a bit of sga ("humans are the *second* evolution of this form!")

the new challenge at sga_flashfic is "abandon[ed, ment, with wild __]", so this morning in the shower i was happily thinking about abandoned cities and buildings and things. 

then i excitedly dashed out of the bathroom, dripping wet in my underwear.

cim:  if the ancients looked like humans ten thousand years ago all the ceilings and doorways in atlantis should be too low!
wax: ...but maybe the ancients were just tall.  they're not genetically related to humans. 
cim:  yeah, yeah, that's true. maybe all the ancients were tall--
wax: their civilisation was already more advanced than ours is now.
cim: and that explains how sheppard is all [mimes being tall and lanky by standing on tiptoes, hunching shoulders and making a weird face]!
wax: so let me get this straight--you were just in the shower, thinking, "hm..."
cim: ahah.  no, see, the flashfic challenge is abandonment so i was thinking about those zunis or whatever in the western united states who just picked up and left and the archaeologists found, like, ancient little stone toys still lying around.  and how we went to one of their cliff dwellings in colorado, but like a single-family dwelling was the size of a closet and not quite five feet high, so when you climbed around in them it was... cramped.

musicky request, vid rec

does anyone happen to have an mp3 they could upload of ana johnsson's "we are", which wax says is from the spider-man 2 soundtrack? 

i just watched a stargate: atlantis vid to it which i liked quite a lot (by pegasus_01, here), and i recognised it faintly, but i'm not sure where from. 

to me, i think the timing of the cuts is the most important thing in a vid.  i thought that was really good here, although there was a tendency to make them a smidge too long. still, this is her first vid, and i'm thinking a good sense of timing/rhythm can't be taught, because soso many vids by experienced vidders, even, suck in that department.

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my parents sent me a package consisting of something i need to file for a tax refund, and the kind of m&m's that i don't particularly like (how can you get that wrong after more than twenty years of living with me?), and a big stack of dilbert comics from my dad's daily calendar.  i think i will enjoy the comics the most, really. 

i spent a long time in town today, mostly shopping, although i managed to escape without buying too much.  but i'm really tired, and my feet are sore even though i wore birkenstocks.  hmf.

oh, and i also tried and failed twice to put money on my chip card. it was a bit humiliating actually. the chip card is all in finnish and i really can't navigate it. tried once, ended up accidentally getting the atm to spit it out. there was someone in line behind me, so i let him go, and then gave it another whack. that time i accidentally got it to withdraw €20 more than i had intended--and i didn't even know you could do that with the chip-card slot, i thought it was only for putting money on and off the chip. there was someone else in line behind me then, so i retreated in humiliation. i actually walked into the branch office of my bank to demand they change my damn card language to swedish, which i can actually read, but i couldn't figure out what line i was supposed to stand in so i decided "fuck it" and went shoe-shopping.

um. er. i am so *stupid*. firefox.

i updated firefox to 1.0.4 and now quicknote (among other things) doesn't work! i may have to go back to 1.0.2.  i had important notes in there, yo.  and now i can't figure out how to get it open and get my notes out.