This is going to be a very pathetic recap of what I'm watching on the screen.
( For spoilers )

Okay so I can't even react to U.S. Figure Skating Championships right now, so great is my glee.

In other unrelated news, my step-cousin's baby has had elevated blood-lead levels. They moved out of their house which did have some lead based paint (several layers down) to a safe house while theirs was completely stripped and made safe. They were very surprised that their house could have so negatively affected the baby etc.

However when they weren't living in their house babies lead levels continued to climb. They said they were going to retest all of her toys but I said, you guys it's obvious we live in an area with high lead content in the soil etc. She's getting it from a park you guys are going to. I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS TO THEM FOR MONTHS. Every time I bring it up however they keep saying, no no it can't be it's this that or the other thing.

I've just been sitting their being, I am getting a degree in this sort of thing I swear it's a playground. Anyways the news was on after the Championships tonight and it was about closing down a park in the area because of unsafe lead levels in the soil. I turned to my roommate and jokingly said "oh that's probably the park" and then we talked about all of the above.
However as I was complaining about my family not listening to me...I noticed the parent the news was interviewing was...my step-cousin.
So yeah, the parks been closed until it can be remediated because concerned parents got the soil levels tested.

Holy Shit guys, I helped close a city park and I never even knew it.

Hello internets long time no talk, I have been distracted by all this infectious disease data from Madagascar. Aka real life has eaten my life.

But I have emerged because it's Nationals AND Europeans this week besides which Panic! have released their new single on youtube and some very silly pictures of them in tweed suits and feathered hats on facebook. I might come back and put those in while I'm not writing an entry during a 10 minute break in class. Edit: Have in fact done so

( Lyrics vid to the new Panic! single Mona Lisa )

and...they have decided to now look like this. ( a decision I heavily approve of )


Anyways, I haven't seen any of it yet (because it was happening during class) but here are my knee jerk reactions to the scores that have been posted from ( Euros short dance )

School has started back up, it's been exciting, 5 blocks sideways hills both ways!

But the really exciting thing is that friends have been visiting! People I hadn't got to see for a while, who I had really been missing. Now I am at my core a hostess (or was raised Southern which is much the same thing) and one of the key draws of New Orleans, or features, or whatever are Pralines. I was not about to let my friends buy some when I can make better that store bought myself, however the problem raised was that one of my friends in allergic to nuts.

I decided to improvise.
( adventures in cooking )

Happy Holidays everybody
( Possible triggers for rape, sexual violence, sheer blinding rage at the legal system etc. )

other than trying to avoid the news for reasons like the above I have been up to absolutely nothing, sleeping and eating and playing with dog that's about it. Mom's freaking out about my anemia which...I've never not been anemic, it's a constant thing we know this we've known this since I was a child it's a huge part of why I take pre-natal vitamins, she's freaking out about it a lot because I'm super tired and I've got dark circles under my eyes, but sometimes a spade is just a spade, I'm super tired because I've been working hard ditto for the circles with an extra helping of I just lost a bunch of weight.

Things that are making me happy right now -Jeffrey Buttle and Adam Rippon tweeting at each other about Elf,
Patrick Stump- he's a robot, a time traveling magical musical robot I swear to God. One who's just released new photos of his hot robot self over on his website

Ok, so my University sends out e-mails whenever a crime is reported by a student to alert the rest of the student body etc. this is not the safest city in the world so it typically is a few people getting held up at gunpoint and robbed or such like. We got one a few days ago however that made me sit back and go ??????????????????
I present for discussion this CRIME ALERT

OFF CAMPUS THEFT
DATE & TIME OF OCCURRENCE: December 10, 2010, at approximately 5:41 a.m.
LOCATION: [Nice Middle Class neighborhood]

REPORTED OFFENSE: The student was approached at the intersection by a subject on foot with his hands in his pockets. The subject said, “Hey, Ma’am.” The student screamed in fear and threw her wallet at him. The subject ran river bound on [the street] and picked up the victim’s wallet as he fled the area.

SUSPECT DESCRIPTION: Black male, early to mid 30’s in age, medium build, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and dark pants.

SUSPECT VEHICLE: No Vehicle Identified.

Just, what? Seriously, I understand being uncomfortable or afraid but in what world would you react like that? Is this even a crime? I mean sure he took her wallet but only because she randomly threw it at him, I mean that's practically fair.

Opinions? thoughts?

Johnny, oh my lord

@JohnnyGWeir A small child just thought I was his mother. Beyond flattered. (^•^) #someday

He wants children, this is now fact. I want him to adopt a baby from Eastern Europe and dress it up in furs (with Stéphane) and he probably does to. He just wants to be a mom, you guys.

In other baby news at my cousin's yesterday for Thanksgiving their (almost) 2 year old somehow got a hold of a bottle of beer while everybody except me was in the kitchen cleaning up after dinner, he was walking around mainly spilling it in puddles all over the floor and leaving little beer footprints but he did take a drink from it. The kid is a little nervous around me, mostly because of the wheelchair so I didn't know if I could successfully get the bottle from him but when I asked him to come over and give it to me he did quick as anything which was a bit of a relief. Then he decided that he wanted to push my chair around for me, luckily the wheels were locked or I think he would have gotten run over trying to pull me backwards.

Oh, and another of my cousin's kids has finally come out! It's good because she's been depressed for years hiding it I think (other things too of course), although getting a Justin Beiber haircut, changing your entire wardrobe to plaid and coming out in rural Louisiana at 17 is a tricky business. There has of course been gossip and name-calling and friends who won't speak to her in public and other high-school drama. I'm proud of her though, and I'm glad that I'm in the area to give her support if she needs it.

My current plan as an older mentor into the lifestyle is not letting her go out to clubs to get picked up without me there basically, because no I don't trust her or her friends not to make massively stupid decisions. I don't want her to get hurt or just get sucked into drama unnecessarily that is my self appointed task.

Skating with the Stars! Johnny Weir and Dick Button co-judging! (I'm ignoring the lady choreographer person because SHE BOTHERS ME SO MUCH)
Tanith is commentating! She's so beautiful, and informative.
Charlie is being adorable at home, tweeting about how lucky he is to be dating Tanith.

I'm more excited for Brooke, Keauna, and Denis than any of the 'Stars'

judging quote of the night.

"That was so hot I almost sweat out my weave"-Johnny Weir on Fred and Rebecca

Also apparently the creators of Grey's Anatomy are making another show about a clinic on a tropical island. They promo is referring to it as "Tropical Medicine" which, ahahahahahaha there is a difference between practicing medicine in a tropical country and working in Tropical Medicine. You need a MPH&TM in addition to your MD to be a Dr. of Tropical Medicine. Who wants to guess how many people on this show will have one of those?
Also reading the promo materials it says the plot is about 6 Dr.s working in a "poorly staffed" clinic. Who can tell me what is wrong with that sentence?

If you answered, the fact that anybody would call a clinic with 6 full time Dr.s "poorly staffed" than you have answered correctly. Maybe it's poorly staffed because they have 6 Dr.s and no nurses, techs, or or admin workers? In which case...hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

I'm totally watching this show, at least the first episode just so I can laugh. My dad's had years of hilarity laughing at medical dramas, now it is finally my turn! (sort of)

My love for the My Chemical Romance album Danger Days:True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys can not be adequately rendered in text form.
Imagine a million heart eyes and flailing and me saying HOW IS THIS SO AMAZING about every 20 seconds while the music plays.

Not only is the music fantastic, the concept the whole world they've built the multitudes of random videos they're posting, what they're doing on twitter the Better Living Industries website of creepy Japanese corporate brainwashing (and evil) EVERYTHING EVER INVOLVED IN THIS. Watch the music videos, listen to this music, if you don't like it okay but if you like it YOU WILL LOVE IT.

In other news the boys from Panic! have obtained a stun gun and are being complete boys with it

( Video behind cut )

and Rostelecom Cup is happening which is exciting, I'm excited for Jeremy and Patrick, and Miki and Ksenia. Dance is actually going to be interesting I think there are several teams at the same level competing so I'm excited to see how that shakes out.

Also, I have decided Pesto sauce is evil and not to be trusted.

( and now for random Halloween and pet pictures )

I was so inspired by Stephen's return to competitive skating, and how fantastic he was performing (and looking) that I actually wrote my first figure skating fic.

As of yet Untitled
fandom:figure skating RPF
Adam/Stephen
2,100 words
Everybody knows how Adam gets after a disappointing performance, they also know that Stephen's the only one who can deal with it
NC-17 for explicit sex
Disclaimers: This is a work of fiction. The characters are based on real people, but nothing written here occurred, nor am I implying that they might have occurred.

Dedicated to thexpuzzler for convincing me about Adam/Stephen. Thanks to culper355 for looking this over for me.

For everybody on my flist who has no idea who these guys are or why I'd write about them

( This is Adam Rippon )



( Abandon all hope...you know how the rest of that goes )