Won't be around forever, girl

Yesterday? Yesterday I bought a plane ticket to Europe. March 8th - 30th 2011 I'll be seeing Germany, The Netherlands, and hoooopefully Vienna, Austria, if things go right. I am/was slightly terrified, mostly because holy crapoli, I'm committed now. Not that being committed to going to Europe is a bad thing, but I sometimes have momentary panic attacks when faced with the unknown. The only place outside the US I've been is Vancouver, and come on, that's like, not even the ~FULL CANADIAN EFFECT~ ...or so I've been told. I'm just terrified that on the occasions I'm on my own, I'm going to get lost and not read/speak the language and FREAK OUT or try to buy a train ticket to somewhere and end up in Czech Republic, I DON'T KNOW. I'm a panicky person. But I'm also SO STUPIDLY EXCITED I COULD PUKE. This is something I've dreamed of doing for a long time now, and to actually have an email in my account saying yep, it's for real happening, I'm just utterly euphoric.

As I've said, the ever so gracious and lovely stargazertook is letting me stay with her in Frankfurt. I've got a good list of places I'm going to visit around the city proper, but also a few outer cities that I think can be reached by the S-Bahn/U-Bahn, like Offenbach and Darmstadt and Wiesbaden. I would absolutely love to take a day trip, or something, up to Berlin, but oh man, the train tickets in Germany are weirdly expensive, so I'll just have to see how my money is faring before I can do that.

I'll be flying to Amsterdam to meet up with a friend that I've known since kindergarten and we'll probably be couch surfing omg. No idea yet how long we'll be spending there, but from there I'll take a train waaay up north to Groningen, where my mom's cousin lives on a farm. The town is apparently small and clean and beautiful. I'm just out-of-my-mind excited and apologize in advance for HOW MANY TIMES I will be talking about this, no really. People do these kinds of trips all the time and are probably all, lol big deal, but omg NEW EXPERIENCES and ten and a half hour plane rides and aaaahhh.

In non-Europe related news, you need to read this SPN/Burn Notice crossover fic. It's AMAAAAZING and I was wondering why there was not such a fusion before in my life. Have I mentioned how much I love Burn Notice? I love Burn Notice. I am sad that there are only two episodes left of the season.

Two songs.

Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong

I can't quite understand why this song makes me feel the way I do, but it's Mogwai, so I guess there's no real need. Orchestrated rock is a beautiful thing. If you've got big chunky headphones, this would be the song to use them for.

The Bird and the Bee - Polite Dance Song

The Bird and the Bee is SO CUTE. Happy and funky and all around awesome. This is from a small new CD they just released; if anyone wants it in full, let me know!

Oh yeah, like I haven't been watching THIS all day. IT'S TOO MUCH. I CANNOT HANDLE. Alksjdljkf.

I stumbled upon this fic a few days ago, and I cannot. stop. rereading it. I'm pretty sure my most favorite crossovers in SPN are with Neil Gaiman's American Gods, but with His Dark Materials is just perfect, so perfect. And I didn't even HAVE a hugely passionate love for the HDM trilogy, but this is just so much happymaking, omg.

OKAY, so, now that I'm leaving my job (one more shift, woe!) I have to confess I've been having a weird crush-type thing on this guy and it's just, I DUNNO. I've been TOTALLY shamelessly flirting these past couple shifts and it's not like, I dunno, I'm RIDICULOUSLY ATTRACTED to him or anything, he's just sweet and gentlemanly and kinda dorky and he CLEANS UP AFTER HIMSELF on bar; it's nigh impossible to find a boy who's clean on bar. Here's a pic of him I took on my cellphone at Christmas... he was like, HEY, these cup sleeves look like armbands for SUPERHEROES. And went LOL and told him to use his apron as a cape, and yeah. SIGH. In any case, I told him about going to this new store yesterday and how all the girls working there were caked in makeup and gorgeous and how out of place I'd probably feel, and he was all, you don't need to be caked in makeup to be gorgeous, okay? and I was like, mweeeee okay. In conclusion: I LIKE BOYS.

I think I'm gonna brave watching No Rest for the Wicked again tonight. I've only watched it ONCE since it aired. HOLD ME.

Lit of the World since the Renaissance is going to be fun, even though I have to go over Mrs. Dalloway AGAIN, AAUUGHH, and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and man, as much as I like Eliot, I'm kinda tired of that. Oh well. I'm with one of the same professors as last semester, so at least I know what I'm getting in to.

My Mythology professor is a quirky, grey-haired old guy; exactly the kind of person you'd expect to teach Mythology and Latin. I am excited about this class. I am not excited about the fact that I cannot seem to get away from freshmen. The stupidity burns, I'm not even kidding.

So, um, HEY GUYS. I'm kind of a genius. Let me explain.

This weekend, before I left to go out of town, I saw that a new chapter of a fic was up, but I didn't have any time to read it. I was all sadface until, driving down the road a bit later, I realized, dude, I should be able to put that as a text file on my iPod! There's a "Note" section that pretty much takes care of all text uploaded on to it, so why not use that? And oh yes, it has worked.

( Instructions under here! )

I haven't had a chance to read kroki_refur's "One Moment of Knowing That," so I went ahead and uploaded that, so here's the link! Just as a reference, this fic is about 7000 words, and the uploader automatically divided it into 10 seperate files. The files themselves are all really small anyway, so it shouldn't be that difficult to maybe even put a 10,000+ word fic on your iPod. Winnnn.

Pimp this out? Spread the word? MAYBE? I personally am ecstatic about this (take your porn with you on long trips and in between classes!), and I thought others might benefit from this as well, hee.

And now if I could just put down the DA fic. COME ON SARAH, PUT IT DOWN. I can't! Alec is too amazing! WAH.