We choose to go to the moon...

I had far too many margaritas with my Mexican food Friday night so my date and I sat in a Starbucks, drinking coffee and sobering up, until nearly 1am when we were both finally comfortable getting behind the wheel. It made for a slow, lazy Saturday. Then, last night, my friend Anne came over for dinner. I made baked pasta with sausage, tomatoes, and cheese. Success! I really need to start expanding my cooking repertoire, though. My friend's partner is just starting to cook and I might suggest we take a cooking class together.

I caught up on CSI, SPN, and SGA yesterday morning which seems to be a new, relaxing, Saturday morning tradition. There was so much controversy on my friends list over SPN and SGA but I enjoyed both.

SPN: Honestly, I think I put less deep thought into SPN than many people on my friendslist. I save that up for BSG. Sure, the idea of angels literally falling from heaven is pretty silly but so are many of the "supernatural" elements of the show. I think the criticism of the portrayal of angels on the show may come from people's personal connection to the idea of angels (whereas most people don't have that same actualized faith based perspective on demons.) I always suspend disbelief when I watch and it takes a lot to pull me out of an episode in a way that diminishes my enjoyment. Mostly, the show delivers my perfect escape: gorgeous, emotionally tortured characters battling the supernatural.

I was totally fine with the Impala sex scene because HELLO. SHIRTLESS DEAN HAVING SEX IN THE IMPALA. I also appreciate the yin/yang of his fling with an angel vs. Sam's fling with a demon.

I loved everything with Dean from his angst over betraying Anna to those perfect, tragic tears in the final scene.

Oh, and I thought Castiel's possessiveness was awesome when Dean kissed Anna. It could play out as possessiveness over either (or both) of them but it was intense.

SGA: mcalex22 has a recap of SGA here and I agree with almost all of it.

Things I loved about the episode:
* Keller's support of Rodney and the way she gets through to him.
* The exploration of the idea that Rodney's a washout in the mainstream physics community because he has, for all intents and purposes, disappeared.
* Rodney abandoning the work to run and save Keller (with an ax)!
* Seeing Rodney happy (and knowing that there's this potential in canon when the series end since it was unlikely he and Sheppard were going to run off together).

Things I didn't love:
* Keller's boots. Those boots with that dress!?! No, no, no, no, no.
* The declarations of love. It's not that I don't believe it but I don't feel like we got to see enough of the development of their relationship. Sure we had Rodney's pining (and that confession) but, if they're in love, I'd have liked to spend time watching them get there.

I'm completely appreciate the POV of people who don't see Rodney/Keller and don't like it (for whatever reason whether it just those two or a protectiveness of McKay/Sheppard). I'm fine reading fic that works around this development but, after my ranting over Grissom/Sara, I'm not throwing stones at the haters.

timberho always finds the good crack. Today it was in the form of photos of Zac Efron and Leonardo DiCaprio at a Lakers game. See? And one more.

For my reference: The standard model of physics got it right when it predicted where the mass of ordinary matter comes from, according to a massive new computational effort.

Sally has been super needy all day. I don't know what's going on with her but I don't mind the attention. I had very few ambitions for the day but I just woke up from a 2 1/2 hour nap and decided even the gym can wait until tomorrow. Lazy, lazy day!