The Wildcat's Den

April is certainly the month for awesome birthdays, isn't it?

Today is David Tennant's birthday! Otherwise known as the Tenth Doctor, Hamlet, Barty Crouch, Jr., a random voice in "How to Train Your Dragon" ... and I'm sure plenty of other things that I just don't know about.

In honor of the day - here's a tribute video to Ten that I made a while back:



And - for a random bit of coincidence - this catalog landed on my work desk a few days ago. Usually I just throw these catalogs away because they want boatloads of money for these classroom sets of DVDs and I could probably get them on Amazon for $20 - but I had to keep this one:



Happy Birthday, David! And here's to many, many more!

(Yeah, the date says November 22 - but I'm posting this right before I go to bed, and it's the 23rd in most of the world by now, anyway).

It's an exciting day today - and not just because it's a short week. Today marks the 47th anniversary of the broadcast of the very first episode of "Doctor Who." "An Unearthly Child" was broadcast on November 23, 1963 and the rest is history. You can watch the first part of "An Unearthly Child" here (the rest of it is there too - just look down the playlist).

And I here celebrate with one of my favorite fanvids that includes all incarnations of the Doctor to this point:



Happy Birthday to our favorite Time Lord - and here's to many, many more!

I really should have been doing videos with these posts the whole time.  But this week's was just too easy.  Well, I tried first to find the Back to the Future "My Name is Darth Vader from the Planet Vulcan," but everyone on YouTube had to edit it themselves and inserted every bad song from Lady Gaga to Rick Astley into the scene.  Honestly, why mess with the original Van Halen version?

Even though it is my birthday (and thanks to everyone who extended well-wishes and a BIG THANK YOU to narniadear  for her "Birthday Emergency" post.  And a big thanks to Jack for the birthday flowers ^_^), the "24" Rehash is here at it's usual time.

( If you have a bladder control problem, you're probably aware of it. )

This icon makes me laugh incessantly, but I'm too nice to use it too regularly (even if some people deserve it).

It's mine and my dad's birthday on Monday and it seems like everyone and their dog is coming out to the ranch this weekend (they're branding calves too, so it's not entirely to come celebrate).  I hope they come bearing presents (ha ha).  I was almost inclined to let this birthday pass without notice since I hadn't got too excited about it.  This past week was pretty crappy - I got turned down for a few jobs, my bedroom flooded and I just felt lousy about life in general.  (On the flip side, when I appealed to my flist for book recommendations, they rose to the occasion magnificently!  Thanks to you all!)  But Mom asked what kind of cake I wanted and then I got excited for my birthday.  I guess I'm learning to enjoy the simple things in life :)

But it is official - the high school kids are not going to get their yearbook before school gets out.  Not for lack of effort on some kids' parts, but there are others that I could smack for their less-than-ambitious attitudes towards it (it's one thing to not care about the yearbook, but when you come in and make trouble for the ones who actually want to be there, that's when I get to be a hard-a**).  So, I guess we'll just schedule a little yearbook signing party in June when they can all come and get their books and sign them.  It's really too bad because this year's yearbook is going to be great.  And I don't think there's going be a school next year because some are going into town so they can play sports and others are just going to get their GED online (of course, that's all as of right now.  Who knows what everyone's status will be next week?  These people don't appreciate the concept of planning ahead.  They could still be waffling the day before school is supposed to start).  Well, it was fun while it lasted.  I enjoyed it.  And I like that I have a big volunteer credit to put on my resume :)

I was going to talk about more stuff, but then my mom wanted to come Facebook-stalk people and I lost my train of thought.  Then I got her set up on LiveJournal (but just for a private blog where she can come vent her feelings about life and crap.  She doesn't want anyone to see it, so I locked it down tighter than Fort Knox.  'Course, if I was an unscrupulously nosy person, I could get in and look at it because I set up her username and password.  But I'm not unscrupulously nosy.  No way.  Plus, there's nothing there that I'd want to read, anyway).

Maybe it just seems long, seeing as how I'm having to deal with this slowly loading DSL (curse you Directway!!)  Or yesterday seemed pretty long, what with all my white-trash relatives showing up for cow-branding season and Mom cussing all of them out because their white-trash dogs killed our kittens and they blamed our redneck-yet-well-behaved dogs (there is a vast difference between being white trash and simply being a redneck, which I will save for another post).

Anyway, my birthday was good.  Thanks to rosevixen and shellic for wishing me a happy birthday and for everyone else who e-mailed, called or posted on MySpace.  It good to know that I'm remembered and loved ^_^  We had cake and ice cream with the family and I got "Night at the Museum" (if you have not seen it, go out and buy it -- hilarious and classic!), The Wreckers "Stand Still, Look Pretty" and Miranda Lambert's "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" CDs and an obscure movie called "Just Friends" that I have yet to watch.  I also got a bag of Cherry Cordial Hershey Kisses (yum!) and I got a couple of cards with money(!)

Then, the next day I went to BYU in Provo to watch my cousin play doubles in the State High School Tennis Championship.  He won his first match, but he lost his second.  The second was really exciting (for it being tennis, anyway).  He played the doubles team from Park City, and they have a professional tennis player for a coach.  The matches were two-out-of-three and they split the first two, so it pretty scary for Park City for a while (I thought one mom was going to have a heart attack or something).  They ended up losing, but it was fun.

Now, we were on BYU campus and there is something you have to know.  There are a lot of jokes about how ugly girls at BYU are and I just figured they were us Utah fans having our fun.  But there is some truth to those jokes.  I cannot count how many jiggly, fat-ass "I *heart* BYU" t-shirts went running by us when we were watching the tournament.  Kudos to them for getting out and exercising, but I don't know how much it's going to help them (try laying off the Diet Coke).  Then we went to Subway for lunch and there were a couple of butt-ugly BYU guys ordering foot-long chicken teriyaki sandwiches.  No wonder they never want to get out of their Utah County bubble - their looks scare normal people's babies and puppies.

Who else watched "The Simpsons" last night?  I'm not really a huge fan, but last night's featured Jack Bauer and Chloe O'Brian (Kiefer Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub) in a "Counter Truancy Unit" parody of "24"  The best part ever was when they threw in the traditional-over-used-yet-never-old "Mole" plotline and they named the guy "Mole" (but he really had a noble reason for selling out -- those poor ants).  And who can forget "Jack, it's a joke name, you're being set-up" "Dammit!"  We laughed.  A lot.  I probably ought to become a bigger fan of "The Simpsons," but I only can have so many fandoms ^_^

Speaking of, tonight's the big night!  Explosions! Excitement! Gunshots! The ending of this somewhat dragging season!  The set-up of next season!  When are they finally going to dump this stupid Chinese plotline?  A&E had all five season finales on the other day and I was watching the season four finale where the Chinese initially showed their faces.  It's been a long time that Jack's had these losers on his tail.  I have no idea what is going to happen, so I am not going to make any predictions because I will inevitably been wrong (the "Audrey is teh alive!!" predictions notwithstanding).  I know very well what I would like to happen, but I have a tendency to "1940-ize" things and people find that annoying and unrealistic (basically, that means that I make a happy ending for everyone).  Well, pardon me for being optimistic and thinking that pessimism is a royal waste of my time. XP

My sister and I have been re-watching "Fushigi Yugi."  We've both already seen it, but not with each other and I'm finding the experience thoroughly enjoyable.  There's a lot more to laugh about when you watch it with other people, especially during those mushy "Miaka! Tamahome!" scenes (we just finished up the infamous Tamahome is Miaka's enemy plotline and I found plenty to laugh about -- of course she's going to worry about stuff again, it's in the job description of a shojo heroine)  Though, I have found a new line that pretty much sums up Miaka.  It's courtesy of JerrytheFrogProductions.com's (which, after this week with probably be defunct, so you'd better go check it out soon ;_;) parody of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back: "Darth Vader: Luke, it's your destiny.  Luke: To constantly need help or to whine?"  It's not that I don't like Miaka as a hero, just some of the stuff she does and worries about is really, really funny.  And I really wish that she would learn how to defend herself.  At least Sailor Moon had that shiny tiara frisbee and that nifty pink wand that shot sparkly stuff at the bad guys (you can win ugly or win pretty, just so long as you win).

Now if they could just realize that the idiot with the creepy flute is NOT Chiriko!!  I take issue with that ^_^

Love from,
Jenny Wildcat

I'm a whole year older today!!  Yes, ladies and gentlemen, today is my happy birthday.  How old am I?  Yeah, like I'd post that online for the whole wide world to see ^_^

Even Toon Disney seems to be celebrating today.  Usually they just play the stupid Disney crap animated sequels (you know, Jungle Book 2, Lilo and Stitch 2, Cinderella 2 *involuntary convulsions*), but today, "Robin Hood" is on!  The old Walt Disney version with Robin Hood as a fox and Little John as a bear and the rooster minstrel.  I haven't seen this movie in years and here it is, on my birthday, on TV.  It makes me happy ^_^

Yesterday was wild, but just because I had to go driving in the city for my interview and I'm not very good at it.  Left hand turns are just not my best friends.  I would rather turn left at an stoplight instead of hopping over three lanes of traffic, thereby pissing off all the road-rage types lined up behind me.  Then I try to drive in downtown Salt Lake and... oy...  Too many pedestrians and construction and ways to miss your turn. And then when you do miss your turn, you've got to go around the block about five times to find an opening.  (And I want to move there?  Just who has the problems here?)

The interview itself went well and now I'm just waiting to hear back from them.  They said maybe they'd let me know next week.  I think I honestly have a good chance at this job.  It's editing, which I have scores of experience in, and it's for an online university, which I took some teaching classes, so I know a little bit about rubrics and things like that.  I guess I'll find out how this goes.

In the meantime, I get to spend a quiet birthday at home, no stress, nowhere to be (until I take my little sisters to piano lessons) and wait for Mom and Dad to get back from town.  I think we're doing cake and ice cream this weekend or something (it's my dad's birthday today too).  I don't know what the rest of the plans are, but I like not being in charge.

That's the best part about being home ^_^

Love from,
Jenny Wildcat