TASTING LIFE TWICE

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nobody@vox.com(Crystal) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:44:27 -0400

Okay, so this is going to be another one of my rambly update posts seeing as I'm not the best blogger lately...

37 on 5th
Kindle coming in my near future.
The price of gas, keeps on rising...nothing comes for free. ♫
Recently I was walking by some developers in my office and overheard them talking about "the Lords of Cobol" and was surprised to see such old guys talking about Battlestar Galactica...until they kept talking and I realized that he was meaning whoever is writing COBOL on the project they are on. I don't think the slip was intentional. It was then that I realized I am rather a bit of a geek. A geek because I assumed it was a BSG reference and a geek because I know what COBOL is.
Oh my Season 3 of BSG is turning out to be amazing, IMHO. I'm so so so addicted. And frustrated that they are going to drag it out into 2009.
Is anyone using Friendfeed?
Yet another blog is in my future, putting the total at three. This blog. My writing blog (on which I have not been writing, sigh). And soon to be...a professional blog about B2B digital media relations. Gah.
New job is good. Different. Still figuring things out in many ways. I relied a lot on the PR agencies at my previous jobs to handle pitching and getting the news out (imagine that)...this time around I'm realizing that I'm going to really have to get my hands dirty and do more direct outreach myself. I'm used to pulling teeth to get what I need, but this is more like yanking out the whole jaw. On the other hand I seem to be one of the only ones who really get the power of social media, so that's a good thing for visibility. Goes back to how women are the queens of it all.
I've been thinking a lot about trauma, tornadoes (unrelated but tragic in a similar way and I keep dreaming about them) and the preciousness of life. Someone I know recently lost a dear friend and the tragic story has hit home for me in the sense of the ongoing importance to never take the people in your life for granted.
I'm in love with Erin Tyner's photography. Recently bought (note the tornado):

Listening to:

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things i'm looking forward to: a list

nobody@vox.com(Crystal) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:27:36 -0400

Jens Lekman at the Paradise
Battlestar Galactica Season 4 (argh it starts the night of Jens Lekman! TG for TiVO!)
Colin Meloy at the Somerville Theater
Planning a little wine tasting party
SPRING at the Mt. Auburn Cemetery
Spring in general!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ice cream season
Cleaning up the back porch, potting flowers and getting ready for summer.
Sitting on that same back porch and writing (although half the trees are gone and there is a massive house just feet away from ours now...maybe I'll have to scope out a park)
Lavinia, by Ursula K. Leguin
Going to the Langham Chocolate Bar for my birthday in June. I've been wanting to go since I moved here 11 years ago and this year is not going to pass without me going!
Receiving this in the mail sometime this week!
And this.

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fall television confession

nobody@vox.com(Crystal) — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:32:56 -0400

So here are the obsessions for the fall:

Heroes
Journeyman (which is after Heroes and it has Lucius Vorenus in it!)
Smallville
ANTM
Project Runway (which will start Nov. 14)

So what does that mean about me? I like SciFi and fashion?? Talk about some irony, huh?

I'm very excited about this:

As fans of Battlestar Galatica get ready for the November 24 premiere of the telemovie "Razor" -- which will delve into the backstory of the Battlestar Pegasus, her crew, and Admiral Cain (Michelle Forbes) -- the network has another surprise. The movie will be preceded by an 8-week series of "mini-sodes." Filmed in conjunction with "Razor," the two- to three-minute installments will air weekly in primetime on SCI FI Channel, and then be available online at SCIFI.com. The promotional shorts will premiere in October.

The first one appeared last night and you can catch it here. No one has YouTubed it yet or I would have just embedded it...

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Dead? Or Alive? [warning BSG spoilers]

nobody@vox.com(Crystal) — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:03:00 -0500

Starbuck, dead?

Sooo is she a Cylon?

The rumors came true last night, when Battlestar Galactica's Starbuck, played by Katee Sackhoff, bit the dust in a strange colorful maelstrom cloud after she had a dream flashback in which she made peace with her abusive and distant mom.

My eyes hurt today because I'm a terrible sap and she was my favorite character and well, I didn't want her to die. I'm also rather pissed.

Pissed because they just didn't give us anything. For those of us who became emotionally invested in that character, they gave us nothing. No understanding, no closure, just complete and utter confusion. Disappointment. It was just too weird...she has a destiny that includes quite matter-of-factly killing herself? Huh? It seemed so contrived--the strange Christmas-Carol/It's a Wonderful Life flashbacks in which she made her peace with mom and then that was enough for her to just call it all quits? I don't get it. It was completely uncharacteristic for her. It went against everything she ever stood for. She did, in fact, what her mom always said she did--she gave up. It was a huge let-down. There was no apparent grand sacrifice, no heroic end, and really, not even sufficient enough build-up about her ongoing craziness (sure, they teased the maelstrom here and there but there was nothing overly significant to show that it ever ate at her overall psyche until this episode).

So what was that all about? And with only three shows left and a huge ridiculous trial with Baltar commanding attention, what are the chances that they will tell us this season vs. next season (they just signed on for a 4th season, thankfully). Will she come back? Sackhoff has a 5-year contract so the chances that she appears again are pretty good (and I just pray that they aren't in more annoying flashback scenes). But how will she come back? Is she a Cylon? If so, she must be one of the "five," right? And who are the five? Why don't even the cylons really know who they are?

Who IS Leoben? And WTF with that "psychologist" who knew everything? Who is she? How does she know all the things she does? It's the same chick that knew about Hera in the earlier episodes, right?

Overall I feel frustrated. This season they yanked two of my favorite characters, D'Anna and now Starbuck. Sigh. I just hope that the whole Baltar trial doesn't make me really cranky. What on earth is Apollo doing defending him?

Well at least I can rest assured that Heroes will probably be more satisfying tonight...

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