i just ate so many of these weird not-chocolate-covered-coffee-beans-but-the-same-idea things that i think my nerve endings are vibrating. it's beautiful - i mean really, seriously, unnaturally beautiful - outside, and i can only see pinches of light through two different windows (one tinted) around the fan blocking my view of the marketing director's office (hard to explain).

last night i finished the system of the world, the third in neal stephenson's baroque cycle, and when jake got home i had to make a pronouncement that I WAS DONE. i was also sad: after 3000 pages it was sort of like losing a friend. i think i may have to reread cryptonomicon for a fix. i also may have to start a real book blog. bloggers sometimes get review copies now, did you know that? i could deal with that. i really could.

also i watched "bring on the night," the first buffy episode where my doppeganger appeared, so that was neat. i have fond memories of the email i got while in australia, joking that perhaps i'd really gone off to be on buffy. i think jake doubted that someone on the show was really going to look that much like me, but after a few scenes with vi, he said, "that girl really does look like you!" yep. sure does.

buffy season seven is strangely captivating despite the half-assed writing and out of character moments. but i kind of miss firefly. i kind of want to get to the end of it before jake sees nathan fillion's creepy buffy character and thus the nice-but-stoic-and-tough captain malcolm reynolds is forever sullied in his mind too.

this entry brought to you by the hyphen key. can i go outside already?

boyfriend's band plays tonight. woo! and also rock! and also i love that he shares his drink tickets with me.