Note: This is the second part of one giant post, and this bit is almost all inane pop-culture jabber. For things of substance, scroll down.

On a less introspective note, you should listen to anything you from Marian Call you can get your hands on. Granted, I only have her half-album Got To Fly, but it's swiftly becoming one of my favorite single albums.
Her title song "Got To Fly" is sort of an introduction to my brain. It's a little creepy. Seriously, if I was anything approaching lyrically talented, I could have written this. But I didn't, so check it out!
Sorry this is set to a BSG montage.

Lyrics can be found here.
Her music is a style I'm not usually a fan of, but since the entire album is written about either BSG or Firefly, you can't go wrong. "Good Old Girl" is about a spaceship (I suppose probably either Serenity or the Galactica, although I kept getting pictures of a certain blue box.). "Vera Flew The Coop" is a very interesting backstory for the name of the favorite gun of a certain person with a very cunning hat. "It's Good To Have Jayne On Your Side" is pretty self explanatory (and hilarious). "In The Black" is a sailor-boy type of song like all the ones from the days of pirates and merchants and great ships, but about someone leaving for the stars. "It Was Good For You Too" is an award-wining song told from the point of Firefly's Saffron. You can actually listen to all these and more here, so I didn't put in individual links.
And, to save the best for last, here is "I'll Still Be A Geek After Nobody Thinks It's Chic" (a.k.a. "Nerd Anthem"), the best nerd anthem I think I've ever heard. Favorite lyrics include 'my superpower is draining fun from parties' and 'I don't mind being underrated and ignored, the world is much to interesting to entertain ennui, and I won't play it cool so I won't ever once be bored'. Enjoy!


Dear god, that TARDIS bit in the middle got WAY out of hand, so I deleted most of it and moved all the links down here. Who knew how much funny stuff you'd get if you type in 'funny tardis'?
Like fake TARDISs (is that a word? TARDISs'? TARDIS's? TARDISES? TARDESI? Hmm. Guess it's a good thing there's only one of 'em, huh?), and guinea pig TARDIS, and Colbert's TARDIS, and
potential disaster TARDIS, and (my personal favorite) Ninja Proof TARDIS. Oh, and a scientific explanation of the Resurrection . And I need this.

Also! I have added a feed of my Twitter, so you can, if you want too, you know, read all the stuff I re-tweet from The Daily Show, Ellen, Simon Pegg and Nathan Fillion. Wee! BTW, if the counter widget isn't working for you're computer...sorry. You're sort of SOL, I recommend using a calculator. Or a calender. It's what I do.

This post is dedicated to Woman Driving, Man Sleeping by The Eels,



because without it I wouldn't have woken up this morning, so I wouldn't have gone to school, so I wouldn't have gotten bored and wandered off to type this post.
Hello world! Didja miss me? Firstly, birthdays! Over the last month or so, I missed a whole bunch of peoples birthdays. Better late than never! Big ups to Allan, maybe next year I'll both remember AND be there. You've seriously got me on this one, I don't think you've ever missed one of my birthdays. Guess you're just a better person than I am.
Feliz Compleanos to Karina, my first host sister (although I haven't met her in person yet). Hope your birthday was epic and the rest of your exchange in Japan is awesome too. Thank you for letting me sleep in your room. Happy birthday to Jose Louis too. Thanks for going to such lengths to get me to your party, and thanks for being such a good friend to me here. BTW, you may see Chicago sooner than you think...

On to the mundane inanities!
For the .00001% of the population that gives a damn:
-Supernatural is on Hellatus until April 16.
-Sherlock doesn't start until the fall.
-Being Human UK season 3 finishes next week.
-Doctor Who season whatever-the-heck-number-they-decided-they're-on doesn't empieza (start) for another month.
-Jim Butcher delayed the release of Ghost Story until freaking July 26. If you particularly want to suffer, Penguin Publishing posted the first chapter on their website. It's well worth a read if you want to torture yourself and not actually learn anything. Darn you, Penguin!
-The Star Trek sequel isn't coming out until sometime in June next year. I knew it wasn't coming out for a while, but a whole year. I need me some Spock! And Uhora.

On the other hand, The Listener actually got a second season. No one remembers this show because it was Canadian, and while it did pretty good in the north, America barely showed it. I caught it free on Hulu way back when, and was disappointed that I quite enjoyed it, because saying there will be a second season but they don't know when is kind of a surefire sign that you will never see the show again. But, god bless those Canadians, 2 years later season 2 started airing. I quite recommend checking it out if you get the option. Also, they get massive props for using The Heavy's Short Change Hero during the first 2 episodes. Quite well, I might add.

Also, I saw I Am Number Four over the weekend. Frankly, I don't care what the reviewers say, I loved it. I would recommend it to anyone, even though it's clearly a setup for the 2nd movie, which might not happen. That said, I have a long history of enjoying good books turned into less good movies (examples include Jumper, Stormbreaker, City of Ember, Percy Jackson and The Olympians). Hell, I even kind of liked Eragon, and that movie was awful. Of course, the three things a movie can have that will ensure I love it even if it's awful are
1) giant robots
2) dragons
3) Megan Fox
See why I love Transformers so much? That said I don't know if even adding giant fire-breathing lizards to Transformers 3 will make up for firing Megan Fox...

My return date is down on tickets! As my arrival date proved, that by no means insures that I'll be back home the day after, as my arrival date proved. That said, the number on my ticket is 30 June. I am putting a counter in the sidebar for the fun of it, but it's wrong right now. The little green 'plus' button is covering up the third number. I am coming back in 112 days, not 12. Sorry folks.
It's odd, the feeling that I only have so much time left (about 112 days right now). I am going to miss it here, but at the same time I am really looking forward to coming home. I miss my family, my friends, my dog. I miss my school, English, descent hamburgers. Pizza! Chinese takeout!

Anyway. I haven't really learned any new Spanish today or anything interesting. I did learn how to make an origami heart. And how not to make an origami boat. Sigh. Life on Thursdays hasn't been that interesting since Supernatural moved to Fridays.
Oh! More useless TV talk! I know I am the only person in the known universe (at least that I know of) who watches White Collar, but I gotta say, I would recommend starting now just so you can enjoy the last episode of season 2, which aired this Tuesday. Pitch perfect, folks! Pure genius.

As some of you knew, I was looking forward to learning to play jarana, a local kind of Ukulele-guitar-thing. Well, looks like that's not gonna happen. I still ask every day when I come home from school, and get the daily "Don't worry, we're looking", which I now realize means the odds of anything actually coming of this are about as good as mine are of finding $500 on the street. I still would really like to learn, but I couldn't have played when I got back to the states anyway, since jaranas are expensive, delicate, and apparently only made by certain people. If I had one, I probably would have broken it on the plane. Instead, I noticed that the arts school right in front of my house has guitar lessons, so I am going to go over there later today and see if they offer classes in some kind of Mexican guitar techniques. I've heard some people play Flamenco too, and that stuff sounds SO COOL.
Anyway, I'll let you know as more develops.
Also, before my mother goes after me again (hi mom!), I watch almost all of this stuff at least with Spanish subtitles, usually doblada (dubbed), and no, this is not all that I do with my life, not even close. This is just my version of gossip, and I have to share it with someone. Expect it to peter off quite a bit when I get back to the states and have a captive audience...I mean, have people who care. Ahem.
Have a great day!

Location: Math Class, Escuela Errasquin, Mina, Ver. Mexico
Sound: 'Eminence Front' - The Who
Climate: Sunny, but cold.

This is going to be kind of a short post since I am, for lack of a better term, posting wirelesly. I also have no spell checker, so bear with me. I just wanted to point out some of the exciting new features of this admittedly blander,yet infinetly more user-friendly blog layout. First of all, we have the lovely thingy that shows the pictures in every post but compresses the post into something a little easier to see. I am still trying to figure out how to avoid that ugly 'no image'icon it puts up, but it's a work in progress. The other pages are no longer hidden in the sidebar,they are now at the top of the page for everyone to see. I would like to take this opportunity to point out the new 'Christmas'tab I put up especially for the holidays. Seriously guys, getting presents is sort of against my religion (I mean that semi-literally, stay tuned!), but the question has been asked of me, and rather than force my poor parents to field questions, I thiught this year I'd take a stab at digitizing the process. The small social networking bar underneath it is semi-functional, too. The Delicious, Facebook, (for some reason Digg), and, God help me, Twitter. I know, I know. I was the last bastion. On the other hand, I alway said I'd never drink alcohol, either, and that one's been out the window for months. The RSS feed button has been malfunctioning rather spectacularly, so I may just link it to the Picasa site until I get a better idea. Speaking of Picasa, I have a sort of ask-the-audience type question: With the added photos from Ruta Maya, I am going to finally fill my limit on the amount of free memomry space Google alots me. My question is this: do I a) shell out the cash for a membership, so I can get more space, or b) start deleting the other photos. Believe it or not, I am actually pretty fond of the first one. If I remember correctly (and I checked. I do.), it's about $5 USD yearly for the use of 20 GB, which is not bad at all. I don't really know how long it would take me to fill that up, but I bet I could stretch it (this is extra-annoying since I have 7 GB I'm not using in my Gmail account, but I can't swap it over. The pros for this are many: it's cheap, I can finally upload all the other pictures I have (no, I have not been neglecting to take pictures, I am just trying to manage the space as best I could. I have about 200+ pictures from everyday life that no-one's ever seen.). I can also upload videos, of which I have several. Another plus, sort of by proxy, is that I can simply dump-upload, putting up entire albums at a time, and sort them out later. This would be a huge plus in the 'make posting photos easier for Bronwyn' catagory, since it would get rid of the 45+ minutes I have to spend on my Picasa browser every time I post, flicking through and highlighting photos one by one and trying to tell how good they are by thumbnails on my tiny freaking screen (seriously, cannot WAIT to get a new Macbook). The only reasons I wouldn't go with option A are that this would be the first time I have actually spent any money on this blog (wince), and that it would be a waste of money if no-one's actually using the photo option. So, reply if you care (or if you don't)! I will be holding off on posting more Ruta Maya pics until I get some feedback, so answer!
The sliding bar with the pictures (which is what attracted me to this silly thing in the first place) is being slightly problomatic. I am trying to work out how to crop the pictures so we don't get anymore of that lovely squishy stuff the photo of the street in Oaxaca is so beautifully demonstrating (that pissed me off. I was really proud of that picture). Other then that, not much to say. I am slowly going through all the back posts and fixing/reformating them so they work better with the new theme, fixing the pictures, checking the links, etc. Sorry things have been so slow of late, but the house is a complete mess right now, and I have been pretty busy when not at school. But Christmas break starts next week, so expect more coherent rambling then. As for now, have a great day! Happy holidays!