Awwwww.

See? this is why I love my hockey team all to pieces. The Red Wings are such sweeties. Although it does make me nervous; this is almost exactly the article that was written about Keith Primeau six years ago, when his game was slumping, although in that case it was defending him - attributing horrible play to the tragedy he'd endured. (Her name was Elysia Peffley, and she was buried at my church, and two summers ago when I got a job running a weedwhip in the cemetery, I cleared weeds from her grave.) Shortly thereafter, Primeau demanded a trade and turned into a big whining holdout, and we got Shanahan in exchange. And Shanahan spent quality time with a little boy named Brendan who had cancer, and then we get another article. Hrm.

This is the same columnist, incidentally, who, in the endless search for a stupid pithy phrase to insert at intervals in an article, coined the term 'chelifish' for the Chelios/Fischer defensive pairing. And never emailed me back when I pointed out how that might, among a certain young female segment of his readership, be misconstrued.

The short, short version

I'm for some reason in the process of writing a massive, rambling, largely incoherent summation of vampire physiology, which I think manages to make everything, from breathing to season 6 naked!spike's tan lines to Angel's accent, make sense. At least to me. But it's long, and rambling, and incoherent, so I'm just going to get to the point and say: I don't think they sweat, so I need to take out that line in scene 12 that didn't make much sense anyway. Yes.

Feeling more than usually like an insane fangirl - this is like the Melisskateer Manifesto all over again, without the excuse of being fourteen, sugar-high, and awake for the past 46 hours.

Bullet points on vampire physiology note-to-self: 37
Number already crossed off indicating completion: 13
(My favorite: * Want to hit Angel w/a crowbar)
Classes skipped today: 2
Classes attended today: 1
Hours at work: 2.5 so far, 1.5 to go
Supervisors not in today: 2
Little brothers hugged: 1 (did I mention I love him?)

(My second-favorite bullet point is the one that says: 'vamp organ donors?' I mean, really. Think about it.)