The Kit Kat Club

Week meme!:
Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

I'm posting a few, because I can't make up my mind about anything. This first one I feel is both hilarious and important. Hilarious because it showcases just how insane Republicans and the anti-health-reform people really are -- important because it actually provides a lot of information we all should know about healthcare and the administration's policies. Basically, this guy attended the recent "Tea Party" in D.C and went around interviewing protestors. None of the ones shown had the foggiest f-ing idea what they were talking about. Like I said on Facebook -- it's funny, assuming you can keep your blood pressure down for ten minutes. I couldn't. I spent the first five minutes willing my head not to explode, and the second five minutes crying for humanity and America.



( Sesame Street and Doctor Who and West Wing love this way! )

Another one of my cats died yesterday (Friday). Well, not really "my" cat. My sister yelena_r0ssini's. I guess I think of all of them as "my" cats since they used to all live in the same house with me, and after we moved, Yahiko, Shinji, and Christabel were all just upstairs in the other apartment.

Yahiko wasn't old or sick. He was chasing a bug, and when he caught it he tried to eat it. And he choked. I didn't even know that could happen. I didn't know cats could choke. I obviously wasn't there, but I imagine that would be such a terrifying thing to see. It's all so strange. I guess of all the cats, I was the least close to Yahiko, the dumb, oversized grey kitty. But he'd still meow incessantly at me and beg for attention whenever I visited. And it's so strange that I wasn't home when it happened. It's like it can't quite hit me, because I haven't seen him in a while anyway. I will miss him, though...poor baby.

I am sick. It is no fun at all. I have become nocturnal, which is even less fun because I missed class on Thursday and Friday, and missed OMTA today. So, blah blah blah, disappointed in myself, depressed and thus sleeping more, thus creating a vicious cycle, SAME DAMN STORY AS EVERY OTHER TIME GOD I'M SICK OF THIS.

Happy Passover! I went to a seder at Professor Magnus' house on Wednesday. It was nice, and much less overwhelming than I'm sure the Kosher-Halal co-op's seder was. All told, there were probably only 20 or so people at the one I attended. The other Oberlin students who came were very friendly and we had a great time, though we managed to knock over pretty much everything that was handed to us. There was a lot of intense discussion about various aspects of the Exodus story, and I learned so much...which I guess isn't saying much, considering the bulk of my Passover knowledge comes from The Prince of Egypt (shut up it is kind of the greatest movie ever).

Tonight I went to see DragonWolf, the Birthday Kids, and Dos Mil Dias de Fuego all play at Harkness. All 3 bands contain some of my best friends, and many of my other friends were in the audience -- so though rock concerts aren't really my thing, nor is Harkness (with the exception of Harris and Ma'ayan's room), it was a very excellent time.

( UH, OK, AWESOME DOCTOR WHO SPECIAL, OR AWESOMEST DOCTOR WHO SPECIAL? )

A few days before I came home, my family installed Verizon Fios. This means several things. One, I have abandoned the small but mighty ranks of Those Without Cable TV. Two, I am sitting here staring in utter fascination at the fact that Cabaret is airing on an actual TV channel. (Channel 188, to be precise -- a formerly unthinkably high number in terms of channels.) Three, thanks to the new Fios wireless internet, I am posting about it from my living room.

Seriously people, this is so cool. 95% of the channels are totally useless crap, but on the other hand I just caught the last half of P.S I Love You, and I was watching the BBC World News earlier, and Doctor Who is on in fifteen minutes.

In slightly less cheerful -- but still rather amusing, to me -- news, you know what's a really classy way to get your feelings across to someone? Write a malicious, cruel poem about how awful they are, post it in a note on Facebook, and then tag the person in the note. Seriously, I think new heights of passive-aggressiveness have now been reached. Just. What? The person who did this shall remain nameless, though rather obvious nonetheless to some. Apparently, my "fat ass" is going to "burn in hell."

No, seriously.

Guys, be careful going outside :/ My dad fell on the icy steps and hurt his back really badly.

Oh gosh, I have been remiss in the "8 days of happy things" meme. I won't try to list things from the past few days, but here's some stuff nonetheless.
-It's the first day of Hanukkah. This means latkes!
-The Christmas season always makes me really happy.
-I'm (hopefully) going to go visit the old high school haunts tomorrow with Corynn and Lili.
-My nails are light blue, dark blue, and copper, thanks to an evening of nail polish and Doctor Who with Chris.
-Franny will be here soon!
-I'm still amazed and transfixed by Fios.
-My niece is soooo pretty.

Oh, my God, you guys.

Look at my nephew's school picture.



...I have the most beautiful nephew in the entire world. You cannot convince me otherwise. Have you ever seen such a handome little boy? Screw your familial loyalties -- my nephew is cuter than all of your young relatives combined.

I miss him so much. I hate not being around to watch him and Yelena grow up. They're too beautiful for me to want to miss a moment.

(P.S: I just watched the Doctor Who Children in Need preview. One: RTD WHY MUST YOU MESS WITH OUR HEADS IN THIS FASHION. Two: I honestly got a little depressed watching David, knowing he'll be gone so soon. ILU BB. Three:
That being said, I think maybe I wouldn't mind David Morrissey being the next Doctor? I mean, he probably won't be, that seems way too straightforward -- I mean, if he is playing "Eleven" in the Christmas special, shouldn't he have recognized his previous incarnation? But on the off chance that he is, well, he seems like he could pull it off.)

Ok guys, I'm actually legitimately concerned that my computer/my external harddrive/the world/the internet are all conspiring against me.

It has now happened several times. Recently I was re-watching "Turn Left" (God only knows why), and got to my favorite part of the episode, where Donna's all "She was blonde, and she told me to tell you 'Bad Wolf.'" I love that part. The look on the Doctor's face is AMAZING. And Windows Media Player was all like *freeze!* just before it happened. The other night it happened again while I was watching House, just as Cameron was saying she would come back to the hospital if House went on a date with her. And now, NOW, I'm trying to watch the episode containing said date, and the episode file is corrupted and it's not turning up in my DC++ searches and it's not on Youtube and DEAR GOD, WHY DOES MY COMPUTER HATE EXCITING MOMENTS IN TELEVISION?

So this weekend.
Tomorrow:
-4:30 -- go to a "clothes swap" at Tank. Get rid of some of my old clothes and pick up some new, better ones!
-6:20 -- run the cash box for the OMTA cabaret, and watch said cabaret.
-8:00 -- go to the circus performance!!
-10:00ish? -- tea in Asia House
-Sometime after that -- Andrew's party

Saturday:
-Possibly go with Jessie to the blues dance workshop that's being held? That's kind of an all-day thing. Hmm.
-The Outhouse Troubadors at the Cat? I do always love a good Cat concert.
-Harkness Foodship meeting. Durhur, is on Sunday. YAY ME.

I do love how many things there are to do here.

David Tennant is leaving Doctor Who after filming this year's specials.

...WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

I almost just started crying in rehearsal.

Crappy news to end a crappy, crappy day.

I LOVE David as the Doctor. I know the next guy will be great, but I've gotten so attached to his Doctor. I started watching long after Chris Eccleston left, so I was sad, but it was over and done with. I don't want to go through this. BAWWWWW.

I'm like, laughing hysterically because Piscapo's Arm is amazing (rehearsing now: a game of basketball, McCain and Palin vs. Obama and Biden. It ends with: Biden goes to score, Palin: "HEY BIDEN, YOUR FAMILY'S DEAD." Fumble. Blackout). But I'm also like...legit upset. Which is a little pathetic.

( Regular friendslist -- unless you are as unhealthily obsessed with David Tennant as I am, please, skip this and move on with your lives. It's just 50 pictures of the man being a dork, I kid you not, and I'm posting it mostly for the people on tennant_love. )