Spinning on that dizzy edge

I get into vicious cycles sometimes, where I go to bed too late and wake up tired, then fall into a zombie lull of "One more thing"s at night that gets me to bed too late, and so on. For the most part, I manage to catch up on the weekends, but man, it's hell during the week. And it's all my fault! Self, why you gotta be so mean?

Work is being so weird. ( Learning curve or uphill battle? )

I should fill in the extra hours with training, but all my tired brain wants to do is read fic and interesting links.

Say, for example:

What if "Doctor Who" had English actresses in the lead role for the run of the series? Check out this list for some interesting suggestions.

Or if TPTB had used American actors? Fascinating choices here.

But seriously, why did no one mention that Mayim Bialik, she of the amazing "Blossom" and Amy Farrah Fowler on TBBT, has her own blog on the Jewish parenting site Kveller? First off, she's a talented writer, which in my mind puts her up for polymath-dom, considering she's also a talented actor and has a PhD in neuroscience. She's a published author on attachment parenting. She's a self-proclaimed "tomboy/feminist" who has never shaved her legs. She's a proponent of homebirths. She objects to Disney's princess culture (which is a bit easier for her to do, considering she has two sons). She is deeply, devoutly involved in what she refers to as "Modern Orthodox Judaism". For juggling all that, she is my hero.

I'm looking forward to working from home tomorrow, though considering it's because the Emperor is off from school, it may veer wildly from working to "working", AKA "Please stop bugging me for [X]!" Hope you all have a lovely Friday!

One of the features that I positively adore about Firefox 3.0 is the "Save open tabs when you close" option. Before, if I had a bunch of tabs dangling at quitting time, I had to bookmark them all and get back to them later. Now, I just shut down and they pop up again the next time I start Firefox. Fabulous.

So, here are some of the tabs I've had open that I wanted to pass along:

From everybody: Mighty God King posts re-titled sci-fi and fantasy epics from his adolescence, part one and part two. I can't decide which is scarier: that I've read most of these and can recognize them all, or that even as I'm giggling at the snark, I'd still go back and read several of them again. But only a few of them, as it's startling how much fanfic has spoiled me for good writing, characterization, and skill.

ETA: Oops. It appears he's gotten overloaded and/or suspended. Well, check back later.

Speaking of good fanfic, seperis recommended this phenomenal piece by dsudis, Get Loved, Make More, Try to Stay Alive . It's a Torchwood story, Jack/Ianto. With mpreg. (For those of you who have no idea what that is, it's short for male pregnancy.) Now, before you recoil in horror, it's only 19% mpreg (claims the author), and it's actually feasible. But beyond that, it's an incredible love story, with time traveling and tech and dead-on representations of Torchwood and Doctor Who characters. It's long and wonderful and I felt sad at the end that there wasn't more to read, because it's an astounding piece of work.

Oh, and today's a Woot-off, too. Anyone snag a BoC yet?

Happy Wednesday!