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So, uh, hi, LJ, how are you? I'm good, kinda scared than in 4 weeks I'll be leaving Wellington for quite some time, but you know, okay, I guess. A freak out is imminent.

I haven't posted or really been around for the last couple of weeks. Was in Christchurch last weekend and the last few days have just been busy and insane. Have a free day today, well, kinda. I need to start sorting out my books into the store in Chch/give away or sell piles. Eeep. I know people who are very anti the book collection pruning thing, but I think it needs to be done every now and then. Let's hope its slightly more successful than pruning the comic collection, which I meant to halve (not as scary as it sounds, and I haven't read some of them in years) .... and let's just say, I didn't. Damn you comics!

I also meant to start this whole process a lot earlier, but spent last night watching State of Play (really not too bad, Russel Crowe, Rachel MacAdams <3, Helen Mirren all awesome, but I spent a lot of time comparing it to he mini-series) and this morning, well, I checked rahmbamarama and ended up in a spiral of video awesomeness that ended with lots of clips of the NBC White House special, and the fact that Rahm Emaneul has a photo of him kissing Stephen Colberts's cheek (see icon) in his office. It may have been a gag for the cameras, but does he really have that kind of time? Anyway, awesome.

So, yes book sorting now. Really. Hope you're all well.

Also, the Daily Show this week has been amazing. So many good bits (including them sending Jason Jones to Tehran, OMG) but the high point for me being ...

( Napoleon!Jon and Duke of Wellington!John )

Dude, I love them so much.

So, as I tweeted, I caught the inauguration ceremony at 6am my time. It was, as many have said before me, pretty awe-inspiring. Two things that I haven't seen mentioned a whole lot which I really liked was Joseph Lowrey's benediction and John Williams composition (Yo Yo Ma rules!). I thought both were beautiful really.

I did really like the speech. Was it a little low on inspiration? Maybe. But a few of the lines were just amazing. I remember listening and being all, 'Yes, this, god it's good to hear a President say this.' <3

And then I lost power. ;) Somewhat alarming at first, but then we realised it was half the city, and happily it was back on within a couple of hours. Sadly, my work was completely unaffected. ;)

I seem to have a lot of inauguration links to share:

obama_daily has some amazing photos, I especially love the ones of the Obamas dancing but really they're all amazing. And then there's the photo of Obama and Denzel grinning at each other. <3 Not enough awesome in the world.

tzikeh also posted this awesome Rahm photo. I do get the love now, I do.

And then there is The Daily Show, including John Oliver randomly kissing male and female nauguration attendees. Yes, really.

( Embedded below )

And semi related, Obama plushie with Blackberry. It's the plush Blackberry that makes this extra awesome. (Link gacked from someone on the flist I now cannot remember, sorry). He gets to keep his Blackberry in the White House too. I was geekily happy about that. Even if it is a special NSA version with crazy encryption on it, but you get why.

And I ... think that might be it.

Oh no, wait, there was this really cute Malia and Sasha picspam on the Huffington Post So cute. And Sasha gave her Dad a thumbs up after he said the oath!

It is slightly disturbing how many Obama photos have ended up in my 'Politics' folder over the campaign, and really, since I added obama_daily to my flist. I think they really have got to the point where they get a folder of their own.

Unrelated meme that I thought was cool (taken from michellek)

1. go to the fourth folder on your computer where you store your pictures,
2. pick the fourth picture in that folder,
3. explain the picture

( My Actresses folder as it turns out )

Pondering staying up to see the Oscar nominations come in, just because it's kinda close already.

Also, have LJ really taken auto-complete off the Post page for tags because that was so useful. Grr.

I know I've linked to them before, but John Oliver and Andy Zaltman's "The Bugle" podcasts are made of many, many different kinds of awesome. I was listening to them at work today (while working, really) and I have not consistently laughed at something so hard in ages. <3!

Also, I just watched last night's Daily Show on the site, and John Oliver's Fox 'documentary' was really sort of wonderful. In a ripping-FOX-to-shreds kinda way ;) And the interview was really interesting too.

I embed them under the cut because I can, as well as a couple of other TDS clips I had to watch again while I was on the site.

( How so awesome? )

Also, while I am overusing the word awesome in a post. SGA fandom = most awesome fandom ever, for many reasons.

I was reminded of this post by mona1347 I memoried a while back (read: two years), which draws hilarious comparisons between fandoms and the hard drugs they represent. SGA is totally acid.

I feel I had to make a post of some sort tonight.

I just finished my HBP read-through, and I wish I'd done it sooner, as I liked it quite a bit more this time around. The pacing was less of a problem for me, and I appreciated the little details a lot more. Oliver Wood mention even! I totally forgot about that.

As for tomorrow, I'm not lining up this year. I'll pick up the book probably around 1, once I've gotten up after sleeping in and walked into town. If I had someone to drag with me, I might have lined up, but while I'm a lot more excited about the book then I was say three weeks ago, I'm still not as excited as I have been for OotP and HBP. I'm just not as involved in HP fandom as I have been (even though that was basically just reading fic) and maybe it hasn't hit me yet that this really is the end, I'm not too sure. Hell, maybe I'm just too tired after work today, and I'll wake up bouncy tomorrow. ;)

I've stocked up on sugar-y supplies, but I can see me possibly hunting down some corn-chips and salsa tomorrow. I really have enough food in the house, but eh, why not? I need savoury comfort food as well. :p

However, in a complete change in topic, I am so glad the Daily Show is back. So glad! Last night's show with Matt Groening was particularly awesome, but all of the eps have had their great moments. I need a John Oliver icon.

Also, 'I Can't Decide' by the Scissor Sisters has been in my head for days. It also fell onto my iPod. John Simm, I blame you.

(I uploaded some old icons a couple of days ago, and my most recent HP ones were from PoA. *facepalm* Oh HP, it has been a while, hasn't it?)