Lux Aeterna

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I was going through old files last night and found the original for this bit of fic.  I forgot about it and I thought it was pretty good, even after all this time!

I got really excited by this misleading headline:

'Firefly' returning to cable; Fillion says he'd play Mal again -- EXCLUSIVE

But this bit from their interview was precious:

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What was the part about playing the character?
NATHAN FILLION: It was my favorite job ever. What wasn’t great about it? I got to wear a low-slung holster. I got to ride horses. I got to have a spaceship. I got to act mean and curmudgeonly. [Creator Joss Whedon] is really good at kicking characters in the nuts so the other characters would have laughs at my expense and that was great too.

If Castle had its series finale tomorrow and Fox said to you and Joss: “We screwed up, let’s try doing Firefly again.” Would you do it?
Yes. Yes. I would examine very closely Fox’s reasoning — I’m a little gun-shy. If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to Firefly, make it own my own, and distribute it on the Internet.

Love him.

The husband and I went to Village Inn last night for pie on free pie Wednesday (as you do) and were sat next to two women. Just from vaguely eavesdropping on their conversation (as you do) I realized they were talking about Merlin, the BBC version.

And then, they pulled out their laptops and started betaing each others' stories and having long discussions about which version of the Arthurian legends was best. The best line was, "Well, which ever one you use, some troll is going to tell you it's the wrong one."

Amen to that, sistah.

As we were leaving, they'd moved on to discussing which Doctor was most likely to have visited and been BFFs with Merlin. I'd very much like to read that fic.

This morning, while brushing my teeth, I bent over and then came up hard, banging my head on the corner of the medicine cabinet door (which is basically just a piece of pointy glass as it is a flat mirror door). I spit my toothpaste all over the floor in shock, looked up in the mirror, realized I was bleeding all over the place, and promptly had to have a good cry about it.

GOOD WAY TO START THE MORNING. :|

But then, I got a decaf mocha and felt much better.

DO NOT WANT.

• I went to TEDxBoulder on Saturday and it was pretty much awesome beyond belief. There were 22 speakers talking about everything from the 11 dimensions of space to romance novels to mobile crowdsourcing and mindfulness. It was astounding and awesome. And Vienna Tang played and she was lovely and has the most beautiful voice and we made wind sounds during one of her songs. I'm hoping to do a series of posts about it over at my other blog, so I will linky linky when/if that happens.
  
• Speaking of blogs, I'm trying desperately to make a run at being a Blogger. With a capital B. I've purchased thememakeover.com and thespiralnotebook.com and I'm trying to learn to do Wordpress and about ads and whatever. It's challenging. Every time I learn one thing, I break something else. Anyone who knows things about blogging, please to be sharing.
  
• I recreated a recipe from a restaurant for dinner last night (and lunch today!) and it was fantastic. I could eat this all the time: avocado, goat cheese and sweet chili bruschetta. (Please ignore the wonkiness. The blog is a work in progress.)
  
• I've gotten SIX freelance assignments this month! Two are done, three to go, and oh yeah I have absolutely no idea when I will have time to do them! Yay? On the plus side, if I can pull it out, I will have mad monies for things like fall clothes and possibly paint for the ugly guest bedroom.
  
• Things we want to do to the house soonish: paint the ugly guest bedroom, recarpet the upstairs, buy a chair and curtains for the living room. I love decorating but it is so COSTLY.
  
• I have a niece! Her name is Eirene Ava Justice. (They are prounouncing it eh-wren-ie.) I have only seen one photo of her, which makes me think that perhaps the combination of a new niece and a 4-yr-old nephew may be overwhelming her parents' picture taking abilities.
  
• My other nephew continues to be the cutest anything ever.
  
• We have a sign outside the building that says we make copies, but people keep coming in asking if we can fax things. And the thing is, we totally would fax things, except that our fax machine is broken and it hasn't seemed worth it to fix it since we almost never fax things for ourselves (I mean, honestly, who faxes anymore?). But it never fails: the people who come in wanting to fax absolutely DO NOT UNDERSTAND when we say we can't fax things for them. They cannot comprehend that we do not have a fax machine. It boggles their minds. And then they stand there for a really long time looking confused and forlorn.
  
• Deadlines can seriously go find a ditch and die. Seriously.
  
• The End.

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I'm headed to Mississippi for the week to hang with my sister and meet my nephew! Expect many MANY baby photos when I return.

( This is going to be one of those 'unpopular fandom opinion' things, I think. )
WOW. I had a lot more to say about that than I thought. Sorry if I harshed anybody's squee!