there will be a fish

Okay, so I apparently haven't posted to LJ in so long that I'm completely weirded out by the new posting form. Yikes, it's been since October! Well, I'm back to do a five-questions meme from ignipes. I'm not sure doing this right now, when I've just had my wisdom teeth out and am currently loopy on some substantial painkillers with half my face swollen like a chipmunk, is really the best idea, but oh well. *jazz hands*

-Comment with "Winter is Coming" your current favorite catch-phrase/quote from a show/movie, because I have no emotional attachment to Game of Thrones (yet), sorry.
-I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
-Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
-Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions. (If you want. Totally optional.)

My questions and answers:

( 1. What would your ideal doesn't-exist-but-totally should TV show be about? )

( 2. What is the ONE movie you think everybody should see? ONLY ONE. NO CHEATING. )

( 3. What's your favorite comfort food? )

( 4. What superpower do you want to have? )

( 5. What's the best advice you've ever received? Or the worst, if that's more entertaining? )

Well, that was fun! I need to start posting more. I got a new job, so my life and free time are no longer being swallowed up by work like they were, which is awesome. I have weekends! And free evenings! It's amazing. :)

God, sometimes I really miss being able to get Chinese food and/or walk to the grocery store at 3:30 in the morning.

I just experienced an extremely bizarre sense of longing for my college dining hall food. That's just...wrong on so many levels.

But their waffles were really good.

Hello all! I am back from my lovely vacation (well, it was my mom's vacation; I'm not working regularly enough to really feel justified in calling it my vacation).

( Things Done: )

*sigh* Don't you hate when your suitemates, with the best of intentions, move your large pot of slow-cooking beans to a smaller burner without telling you, thus totally throwing off the cooking process? Yeah, me too.

For some reason, I'm really in the mood for "Oh No, My Loved One Is Dead! But Wait, Not Really!" cliche fic. You know, with the grief and the angst, and the tragic separation, and the realizations of how much X meant to Y now that X is gone -- and then the realizations that Loved One is not dead! And Y can save them! And have a dramatic reunion! etc. You know what I mean. It's subtly different but close cousin to the rescuing-the-Loved-One-from-mortal-peril trope (see Bones' Gravedigger episodes, for example), but with added angst before the determination kicks in. Good times.

Suffice it to say, I've been reading a good deal of Man From UNCLE fic. :D

Unfortunately, it's mostly re-reading, because I've made my way rather thoroughly through the recs in that fandom. More's the pity. But I'm easy! Rec me your favorites of this cliche, please? Any fandom works, pretty much. Even if you think I don't know it, I actually probably do. I'm just that good. :)

I feel like there is untapped potential for this cliche. It obviously has great amounts of play with close partnerships, as well as in, say, spy genre fandoms, or where someone might have an enemy holding a violent grudge and the capacity for kidnapping, or whatever. But imagine it bent a little for less obvious fandoms: Criminal Minds (team rather than partners, but still emotionally affecting), or Sports Night (they don't really live lives of danger, so death is more unexpected), or Merlin (if everyone thinks Arthur has died, that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish on top of the personal issues). Tell me your ideas! :)

I love salt. It's true. I put a ton on my food, and I even eat it straight -- pour a little into my hand and lick it off, lick all the salt off the rim of a margarita, dump those little fast food packets straight into my mouth, that kind of thing.

There are all kinds of salt -- table salt, sea salt, rock salt, margarita salt (mmm) -- but nut salt is on my mind at the moment. You know what I mean; it's that fine, dusty kind of salt that sticks perfectly to the oily nuts (that sounds so wrong...) and gets all over your fingers when you eat them, leading to the highly enjoyable experience of licking them clean. I somehow doubt it's something you can buy in a store, but I would if I could.

So anyway, I'm eating cashews and marveling at the salt.

Mostly because it keeps me from throwing things at my own head for not checking the gain on the camera yesterday during the shoot, thereby avoiding the last four hours of wrestling with Soundtrack Pro instead of editing video.