Callie

This blog is on indefinite hiatus.

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I thought it was a good time to come back from hiatus, but I guess not. I should make it permanent.

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settling in with a hard cider and some cookies to watch orange is the new black

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WILLIAM DUNCAN MCAVOY WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

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Sam and Jack Multimedia Awards - fiction nomination

After the Storm by Callie has been nominated in the “Best Tag” category.

"He doesn’t call her and tell her he’s making omelets with beer, they don’t have stupid bets to see who can finish a crossword puzzle the fastest, he doesn’t invite her to go fishing, and they rarely even end up in the commissary at the same time.     (set around the events of 8.18, “Threads”.)”

Nominate your own favorite Sam and Jack videos, art and fiction at samandjackawards.com

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mcmacthenewsroom said: Will proposing to Nina would have killed me. Mac thinking he was going to propose to Nina would be a great dramatic twist but still would have killed me. Hadn’t Mac suffered enough?

As long as the ending is…

[mcmacthenewsroom]

That’s great. As much as I hated the Nina thing for various reasons, I admired Sorkin for doing it. I can’t think of any other way I would have felt so visceral a reaction.  And by having that reaction against Will, feeling so upset and let down that he chose Nina and hurt Mac (I obsessed over how Mac must have felt the moment she found out what he’d done—the treachery of it, the disappointment of it. I had felt Will to have a level of dignity and honor up to then, and that  was obliterated by that choice he made. I felt Mac should have left him for that). Thus I finally understood the hurt he must have felt when Mac told him about the affair. I truly understood how he could feel so revolted and betrayed.

No other relationship Will might have taken would have made me feel that way.

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While I don't ship Will/Nina, I didn't actually mind it all that much and it made sense to me. Mac and Will were not together at that time, so he didn't betray Mac (and no not even professionally; Nina did not hack Will's phone, Reese did, and she stuck to her promise not to reveal the message or that he was high) and I didn't get the sense that he hid it from her, either, so it's not comparable to her affair with Brian. In addition, he'd been doing the things that Mac and Charlie wanted him to do--like calling out the Tea Party--and all he got in return was public censure and being taken off the 9/11 broadcast which had enormous personal significance for him. So here's Nina, telling him the things he wants to hear, giving him the attention he wants, so of course he's going to go down that road, because following the difficult road just gets him smacked in the face. And I think Nina made him superficially happy, which he later realized, like the attention he gets from his audience, is not enough. Superficially happy seems appealing when you're miserable. It wasn't until later that he realized that they were just not compatible.

I also don't really fault Nina for not telling MacKenzie about the message. Will had made it very clear that he did not want anyone (including MacKenzie) to know what the message said and it wasn't Nina's place to deliver that message (even if I really wanted MacKenzie to know the truth about what it said).

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me: Hi Dr. So and So, thank you for agreeing to [thing]. I have a form I need you to sign; when is a good time for me to come by your office this week to get your signature?

Dr. So and So: yes

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that time where pycelle lied too much

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International Day for Biological Diversity, World Biodiversity Day. (Thu May 22.｜5月22日(木)ハリネズミカレンダー。まるたろうのブログから)

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2raggedclaws replied to your post:"The ethnomusicology written exam is two whole...

that, my friend, is insane. I am an ethnomusicologist, and I never took an exam that lengthy.

right??? My primary area exam had written, take home, and oral, but you know, it's my primary area. I get it. But two days for written??

My advisor mentioned nothing about this. This was what I got from the graduate office. So I'm hoping he will be like "nah, two days is crazy" and it's really just one. He is new and I'm the first one taking the exam since the previous ethno chair left.

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"The ethnomusicology written exam is two whole days"

are you fucking kidding me

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Time hasn’t helped?

[mcmacthenewsroom]

It’s Jeff Daniels delivering that very quiet, very restrained, very heartfelt, and very simple “no” to Charlie’s question about time not having lessened the pain of Mac’s cheating that suggests  so much about the delicate nature of his psyche. The emotional depth Daniels gives to Will as a character is one reason I thought he so deserved the Emmy.

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Aaaaaaaaaaaghhhhhhhhhhhh

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Woke up at 4 am because the smoke alarm was doing the low battery chirp. By the time I fell asleep again it was time to get up. I feel terrible.

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ONE MORE DAY BEFORE A DEADLINE

credit: chaparro

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In 2014, The Classical World Still Can't Stop Fat-Shaming Women

Over the weekend, five London-based critics reviewed a new opera production — and each attacked the weight of one of the female soloists. Do they treat male vocalists the same way?

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Jeff in a tux

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[exeters]

[poutine-existentielle]

can we just agree that hermione doesn’t give two shits about throwing rocks in the water. she knows exactly what she’s doing bless her

[kaarevs]

nO BUT FLICK HE LITERALLY JUST TAUGHT HER WHAT SHE TAUGHT HIM IN THE FIRST BOOK YO SWISH AND FLICK THIS IS THE CUTEST THING

[gentlepanpirate]

[SCREAMS OUT LOUD]

[mrsmarymorstan]

#anyone else love how he taught her the muggle version of it and she taught him the magic version#even though he’s a pureblood and she’s a muggle born (via Saffythegeek)

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OH MY GOD

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finally made some damn progress on my dissertation proposal. now having a snack and trying to decide whether to knock out some more or go work out.