Recently at my place of work I was asked to fill out a 10 question thing that they put in our monthly newsletter.  One of the questions was who your childhood hero was.  I couldn't really think of any so I crossed that out and put that my 2 adult heroes are the Dalai Lama and Joss Whedon.

I ran across a rant that Joss posted yesterday that I wanted to link that perfectly illustrates why I would list him as my hero:

http://whedonesque.com/comments/13271#more

And for anyone who may have missed it before - a link to a speech that Joss made last year at an Equality Now function that was honoring him:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYaczoJMRhs

The two links pretty much say it all.  Takes my breath away.  Love that man.

As I was driving on to the Fox lot this morning I noticed that of the 4 billboards lining the front of the lot one (the biggest one) is an advert for Drive and another of the smaller ones (right in the middle) is an advert for Waitress.  Even though, sadly, neither of the billboards actually features the lovely Nathan Fillion it was nice to see some love for his coming up the soonest projects.  Good for him.

Actually since those are the soonest of many upcoming awesome things that I can't wait for,  I've decided to do a laundry list  - behind a cut for the sake of everyone - of all the super exciting awesomely fantatiscal things that I'm looking forward to during the rest of this year.

So much to geek out over, so little time.  What's a fangirl to do?

Well so far LA has been good to me.

I am writing this from my desk at my brandy new job......well sort of new.  I've actually been here since the beginning of December but today is the first day of my second 'official' week at Fox Sports.  Yes, that's right - not only am I working for Fox Sports but I'm working in the Marketing department where we campaign to get people to watch sports.  No, it doesn't make any sense to me either.  But I'm working for a studio - hooray!  I'm working on the Fox lot - hooray!  There are just too many good extra little things to mention here - HOORAY!!  I haven't really seen any truly famous people yet (I think I saw Marc Blucas with a shaved head the other day though) but eventually I'm bound to run into someone.  An asian woman in scrubs about mowed me down in the News Cafe one day last week so spotting Hugh Laurie can't be far behind.  :-)  

So life in LA, so far has largely been about getting the job thing squared away and trying to get into some semblance of a routine (I'm getting there).   We've been to see a few movies and we went to a screening of Pan's Labryinth with a Q&A with Guillermo del Toro following - that was awesome (both the movie and the Q&A).  We also went New Year's weekend to see Getty Villa.  It was lovely - all ancient art - Grecian, Roman and African.  I saw some artwork depicting the mythology that part of Sailor Moon was based on (Seline and Endymion) and something else as well but I can't remember what it was.

One thing I will say for LA - I love the weather here.  LOVE it!  When I was going to post this update last week I was going to say that the milder climate is much better for my arthritis but then last week it snowed in Malibu.  And I will repeat that because it bears repeating - it snowed in MALIBU!  WTF?!?  All kidding aside (it really did snow in Malibu though) even with the recent cold front that we had my arthritis has been better because it's mostly mild around where I live and work.  

Well that's it for now.  I'm going to try to make my posts more frequent and much shorter from now on.  :P