Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.

I've gotten in touch with a couple of people I knew in college recently, via Facebook.

Both of them asked me questions along the lines of "are you EVER going to be done with school?" Like I'm some kind of perpetual, professional student. I'm just all, uh, you knew me when I was in college. And now I'm in grad school. There were eight years in between, during which I had jobs like everyone else. You just weren't in touch with me then.

I'm slightly irritated.

I'm also slightly irritated that my friend Lisa (one of the above) is asking me questions via PM that would be easily answered by a quick glance at my Facebook profile - which is the freaking application she's using to text me in the first place.

It's possible I'm easily irritated.

In my real life, I'm thinking about extrajudicial killings in the Philippines right now.

I haven't gotten very far into it yet, but the newest episode of This American Life reminds me so strongly of an SPN episode that I have to share it with you. The House at Loon Lake.

P.S. Thanks to the Sassy comment!fic meme, gmail is trying to sell me flowers. LULZ.

People on the anon meme are complaining about the shoddy job of reccing that crack_impala is doing lately, and I have to admit I agree. (Um, sorry, I feel like a jerk for complaining that I'm not happy with the service someone is doing for no reason except to be nice.) So here are some recent J2 recs that I haven't seen recced anywhere else.

Out of the Ashes by ancasta. A retelling of Cinderella that managed to NOT be crack. It's long and will suck you in. NC-17, contains child abuse and violence.

Stand On Your Own Head (For a Change) by zuben_eschamali. I REALLY like her fic, and this one, wherein Jared is transportation engineer working on a project that Jensen the community activist is trying to stop, is AWESOME. It has POLICY shit in it you guys! And you know what makes everything funner? THAT'S RIGHT, gay sex POLICY! NC-17.

Of... Verse by butterflywrites. This is technically a WIP, but there aren't any cliffhangers or anything. Each story feels rather self-contained to me. I'm not totally sold on the characterization of Jared as totally neurotic, but it's cute and I adore college AUs. I'm always happy to see it updated on the newsletter.

In my imagination, I will be better at updating my delicious and then I won't forget the other good fics I've read recently.

A bunch of my classmates are in DC for a school trip and are now trapped by Snowmageddon, so my econ professor moved our exam from Tuesday to Thursday! My stress level just went down like 50%. (I still need to study my ass off, though.)

I still have to go write my backgrounder, though. It's due tomorrow and it's maybe...1/3 done.

First, going to the diner on the corner to start off the day with some has browns and eggs. Cause I don't have any food here in the house, naturally.

Michigan cherry farm.
Assume capital inputs fixed.
Labor inputs vary in the SR.
Q(L|K)= 4L + 3L2 - 0.2L3
Michigan’s minimum wage: $7.15/hour
Price taker: $5/basket

How does our (profit-maximizing) Michigan cherry farmer decide how many workers to hire?

I HAVE NO IDEA.

In other news, EVERYONE IS PISSING ME OFF TONIGHT. I totally got in a fight on the internet. I need to stop because I really should go back to econ now. Fucking hell.


BTW, I am the only person in the reading room. I have been here for eight hours. I did a bunch of research for my backgrounder, but not a whole lot of writing. Now I'm really angry at this guy I got in a fight with.

I am seriously cranky. One of my Facebook friends made a reference to god and I had to resist responding with a bunch of militant atheist shit. wtf self? I am usually like, the most pro-religion atheist you're likely to meet.

P.S. This is me:

I'm spending my Saturday reading Department of Defense budget amendments and GAO reports.

sigh.

They're saying that the death toll in Haiti is up to 212,000.

I went out drinking with Emmanuelle this evening. After a couple of drinks, I explained to her about J2 fic. (This is after she told me about how she used to write MacGyver fic when she was a kid. OMG little kid French MacGyver fic. It must have been completely adorable.) Anyway, she was intrigued. She wants to know more. She asked me to send her some good stuff. I am going to send her a link to this entry.

Rec her some shit, people! What would be the best stuff for a newbie? What do you like read and reread? Oh, and label it AU or not AU, okay? (Emmanuelle, I didn't explain about AU, but it means Alternate Universe. Basically putting the guys into new situations. Some people love it, some people think it's essentially original fiction and therefore not really fanfic. I agree that it's not really fanfic, but I enjoy it anyway.)

She's also displayed an interest in Wincest. Recs are welcome.

Emmanuelle wanted airport fic, because it feeds some weird airplane fetish she has (HAHAHA, JUST KIDDING), so.

In Which Jared Makes A Realisation And Jensen Isn't Nice by veronamay (NC-17, non-AU)
The Mile High Club by ifyouweremine (NC-17, non-AU)
Slowly (Through the Numbered Gate) by arlad (PG-13 AU; Jared's a gate agent, Jensen's pretty much just Jensen)

Also, we rewatched a couple of the gag reels today, so.

Gag Reel, by poor_choices. (PG-13, non-AU)

I'm in the grad lounge with Emmnauelle. We just watched 5.13. And now? We've twice heard frantic knocking on some door, and Emmanuelle went to go check it out.

NO ONE WAS THERE.

Plz call Sam and Dean. Send help. Ghosts at school. We are scared.

Emmanuelle adds that ghosts prefer men to be naked. TYVM.

Monday - backgrounder due for peacebuilding. I haven't picked a topic, yay! Thinking of writing about the use of CERP in Afghanistan.
Tuesday - midterm in econ. I have no idea what is going on. Gotta hit the books, seriously.
Tuesday, again - presentation for IEDP. Must do research for my portion, which is on general human rights issues in the Philippines. And, you know, actually make the presentation.
Wednesday - problem set due in stats.

Along with all of this, I need to read a few hundred pages for all of my classes, plus do research on anti-corruption methods that could be used to reform Russia's police force for a project that's due not next week but the week after.

So that ought to be easy.

P.S. 22 days before I go to the Philippines! FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU WINTER, I'M GOING ON A TROPICAL POLICY RESEARCH TRIP VACATION!!!

I've been looking at some of the gifs and graphics from yesterday, and really all I'm getting out of them is...

...GODDAMN, Jensen is one good-looking man. Jesus christ.

From queenklu's SPN parody thread.

Now I've gonna go get some dinner. And go home and study econ cause my life is still shitty.

( 5.13 spoiler )

McDonald's commercials are super annoying.

McGee has fucked up.

McGee: Will Gibbs have to find out about this?
Kate: McGee, I can't think about your ass right now.
McGee: Yeah, okay. *pregnant pause* What about DiNozzo?

There is no fucking way they could be doing this inadvertently.

This is from my environmental justice reading:

"In 2007, Reyes replication and expanded Nevin's work. Using state-level observations to identify the connection between lead exposure and crime for the 50 states and the District of Columbia, she examined the relationship between lead consumption and state violence crime rates, controlling for important structural confounders....criminal justice confounders...and other confounders. Her findings suggested that the phaseout of lead from gasoline in the 1970s might have been responsible for a 56% decline in violent crime between 1992 and 2002."

(The ellipses are just leaving out examples.)

Huh! Everyone knows that violent crime has fallen dramatically in the US in the last twenty years, but I've never seen lead exposure hypothesized as the reason!

Well, I think it's interesting.

It was like all of the icons on my flist were of Jensen, and then dugindeep called for a Jensen picspam.

But today seems to be a Jared day. Three of the four icons at the top of my flist feed are of Jared/Sam right now, and who am I to buck the trend?

Oh, Jared, why is you so pretty? I may have said this before, but while I feel like of the two of them, I think Jensen is probably the better-looking, at least in a classically handsome way, I find Jared more attractive to me personally. IDK what it is exactly, he just gets me going. And then I feel like a perv because he's a few years younger than me. But whatevs, I'm the same age as Jensen and obviously it hasn't stopped anyone from writing shitloads of porn about them.

My friend Emmanuelle who watches SPN was making fun of me for my fangirling, but you know what? I never did anything like this when I was in high school when you'd think it would have been age-appropriate. Maybe I'm regressing. Oh well, it's not like I feel old or anything, I still feel as clueless and immature now as I did then. Also, Emmanuelle fangirls Dean so hard she has no room to stand on. She sent me a note on Facebook a few days ago to tell me that Jensen had won some "Hot Guys" award and I got to mock her for once.

Now I have to read for my Environmental Justice class and make a presentation on the readings that I have to give tomorrow. yay school.

Seriously, how am I supposed to take DiNozzo seriously as a womanizer when he and McGee are SO OBVIOUSLY in love? It is truly ridiculous. I don't even HAVE slash goggles and I can't not see it.

In other news, Max has been so unbelievably annoying tonight I am ready to ship him back to Bulgaria. Except right now he's sitting by my legs and being cute and not trying to attack my wrist or walk back and forth over the keyboard, so maybe I'll keep him after all.

Also, my friend Bryan is posting some truly crazy stuff on Facebook. What kills me about Bryan is that he seems to believe he has some kind of genuinely deep and original philosophical ideas that the rest of us just don't ~understand~, but he's seriously coming off as a teenager with their first Moleskine notebook. Like, he claims to have his own religion called Bryanismo and for years I thought he was kidding about this, but eventually I realized he was SERIOUS. Bryanismo is a real thing. He has all of these tenets laid out and they're totally bonkers. I feel like I'm on the edge of defriending him, which is sad because I really do genuinely like him on the rare occasions I see him (he lives in LA), but the shit he is posting is actually really dumb and annoying.

I'm feeling kind of depressed today. I can't really pin down the cause. Maybe I need to eat better.

At any rate, I whored myself out in a love meme if you feel like answering.

Ugh, this is my celebrity doppleganger of the day:



In other news, my econ class was cancelled for tomorrow which means I don't have any classes at all tomorrow, but I have a problem set due on Friday that I don't know how to do at all. Depressing.

From the Valentine's Day comment!fic meme in sassy_otp.

Castiel is only partially sure of what Valentine's Day is and he's not so great at Google. He only comes up with the massacre of the same name...

I have been planning on taking the Foreign Service exam. It's not like, my lifelong goal to be in foreign service, but it's an option. I just got an email telling me it's time to schedule my test.

Yeah, I'm going to be in the Philippines at the time of every test date at every location I can find.