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Placename of the day: Weston-Super-Mare. Look, in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's ... SUPERMARE! :D And then there's a Mr Anchor who works at a Naval Recreation Centre.

Ganked from ladyjaida:

Five People I Would Really Like To Be BFF With

1. Jayne Cobb. We would totally get along, and he can beatup annoying people for me while I hold his beer.
2. Captain Jack harkness, who would take me across time and space to go see places and teach me how to be suave and seduce people, and possibly let me braid his hair and other BFF-like things.
3. Jean-Paul Beaubier, because we could totally hang out at coffee shops all day to people-watch. And by "people-watch" I mean "snark". :D
4. Sir Ian McKellan, although that would be more of a mentor/pupil relationship than proper BFF.
5. Neil Gaiman. He can be adorable and smart and brilliant, and I'll be in the corner being a doof and making him look even more brilliant by contrast. :D Also, we could talk writing.

It occured to me yesterday that the World Cup is about to start getting underway, and that I've friended a whole bunch of people in the last two years, who probably have no idea what's about to hit them. So, yes, a little warning: I get taken over by a pod person during the World and European Cups. Click on the football tag on this post to see what I was like in 2004, and especially in 2002. I normally support, in that order, Belgium, Scotland, England, anyone playing against Brazil, and anyone playing against the Netherlands.

(Belgium and Scotland for obvious reasons, and England because I like watching David Beckham and Michael Owen get their grope on. The Dutch-hatred is cultural, and it's a tribute to my still-seething hatred of Brazil that I would suppotr the Dutch if they played Brazil, because Brazil, through blatant cheating and lying and A FUCKING BLIND REF APPARENTLY, kicked first England and then Belgium out of the Cup in subsequent matches, and NO I AM NOT BITTER AT ALL! But anyway.)

With both Belgium and Scotland not even in the running, you can expect, for the following couple of weeks, a lot of minute-by-minute match commentary, picspam posts of boys in shorts touching each other in inappropriate ways, threatening of people's kneecaps, bitterness, Ronaldo-hatred burning with the passion of a thousand suns, and, if England manage to get anywhere (ha!), probably the occasional drunk celebatory post.

(Speaking of which, any of the football/slash fans on my friendslist want to help me come up with a football/slash drinking game? Doesn't have to be England-specific, although "If David Beckham insists on taking a turn during penalty shootouts, empty your drink" should really be in there.)