I'm hiding out in the office. The parents and 10 other people, mostly local media correspondents and academics and the like, are camped out in the living room with gin and tonics and mini-wieners, yammering endlessly about the latest developments on the Korean peninsula.

Some guy just came in with a huge, laminated satellite photo of that one North Korean city with all the trade and stuff going on? Kang-Nam. The whole room went "OMG SQUEE" exactly the same way I did when olivia_circe sent me that LuthorCorp employees only parking sign.

My parents are the worst possible kind of geek. Their are North-East Asian Affairs Geeks. If somebody doesn't shoot me soon, I may attempt death by over-ingestion of mini-wieners.*

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emmihead, I have the best idea in the entire universe for that Touching Evil/Firefly fic. It's so good, I may in fact write it. It is just that staggeringly good. The idea is, anyway, the actual story may blow. But the pure idea, undiluted by embodiment, is freaking kickass. So there.

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The internet will be a quiet and lonely place while all you Harry Potter nuts are off reading your books about pedophilia or whatever. And then it will likely be flooded with your precious reactions. Ah, how I cannot wait to scroll through my flist at hyperspeed, not understanding what the big freakin deal is that Draco blew Sirius or that Hermione is, in fact, the Dark Overlord Volderdarth. Or whatever. I'm all a-quiver.

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For those enlightened few who care, a damn good China Miéville interview. Avoid it if you haven't yet read Iron Council, as he pretty much goes over the entire plot and reasons for stuff and character points and that book is SO GOOD WHY HAVEN'T YOU READ IT YET. Jeez. Pick up the pace, people. You know who you are. *squinty eyes of disapproval*

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Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to play Oregon Trail for an hour.

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*Disclaimer: I adore my family and am constantly in awe of their passion for, as I say, saving the world. They're sometimes boring, but always inspirational, as are their friends. However, I'm still going to eat all their snacks.