Heading out to case the promise land

So, everyone has already seen this J2 thing where they admit to working out together, and watching football together, and cooking steaks together, right? All of this is awesome, but clearly, the best bit is Jared saying they're like brothers, because adorable, and Jared explaining that Hollywood is, "Full of scoundrels," because it makes me laugh. I didn't think anyone actually used that word in a non-ironic way, anymore.

However, I am not posting to tell you about this. I am posting to make a note of my progress on the Castiel rehabilitation front. I am working on not hating him! So far, using a complicated method I explained to Merry the other day while I was inexplicably insane, he has managed to achieve a score of 20 awesome points (I do feel I was being generous, and I also think he should lose them all for 4.16, but merryish wasn't having it.) And then she explained something to me. It briefly punctured my hate.


M. He is kind of hapless, for an Angel of the Lord.
M. it adds to his adorability.
MLike
L: hapless i can kind of work with
L: actually, it does make me like him a little more
M: You can sort of imagine Sam and Dean having to give him lessons in, I dunno
M: hair-brushing.
L: it's when they try to sell him as crazy competent angel dude that it falls apart for me
M: awww, no
M: he's totally sitting at the back of the Angel class
M: clearly all the other angels think he's a loser
M: what with liking Dean and wandering around asking questions
M: and not wanting to kill humans and whatnot
L: and following uriel's stupid plan
M: right!
L: okay, that I can work with
L: well, kind of
L: i'm not sure we can ever get around 4.16
M: like, say, if Castiel fell
M: He'd be the guy giving HORRIBLE advice
to sad people
M: Sam and Dean would have to take him aside and say, "No, Cas, telling people who've slept with the wrong guy that they need to be washed in the blood of the lamb... not cool."
L: Hmm
L: hapless Castiel is really sort of cute
L: i am not convinced you are seeing this entirely as the show would like you to
L: but your way is better
M: pffft, who cares about how THEY want me to see him
M: though I am not convinced I"m that far off!
L: although, come to think about it, there is something about the way he says, "Uriel is the funniest angel in the garison," that always makes me laugh
M: Yes!
M: hapless!
M: and also
M: going back to the season premiere
M: the way he wandered about making Dean's eardrums bleed
M: because he couldn't figure out how to talk to him
M: and then he was like, "...oops."
L: okay
L: really
L: hilarious
L: i have never considered it in quite those terms before
L: *dies laughing*


I make no promises, obviously, and I don't think I'm anywhere near liking him, but maybe I might not want physical harm to befall him every time he appears. Maybe.

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I had a very, very, very earnest discussion last night about The Apprentice. I...do not entirely know why, or what it was I had to understand, but I did insist that I had to know something. S. and M. were like, "You are wasted," and I was like, "No! I just want to know! Just explain it to me!" If they did explain it, I do not remember. Seriously, I am going back to beer. If I ever drink again, that is.

The problem now is that I am supposed to be going out for cocktails tonight for a friend's birthday, and I might, perhaps, be a little hungover. Ugh. Maybe they will do cool non-alcoholic ones.

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