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Tell your friends! Tell yourself! Because everyone needs a little Yankees in their day. Why, you ask? I just so happen to have a list:

1. Yanks Amazed by White House Tour

"BALTIMORE -- The Yankees' tour group was about to set up for a photo opportunity on the White House's South Lawn on Tuesday, when 7-year-old Sasha Obama dashed to her jungle gym with two blocky Secret Service agents in tow.

In a flash, the Yankees' cameras were holstered, as the group was ushered off to a more restricted area."

I can't decide whether this is Sasha Fierce pwning the Yankees or the Yankees being awesome and probably fangirling the youngest Ms. Obama. Either way, I would like to vote for Nick Swisher as Sasha's new babysitter. Because he's one of the best things about baseball right now.

2. Nick Swisher gets the first on-camera kiss in the New Yankee stadium! This video should be rewatched dozens of times to be fully appreciated. If you want to skip to 1:40 and just keep replaying it, you can tell how Swisher's face lights up when A.J. Burnett walks into his view and he knows something's up and then Burnett kisses him and Swish erupts with manly giggles and cheek wiping for PR. Look, Swisher is #33 and Burnett is #34. It's meant to be! Cute, squishy fielder and lanky, tattooed pitcher. [cue disney love theme]

3. Derek Jeter is the Captain Tight Pants of baseball



4. The Yankees once shared a hotel with a Furry convention.

Most of the players were a little taken aback - Alex Rodriguez was telling Derek Jeter how he got caught in an elevator with nine hissing cats, and thought they might start scratching him -- but Jason Giambi absolutely loved it. Big shocker there. If the Yankees didn't have to get out of town tonight, you get the feeling the Big G would hang out for another night and join the fun.

"Those people are awesome," he said. "Awesome."

(I know Giambi is no longer ours but he was when he encountered furries and that's what matters here.)

5.

Closer Mo Rivera and Catcher Jorge Posada play...well, the Newlywed Game. And Derek Jeter takes the last cookie off the plate.

Dearest friends list,

Haven't you ever thought to yourself, "By jiggers, how I do wish upon my very soul of creativity that I could perchance find the time or inspiration to indeed sit before my computer and produce a fictional tale about the relationship of a man and woman not heretofore justly appreciated by my fellows in this circle of interest I partake in on occasion!"

C'mon. I know you have. That is why I am telling you about this:

viola_dreamwalk is hosting a second Behind Every Good Woman Rare-Het Challenge. (The application post can be found here.)

This is a multifandom challenge. Books, television, movies, manga, anime, comics, and etc. are all fair game. And don't forget--rare het. I haven't signed up for a fic challenge in years but the theme of this one catches my interest so much I had to jump on board. You can sign up until June 3 so that is enough time to scour your list of fandoms and find the perfect pairing to write for the challenge. (Which is exactly what I'm doing--sometimes having too many fandoms is a curse.)

I just finished rewatching the Veronica Mars finale and the entire episode clicked with me in a way it hadn't when I saw it last night--probably because everyone's vague reactions set me on edge and I couldn't enjoy it fully the first time. So of course I cried through most of it the second time around and now I love it unconditionally.

And of course I had to track down the music.

Gravenhurst - See My Friends, aka the song playing during the climactic moments. This song was perfect to complement the mood of That Scene.

Paul Westerberg - Time Flies Tomorrow: the ending song.

In other tv news: Amazon is selling Wonderfalls for only $19.99. Even though I made the plan to save every penny this summer I couldn't resist that price. I should get it tomorrow and I'll finally see the unaired episodes (which is practically all of them..) over the weekend.

I've been busybusybusy with school so far this week but now--I AM FREE. Well, I have three finals but that's nothing compared to all the assignments of the past three weeks. I'll be catching up on LJ soon.

In my fandom post last week a few people seemed interested in getting Doctor Who episodes. sarkastic and luminata and maybe others as well? I started tackling my way through various file sharing sites, after the fall of YSI took away my favorite site.

It didn't go well. All I have to show for my troubles is episodes 1 and 3 on Megaupload:

Doctor Who 1x01 - Rose

1x03 - Aliens of London

So! I'm feeling generous and also I want to share the most gloriously happy-making show I've ever seen with the world. Anyone who is interested in watching Doctor Who and hasn't already received the downloads of various generous people across the internets: comment on this post or e-mail me with your address* and I will send you the first 12 episodes of Doctor Who on DVD-R. All comments will be screened.

*I've done this before! I can have people vouch that I never used their addresses to kidnap them and make them my fic/fandom slave!