No YOU want to buy every Leia item in the new Jen Bartels collection, twice, so you can keep one of each and give one to your mom.

Also, I love being on podcasts, so if you need a guest for yours, hit me up.

I guested on a podcast for the first time in almost 5 years! And I only talked about BtVS a little! Check it out: Micro Monday, Episode 80

Current wishlist: Everything BtVS on Hot Topic

Hi, I’m Kimberly, and today I’m wearing yoga pants with combat boots.

Rather than an elbow bump, I’m planning to replace handshakes and high fives with a forearm bash. www.youtube.com/watch

🎙️ Listened to Mighty Creative, episodes:

• Prologue: The Podcast Is Back
• 101 - Prerequisite Procrastination
• 102 - Derivative Crafts & Remixing

📺 Watched Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 1, episode 23, “Skin of Evil.”

🧶 Finally finished crocheting these dragon scale fingerless gloves. They’re a birthday gift for my sister. Her birthday is January 18… 😬

📺 Watched Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 episodes 1 & 2, “Encounter at Farpoint.”

As a kid, family viewing of TNG was one of my favorite things. I had an immense crush on Wesley Crusher (and still do on Wil Wheaton) and fancied myself a bit of a Spiner femme. The show aired from when I was 6 to when I was 12, and in middle school my best friend and I plotted a spec script where a teen flautist is the only one who can communicate with the Crystalline Entity and also befriends Data. We never actually wrote or submitted it. At the time, I thought Jean-Luc Picard was very cool, the kind of guy who would be a great mentor.

Now, at 38, I find myself having very different feelings about Picard, specifically that he is possibly the most attractive fictional character ever. I attribute this not only to my middle-aged hormones, but also to the fact that now he reminds me of my husband (the most attractive real person ever, to me, anyway). His blend of calm and intensity is :chefkiss:.

And now I realize too (and actually have for a while now) that Data’s appeal is about the extent to which I identify with him, for I, too, am a walking, talking computer trying to generate algorithms that will make me more human.

Also, Geordi LaForge needs to be my BFF.