anotheryear

After getting distracted in our QAF rewatch, it was nice to get back into it tonight. I think we overdosed on it before, but I didn't realize how much I missed seeing Brian and Justin till we were watching them again. No matter how many other tv shows I am into, I don't think I will ever love a couple more than them.

I don't really have much experience with these meme things. But I saw this on someone else's journal so I figured I'd do it.

I had my first dream featuring Randy Harrison last night.
Funny, this is not something I realized I was missing in my life, but now, I don't know how I didn't notice before. ;)
The dream was not an exciting one and I think featured a grocery store in some respect. But regardless, I was pleased when I remembered it.

I had a dream this week that my friend and I met Gale Harold on a big boat. We were both very nervous about talking to him but when we started to chat he was very friendly. We both had our cameras out but were afraid to ask him for a picture. The only thing I remember us talking about is the Batmobile (I have no idea why).

Pretty, pretty picspam I came across on LJ. And by pretty I mean fucking insanely gorgeous. There is no hotter man alive.

My job is a very boring, pointless office drone job. I don't talk to anyone there and I don't have any ambitions about moving up in the company (yes, my life really is that exciting ;) ) So today, I uh, started reading fanfic at work. Probably not a smart move on my part, but it did help the day go by a lot faster. I also discovered some really bad fanfic. And that is one reason I've never tried to delve into reading fanfic before...there is just so much of it out there (for any given fandom) that it just seems overwhelming to try to find any of the good stuff. Cos the bad stuff is really bad sometimes. And occasionally I found myself reading the whole things even though I knew they sucked halfway through. Thank goodness there are so many Queer as Folk reccing communities around; the resources for fanfics for this fandom are epic and I know why. I have never really felt the desire or curiosity to read much fanfic before this show. And now that I have started I can't stop and I have no intention of stopping. There's so much rich stuff in this fandom to explore and so much that went underdeveloped in the course of the show, the potential is huge!
I am not a writer though and I will never write fanfiction. Not because I don't want to but more because I sort of hate writing and suck at it, and writing fanfic sounds hard and like a lot of work. I don't have the right kind of skills to do fanfic. One thing I have wanted to do for a while though is fanvids. I looked into it a few months ago for another show, but I couldn't figure out any of the technical stuff. I don't think my computer has the necessary capabilities to pull it off anyway. Sort of disappointing though as I often half compose fanvids in my head when I hear certain songs (and I watch them a bit obsessively on youtube at times). Also I spend so much damn time on the computer I really do have the time to make them, I just don't have the ability.

So I accidentally read some post 513 fanfic today. Luckily it wasn't as painful as I had feared as it was a mostly positive one. I'm just getting into the cancer fics as that's where Jackie and I are on our rewatch. I have to control myself sometimes though because I'll just end up spending hours reading fanfic...which isn't a bad thing, its just something I'm not used to. Then I feel like I should be leaving feedback or comments on them but since I am naturally a lurker I just don't say anything (or don't because most of the fics are at least a few years old). Bleh. I am still learning how to participate so I am slow going at this all. And this fandom is still so big and active after all this time, which is awesome, but also a little intimidating.
Ah well, back to staring at the new pictures of Gale Harold over on LJ. *drool*

Even though a lot of people seem sort of sick of The Office lately, I am not one of them. I also don't really give a shit about marriage in general. And despite that I am looking forward to The Office tonight. I didn't have to suffer through all of the Jim and Pam stuff as it happened, as I only actually bothered to seriously watch the US Office not long ago, so I got it all condensed. Regardless of that (or maybe because of it, who knows?) I am a big Jim and Pam fan. I am not really usually much of a shipper, but this is one of the fictional couples I actually care about (QaF contains one of the few others). Also I haven't had anything to look forward to on live tv in a while, so I'm just sort of letting myself get into this because I want to be excited about something new on tv. Now I just hope that it doesn't suck (because I have to say at least some aspects of The Office have not been as awesome as I thought they used to be, but I am still enjoying it) and it's not annoying in any way. Also I want to reiterate my strong feelings about how much I like that Jim and Pam are together, and are staying together, happily. It is so nice to see a happy couple on a good tv show, it shouldn't be such a rarity, but it is. I hope the show can keep them together as a believable real couple, and not resort to stupidity like some other shows tend to do. It is not impossible to have a happy couple together on a quality tv show and for it not to be boring!
Now I just pray that I don't hate this stupid episode tonight!

Wow, if I am ever feeling way too into QaF or upset about something in the show (as I have obviously been obsessing over it lately), all I need to do is read the old forums on TWoP. They really rip the show to shreds, especially any Brian/Justin stuff.
Yikes.
It helps me feel better about being so into the show (ie, its just a show, and its not even supposedly that good, so lighten up!)...then it just makes me feel bad about being so into the show!
Eh, whatever, I'll still read fanfic for a few hours tonight because it makes me happy.
(I am still not ready to ready any post 513 fics though. I have not dealt properly with season five yet in general!)

I dreamt last night that I came accross a Spanish Queer as Folk show. The show made no sense, and none of the characters were even the right ages. I remember the show sucking in general, but sadly I don't remember any more details.

I can have 100 user pics. A hundred! After the 35 I've been making due with on livejournal, this is....well, this is probably more exciting for me than it really should be. But now I get to spend hours looking at pictures and using some of the LJ icons I have saved. I wonder if it is okay to use icons I got from LJ on here? Hmmm. I shall have to investigate.

I've decided to get one of these because there seems to be a ton of fandom stuff on insanejournal. I'm going to use this for fandom stuff only, and keep it separate from my livejournal account. Now I get to explore all the cool geeky stuff on here and give myself more reasons to never get off the computer!