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Well, my theory about how my immune system sucks has another data point! This time, though, I've started wondering if it is slightly allergy-related, because I remember getting sick last spring. I just can't remember if I was sick other times last year... I keep meaning to track it. It's not that bad, really--just a bit of sinus ick and fatigue.

YOU GUYS. My friend is getting married and so she had her bridal shower and a fun engagement/bachelorette-type party in which a bunch of us went to a karaoke place with private rooms, and I had a BLAST. I've done karaoke bars, which I find entirely too intimidating--something about getting in front of strangers and performing triggers my fright/giggling reflexes. BUT in a group of people I (mostly) knew, I sang "Dog Days are Over" and "Everlong." I'm not ENTIRELY sure that the applause after "Dog Days" wasn't because I didn't faint during it, and I'd love to have a recording of myself singing it to see if I totally sucked or not, because I honestly couldn't tell at the time. :-)

So, I did this meme thing, and I haven't actually managed to answer most of them, but I thought I'd post what I did have.

xfchemist wanted Sam/Jack

1. When or if I started shipping them:
Divide and Conquer. Up to that point, I thought that it was really more platonic than anything, but there was some weird, angsty magic in the expanded flashbacks to the events of Upgrades that just... killed me. Look, I never said I was original or free-thinking.

2. What I think their challenge is:
The rules; honor and duty. Seriously, I think that that's most of it--neither of them is willing to risk the synergy of SG-1 for something they see as totally selfish. And, once that excuse is gone, I think their challenge would be overcoming the effect the rules had on their relationship up to that point. And maybe Jack's sense of humor.

3. What makes me happy about them:
The stupid cute! The looks they give each other, the jokes that Jack makes that only Sam smiles at, the little digs Sam gives him when she thinks she'll get away with it. ("Welcome to my life.") The way they always have each other's backs. That time Sam grabs Jack's gun from the thigh holster. When he tells her to look up at Earth and how he gets her love of space. Also that they argue about things. I love it when my ships argue about the plot. It's a thing.

4. What makes me sad about them:
Oh, those pesky regulations! Actually, I think what's sadder still is the distance that they have about some things, as exemplified in Lost City, when Sam goes to Jack's house. There are obviously certain things they've never talked about. I'm still trying to work my way around that one!

5. What moment I wish had never happened:
Sam: Jack.
Jack: Jack?
Me: AUGH!
(Seriously, I have ALWAYS wanted Grace to end with Sam realizing she should just go for it. I know this is ridiculous and stupid, but I can't heeeeelp iiiiiit.)

6. Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:
Sam could end up with Daniel, although I am not so sure about that post-season 8 than I would have been otherwise. I actually love Sam/Teal'c post-Unending, because apparently I'm a sucker for angst. Who knew? Jack... well, he could end up with Teal'c, too. *g*

7. My happily ever after for them:
It involves a cabin where the two of them are forced by circumstances to platonically share a bed, except then it's not so platonic, and they end up snarking at each other the rest of their lives.

and Jarod/Miss Parker

1. When or if I started shipping them:
I don't remember NOT shipping them. Probably because I got sucked in by the ship at first, and then started watching for it.

2. What I think their challenge is:
Well, I think that would be Miss Parker's daddy issues, and the fact that she's always trying to capture Jarod when she should be kissing him.

3. What makes me happy about them:
Late night phone calls. Mischievous pranks. The fact that they've relied on each other in various ways practically their whole lives but won't admit it.

4. What makes me sad about them:
Well, I don't really feel that they got the resolution they deserved--I don't ~~want to~~ remember the second movie well enough to consider it in my canon/fanon for them.

5. What moment I wish had never happened:
Hmm... I can't think of any at the moment. Maybe the moment where they found out they share a half-sibling, because that just makes it a bit awkward. *g*

6. Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:
With some distance, I decided that Broots/Parker was something I could get behind sometimes. I GUESS I could see Jarod going back to Nia. If I squint.

7. My happily ever after for them:
That they join forces to take down The Centre and then work to protect kids like them.

macgyvergal wanted Helen/Will

1. When or if I started shipping them:
I really like Helen/Will when Will challenges Helen about something he could possibly be right about. (He never is, because Helen is Always Right, but sometimes Will makes good points.) I'd say I could see the potential for ship pretty early, but I didn't ship them until toward the middle of this last season.

2. What I think their challenge is:
The age/experience difference, and Helen's immortality. Not to mention Will's lack of jaw muscles. (I'm sorry! I HAD TO go there!)

3. What makes me happy about them:
Their shared glee about the world they live and work in.

4. What makes me sad about them:
The fact that if anything did happen, it would be temporary.

5. What moment I wish had never happened:
Uh... hmm...

6. Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:
Helen? Just about any breathing person on the planet. Or Nikola. I actually think Will and Abby are pretty cute, barring some of their arguments which I thought crossed the line--some days I can put that down to awkward writing, though, and I thought they were pretty cute most of the time. (Disgustingly cute some of the time, too.)

7. My happily ever after for them:
I don't know that I have one!