Four and a half hour delay on a cross country flight. So tired. And then it’s so late that ground transportation was… tetchy. Or sketchy. Possibly the fatigue poisons are confusing me, since I didn’t get to bed until after 6 am internal time. Working on 10th hour of conference on 3 hours sleep. Poor poor pitiful me!

I am having incredible SV nostalgia based on sisabet’s Bad Romance. Lex Luthor doesn’t want to be friends! I’m looking forward to the SV prompts for Eight Crazy Nights.

hollywoodgrrl’s Boom Boom Pow for Fringe: why you should watch Fringe, because it is awesome. There are a lot of explosions! And grim X-Files stuff! And Olivia laying down the law!

dualbunny’s If I Had You is great fun. As someone on my reading list said: Legend of the Seeker m/m: who knew it existed? And yes, Richard is just about as pretty as Kahlan and Cara.

Milly’s Party in the Midlands (also LoTS)—hilarious! Kahlan nods her head and moves her hips like yeah.

( Tom the Dancing Bug, YA paranormal romance, being a prosecutor, moral rights )

Sigh. I have a really, really good reason that I probably won't get to see Serenity in theaters in September, and the DC advance showing on May 26 is already sold out. Damn you, fellow obsessed fans! (If anyone knows where I might snag a ticket, let me know -- I'm willing to travel pretty much anywhere within a 5-hour radius of DC.)

Talking to harriet_spy made me realize I haven't actually said here that my visit in DC has turned into a non-visiting, tenure-track job, which is great. I miss NY for the friends (and the chocolates), but it turns out I go back on a regular basis and get to see the fabulous folks pretty often. Also, Mariebelle sells via the Internet, so the chocolate part is under control. A guy is coming to put built-in bookshelves in the Riv-cave tomorrow, so I guess we're here to stay.

( Fiction: Rusch, Hamilton, Robinson, Baker, Butler, Mosley, Ruff, Crusie )

( Sacred: I'm not trying to harsh anyone's mellow, but herein I am mainly criticial )

( Fiction: Tepper, Sinisalo, Fforde, Stewart, Butler )

So many comics to review! In the meantime: why are you not reading Ex Machina? Go, go, go – the first trade is out and Mitchell Hundred, God from the Machine and Mayor of New York City, awaits you!

Subject line from "Your Pearly Whites," by These Arms Are Snakes. Cool line. Another good one in my recent playlist: "Carved your name/across my eyelids/You pray for rain/I pray for blindness," from "Crown of Love" by The Arcade Fire. Also, for Tori Amos fans, check out Michelle Cross, who has an album's worth of mp3s for free download at her site. My favorites: "Cold Light," "Cinderella," and "Sushi Queen."

Before the books, I need to ask for help: I need beta readers/viewers for (a) what I'm pretty sure is the most pornographic story I've ever written, SV of course, about 25 pages, futurefic/AU; (b) a SV vid, sadly not pornographic in the slightest; and (c) a Buffy vid, which I suppose marks my switch from SV fan who vids to vidder. Let me know here or drop a note to RivkaT at aol if you're interested.

( David Gerrold, Jim Butcher, Orson Scott Card, Year's Best SF, Laurie Marks, John Ridley )