Random notes

[oyceter]

1. Woe. Brain has been eaten by Saiyuki and Olympics. Must find more Kenren/Tenpou fic. Hope desperately that two opposing zombie-like forces do not combine in one frightening nightmare involving the Sanzo-ikkou figure skating and snarking about their horrible spandex costumes, complete with Sanzo threatening to shoot the commentators, the judges, and his fellow competitors.

2. Yay Evan Lysacek! I am going to the special hell for ogling at his loooong legs. And yay Plushenko, even though he wasn't skating as well as I've seen him. I feel like sticking my tongue out at the commentators because I like his program when he is on. I continue to dislike Johnny Weir (oops, nearly typed "Johnny Weird") because of his interviews and his costumes. And yay Jeffrey Buttle, who I like!

3. Am greatly looking forward to ice dancing and rooting for Belbin and Agosto.

4. Am ignoring the fact that Tanith Belbin's free skate costume involves cutaways with pink underneath. I like them too much for mockage (well, at least open mockage).

5. Yarn market tomorrow! Wallet is doomed.

6. Finally got smart about book buying moratorium and headed over to the library, where I managed to get Midnighters 2, Queen of Attolia, the Sharon Shinn YA (I am giving her one more chance, hoping desperately that I just dislike the Samaria books), a book set in 1600s France and involving swashbuckling and somehow shelved with the new fantasy books, book 5 of Fables, and Rebecca Tingle's sort of sequel to The Edge of the Sword.

7. Have been thinking about the book posts and the oddness of not knowing how many people read my LJ or what they're interested in, and how comments are rather deceptive in this regard. This will probably come out as some giant, meta, totally incoherent post later, but right now, the general reaction on my end is: "Huh."

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

The only Sharon Shinn book I loved was her first, The Shapeshifter's Wife.

[oyceter]

I liked some of her other, non-Samaria ones, but the Samaria books drive me crazy.

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

Yay! Jeff Buttle! *squee* I seem to still be excited about that. ^_^

Have you read Summers at Castle Auburn? It's a Sharon Shinn, not Samaria, and I really like it. There aren't really any plot surprises, but I think it gets where it's going in quite a nice way.

[oyceter]

Yay! I liked him a lot! And he seems to nice too!

I like Summers at Castle Auburn ^_^. It's just nice and comforting.

[deadsoul820.livejournal.com]

I join you in long-legged Lysacek lust, however, I'm very meh on ice dancing. I'm mostly looking forward to Dick Button dissing the costumes.

I've reiterated it repeatedly and redundantly, but I still dig your book posts.

[oyceter]

Ohhh, I just got into ice dancing. I never really got it before, but I really like Belbin and Agosto, so, eh... yes.

And thank you so much re: the book posts ^_^.

[kchew.livejournal.com]

As a country, we're thrilled with Jeff Buttle. He's so nice, and he worked his heart out for it. The look on his face when he realized that he had the bronze was just fabulous.

yay!

[oyceter]

Yeah! Yay for him!!

[canandagirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't think too much of Johnny Weir myself. I think you should have a bit of modesty and not brag about how you're such a drama queen. I was impressed with Evan Lysacek's performance, especially since I heard he was sick as a dog, and I was cheering for Jeffrey Buttle. Not only is he Canadian, but he's really cute, (I shudder to think of the age difference).

[oyceter]

(I know, Jeffrey Buttle and Evan Lysacek are both quite cute! But oh, the age difference...)