What's up? Prometheus. That's what's up. Prometheus coming out in June is just not soon enough. In my eyes now.
I wrote up a Friday Four last week about Game of Thrones coming back, marathoning Twin Peaks, Prometheus, and the new Canadian show Continuum.
What else? I am going to an eye specialist tomorrow to see what they can do for me. I've been having on and off issues that correlates with glutening, but also when I'm tired or even whenever the hell it wants to. Not sure Perfect vision sometimes and three versions of bad the rest. And that's the news from the front.
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I wrote up a Friday Four last week about Game of Thrones coming back, marathoning Twin Peaks, Prometheus, and the new Canadian show Continuum.
What else? I am going to an eye specialist tomorrow to see what they can do for me. I've been having on and off issues that correlates with glutening, but also when I'm tired or even whenever the hell it wants to. Not sure Perfect vision sometimes and three versions of bad the rest. And that's the news from the front.
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Hey all. Still alive. Experimenting with vitamins and iron supplements. I'm terribly anemic which is complicating everything else. Trying to get a referral to the hospital's nutrition program which requires phone calls tomorrow. I hate making phone calls.
Watching Twin Peaks for the first time. I was always aware of it having been an X-Files fangirl back in the day and much comparisons happening at in the early 90s. There's some hilarious actor overlap. I really love the first season/storyline. The second storyline doesn't feel as tight. And I am having 20 year old shipper frustrations. I still know best, writers. Also, if anyone comes up to you who is wearing an obvious wig or fake nose just run away. Also, Julee Cruise has a beautiful voice. She has a whole album written by David Lynch actually. Very syth-jazzy. Right in my decade then. :)
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Watching Twin Peaks for the first time. I was always aware of it having been an X-Files fangirl back in the day and much comparisons happening at in the early 90s. There's some hilarious actor overlap. I really love the first season/storyline. The second storyline doesn't feel as tight. And I am having 20 year old shipper frustrations. I still know best, writers. Also, if anyone comes up to you who is wearing an obvious wig or fake nose just run away. Also, Julee Cruise has a beautiful voice. She has a whole album written by David Lynch actually. Very syth-jazzy. Right in my decade then. :)
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My blogging has become more like a four act funeral. I've been sick, working on a freelance thing, gritting my teeth through work, and today I took off time to take my mom to the eye clinic to find that she has a torn retina.
That isn't to say I'm not feverishly fandoming away at something elsewhere (cough) tumblr (/cough). I just don't think there is an audience for my love of Hope Solo and the USWNT here. I used to be super into sports before gluten took over my personality and made me all emo and gothy and I find I am back to my old old self again. So I'll spare you that as much as I can. Can't promise none will spill out the edges.
I did write up a Friday Four the other week here. Including Alcatraz, Smash, Once Upon a Time, and Downton Abbey.
There was a new Prometheus trailer. I get into a fit of happiness every time I watch it. I was practically cackling at work. Fortunately no one asked me what I was watching. I am already exceeding my amount of oddness there. BUT. This movie. That's it. I am having an Alien marathon this weekend. Which probably means just watching the first one. That is the one that is still revolutionary. The second one is more of a popcorn flick than a masterpiece.
That is all for now.
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That isn't to say I'm not feverishly fandoming away at something elsewhere (cough) tumblr (/cough). I just don't think there is an audience for my love of Hope Solo and the USWNT here. I used to be super into sports before gluten took over my personality and made me all emo and gothy and I find I am back to my old old self again. So I'll spare you that as much as I can. Can't promise none will spill out the edges.
I did write up a Friday Four the other week here. Including Alcatraz, Smash, Once Upon a Time, and Downton Abbey.
There was a new Prometheus trailer. I get into a fit of happiness every time I watch it. I was practically cackling at work. Fortunately no one asked me what I was watching. I am already exceeding my amount of oddness there. BUT. This movie. That's it. I am having an Alien marathon this weekend. Which probably means just watching the first one. That is the one that is still revolutionary. The second one is more of a popcorn flick than a masterpiece.
That is all for now.
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Health: Been sick again. Not news anymore. I am exhausted all the time. Never though I'd have first hand experience on the spoons/chronic illness blog, but I totally get it now. What really pisses me off is that I blow all of my spoons at work. Like they appreciate it. Phht. I have a freelance thing I work on after work which isn't helping. But really, I am terribly bad at time management too so that is all on me.
Fandom: I finished off Moff's Jekyll. It had been my lunch hour viewing at work for a while now. Looks like Moff's audition for his seasons of Doctor Who. Moff likes putting people in literal boxes. Parts were good. Parts were too Moff for me to really like. I think his work with Sherlock is much better, but there are shades of this in that too. If you are wanting to watch something now that Sherlock and Doctor Who aren't on give it a try. I am also still watching Once Upon a Time. Somehow I am both unimpressed and charmed by it at the same time. I have to channel my inner child to like it and I am not always successful. I wish there were more PoC in it. Half of the characters look almost alike to me. Could use an adventuresome casting director I think. They are already breaking so many rules. Can't they break some that really need to be broken? The average show on Syfy is more diverse. I hate to say it but Fringe is losing my interest. I just don't know where they are going with it. I like certain scenes, but on a whole it feels like we've been away from the real universe too long. I feel like I am missing out on the characters I grew to love over the years. Specifically MY Olivia. I was willing to enjoy this alternate look for a while, but when this is the last season I reeeally need to see my favs again before the sow is gone.
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Fandom: I finished off Moff's Jekyll. It had been my lunch hour viewing at work for a while now. Looks like Moff's audition for his seasons of Doctor Who. Moff likes putting people in literal boxes. Parts were good. Parts were too Moff for me to really like. I think his work with Sherlock is much better, but there are shades of this in that too. If you are wanting to watch something now that Sherlock and Doctor Who aren't on give it a try. I am also still watching Once Upon a Time. Somehow I am both unimpressed and charmed by it at the same time. I have to channel my inner child to like it and I am not always successful. I wish there were more PoC in it. Half of the characters look almost alike to me. Could use an adventuresome casting director I think. They are already breaking so many rules. Can't they break some that really need to be broken? The average show on Syfy is more diverse. I hate to say it but Fringe is losing my interest. I just don't know where they are going with it. I like certain scenes, but on a whole it feels like we've been away from the real universe too long. I feel like I am missing out on the characters I grew to love over the years. Specifically MY Olivia. I was willing to enjoy this alternate look for a while, but when this is the last season I reeeally need to see my favs again before the sow is gone.
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Long gap in posting again. Sorry guys. Had a lot of drama. Dad was in ER. They still don't know what happened to him. He is home now and ok when all drugged up. Not drugged up...not as good. Stress caused my immune system to freak out and I got a spontaneous gluten-like attack. My vision is just now clearing up again and that is through sleeping 9 hrs a night trying to gain some ground on it. I am not sure how I got through the work week. I feel like I am always starting off in a deficit.
I am on the mend....again. And have all this energy for the first time since Sunday night. So I am currently packing up my book collection. Things seem official when my books are packed. They represent me through the years and one of the few constants I have.
Awkward moment: Finding an old email address to someone stuffed in a book for "safe keeping" that is now eight years old and useless to me. That email might have changed the course of my life. Who knows! Dammit, old me. What were you thinking putting it in that book? It is an .edu address thus useless now. I feel so conflicted. Current me is a disappointed.
I am playing Glitch. Anyone else playing Glitch? It is a ridiculous game. Ridiculous! Come play with me. I have a couple invites...
We are having another snow storm tomorrow. I guessed 8 inches in the office poll. Going high, but that is better than being in a pack of 4 inchers where you can lose a tenth of an inch one way or another. If it goes deep then I have a cushion which I own. Strategy!
What I'm excited about: USWNT have their first qualifying game tomorrow (Fri) up in Canada. They already survived a mob hit on their hotel. They were saved by an instant yoga session that Hope only randomly went to. Normally she would have been down in the lobby area to get coffee at the time some gangster sprayed bullets. Literally saved by yoga. Oh, and she doesn't even like yoga and don't dare call her a yuppy. She will educate you! Hope Smash! So while I am sad someone died even if he was part of the mob it was the spray of bullets in a public place which I think people are overlooking. Moving on... I love how practical she is about the purpose behind her fame. She is a big old homebody but is doing everything she can for her sport. People seem to forget that just a year ago she was universally, and wrongly, thought of as the bad girl of soccer. I for one am happy she is getting some love. She should have been getting that years ago.
I have a freelance project coming up. Woo! Get to work with one of my favorite friends from college on it. Woo! I am not allowed to get sick for the next ten to fifteen days. Woo! Eh.
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I am on the mend....again. And have all this energy for the first time since Sunday night. So I am currently packing up my book collection. Things seem official when my books are packed. They represent me through the years and one of the few constants I have.
Awkward moment: Finding an old email address to someone stuffed in a book for "safe keeping" that is now eight years old and useless to me. That email might have changed the course of my life. Who knows! Dammit, old me. What were you thinking putting it in that book? It is an .edu address thus useless now. I feel so conflicted. Current me is a disappointed.
I am playing Glitch. Anyone else playing Glitch? It is a ridiculous game. Ridiculous! Come play with me. I have a couple invites...
We are having another snow storm tomorrow. I guessed 8 inches in the office poll. Going high, but that is better than being in a pack of 4 inchers where you can lose a tenth of an inch one way or another. If it goes deep then I have a cushion which I own. Strategy!
What I'm excited about: USWNT have their first qualifying game tomorrow (Fri) up in Canada. They already survived a mob hit on their hotel. They were saved by an instant yoga session that Hope only randomly went to. Normally she would have been down in the lobby area to get coffee at the time some gangster sprayed bullets. Literally saved by yoga. Oh, and she doesn't even like yoga and don't dare call her a yuppy. She will educate you! Hope Smash! So while I am sad someone died even if he was part of the mob it was the spray of bullets in a public place which I think people are overlooking. Moving on... I love how practical she is about the purpose behind her fame. She is a big old homebody but is doing everything she can for her sport. People seem to forget that just a year ago she was universally, and wrongly, thought of as the bad girl of soccer. I for one am happy she is getting some love. She should have been getting that years ago.
I have a freelance project coming up. Woo! Get to work with one of my favorite friends from college on it. Woo! I am not allowed to get sick for the next ten to fifteen days. Woo! Eh.
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(pause) GGs results were almost universally awesome in that categories I cared about. (/pause)
Live Sherlocking. Or at least the second half. I was biking my way through the first half. Oi. Tired.
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Live Sherlocking. Or at least the second half. I was biking my way through the first half. Oi. Tired.
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1. Today is a “free” day what do you do with it?
Probably run my errands. I hate doing that after dark with all the after work traffic. This is actually what I normally do on my off days. Heh.
2. You’ve been gifted $1000 - You have to spend it today and you have to spend it on yourself – what do you buy?
Pay ahead on my student loan. Yes, this is something I'd do. Um, otherwise...new tv and get a month up on my rent. (compromise)
3. Think back to a time when you were bullied or you bullied someone else. You just ran into that person – what do you do?
I was never bullied. (Stalked yes, bullied, no.) People couldn't get a read on me. When my friends were bullied I stood up for them on the spot. When the bullies would turn on me they couldn't get a foothold. I literally didn't give a crap about anything happening in the little world they populated and ran so it was hard to attack me. I think the worst I got was from headcase teachers or my chemically imbalanced basketball coach. I stood up to them too. Not giving a damn since 1982. That's me.
If I saw them again...the bad teachers and my bball coach? I'd probably privately think "you look old" and "still up to your old bullshit, huh?" I know for a fact a couple of the teachers and the coach still screw kids over. And in the same ways they tried with me. One math teacher in jr high labeled me and another boy "challenged" and I ended up being valedictorian and he, after almost dropping out of school and working at a pizza joint in town in his early 20s, went on in later years to be in astrophysics after someone at a jr college recognized his talent. So yeah, I might mention that to Mrs. B_. Two strong people survived her. What about the ones that didn't?
4. If you could solve only one of the world’s problems – which one would it be?
Mental illness.
5. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I'd get rid of my auto-immune disorder. It is a bitch to deal with on a good day.
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Probably run my errands. I hate doing that after dark with all the after work traffic. This is actually what I normally do on my off days. Heh.
2. You’ve been gifted $1000 - You have to spend it today and you have to spend it on yourself – what do you buy?
Pay ahead on my student loan. Yes, this is something I'd do. Um, otherwise...new tv and get a month up on my rent. (compromise)
3. Think back to a time when you were bullied or you bullied someone else. You just ran into that person – what do you do?
I was never bullied. (Stalked yes, bullied, no.) People couldn't get a read on me. When my friends were bullied I stood up for them on the spot. When the bullies would turn on me they couldn't get a foothold. I literally didn't give a crap about anything happening in the little world they populated and ran so it was hard to attack me. I think the worst I got was from headcase teachers or my chemically imbalanced basketball coach. I stood up to them too. Not giving a damn since 1982. That's me.
If I saw them again...the bad teachers and my bball coach? I'd probably privately think "you look old" and "still up to your old bullshit, huh?" I know for a fact a couple of the teachers and the coach still screw kids over. And in the same ways they tried with me. One math teacher in jr high labeled me and another boy "challenged" and I ended up being valedictorian and he, after almost dropping out of school and working at a pizza joint in town in his early 20s, went on in later years to be in astrophysics after someone at a jr college recognized his talent. So yeah, I might mention that to Mrs. B_. Two strong people survived her. What about the ones that didn't?
4. If you could solve only one of the world’s problems – which one would it be?
Mental illness.
5. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I'd get rid of my auto-immune disorder. It is a bitch to deal with on a good day.
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Your favourite film watched this year?
Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
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Super 8, Thor, X-Men. Nothing really earth shattering actually. There really wasn't a Moon in the bunch.
Your favourite book read this year?
Fic
Liaden Universe, Lee & Miller
One of Our Thursdays is Missing, Jasper Fforde
Ripley series, Patricia Highsmith
Your favourite book read this year?
Fic
Liaden Universe, Lee & Miller
One of Our Thursdays is Missing, Jasper Fforde
Ripley series, Patricia Highsmith
Nonfic
Packing For Mars, Mary Roach
Your favourite fanfic read this year?
The only fanfic I read was some stank real people fic which I will not admit to.
Your favourite album or song to listen to this year?
Your favourite fanfic read this year?
The only fanfic I read was some stank real people fic which I will not admit to.
Your favourite album or song to listen to this year?
Metric - Fantasies (album)
Your favourite TV shows of the year?
Your favourite TV shows of the year?
Comedy - Parks & Rec, Suburgatory
Drama - Game of Thrones, Forbrydelsen
Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
Both Bones and Castle took a nose dive. Bones I expected. Castle...was supposed to be my Bones back up plan. Right now Rookie Blue is way more entertaining than both for that level of tv.
Your TV boyfriend of the year?
Your TV boyfriend of the year?
Uh, er. Wait, I have one. Jaime "There are no men like me. Only me." Lannister from Game of Thrones. And another: Luther!
Your TV girlfriend of the year?
Your TV girlfriend of the year?
Ann from Parks and Rec! Or Sarah Lund. We could be jumper buddies. Lacy from Caprica! (If they can take three years to air one season I can keep fangirling this show late too, right?) Mary from Downton Abbey! Realistically it was all Hope Solo though.
Your biggest squee moment of the year?
Your biggest squee moment of the year?
Hope Solo as Jessie from Toy Story. No really. Squee. Otherwise, Pretty much all of the Doctor Who episode The Doctor's Wife.
The most missed of your old fandoms?
The most missed of your old fandoms?
I don't think I've missed much. Person of Interest seemed like a good idea, but the bits I saw made it look like just another CBS show. I've been meaning to watch Boardwalk Empire and those types of shows I'm behind on checking out.
Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?
Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?
Game of Thrones S2, Olympics, Forbrydelsen S3
Favourite fic you wrote this year?
Favourite fic you wrote this year?
I wrote some unspeakable horrors but never published any last year.
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Health Update: Feeling a lot better today. Got inflammation in the knees and *cough* face a little, but otherwise good. On the mend. Again.
Things I like about Parks and Rec: (no particular order, incomplete, and I am not even sure what season these things are from...I just randomly started writing this while I should have been doing something else.)( Read more...Collapse )
I watched Moff's latest Sherlock.
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I started watching Eureka. It is cute so far and cute it what I need. Trying to manage my stress levels since they are connected to my disease so closely and light tv seems to help a lot. Could do without teenagers and children. I asked the Syfy watching coworker about this and he says they do it to humanize the adults. What, am I not human now?
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Things I like about Parks and Rec: (no particular order, incomplete, and I am not even sure what season these things are from...I just randomly started writing this while I should have been doing something else.)( Read more...Collapse )
I watched Moff's latest Sherlock.
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I started watching Eureka. It is cute so far and cute it what I need. Trying to manage my stress levels since they are connected to my disease so closely and light tv seems to help a lot. Could do without teenagers and children. I asked the Syfy watching coworker about this and he says they do it to humanize the adults. What, am I not human now?
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Health Update: Got let out of work early at noon on Friday...and then went to bed. Slept until around 6pm, woke up to eat and watch some Parks & Rec on Netflix, and then went to bed...and got up around noon the next day. So yeah, sleeping off another glutening. Though I don't know what did it to me because I literally did not eat anything different. It will go down as a mystery glutening. The worst kind because I can't avoid it next time. ( Read more...Collapse )
Entertainment: Have not watched Moff's Sherlock yet, but I have seen a gazillion episodes of Parks and Rec. About the level my brainpower is at right now. I love Ann, but doesn't most everyone? So I am feeling accomplished. Will watch Sherlock probably later tonight. Or maybe tomorrow. I'm sure it will be great. I just want to be completely headache free for that. Got the Bulls on right now. 82-40. That is some nice, stress free entertainment for my headache. Have the Channel 4 show Hacks queued up too. Claire Foy. Yes I am predictable. Now that Anna Friel did something dreadful to her face Foy is my only super pale dark haired girl left to represent me in the media.
Getting stuff done: If I am healthy tomorrow I have to get everything on my list done then. Or else I'd have been both sick all holiday AND lazy and that would be the worst. I like feeling accomplished. :( So tomorrow I am working on my website. Stole more of my portfolio stuff from work. Going to set up something simple with that stuff on there. Maybe look at my resume. Again. Mostly the site though. I hate paying for space I'm not using. Oh, and I need to clean the apartment. It looks like the only productivity I have while sick is making messes. Specifically the disaster zone which is my kitchen.
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Entertainment: Have not watched Moff's Sherlock yet, but I have seen a gazillion episodes of Parks and Rec. About the level my brainpower is at right now. I love Ann, but doesn't most everyone? So I am feeling accomplished. Will watch Sherlock probably later tonight. Or maybe tomorrow. I'm sure it will be great. I just want to be completely headache free for that. Got the Bulls on right now. 82-40. That is some nice, stress free entertainment for my headache. Have the Channel 4 show Hacks queued up too. Claire Foy. Yes I am predictable. Now that Anna Friel did something dreadful to her face Foy is my only super pale dark haired girl left to represent me in the media.
Getting stuff done: If I am healthy tomorrow I have to get everything on my list done then. Or else I'd have been both sick all holiday AND lazy and that would be the worst. I like feeling accomplished. :( So tomorrow I am working on my website. Stole more of my portfolio stuff from work. Going to set up something simple with that stuff on there. Maybe look at my resume. Again. Mostly the site though. I hate paying for space I'm not using. Oh, and I need to clean the apartment. It looks like the only productivity I have while sick is making messes. Specifically the disaster zone which is my kitchen.
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