the day my body caught fire

Accidental Haiku by Lenka Clayton

These are a little bit great in their straightforward-ness.

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So, it's been ages since the last haikuathon and I have no want to actually set up and run another one but I DO want some fannish haiku! So hit me up, guys. 5-7-5 syllables, fandom of your choice, as many times as you like. It's fun, I promise! Here is one I did last time earlier:

selfish. | csi: ny | mac/stella
slip silently out
from beside her - so selfish -
she wakes to cold sheets

YOUR TURN NOW.

I don't remember the order in which I watched these, so I'm going by air date. Likely y'all don't care but it matters to meeee.

Also, I watched a lot of them with The Sister this week which I think changes the way I see things. Mostly because she finds a lot of things funny, and it makes me more sympathetic to the kinds of joke that I would usually stomp all over.

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re: Numb3rs. I didn't even finish last week's episode (5x03, Blowback), even though the first act looked good. I just. I think I'll wait for it to air on TV some time next year. Maybe time will make me more sympathetic to it? I don't know. It's a bad sign when you can't even watch the scenes with characters you don't actively dislike. And whilst Nikki Betancourt is fierce, I just don't care about her if she's been set up to be the fall guy, instead of a foil to Don & co. which is what she was originally described as being.

Farewell, show. Farewell, Don's Awful Hair.

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( True Blood, 1x07, Burning House of Love )

( The Unit, 4x04, The Conduit )

( Mad Men, 2x12, The Mountain King )

( Californication, 2x04, The Raw and the Cooked )

( Sarah Connor Chronicles, 2x06, The Tower is Tall, But the Fall is Short )

( My Own Worst Enemy, 1x02, Hummingbird )

( NCIS, 6x05, Nine Lives )

( Pushing Daisies, 2x04, Frescorts )

( Criminal Minds, 4x04, Paradise )

( CSI: NY, 5x04, Sex, Lies and Silicone )

( Private Practice, 2x03, Nothing to Talk About )

( Grey's Anatomy, 5x05, There's No 'I' In Team )

( Supernatural, 4x06, Yellow Fever )

( Life, 2x06, Did You Feel That? (In which I talk in circles) )

I still haven't seen this week's Merlin (worked during the repeat on Sunday, and now I'm waiting for The Mother). Speaking of, it took The Mother a year to get into Northern Lights. A YEAR. Then, last week, she picked it up, finished it, finished The Subtle Knife and started The Amber Spyglass which she's quickly making a dent in. I am a little bit eye-roll-y about the whole thing, but also a little bit triumphant. I KNEW she'd like that damn series.

( Bones, 4x06, The Crank in the Shaft )

( Pushing Daisies, 2x01, Bzzzzzzz! )

( CSI: NY, 5x02, Page Turner. )

( Supernatural, 4x03, In the Beginning )

( Private Practice, 2x01, A Family Thing )

( Numb3rs, 5x01, High Exposure )

( Life, 2x02, Everything... All the Time )

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Today I get to watch Merlin, huzz! And last night I watched more CSI and continued to be bored, which is sadface-inducing.

The first of the lyric ficlets. NCIS, Wire in the Blood and CSI: NY.

i've got spots; i've got stripes, too. (ncis)
tony, ziva, desert #
Tony doesn't do too well in the desert
( link. )

at the violet hour. (wire in the blood)
carol, self-deceit #
But you could stay, he says
( link. )

on the corner of main street, just trying to keep it in line. (csi: new york)
flack/danny; angst #
Don knows this city, knows what it can do to a man
( link. )

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More to come.

Been a while, been a while.

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( New Amsterdam, 1x08, Love Hurts. )

( Bones, 3x10, The Man in the Mud. )

( Criminal Minds, 3x16, Elephant's Memory. )

( CSI:NY, 4x17, Like Water for Murder. )

( Battlestar Galactica, 4x03, The Ties That Bind. )

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Sarah Connor Chronicles looks like it'll be back. Fuck yes.

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Have yet to watch the latest NCIS; caught a couple of old school X-Men cartoon episodes. I love everybody's funky 80s hair. And Gambit! Mostly I forgot how weirdly everyone spoke.

First set of replies (finally) for the top 5s meme which is still open (hint, hint). melliyna asked me for my top 5 moments from Life. Spoilers below the cut, and images, too. This format was shamelessly NICKED from razorxrosary.

( top 5 moments from Life. )

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melliyna also asked me for five reasons why Mac and Stella work as a couple. I don't have any old school caps on my laptop right now, or I'd show you scene-by-scene. You'll just have to make do with some icons I made last year, and my being VERBOSE. As per always.

( top 5 reasons why Mac and Stella work as a couple (csi: new york) )

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I need to go and buy a train ticket back to Soton today. Aie. There's not a lot else going on right now. My gran is still here, I still have class work to get caught up on. I really need to buy Eugenide's Middlesex, too, so I can give T her copy back. Work, work, procrastination, work.

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Watched NCIS yesterday - Gretchen Egolf guest starred, aw. I felt so good after I saw the episode. I'm glad it's back, even if we're only getting a handful of new episodes.

I wasn't going to do one of these, but I happen to have some free time. So. You know. I'm still catching up with three weeks worth of Damages because of the new stuff, but I've finished all of Saving Grace which was made of many brilliant things, and which I'm glad to report there will be more of, huzz. I was watching Chuck but I didn't finish it and now I don't know where it is? Um. Yeah. And I was going to watch K-Ville but I lost that, too. I don't really know. I'm trying to mainline Friday Night Lights because, well, Kyle Chandler, and I've read some good fic. Also, giving Burn Notice another shot. I have all of Mad Men so far, but I haven't seen past episode 4 or 5. I'm still obsessed with the costumes. (And DeWitt's wigs. !)

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( Bones, 3x01, The Widow's Son in the Windshield. )

( NCIS, 5x01, Bury Your Dead. )

( The Unit, 3x01, Pandemonium Part 1. )

( Criminal Minds, 3x01, Doubt. )

( CSI: NY, 4x01, Can You Hear Me Now? )

( Grey's Anatomy, 4x01, A Change Is Gonna Come. )

( CSI, 8x01, Dead Doll. )

( Stargate: Atlantis, 4x01, Adrift. )

( Numb3rs, 4x01, Trust Metric. )

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I have yet to finish Private Practice. So far, so good, though. Have you guys been watching Weeds and/or Californication? The latter continues to engage me for reasons unknown, but the former is SO GOOD. Really. I say this every year so I hope some of you are listeing: watch Weeds. You won't regret it.

All things considered, I was fairly productive today. I'll be more so tomorrow, though, because tomorrow is dedicated to reading and writing. And eventually I have to go back to being academic, so. Today I am feeling "displaced" because "I'm worrying about irrelevancies". With thanks! M.

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numb3rswriteoff round 2 started today. Please to be posting and poll-answering!

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How much do I LOVE Stella Bonasera? I mean, sometimes she does things, or reacts to the world in a way that I find unexpected but that suggests more that I don't understand her character completely. But I do love her because that woman is hella fierce. So smart and motivated. I don't know why I'm thinking about this now, but it's becoming a thing. I'm mildly obsessed. I haven't even been watching CSI: NY recently. I'd retify that this week but I really need to rewatch some of Numb3rs. That said, I'm back to collating pics for a mood theme. Those Greek features, I love them.

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Some picspams to come this week. Pushing Daisies, Women's Murder Club and Peter Lindbergh.

( CSI: NY, 3x19, A Daze of Wine & Roaches. )

( Criminal Minds, 2x19, Ashes & Dust. )

( Bones, 2x16, The Boneless Bride in the River. )

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I have yet to finish the last Battlestar, heh. I've been waylaid by the rest of fandom, not to mention early S4 NCIS which I have taken to re-watching. Tonight is S3 NCIS, yay, and Thandie Newton is on Jonathon Ross - I will endure an evil (Ross) for a good (Newton). Thanks to tigertrapped for the heads up. And I have decided to also watch Raines because I sort of like the idea of crazy detectives who talk to themselves all the time. The producer's theory is that Raines is suffering PTSD-related hallucinations which is an interesting idea, especially if it becomes a tool as opposed to a bad thing.

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I think the Baby Cousin is coming to stay tonight. She had school of some variety today so she couldn't stay last night which is what she really wanted. I think I'm babysiting next week.

Also, I think I'm running an errand for The Dad tomorrow. If this errand traslates to "come to the shop at 8am so that I can do the forework to the errand" I will be severely pissed off.

Oh man.

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( CSI, 7x16, Monster in the Box; 7x17, Fallen Idols. )

( CSI: NY, 3x17, Sleight Out of Hand. )

( Studio 60, 1x16, 4am Miracle. )

( Criminal Minds, 2x16, Distress; 2x17, Jones. )

( Battlestar Galactica, 3x14, A Day in the Life; 3x15, Dirty Hands. )

( Stargate, 10x17, Bad Guys; half of 10x18, Talion. )

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LENNY HENRY TONIGHT! Woo! *excited*