I am headed off to vegetate because...man, it has been a long day. But first I wanted to say a big THANK YOU to icalynn, aurilly  and A. Nonny Mouse for the virtual birthday presents. Thank you! *hugs you all*

I now feel intensely guilty for having subjected you all to the James Kyson Lee "gay porno" pose. So, to make up for it, I present you with a link to the webpage of a doctor who works on our study. I just met him in person for the first time, and let me tell you, the photo in this link doesn't even vaguely do him justice. Looking at him in real life is kind of like looking at Mohinder, where all you can think, "...Wow." And also like Mohinder, he's a doctor who speaks several languages.  Unfortunately it would have been kind of creepy for me to film him, so all I can offer is this poor picture of him. But please, accept this as my penance.

Wow.  A unbelievably ginormous THANK YOU to the anonymous person who gave me two free months of account space for my birthday!  It made me squee when I saw the email.  I tend not to get overly excited about birthdays, and this year it's even harder to because I have to travel from Wednesday afternoon through Sunday morning for work.  But that was a nifty present to wake up to.  So thank you!!!  Whoever you are!!!

And to everyone reading this: perhaps, like me, you are a leetle too obsessed with the Kids in the Hall.  If so, I present you with a present.  I just stumbled across someone who's made some great KITH icons.  Her icon journal is unikki_icons  .  Just head over and look around for the KITH posts.  Seriously.  They're great.  And if KITH isn't your thing, she's also got good Doctor Who icons, and text icons, and if you go back a few pages, there are some great animal LOL-icons.  Here are my favorites:

        

And for good measure, an old skool Doctor Who...

 

I tell you, it's all too much fun for one Monday to contain...

I wanted to take a second to send happy birthday wishes to roo2 ! Partly because my boyfriend and I both have to deal with less-than-logical computer users and her posts about that cause us to feel grim, eye-rolling camraderie (and grim amusement), and partly because she's created one of the most interesting and unique Heroes alternate universes that I've ever encountered.  Happy Birthday! May there be many, many more! (And I hope the new kitties are settling in well!)

So...tonight I am heading off to spend the weekend with NewBoyfriend and his parents.  Which is more than a little daunting, since I haven't met them before.  I doubt I'll be online at all for the next few days.  I'm hoping to get out of work by 2:30 because he wants to get there in time for dinner, so I'm flustered and rushed for time.  But I did want to say...

Happy Birthday, aelora!  May Dan show up on your doorstep naked in celebration of this special day...

Just a quick post to say... Happy Birthday, nothingtosay !

I had something I was writing on and hoped to post today, but my day went awry and it didn't get finished. Maybe I can get it up tomorrow, to help you recover from the inevitable hangover... ;0)

Happy Birthday to canadian_turtle , who makes fandom incredibly fun!

And Happy Birthday to motsureru , for 34 chapters of entertainment! 
 

Today was so incredibly busy that I just now have a chance to say...HAPPY BIRTHDAY, irvys_sefie ! And as we all know, nothing says "Happy Birthday" like pictures of Sylar. 

 

Time has gotten away from me.  I realized this week is my dad's birthday, so I got a birthday card for him this morning.  This is an extremely onerous yearly chore.  My dad's family does not show emotions.  We'll joke, but that's it.   So picking out a birthday card is just awful.  There are the religious cards, which are completely out of the question.  Then there are the sappy cards.  Not only would those make him a little uncomfortable...they're just not something I would say.  I do sometimes buy them for my mother because her family is over-emotional and she wishes she would get sappy cards, but Dad?  No.  And the funny ones were just all a little too flippant, this time.  Can't they make birthday cards that have non-cartoony, non-flowery pictures on the front and just simply say, "I love you and I'm glad you're my dad"?  Simple and exactly the amount of emotional display he could deal with.  

I finally settled on a neutral birthday card that plays "Dance To The Music" when you open it.  He pretty much only listens to the music of his youth, and everyone will want to hear it play, so it will be kind of like a toy. (Dad loves toys...I think that was the best thing about my nephew being born for him, it meant he could play with toys and claim he was only doing it for his grandson.)  Now I just need to go to Sears and get him a gift card, so he can buy more tools for wooden-toy-making purposes.

Also, I was looking for something to have on in the background while I wrote my review this afternoon.  My choice was: Heroes season 2 reruns on G4...or a football game involving two teams I don't give a crap about.  I chose the football.  I am becoming seriously emotionally disconnected from that show right now.  This cannot bode well.  Though, on the other hand, I just got to see the most spectacularly hilarious two minutes of football, ever.  It was capped off by a Viking field goal attempt that fell short of the goalposts and was returned for a 109-yard touchdown by the Chargers.  I wonder if Brad Childress is going to cry?  Minnesota is the new Cincinnati, I think.  Thank God.

OK.  Need to finish the review, and then go put in an hour raking leaves.

ETA: Actually I will NOT be raking leaves, because it turns out I don't have any garbage bags, even though I would have sworn I had a half-box of them.  Well.  I guess I will be getting up at dawn for the next few days to rake.  (Of course dawn is now like 7 am, so it's not as big a hardship as I'm making it sound...)

Happy Birthday, auktastic.