Fannish Argosies

I am going to try my best to ignore the awfulness of the new comment system and the fact that many of the features I use daily are now gone (though forcing my own style in S2 gets them back for the most part, for now anyway).

Instead, I'm going to squee over the new Hobbit trailer, despite having to wait another whole year for the movie. It looks wonderful! I'm so pleased for Dean O'Gorman, too, though tbh not all of the LOTR actors went on to get huge careers after the movies, so it might not be the big boost for him that we'd like, but still. Very cool.

Man, what happened to all my LOTR icons...I need to rotate those back in again.

I have pudding in my hair.

There is of course a completely reasonable explanation for this. I'm making banana pudding to take for my office holiday party tomorrow. I need a mixer with a lower speed setting, methinks.

And yes, Bling people, that means it's totally time to break out the protractor. Perhaps a level as well.

These promo pics are JUST the thing I needed after a long day to combat my (these days) generally depressed state of mind. Mild spoilers as far as costumes go, but nothing very specific.

Particular faves are this one of Arthur, Gwen looking totally fierce, and Arthur and the Knights with bonus standing-on-boxes/platforms for the shorter members of the cast. Hee!

I love the way they're dressing Gwen this season. I don't normally wish to wear dresses and indeed don't really own any except for a few joke fancy dresses, but I do find myself itching to try to make hers. No way could I match all the embroidery, though, so oh well.

Is it Saturday yet?

Well, that was fun. Yesterday morning during programs I developed an extremely sore throat just out of the blue, which was worrisome but not enough to keep me from getting through the day. However, I had an overnight event to do last night and was hoping to see if someone else could take my place. Sadly, the person in charge of staffing those had gone home and it was a bit late to try calling anyone. So I thought I'd struggle on and just hope I didn't end up going hoarse or anything.

Sadly, that was the least of the problems. I started feeling more and more achy and run down throughout the evening and then just after 10 had to excuse myself from the tour group and hightail it to the nearest bathroom.

I almost made it.

Nothing sucks quite like having to call housekeeping, who are probably ready to go home soon, and tell them to come clean up vomit from the carpet. Yay. Spent the next thirty minutes in the bathroom with dry heaves before I felt well enough to hobble back downstairs. My coworker took one look at me and said please go home, so I did. I still feel bad about leaving him with the group all by himself, but hopefully someone else helped out this morning. I just wasn't in any shape to continue.

Luckily I feel about 90% better today. I took some ibuprofen and slept for almost twelve hours, which seems to have done the trick. Must've been one of those 24-hr virus type deals; a much, much better option than the flu or something (which I was afraid it was for a while there). Still gonna take it easy this weekend, though. I need to be rested up for next week, as I'm headed up to St Paul, MN on Monday for a work conference.

At least today gives me both new Pony (which was a solid, fun episode with lots of AJ!) and new Merlin tonight!

Wow, I got some of my Merlin squee back. Feels good!

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Home from con.

Already have next year's membership.

Also have next year's hotel rooms reserved. This is getting crazy, I swear.

Pics soon!