Personal Update:

So, I've decided that I don't want to drive my car. It uses gas, which is both expensive and bad for the environment, plus if I don't drive, I will need to walk and/or bike-ride to the places that I need to go.

I've been doing this for the last five or so days that I've gone places. Will let y'all know how it goes.

I've been off of meat and caffeine for a little while now and haven't had any trouble since the time I had issues with telling my dad that I was going vegetarian (have since told him, all to the good). Haven't managed to fully quit dairy (pizza and ice cream, mostly) but I am drinking soy milk regularly and have stopped putting cheese on my pasta.

I now have a plan for the future that I'm quite excited about. In about ten years, jic, vampireborg and I are planning to open up a bed and breakfast (preferably near Ashland, Oregon). So, we're starting to save up for that now. We figure, between the three of us, we make at least one quality host (borg likes to cook for vast quantities of people, jic is a numbers person, and I genuinely like people and find pretty much every person in the world interesting). I'm thinking that I'm going to tell my family that I would prefer money for the B&B fund on my birthdays and Christmas, rather than presents (this was my mom's suggestion).

Life is rather spiffy, at the moment.

Stargate: Atlantis (thoughts on ethics and stupidity)

This is a thing that I've noticed, something of a dividing line in how SGA is viewed -- there are people who see the show as darker than SG-1 and people who see the show as lighter (there are also people who don't watch SG-1, but they're in a different, non-comparison section).

I see SGA not as lighter or darker but as... more confused and less ethical/moral than SG-1.
( spoilers for the most recent episodes of the Stargates )