from the other side of the internets

• 20:35 Watching old TNG episode. Patrick Stewart is seriously making me re-think my Ben Sisko as favorite Star Trek captain. #
• 21:37 "Kurt Thomas. His title? 3 time world gymnastics champion. His assignment? A secret mission for the US government tinyurl.com/ywx62j #
• 23:05 Nastia's mom, whoa. #
• 23:38 someone in the stands for the men's vault final just screamed like a dying cat. Dude, he's French, not allowed. #
• 23:45 when did pole vaulting turn into "The Hills"? Was that coach miked beforehand? #
• 23:53 NBC advocating job truancy. Excuse me sheinhardt, some of us don't have jobs to play hooky so we can watch the olympics. #
• 12:15 Fun lunchtime spectator sport: watching DNC chick attempt to get donations on one of the busiest street corners in our neighborhood #
• 14:10 @notpoetry SNORT. #
• 17:38 @notpoetry And you're obviously about to be hired to this show, right? RIGHT? #
• 19:00 @notnadia I generally just block those? But i have no idea if "block" makes me invisible to them. annoying as fuck either way. #

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I think I may have to go to bed with "we built this city" in my brain. and now you can too.

1. I think I'm suffering from Olympics fatigue. Bad for my last gymnastics post, good for my electricity bill (I'm v. scared about how much power the new TV is using.)

2. I can't decide if I want to keep posting my Twitter-ings to LJ. It feels a tiny bit like (actual) spam, although I do enjoy seeing the entire day in list format. Basically its LJ friends replying to each other, and well, that can get supremely out of context odd. :)

3. I'm reading Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn - it's comforting, shocking, disappointing, life-affirming, and deep worrisome to me. I'm glad I'm at the point where I can appreciate an author for their work, their dedication, and still recognize their flaws and that I don't have to copy them EXACTLY, because things are different and I'm a very different person. Gellhorn was a fabulous bitch, hell of a writer, and nobody but her own.

4. While doing some house-cleaning around my laptop today, I cam across two unfinished SGA fics. They weren't ... bad, but it was clear that I'd lost where ever way I was going with either. I deleted them outright. Immediately I wanted them back, but then told myself that I'd just have to write something new.

5. I don't know if anyone has any info about MA Journalism programs, but I'm doing some VERY introductory research and any inside info that friends or friends of friends (Lj and otherwise!) could pass along would be supremely helpful, especially places I can't visit (anywhere that's not in the NE corridor, basically)