In case you haven't met him yet: Joseph Adama   And if you don't mind HUGE spoilers and you're an A/R fan, go read this.

In other sci-fi news: I've decided that the only way I'll read Invincible is if the library gets it or I win it in a contest. I know some of you are trying to stay spoiler-free, so I won't go into details. I'm sure if there's any J/J goodies, someone on the f-list will post about it. (I'm looking at you amphetamine_47 )

In the non-sci-fi part of my life, I spent last weekend at a baby shower for my friend and then went on to see mustafear and my favorite boys and dogs.  the baby shower was awesome.  When it was over I went back to my friends new place and helped her unpack all the little clothes while we explained to her husband what some of the gifts were for (i.e. the diaper genie). 

My sister comes home on Sunday for the summer, which is muy exciting.  I miss her mucho. 

Tomorrow I'm subbing for the English teacher I had for half of my time in high school.  It's funny yet scary at the same time; the man is not one with whom you would want to mess around. 

Anyway, it's just one of those nights where you're waiting for it to be a decent and non-embarrassing hour to call your bedtime.

Randomness:

• My review for tonight's BSG
• I subbed five full days this week in five different schools; thus, I'm a little sleepy and feel like my week went by very quickly and is now mush in my memory
• I leave tomorrow to spend a couple days in the greater Cincy area for a baby shower and spending time with my friend and her boys
• My sister has finals next week and I hope she doesn't get too stressed about things
• Last night's Office was just meh in my opinion, but then again I don't like Michael trying to do stand up nor do I enjoy Stanley
• Is it sad that I consider setting the alarm for 7:30 tomorrow morning sleeping in?  I think it is.

Since I haven't discussed it yet, my thoughts about this week's office:

-Steve Carrell is a brave, brave man for putting that much peanut butter in his hair.
-Ryan on drugs and being all friendly with Dwight and Michael = hilarity.
-Kelly: "I have a question: 1) How dare you?"  Great line.
-Of course Dwight would end up with the gorgeous, Amazon, college-aged basketball player.
-Andy asking people if they think he and Angela (whom I dreamed last night went into labor while I was on the set... bizarre) are a better couple than Jim and Pam.  Pam: "Phyllis?"
-Everyone's simultaneous reaction to the pix text from Michael of Dwight making out with the girl.
-Of course Creed would be the only one to actually know the security guard's name.
-I don't mind Jim being imperfect; in fact, I think it's necessary from time to time.  I don't think they're trying to show that he will end up like Michael one day, just that he isn't the golden boy whose plans always work out in the end.
-I adore episodes written by Mindy Kaling.
-Oh, Toby.  It makes me sad he's going to leave, but what a way to go.

My review for last night's episode is up over here.

For the BSG fans: If you haven't read the discussion about what the appearance of the constellation Orion in last week's episode means for the fleet's location (or didn't notice it all), then click here to read about it on the new blog.

For the non-BSG fans: I swear I'll start talking about something else soon.

Wow a lot can happen in 36 hours.  Like filling out a blog application on a whim, not thinking anything would come of it.  But lo and behold, I present to you my new Battlestar Galactica blog.

You know you're a member of my generation when you spend serious time debating which piece of flair would be the best to give one of your best friends on Facebook to celebrate the news that she's having a boy.

I go tomorrow down to IU for an interview fair put on by the School of Ed.  I'll be interviewing with eight school systems tomorrow, and six of them will be done within two-and-a-half hours.  As if this wasn't nerve-inducing to begin with, my allergies (which rarely bother me) have been doing wonders with my nose and ears, and my eyes have developed a new, fun habit of watering in the last couple of days.  Thus, I'm now off to bed to wake up at 5:30 tomorrow morning in order to get ready and leave for B-town at 7am to be inside the Union on campus by 8:30 or so.  If you happen to think of it, any prayers or happy thoughts you could send in the direction of Bloomington between the hours of 9 and 3 tomorrow would be sincerely appreciated.

Three weeks ago I realized I hadn't finished the book even though I'd had it for a month.  Two weeks ago I finally finished it, and today I'm just now caring enough to finish putting up the review (chapters 11 through the end) behind the cut.

Last night was the Michael Buble concert, and man was it amazing.  He's the first person I've seen in concert that I would without question classify as an entertainer, and not just a singer.  He was hilarious (as was his band members) and was bound and determined to let us all have a good time, which we did.  But not only was he funny and his band amazing, the man can sing.  My only concern with how good and powerful his voice is would be that he's doing damage to it and won't have a throat left in ten years.  An example of how great and talented he is?  He ended the encore singing acapella.  Without a microphone.  In Conseco Fieldhouse.  To 8,000+ people.  You could hear him clearly even though he was about fifty yards away.  Amazing.

Watched tonight's BSG episode early on scifi.com; thoughts on it are behind the cut.




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Why awesomeness? Well to start things off, my sister got in last night. We're going to see Michael Buble this evening. Yay! But that's tonight and not yesterday.

Second reason--The Office. Seriously, I heart Jim and Pam. But if a guy did a stunt like Jim does in the second clip to me, I'm honestly not sure whether I would find it hysterical or want to break his jaw. Maybe both.

A little background--Pam just set her landlady up on a date with her boss, Michael, which of course went horribly.





And sidenote--I really loved (and felt bad for) Kevin. Poor thing. But the chair bit in the beginning (especially with Pam and Creed) was great.

And reason number three why last night was awesome: I experienced my first earthquake.  This, too, should qualify for today, but since it woke me up while I was asleep, I'll still count it for yesterday. It made me want to get up when it happened at 5:36 this morning and turn on Google Earth on my computer.  But I didn't.

And now time to watch live streaming of tonight's Battlestar Galactica.

Good:
Subbed for the best class yes (at an elementary level) today.  Second graders are definitely now my favorite age to work with.  They were so well-behaved it was shocking.  Definitely made it an easy day for me and my first experience of being in a classroom with the same 20 little ones for the whole day.

Bad:
Buying gas two weeks in a row and knowing I'll have to buy it again next week.  It's currently sitting at $3.45 a gallon around here.  So not cool.

Ugly:
A friend of mine decided earlier this week that the only way he could turn things around in his life was to end it.  Words cannot express how much I want to bring him back if only to beat some sense into him.  I wish he knew how much easier it would have been for all of us to hear that he needed some help with money and grades instead of having to hear about this.

A while ago, I posted a challenge regarding March madness and custom icons and banners.  Forgive me for being a week late in getting the results posted:

1st place - Me
2nd Place - X
3rd Place - Crazy Cat

Even though I was awesome and got the final four, championship game, and the winner right (picking all #1 seeds finally paid off after all these years), I will withdraw myself so that someone else can get some Photoshop love.  Therefore, X gets 15 icons or 3 banners, Crazy Cat gets 10 icons or 2 banners, and Irish Smuggler gets 5 icons or a banner. 

Remember, you must supply me with all the images you want for your stuff.  Just leave me links to the images in a reply with a note about what you want me to do.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

-Ate plenty of good food (Sonic--although it was weird to eat it and not be in Oklahoma, tomato soup with grilled cheese and bacon sandwiches, Max & Erma's, lasagna, and an amazing brownie a la mode with Graeter's ice cream)
-Held my friend's now five day old baby girl
-Played Wii for the first time, which was quite fun especially since I only played for about a minute
-Took cookies to police and fire stations as part of a churchwide service project
-Saw one of my roommates from Ohio State with her cute pregnant belly (as well as her husband and their two dogs)
-Got a start on my dishes for once I get out on my own thanks to the fantastic mustafear; I now have mugs in cobalt, turquoise, peacock and plum with the promise of rounding out those place settings
-Nearly won a nerf bocce ball tournament
-Got plenty of cuddle time with my favorite four year old and miniature schnauzer
-Thankfully avoided having one of the numerous lectures on pollution the very smart seven year old gave directed at me
-Played video games with the boys
-Had an awesome time that was totally worth the better part of a gas tank with prices as high as they are right now

I'm still around, just been busy and/or feeling too lazy to talk about stuff.  But I know there's a lot I need to cover: adventures in substitute teaching, another weekend adventure with mustafear, job hunting, dreams, BSG and Office talk, etc.  So hopefully I'll be good this week and update.

Thirty icons from episode 4x01 of Battlestar Galactica.

Rules:
-credit callmelydia or iconic_lydia
-comments are love
-feel free to friend
-these are NOT bases
-don't hyperlink


Preview:


You can find them over here.

Quoted from John Krasinski describing his alternate life if he wasn't an actor from EW:

I've gone out on several dates with the bio teacher.  Her name is Sarah, and she's just a really great girl. 

You can read the rest of it here.

Anyone else besides me not know that the actor who plays Hot Dog is Edward James Olmos' son? Didn't even cross my mind till I saw him in the "Why Hath David Forsaken Us" video blog and saw the actor's last name.

Yes, I'm a dork and complete sucker for useless trivia.

And in case you haven't seen the video blog:

Thoughts about BSG's fourth season opener are under the cut.