fannish stuff PLUS real life interlude!

[schmerica]

i. So, Invader Zim. Gerard is Dib and Mikey is Gaz, but I can't decide whether Pete is more Zim or GIR. THIS LACK OF EASY CASTING DISTURBS ME.

ii. Everytime I see the word Stumptown it makes me go "...Patrick?" Since I live in the suburbs of Portland, you can see how this might be a problem.

iii. Why is Gabe singing in Spanish at the beginning of "Smile for the Paparazzi" so fucking hot, you guys? Ugh.

iiiB. Hey, do any of you know if Ray Toro actually speaks Spanish? I had assumed he had heritage knowledge, but my Google-fu has led me to now think he doesn't, or at least not very well? There's this, but that seems memorized rather than fluent.

iv. ONE MONTH UNTIL I'M BACK AT SCHOOL. I left Eugene during my breakdown in mid-May; it's been almost seven months. Next week is my birthday. In three weeks it's a whole new year, new semester, new chance. Maybe I'll actually finally graduate in June.

(Classes I am taking this term: linguistics seminar on Proto-Indo-European; linguistics seminar on neurolinguistics; low level general biology evolution class for my gen ed requirements. Two of these I am super excited about!)

The only part that sucks about this is the complete lack of central/southern Oregon fangirls. *LONELY FACE*

v. I feel as if these two pictures have a theme going on, but I'm not sure quite what it is.

vi. Mikeyway!

Comments

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yeah -- actually, I'm in Forest Grove, so far enough west it probably doesn't count as the suburbs quite any more. But Tri-Met still comes out this far, so whatever. As long as I can get downtown with relative ease I'm okay.

[scizojess.livejournal.com]

They need to connect the Tri-Met to Vancouver somehow. But that would probably cost a whole lot of money.

[missmollyetc.livejournal.com]

...YOU LIVE IN FOREST GROVE OREGON???

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

...Yes? Didn't that come up when we were bonding over being from Washington County?

[missmollyetc.livejournal.com]

No! In that I...think not? Because I have been awake for many, many days now and I can't remember. But dude! I did my undergrad at Pacific!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

!!!!!!

DUDE. When were you here?

[missmollyetc.livejournal.com]

'99 - 2003! WE POSSIBLY WERE IN CONCENTRIC FANGIRL PROXIMITY!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

DUDE. Those were my high school years! 99-01 = my freshman and sophomore years! (And then I dropped out of school to go to, uh, college. But yes! I had like speech tournaments on your campus and everything!)

[missmollyetc.livejournal.com]

WEIRD. So near, yet so far! (Which college did you wind up going to? I had a friend on the East Coast who did that.)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I went to Simon's Rock College (for younger scholars!) from 2001-2003. Then my scholarship money ran out, and I've been bumming around the Northwest since.

My mind is seriously a little blown by this. You have been-or-at-least-seen the library where I spent my adolescence/Safeway where I worked in sandwich hell/movie theater where I got my first kiss! SO WEIRD.

[missmollyetc.livejournal.com]

...no you did not. BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE MY FRIEND WENT. WHAT THE HELL, WACKY WORLD OF COINCIDENCE AND NEAR MISSES?!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

This is beginning to get a little freaky! SERIOUSLY, DUDE. What years did your friend go?

[missmollyetc.livejournal.com]

Umm, 2000-2001, 2001-2002 we were in Wales, and then I think she finished up there in the next few years so...basically when you were there?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I am really intrigued then -- seriously, there's only like 400 kids at the school, so I probably knew her. Would you feel comfortable telling me more in email?