Melodic Madness

So the first two acts of Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog rocked like a rocking thing, but the last act sucked hard. The songs were great, but if I have to watch yet another show where ( cut for spoilers ) I'm going to spork my eyes out. ( This sentence is also spoilery. )

amaliedageek wrote Act III the way it should have been. Ah, that's much better.

ETA: spoiler cuts.

Okay, I have to admit, Act III of Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog was...kind of a let-down.

*is disappointed*

This? Is pure awesome.

Seriously, go check it out.

I didn't intend to; it just kind of happened.

It's posted over at spnflashfic. Here's the story info:

Title: Dead or Alive
Author: Melody
Character: Sam
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,833
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters; I'm just borrowing them.
Summary: Sam is going to bring Dean back, no matter what the cost.
Spoilers: For "No Rest for the Wicked."

( Follow the fake cut to the story! )

Gakked from mizkit.

This is IMDb’s top 25 all-time box office hits. Bold the ones you saw in theater, italicize the ones you saw some other way instead, and leave the unseen ones alone.

( Click here for the list of movies! )

Movies Seen in the Theatre: 13 out of 25 (52%)
Movies Seen Another Way: 4 out of 25 (16%)
Movies Not Seen: 8 out of 25 (32%)

I found this story on dwfiction, and it is hilarious: The Dalek Invasion of Discworld by TigerKat24. Hee!

( Spoilers for episode 4x13, 'Journey's End' )

Or should that read, "I am posting to LJ because I have so much work..."?

Yeah, Queen of the Procrastinators, that's me!

Anyway. Look! Maps of places I've been!





And now I am going to bed. Good night!

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.

Two were taken out of the list because they were repetitive.

I also put an asterisk by those that I started but never finished.

( Big honkin' List O' Books under the cut! )

Read: 37/98
Started But Never Finished: 4/98
Unread: 57/98

I was attempting to icon-ize a screencap from the SGA episode "Doppleganger," but was unable to get it to fit into the 100 pixel by 100 pixel square required by LJ. Eh. Still, it's very pretty, so here's the image if you want to look:

( Under the cut to save your f-list! )

I realize that my journal has been pretty much content-free lately. I'm going to try to change that over the next few days.

I just made a backup journal over there: http://www.journalfen.net/users/melodyunity/.

	I received 78 credits on The Sci Fi Sounds Quiz How much of a Sci-Fi geek are you?
Quiz by SheGoddess: Lose weight quickly

And it looks fabulous. I cannot stop looking at myself in the mirror -- embarrassing but true.

I had long hair for several years, down to about my shoulderblades -- long and curly and thick. Well, summer is on it's way, and I just felt like it was time for a change, hopefully to something not so hot and heavy when it gets humid outside, as it tends to do in the summer months. I wasn't really expecting to get it cut so short when I went in to the salon today, but when my hairdresser suggested it, I just went, yes! Let's go for it!

It's a reverse bob (you know, when it's shorter in the back than it is in the front), and my hairdresser also straightened it out with a flat iron when she styled it. It looks so great! Sleek, sexy, sophisticated but also a little off-beat and funky. I LOVE it! It's shorter than I've had my hair in a loooong time, though -- it hits my neck somewhere inbetween my chin and my shoulders. I love the way it frames my face! And I can feel cool air hit the back of my neck for the first time in years. SO MUCH LOVE!

Of course, the sleekness will go away as soon as I wash my hair. Once it gets wet, poof! The curls will come back. But that's okay! I think it'll look good curly too.

(I wish I had a digital camera so I could post a pic. Alas, I do not.)

Is it silly to get so worked up over a haircut? Probably, but I can't seem to help it, so I'm just going to enjoy the new hair giddyness. Yay, hair!

• I am somewhat impressed by the fact that I can spell the word miscellaneous correctly without looking it up. Go me!
  
• We had lovely warm weather all weekend long, but today it is gray, cloudy, and cold. WTF, weather? Why do you want to be dragging me down like that?
  
• I have been a very bad LJer lately, rarely posting and not even reading my flist for the last week or so. This is likely to remain unchanged through the month of April. Sorry. I hope nobody on my flist has been particularly profound or entertaining lately. If you were, I missed it. :( Is there a word for feeling slightly guilty for neglecting your flist?
  
• Grad school is about to kill me. I have two major papers (one of which is about 80-90% finished, the other of which I do not even have a topic for yet), one presentation, and one flippin' humongous portfolio all due next week. I also have one class where there is nothing major due, but there are a hundred and one tiny little assignments that all add up into one big grade, and must all get done. It's like the death of a thousand papercuts, I swear.
  
• On the plus side, only two more weeks until the end of the semester! Yay!
  
• Also, remixthedrabble just posted the latest round of stories. There are all kinds of fandoms represented this time around, from big ones like SGA to little, rare fandoms. Check it out! Two of my own stories were remixed, here and here. They're both very well done. I recommend them!
  

God. That was brutal. I still haven't stopped crying. Just...God.

I've just discovered a book trading website that has caught my fancy: Book Mooch. I like the way it's organized, and also the very cute image and name. I'm shallow that way.

I have also made the much less pleasant discovery that I have a 10 page research paper due in one of my classes next week. Which, bleargh. I mean, I knew I had a research paper to write for that class, but I thought it would be due at the end of the semester, like, a month from now. I suppose I should be glad that I happened to glance at the due date on the syllabus today!

I don't think I've written a research paper since the 11th grade (which was more years ago now than I care to admit). Also, it's supposed to be done in APA format, which I am completely unfamiliar with. What's wrong with good old, trusty MLA, I ask you? Hrmph.

I suppose I better get to the library tomorrow and start with the, you know, actual research.

Ordinary Life by cesperanza and astolat is now finally on the internet, so I can rec it. It is completely, utterly awesome -- a extremely fun, satisfying story about John and Rodney on vacation on earth; Rodney takes a temporary job with an engineering company and everyone mistakes John for his boyfriend, and then there's some action-y stuff that happens, and it's just awesome. I fail at vocabulary right now, because I am tired, but even so -- it's good. Read it.

Is there a Firefly equivalent to the community sgastoryfinders? I'm trying to find a Firefly/SG-1 crossover that I read a while ago, and I don't know where to look! The SG-1 aspect was minimal -- it was really a Firefly story with a cameo appearance from Ascended!Daniel (a fix-it for Wash's death in the movie) -- so I would like to look around for in on a Firefly comm, but I don't know where to go to find one.

So John Edwards dropped out of the race, and now I have to figure out who I'm going to vote for instead on Tuesday. I just don't really like Clinton, but Obama, while very charismatic, just doesn't seem entirely trustworthy to me. What I mean by that is I don't think he'll stand by everything he purports now. I don't trust him to have a backbone and do all the things he says he'll do. But, given those two choices, he's the one I'll probably end up voting for.

Grrr. Why couldn't Edwards have stuck it out for a few more days? I know there's no way he could have won the nomination, but I would have been happy to vote for him nonetheless.

I don't know. Argh! Who are you guys going to vote for? (Or, if your state has already had its primary, who did you vote for? Or if you're not an American but have been following our politics, who would you vote for if you were?)

( Click here for the month-by-month breakdown. )

STATS:
Total Stories Written: 14
Fandoms Written In: 10
Gen Stories: 12
Femslash: 2
Slash: 0 (And yet I still consider myself primarily a slash writer. Huh. I think it's clear that, although I still am primarily a slash reader, I am basically a gen writer. Weird.)
Het: 1
Episode Related: 2
Remixes: 2
Crossovers: 1
Stories Written for Challenges or Fic Exchanges: 12
Most Productive Month: December (ah, Yuletide!)
Least Productive Months: March, June, and November (I can blame November on finals. I was also taking classes in June. I don't know what happened in March.)

FANDOM BREAKDOWN:
Miracles: 3 stories
Buffy-Verse: 3
Firefly: 3
Criminal Minds: 2 (one of which was a crossover with CSI)
House: 1
Doctor Who: 1
Threshold: 1
CSI: 1 (crossover with Criminal Minds)
Medium: 1

I ended up bookending the year with Miracles fic -- I wrote one in January and two in December.