So, I've read Knights of the Old Republic #48 and 49. 50 will be the final issue, so these two really go out of their way to answer some of the lingering questions from the series. But the most intriguing thing to come out of it is the explanation for how exactly Zayne's relationship with the Force works.

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*The office manager at work is completely awesome. This is a 50-60-ish year old woman who once told me that my sense of humor reminds her of John Hodgman (which is pretty much the highest sense of humor anyone could pay me right now), told me to watch Tosh.0, and once recommended This American Life to me when I was actually listening to that week's TAL podcast. The other day when I was listening to War Rocket Ajax, she asked me what I had on. I told her a it was a comic book podcast. Her immediate reaction?

"SPOON."

That's right. She straight up dropped a Tick reference on me. You just don't expect that kind of thing from older ladies.

Honestly, between her geeky tendencies, her sense of humor, and the fact that she does math for a living, she reminds me of tarzanic in about 30 years. It's kind of weird to see.

*Gmail just gave me this ad: "Unemployed Toddlers? - babylab.uchicago.edu - Put them to work at the Center for Early Childhood Research!"

That may be the greatest ad ever. GET TO WORK, YOU DAMN TODDLERS. DON'T CRY! WHAT ARE YOU, BABIES?

*I'm trying to decide what I thought of last week's Office clip show. On one hand, clear jump the shark moment. On the other, if there's one show that COULD theoretically get away with a clip show, the mockumentary format makes The Office that show. And it actually fit in both thematically (looking back on the time with Dunder Mifflin) and emotionally (the Jim-Pam retrospective alone was awww). But when you get right down to it, I was grateful that tonight was a rerun instead of another freaking clip show.

As I try to fall asleep tonight, I was going to write a post about my day today (began with my alarm somehow being set an hour later than usual and swollen eyes, ended with stomach problems) or maybe the saga of my annual review (which is an interesting story, the key point being that it was supposed to be last Friday at 3:30, but has now been officially rescheduled for tomorrow at 3:30 in what has been kind of a clusterfuck that at least suggests I'm not fired) or maybe even 24.

But no. There's only one topic that I really need to mention right now. So. I went to OKCupid to finish rewriting my profile (which I do almost completely every six months or so) and I glanced at the "recently viewed" icons and what do I see? Cute comic artist girl changed her profile pic to a Halloween picture where she's a zombie. Fake blood all over her face and everything.

For the record, she hadn't responded to my previous message and so this was, in fact, the very next thing I learned about her.

Clearly, I know the way my life works. Thanks, Universe, for making a stupid joke look prophetic.

As I become more and more accustomed to other forms of social media besides LiveJournal, I find that certain information suits different audiences better than others. My parents and extended family can read my Facebook, so I am unlikely to talk about girls there. My real life friends can read my twitter, so I am unlikely to talk about my internet circles there. So there are some things that I can feel safe sharing only with my LJ flist. And so I now open the Only on LJ Files.

Holy crap, I'm talking to a cute girl on OKCupid... about comic books. Because she draws them. And she is actually replying to my messages.

I mean, that last thing is, of course, high on my list of things I might like about a girl, but when you add that to somebody who both likes and draws comics and lives a reasonably close distance? I don't get that kind of luck with online dating sites. Something karmically bad is coming soon. I fully expect that the next thing I might learn about her is that she kills men and eats their spleens, not to absorb their power, but because she thinks they taste great with some seasoning.* Which would be thematically appropriate of course, but would possibly end with my death and the loss of my spleen.

On the other hand, I can't prove that spleens don't taste great with some seasoning, so can I really fault a cute girl for that? At this point, I think I'd have to take my chances.

Okay, more realistically, she stops replying. But still. I have had an actual conversation with a cute girl who draws comic books on OKCupid. And that's pretty cool.

*Yes, eating spleens for taste is the issue. Eating them for power is different because ambition is kinda hot.

Hi there, LJ. We haven't talked in a while since LiveJournal decided that giving me a Best Buy video on my window every time I came by during the holidays was a good idea. I disagreed and completely got out of the habit of using LJ. But I'm checking in now.

How are you?

Four things on my mind right now:

1) My head hurts.

2) I'm playing Batman at FH now. That was a long time coming.

3) I'm with CoCo.

4) 24 is starting pretty awesome thing year.

4a) I always feel weird saying something like this since my flist is almost entirely female, but there are sections of the internet where Renee Walker on 24 is known as Agent Hotness and holy crap she's just killing Barney Stinson's Hot/Crazy graph right now. Yes, I felt the need to bring this up on LJ. Mainly because I'm never going to refer to her as The Hotness on twitter (I don't need the RL friends I have on there asking questions) or Facebook (same thing, only with my mom reading, too) and it needed to be said.

Anyway, I plan on getting back into the groove with the Eljay again, provided they've cut it out with the damn commercials.

That is all.

THURSDAY:

*Flew to LA after dealing with security and everything in record time.

*Had dinner with comedownstairs at her former roommate's future-parents-in-laws' house with a bunch of people. It was good.

FRIDAY:

*Happy Birthday to Me!

*Spent the day hanging out while Natalie went to work. Watched lots of Seinfeld and cartoons.

*Had dinner at Islands.

SATURDAY:

*Went to breakfast at IHOP, per tradition.

*Hit up the LA Science Center, which is pretty awesome and free. It's like a way scaled down Museum of Science and Industry. This was during the tailgating for the USC/UCLA football game, so we had some entertainment going to and from the parking lot.

*Went to Islands AGAIN.

*Watched Star Wars with the RiffTrax going. It was funny.

SUNDAY:

*Saw 2012 with Natalie and it's still ridiculous the second time around. Maybe moreso. Still fun, though.

*Picked up new Discworld and Bill Simmons' The Book of Basketball at Barnes & Noble. They had the Pratchett book for CHEAP. Must now find time to read books without pictures of Spider-Man.

*Watched ROTS with the RiffTrax going. Also funny. Then watched Greek, which is a very good show.

TODAY:

*Got dropped off at airport at 7:00 for an 11:45 flight since Natalie has something called "work" today. The security line was out the door and nearly to the next building.

*Have been sitting around for a while.

*Saw departure time moved to 12:10.

*Heard that flight MIGHT BE overbooked at 11:10. I feel like they should have known that earlier than this.

*Am curious how late I'll be getting into Chicago. Not until after 6 as it currently stands. We'll see.

OVERALL:

*Lots of fun with some stumbles at the finish line. LET'S GO, SOUTHWEST. GET ME IN THE AIR.

I haven't had much to say recently, obviously. But let's see if I can summarize:

*Community is probably my favorite show on TV right now.

*Work is running the gamut recently. Pretty much any opinion I could have of it, I have. But I think I'm kind of rocking it at the moment, but that really doesn't mean anything.

*We had our Thanksgiving potluck at work on Friday, followed by the annual touch football game. My team got killed, but I didn't embarrass myself at any point. AND I didn't feel like death for three days after this time!

*My mom recently bought herself a Wii with my help. Due to a combination of poor planning on her part and not realizing how much strain some of those games can cause her body, I am now the owner of a Wii because I couldn't convince her to just return it. Sigh.

*I'm heading to California on Thursday for the return of the annual birthday trip to Natalie's! She's working on Friday (my birthday) but still. It should be awesome.

*I've renewed my subscription to Coast to Coast AM. The George Noory shows still kind of bug me from time to time (well, at least once a week, really), but the Ian Punnett shows more than make up for it. A couple weeks ago he had a whole show on Scientology from an author who used to work in the main compound and is now big in the Anonymous movement. Then he did a show on DARPA, which was pretty amazing. This weekend he had an author who has done a ton of research into the informant system in law enforcement and how screwed up it is. And last month, apparently, he had a show with the author of the Zombie Survival Guide where it was a two-hour War of the Worlds-type broadcast about the war with the zombies. I still need to listen to that one.

But seriously, Ian Punnett makes for good radio.

Also, I'm absolutely uploading that show to share with people when I get to it.

*From Punnett's show on Saturday, I found this: Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking sing a duet thanks to autotune.

*Allergies have been killing me the past couple weeks. Dry eyes, headaches, sneezing... It's like it's not November at all. BUT IT TOTALLY IS.

That's about it.

... I just read a comics opinion piece that suggested the writer would be okay with Spider-Man killing Norman Osborn at some point of Osborn ever went after his family again.

That is a website I will never read again. Spider-Man can WANT to kill someone. He can even TRY to kill someone in the heat of the moment, or ALMOST kill someone. I'll even go on record as accepting either somebody inadvertently dying because of his actions or even the very flimsy Batman Begins "I won't kill you, but I don't have to save you" argument if it's written well enough.

But for him to just go nuts on Norman, punch him to death, have it be successful, and have that be okay? No. That suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of the character and it means that you're wrong and I hate you and I'm not reading your site anymore.

That site might as well suggest that Batman should murder Joker with a gun....

*I've been working a lot of overtime recently for various reasons. I've been getting a lot of headaches recently, too. I suspect these facts are related.

*I'm getting a group together to see 2012 on Friday. It's a movie in which the apocalypse chases John Cusack as he tries to escape in a car and, later, a plane. It's going to be a glorious pile of crap. I can't wait.

*The word is that Spider-Man 4 casting is getting rolling and with that, the rumors of who the villains are going to be is starting to gear up. It kind of sounds like The Lizard is a lock - which is a really good thing since he's easily the most filmable of Spidey's remaining rogues (way ahead of Sandman, for the record), with some Black Cat fun thrown in there. But the best part of the Black Cat rumor is that they're talking to Rachel McAdams to play her, and she's awesome. Also? Adorable.

*I loved yesterday's HIMYM. The bit in the car was one of the greatest scenes ever on the show and I will defend that opinion to the death.

*I'm trying to get into the Hockey Hall of Fame. I started a petition and everything! Go ahead and sign it!

*From the wiki entry on famed one-handed baseball pitcher Jim Abbott: New York Yankees teammate Mariano Rivera said Abbott could hit home runs into the bleachers during batting practice.

If YouTube were around during Abbott's career, he would have been a frickin' superstar.

So, I just watched GI Joe: Rise of Cobra.

Damn. That was a surprisingly fun movie. Really, I should have expected nothing less from Stephen Sommers (anyone who wasn't entertained by Van Helsing doesn't enjoy fun... or works for Universal and took a beating on that one).

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