This article from Reuters via Yahoo! News quotes some interesting statistics about anticipated kisses in the Harry Potter movies:

"In a poll conducted by online ticket seller Fandango.com , 59 percent of fans said the on-screen kiss they most want to see is between Hermione and Ron.

Only 40 percent said they can't wait to see the peck in "Half-Blood Prince" between Potter, played by Daniel Radcliffe, and Ginny Weasley, Ron's sister in the film who is played by Bonnie Wright."

Oddly enough, neither of those kisses is particularly interesting to me, but I can think of a few others...

Not that I want to wish away the rest of my vacation or the whole of next week, for that matter, but I'm going to pull a muscle avoiding spoilers for Torchwood. And then there's this from the io9.com review:
Slurp!

The Space Needle, Pike Place Market, Green Lake, Beth's Cafe, Fremont Troll, Archie McPhee, Ballard Locks, Alki Beach, Olympic Sculpture Park, the airport passenger drop-off area...

Just a rant to vent what I'm feeling about today (and this week, really).

First, I've been feeling like ass for about two weeks, lethargic, achy, cranky, and tired. Miserably tired. I attribute this exhaustion to a number of things, mostly rushed schedules at work, trying to complete mine and my direct reports' annual performance appraisals amidst a flurry of vacations and surprise projects. There's been a lot of manageing up lately and controlling the spin as my boss has been preparing for her annual two-week European vacation. (That begins tomorrow, thank the flying spaghetti monster.)

I've also had way more trouble sleeping soundly and through the night lately. Light, sound, temperature, and vivid dreams are the culprits there. I am  now two weeks away from my scheduled stay-cation, and I am honestly feeling the need for the time off in my bones.

On to more specific matters of suckitude: I have been trying to complete a relatively easy, but decidedly detailed project at work for the last week or so. I have made almost no progress beyond gathering the assets I need to produce the piece. Why? Because my office office door, even when I close it entirely (which I cannot do for very long because it gets rather warm without cross ventilation), is like a black fucking hole that sucks in all the petty, random bullshit from people who prefer to stand around whining to doing their fucking jobs. Honestly, I have fielded more stupid questions (and, yes, there really are some stupid questions regardless of what your high school English teacher said) and senseless requests in the last two weeks than I can count. Because I have set a deadline for myself of having this project completed by next Tuesday, I decided to remove myself from the hurly-burly at the office and work from home tommorw. (Are you following me, caemra guy?) Great Idea, badly executed because I left work today without slipping my laptop into my bookbag. I got home and realized that I had to drive all the way back to wrk to get the damned thing just so I can get some freakin' work done tomorrow. Argh!

And have I mentioned how effing tired I am?

It's Friday Eve. I have retrieved the laptop and plan to spend the rest of the evening doing nothing that requires thought or careful consideration. I plan to go to bed early, and I hope to sleep in. I will wake and work at  my own pace, blissfully uninterrupted by random crap. I will finish this project by noon and call it a day.

Rant concluded. Resume regularly scheduled programming.

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Room full of Republicans.

Because I haven't done one if a while. I swiped this one from lilithilien :

01. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper/desktop.
02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!

( Without further ado, my wallpaper )In case you haven't met me, you should know that when I am a fangirl, I am a hopeless fangirl, unapologetically. One of the things I adore most in the world is Doctor Who, have done since I was a teenager and Tom Baker played the Doctor. That said, David Tennant, who is made of awesome, rocked several worlds as the Tenth Doctor. I love this photo of him because he looks like he's about to tell me the world is coming to an end, but I shouldn't really be all that worried because he's got an idea. I also love the way the colors of the background blend from my favorite shade of green to my favorite shade of orange, which makes at least a couple of my chakras ring.</div>

This makes me happier than I can say:

So, Neil Gaiman tweeted a challenge today: "No prizes. No rules.Just twitter a photo of you posing with armageddon &/or tea. Use #teapix" I couldn't pass that up, especially since my little green duck's name is Army Geddon.

Seriously, I just bought this at a Rite-Aid pharmacy. It's 15" top to bottom. I kinda think I know why Hello Kitty is winking.

I love this video, a beautiful woman accompanied by a cellist and acoustic guitarist sings Wyclef Jean's "Perfect Gentleman" in Bengali:

I made this piece and photographed it for the Academy of American Poets "Free Verse" Pool on Flickr. National Poetry Month is coming up, and I figured this would be a good way to start celebrating it.

My favorite blog these days is Fuck You, Penguin. If you aren't reading it, you should be. But don't try reading it with a tasty beverage in your mouth. You'll soon have a tasty beverage on your screen and keyboard. Consider yourselves warned.

EOM.

In case you missed it...

A Wolverine inflatable toy:


Apparently, no one in design or production saw a problem with this.

Stay classy, Barbie!

Even though I've seen it a hundred times, this video still cracks me up:


By the way, people on the bus who don't cover their freakin' mouths and noses when they sneeze and cough are at the very tippy-top of my shit list today. If I get a cold, I'm going after them in a big way. And I do have awesome Ninja powers.