Is it something about summer, do you think, that makes work slightly more odd than usual?

1. Someone sent us a record today. A record, 33 1/3 rpm vinyl record. I sure hope the patron didn't really need that recording.

2. The office got a letter addressed to Mr/Mrs [boss's first name] [boss's last name]. My boss is named Katie.

3. A library sent us a book entitled "Breaking the Jewish Code" which is by an evangelical Christian and promises to teach you how to use the secrets of the Jewish people to obtain wealth, health, and good fortune. Because those are all things I know I think of when I think of the historical experience of the Jewish people! There was a lot of O.o around the office, and we were relieved to learn that it had been mis-sent to us and our patron was looking for something entirely different.

4. One of my co-workers checked his email, then announced to the office at large, "[patron] is mad as hell and she's not going to take it anymore!"

5. I came into work today to find my boss doing "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" at her desk. No, I don't know either.

1. Tour! stupid tour things found on twitter: biker tan, lance and george still being friends, Columbia....okay, I have no idea what happened here.

2. ( Entourage! cut for minor discussion of last night's episode )

3. Top Chef Masters! All the culinary ridic of regular Top Chef, none of the season-long drama and ego battles! Seriously. Of the 16 chefs they've featured so far (4 in each episode), I'd like to hang out with 13 of them. (2 of them made an unfortunate comedy duo but might be okay when not together, 1 was just an asshole.) Since these are established chefs with reputations and restaurants and in some cases stars and they're playing for charity, it seems like there's a lot less pressure on them to prove themselves, so they can sit there and laugh and go, 'shit, that didn't turn out at all.' The first episode, in which they cooked in dorm rooms (no, literally - microwave and toaster over on the desk, hot plate on the bookshelf, bed used as a plating area, and the student who lived there stopping by every now and again to see how things are going) had me laughing so hard I nearly cried. Plus, totally bizarre completions of the sentence "Cooking is like...." (DJing! Sports! Music!)

( Torchwood )


Of course, whatever one might think of the quality of Torchwood, I watched Kings just before it, which makes even Torchwood seem like well-structured television.

( Kings )

why is it that the overlap of 'people i know', 'people who care about the tour de france' and 'people who care about twitter' consists of solely me? my mother fits the first two, so i can send her all of my long emails full of my tinhatty* beliefs about lance and she sends me updates about the giro and the vuelta and tells me what i've missed by not watching it on tv. but half the tour is twittering now, and twitter sort of eludes my mother, which leaves me with the question of who, exactly, i should tell about the twitters about zabriskie and bsg, or important questions like 'twittering drunk or esl?, or 'is that really quick step's twitter, and if so, wtf?'

i wonder if it has something to do with being in a rpf fandom and getting used to canon happening more directly? or even being used to being in a hypertext environment like fandom where fanstuff is changing and happening all the time.

*by which i mean, tinhatty beliefs about his chances to win and how he is clean, dammit, clean. not the other kind.

eta: apparently lance owns a bike shop in Austin called Mellow Johnny's. It has a coffee shop inside called Juan Pelota. brb, dying of laughter.

1. at work, we were loaned a book from the library of a correctional facility. i didn't even know prisons had libraries that did ILL. (i think we have borrowed books from basically every government institution that has them.)

2. why does the royal mail send us packages wrapped in GIANT BLUE BAGS MADE OF TARP? and what are we supposed to do with them? (previous re-uses: concealing the fact that the office fridge is full of beer.)

3. TPTB made us switch to a different shipping service. the virtual address book (also provided by TPTB) is missing several of the libraries we regularly ship to. why? and when will the co-worker who knows more about shipping be back so i can bug him about this?

4. why is humidity?

5. why is parker dressed like a nun?

6. why is cheese so tasty? i have recently discovered those babybel snack sized cheese things, and om nom nom.

I feel like this day has gone on forever. Is it really only noon?

Granted, that's because I got up at 11pm*, but still. Foreeeeever.

*Because I went to bed at 9am, because I got up at 8pm after sleeping 18 hours because I crashed really hard after spending all of last week reading warning wank instead of sleeping.**

**sometimes losing a day and resetting my sleep schedule forwards is actually easier than the alternative.

1. Pictures from the set of the second season of Leverage. Including "Why Chris is wearing hat in 2.07" and this picture*, for which I'd put exactly no money on Chris Kane's opponent.

*arguably a casting spoiler**, if you care about who's guest starring on Leverage next season.
**but an AWESOME casting spoiler.

2. This picspam by stealstheashes, featuring baby animals in teacups.

3. This fic, which is Star Trek XI and was written for the prompt "Please apply the techniques of at least one school or theory of literary analysis to any of the following pairings", is titled "Reading Against/Reading With: Mastering the Oppositional Discourse in Textual Healing", and made me laugh until I cried, no literally, which probably means there's something deeply wrong with me but I don't care. Warnings for litcrit.

When I went into the kitchen this morning, I was extremely cautious, checking for strange noises, sudden bangs, and movement in the corner of my vision. Luckily, none of those signs were there, and so I could enter the kitchen freely, knowing it was rodent free. (I did, however, find a jar of peanut butter with the lid gnawed through, which I promptly disposed of.)

( you might think that would be the end of this all. you would be so so wrong. )

Animal control: something you never expected to need to know for college.

jfc, wtf is wrong with people?

ON THE KITCHEN TABLE

vid: exported!

okay, it's still not done, but I wanted to see if I could. And I could, but there was a giant green bar across the picture, but I got that to go away.

the amount of enjoyment i am taking from this is so far out of proportion to what i have actually achieved.

Spoilers for the most recently aired episodes of everything, except Greek.

( Southland )

( True Blood )

( Burn Notice )

( Royal Pains )

( Kings )

( Greek, through 1.12 )