boombangbing

I'm in the middle of a painfully botched Ubuntu upgrade. I've spent the last six hours trying to get it to boot, but apparently my problem is one that a lot of people have come up against - and there's no known solution. I've pretty much had to accept that I'm going to lose my Virtual Windows XP machine and all my database practice work.

ANYWAY, you're not here for that, you're here the sweaty man things. ( Oh yes. Spoilers for Heroes 3x10 )

In case you're not already aware, I DON'T GET TO SEE HEROES TILL TOMORROW AFTERNOON BRIT TIME. tiptoe39 is running the OFFICIAL WE'RE NOT WATCHING THE PREMIERE THREAD post over here, and I want to play, but it's late and I have to be mostly conscious for history tomorrow. SO, before I go to bed, I give you this:

EPIC PASDAR PICSPAM. ENJOY. (NOOOOT DIAL-UP FRIENDLY. REALLY, JUST DON'T EVEN TRY IT. IT WILL BREAK YOU.)

( Obsession is fun! )

Heroes.

- I hate every one of you that's going to watch the Heroes premiere live tonight. HATE.

- I watched the S2 deleted scenes earlier on, and Nathan got Peter drunk in a treehouse? What. (It also makes me wonder what kind of age difference the writers are thinking they have, because I've always imagined it as somewhere between eight and ten years, and honestly, if you're anywhere over the age of eighteen and you're trying to get your teen/pre-teen brother drunk? You're not being a good sibling.)

- In case anyone hasn't seen it, awesome picspam right here. Though it did throw up the rather distressing claim that that wonderful picture of Adrian all wet isn't Adrian at all. D: (Speaking of, does anyone want an Adrian picspam? Between my three computers and my external hard drive, I have a lot of images of The Pasdar.)

- I'm writing actual Nathan/Claire. :S Help.

RL

- The right hand speaker on my laptop seems to be broken - it's making this really loud knocking sound whenever I play anything. And it vibrates. I think something might be hitting the underneath of it or something.

- I think I might have moths in my wardrobe, I found four very suspicious holes in my She-Ra t-shirt yesterday, and I don't how else it could have happened. I really hope not though, the cupboard is absolutely packed - it'd be a nightmare trying to clean it out.

Hello good people of LJ, from inside my shiny shiny new laptop. :D I actually managed to install Linux without too many disasters (I had to redownload 8.04 because my CD threw up some kind of error, but considering what I went through to get it on the other laptop, that was incredibly minor). I wiped Vista, kind of accidentally on purpose (as in, I wasn't fussed if I borked the partitioning - which I did) and now I just need to download all my favourite programs and move my fanfiction and images over and replace the Linux flamingo thing with my Nathan wallpaper.

I have a webcam on this too, though I'm not sure how it'll work with Linux, but yay anyway. :D

OMG, you guys, I just bought a new laptop. :O Specifically, this one. 250GB harddrive, 3GB RAM with room for 1GB extra. *geekgasm* It arrives tomorrow. :D

Yes, I saw Step Brothers today, and I don't care what all the reviews said, it was awesome. Let's stay kids forever!

My ramblings, let me show you them:
- I have my heroes_bigboom posting date! September 13th! Honestly, I'll be glad when it's over and done with.

- I've been (over-)thinking time travel in the Heroes universe lately, since I'm writing a FYG fic and ( do we still warn for S1 spoilers? )

- Two more things I remembered from when I was in Canada; Eric McCormack was totally having breakfast at the same cafe as me and my dad across from the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, and I swear, the international student advisor at UBC looked scarily similar to Jewel Staite. :D

- It feels like everyone I know is off to university and doing something, and I'm just here, being exactly the same as always. For instance, when I browsed through my old friends from primary on facebook, they're all drinking and smoking and having relationships, and I'm not exactly saying I'm jealous (because: 1) possibly, 2) no thank you, 3) geek boy only pls) but I just feel like I'm basically still the same dorky kid I was when I was eight, except now I wear glasses, have big tits and write porn. It's not a bad thing, really, but I always feel like I'm standing still when everyone is moving on.

My exam results might have contributed to this miserable revelation.

- Snagged from terra, because I'm feeling the need at the moment:
Sometimes it's okay to pimp yourself out. Post a list of your top five fics favorite you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. Then tag five other people to do the same.

1) Dreams With The Flying Pigs. I know it says it doesn't have to be the best, but this really is the fic I'm most proud of at the moment. Elle's a difficult character to write, keeping the balance between crazy, sociopathic and vulnerable, and I think I did okay. I didn't tell more than show, I hope (which has been my biggest problem of late) and I actually managed to keep to one perspective, instead of bouncing all over the place like I normally do.

2) The song meme. Characters other than Peter and Claire, fuck yeah! And I wrote it all in about nine minutes, with no idea what the hell I was going to do before I started, so I'm pleased with the way it turned out.

3) Until I Sleep. I can't tell you how much I love the idea of Claire in space. No really, Claire in space, not allowing herself to grow all bitter and cynical about the whole being immortal thing, kicking ass and taking names. I loved writing this one.

4) Don't Try This At Home. Poooorn. And proof that I used to be able to bring the funny, rather than the death and the angst.

5) The End Is All I Can See. I only posted this a couple of days ago, and I really had fun developing Molly's character in the future. And Matt/Mohinder/Molly fans give the best reviews ever. It's like crack.

I tag everyone who needs the boost