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This is all adelagia's fault.

Actually no, I must go further back.

It's all Adam Brody's fault.

No wait, have to go even further than that.

It's all Alison Brie's fault!

You see, I somehow found out about her new romcom, Sleeping With Other People. As an aside, it looks... OK. Pretty generic as far as romcoms go, unfortunately. Nothing in particular stood out to make me think it was any funnier or cuter than others of its ilk. It has a really great supporting cast, though, which includes two Adams that adelagia and I love -- Adam Scott and Adam Brody. (In fact, we wished Alison's character ended up with ANY male character but the one she's going to end up with. Nothing against Jason Sudeikis, but he's just not romcom hero material.)

So we started talking about the Adams (over eggplant moussaka durums at Café Turko -- YUM), and I mentioned that I loved Adam Brody and couldn't understand why Alison would cheat on him (in the movie). Except I couldn't remember why I loved Adam Brody, because I never saw The OC. Then adelagia hit on it: "He was Lane's boyfriend!"

OHHHHHHHHHHH. Riiiiiiiiiight! Lane was Rory's best friend on Gilmore Girls (and quite an awesome character in her own right). Except when we brought up Gilmore Girls, we couldn't then not talk about the best ship on that show -- Logan/Rory. Much reminiscing about the wonderfulness of that ship ensued (okay, okay, reminiscing about the ship and also Matt Czuchry, who has been featured in BOTH our heads as characters in stories we were writing, without consulting one another). It was a complete crime the way the show ended. Rory should have ended up with him. Or better yet, Logan shouldn't have made the ultimatum that would have been impossible for her to accept (and frankly, was rather out of character for him). Apparently Luke/Lorelai shippers were no better off -- jade_okelani was a huge proponent of that ship, and she says the final season basically ruined the whole thing. It's been quite some time since I saw the series, so all the details escape me (clearly, since I couldn't even remember Adam Brody was Lane's boyfriend), but there has to be a point in season 6 when everyone was happy... I kind of feel like I want to identify what that ep is, then rewatch the series until that point and declare "THE END."

In any case, adelagia then followed up (okay, see, I was right to start with, this is at least partly her fault) with a Rory/Logan summary video (alas, not comprehensive). I decided not to watch that, and instead want to find a compilation video of their entire relationship (minus the end) so that we can enjoy it together the next time we meet up. Only... GG is so old that all the videos available online are outdated/grainy (how did we WATCH this stuff before HD?!), and no one seems to have done a supercompilation (I'm very disappointed in you, Internet).

While looking for the nonexistent supercompilation, I couldn't help but watch some of their scenes together (I'M ONLY HUMAN). It made me fall in love with them all over again. I love how they start out antagonistically (don't all the best ships start out that way?), then fall in love and start dating (he was a commitment phobe before, so Rory is his first girlfriend)... for THREE YEARS. I always complain that when two characters get together on TV shows, it inevitably spells death for the relationship, because in order to create drama, showrunners then have to pry them apart. Rory and Logan had their ups and downs for sure, but at the end of the day, they were a pretty successful ship even once they got together. Which makes the show ending even more frustrating and wrong. -.-

But anyway... here's one of the clips I enjoyed when indulging in YouTube vids yesterday. Rory's been unwittingly cornered by her grandparents into talking to their minister about preserving "her precious gift." Lawl. She has some bad news for the reverend, though. And then she gets to tell Logan!



(By the by, the guy who plays Lane's boyfriend in this vid is not Adam Brody.)

I'm not the greenest person ever, but I do try and be conscientious of my carbon footprint, particularly when it comes to REALLY EASY things that take almost no effort to do. And it drives me crazy when people -- supposedly intelligent, informed people -- can't do the same. Two of my biggest pet peeves:

- Writing only on ONE SIDE of pages in a notebook. Write on the other side, which is completely blank, for pete's sake! Related: printing a number of documents, or something with many pages, on one side of a sheet of paper.

- Using a recyclables trash can as a normal trash can, which is right next to it. Is it really that hard to comprehend what is recyclable and what isn't, or to make the effort to notice what fucking trash can you're putting something into? It's not like they're asking us to sort between the various kind of recyclables -- everything from paper to plastic to aluminum can go into one bin. Food, tea bags, the like? The other bin. IT'S NOT THAT HARD PEOPLE.

I see this behavior constantly at work. It makes me insane. What galls me is how EASY it is. It's not like anyone has to go out of their way to be responsible, or that I'm some extremely serious environmentalist who's just being freakish and hard on them. God!

Last week I received an email to see a screening of Mamma Mia. It was from The Screening Exchange, which is an LA program. I am not in LA. Therefore I could not go to the screening. Cry. And this is why I hate Trix, who did get to see it.

I've bit(ten?) the bullet and hired someone to put together the treadmill. It's going to cost around $175, which is a lot, but considering the time and stress I'll save from having to do it myself (and getting it done by someone who knows what they're doing), it'll be worth every penny. Plus they're coming on Monday -- and who knows when I'd get around to it? The only thing is that I had originally wanted to put it in my bedroom ... but apparently getting the thing moved would require hiring other people to do, because it's so damn heavy. >< So I've cleared a space in the downstairs "fun room," which is probably just as well, because now I can watch TV while on the treadmill. Well, it has a built-in TV, so I could have done that before, but it doesn't have a DVD player!

( I've watched more DVDs/shows -- kind of cont. from my other entry about this. )

Remember that meme from way long ago where people took pictures of things that were requested of them, because they had or were getting digital cameras around that time? Well, I'm slow as always, but now that I finally have a digital camera, I want to take pictures of things! So ask and ye shall receive. (Pics of Christian Bale in the nude may take me awhile, but never fear, one day I'll have my company, Stalkers Inc., up and running.)

In the meanwhile, my dog is the unfortunate victim of my picture-taking escapades. Usually it's of him sleeping (sometimes in really strange, contorted ways), because that's basically what he does all day. I think he's awake like four hours out of every day, if that. The rest of the time, he's sleeping. Is that normal? I mean, I know it's partly due to the fact that I'm playing WoW so much, but it's possible I would curb my playing if he weren't sleeping all the time, giving me license to play more. It's a vicious cycle.

I have finally started to watch my Gilmore Girls DVDs. I've never even seen one episode before now. Is it wrong that when I saw Chad Michael Murray in other places, I thought he was heinous, and then when he showed up on GG I was like, "Hey, he's such a punk, I might actually like him!"? (This is why the Hatsumi/Shinogu shippers tried so hard to get me to see the error of my ways.)

( Robbie's meme. )

To conclude: Make me take pictures of things!