It Started with a Journal

How does time pass so quickly? I swear I just updated this thing!

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One thing is that I'm feeling very run down. I thought I might be coming down with something, but I think it's that I don't get enough sleep, and what I do get isn't very restful. My dog often wakes me up at odd times during the night, my mom gets up way earlier than I do, I like sleeping late, etc.

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A few days ago, my internet went out. This happens from time to time, and usually hard cycling the thing does the trick. Or it's a broad outage, and there's nothing to do but wait for Comcast to fix it. This time, they couldn't reach my line remotely, and there were no outages reported, so they scheduled a technician to come out and take a look. My appointment was for noon-2 on Saturday. For two whole days, I lived without internet. jade_okelani suggested that wild animals might have been the cause, and I replied that yeah, and now they were making me live like one. -.- At 11 a.m. on Saturday -- no joke -- the internet mysteriously came back. WTF? No idea what happened. I canceled the technician, half convinced that at 12:01 p.m. it would go out again. Thankfully, it's been on ever since, but as I have no idea what caused it to go out in the first place, I will have no recourse the next time it happens except to complain to Comcast again. I've been hearing about a lot of people switching from Comcast to something else, but I'm resistant to doing it myself unless something really pisses me off, because I think I'm grandfathered in on some internet plan that they don't offer anymore. My internet bill is significantly lower than what I've heard others having (though granted I only have very basic cable).

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Since it's been awhile since my last update, two more football weeks have come and gone. The Seahawks lost to the Packers, which I expected but was still disappointing. Then they shut out the Bears, but the Bears are super terrible so it's actually concerning to me that we couldn't put it away early. I have no idea how the rest of the season is going to go.

In terms of Fantasy Football, things are not looking great this week. I've lost all 3 of my ESPN league matchups, which is annoying because it's like I'm benching the wrong players every week. It's such a crapshoot! I get FF advice from SB Nation, but I'm starting to think that I'd do better just eeny-meeny-miney-moe-ing it. I'm doing better in my Yahoo league -- in fact, I'm pretty proud of the fact that after 2 weeks of play, I am in first place (as the only girl and only non-doctor/engineer!). However, my lineup this week killed me. Why did they declare Chris Ivory eligible if they weren't going to play him?? Why couldn't Eli get OBJ the ball? Why did all my starting RBs suck so much?? Right now I'm ahead of my matchup opponent, but tonight he has two players playing -- including Aaron Rodgers -- so I fully expect him to pull ahead and deliver my first loss of the season. :(

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I finally finished The Martian. I really liked it, though I thought it ended rather abruptly. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the movie is going to do "the next scene" after the last scene in the book. The voice actually reminds me of Tim Urban of Wait But Why, author of the article about the Fermi Paradox that I loved so much. I'm going to get to see the movie on Thursday at a special pre-screening, because of something I did at work. Woohoo!

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Made zucchini bread this weekend but it was disappointing. :/ The zucchini bread I'm used to having in restaurants is really dark and moist. This recipe, which had such high ratings, delivered a zucchini bread that was light tan in color and nowhere near as flavorful.

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Finally finished The Vampire Diaries season 6, so I should be all caught up now. ( Spoilers. )

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Has anyone heard of the band Right the Stars? I think I heard about them from one of those self-published YA books, and I really like two of their songs. But I couldn't find any of their stuff in the usual places, and they don't even have a Wikipedia page. WTF?? And they have 3 albums out! I finally had to buy their CDs from Amazon. What strange thing is this, that I actually have to buy physical CDs to listen to music? (Okay, they're on iTunes, but it was actually cheaper to get the CDs.)

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Jade and I watched Need for Speed last night. Her first time, not mine. It's not a good movie, but it's definitely guilty pleasure, and as she said, "It's so close to being good!" :)) Love Aaron Paul, and I actually really like the ship in the movie. Dakota Johnson is in it, though at the time that I first saw the movie, I had no idea who she was or what she had been cast to play. I just thought she was a random actress with a "charming" gap in her teeth. Also Rami Malek is in it. He even smiles! Weird. Also we see his butt.

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In going through old LJ posts, I noticed that I used a lot of quotes in my subject lines that I didn't ID, which drives present!me crazy, because it sounds so familiar and yet I can't place it. I've decided that whenever I use a quote in a subject line from now on, I'm going to ID it in the post. That's all; carry on.

"They're really blue" -- Jules to Tobey (about his eyes) in Need for Speed

I forgot my phone at home this morning. I realized I'd forgotten my jacket and had considered going back for that (fall has set upon us with a vengeance. It's like a flip was switched), but didn't realize I didn't have my phone until I got to the stop. >< Ughghgh. If I'd known that, I would have gone back for them both. My first thought was for my farm in Township, which not will not be updated alllll day. :( My second thought was for the fact that I wouldn't be able to answer email or dial in to meetings while on the bus. Bah.

You know what I did on the bus though? Read more of Andy Weir's The Martian. The first time I heard about this book was seeing a movie poster for it with Matt Damon's face. Now I see I'm the last to the party, as usual. It has over 13,000 reviews on Amazon and 4.5 stars. O.o I am LOVING it so far.

I finally read a story I think can serve as my "ending" for Gilmore Girls. It's short, and doesn't wrap up the Luke/Lorelai stuff, but all I really care about is Rory/Logan, so here it is: The Things You Must Remember. I don't know why it repeats itself, center spaced, halfway through... Just ignore that. There aren't a whole lot of fics on AO3 to be had for the ship, but that isn't surprising. While GG was on I don't think AO3 even existed, so all that's available are the stories that active authors have proactively posted there. I'm sure there were some really good ones back in the day that I've now missed out on, but I'm not sure I can make myself wade into the cesspool that is fanfiction.net on the off chance that they might be there.

In Seahawks news, they might sign Fred Jackson? What? I mean, I seriously like the guy, but do you really want someone else's iconic franchise player on your team? What can a 34-year-old running back actually have to offer? The scariest thing is what this says about our RB depth. Ouch.

My fantasy football league is doing its draft on Sept. 3, and I am determined not to miss it this year.

Meanwhile, Mad Max: Fury Road has been delivered by Amazon and is waiting for me at home. :D

I leave you with another cute image of Rory and Logan!