You're gonna be bothered by how cool I am.

- Ugh, is it November yet? Honestly, Facebook for me is becoming what the HP Fandom was in the fall of 2004. A really uncomfortable place to be, and you wish there was a way to just filter out all the political stuff so that you could still be friends with your friends. Or still look your family members in the face at Thanksgiving. (While I'd love to be able to see my parents at Thanksgiving, I'm more glad than ever that there's no way for me to go see the rest of the family for Thanksgiving in Mississippi, particularly as this year it will come just after the election. They're my family and I love them, but I'd foresee a hell of a lot of dramatic getting up and leaving the room when talk turns to politics.)

- I went to see Lawless this past weekend. It was good, but not quite as amazing as I hoped it would be. Shia LaBeouf was rather serendipitously cast, and the be-cardiganed Tom Hardy is the best thing about the whole endeavor (which is nearly always the case with whatever he's in). Gary Oldman is underused, but enjoyable, Jessica Chastain is awesome as always, and the setting and look of the film is really fantastic. I couldn't help but see how the studio must have interfered and kept the movie from being what it was trying to be. I was also disappointed in myself for not thinking to get an MP3 of George Jones's "White Lightning" in time to get myself in the mood for a movie about moonshiners. :P

- I got inordinately excited to run into someone I knew at a random place in the city the other day. That almost never happens to me. Bonus points for it being someone who hasn't seen me in probably over a year, maybe two, and who only knows me from the occasional temp gig where they usually only saw me as I came and left. Go me, making impressions on people. :P

- About six weeks until the application process begins for That Thing. I shall call it That Thing for now, because after not getting in last year I have become super-superstitious and neurotic about it. The good thing is that I am still planning to go to Austin, regardless, and if That Thing is yet again not to be, at least I can have a good time chilling out in QuirkyTown and hopefully running into other people who are in town for That Thing. For that is half the fun.

- I AM READY FOR COOLER WEATHER, PLEASETHANKYOU! I bought some chili fixins the other day, but I just can't bring myself to cook chili while it's still so dang hot! I also have some delicious Land-O-Lakes premium hot chocolate (Irish Cream, whatwhat!) and a lovely TARDIS-shaped mug that angua9 and wahlee_98 bestowed on me for my birthday, but it's just too darn hot for cocoa right now.

- Speaking of food that's inappropriate in certain seasons, I hate that I found this amazing website at the end of summer. It really makes me want to buy an ice cream maker, but ... waaah, it's getting too late in the year for ice cream! My life is a tragedy!

- What else is going on? Oh, Mark Watches has gotten to the final season of Buffy and Season 4 of Angel. This rewatch is bringing out SO MANY SPUFFY FEELS in me. The "chermistry" is "mind-boogling," as some folks used to say. And ugh, whatever at this whole Cordelia-as-a-higher-being thing on Angel. It seems like there's literally no purpose for it except to set up the wackadoo stuff that happens later with Jasmine and everything. I liked Cordy so much better when she was on Buffy and wasn't a lead character. Also, I skipped ahead and watched "Smile Time," which may in fact be the best episode of television in the history of everything. ("I DO NOT HAVE PUPPET CANCER!")

- Speaking of Mark Watches, I am suddenly very prepared for the West Wing watch next year. Amazon.com had the series box set for 70% off on Labor Day and I snapped it up. I *had* found a site that had all the episodes online, but legit watching just feels better, and this way I know the pirate police won't zap the site out of existence.

- I should do a proper post on the new Doctor Who episode, but we probably all know what's going to happen with that. :P Loved it, and I'm so glad it's back. And was anything more awesome than Chris Hardwicke's "Whovian" commercial?

- Oh, speaking of all things Whovian, Harry Knowles has been plowing through NuWho and absolutely loving it. Per suggestions from friends, he started off by watching "Blink," which everyone assured him was a perfect one-off and a good indicator of the level of writing, and then went back to "Rose" to go through the whole thing. The last he updated, he was about to tackle the pre-Season-5 Tennant specials.