Apparently anyone can make up cockney rhyming slang!

A half-forgotten funny from the other week. Usually I only catch things that cholten99 watches as I wander past, and I recently caught glimpses of a new Stargate SG-1 ep. Since I'd only seen an ep or two of the early seasons, I knew Teal'c as big, black and bald (like a more muscular version of Marcellus Wallace). However, imagine my surprise when there he is with hair.

thessalian: Why did Teal'c get hair?
cholten99: I dunno, really; it does look a bit YMCA.
thessalian: Is that a new Cockney rhyming slang thing?
cholten99: ...That's rather good, as it goes.

You'll have to excuse my total randomness; I'm having an insomnia thing. I went to bed at about 2 a.m. and then was just about to get to sleep around three when the computer rebooting woke me up. Apparently, Windows feels the need to update itself daily and requires rebooting to put these changes into effect. I hate Windows. Anyway, I couldn't get to sleep until about half-four ... then woke up at around 8:15 as cholten99 was leaving. I've tried to get back to sleep again but to no avail. Oh well; at least this gives me some hope in hell of sorting out my sleep patterns before Monday.

I'm not sure whether I'm going to go in to serve my notice period or get signed off because of stress. I've recently considered going in and actually working through my notice period, but ever since I started thinking along those lines, there's been the insomnia. Maybe this should tell me something?

See? I can do pointless fun!

Valentine's Day at The Witching Hour by lacylovegood
Username
Favorite Valentine's Day gift	Ridiculously expensive chocolatesA red satin merrywidowDaisiesDiamonds, of courseThe Witching Hour has censored this answer. *blushes*
Your secret livejournal crush	aidan_1668
Secretly has a crush on you	caira
Wants to model plaid lingerie for Madam Evangeline	jeremiahtomasi
Writes love poetry about Coach Keddle	kissing2bclever
Gets bitten by the Sorting Hat for being fresh	pickwick
Writes in Miss Lexus's books to get detention	ninja_arzt
Kerplodes the interweb with Professor Ohm	sclerotic_rings
Gets drunk on Butterbeer with Twee	live4lyfe
Hunts the Brazilian Ant-dragon with Lacy Lovegood	thessalian
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This is just amusing for the "Wants to model plaid lingerie" thing, given in-game stuff. The other stuff just doesn't make sense, particularly given my apparent "secret LJ crush" doesn't exist and I had him locked in a temple of ancient evil singing "The Song of the World" for all eternity in any case.

*shrug* Sometimes you just take your silly memes where you find them.

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...RIP Arthur Miller.

I think this is the part I like best -- his views on writing, as expressed in the obit above:

"It is what I do," he said in a 1996 interview with The Associated Press.

"It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?"

I suppose I can't feel too sad for anyone but his family. The man's immortal ... well, at least his words are. He's made generations of people think, and entertained them at the same time. All the same, it's always at least a little sad that the world has to lose someone of such talent, particularly when you have the outlook on your craft that he seems to have had.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

So I had leftover Chinese food, tiramisu (cross-cultural blends are a GoodThing) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

*squeeeeeeee*

Cannot say "best birthday present ever". Technically, best birthday present ever was being taken to Habs/Bruins game two years ago, particularly because my guys kicked bear rump from one end of the rink to the other. However, definitely in the top ten. Probably in the top three.

Well-acted, funny, touching and incredibly thought-provoking. That one's gonna be think-too-much fodder for weeks.

However, cholten99 needs to get a cleaning disc for that DVD player. I doubt it's been cleaned since he got it and I think that's why my brand spanking new DVD started hiccuping around scene 13.

...Wanna watch it again.

*squeeeeeeee*