camille_is_here

About this week--SPN

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:58:57 GMT

It's time to rustle up some fangirls with courage and conviction and a talent for B&E. We need to find that writers' room, break in, and steal all the badfic they've got stashed in the corner.

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:55:41 GMT

Dear Phillies:

We'll be back next year!

Love

Camille

PS Can haz bed nao? ::thud::

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:37:27 GMT

CHASE UTLEY!

GO PHILLIES!

ETA: YAY, PHILLIES!

PS: We could maybe not spazz out at the end of the game next time?

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:39:28 GMT

I am lying on my couch surrounded by catalogues. I need stuff--lots of stuff. Most of my clothes are going into their fifth season and another shirt goes in the trash every time I do laundry. I even have a good idea of what I want. But for some reason I can't quite pick up the phone and make the orders. It is not that I am cheap--I will happily spend my money for a nice dinner and the theater or other show. I don't know why I have such a hard time spending money on tangible objects.

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:38:24 GMT

I know there is a site around here where people have put recommendations for world literature, but I can't remember where it is--does anybody have the link?

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:32:33 GMT

My team is AWESOME!

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:52:56 GMT

Those inset shots of the catcher's crotch are really annoying. Signals to the pitcher. yeah, I get it. But I don't need a closeup. Sheesh!

Also, Yay, Utley!

ETA: Cliff Lee is awesome! But I already knew that!

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:04:13 GMT

David Tennant introducing Masterpiece Theater. How did I not know this? But, cool.

Go Phillies!

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:09:18 GMT

In other new, trying to pick out a new tv for the bedroom. I'm trying to decide between a 19 inch and a 22 inch, and a brand and a model. I need it for weather channel in the morning and the end of games (like tonight!) at night. Not much else. I need one I can hear, though, and there are a lot of complaints about the sound on Amazon.

PS: Yay, team!

ETA: They really look like they are having fun playing baseball tonight.

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:48:28 GMT

Heard Samuel Barber's violin Concerto tonight at the National Symphony. Yum. Why don't I listen to Barber more often? I really like him! Also, Franck's Symphony in D, which I grew up with. It still gives me that warm feeling!

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:53:52 GMT

The president is rocking out to the music! (And he looks like he knows how!) Love it!

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:31:51 GMT

Tomorrow schedule--teach, 9-3, root canal 3:30, prep for 7 hrs teaching on friday.

ETA: And no chance to stop home--there will be no water in the building until 4:30 in the afternoon.
Oh, and we're expecting an nor'easter.

ARggggghhhhh.

Tonight--more prep for tomorrow's teaching. But, thank heaven, there is So You Think You Can Dance!

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:46:38 GMT

Holding my breath.

ETA:

Dear Brad Lidge:

All is forgiven.

Sincerely

Your fan again

Camille

Yay, Phillies!

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:02:25 GMT

I need to get new clothes for this seminar in DC next week, but I am paralyzed by the thought of shopping. I'm hard to fit--there are seldom size fours in the stores and the clothes are not made for mature people with a fashion sense. They seem mostly to look like a cross between sex and the city and kmart. But I can't wear the same things I've worn for the past four years, and this is my last chance to get anything at all. so--off I go, again!

PS: Dear Macy's: You are the only department store in town. Philadelphia may be in mourning, but only for its department stores! We are neither skanky nuns nor Sicilian widows--shortening the skirts and tightening the jackets does not make up for the fact that all your office clothes are black polyester!

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:05:16 GMT

I think I have figured the apocalypse out--

Sam is the vessel with the pestle
and Dean is the brew that is true!

(On of my favorite movies ever!)

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:18:46 GMT

Spent the whole day on revisions--another forty or so pages to go, but I think they are mostly done. Short epilogue, short prologue, then in it goes. They'd have been long gone if it weren't for the flu, but I' really glad it's almost done.

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:41:16 GMT

eegatland I missed your birthday! I hope it was wonderful and full of cake and paper hats!

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:22:00 GMT

Happy Birthday aberwyn !

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:34:27 GMT

Who doesn't love apocafic, especially when the ficwriter has a buget and Jensen Ackles. There were many good lines (Lucifer is wearing Sam to the Prom a chilling favorite), and a good apoca-town.

I really liked that it was the Croatoan virus, because I love it when shows remember the long tail of backstory they create as they go and drag behind them. And, in the spirit of that long tail, I loved that Sam called Dean to tell him that he was going to be Satan's meat suit, because it harkens back to all the secrets the brothers kept from each other that bit them in the ass every time. So, lesson learned. Good boy.

But I think the most interesting thing was at the very end, and probably just in my head. After being shown what will happen in the future, we see Dean waiting by the car and we see Sam drive up--Dean called him back, Sam came. And Dean pulls out this huge knife--I think it is Ruby's magical knife. And Dean holds the knife while they talk. And it seems to me that Sam flinches, and I couldn't help wondering what he thought Dean was going to do with that knife, but he just kind of waited, all flinchy, to see if Dean had decided to kill him with the magic knife and cut that future off at the pass. But he didn't run or try to stop him. So I figure if Dean thought that was the only way, Sam was going to let him. Which kind of breaks my heart for Sammy. .

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:28:35 GMT

Surprise ticket to the orchestra tonight--Barb was sick, so I went with Tom instead. Berlioz Te Deum--Wow! A gazillion voices--no children's choir :) Pretty Magnificent. Also, Saint Saens organ symphony, which was stunning, but not quite as knock you out of your seat amazing as the te deum. The pipe organ is huge, and when it played, you could feel the vibrations everywhere. Total sensory overload--yay!

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:08:13 GMT

Anybody ready any good books lately? I am staring at my shelves realizing I've got nothing that cries out for re-reading at the moment and I really need something chewy to wrap my brain around. Fiction, for preference. I was going to say that nonfiction might do in a pinch, and I think most times it would, but I an feeling the need for fiction right now.

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:53:06 GMT

Amazing Race! DUCKS! hahahaha! I love Amazing Race.

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:40:39 GMT

I forgot to mention--last week, week before, I was on my way home, when I saw this guy coming the other direction on the walkway from my apartment building. And I said to myself, "that guy looks just like Owen Wilson. How odd." And I didn't think about it, because, why would Owen Wilson be wandering around my block? Well, he was making a movie. I found out the next day that he and Reese Witherspoon were filming across the street from my office, at the Union Trust steak house, which is too expensive for me at dinner but has a great barbecue chicken sandwich for lunch. So, huh. Hollywood East!

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:37:48 GMT

What a great day! Wandered all over the upper east side with dotfic, taking notes and getting a sense of locations for Legacy of Daemons. Had Yummy lunch and walked a goodly bit of the way back to the Port Authority--gave up and grabbed a cab at 53rd Street and 5th Avenue. I thought about going the whole way, and I'm pretty sure I could have made it, but I still had to walk home from the bus station here. And just to give the nod, but as a place to visit, as an experience I love over and over, Times Square is pretty much my favorite. I get that kick of endorphins every single time.

On my way home in Philly I bumped into a friend who is a detective with the police here, so I asked him a few procedural things for the book, which were very cool and I had not got them quite right so I will fix them in the morning. Gleep! What authenticity neepery!

Got home just in time to see most of the emmys, which were funnier than I've ever seen them. Dr. Horrible!

Thank you Dotfic! And thank you Paul!

Before the day is over

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:10:30 GMT

I just had to say--

Shiver me timbers! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Happy talk like a pirate day!