burning like matchsticks in the face of the darkness

I emailed LauraRuth yesterday morning saying I'd returned safely and did she wanna grab coffee.  She emailed me back this morning saying, "Welcome home! I'm did miss you, truly."  ♥

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Today I:
+ returned the cable modem from my old apartment
+ bought groceries (and walked all the way home with them because I missed the 96 bus by like 5 minutes -- it passed me as I walked from Porter to Davis)

Shaw's is such a step up from Johnnie's FoodMaster.  They don't have the Axelrod yogurt I used to get at the FoodMaster, so I looked for other gelatin-free yogurts and came home with single-serving containers of:

* Cascade Fresh -- marionberry, raspberry, cherry vanilla
* Wallaby Organic (creamy Australian style) -- banana vanilla, raspberry
* Emmi Swiss Premium -- black cherry
* Whole Soy & Co. (soy yogurt) -- raspberry
* and a 2lb container of Stonyfield Farm Organic Banilla (which I already know and love)

+ did laundry
+ put up a hand towel in the bathroom (there had been a bath towel living there for a while, hence my not having done it before)
+ paid a bunch of bills, and activated my TJX rewards card
+ hung out with Housemate and her parents and her bf
+ went out to dinner with them at Sei Bar around the corner (where I had sake for the first time)
+ caught up on LJ (though a bunch of the entries have been bookmarked for more thorough reading/commenting later)

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From my dad:

[Orin Kerr, August 23, 2008 at 2:10am]
Banned From Parks For Correcting Typos:
From Boston.com: "A man from Somerville, Mass., and his friend who went around the country this year removing typographical errors from public signs have been banned from national parks after vandalizing a historic marker at the Grand Canyon."

(A commenter points out that it's a hand-lettered sign and thus an "orthographical" rather than a "typographical" error.)

So, who besides my mother and I noticed the Metro headline typo today?  ("Council looks to reign in guerrilla marketing" -- page 2 above-the-fold, IIRC)

I've been in a much better mood recently (today especially), so yay for that.  (I also went to bed ~9:30 last night just because I could.)

I'm thinking buying lunch at work with some regularity may actually be worth it, 'cause it means I get real food.  Yes, laziness is trumping cheapness.

I haven't been tagged for the "your favorite 5 of your own fics" meme (except for antheia tagging "anyone who hasn't done this already") but obviously have been thinking about it.  When scrollgirl did it she said, "My favourites can't help but be the best things I've written," and I immediately thought, "No, [for me] it's totally the self-indulgent ones, regardless of how good they actually are," but when I actually went to look I found myself thinking "Oh I love that idea" about a lot of fics and "That was a well-done fic" about some fics, but not actually feeling in love with any of the fics particularly, which was weird.

In other news, musesfool posted vaguely caper-y fic about Mal and nuns :)

I happened across an lj entry recently and thought there was an e. e. cummings poem about saying "yes," but maybe I'm thinking of "i thank You God for most this amazing," 'cause preliminary Googling is coming up empty.

I learned via the flist that Hermione's Patronus is an otter.  (Somehow this piece of info from OotP didn't stick in my mind at all.)  In looking at Wiki to confirm, I also learned that JKR initially wanted her surname to be "Puckle," meaning a goblin or elf; huh.

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More casting info on the Grey's Anatomy spinoff:

[Tim] Daly's character is described as "handsome, sincere, like a McDreamy."

It was not clear what character [Paul] Adelstein will play. The breakdown also includes a female psychiatrist and a female fertility specialist.

I am confused as to when McDreamy was "sincere," but I endorse the presence of females in the cast so that there can be f/f fic.

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I was wikipediaing Tara for a fic and learned:

Joss Whedon originally wanted an actress with a smaller, less voluptuous frame, but Marti Noxon saw the vulnerability in Amber Benson's portrayal of Tara and called her back after her audition[4].

^ Eden, Martin, "Alyson Wonderland", from Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine #15 (UK, December 2000), page 8-14.

I still have serious issues with Noxon's major involvement in bad plotlines of S6, but she wins big points with me for that.