactly that beat, tone, count, everything but the words. It was all I could do to not giggle.

Saturday-- SoCal Games Day! Arrived a bit late, but played lots of fun stuff and stuck to my no fried foods pledge despite the delicious onion rings at Everest. Met up with playmayt for the all-star cast of the year: Eddie Izzard, Tim Curry, Billy Connolly, Emily Mortimer, Jane Leeves, Tracey Ullman, Jim Piddock, and Eric Idle in Idle's new play, "What About Dick?" How did all those names fit in one little paragraph, much less on the same stage? It was a staged reading of Idle's "film for radio," presented as a radio program with actors sitting at the back of the stage when quiet and sharing three microphones to speak their parts. It was funny, it was filthy, and Tim Curry's voice is the single most beautiful sound I have ever heard in my life, but the play itself wasn't that good. It felt very disconnected and patched together and the extended EM Forster/Howard's End/films of Emma Thompson & Anthony Hopkins parody just didn't work for me. The people watching was fun, though. Lots of Brits, movers & shakers and stars and such, and I'm pretty certain I saw Jeff Lynne striding up the aisle wearing sunglasses during intermission (really? 9.30pm inside the theatre and really? O... K...) Billy Connolly was the hit of the night with an incomprehensible Scottish detective, and Eddie Izzard was very cute while dropping things and being silly, and, well, everyone was excellent, but. It's no Spamalot.

Sunday-- Din Tai Fung! More Games! Agricola, which is unbelievably amazing. But I was hitting my MustHaveProtein wall so bailed, only to find that I'd left my lights on and my car was dead. Chris was very kind and as he put it, jumped me outside. Made it home safe, toasted up a little dinner and happily watched Torchwood.

Monday, today-- Awful migraine kept me home this morning and I've felt sick all day, but cannot stay home tonight as I have Spoon tickets. Any other band... any less money spent... and it would be me and my jammies and the Doctor Who S2 disc 6 of special features, fer sure. As it is, I will rally. I must. "Anything You Want" demands it.
( Rest of the schedule for this week and next back here: )

So last night all my dreams were about transportation. Boring, mundane transportation. I was on buses, in cars, vans, commuter trains. I wasn't going anywhere interesting and the sky outside was always grey. I don't often remember dreams and they're not usually this thickly themed. I spent the entire night travelling, people, and got nowhere. I woke up exhausted. What does this mean?

Also, a far more interesting than the last paragraph meme, from clndestyn:

1. Post a list of seven TV shows you love (current or canceled).
2. Have your friends list guess your favorite character from each show.
3. When guessed, bold the line and write a little bit about why you like that character.

1. Sports Night - Dana - doctorphizzle got it! Yes, I love Dana. She was an inspiration to me despite (or perhaps because of) her pigheadedness and unperdictable nature. She was nurturing and harsh. I totally understood that.

2. Veronica Mars - Logan - songlian got it! Yeah, this is a bit of a no-brainer. He's smart and funny and wonderful and just wants to love someone. His Dad's cold and Mom's gone and he's just so in need of someone who will stick around. And that's probably why I hated S3 Veronica so much, cause she just couldn't see that side of him that the rest of us did, but she was the only one who had a chance of making him happy.

3. Growing Pains - Carol - songlian got it again! Oh, I WAS Carol. I identified with her as the geeky smart girl who was continually told she wasn't pretty or attractive. I hated the brother Mike with a passion still not equaled. Mike is probably my least favorite character from all of TV. When she got back together with her boyfriend Sandy (they'd broken up because of his drinking) and then they fought at the prom cause he was drinking again and she made him take her home early and then he got in an accident and died after they had a huge blow-out fight at her place cause he was driving drunk I cried. It may have been the first time I cried at TV and maybe the hardest. My heart was broken right along with Carol's, cause Sandy thought the world of her and that was great validation for dorky little me.

4. Doctor Who - The Ninth Doctor - jonqui got it! Christopher Eccleston is half the reason I started watching in the first place and he did not disappoint. His Doctor is strong and funny and wonderful. It's really nice to get to see him smile for once, but I like him best when he's unapologetic about the difficult decisions he has to make.

5. The O.C. - Ryan Atwood - molly_drew got it! Kid Chino is made of awesome. When he loves, he loves with all he is and forever. He would defend any of his friends and family with his last breath and that loyalty wins me over completely. He's just such a good, strong, honest person, and it was more than I could have hoped to get a glimpse of the wonderful man he was going to become in the finale. Just thinking about it I feel like I'm about to cry all over again.

6. Torchwood - Captain Jack Harkness - jonqui and someone who wishes to remain anonymous got it! He's dark, he's mysterious, he's funny, he's tarty, he's smart, he's strong, he's witty, and come on people, he's just plain fun to look at. Captain Jack is a big part of my favorite episode from Doctor Who (definitely the Brit TV one where he blows Trinny & Suzannah away-- that cracked me up!) but on Torchwood he really comes into his own. He's just so intriguing. And did I mention how very very pretty?

7. Murphy Brown

My guilty pleasure. Mine. It is so embarrassing.

This show. This show I was sure I would hate. This show I did hate last spring when they forced the pilot down our throats. It was cut in that episode of that show that used to be so good. It was cut in really badly, and only served to slow down the already failing show, drag one painful hour into two that felt like three, and make the other show look really really grey because the production values were so different.

I hated this show on sight. It was a spin-off with a minor character who had turned around and become one of the few palatable people on this show that used to be good. This character was now leaving the show, taking most of what I liked with it. This did not make me happy. Also, it had that guy who I haaaaaaaaaaaaaated last year. HAAAAAATTTTEEED. Oh, how I hated Piz. I totally joined in the name calling and the mocking and the haaaaaatttteee. Because Piz so totally deserved it.

But this show. This show with Addison. I love it. Against my will, I love it. Cooper and Violet and Pete and Addison and Sam and Dell. Yes, I even like Dell. This show is so good that I no longer hate Chris Lowell. It's only Piz I had the problem with. Lowell is not so bad when he's not being used as a pawn to break the hearts of showlovers everywhere.

I admit it. I have a problem. I love "Private Practice." It's fluffy and silly and too pretty and too cute and um. It's escapism. It makes me smile. I love it. I won't say "please don't judge," cause hey, I'm the one calling it a guilty pleasure. I know I love it maybe more than it deserves. But I do. It's like a Three Musketeers bar in the middle of the day. You know you shouldn't, you know you'll forget it the second you're done with it, but it's really not as bad as some of the stuff you could be indulging in.

OMG Torchwood. OMG Jack. OMG Yanno. Dude, guys! Who here is watching Torchwood? Bria, did I see this over in your neck of the woods a while back? Somebody's got to want to talk about this. Oh, I love this show.

Also, Doctor Who? I did not know I still had it in me to love yet another show this much. Feel free to scold me for showing up very late to this party.

My schedule this week.

Monday-- Employee screening of "Something Wicked This Way Comes" with Ray Bradbury in attendance. He spoke before the screening and it was enough to make me want to read every word the man ever wrote, since I've only ever read 451 for high school. Then I watched the creepy scary movie. I curled up into a ball at the tarantulas in the bedroom scene and didn't uncurl til the lights came up. Remember, I am the girl who slept with her lights on for three nights after seeing "The Ring." Maybe I don't need to read every word Ray Bradbury wrote.

Tuesday-- Sleeeeep. Grocery shoppiiiiiiing. Maybe even cooooooooking.

Wednesday-- Games.

Thursday-- Dexter! Watching Dexter every other week with liebewanze. Every other week means two hours of Dexter. Which is a good thing.

Friday-- Halloween party.

Saturday-- Evel Knievel: The Rock Opera with playmayt. Then bed early because...

Sunday-- MyPC Disneyland event! Technically starts at 10am but might be there earlier if beatnikside wants to take full adavantage of his day with the Mouse. I believe the park opens at 8. We're game if you are, my good man.

From ladyofbrileith, but I expect to see it all over my flist later today. VMars folks, Step, I'm looking at you.

Rules:
- Bold all of the following TV shows of which you've seen 3 or more episodes.
- Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode.
- Asterisk if you have seen at least one full season on tape or DVD

( It's back here cause whoa is it a long list. )

What do we learn from this? That I watch a lot of TV. A LOT. Too much? Maybe.

Graham Norton and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen are not available to wishlist.

Hmph. Stupid TiVo.

From mondaysabitch:

Random Joy

1. What's your favourite tv talk show? Talk show? Hmmm. Larry Sanders, probably. There's not really one I watch regularly. Fernwood Tonight hasn't been on in years, so I guess that's not in the running.

2. Do you like crackers in your soup? Sometimes. Depends on the soup. But never animal.

3. How much does money motivate you? In terms of choosing my job? Very little. I'd rather enjoy what I do. Of course, if I couldn't support myself doing what I enjoy, I would be motivated to get something that paid enough for me to live on, but left enough time free that I could still do much of what I like.

4. Do you have a garden? (For bonus points: Is it a secret? :P) Heehee, nope. But I like the question.

5. Do you enjoy the traditional Thanksgiving dinner (turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, etc.)? Does your family have any other food-related traditions for this season? Definitely! I love turkey, dressing (stuffing is EVIL,) green bean casserole, gravy, and pumpkin, apple, and pecan pies! Porcupine meatballs, beef stew, and taco bake are popular dishes in my family when the weather turns colder and we want something warm and comforting.

Currently Season Passed (In order, as in higher on the list will pre-empt lower on the list:)

Gossip Girl
Moonlight
Torchwood
The Office
Life is Wild
Saturday Night Live
30 Rock
Friday Night Lights
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
The Graham Norton Show
Take Home Handyman-- Premieres this week, first show is at Angela Kinsey's house. And Mindy Kaling stops by to help out with the projects. HOW COULD I NOT?
Mad About You
Project Runway
Murphy Brown
The Twilight Zone
New Yankee Workshop
The Simpsons
The Wonder Years
Good Eats
Rick Steves' Travels in Europe
Tim Gunn's Guide to Style

And Actor Wishlist, in alphabetical order only:

Garai, Romola-- She reminds me of my cousin Lou, who is also pretty awesome.
Garson, Greer-- I need to see more movies with her in them.
Grant, Cary
Graves, Rupert
Izzard, Eddie
Kerr, Deborah
Martin, Steve-- Most active wishlist so far. I've deleted Cheaper by the Dozen 2 four times already.
Nighy, Bill
Polley, Sarah
Radner, Gilda
Rae, Charlotte-- Because The Facts of Life was not available for season passing.
Rea, Stephen
Redford, Robert
Reubens, Paul
Smith, Kevin

I love my TiVo. We're very happy together.

Sorry. It's a thing that we do out here. Pretty much any number of any things someone says ends up in a fountain. You'd be surprised how long this can stay funny.

From mondaysabitch:

Random Joy

1. What are your thoughts on sites like Facebook/Myspace/Friendster etc.? I dig 'em. I'm listed on all three, but haven't been to Friendster in months, and have only stayed on Myspace in the hope that even more random schoolmates from the past find me. I'm pretty active on Facebook though. Very fun.

2. What was the last play you saw? As in stage performance? Avenue Q. But if you consider that a musical instead, you nit-picker you, I think the last straight play I saw was Fat Pig at the Geffen. Excellent, highly recommend it.

3. What's your opinion on the vegan lifestyle? An amazing commitment I could never make. Takes a lot of work to do it properly, which many who attempt to follow it do not do. It's not for me to judge. Also, it means more steak for the rest of us, so it's cool with me.

4. If you were to give your current home a name, what would it be? Hmm. Laverne? If you don't open the blinds deliberately there's no light in there, so I always feel a little like I'm in Laverne & Shirley's basement apartment if I get home and my roomie didn't leave the blinds open.

5. How do you like your eggs? Ugh. NOT AT ALL. I hate eggs.

MEME NUMBER TWO, From stepliana:

Post 10 things that recently made you happy. Then tag 10 people and force them to post this meme on their LJs.

Apparently this is a Texas edition of our regularly scheduled meme. Sorry about that. Deal.
1. Finding out our contact on a show went to UT. Investigated this because his email address involves Earl Campbell. Awesome.

2. Fried chicken wings and a Belgian waffle at the Breakfast Klub in Houston Saturday morning.

3. Running into a friend from high school and college at the nail salon in Sugar Land Saturday afternoon. Some of those people were great.

4. Biggio's last game as an Astro at Minute Maid Park. Every time he came up to bat he got a standing ovation and had to wait a minute before he stepped into the box. After the game he ran around the entire field and high-fived every fan he could reach from the field. The man is made of class.

5. At one point at the reunion I and another unmarried classmate were showing each other pictures of other classmates' babies that we carry around with us. This amused me to no end.

6. My Dad getting me a Chick-Fil-A fried chicken biscuit Saturday morning before we went out for breakfast, even though he knew this meant I would not eat much of what I ordered.

7. Spending lots of time with Eleanor, the most darling girl who lives inside the loop.

8. Going shopping with my mom Saturday afternoon before we got our toes done.

9. Knowing that I have a wing and a biscuit from The Breakfast Klub in the fridge for dinner tonight.

10. Knowing that I'll be back in Texas for over a week at Thanksgiving!

I don't tag. Tag, you're it!

Reunion was interesting. From a graduating class of hundreds, about 60 to 80 Clements Rangers of 1997 (shut up) showed up. 10 - 15 of them I actually wanted to talk to. Surreal moment of the night:

Big Man on Campus emceed the "Shout Out" or "Most/Least" portion of the night, whatever you want to call it. Y'know, "most changed," "least changed," that crap. Suddenly he yells:

BMOC: Where Erin ------ at?

ME: I'm right here.

BMOC: Where Erin ------? Where are you, girl?

ME: I'M RIGHT HERE. (Maybe he didn't recognize me cause he never said a damn word to me in four years of high school during which my best friend's little sister was one of his best friends? Heh.)

He walks over, shoves a microphone in my face.

BMOC: Where you workin'?

ME: ABC.

BMOC: ABC what?

ME: ABC Television.

BMOC: What do you do there?

ME: Blah blah blah (my department.)

By this point I'm thinking DROP IT cause my job is really only impressive if you don't know what I do. And he does. He turns to walk back to the stage area in the middle of the floor yelling:

BMOC: SHE'S THE NEWEST INTERN ON GREY'S ANATOMY, Y'ALL!

And the place blows up. It was kinda funny. So I guess I won Most Interesting Job? Which is ridiculous, as there were two doctors present, one of them a pediatric neurosurgeon, a guy who works at the Pentagon (who played Elvis in the play I directed senior year,) not to mention the Adonis jock who graduated from Westpoint and is now flying Black Hawks in Iraq, our valedictorian who lives in Paris, and our posterchild "Alternative Girl" who apparently lives in London.

So by the end of the night I was joking with a guy I used to hang out with in English class and I told him in all confidence that yes, I was now on the show and I'm actually Meredith's sister. It'll come out in a shocking twist towards the end of the season. Hope I didn't spoil it for y'all.

TiVo arrived! My TiVo! It's here! Big brown box! On my chair! TiVo! It's here!

Also, the photograph I bought. Cool.

But! TiVo! I have TiVo! TiVo! Set it up tonight! TiiiiiiiiiiVoooooooooo!

Occasionally I do silly, frivolous, ridiculous things. This meme is one of the least outrageous and destructive of them. Feel free to skip it, though.

Also, MOM: Sorry about all the cussing. It was cut and paste, I swear.

Stolen from stepliana, because I've been comparing VMars to an abusive ex for long enough now.

The one who seduced you and fucked you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it:
stepliana's answer, "The Black Donnellys" is pretty good. I reserve my answer until after said program premieres tomorrow night. There'll be an extremely ranty post that will link back to this one, don't worry.

The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp in the sheets:
Old sitcoms like "Mad About You," and "The Wonder Years," and "Benson" and "Night Court," and "Maude." There are days when I really miss those shows. ALSO, "The OC." I rewatch those discs most often of all the TV I own. In fact, if the last two discs of Dexter S1 aren't in the mailbox when I got home, I just realized what tonight's plans are.

The mysterious dark gothy one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3 a.m. at weird coffeehouses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized he really was fucking crazy:
"Damages." I broke this off before it got really crazy. My poor roommate is still caught up in it. I feel like I'm the soldier who's lucky they got killed early in the war and my poor roommate is still stuck miserable and under fire with horrible trenchfoot in the freezing rain. That's how bad this show is.

The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor, and whom you'd still really like to fuck again although you're relieved he doesn't actually live in town:
"24." I watched all of S1 in three days. Three days that I also worked 10 hour shifts. I could do nothing else until they were done. It was kinda bad. I haven't watched a single episode since. They're like crack.

The steady:
"Sports Night." Now and forever.

The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with:
"The Closer." I watched a few of this season's episodes with my roommate, but I'm going to have to netflix it from the beginning to properly fall in love with this show. And the TV queue is already close to 500. So we'll see when that happens.

The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with but ultimately you're just good buddies 'cause the friendship is there but the chemistry ain't:
"House." I just can't get that excited about a procedural. Also, I don't like the deep gravelly voice Hugh Laurie uses in it, and I have issues with non-funny Hugh Laurie. As in it confuses the hell out of me.

The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool guy except it's never really gone anywhere:
"Heroes." Y'all just won't shut up about it. And yes, one of you finally forced loaned me S1. So I will watch it and see.

The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at him and thinking, "Him? How the hell did he land all these cool babes?":
"Lost." I hated the first four episodes. I've been told this means I have no soul, but really, it means I have more time Wednesday nights. Whatev.

The one your friend has fallen for like a ton of bricks and whom she keeps babbling to you about on the phone for hours, and you'd be happy for her except you just know it's going to end badly:
Hmm. "Supernatural." Based on how Buffy, VMars, Smallville (ongoing,) and many others limped painfully into that great night, I am worried about y'all. I see nothing but insane love and enthusiasm on my flist, and I worry that when it turns, it's gonna turn bad in a big way.

The ones you repeatedly cheat on your steady with:
Friday Night Lights, Pushing Daisies, The Office, Six Feet Under, Coupling, Wonderfalls.

And I'm glad I did it. I'm overjoyed, actually!

I've been wanting a TiVo of my own for quite a while. Oh, about ever since I ordered my roommate's. But I wanted a bigger machine so I was going to save for it. Well, if I wait til I have $300 together for that, I'll always find something else to spend the $300 on. So that's not worth it. The regular old Series 2 80 hour is working pretty well in the living room, and for $100 that's not bad. But that $100. Wouldn't it be better spent on the trip to Dallas I have planned for November, or towards the car I need, or towards Houston in Christmas, or towards the laptop that would be nice to replace the 2002 relic I have right now? Probably.

So I indulged myself in one of the few spoiled only child moments I (rarely) have. I remembered that my parents are always asking what I want for Christmas. And this time I really know. And it would be nice to have it now (should have had this thought a couple weeks ago so it could be all set up well before the new season, but I digress) instead of at Christmas when the season's half over. So I called. I asked for some Christmas money early, told them exactly what I wanted it for. And they were cool with it. Happy about it, actually. Cause this time I'll really love and use what they gave me. Every day. With joy and reverence. I have a feeling I'll write poetry and songs about it and never leave my room again.

I'M GETTING TIVO!

I'm gonna have Moonlight and Friday Night Lights and Chuck and Reaper and HBO stuff and everything Steve Martin does that passes TiVo's little eye and Night Court and The Wonder Years and Benson and Alton Brown and probably Ewan McGregor and Colin Firth and Kenneth Branagh and Gossip Girl. All at my fingertips. Whenever I want. Swoon.

Oh, another reason I hadn't gotten the TiVo yet is because the TV cabinet I bought almost a year ago is still sitting in my car while my TV sits on the floor of my room with the cable box and DVD player on top of it. Shut up, the cabinet pieces are heavy. And I haven't really had anyone to help me carry it all in and build it, unless I want to impose on my roommate. So this weekend Kevin will help me cart the suff in and build the damn thing Sunday afternoon so the TiVo box will have a place to go. I'll also redo the light fixture so the cord doesn't threaten to decapitate people me everytime they I pass it. Too short cord for where I hung it from the ceiling.




PS-- Kevin doesn't know yet that the weekend includes a construction project. It's a surprise?

This thing! At the Paley! I'm going!



A rave hit with critics, AMC's Mad Men is—per Vanity Fair's James Wolcott—a "rat-packish safari" through the urban jungle of New York advertising in the 1960s, as drawn by former Sopranos scribe Matthew Weiner. Join the cast and creative team for a screening and discussion of—among other things—just who is Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and why is everyone saying such nice things about him?

In Person:
Matthew Weiner, Series Creator
Jon Hamm, "Don Draper"
Elisabeth Moss, "Peggy"
Vincent Kartheiser, "Pete"
January Jones, "Betty"
John Slattery, "Roger"
Christina Hendricks, "Joan"

I am so excited I cannot even tell you. Have I mentioned this show and how excellent it is? Cause you really should be watching it. All of you. AMC-- it's not just for Saturday afternoon "The Great Escape" marathons with convenient commercial bathroom & sandwich breaks anymore.

Dude.

That should be their new slogan. On a T-shirt or something.

S2 opener of FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS is available here.

Go watch it.

I just finished it and I think I'm about to watch it again.

Oh, this show.

This could be good or it could be horrible. Scott Rudin just bought the rights to I, Claudius. Great book, great miniseries. Nothing is set up, nothing else is signed, but apparently Leonardo DiCaprio is sniffing. Claudius? Hmmm. Gauis Caligula, maybe. That could work. Either way, I'm excited! If you've never read it, I highly recommend it. I was surprised at how not-dry and very very accessible, fun, and entertaining the book was. Much better and easier than I thought it would be. And the miniseries with Derek Jacobi... once you see it you'll know where HBO's "Rome" came from. Apparently there's also a 1930s movie directed by Josef von Sternberg starring Charles Laughton. Must find that...

PS-- watched my very first Doctor Who episodes last night. The first ones, actually, from 1963? 64? Interesting, not yet all-consuming, but I'll keep going. Getting all the way up to the new Christopher Eccleston series (well, not so new anymore as there's now a later Dr. Who than him) is going to be a real treat and quite a journey through 40 years of BBC television. Woo-hoo!

Meme first. From mondaysabitch, as usual:

Random Joy

1.When I dance I look like ________? I'm having fun. Peanut gallery, shush it!

2.Who's your favourite famous alien? playmayt, yeah, I almost said that, but I gotta go with Spock. Oldie but a goodie.

3.If you're a fan of __________ don't talk to me? Matchbox 20. Present company excluded, but only just. *shudder*

4.When is the last time someone yelled at you and why? Hmm. Last Saturday night. It sucked. I screwed up and everyone was tired.

5.What is your favourite Justin Timberlake song? I don't know that I have one... wait. Homelesstown? That SNL skit where he schooled the Salvation Army Santa. That was pretty good.

And THIS JUST IN:

Disneyland's raising the prices on character meals again, and now Ariel's Grotto is more than Goofy's Kitchen! It used to be something of a deal, cause it was about half the price (just over $15 to Goofy's $30 per adult) and they brought you a dish of warm fresh cotton candy between courses. Now that's my idea of a palate cleanser. But with the new prices as of September 12th:

Minnie & Friends - Breakfast in the Park at Plaza Inn (Disneyland) - Adults $25.99, Kids (3-9) $13.99
Ariel's Disney Princess Celebration at Ariel's Grotto (Disney's California Adventure) Adults $27.99, Kids (3-9) $15.99
Lilo & Stitch Aloha Breakfast at Disney's PCH Grill (Paradise Pier Hotel) - Adults $25.99, Kids (3-9) $13.99
Chip 'n Dale Critter Breakfast at Storyteller's Cafe (Grand Californian Hotel) - Adults $25.99, Kids (3-9) $13.99
Goofy's Kitchen (Disneyland Hotel) Brunch - Adults $25.99, Kids (3-9) $13.99
Goofy's Kitchen (Disneyland Hotel) Dinner - Adults $31.99, Kids (3-9) $13.99

It's now about comparable with Goofy's for dinner and more than brunch, while the food is still nowhere near as good, and the cotton candy is no more. Pfft. I see no reason to ever go back to Ariel's.

Excellent ham at the commissary today. Yes, Kids in the Hall fans, it was that good. And as I thought that, I suddenly remembered that there is in fact a chance that I might see Bruce McCulloch on the lot someday. And that effin' good ham and McCulloch combined to make me smile, right there, by myself, eating lunch. But, oof. Am full.