blah blah Star Trek blah blah

so I started listening to the novelization for Star Trek as read by one Mr. Zachary Quinto. it's really quite enjoyable, but it was sort of odd hot odd to listen to Spock talk about how Kirk and Gaila were having sexy fun tiems. ;p

I can upload if anyone is interested.

it at least made work not so bad today. co-worker D has been on vacation for almost two weeks. she comes back on Wednesday and omg it can not get here fast enough. besides she hasn't seen Star Trek yet and I told her she needs to. my wanting to see it again has nothing to do with it. >.>

*sigh* nothing can throw me out of a story like the use of the word "lover." I don't know what it is, but it drives me CRAZY. (which is not to say that I don't like the stories or that it's ruined for me or anything, there's just a moment of DAMNIT! and then I go back to reading. yes I know. my life is hard.)

ahhh omg. I just saw someone comment with the phrase "my friends and I used to watch LotR when we were young." *yells at kids to get off her lawn*

I'm sure everyone has already read this but -

Captain Awesome and His Amazing Enterprise by vaingirlfic - high school AU with everyone in a band!

The band starts out as a joke in Jim Kirk's mother's garage while she's out of the country with doctors without borders-- again, as usual. He's got a battered guitar and a fifty dollar amp he bought from a pawn shop and an overpowering need to crank it up as high as possible and irritate the neighbors with the power chords he picked up in the torn up volume of How to play guitar like a rockstar in 15 easy lessons! he stole from the library.

It works pretty well. The blue haired creep across the street comes doddering down on his cane threatening to call the cops, this one guy in a business suit screams at Jim's stepdad for nearly fifteen minutes with a blue tooth blinking in his ear the whole time and the other neighbor's kid threatens to murder Jim if he flunks his AP bio exam because he can't study over the noise.

Actually, what he says is, “If your strange ability to invent new notes that should not exist on a musical scale continues to disrupt me and I receive less than a 5 on this exam, I will find you and then strangle you with your own viscera.”

Jim blinks at him for nearly ten whole seconds before he grins, “Well, I can tutor you if you want, Spock. I took it last year.”

also this post by mekosuchinae which contains this:

"Their priestess, uh, told me some things," Jim said. He thought he'd said that in a passably neutral tone of voice, but Bones was like a hound for that shit; he scented it like blood.

"Please tell me you did not sleep with the dinosaur priestess," he said.

also there are unicorns. everyone wins.