Baxter loves me
Sep. 24th, 2009 12:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sigmastolenThe kitties are lying in a T-shape exactly where my ass needs to be in order for me to sleep in my bed. I don't know what to do, they're all purring and sleepy and adorable and I don't want to move them.
We're observing at Santa Monica HS tomorrow morning. Google Maps says it should take me 15 minutes on the 10 in traffic but somehow I don't believe it. I might save my "easy walk 30 min" for the evening so I can leave at 7:15.
First lesson of the year, tomorrow at 3. I still haven't decided if it will be a playing lesson or a talking lesson. (Well, it'll be a talking lesson no matter what, I just don't know if I should subject Steinmetz to how unprepared I am in advance of my audition tomorrow at 8. Forewarned is forearmed? It might lower his expectations and then if I do better at the audition it will be much better in comparison? FEH.)
Watched NCIS S7 premiere during dinner. OMG, SHOW. OMG. MY HEART ACHES FOR YOU. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. GIBBS IS TOTES SLEEPING WITH VANCE. TONY/ZIVA FOREVER. EXCEPT FOR SOMETIMES TO ALLOW TONY & MCGEE TO HAVE MAN-DATES.
Post-practise (which was... half-okay, half-:c ) I watched the premiere of NCIS: Los Angeles. WTF, SHOW. WTF. I wish I had seen the episode(s) in which this show spun off from NCIS, because, WHAT. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN. I mean. WHAT. Someone in the comments to someone else's blog was all, "It looks like the creators watched Torchwood right before they made this," and I agree. Bizarre undercover base? Technological focus (particularly on tech that will be laughably outdated in a year)? Homoerotic undertones/banter (and okay, I know everyone so far is all, Chris O'Donnell/LL Cool J FTW!! but O'Donnell had a Look with Cute Glasses Techie during the obligatory INTRODUCE THE CAST scene and hey, that would be fine with me. Except Cute Glasses Techie seems to be kind of.... less of a player in the dynamic.) and really blatant "openmindedness" (because hey, this is LA, right??? The Navy intel guy can be gay lovers with the paratrooper if he wants! Except apparently not. BUT WE'LL TOTES TALK ABOUT IT TO SHOW HOW PROGRESSIVE WE ARE.)? I'm intending to keep a particular eye out for race!fail in this, with special attention to portrayal of hispanic people (part of this is politicized blogs I have been reading, and part of this is my new Social Justice Educator Goggles). So far, we have (1) people related to Mexican drug cartels and (2) gardeners. I AM WAITING FOR YOU TO IMPRESS ME, SHOW. And thus far, the only really favourable things are: Edna Mode (AHAHAHA srsly Linda Hunt is Edna Mode) and Hey Wasn't That Guy In Some Superhero Movie (Chris O'Donnell, formerly known as Robin/Dick Grayson in the 90's Batman films -- OMG JULIE REMEMBER HOW WE USED TO WATCH THOSE OVER AND OVER? THAT WAS GOOD TIMES) and Dude Did You Know LL Cool J Is Still Alive? Me Neither.
So yeah.
I guess I had a lot more to say about NCIS:LA than I thought I would.
The kitties have moved out of my way by now, at least. Baxter has been doing this adorable thing where he puts his front paws and his face on whatever of my body parts is nearest him, and then stares adoringly up at my face. IT'S THE BEST EVER. Well, no, maybe not, because as I explained to my bosses today, STRING is in fact the best ever. (Crumpled-up paper is almost as good as string, but not quite.)
We're observing at Santa Monica HS tomorrow morning. Google Maps says it should take me 15 minutes on the 10 in traffic but somehow I don't believe it. I might save my "easy walk 30 min" for the evening so I can leave at 7:15.
First lesson of the year, tomorrow at 3. I still haven't decided if it will be a playing lesson or a talking lesson. (Well, it'll be a talking lesson no matter what, I just don't know if I should subject Steinmetz to how unprepared I am in advance of my audition tomorrow at 8. Forewarned is forearmed? It might lower his expectations and then if I do better at the audition it will be much better in comparison? FEH.)
Watched NCIS S7 premiere during dinner. OMG, SHOW. OMG. MY HEART ACHES FOR YOU. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. GIBBS IS TOTES SLEEPING WITH VANCE. TONY/ZIVA FOREVER. EXCEPT FOR SOMETIMES TO ALLOW TONY & MCGEE TO HAVE MAN-DATES.
Post-practise (which was... half-okay, half-:c ) I watched the premiere of NCIS: Los Angeles. WTF, SHOW. WTF. I wish I had seen the episode(s) in which this show spun off from NCIS, because, WHAT. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN. I mean. WHAT. Someone in the comments to someone else's blog was all, "It looks like the creators watched Torchwood right before they made this," and I agree. Bizarre undercover base? Technological focus (particularly on tech that will be laughably outdated in a year)? Homoerotic undertones/banter (and okay, I know everyone so far is all, Chris O'Donnell/LL Cool J FTW!! but O'Donnell had a Look with Cute Glasses Techie during the obligatory INTRODUCE THE CAST scene and hey, that would be fine with me. Except Cute Glasses Techie seems to be kind of.... less of a player in the dynamic.) and really blatant "openmindedness" (because hey, this is LA, right??? The Navy intel guy can be gay lovers with the paratrooper if he wants! Except apparently not. BUT WE'LL TOTES TALK ABOUT IT TO SHOW HOW PROGRESSIVE WE ARE.)? I'm intending to keep a particular eye out for race!fail in this, with special attention to portrayal of hispanic people (part of this is politicized blogs I have been reading, and part of this is my new Social Justice Educator Goggles). So far, we have (1) people related to Mexican drug cartels and (2) gardeners. I AM WAITING FOR YOU TO IMPRESS ME, SHOW. And thus far, the only really favourable things are: Edna Mode (AHAHAHA srsly Linda Hunt is Edna Mode) and Hey Wasn't That Guy In Some Superhero Movie (Chris O'Donnell, formerly known as Robin/Dick Grayson in the 90's Batman films -- OMG JULIE REMEMBER HOW WE USED TO WATCH THOSE OVER AND OVER? THAT WAS GOOD TIMES) and Dude Did You Know LL Cool J Is Still Alive? Me Neither.
So yeah.
I guess I had a lot more to say about NCIS:LA than I thought I would.
The kitties have moved out of my way by now, at least. Baxter has been doing this adorable thing where he puts his front paws and his face on whatever of my body parts is nearest him, and then stares adoringly up at my face. IT'S THE BEST EVER. Well, no, maybe not, because as I explained to my bosses today, STRING is in fact the best ever. (Crumpled-up paper is almost as good as string, but not quite.)
