"I am so genuinely sick right now. If I could have eaten today, I'd be throwing up all over your floor."
- Veronica Mars

( Spoilers for HIMYM 5.07 )

So CBS is epically failing at the moment, since last night's episode hasn't been posted yet for me to rewatch (and possibly reform my opinions?). But I'm going to write up about it anyway.

( I'm going to do some pushups in the kitchen! )

( Castle redux: Czech mate! )

Back at school after an awesome (and way too short) fall break. I've mainly got reading to do this week, which is great, so long as I do it all. And I plan to. Oh, I plan to.

I'm currently ensconced in an all-night modernist/cinema work session (and watching Cold Mountain, which is homework too, trust me), but I've got time for a quick ep redux. (Quick for me, that is.)

( Mints on the pillows, Ted! )

Back to work. Oh, Jude Law. Some day you'll get back to Nicole Kidman. (Even though I kind of want you to stay with Natalie Portman.)

Dayum, I just realized I completely forgot to do one for last week. Um... it was pretty good. Mainly just because of the idea that there are doppelgangers for every character running around, like alternative universe Latino Marshall or Lesbian Robin (or G-CWOK Barney and Ted? Yes? No?) Anyway... I give last week a B.

This week...
( They said I had A.D.... something. Can we have class outside?! )

And now excuse me while I scream about school:
( Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!! )

So, um, yeah. I'm off to do homework. For the rest of my life. Which will probably only last until the end of the week, at this rate.

Let me start this post off by wishing my darling loudmouthed brother Luke a VERY HAPPY 11TH BIRTHDAY!! I hate having to be at school when everyone back home is eating delicious chocolate cake (which my mom described to me over the phone in excruciating detail) and opening presents and stuff.

But the fact that there was new HIMYM tonight certainly made up for that!

( 5.01 - Definitions )

Oh, and Castle was good tonight too! Man, some day I'll watch the middle of last season. But seeing as Nathan Fillion makes everything better, and Castle is awesome, and I love him and Alexis, and since I love Beckett (who's being completely badass right now, btw), I give it an A-. What? Told you this grading scale was arbitrary!

Oh, and also, I stuck around after HIMYM for that new sitcom, Accidentally on Purpose. It's really... not that good? But it's about babies, and the boy-toy is pretty much the most adorable guy ever, so I'm sure I'll watch every now and then. Damn you, ovaries. Damn you!!

Hmmm. I should probably start studying for my law exam now, seeing as I have a huge exam on Thursday I'm supposed to study 8 hours for if I want to get a C. And I want an *A*, damn it. The grading scale for media law is way less arbitrary than the one I use here!! There is fuzzy math and a holistic rubric involved on this blog. But unlike me, my prof actually pays attention and counts points!! Aaaaaaaaah!

( Season finale spoilers under the cut! )

Maybe half my residents moved out today... it's very sad to have an empty hall again. =(

( Barney's never driven more than 10 miles an hour... )

I'm done with classes for the spring semester!!!! Now all I have to do is stay focused from now until Saturday to get all my work done for finals. I can do it! *puts on game face*

Ella, ella. Hey-ey-ey.

(I'm a product of my generation. Don't judge me.)

( It's the yellow umbrella, ella, ella... )

( So we wait three days to call, because that's what Jesus wants us to do. )

I had four fairly major assignments due today, and I did three of them (including a seven-page paper on my own consciousness) yesterday. In fact, I did the vast majority of the consciousness thing this morning in a three-hour period! Everyone, please keep your fingers crossed that I don't flunk out of school for utterly failing as a student.

But hey. No classes tomorrow, thanks to SURF Day!! And I'm about to get to bed at a somewhat normal time for me, especially when you consider that I took a nice long nap this afternoon after trying to stay awake through three classes. (Though it was weird: we were talking about free will in my consciousness class, and I fell asleep and imagined we were talking about Witness instead, which we'd been discussing in my previous class.) Anyway, to bed with me now!

I'm back from hiatus, y'all!

I'll do a cut just to save your flists.

( Look, I've got better things to do than sit around and write songs about some guy named Ted Mosby, okay? )

Let's see if this redux will actually be a "quick one."
( I'm getting too old for this... stuff. )

Oh, and I'm still making super slow progress through series 1 of Doctor Who...
( You. Would. Make. A. Good. Da-lek. )

Home-work. Ex-ter-min-ate! Must ex-ter-min-ate!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know I said I'd stay away for the rest of the week... I lied. But after this, I'm gone for REALSIES. I'm currently on page 3 of my paper, hoping to knock out 12 more pages between now and 12:15 Wednesday afternoon. Wish me luck!!!

Anyway, I fell asleep and missed HIMYM when it came on (damn it, Benadryl hangover!) so I just now saw "The Front Porch." And, um, I need to vent a bit. (And avoid my paper.) So here is my super quick redux:

( Your grandpa was a wise man... )

Okay, back to work now. I wonder if that "nothing good ever happens after 2 AM" thing applies to sudden flashes of brilliant insight about fandom culture? Eh. See you all on the other side, peeps.

I know I usually use this icon because I'm irritated at something, but this icon's appropriate because it's HIMYM, *and* because Nathan Fillion has played his fair share of jerks! Roll with it!

Combining HIMYM and Castle into one awesome super-special redux?! I hope my rusty recapping skills are up for it! *cracks knuckles*

( I wanna tell it! No, you tell it, it's funnier if you tell it. No, let me! Wait, wait, it's okay, you tell it. Same time? )

In other news, I finished the second series of Spaced yesterday, finally. =D I feel like doing some kind of bigger epic wrap-up post on it later, because I've kind of been sprinkling it throughout other posts since I started watching it and it deserves to be a focus. For now, I'll just say that it's teh awesomecakes. And last night I found this old news piece that they were going to have an American remake and I almost had a heart attack from the horror. Good thing they ditched the idea, especially since it was going to be FOX remaking it. *shudders*

( Awesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesome... )

It's snowing here, guys, isn't that awesome?? (17.) It was raining earlier, but then I went outside for rounds and the rain had turned to snow. Awesome, awesome (18, 19) snow. =D

( My robot was, like, a million times better. )

Guess what's happening 2 days from now?!? ...Obama's second day in office!

Oh, and, um, Lost is coming back too. *cough*

ETA: It's kind of snowing now. Yayz.

Bet you didn't think I'd use THAT icon for this one, didja?!

( That's awf...some. )

Aren't I just so clever with the blog title? Har har... har. Ahem.

( You're like Weird Al Yankovic, if he only wrote songs about banging my sister. )


I'm done with all my exams now!!!!!! Thank GOD the semester is finally over. Now I just get to chill out before finally heading home tomorrow. Hooray!!!!!! I loves me some chillin' like a villain. ...Yeah.

( ...and everyone will sleep with me again! )
I think I'm finally caught up on sleep, after my 24-hour cinema extravaganza Monday night. I got exactly 35 minutes of sleep... my first-ever all-nighter. (And I found out that those? Are no fun.) That's partly why this redux is so late... I kept falling asleep yesterday and just didn't have the energy to sit down and write this thing. I felt like a narcoleptic. But on the bright side, I got to hear what everyone else thought of this hot mess. Which is kind of fun, because that meant I got to think about what everyone was saying and respond to it.

Reading Day today!! Also known as the day I finally sit down and rewrite that fricking short story. Because it's due tomorrow morning, and now I have to. Groan.

( Wear the eyepatch, Moist. Wear the funky, funky eyepatch. )
My Pushing Daisies DVDs came in the mail yesterday (woo!) and in celebration, I ate a slice of the only kind of pie I like (lemon merengue). This morning, instead of doing my drugs homework, I watched the first three episodes with the doofiest grin on my face, and I am now nothing more than a puddle on the floor. Oh, Ned. I'll give you an emotional heimlich any day. *lovestruck sigh* I think my love for this show gets greater every time I see it. Tomorrow there's a new episode and I can actually watch it! Woo!

I've had an insane amount of crap to do this week; no time to relax until, like... Thursday? Gragh. At least I have PD to fall asleep to now, to put me in a good mood. =)

Oh, and I watched BBT this week too. Still not getting the love. In case you were wondering, that's what my cut label comes from, since the guy who plays Moist in Dr. Horrible was wearing an eyepatch, and (since I saw the David Bowie episode of Flight of the Conchords like 3 times this weekend) can now only think of Bowie Jemaine saying "Wear the funky, funky eyepatch!" whenever anyone anywhere is wearing an eyepatch. (That includes Aunt Lily.) Which is also probably why I was thinking during the Buffy S4 finale, "It's a dream, Giles. It's all a part of your freaky dream!"

Yeah. I finished Buffy S4 on Sunday. Weirdest season finale ever. I might have preferred the episode before it acting as the finale, though this one did provide some odd sense of closure for the season (which I only understood after watching Joss discuss it as a 40-minute tone poem in one of the bonus features). It was just... strange. (For those of you that don't know, I've been borrowing Buffy DVDs from my school library as part of my... cultural education. Yeeeeeaah. So this is my first time watching the series, though I do know some things that happen later on in the series. It's one of the hazards of watching a show 5 years after it goes off the air.)

Lots of crazy stress in real life at the moment. Too much crap to do for school and Res Life (oh, and did I mention my short story characters are invading my dreams again? Good times.). TV is my duvet of goose-downy goodness. So forgive the insane fannishness of this post.