So we did see WALL-E today (look, this is my only Pixar icon okay), and it was sooooo adorable! I love tiny robots and when people aren't completely retarded and it's not HUMAN VERSUS ROBOT! But mostly tiny adorable robots :D Binder, I totally didn't get your name for your Roomba, but now I agree with how appropriate it was XD Mo was basically amazing. Also the massager/punchbot! Sadly underrepresented. Still. All in all, an excellent film XD Also I really loved the short at the beginning! Pixar gets better at those all the time :D

Apparently it's the Week of the Valpo Update, which is kind of great (can we get Flumpy and Kathryn in on this action, too?), but it also emphasizes how much I miss you guys. D: As soon as I get a bit more work done, I'll start thinking about plans for visits somewhere beteween Thanksgiving and New Year's. That's the sort of window I'm thinking about, but I haven't got very far because death dissertation. Must...actually buckle down. Will do. Tonight and probably tomorrow and then Sunday basically for sure. I'm sorry to talk about this so much as I'm sure it's getting wearing, but I'm basically panicking every hour or so about this kind of thing without actually, you know, doing work. It's not a very productive cycle.

Instead of working, today I have been reading the backlog of Templar, Arizona (it's not very old - mid-2005. I'm up to this January already). I will actually do some work after this (ideally), but that's what I've been doing so far. Also elyndys tells me that episode 2 of Yasuko to Kenji is subbed now, so there's that demand on my attention...(yes, demand).

It looks like Dark Knight will have to wait until either this weekend OR turn into a family thing. Which is unlikely, given the usual nature of my family's vacations. So, this weekend, probably. Actually come to think of it I could go Monday afternoon/evening. I'll have to see what other people think of that.

In other news, the International Food Market is back in town, hooray! It means the macaroons are back! The perfect, wonderful, glorious macaroons! It also means lots of amazing food, and I totally plan to return there, probably on Sunday, as elyndys rightly pointed out that it's the best time to get good deals because they're trying to get rid of things...but possibly before that. Possibly several times. Who knows? Hey, don't judge - you've never had these macaroons.

I also got two Amazon orders in yesterday and spent basically all day reading House of Many Ways which I have neither finished nor allowed myself to read any of today. I actually quite dislike the main character, which is a) unusual for me reading DWJ, b) not unusual for me in general since it's a girl, c) almost certainly intentional since she's basically a sheltered know-nothing terror. I expect she'll learn, as this is a children's/YA novel and therefore almost definitely a "larnin' tale"/stripped-down bildungsroman. They always are, aren't they? But it doesn't matter because I love them.

Thought for the day: my brother and I were discussing various superheroes' rogues galleries today, and we came across a gem we neither of us had previously encountered. He is now my paragon of comics (specifically anti-Batman) badassery. Ladies and gentlemen, I say you THE KGBEAST. Yeah, I know.

EDIT: 12:30a I could go back to working (I didn't do a ton, but I did run a couple of searches through DOEC and note the results...I love searchable databases. I would be so fucked without them), or I could go to bed. By which I mean go read for an hour or two, then fall asleep. Yeah, I thought that sounded good, too. Also mostly for myself: dropped off my brown dress at the tailor's today, and it'll be ready with a new zipper in a week for £15, which is a very decent rate. Must remember to get it on Wednesday.