My non-spoilery review, in the form of a text message conversation between me and my sister. (Footnotes added after the fact, and I've cleaned up some of my chronic laziness at proper capitalization within texts.)

Me: So it turns out that the new Trek movie is actually worth seeing. I'm a bit shocked my ownself¹. Not one of my top three, but close².
Me: I spent the first 20 minutes rolling my eyes, but I'm glad I stuck around.

Sister: Best. Review. Ever.

Me: Also there's Benedict Cumberbatch and Zach Quinto. I felt my Kinsey score dropping by the minute.

Sister: I don't know who Benedict Cumberbatch is but that is the best name ever

Me: BBC Sherlock. I'm madly in love with his hair.

Sister: Almost Matt Smith pompadour?

Me: I prefer his hair in Sherlock but that's how it looks in this one, yes.

Sister: Niiice

¹ I'd watched like six hours of Firefly that morning, shut up.
² More like five, really. Which is still passing.


More spoilery thoughts, mostly in bulleted list form, behind the cut.

( Seriously, spoilers abound for Star Trek Into Darkness. Also it's long.Collapse )

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The scene: it's 3 in the morning.

Orion: MEOW. MOW. MERROW. MREOWOWOWOW. MEOW. MROW. MOW.
Me: dfajfdakdfjkdfjghewas;dfdfsalf wha? Shut up, cat.
Orion: Meow. Mow. Merrow. Mreowowowow. Meow. Mrow. Mow.
Me: *groan*

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The scene: Tianna's car, where we're discussing anything but this week, because this week is depressing as fuck. The radio somehow goes from playing "Gimme Shelter" to "Margaritaville," so we switch to the local classic rock station. A minute later...

Ti: Wait a second, they're playing Soundgarden.

Me: ...omg, you're right.

Ti: I used to listen to this when I was driving this route to high school every day.

Me: At least they don't yet have a dedicated '90s night?

Ti: They do.

Me: ... THAT IS NOT THE ANSWER I WANTED TO HEAR.

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Actually sung to my boycat this morning:

Hey dude
Don't bite my leg
Learn your lesson
And behave better.
Remember, your teeth are really damn sharp.
Could you please start
To behave better?

Me-ow me-ow me-ow me-ow me-ow me-ow hey!

Meow, meow meow mewmeowmow, mewmeowmow, hey dude. x(infinity)

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QotD, while in a grocery store trying to find something sweet that one of my cousins (who's severely allergic to nuts) can eat:

Me: OMG, what did people with allergies do before allergen labels on food?
Mother: Mostly, they died.

...seriously, we found ONE THING that was acceptable in the entire baked goods section. Fruit pies? Almonds in the crust. Cakes and cookies? The ones that aren't nut-flavored are "processed on equipment that also handles" blah blah blah.

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With two days until Christmas, the phone gods gave to me:

Four calls to tech support
Three Tier 2 agents
Two factory resets
And a brick that my phone used to be.

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9-year-old cousin: When are you going to be on Jeopardy?
Me:: I haven't gotten a call back from them. They could call me tomorrow, or next year, or the year after that. Or not at all.
Cousin: Or they could call you to say they don't want you because you're too smart for your own good!
Me: *snrk*

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So. My sister took her dog out for a walk a little while ago. Nothing untoward happened; they left and came back as normal.

A couple minutes later, we hear scratching at the door, and somebody jiggling the doorknob. And the doorbell rings.

I open the door, thinking it's a political canvasser who doesn't know what time it is. The boycat runs in, an "ohshitohshitohshit" expression on his face.

The little bastard had snuck out, but was thankfully too chicken to go far in the Big Bad Outside. And he was tall enough to ding the doorbell when he was doing his little trick with the doorknobs.

He's absolutely fine now. But he deserves ALL THE LAUGHS IN THE WORLD.

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The scene: Orion wants in to the other room so he can pounce on Athena. He wants this VERY LOUDLY.

Orion: MRRROW.
Me: No.
Orion: MAIOOOOW.
Me: No!
Orion: MEROWOWOW?
Me: Because SHUT UP, that's why.

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