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Note to self: there is a point where conceit (extended metaphor) overpowers story and what you have is a literary excercise, not a piece of fiction. You are rapidly reaching that point.

(Am writing weird Sam-POV fic involving Sam, Jack, and Newton's First Law. Equations may eventually be included. I really hope not, though, because I don't think I can remember any of them, and I don't want to look them up.)

Uuuugghhh. Wrestling this thing into submission is not going to be pretty...

Five Things I Have Learned...

...from the kitten, whom we are apparently keeping rather long-term. I'm calling him Barnum, since he's such an acrobat and would fit right in at a circus. He hangs upside-down enough to give any trapeze artist a run for his money. Plus he's as much of a charmer as P.T. ever was. Parents don't like the name, but cats don't come when they're called anyway, so he can have as many names as he wants.

Anyway.

1. Anything not nailed down is a cat toy. Anything the cat can pry loose isn't nailed down.
2. Shoulders are a good place to perch.
3. If anything, including fingers and toes, moves--POUNCE!
4. After doing something completely boneheaded, look really cool and lick your fur for a bit. Silly humans will forget all about your previous stupidity.
5. Sleep is an art. Refine it often.

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"Chain Reaction" was on tonight's Monday marathon. Is it bad that Maybourne is one of my favorite characters? Yeah, he's slimy, but he's slimy in a way that you can't help but love. And he's such a grey area-type character; makes him interesting. The Hawaiian-shirts-and-steel-drums ending to CR was funny as hell.

I think 2010 is on right now. Am recording it and will watch as soon as it's over. Kind of not looking forward to watching it, though, 'cause of course I've read the transcript, seen screencaps, etc., and am not really wanting to see everything all wrong.

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The HBO series that's being advertised on Sci-Fi, Carnivále? Looks really interesting. (You may have noticed that I have a thing for circuses, especially circus stuff from the Victorian and Edwardian eras.) Alas, I have no HBO, so I suppose I'll have to wait for DVDs, or syndication, or something.

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Aaauuuughhh. I just finished watching the angst-fest that is 2010, and then iTunes decides to shuffle Simon & Garfunkle's "Old Friends" into play. Watch me break down and cry like a baby. I need to burn that song to a CD and get it off my playlist so it doens't jump out and attack me like this...