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I don't really follow soccer, but my husband is really excited about the World Cup. He's been making me watch all the games with him, even though I have no idea what's going on. I don't even know which country's team he's rooting for. Isn't that funny? I do enjoy the champagne, though.

Apparently my dream self is a master dinosaur wrangler.

Dream me is much more adventurous than real me.

[Jack Harkness]

I dreamed meeting you. It seems so weird considering I've never met you in real life

So, these nuns are suing a strip club that they have as a neighbor. I normally wouldn't care, but I'm just greatly amused by the whole idea. It makes sense that they're upset about it being near them, but I'm going to secretly think that one of them tried to get a job there and was denied.

I didn't realize that there were zoning laws about places of worship and "adult" facilities. I also didn't realize nuns lived in suburban areas - most movies you see make it seem like they hang out in the middle of the countryside.

My shop assistant is sadly moving away and put in her two week notice. She was a good worker who was a saint for putting up with my neat freak ways.

This now means that I'm now looking for a new employee to help run the bookstore. If anyone knows of someone in need of a job or is looking for one, just send me a message and set up for an interview!

Snow right before summer? Orange County you never fail to keep life interesting. And here I thought I would never need snow boots again.

Hopefully everyone is keeping warm and if anyone needs a place with heat, they're more than welcome to come to mine.

So of course, I'm the idiot that accepts a shitty apartment without a functional heater because, really, who needs a goddamn functional heater in California in June. Life, I have some beef with you. Some HARD beef with you.

I'm still pissed about my turkey leg too.

Pipes are frozen. No water's coming out. SO. My landlord can suck it while I stuff my trashcan with old newspapers and make a bonfire in my living room. And I'm cooking bacon on it.

'Least the weather is making my liquor frosty. My icecream too.



I may die tonight from liquor poisoning or high cholesterol. Better than freezing. Ugh.

Need a place to drink. Also need a place to eat. Would rather go to a place that offers both. People of the world wide web, give me recommendations. I don't know what the hell California has to offer. I'm not picky. I can assure you, I can eat an entire farm right now and still want a bakery for dessert.

Well apparently I'm now a dreamer too. The first few I've had are not pretty at all. I'm not sure if I want anymore, not that I'd be able to stop them.

I spent the better part of today's quarterly Skype call with our Japan division messing around with Google's Rubik's Cube interactive doodle.

I solved it so many times within that hour I lost count. Which is weird when I've only played with a Rubik's Cube a handful of times as a kid and I remember it took me much longer to solve. Wonder if this has anything to do with my apparently 80's era dreams...

I don't understand that new reality/dating/whatever show, I Wanna Marry Harry. These woman don't realize that isn't actually Prince Harry? Has anyone else seen the commercials for this show? I just don't get it.

Well, hi there. I'm Mal Reynolds. Just got invited onto this thing, and figured I could use it for professional outreach. I think that's what they call it.

I'm new here, just moved up from Arizona. I'm a PI, or I will be when I get licensed here. I don't do divorce, but if you need a good PI for anything else, I should in theory be your guy. It's just me and my dog Oscar, so my time is my own.

Oh my god. This. This is priceless.

I can't even pick my favorite one, they're all golden. The skeleton one is good, the mother ones are hilarious. Okay, probably the ice cube one. Definitely the ice cube one.

I got addicted. Has anyone else played this 2048 game? It's ridiculously addictive.

http://www.2048tile.co/

...I can't even. I just don't. What? Oh, I'm still playing.

Talking with my mother made me remember that I miss seeing her and dad. What was supposed to be a quick happy Mother's Day chat turned into an hour and a half of chatting about anything and everything. I should sit down and plan a trip back home sometime.

There's only one question that annoys me still, after almost ten years and that's from people who know mine and Lian's situation and ask, especially around Mother's Day, if Lian gets upset on Mother's Day cause she never knew her mother. I mean, I get why they'd ask, but the answer is, no. She's known what went on with me and Jade since she was pretty young. Some people told me that I shouldn't tell her until she was older, but I didn't want her to get to preschool or daycare and then come home and ask me why she didn't have a mother or anything. So, for the record, no, Lian does not miss her mother on Mother's Day.

If wearin' eighteen pounds of black leather in the middle of sunny goddamned california is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Someone tell me not to get another dog.

Today is National Nurses Day so I brought some cupcakes and cookies in from Baxter's for the nurses in my ward. They deserve so much more than that, considering the things they do, but the rest of the week is Nurses Appreciation Week, so I'm sure they'll get more.

It's nto even six yet and I have had somuch trquila, so mny margaritaa corondas ad sangria.

How did this happen

oh my god someoen is calling for body shotsss im getting in on that

According to my employee, I am in dire need of a social life. And apparently this would be the place to do it so here goes.

Hello, I'm Ianto. I'm the owner of a bookshop called A Page In Time. I have an embarrassingly large movie collection and own a dog named Dali. I'm not even really sure what to put in here so feel free to ask me questions. Maybe that would be slightly less awkward? Or more awkward. I think it may be a toss up.

So, one of the guys I accidentally overheard at the coffee shop, he was saying that the internet is a good place to meet people. And he's probably right. So, here I am!

My name's Jerrica Benton, and I just moved here from upstate to go to school. I hope there's some other people my age on here, or even other people from UCI! Any other double majors, or am I the only crazy one?

Thank god that's over. Got to go home this afternoon and honestly, there is nothing better than sleeping in your own bed after five days of sleeping on gurneys or hospital beds. At least this didn't last as long as the blue flu did last year. I never want to be stuck at the hospital for that long again. So, now that I'm finally home and in my own bed, the only thing missing is my boyfriend.

Speaking of, had a dream the other night. I broke off my engagement. I guess I realized that trying to have the safe, normal life just wasn't what I really wanted.

[Team TARDIS/Torchwood]
Was talking to Rose the other day and she suggested that we all go get a drink when everything cleared up and now that it has, what is everyone doing Saturday?

All those young couples on House Hunters always annoy the crap out of me. It's always like these twenty four year olds who have been married for a year and want a house with three bedrooms and three bathrooms even though they don't plan on starting a family right away and the kitchen or yard is always too small and they get upset if the master bedroom doesn't have a bathroom. The fixtures are always wrong and the girl ends up getting emotional over something.

And it's even worse on the International ones cause no one ever seems to realize that apartments in other countries are usually smaller.

This is why Mickey shouldn't leave me alone. I end up watching HGTV at two in the morning and rant about house hunting shows.

Hey Rose and Ianto! Think we could get away with putting one of these signs up at work?

( Click me )

Now if I thought the first dream I had was crazy, these recent ones were even more so.

So, Amy tried to kiss The Doctor the night before we were supposed to get married. The Doctor took us to Venice in 1580. I wasn't the least bit surprised that the TARDIS was bigger on the inside, which annoyed The Doctor. We all almost got killed by what we thought were vampires, but were really aliens. I yelled at The Doctor when I thought Amy was in danger and we eventually defeated the aliens. The Doctor was going to drop us off at the Leadworth Registry Office so we could get married, but Amy was reluctant about it so I just told them to drop me off where they found me, but instead Amy asked The Doctor to let me come with them and he agreed.

Dream me was right about one thing; there is something about The Doctor that causes his companions to want to put themselves in danger, which Amy proved, and I don't understand what it is.

My brother thinks he's so funny. When my family was visiting at Christmas, the night we all went to dinner with Mickey, Leo decided to give Mickey the "Brother Talk", which is funny, because I'm older than Leo, but anyway, so Leo texts me randomly today saying he was just checking in to make sure Mickey was still behaving himself and to let him know if he wasn't so he could mess him up. What a goober.

( texts to Tessa )



( Texts to Ianto )

I feel like I'm hitting a major milestone in my adult life now, it's very strange. For the first time, I have someone to bring home for Thanksgiving dinner.

Despite being from England, my parents have adapted quite well to American traditions and they do love getting the family together for Thanksgiving. And this is the first year that I've really felt comfortable with the man I'm with to bring him home with me.

We've been together ten months already, I can hardly believe it. It seems like both ages and ages and the blink of an eye, all at once.

It's just... really, really lovely. All of it is.

I finally managed to get in trouble for my big mouth at work today. Like a lot of other people I'm reading about, my 'inside voice' has suddenly decided that it REALLY needs to be heard. Out loud. Every time I'm asked a direct question.

Long story short: she slapepd me across the face, called me all kinds of interesting things, and stormed out of my office. Somehow I doubt I'll be seeing her for the rest of the day.

I'm very happy to be dating a doctor because she has made sure that I am still alive even though I frightened her when she woke up and saw that I had no mouth. Which I have to admit is still one of the strangest sensations of my life. It's just such a useful body part and now I look like a freak without one. Hopefully this will be over soon.

The only downside is the time I'm spending in the hospital. I told work I had the flu and they seem to be okay with me not coming in. But this has also given me a lot of time to sleep and of course those dreams found me.

So, let's see.... I said goodbye to Rose and the Doctor as they went off on another round of trips. Then I alerted the Doctor to activity in this school in town so he and Rose came back to investigate. That was a lot of fun because I met Sarah Jane Smith the drama between she and Rose and this tin dog called K9 (who is basically my alter ego) and I ended up joining Rose and the Doctor on the TARDIS. I will say that it's never a dull moment with the two of them. I dreamt about Clockwork Droids and the the Cybermen.... Being in an alternate universe with a twin version of yourself is something quite interesting. It was also a bit painful because my grandmother was alive in this universe and I decided to stick around after my twin died. I'm not sure how it'll play out, but it seems almost lonely.

Well, I suppose this is one time when Skyping and/or texting at the office is a perfectly legitimate means of communication.

[Jack]
No, that doesn't mean I'm going to send you selfies of my trousers. At least not whilst I'm just down the hall.

I was beginning to think something was wrong with my, but I guess I always was a late bloomer. For those of you who haven't figured it out yet, that means I've finally started Dreaming.

[Jack]
Yes, you were in it.

Dragon*Con was a riot! But in a good way. Saw a few people dressed up as characters from our games. Had a few fanboy moments (both as the giver and the recipient). I am both wired and exhausted, so I'm glad I don't have to go back to work until tomorrow.

Or do I?

I'm glad I got my body back in time for Dragon*Con. Some men may look quite convincing in drag, but I would have spent more time explaining my appearance than promoting the new games.

Hello Valarnet! I'm back! Did you miss me?

Spent a day or so feeling a little bit jet lagged, but I'm back in sunny California! Work wise, the trip was a big success and it looks like we're going to have some extra cash from the new investors for a few of our lesser known games. On the fun side, it was great being back in the home country for a while and eating all the foods I've missed.

Anything crazy happening lately that I should know about?

The t-shirt turns a hundred this year.

Believe it or not, I actually do wear them.

Has anyone seen my talking fish? I seem to have misplaced it.

I am glad to say I finally managed to get a job, and get most definitely settled again. It's a engineering design and support job for the headquarters of a company that just moved into the area, called Genesis, Inc. They are small, but they seem really nice. Most of their business has been in Egypt and Greece, apparently, helping spread technology infrastructure in some of the more remote areas.

So, that's fun! I spent a lot of this month in training with them, learning their policies and their style of equipment and business. I am very excited about working with them and already enjoying this job!

If you're happy and you know it don't watch the news.

So this week in science; well, I don't suppose it all happened this week. It's just mentioned this week, but whatever. There molecules inside of naked mole rats that make them immune to cancer... obviously a great chance for the human species to find a way to eradicate the disease.

A battery was printed on a 3D printer, it was powerful and no larger than a grain of sand.

Also, evidence of bacterial DNA in the human genome! Brilliant, or perhaps not.


Fifty years ago today, this isn't exactly science as much as it is history obviously, but still... JFK visits Berlin! Brilliant day it seems, wish I'd been there.

And in two days it will be the 100th anniversary of the second Balkan War! A war that pre-dated WWI, but yet help set it up, and therefore a war that, in all understanding, could have very minutely helped to set up the world we live in today.

My tea sets.

They are singing.

Last night I had a dream, after weeks of nothing. I can't even remember the last time I had one actually. Not only did I have a dream, but I got another item from it. This time is was a cell phone. A cell phone that The Doctor adjusted so that I could call my mom or pretty much anyone from anyplace in space and time.

As for the dream, we replied to a distress call from another ship and found out that the engines were dead and they were on a crash course with a star and had 42 minutes. The Doctor sent me and one of the ship's crew to open a series of doors to access the engines. Suffice to say, I almost died, but I was able to contact The Doctor before it was too late. Then the tables were turned and I had to save The Doctor.

In real world news, The Bruins need to shape up for Monday. They can't let Chicago win in Boston.

It's weird what you can learn on the internet these days. Used to be a bunch of bulletin boards, linked up, and then more and more sites came online, and now, almost every piece of information out there is online. Without doing anything illegal or even immoral, you can stumble over almost any piece of information now.

On other news, still no job, but I finished working on re-engineering a new processor unit, and hopefully that will generate some revenue once it's patented and rights are sold. Being a computer engineer is interesting sometimes.

I've barely been back from Wales for two days, and already, my sister is calling me to ask where in the world I put thus-and-such. Honestly, I made certain that everything was perfectly well organized. I love my family, but I don't know how they find anything in that house!

It seems so strange to me that I would live here for so long and all of these amazing things were happening right under my nose. People with superpowers that can make fireworks, people with magic... I suppose we only see what we want to see. I think I've been a little too caught up in my own life.

But... In any case... I am glad to hear that life is returning to some kind of normal for you all. And I hope that no one takes that away from you without your request again.

Oh, this is my first post here. I'm Yuna... or Nurse Lee, as I get called the most.

Valarnet. Valaarnet. The place where all of the insanity in the Orange County comes to play together if I am not mistaken, yes? Well, I guess we’re about to see how long it takes for one more poster on this board to go completely, irrevocably insane. I HAVE been reading over the shoulders of castmates for the better part of the week end now, and this seems to be just as good a place as any for me to go loudly and explodingly insane.

So, as you ought to know just whose mess you’ll be cleaning up on the day that I inevitably explode in a fight of fire and glitter, allow me to introduce myself properly: Cyrano Savinien
Hercule de Bergerac.

Blame my parents. I certainly don’t hold back if I think I can get loans out of them. Cryrano then.

On that note, yes that IS me in the picture attached to the post and we might as well get this out of the way, while i point out that yes, in fact, I have a nose. Yes, I’m fairly certain it is not my second head, a brand new alien lifeform dependent on me for survival or an attempt at male pregnancy that occurred as the result of that terrible night in Vegas, January 18th of the year two thousand and seven.

We are, however, quite the team. I write and he directs and we share the electric bill. Sadly, I’m going to say he got the looks, but then, I got the brain.

I am sure we can both agree that it's lovely to be here. Possibly. If one of you knows a bar that's only going to card the one of us.

When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I a monster, a blot upon the earth from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?

Ever have one of those nights where it seems like you just can't catch your breath?

( Private to Tali )

Right, note to self:

NO TOPLESS TEXTING UNTIL THIS ALL GETS SORTED.

I mean, not texting whilst topless, texting photos of topless self.

I've finally been convinced to start a web log. One of my Teacher's Aids suggested it, so long as I keep in mind that everything posted to the internet is public knowledge. Of course, it would be hard to forget such a thing, anyway. I would like to keep a log of my studies, and the things I have an interest in researching. It might help me to keep my thoughts better organized, and I can access it from any computer, unlike a paper diary.

Note to self; no class on Thursday.

On a side, and somewhat personal note, I must admit that watching old episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" makes me feel a bit warm and fuzzy in a slightly uncomfortable way. Hopefully it's not distracting Ron from his nap on my sofa.

Second note to self; replenish the Rocky Road supply. I seem to have run out.