The Secretary Will Disavow Any Knowledge

But I think I'm really getting into Smallville again. I'm totally shipping Oliver and Clark Kent and I'm getting plot bunnies where Zodd gets his powers and discovers Clark Kent and uses his powers to try and steal Clark from Oliver...you know stuff like that...I think it helps that the guy they cast for Zodd is HOT. :) And kind of evil but...could maybe pick another destiny. I also really love Tess. I'm even shipping Clark/Lois hardcore on the show. But truly, I think Clark/Oliver makes a lot more sense! they keep having heart to heart talks and wow does Oliver look great!

P.S. my original intention of my post was to ask for fic recs for Oliver/Clark or Clark/Zodd...I looked for archives yesterday but...I didn't have much luck. :(


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The Fast And The Furious

Unfinished Business by maygra (Brian/Dom) INSTANT REC!!! This story picks up where the first movie left off and I could not stop reading once I started. This is one of my all time favorite novels. :)


Supernatural

Everything Feels Like the End of by longsufferingly (Jared/Jensen) This was cute, funny, and very sweet. I'm still grinning. :)


Smoke gets in my eyes by fleshflutter (Sam/Dean Dean/OMC) This was creepy and gave me chills and wow I could not stop reading until I finished.


Criminal Minds/Supernatural

The Time Has Come to Be Gone by jujuberry136 (Gen) This was a fun action/adventure story! :)


Star Trek Reboot

And All the King's Men by mijan (Gen) This was a really good friendship fic for Kirk and McCoy. I also liked the other characters and the tests the cadets were put through.


misc

Go Problems Okay for anyone on my list that plays Go this is a must visit website! I don't actually get the chance to practice with other people but I'm having a blast working through the life and death problems.



In other news, I'm excited about Saturday because new episode of Merlin and season 2 of Legend of the Seeker starts. :) I'm not so excited about hw and house chores...but that's life.


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Friday Night Lights

( spoilers )

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White Collar

This episode was full of "Hey it's that guys!" ( spoilers )

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pet peeve of the day:

it's spelled PER SE. It means by, in, or of itself : as such : intrinsically. not PER SAY, which is just WRONG. If you don't know how to spell it, DON'T USE IT. Because spell check is not going to pick that one up.

Whew. I feel better now.

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I barely managed to stay awake on the subway coming home tonight, so I took a long nap, but I am still all sleepy. I am very much looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow.

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I'm still hanging out over at livejournal, mostly.

But every once in awhile I'm at dreamwidth, too.

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Supernatural 5.08 HDTV 720p (1280x720) XviD (codec) .avi (format) 622mb (filesize)
Download: megaupload, nakido (.zip file, 609mb)

(nakido link coming.. later done!)

Last night I found myself ranting about a letter to the editor in the local paper as I frequently do. The gibberish found there is ridiculous. There's also some rational letters - the ones that agree with my views frequently fit this category *g* - though not as often. I've been reminded many times that it'd be a good idea to skip that page, but that doesn't sound very appealing.

I think for me part of the fun of having a local daily is the letters to the editor. I expect to see certain regulars express their views on particular subjects. I read the paper in a certain way and the editorial pages get read after the headline story. (Then the comics, obits, rest of the main page, local news and then the entertainment page(s).)

We've debated cutting the paper for the on-line edition several times for a variety of reasons, but I always vote for keeping it. There's no place else to get those discreet little snippets about snow-blower theft or worse yet snowmobile theft or dear god! an accident in a Tim Horton drive-thru. There's no other place to read about whose kid got drafted (let me tell you there is no bigger deal in this town, than when a local kid is a draft prospect) or how close the local Junior Team is to hosting the Memorial Cup, this year. Then, there is the drama of politics between the county and the city or the neighbouring townships versus the city. For over an entire year, the mayor and the council were in a stand-off and that was entertaining; you'd never see that outside the local paper.

In conclusion, I do enjoy my local newspaper. While they do offer an on-line editions, I'm not ready to switch to getting all my news on-line, not just yet anyway.

1. Computers.  I would like to say tat my Vista computer problems are easing....but that would be a lie. I did have enough crash free time yesterday to balance our checkbooks/bills in Quicken (all 3 months dating back to when my older computer died). This means that - once again - I am not online or reading mail.

2. Healthcare.  One issue that has been overlooked - until recently - in the healthcare debate is how certain federal laws already give health care insurance companies and employers wide discretion to deny health claims with little or no penalties.

Under ERISA (a law created in the 70s to protect pensions and retirement accounts), health care plans funded by employers face no penalties or liability if the employer hired claims administrators falsely deny a health care claim. In fact, if you were to sue you would have to prove that the claims administrator acted arbitrarily and capriciously. In laymen's terms this means you will need to find a memo that says: "I think we should deny this claim because I think the person is really a donkey in disguise and we don't insure donkeys." The memo that says: "We can deny this claim even if we have objective medical evidence to support it because (a) we were able to find one doctor in the world who agrees with us and (b) this is an ERISA claim.  In fact, thank God this is an ERISA claim 'cause if this were any other claim we'd have to pay it.." Well that memo would not help you win your case. And yes there have been those memos.

Currently 170 million Americans get their health care insurance from employers. Many employers over 5000 workers are  "self funded" - that means the employers pay the claims costs and they hire the United Health Cares and the Kaisers and the other insurance companies to administer the claims (for a transaction fee). The claims  administrators use their own insurance claim guidelines and also negotiate fees with the hospitals and doctors on behalf of everyone - both the insurance carriers own clients and the employees covered under the 'employer plan.' But the money to pay for the employee medical bills comes from the employers. Thus, your claim is subject to pension and retirement laws - not bad faith insurance law.

If you buy health care insurance on the open market (or if your employer does), then it falls under insurance state laws. if the insurance company wrongfully denies your health care claim under state insurance law, you can sue and get penalties and recover for the loss of life. Or recover damages to pay for your loved one's ongoing medical care if the person is injured or made more ill because of the claim denial.

Under ERISA all you get is the value of the health care benefits that were denied. If you're dead....well, no need for that health care.

So when you hear pundits talk about doing away with those pesky state laws that make it so hard for health care insurance companies to do business across state lines ..or pundits talking about changing the laws to make certain that *all* employers  won't be required to abide by state health care insurance laws...they're talking about extending ERISA to privately purchased health care plans.

Check out your employer health care plan and remember... your health care is already being rationed and if you have employer funded health care insurance, well you're already living under a different 'standard of care.' ... More here  and here

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I did have things to say about Bones, but I don't remember what most of them were. ( spoilers )

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Supernatural: Changing Channels

( rambling about the episode, with spoilers )

I will probably have more thoughts tomorrow.

( spoilers for next week's preview )

Oh, also, here is Matt Roush's review of the episode. (Spoiler: he really liked it.)

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Damn, I totally didn't realize that the parade tomorrow is going to fuck with my commute (or my walk to the office after the subway, anyway). Maybe I will sneak out of work and try to see some of it. I did in 1996, when I worked down on Wall St. (I mean, I literally worked in a building on Wall St., not that I worked in the financial industry at that time.) and it was kind of awesome, even though they are not my team. Hmm...

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And the figurehead has a good question:

So, internets, if you were sailing from Mumbai to Gdansk what would be your route:
Arabian Sea, Suez Canal, Mediterranean, English Channel and then what? Do you go left around the big island between Sweden and Denmark or do you go right around the big island through Denmark? For preferences, I'd like the route to be on the Copenhagen side because seeing the little mermaid statue would be most cool and in keeping with the theme of the virtual journey.

I agree. I think we should navigate by the coolest route. But what does the navigator say?

What we did in Mumbai

"With the impending release of the new movie, The Men Who Stare at Goats on November 6, 2009, questions about the paranormal will surely be cropping up in popular culture again."

*click!*

I wasn't happy with what I was writing and well. Still sick here. So I concede that there is no way on this green earth that I'm going to make 75k this month. I'm going back to the more realistic goal of 50k and just hoping I can catch up.

I restarted my novel from the beginning and yeah, like the way it's going now.

Tomorrow I try to make it through a whole day at school without coughing up a lung. So wish me luck poppets.

Jenn

New word count for today:

3140/50000

And my hands ache.

Answers to the mini-dvd commentary meme. The offer is still open, if you're interested after this scintillating discussion. *snerk* I had fun, anyway.

( Back from the Great Beyond for little_missmimi )

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( We Killed Yamamoto for elliemurasaki )

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Last night, I dreamt that two fangirls had moved into my bedroom in my parents house, while I was trying to live in it, and they were moving my stuff around and taking over my space and I was an unhappy camper, and my parents were like, "but we were just trying to help!"

I don't even know what to do with that. I just know that I woke up disgruntled and er, have remained so. My gruntle has been dissed. Or something.

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I'm not a Yankees fan, but I thought they were kind of adorable last night. And I really don't like the Phillies, though I think they are a really good team, so I can't be too upset with the outcome.

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New show tonight! YAY! I am looking forward to this one a lot. Plus, new Bones, too!

Ah, tv, never leave me!

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But if you think I shouldn't the same rights as a straight person, you're a bigot. Pure and simple.

She said it better.

Last Sunday, telesilla and I went to our favorite "special occasion" restaurant for a belated (because someone might have been at DragonCon) anniversary dinner. It's ironic in the "like people trying to keep you from having your wedding day" sense, because one year ago today, a majority of California voters decided that my marriage shouldn't be valid. This year, it happened in Maine (and you can't exactly blame the black folks for this one).

I've seen a lot of blog comments today about how it's counter-productive to say that people who vote against marriage equality are bigots. And it probably is.

But here’s the thing:

It doesn't matter.

If you vote against marriage equality, then in practical terms, it doesn’t matter to me whether you’re Fred Phelps or whether your best friend/co-worker/son/daughter/second cousin twice removed is gay. I don’t care if you’re a Catholic, Baptist, Mormon, Orthodox Jew, or Muslim. Because from where I sit, the result is the same: you believe that my relationship with the person I’ve been with for five years, the person I moved 3,000 miles to be with, the one who goes out at 3 AM to get ginger ale and crackers for me because I have stomach flu, the one who’s held my hand and been there while I’ve dealt with my mother’s dementia and Parkinson’s disease—you’re telling me that because that person is the same gender as I am, our relationship is less valid and less worthy of respect than that of a man and woman who met in Las Vegas, got drunk and decided to get married in front of an Elvis impersonator.

To me, it's irrelevant whether you did so because you believe that God ordained marriage to be between one man and one woman, or because you think the state shouldn't be involved with marriage, or because you're worried about what to tell your children, or because you think two men having sex is icky and gross. What matters to me is that you've taken a conscious, deliberate action to say that I, personally, do not deserve the same shot at being happy with the person I love that any straight person does. Your reasons for choosing to make my life more difficult and more painful are much less important to me than the fact that you've made that choice.

If you're standing on my neck, I'll worry about why you'd do something like that later. My first priority will be getting you to stop standing on my neck.

My preview, featuring an excerpt from Make the Devil Feel Surprise is here. *bounces* Just another ten/eleven/twelve days!

I toyed with the idea of putting up the playlist/soundtrack, but in the end, I just didn't have the energy to tidy it up and then upload it somewhere. Hopefully I will by the time Big Bang goes live.

I was busy chatting with angelgazing about yuletide, so I maybe wasn't paying as close attention to Criminal Minds as I should have been, but that was okay because ( spoilers )

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In case you missed it, I have a poll up to gauge interest in a possible Dark Angel end of the year fic exchange. I'd need at least ten people willing to play to run the thing, and right now that does not look like it's happening, but I'll leave the poll open until tomorrow afternoon, so if you are interested in such a thing, you should let me know.

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Mini-dvd commentary meme seen everywhere:


Pick a paragraph / passage / scene from any story I've written, and comment to this post with that selection [Note: Please include the title/fandom]. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

Just so you know, the older something is, the less I remember, and I would prefer not to talk about the XMM or SV stuff.

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Still didn't make 500, but closer today than yesterday, so I feel good about that. I'm glad I decided not to try to make myself stick to one fic, because I've started working on a More Than One Answer futurefic focusing on Joe and Dylan and Christina's daughter. I swear, every time I try to get away from the Keptverse and write something a little more cheerful, I get another bunny.

I had another Keptverse dream last night that was more weird than anything else, in that "WTF subconcious?" way. The only part I remember were that like so many of my nightmares, my old high school was featured prominently, and that there was a real problem developing with excessive inbreeding among the slaveowning classes of the Empire. I suspect that last bit is poisontaster's fault.

856 / 15000 words. 6% done!

So I only got a little over a 1000 done yesterday, but got a good chunk done today in between sleeping. Final word count for Day Four?



Going to spend some time with my S.O. and then sleep.

V.- I found the pilot last night for the V reboot disappointing. It has potential and some characters I liked, but the script was very, very clunky. I'll give it a shot next week, see if it improves any.

Leverage.- I should learn to use DVR now that we got our new box, maybe see the show "live" for once. The first season was my happy place for a few days, as we zipped through the episodes. @nd season has been sometimes *meh*, but I so love Parker and Hardison. OK, and Eliot too.

I haven't seen a single episode of White Collar yet, which makes me a rare specimen in my flist. I will though! I just need to -um- figure out when it's on. This is why people use DVR, yes? I'm so used to downloading stuff, so now that I'm actually seeing my new(ish) shows with Mr. Logovo it means messing with an actual TV.

Last thing. Burn Notice? My husband likes it, I haven't been crazy about it, had seen some S2 episodes with him, but before my trip to Mexico I saw the pilot and a handful of S1 episodes. Wow, it feels like the same thing that happened to Burn Notice happened to Leverage in S2. Sort of losing some of it's kick, which means you (well, more like I) stay because a love of the characters, and sort of stick with it even if the writing is not as fresh. Lesson to self: Don't jump into a show in S2. Always go back.

1. first, more computer and browser instability = makes me cranky and less online/reading checking email.

2. but second: zine o' the day: "The Centaur Tales is an AU Houston Knights series in which, according to the art, the heroes are centaurs. The second volume is a Sentinel crossover. "

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