Kansas City & Chicago in October

We've bought our plane tickets so can now confirm we're going to be in Kansas City this fall from September 28 to October 9 (my cousin's wedding is the weekend in the middle, Oct 2-4). We don't know of any fans in the area, but if there's anyone around the middle part of the Midwest who wants to come hang sometime in there maybe we can arrange something. We'll also be in Chicago at O'Hare for a layover from somewhere around noon to 7 pm on October 28.

sneakers of the day

Apple Bottoms "Kishia", which I find incredibly hilarious, and Adidas Originals "Honey Mid" in a pretty cherry blossom print on pale gold.

idle [house] thoughts

Wax has that periodic bug where she wants to move into an actual house with wood and more than one room and stuff. I do too, actually. My parents' house, where I grew up, is over a century old, wooden everywhere. Of course, an old American shotgun-style farmhouse is quite different from a house in northern Europe, where heating is a big issue, so the houses are as compact as possible to conserve heat. It'd be possible to move into a house, or a flat in an older house, for reasonable and comparable rent (to our current place, which has an awesome location to make up for being smallish and ugly), except that the heating bill in such a place would add another hundred bucks a month or so. But I think we're going to walk across the railroad tracks into the nearby vintage-house area and look at the one that's for rent that we really wouldn't be able to afford when you added in the heating, even though we would've been able to if the asshole caseworker at the Employment Bureau had let me have the job that Bosslady wanted to give me. (Yeah, I'm still bitter.)

oh yeah, and one more thing: criminal minds!

So, how about the Hotch/Rossi this week, huh?

It's really sweet the way they're gradually developing the trust and partnership between Hotch and Rossi canonically, although obviously, if you ignore my slash-goggled eroticised subversive reading, it's just an equally heart-warming platonic friendship. But that doesn't matter! Because they have their emotionally wounded Intense Discussions about Why We Do This and Don't Blame Yourself and You're A Good Man, their reserved manly handshakes and back-pats, their parental tete-a-tetes away from the big ears of the pitchers children. I like that in the Hotch-angst storylines and the Rossi-angst storylines, the other one is always sensitive to the nuances of the angster's behaviour even when the children aren't, and confident and caring enough to offer support verbally and with reassuring bodylanguage.

I need to go back to the beginning of the Rossi eps and rewatch at least the significant ones, because I didn't start shipping it until later and I'm sure that caused me to miss some nuances. Also I'd like screencaps. :/ I was chatting with iscaris about the canonical development of the pairing a few weeks ago (*wave*) and she brought up some stuff that I totally hadn't even remembered about it at all, and I can't allow that state to continue for a pairing I'm actively shipping: I won't know how to arrange my personal canon.