Purple Elephants,

I am finishing my West Wing marathon tonight. It's been almost exactly two months, which is not long at all for watching an entire series, but season one seems like a really long time ago. It also seems like a different show, which is in part due to how different it is by the end, and in part due to the fact that I never watch later episodes with the early ones.

ETA: Spoke a bit too soon. By the end of Institutional Memory it feels like the same old show. ♥

( Some rambling about later seasons, Josh and Donna, and the show in general )

I'd say I am going to miss it, but I know I'll have Christmas episodes waiting for me on Thursday night. :)

♥

When you see this, quote Leo McGarry.

Leo: It’s not what we do, Josh.
Sam: That maybe true, but still...
Leo: It’s not what we do.
Sam: Yes, sir.
Leo: You should apologize to that girl for even asking.
Sam: I did.
Leo: Then apologize again.
Sam: Yes, sir.
Leo: Like I’m not gonna have enough problems without the Keystone Cops.
Josh: We meant well.
Leo: Is that supposed to mean something to me?
Josh: No.
Leo: Well, it does.

JOSH: It's good cop/bad cop. I'm the good cop; the four of you are the bad cop. Will, what are you?
WILL: The bad cop.
JOSH: Danny what are you?
DANNY: The bad cop.
JOSH: Toby, what are you?
TOBY: Hurry up.
JOSH: Charlie, who are you?
CHARLIE: I love Zoey, and I must have her back.
JOSH: The bad cop, that's right. Here we go.
WILL: That's great news about Zoey. I didn't meet her, but I bet she's nice.
CHARLIE: Not really, but my love for her knows no bounds.
DANNY: Charlie, aren't you cold without a coat?
CHARLIE: I took off my coat to show my love for Zoey.
DANNY: Wow.
CHARLIE: I'd take off my shirt too, but it's inappropriate with a tuxedo.
DANNY: Not if we're at Chipendales.
TOBY: I'm standing here!
JOSH: The buzzer's not working.
TOBY: Did you try it?
JOSH: No, I divined it.
DANNY: Maybe she's just not answering.
JOSH: The buzzer's not working. There's a note that says the buzzer's not working.
TOBY: Call her.
JOSH: No, I know women. I know what they're like. [yelling] Donna!
DANNY: I think before tonight's over, we might have ourselves a whole new story.

...
JOSH: You look amazing.
DONNA: Hi, guys.
WILL, CHARLIE and DANNY: Hi, Donna.
TOBY: Donna.
DONNA: Sorry about all this.
TOBY: Don't worry about it.
DANNY: It was stupid, but it was menschy.
JOSH: Hey, hey, hey. Good cop/bad cop.
DANNY: Sorry, it was just stupid.
DONNA: Hey, Will, you and Toby wrote maybe the greatest speech I've ever heard.
WILL: Thank you very much.
JOSH: We're going to a ball.
DONNA: Balls are fun.
JOSH: We're actually going to eight of them.
DONNA: Eight times the fun.
JOSH: I was actually the one who hit the window, the rest of them went to school on my throw.
TOBY: Let's go!
DONNA: How you doing, Charlie?
CHARLIE: Well, I'm going to win Zoey's heart from Jean-Paul.
DONNA: Excellent.
CHARLIE: 'Cause he may be good-looking and rich and well schooled and French royalty, you know, and live basically in a castle, but... Oh, God.
TOBY: This is what I've been telling you. Get in the car.
DONNA: Josh... I'm sorry. Seriously, I've never lied to you before, boss, and it won't happen again.
JOSH: You're going to have to sit on somebody's lap.
DONNA: Okay.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
And a special bonus for soaked_in_stars

ANDY: Did you just see that?
TOBY: Oh, my God. Have you been on the plane the whole time?
ANDY: No, I hopped on board when you guys were over the Great Lakes! What the hell...?
TOBY: What are you doing here?
ANDY: I told you I was coming.
TOBY: And I told you you couldn't fly.
ANDY: And Dr. Salmi said I could fly through the 32nd week, and I thought since he's my doctor, and you're really dumb, I'd join the Congressional delegation and help out Sam. Isn't it great?
TOBY: Listen to me. We've got all kinds of atmospheric cabin pressure up here. We're a little late, so the Colonel's put the hammer down in a 747. You've got windshear, downdraft, massive turbulence, not to mention four giant engines burning jet fuel at galactic temperatures. We're standing in a flying death tube!
TOBY: No, not the rest of y-you. It's just my family. It's, it's fine. [to Andy] Look...
ANDY: What do you want me to do, step off?
TOBY: Also, you've got twins in there. You're basically a minivan. How are you fitting into a seat?
ANDY: ah-ah! I saw him first girls.

So I'm at work, and I have basically nothing to do. I haven't voted yet because even though I was up early this morning, I figured it was not early enough. I am antsy about election stuff, and really wish I were home so that first of all I could vote now, but mostly watch CNN or something. I've been reading bits online, but it's early, so there's not much there yet.

And of course, I really want to watch Election Night and Process Stories. I couldn't do that even if I were home though because damn my marathon. (Except no, marathon, I love you, and I have Galileo and Noel tonight, so I take back all the bad things I said and thought about you. *mwah*)

So, I'm CHEATING. A little. With a quote-heavy Election Night picspam! (Caps are from screenmusings, I think. Not sure, as they were already on my work computer. Handy!)

( Mister Lyman, I see your picture in the magazine... )

Wow, that was definitely took care of my boredom. It's been all day. Six hours. There was some actual work in there too.

You know what's not allowed? Kate & Leopold starting at 11:30 on a school night. I turned on the tv after my shower, and there were the opening credits on the channel I'd been watching earlier. I can never say no pretty (albeit assholic) Brad, and I was longing to watch this just a couple weeks ago. I've been really into movies with dapper men lately (particularly Colin Firth, who no is not in this). It's like it was meant to be. Except. Except I've been really good about going to bed at a decent hour and getting to work on time, which actually are probably unrelated but why mess with a system that works. This is on until 2:00. Must not watch the whole thing. Must not. My kingdom for a dvr.

As long as I'm up, the tv meme that going around, snagged from a couple people:

Bold if you've seen every episode, italicize if you've seen at least one.

( Empire Magazine's 50 Greatest TV Shows )

ETA: Oh dear. I almost hate to mention this lest it go to soaked_in_stars's head, but I was reading the breakdowns at the Empire site, and under the best episode of ST:TNG it says, "the second half of The Federation's cataclysmic confrontation with The Borg… led by a Borgified Captain Picard!" BUT you will notice that they adjectived as something pertaining to the Borg and not willy nilly. Borg responsibly. omg, that's the best motto ever. (Man, I really should go to bed. Ha.)

Movie quote meme from soaked_in_stars (who thought I had lost my mind when I accidentally posted while I was rounding up quotes). Comments screened.

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDB and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

( Kind of a random assortment of movies I thought of )

I need to order pizzas for a pizza party at work tonight. We have 4 certificates for 1-topping pizzas and 2 for as many toppings as we want. I know I am getting cheese, pepperoni, sausage, and veggie, but that leaves two more. I personally find any sort of veggie to be strange as a single topping, but maybe that's just me. I know my boss likes mushroom pizza, but I don't know if other people would want just mushroom. So, what do you think the most crowd-pleasing would be?

( The polls are now closed. Thank you for voting. )

I stumbled across this old Mad TV West Wing parody on YouTube tonight. It pretty much killed me with laughter by the halfway point.

( Behind the cut )

Plus Full House shout-out, ha.

To entertain ourselves and pass the time in our afternoon boredum, kiss_me_cassie decided I should write a drab about Josh Laptop. I'm still bored (and somebody got to go home already), so I'm posting it, hee:

Josh sat on Becky’s lap when they played on the couch. People waggled their eyebrows, but it’s okay because Josh is a shiny, new laptop. Dana and Sam* Donovan are his computer friends. Donna laptop would be his girlfriend, if she really had a name. They haven’t networked yet though.

*now I'm not sure if that's Sam or Simon. Could go either way. I'll have to wait for an official ruling.

Ok, for those you who don't watch Studio 60 or who need a little refresher, it's this guy!



Who is he? I am leaving this public because I am desperate, so feel free to to point your friends over here when they are bored. SOMEbody knows. You reward will be my eternal gratitude. And maybe something else. :D

Icon by coloneljack, much to my surprise and excitement.

ETA: Solved! Well blow me down. He's finally credited on imdb (just for one of the four episodes, hee). J.D Walsh is his name, and even the name sounds very familiar. So who is he after all that? He's Donald of Dharma & Greg of course. :p (I didn't even watch much Dharma & Greg, but I have not seen any of his other things.) Only a little egg on my face. Maybe he was in something else that he also was not credited for... Actually, he's from Madison, so I think I have seen him in that capacity, a speaker or in a commercial or something. That's my story. J.D. Walsh, cute actor from Madison, all sounds very, very familiar.

I am even more in debited to Coloneljack for that link. Bless.

Title: Precedent
Character: Josh Lyman
Rating: PG
Pairing: None per se, but Amy is also present
Disclaimer: Only the cereal is mine (and, you know, the plot, but the characters do not belong to me)
A/N: my submission for b4td set at Yarvard Undergrad Law School (You decide. I'm out.) Thanks to christinekh for the beta!

( He never learned how to not win )

Another poll because I like polls. I need a bigger flist to have more people to vote in them, heh.

Poll #1003152 Netflix?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 4

What should I get from Netflix for the weekend?

Ideally I will watch it and return right away, hence no TV options. For that reason I am also leaning towards things on the top of the list because, with the exception of Sublime, they are less intense, more mindless.

Someone, ahem, has been begging for Andy/Toby fic. It reminded me of this little ficlet that I jotted down (on actual paper) a couple weeks ago, so I decided to polish it up.

Title: Talking Points
Subject: Andy/Toby/CJ
Rating: R
A/N: CJ/Toby people should not be scared away by the Andy. MANY thanks to kiss_me_cassie for the fresh set of eyes!

( Talking Points )

A long time ago kiss_me_cassie challenged me in a meme to write a non-West Wing fic. I tried, I really did, but nothing came. I very nearly wrote a Full House fic, and we should all be very glad that did not happen. Last night, after watching Endgame (Voyager's series finale), I sat up in bed to write this, which also happens to be my very first drabble. I'm really branching out today. My first draft was 99 words, so I guess exactly 100 isn't as hard as I thought. Brevity is not my strong suit...except when it comes to drabs. :p

Title: Owen, not Admiral, Paris
Fandom: Voyager
Rating: Fun for the whole family
Timeframe: Post-series, just barely
Spoilers: Well yeah, if can call it that for something that ended 6 years ago

Author's Note: It's been a long time since I've seen much of Admiral Paris, and he's a random character to inspire my first Voyager fic. I don't know why this jumped out at me when pondering what happened next, but I think it is true to him.

( Owen, not Admiral, Paris )

I've had no inspiration for fic lately (or really even interest in reading it). I'm not longing to write but just lack a muse. I don't even want to write, but feel like I should. I thought about getting back to my roots with a little original fic, but that's only appealing for about five minutes, give or take.

Now I see that lj is having an essay contest. I would love to do that. I can feel myself starting to get excited about writing again. The problem now is that the topic is how women's issues have effected you personally. I've got nothin'. I have not be effected by women's issues any more than any other woman my age. Maybe there's an angle there, I'm effected by not being effected. I'm an independent woman and never really even considered that I couldn't be if that's what I wanted. It lacks oomph though. There are many women who have been effected by issues deeply and personally that will have significant emotional content in their essays. I don't mean to say that I there's no point in trying if I can't win. I simply mean mine seems trivial and detached. I would be embarrassed for anyone to read something like that and think that I think my experiences belong in the same category as those women.

Random poll:

You're walking down the street, and Mr. Bradley Whitford is walking toward you. ( What do you do? )

A random officey poll brought to you by the fact that I can't stand the regular view in Microsoft Word and other people use it a lot. And because I like polls.

( Cut for flist happiness )

Mer. I've spent more time than I want to think about trying to fix my lj colors after I screwed them up last night. The blue is still wrong, and I'm sure no one but me would ever be able tell, but really close yet off isn't working for me. I thought if I changed the header color it would distract me from the little blue change, but I have yet to find a header shade I like. I tried from scratch, things entirely different since lj seems to be telling me it's time for something new, but I didn't come up with anything I liked. Maybe this is close enough and I'll get used to it, but in the meantime, I'm taking suggestions for a new color scheme.

It's 3:00 AM, and I'm reading religion papers I wrote in college. I'm now sufficiently brushed up on my Buddhism.

At 2:00 I was doing a bit of cleaning.

Bed soon I think.

Get me, I'm up! /amazing awake lady

In honor of heireanna's return to the country (luff!), some Chris Thile icons. I tried to post these last night, but I was twarted by technology. Twarted!

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