Menage à Trois Bingo

Some goals for this year:

• attend Ambercon US. it's been seven years since I last attended, and it's virtual this year so there really aren't any reasons I can't. Will mean some homework (character generation, always my bugbear)
• finish some of my writing WIPs
  • wangxian bartender and CEO in 1980's Hong Kong
  • jgy/xy bonnie-and-clyde-style destruction spree
  • wangxian modern idiots in college - collab w Ollie
  • niecest con-non-con sequel to Virtue Vanquished - collab w Ollie
  • ineffable husbands ephemera multimedia
• 300K words of podfic. well on the way already, tbh
  • With Such Impossible Conveyance, jc centric multivoice, 99k (in progress, chapter 6/39 complete)
  • wide enough and wild, wangxian fix-it, 64K, in progress (nothing published yet), Podfic Big Bang
• podfic bingo blackout
• cover art bingo blackout
• finish Duolingo Chinese. tbh I don't know how doable this is, but at least keep making progress. find a source for continued study
• finish Duolingo Japanese, same
• deal with/respond to my ridiculous AO3 inbox (800+ unread messages, yikes)
• deal with/tag my ridiculous AO3 bookmarks (400+ bookmarks, mostly untagged)
• finish shows I'm currently watching
  • Guardian
  • Nirvana in Fire
  • Haikyuu
  • Yuri on Ice

I did eliminate ALL the unread emails from my gmail in December, which had been over 29000, and all my unopened voicemail, and I've managed to keep both of those at zero since, which is really amazing and somehow freeing as well. So additional goal, keep it that way

We finally watched the Heroes season finale last night, and my suspension of disbelief hit a wall. Not on the superheroics or the ( Spoilers? )

G4 channel's "Ninja Warrior". It's actually a Japanese competition/sporting event/game show: a four-stage obstacle course and test of strength and stamina. It's showing on marathon today. (Until end of programming tonight.)

I could claim the excuse that I'm watching it to practice my Japanese, and while it's true, it's really not the fascination. These guys--the ones who are really in it for the victory--are very impressively strong. There's a lot of amazing upper arm strength. Your heart goes out to them when their muscles fail at the last, just inches from the end, and they fall into the muddy water many feet below.

And then you have the minor celebrities in Japan doing it for the exposure or the laughs, and failing on the first obstacle. But even they earn credit for trying.

The frightening part is that we've been watching this long enough today to have fan favorites and remember the history of many of the competitors from one tournament to the next.

1) What TV show(s) do you find yourself watching the most?
Being broadcast now? Battlestar Galactica
On DVD? Coupling and Firefly

2) What if any TV shows do you own on DVD?
Firefly, House, Babylon 5, Seaquest, Battlestar Galactica (both old &
new), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Coupling, Father Ted...probably more.

3) Can you name your favorite TV show theme song (I would encourage you
to make a phone post and sing it to us)?
"The Serenity Ballad"

4) Have you ever been on TV and if so for what?
Maybe for the 1982 state or national spelling bees.

5) What is your favorite YouTube video (feel free to post a link)?
None

Tuesday nights on Fox at 8pm are becoming as "must-see" as SciFi Friday around our place. That's when "House" is on.

We watched the season-ender the other night. ( Spoilers )I'll be watching the season reruns as they're broadcast, and I'm sure we'll be owners of season one before long. I know I've missed some episodes; unfortunately 8:00 to 9:00 Tuesday conflicts with Rosa's bedtime ritual.

Unrelated aside: I can't possibly be the the only one anal enough that I make sure that my lj-cuts and /lj-cuts line up so as to produce sensible paragraphs and line-breakage in both the cut and the full-length versions.

I have a new theory about Battlestar Galactica's human-appearing cylons.
I don't know why I didn't think of it last season, but nonetheless,
( I think... )