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Dira Sudis ([personal profile] dira) wrote2005-04-27 08:24 am
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*facepalm*, literally, with the hollow thwacking noise and all.

Just got an email from the college, telling me they couldn't open the attached form I sent them (which, hi, maybe you should have just said 'email us your response, including the following info' rather than asking that we email back a .doc file, but whatever) and requesting that I resend and put my response in the body of the email as well, just in case. So I just redownloaded the file, filled it out, saved-with-shorter-file-name, and composed a jaunty reply email including an assurance that I got the attachment right this time and the information that I won't be at orientation this weekend, which I, of course, sent off without attaching the file.

*facepalm*

And now for something completely different:

I was talking to [livejournal.com profile] qe2 last night, when she mentioned noticing that my locus of squee has shifted heavily in the direction of "cute California boys" and my wires got completely crossed for a minute. Understandably, I think: I guess Charlie qualifies as cute, but Don is really more in the thoroughly-grown-up category of authoritative gun-toting HOTNESS, and I never really think about California being a defining feature for either of them - so I went straight to The OC. Seth and Ryan, definitely cute, definitely Californian, definitely boys. But then I caught her meaning and switched mental gears, only it got all mixed up together...

So, look, maybe, after the events of "Structural Corruption," Charlie is particularly attentive to architectural engineering students. Maybe Ryan goes to CalSci for architectural engineering. Maybe he goes to Professor Eppes for help on a project, and they get to like each other (as teacher and student, okay, boundaries Charlie is demonstrably clear on) and then, um. Maybe one day Ryan confides in Professor Eppes how weird and confusing it is, being in love with your (foster) brother. Maybe Professor Eppes has some advice to give him on that topic. Just saying.

Once I started talking with [livejournal.com profile] iuliamentis about cracked-out crossover bunnies, the discussion inevitably shifted to SG-26, the UK's Own SG team. We've tentatively staffed it with Cpt. Aubrey, Lt. Hornblower, Lt. Bush, and Dr. Maturin; they tend to be wary of the Americans (Lt. Hornblower is particularly disdainful, while Cpt. Aubrey makes the sacrifice of being polite, even if stupid American bureaucrats have placed them under the command of a general...) and regard Adm. Pellew back in England as their proper superior. Lt. Bush is, of course, a somewhat uncertainly accepted replacement for the late and deeply lamented Lt. Kennedy. We still haven't decided whether Lt. Kennedy is...

a) MIA, a prisoner of the Goa'uld, soon to be found and rescued by his team;
b) Ascended, soon to return to the mortal plane;
c) Already dead and, thanks to a sarcophagus, handily resurrected, living in hiding on another planet.

...what we are certain of is that Lt. Hornblower really loves plastic explosives.