That's right, folks. I have two assignments left because Field Experience is outta here!
Despite screwing up my back muscles for quite possibly the rest of this weekend (cue painkillers and lots of heat tonight) I am finished. Got 6 hours. I am damn well done.
Two more and FREEDOM! FREEDOM! AH HA HA HA HA...
Ahem.
I'm hoping to get one of them done tonight and then hopefully the next one will be done tomorrow morning (if not today.)
Oh, and this is a lark-I have to go food shopping tomorrow because I have nothing in my fridge or freezer besides stirfry, three bananas, half a tomato, and three carrots. In Skyrim, you could maybe make something out of that, but in the real world, that constitutes nada.
So I have to get some stuff to survive the week because I don't really have anything, including corn tortillas, which are essential to my survival these days, and rice milk, which has replaced regular milk in my fridge because 1)I can drink it without having a 'reaction' to everything I cook with it and 2)I have cocoa, dammit, and I want to drink it.
I have nothing to do for an hour and a half. I'm going to go goof off.
Ta,
Bec
PS: I also forgot to mention that while trying to pull my Sigma Tau Delta canvas bag up around my containers full of lunch and dinner today, I did what I thought was impossible and cut my finger with one of the loose strings.
That's right. I got cut with a piece of THREAD.
And I thought I'd gone through all the substances one could cut themselves with-paper, rock, scissors (ha ha), glass, wood, metal, and now a cloth canvas bag. Clearly I underestimated myself.
I am apparently talented at a thing I don't want to be talented at-getting hurt in ways other people manage to avoid.
Granted, it's only a bit of loose skin, but it damn well hurt at the time.
I hope it seals over in the next little while because I really do not need damage to my fingers this week (cue the sixteen injuries I'm sure to have for saying that.) I suppose it might be healed enough when the parents arrive so that I don't have to cover it with a bandage just to clean the chicken, but we'll see.
It'll heal. I just feel stupid (again) and oh ho ho, it's kind of humorous that I actually managed to cut myself on cloth.
I hope I have amused all three of you reading this. Be assured something similar to it will happen again.
30.11.11
29.11.11
Referencing Away
Spent the afternoon moving reference books from one shelf to another, all the while thinking, I'd better damn well get an A for this.
See, long ago and far away, I was told I had to do field experience and volunteer this semester for 6 hours.
Yes.
That was in September.
By now, it is very nearly December and SOMEONE (remaining nameless) has really royally screwed herself and is scrambling to get this done.
Su-bloody-prise. Who would have thunk that I, after 20 years of schooling and 7 of those spent getting degrees until I'm hotter than a volcano, you would think procrastination would have faded away by now.
Oh, and you'd be dead, DEAD wrong.
I, in desperation, begged the head of the library downstairs to help me out. She referred me to the reference department.
Glory be! I am saved!
I did three hours today, figuring that I can go in early tomorrow and do the last three, take the signed form up to the scanner, scan that puppy into the system, throw the thing on an e-mail, and send it off to oblivion.
Ta and dah and three more assignments to go.
I have just taken a bath to ease the ache in my muscles (reference books get exponentially heavier as you lift more of them. Did NOT know this.) and I'm curled up in bed with coconut incense burning, a bowl of popcorn at my side, and wrapped in as much warm as I could get my hands on. The warmer I stay, the better I'll feel tomorrow, and the more willing I will be to move books for three more hours.
That and a painkiller. Excuse me.
That's better. This is really lovely popcorn.
I'm going to rest a bit and then do some more stuff for tomorrow. Hopefully I can get most of my stuff done by tomorrow night (crossing fingers.)
Then I can take Thursday and Friday OFF! And Saturday and Sunday OFF! And finally, finally, FINALLY get to watch "To The Ends of the Earth," which has gotten delayed for about the last three weeks because of homework. Not this weekend, no, no, no. I'm going to see Ben Cumberbatch throw that woman out of his cabin after he shags her senseless if it KILLS me.
(Not wishing I was her. Not wishing I was her.)
I'm going to go find out if my mum is home, so ta,
Bec
See, long ago and far away, I was told I had to do field experience and volunteer this semester for 6 hours.
Yes.
That was in September.
By now, it is very nearly December and SOMEONE (remaining nameless) has really royally screwed herself and is scrambling to get this done.
Su-bloody-prise. Who would have thunk that I, after 20 years of schooling and 7 of those spent getting degrees until I'm hotter than a volcano, you would think procrastination would have faded away by now.
Oh, and you'd be dead, DEAD wrong.
I, in desperation, begged the head of the library downstairs to help me out. She referred me to the reference department.
Glory be! I am saved!
I did three hours today, figuring that I can go in early tomorrow and do the last three, take the signed form up to the scanner, scan that puppy into the system, throw the thing on an e-mail, and send it off to oblivion.
Ta and dah and three more assignments to go.
I have just taken a bath to ease the ache in my muscles (reference books get exponentially heavier as you lift more of them. Did NOT know this.) and I'm curled up in bed with coconut incense burning, a bowl of popcorn at my side, and wrapped in as much warm as I could get my hands on. The warmer I stay, the better I'll feel tomorrow, and the more willing I will be to move books for three more hours.
That and a painkiller. Excuse me.
That's better. This is really lovely popcorn.
I'm going to rest a bit and then do some more stuff for tomorrow. Hopefully I can get most of my stuff done by tomorrow night (crossing fingers.)
Then I can take Thursday and Friday OFF! And Saturday and Sunday OFF! And finally, finally, FINALLY get to watch "To The Ends of the Earth," which has gotten delayed for about the last three weeks because of homework. Not this weekend, no, no, no. I'm going to see Ben Cumberbatch throw that woman out of his cabin after he shags her senseless if it KILLS me.
(Not wishing I was her. Not wishing I was her.)
I'm going to go find out if my mum is home, so ta,
Bec
26.11.11
Lakes and Dead Guys: Merlin Episode 9
Here's my think on the episode. The homework is slowly getting done and will hopefully all be done by next weekend. Hopefully. Two weeks to go!
SPOILER LINE!
4x09 Lancelot du Lac
Arthur tells Aggie he's marrying Gwen regardless of what Aggie thinks. Aggie hates the idea and goes to Morgana, who hates it more and plots off.
She raises Lance from the lake and of course he has no memory of being Lance, so she has to tell him a lot of things. Lance reappears dramatically at the engagement party jousting rumble. He also CONVENIENTLY has forgotten Merlin's magic (DRAT.)
That's when Merlin senses something is funky with the recently dead knight.
Lancelot goes off to woo Gwennie away from Arthur with a nice token thingy that Morgana helpfully enchanted to screw everything up.
Merlin does his research and looks alarmed! ALARMED!
Morgana's done necromancy. Ooh, damn.
We're drawing spirals on the floor! It's medieval Supernatural! It's a big damn Spirograph! Giving Lance a swirly causes his face to go very wraithy. We have problems.
And Gwen can't HELP herself because of the trinket bracelet. Don't fall in love with the dead guy, Gwen; it'll only end in tears!
The only way I think Merlin could off Lance now is to go get the sword. So why doesn't he? Lance can't remember how to fight. Maybe it'd take too much time.
Arthur gets himself into a final joust with Lancelot.
Arthur gets hurt and just keeps going. Lance lets him go. Both of them are standing in front of Gwen, and they both look up at her. You can feel the trouble coming.
AND there it goes. Gwen gets smoochy with Lance in the tent while Arthur's all injured upstairs. If she wasn't enchanted, I'd call her a BITCH.
Merlin follows Lance, who meets Aggie. He finds out Morgana's involved.
Lance knocks Merlin out when Merlin tries to thump him. Aggie goes into the bedroom to bother Arthur while he's sleeping. Do I hear setup? Lance and Gwen hooking up in the council chambers and Arthur's going down there.
Merlin wakes up.
AND trouble! Lance and Arthur get into a nice swordfight, Arthur does some yelling and is mad. Gwen cries (told ya) and finally stops the two of them from trying to murder each other. Lance and Gwen are chucked in separate dungeons and then she takes off the bracelet in anger. Yay, sanity is so cold and lonely.
Aggie suggests offing Gwen and torturing Lancelot to death because that's what daddy Uther would have done. O the joy.
Gwen goes on trial. Arthur orders everyone else out, including Aggie.
They have a painful conversation and Arthur loses his temper a little bit. Understandable. This is the best scene Angel's ever, ever had. Amazing acting here. This is powerful stuff. I've never really bought into the Gwen/Arthur thing on this show, but this scene is convincing.
Arthur banishes her from Camelot and tells her he's sorry.
Showing Lance's true nature won't fix what's been done, so Merlin's kind of stuck here.
Aggie gives Lance a letter from Morgana. He looks kind of pissed when he reads it.
Gwen hauls out of Camelot (where's her damn brother?) with a cart bigger than she is. Merlin just stands there. What could he say?
Merlin and Arthur have a talk amongst the flowers and all of the not-wedding.
Merlin tries to convince Arthur that Aggie is manipulating him a bit here. Arthur thanks him for his help but says he can't trust Gwen.
Lancelot is supposedly dead again-committed suicide (a dead guy committing suicide. That's a new one.) They drop him in the lake with a boat and flowers but AH HA! Merlin does a thing and gives him peace in death with his soul back in place.
Merlin is forced once again to light a friend on fire. Always tough to watch.
Lancelot is dead, and for good this time.
Next week: the episode of everyone freaking out again and Elyan losing it. Spirits and druids and stuff, oh my.
Gwen won't be back for a bit since she's been banished (psst! Episode 11) At least Arthur can be assured she will never cheat on him with Lancelot again.
SPOILER LINE!
4x09 Lancelot du Lac
Arthur tells Aggie he's marrying Gwen regardless of what Aggie thinks. Aggie hates the idea and goes to Morgana, who hates it more and plots off.
She raises Lance from the lake and of course he has no memory of being Lance, so she has to tell him a lot of things. Lance reappears dramatically at the engagement party jousting rumble. He also CONVENIENTLY has forgotten Merlin's magic (DRAT.)
That's when Merlin senses something is funky with the recently dead knight.
Lancelot goes off to woo Gwennie away from Arthur with a nice token thingy that Morgana helpfully enchanted to screw everything up.
Merlin does his research and looks alarmed! ALARMED!
Morgana's done necromancy. Ooh, damn.
We're drawing spirals on the floor! It's medieval Supernatural! It's a big damn Spirograph! Giving Lance a swirly causes his face to go very wraithy. We have problems.
And Gwen can't HELP herself because of the trinket bracelet. Don't fall in love with the dead guy, Gwen; it'll only end in tears!
The only way I think Merlin could off Lance now is to go get the sword. So why doesn't he? Lance can't remember how to fight. Maybe it'd take too much time.
Arthur gets himself into a final joust with Lancelot.
Arthur gets hurt and just keeps going. Lance lets him go. Both of them are standing in front of Gwen, and they both look up at her. You can feel the trouble coming.
AND there it goes. Gwen gets smoochy with Lance in the tent while Arthur's all injured upstairs. If she wasn't enchanted, I'd call her a BITCH.
Merlin follows Lance, who meets Aggie. He finds out Morgana's involved.
Lance knocks Merlin out when Merlin tries to thump him. Aggie goes into the bedroom to bother Arthur while he's sleeping. Do I hear setup? Lance and Gwen hooking up in the council chambers and Arthur's going down there.
Merlin wakes up.
AND trouble! Lance and Arthur get into a nice swordfight, Arthur does some yelling and is mad. Gwen cries (told ya) and finally stops the two of them from trying to murder each other. Lance and Gwen are chucked in separate dungeons and then she takes off the bracelet in anger. Yay, sanity is so cold and lonely.
Aggie suggests offing Gwen and torturing Lancelot to death because that's what daddy Uther would have done. O the joy.
Gwen goes on trial. Arthur orders everyone else out, including Aggie.
They have a painful conversation and Arthur loses his temper a little bit. Understandable. This is the best scene Angel's ever, ever had. Amazing acting here. This is powerful stuff. I've never really bought into the Gwen/Arthur thing on this show, but this scene is convincing.
Arthur banishes her from Camelot and tells her he's sorry.
Showing Lance's true nature won't fix what's been done, so Merlin's kind of stuck here.
Aggie gives Lance a letter from Morgana. He looks kind of pissed when he reads it.
Gwen hauls out of Camelot (where's her damn brother?) with a cart bigger than she is. Merlin just stands there. What could he say?
Merlin and Arthur have a talk amongst the flowers and all of the not-wedding.
Merlin tries to convince Arthur that Aggie is manipulating him a bit here. Arthur thanks him for his help but says he can't trust Gwen.
Lancelot is supposedly dead again-committed suicide (a dead guy committing suicide. That's a new one.) They drop him in the lake with a boat and flowers but AH HA! Merlin does a thing and gives him peace in death with his soul back in place.
Merlin is forced once again to light a friend on fire. Always tough to watch.
Lancelot is dead, and for good this time.
Next week: the episode of everyone freaking out again and Elyan losing it. Spirits and druids and stuff, oh my.
Gwen won't be back for a bit since she's been banished (psst! Episode 11) At least Arthur can be assured she will never cheat on him with Lancelot again.
24.11.11
T-Day
So, not doing much. Watching the Packer game. Waiting for my friend to call because I'm going over to her relatives for today's feast. I have to make sure I pack my pills and lots of 'em.
I baked some potatoes today for tomorrow's breakfast, possibly lunch. It's another one of the get-rid-of meals.
Two weeks, two days to go.
Ta,
Bec
I baked some potatoes today for tomorrow's breakfast, possibly lunch. It's another one of the get-rid-of meals.
Two weeks, two days to go.
Ta,
Bec
22.11.11
I'll Be At Holmes For Christmas Posted!
I have posted the Christmas fic I mentioned a few months back a little earlier than I'd planned, because hell, it's close enough to Black Friday.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7572541/1/Ill_Be_At_Holmes_For_Christmas
It's had a few changes to the intro this morning, but it's still got the spirit of brotherly love missing entirely, which is always good at Christmas.
Enjoy, and let me know what you think!
Ta,
Bec
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7572541/1/Ill_Be_At_Holmes_For_Christmas
It's had a few changes to the intro this morning, but it's still got the spirit of brotherly love missing entirely, which is always good at Christmas.
Enjoy, and let me know what you think!
Ta,
Bec
19.11.11
A Bit of A Domestic
I am glad I didn't have to work this morning (swapped with someone and worked Tuesday instead) because last night at about half-past midnight, things got loud downstairs. I was woken up by the just-below-me's having a doozy of a fight.
I have no clue what the argument was about, but it went on for at least a half hour. Loudly. Could pretty much make out everything that was said even if I didn't want to (and I didn't.)
It did get quiet in the middle, which made me think the girl in the apartment had left (because that's I would have done. There's got to be a friend you can go hang out with or an academic library to hide in) but then he started roaring again down there and she was talking back.
From what I heard, he appears to think he knows it all and better than anyone, and that apparently gave him the right to rant on for a whole half-hour.
Me, I was chanting 'three weeks to go, three weeks to go' and thanking heaven I didn't have to work today, because if I had, I would have called the cops.
I really hope one of them moves out so that they don't have a fight underneath me the night before I'm supposed to graduate, because I'm supposed to be up at an ungodly hour of the morning and I do not appreciate my sleep being disturbed by their stupid domestic warfare. But at least Dad will be here and he can go down and bang on their door and tell them to shut up.
I slept in a bit today and now I have homework to go and do. Merlin review will be up later today under this entry.
Ta,
Bec
Sunday update: PACKERS 10 and OH! That's as good as we were last year all season and this year the other teams all pretty much suck (*cough*Colts*cough*) except for the 49ers, who don't. We're doing very well. Very proud. Keep up the good work!
Merlin Series 4, Episode 8.
SPOILER LINE
So, a village has three men sick. Gaius is busy so he sends Merlin, but no one apparently trusts Merlin's healing abilities because he's young and handsome and has great bone structure.
BUT Merlin takes the insults on his gorgeous chin and tries to do his job, but since the issue the men have is clearly caused by SAUCERY!, he needs Gaius.
So five knights, a servantgirl, and a wizard ride into a forest ANNNNNND...
Run into some clingy chick that makes Percy, Leon, Elyan, and Gwaine turned into idiots. Overprotective idiots. Oh, and she's a snake-person.
She knocks out Elyan with the same sickness doing in the villagers, sending the whole troop of idiots, Merlin, and Gwen, into an abandoned castle (which Camelot apparently has plenty of to spare. It's like Oblivion without the skeletons.)
The knights blunder around looking for Lamia (clingy chick) and she subsequently knocks each of them out.
Gwen suspects Merlin of being different. Oh COME ON Gwen!
Then Merlin swords Lamia in a very Skyrim hero-shot move, but she becomes snakey. Sort of octopus also. Very confusing.
And so he drops a spell on the room they're in (wouldn't that trap Percy and Leon, who were supposedly IN THERE?)
Merlin does magic BLATANTLY in front of Gwen, who doesn't notice because they're both being grabbed by the ankles by the octo-snake, and Arthur shows up!
See, this whole time inbetween all of this stuff happening, Arthur and Gaius have gone out to the village to visit the sickees, confirmed Merlin's suspicions, and headed back out to find the FIRST group who are wandering around in the forest because Lamia has screwed up the knights and they won't hear reason.
Luckily, Gwen has a shirt she can rip, and she's leaving bits of it along the way so that Arthur can find them.
And Agravaine gets one bad guy move this week (smushing down the horseshoe prints in the mud and covering them back up so that it makes it harder to find the others.) He didn't count on Gwen.
I'm not sure what this episode was meant to accomplish, honestly, because it didn't do anything. Merlin was insulted (again), Gwen got the credit for being brave (again), Arthur and her had a smoochy (sigh), and the knights didn't even apologize for acting like assbutts to Gwen and Merlin both.
So, a bit of a throwaway here. But NEXT WEEK!
Lancelot (squee!) returns from the dead. Surprise (not.) I suspect someone magical and bad has brought him back to separate Arthur and Gwen and WHY WHY WHY do I think it's Morgana?
Arthur asks Gwen to marry him, but it'll all end in tears because Lancelot is back! From the dead! And apparently he's looking for love!
And there's a jousting thing. Yeah. So that's happening.
4 episodes left. Where will it end?
Some suspect that Gwen's going to be told by Lancelot that Merlin is magical or something. Might be. She almost had it this episode.
Things are about to get interesting within the walls of Camelot. Dead people coming back, main cast members disappearing, nobody listens to Merlin EVER!
I can't spoiler you. I don't have the heart. But go look at Wikipedia, and go look up the episodes to come, and maybe you can work out what I'm talking about here.
I have no clue what the argument was about, but it went on for at least a half hour. Loudly. Could pretty much make out everything that was said even if I didn't want to (and I didn't.)
It did get quiet in the middle, which made me think the girl in the apartment had left (because that's I would have done. There's got to be a friend you can go hang out with or an academic library to hide in) but then he started roaring again down there and she was talking back.
From what I heard, he appears to think he knows it all and better than anyone, and that apparently gave him the right to rant on for a whole half-hour.
Me, I was chanting 'three weeks to go, three weeks to go' and thanking heaven I didn't have to work today, because if I had, I would have called the cops.
I really hope one of them moves out so that they don't have a fight underneath me the night before I'm supposed to graduate, because I'm supposed to be up at an ungodly hour of the morning and I do not appreciate my sleep being disturbed by their stupid domestic warfare. But at least Dad will be here and he can go down and bang on their door and tell them to shut up.
I slept in a bit today and now I have homework to go and do. Merlin review will be up later today under this entry.
Ta,
Bec
Sunday update: PACKERS 10 and OH! That's as good as we were last year all season and this year the other teams all pretty much suck (*cough*Colts*cough*) except for the 49ers, who don't. We're doing very well. Very proud. Keep up the good work!
Merlin Series 4, Episode 8.
SPOILER LINE
So, a village has three men sick. Gaius is busy so he sends Merlin, but no one apparently trusts Merlin's healing abilities because he's young and handsome and has great bone structure.
BUT Merlin takes the insults on his gorgeous chin and tries to do his job, but since the issue the men have is clearly caused by SAUCERY!, he needs Gaius.
So five knights, a servantgirl, and a wizard ride into a forest ANNNNNND...
Run into some clingy chick that makes Percy, Leon, Elyan, and Gwaine turned into idiots. Overprotective idiots. Oh, and she's a snake-person.
She knocks out Elyan with the same sickness doing in the villagers, sending the whole troop of idiots, Merlin, and Gwen, into an abandoned castle (which Camelot apparently has plenty of to spare. It's like Oblivion without the skeletons.)
The knights blunder around looking for Lamia (clingy chick) and she subsequently knocks each of them out.
Gwen suspects Merlin of being different. Oh COME ON Gwen!
Then Merlin swords Lamia in a very Skyrim hero-shot move, but she becomes snakey. Sort of octopus also. Very confusing.
And so he drops a spell on the room they're in (wouldn't that trap Percy and Leon, who were supposedly IN THERE?)
Merlin does magic BLATANTLY in front of Gwen, who doesn't notice because they're both being grabbed by the ankles by the octo-snake, and Arthur shows up!
See, this whole time inbetween all of this stuff happening, Arthur and Gaius have gone out to the village to visit the sickees, confirmed Merlin's suspicions, and headed back out to find the FIRST group who are wandering around in the forest because Lamia has screwed up the knights and they won't hear reason.
Luckily, Gwen has a shirt she can rip, and she's leaving bits of it along the way so that Arthur can find them.
And Agravaine gets one bad guy move this week (smushing down the horseshoe prints in the mud and covering them back up so that it makes it harder to find the others.) He didn't count on Gwen.
I'm not sure what this episode was meant to accomplish, honestly, because it didn't do anything. Merlin was insulted (again), Gwen got the credit for being brave (again), Arthur and her had a smoochy (sigh), and the knights didn't even apologize for acting like assbutts to Gwen and Merlin both.
So, a bit of a throwaway here. But NEXT WEEK!
Lancelot (squee!) returns from the dead. Surprise (not.) I suspect someone magical and bad has brought him back to separate Arthur and Gwen and WHY WHY WHY do I think it's Morgana?
Arthur asks Gwen to marry him, but it'll all end in tears because Lancelot is back! From the dead! And apparently he's looking for love!
And there's a jousting thing. Yeah. So that's happening.
4 episodes left. Where will it end?
Some suspect that Gwen's going to be told by Lancelot that Merlin is magical or something. Might be. She almost had it this episode.
Things are about to get interesting within the walls of Camelot. Dead people coming back, main cast members disappearing, nobody listens to Merlin EVER!
I can't spoiler you. I don't have the heart. But go look at Wikipedia, and go look up the episodes to come, and maybe you can work out what I'm talking about here.
16.11.11
New Fic!
I have become ridiculous.
There is homework to be done and yet, here I am, writing out fanfic like there's no tomorrow.
So far I have one typed up and gotten it out, one waiting for the right holiday season (next week Friday and I swear I'll post a link), and one on the way because apparently I have a desperate need to write Merlin and Arthur again.
Here's the link to the Sherlock one I put up today.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7556848/1/The_Curious_Case_of_the_MMs
It's cracky and sees Anderson get what's coming to him, but it's worth reading.
Three weeks, two days after today. It feels like a thousand years.
Meanwhile, my food is getting low in the cupboards and I'm obscenely happy about it. I have a plan and everything. Stuff has been labeled. Things are going to specific meals and I figure when all is said and done, I'll have MAYBE a half-cup to a cup of sugar left in my cupboards. That's it.
Yes, I am awesome.
And now I'm going to go work on this dialogue, because Merlin and Arthur want to talk to me again (or shout at each other. Nearly the same thing.)
Ta,
Bec
There is homework to be done and yet, here I am, writing out fanfic like there's no tomorrow.
So far I have one typed up and gotten it out, one waiting for the right holiday season (next week Friday and I swear I'll post a link), and one on the way because apparently I have a desperate need to write Merlin and Arthur again.
Here's the link to the Sherlock one I put up today.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7556848/1/The_Curious_Case_of_the_MMs
It's cracky and sees Anderson get what's coming to him, but it's worth reading.
Three weeks, two days after today. It feels like a thousand years.
Meanwhile, my food is getting low in the cupboards and I'm obscenely happy about it. I have a plan and everything. Stuff has been labeled. Things are going to specific meals and I figure when all is said and done, I'll have MAYBE a half-cup to a cup of sugar left in my cupboards. That's it.
Yes, I am awesome.
And now I'm going to go work on this dialogue, because Merlin and Arthur want to talk to me again (or shout at each other. Nearly the same thing.)
Ta,
Bec
15.11.11
Positive Things
Packers are 9-0; absolutely shredded the poor Viqueens last night. Shame. They didn't even really put up a fight.
Chris Thile was funny, engaging, and brilliant and while I wish that the concert could have been a bit longer, his fingers and elbow probably didn't.
Working this morning; some stuff is getting done.
Here's my little complaint about the possible Doctor Who movie. Yates is making drastic mistakes here already, and he JUST announced he's interested:
1. No BBC support, so far as anyone knows.
2. No Tennant or Smith thus far.
3. Making a separate story from the current stuff going on- not so much a mistake if he deals with subjects that have never been touched on-early life of the Doctor before he leaves Gallifrey or the Time War. Otherwise the whole stupid thing is going to be wibbley.
4. Bringing in the AMERICAN Hollywood execs. Big mistake. British execs know their Who, and they know where they should not tread (I'm thinking burly-chested shirtless Doctor with a machine gun, shooting at the Daleks in the style of Rambo- shudder, shudder). One mistake that was made with the 1996 movie was people who thought they knew our Doctor and wound up making a bit of a farce out of him.
Suggestions for Yates:
1. Get Peter Jackson, Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Toby Whithouse, Neil Gaiman, Russell T. Davies, even a couple of old Doctors themselves in on the game. These people are the best thing we have for experts. You want a quality script? Get someone who KNOWS the material back, front, and time-locked.
2. Make your separate story fit in-universe. Blend it in.
3. If you're not going to conquer the Time War or the early Doctor, then cast Smith or Tennant or whoever 12 is going to be, because I guarantee that'll get a lot of us watching (and Tennant and Smith have their Doctors and won't go into it without a decent script.)
4. Get the BBC behind it so you can use all the characters effectively.
This could be a decent movie if he doesn't fly in the face of everything that makes Who work. If he screws it up, it could turn people off of the show, and we do not need another 1989.
A new story is fine. However, retooling so that we all curse your name till the end of time and beyond? Not so good.
Ta,
Bec
Chris Thile was funny, engaging, and brilliant and while I wish that the concert could have been a bit longer, his fingers and elbow probably didn't.
Working this morning; some stuff is getting done.
Here's my little complaint about the possible Doctor Who movie. Yates is making drastic mistakes here already, and he JUST announced he's interested:
1. No BBC support, so far as anyone knows.
2. No Tennant or Smith thus far.
3. Making a separate story from the current stuff going on- not so much a mistake if he deals with subjects that have never been touched on-early life of the Doctor before he leaves Gallifrey or the Time War. Otherwise the whole stupid thing is going to be wibbley.
4. Bringing in the AMERICAN Hollywood execs. Big mistake. British execs know their Who, and they know where they should not tread (I'm thinking burly-chested shirtless Doctor with a machine gun, shooting at the Daleks in the style of Rambo- shudder, shudder). One mistake that was made with the 1996 movie was people who thought they knew our Doctor and wound up making a bit of a farce out of him.
Suggestions for Yates:
1. Get Peter Jackson, Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Toby Whithouse, Neil Gaiman, Russell T. Davies, even a couple of old Doctors themselves in on the game. These people are the best thing we have for experts. You want a quality script? Get someone who KNOWS the material back, front, and time-locked.
2. Make your separate story fit in-universe. Blend it in.
3. If you're not going to conquer the Time War or the early Doctor, then cast Smith or Tennant or whoever 12 is going to be, because I guarantee that'll get a lot of us watching (and Tennant and Smith have their Doctors and won't go into it without a decent script.)
4. Get the BBC behind it so you can use all the characters effectively.
This could be a decent movie if he doesn't fly in the face of everything that makes Who work. If he screws it up, it could turn people off of the show, and we do not need another 1989.
A new story is fine. However, retooling so that we all curse your name till the end of time and beyond? Not so good.
Ta,
Bec
13.11.11
Almost but Nope
Going to see Chris Thile tonight-will tell you all tomorrow.
Homework is definitely getting there. Not this Monday but the next should be it for me.
Meanwhile, Merlin review coming up. We're halfway through!
SPOILER LINE
So, Agravaine and Morgana need someone to lay blame for being a traitor in Camelot. Since they figure someone in Camelot knew about the Fomorra because someone told Emrys (never mind that Emrys was busy trying to fix himself there), Aggie says Gaius is the most likely choice.
Aggie questions Gaius who won't really answer the questions.
So Morgana goes to a group of guys who apparently are the High Priests of the Old Religion. They are apparently so awesome that their bodyguards never wear shirts ever, but instead adorn themselves in what appears to be Sharpie marker (or butterfly stamps. Wasn't sure on that one.)
They go in and grab Gaius, and Aggie helpfully plants evidence. What was with the knife in Arthur's chambers?
Gaius is taken somewhere off to be tortured, where he actually DOES give up the name of Merlin...but to the High Priest. Morgana is not in the room when Gaius talks.
So, Merlin gives Arthur what for, Arthur gives Merlin what for, Merlin and Gwaine go out to get Gaius back. Aggie freaks, goes to Morgana, and they ALL ride out to a mine.
Gwaine walks in just in time to see Aggie holding a knife to Gaius' throat. Yeah, THAT didn't look suspicious AT ALL...
BUT things go awry for Morgana. Yay, she has Merlin at knifepoint, but the High Priest decides that Merlin is a superhero and will save the world. The only information Morgana gets is that Emrys is in Camelot, but that's really not enough to go on. If she'd just Sherlocked the man's FACE, she would have been able to tell that the gorgeous man that she was pointing the knife at was her archenemy.
BUT she didn't, and so the High Priest decided he was on Merlin's side.
So he smashes Morgana into a pillar.
And then kneels at Merlin's terrified feet.
Gaius gets carried back to Camelot, where he has his brow mopped by Gwen (this is an official duty-now she's done it for Morgana, Arthur, Merlin, Uther, and Gaius.)
Gaius gets better, and Arthur and him have an awesome discussion about the sorcerer who tried to save Arthur's father (cough*Merlin*cough)and Gaius says the sorcerer did all he could and tried to save Uther, but Uther was dying anyway. Gaius also says that there are people unknown supporting Arthur and that one day he'll understand. Arthur is not Uther-his heart is not completely hardened towards sorcerers and he's willing to forgive a mistake. Let's just hope that when Dragoon/Emrys comes around again, Arthur won't run him through.
This was a great push forwards for the show, but I kind of wish Aggie had gotten killed off. He's hagfish-level slimy and at some point in here he's going to screw up.
Another thing: Arthur doesn't yet know who the traitor is, and with Gaius out of suspicion again, the scope moves subtly back towards Agravaine. Whoopsie.
We don't know if Morgana's still alive. Chances are she is.
SPOILER FOR NEXT TIME:
Next week: Everyone suspects everybody. Some chick is screaming. Percy shoves Merlin. Gwen gets snappy.
Merlin, have you been screwing around with that PMS spell again?
Homework is definitely getting there. Not this Monday but the next should be it for me.
Meanwhile, Merlin review coming up. We're halfway through!
SPOILER LINE
So, Agravaine and Morgana need someone to lay blame for being a traitor in Camelot. Since they figure someone in Camelot knew about the Fomorra because someone told Emrys (never mind that Emrys was busy trying to fix himself there), Aggie says Gaius is the most likely choice.
Aggie questions Gaius who won't really answer the questions.
So Morgana goes to a group of guys who apparently are the High Priests of the Old Religion. They are apparently so awesome that their bodyguards never wear shirts ever, but instead adorn themselves in what appears to be Sharpie marker (or butterfly stamps. Wasn't sure on that one.)
They go in and grab Gaius, and Aggie helpfully plants evidence. What was with the knife in Arthur's chambers?
Gaius is taken somewhere off to be tortured, where he actually DOES give up the name of Merlin...but to the High Priest. Morgana is not in the room when Gaius talks.
So, Merlin gives Arthur what for, Arthur gives Merlin what for, Merlin and Gwaine go out to get Gaius back. Aggie freaks, goes to Morgana, and they ALL ride out to a mine.
Gwaine walks in just in time to see Aggie holding a knife to Gaius' throat. Yeah, THAT didn't look suspicious AT ALL...
BUT things go awry for Morgana. Yay, she has Merlin at knifepoint, but the High Priest decides that Merlin is a superhero and will save the world. The only information Morgana gets is that Emrys is in Camelot, but that's really not enough to go on. If she'd just Sherlocked the man's FACE, she would have been able to tell that the gorgeous man that she was pointing the knife at was her archenemy.
BUT she didn't, and so the High Priest decided he was on Merlin's side.
So he smashes Morgana into a pillar.
And then kneels at Merlin's terrified feet.
Gaius gets carried back to Camelot, where he has his brow mopped by Gwen (this is an official duty-now she's done it for Morgana, Arthur, Merlin, Uther, and Gaius.)
Gaius gets better, and Arthur and him have an awesome discussion about the sorcerer who tried to save Arthur's father (cough*Merlin*cough)and Gaius says the sorcerer did all he could and tried to save Uther, but Uther was dying anyway. Gaius also says that there are people unknown supporting Arthur and that one day he'll understand. Arthur is not Uther-his heart is not completely hardened towards sorcerers and he's willing to forgive a mistake. Let's just hope that when Dragoon/Emrys comes around again, Arthur won't run him through.
This was a great push forwards for the show, but I kind of wish Aggie had gotten killed off. He's hagfish-level slimy and at some point in here he's going to screw up.
Another thing: Arthur doesn't yet know who the traitor is, and with Gaius out of suspicion again, the scope moves subtly back towards Agravaine. Whoopsie.
We don't know if Morgana's still alive. Chances are she is.
SPOILER FOR NEXT TIME:
Next week: Everyone suspects everybody. Some chick is screaming. Percy shoves Merlin. Gwen gets snappy.
Merlin, have you been screwing around with that PMS spell again?
11.11.11
Chicken, Chicken, Chicken; Good and Finger-Licking...
So, Whole Foods had a smashingly good sale on whole uncooked chickens today.
I bought three.
One of them is currently freezing solid in preparation for Mum and Dad's arrival in less than a month. Current plan is to crockpot it when they arrive so that dinner can be prepared when they get here. I know if I came off a long journey, the last thing I would want is to go out and scavenge for food someplace in a town I barely know.
One was boiled and I demolished it, taking all the meat from it and stashing it in the freezer and the fridge.
One was roasted and I demolished that one, too, also taking the meat and stashing it in the freezer and the fridge.
I've been wanting a good bit of chicken for, well, everything. It goes into salads, and it goes into fajitas, and a la king if I have too much at the end of a month.
In short, it can be used in a myriad of ways, and with a little bit of effort, I have enough chicken to get me through probably two and a half, maybe three weeks.
I just finished cleaning up the last of the carcasses and taking them out in the trash, washed down all the dishes I used for cooking and the subsequent, messy ripping apart of two cooked birds.
I have other stuff to do today, but having that all wrapped up makes me feel better about getting everything done today (little bit.)
I really have nothing else to do right now, so I'm going to go do something bad with my time and then I'll go be productive someplace.
Ta,
Bec
I bought three.
One of them is currently freezing solid in preparation for Mum and Dad's arrival in less than a month. Current plan is to crockpot it when they arrive so that dinner can be prepared when they get here. I know if I came off a long journey, the last thing I would want is to go out and scavenge for food someplace in a town I barely know.
One was boiled and I demolished it, taking all the meat from it and stashing it in the freezer and the fridge.
One was roasted and I demolished that one, too, also taking the meat and stashing it in the freezer and the fridge.
I've been wanting a good bit of chicken for, well, everything. It goes into salads, and it goes into fajitas, and a la king if I have too much at the end of a month.
In short, it can be used in a myriad of ways, and with a little bit of effort, I have enough chicken to get me through probably two and a half, maybe three weeks.
I just finished cleaning up the last of the carcasses and taking them out in the trash, washed down all the dishes I used for cooking and the subsequent, messy ripping apart of two cooked birds.
I have other stuff to do today, but having that all wrapped up makes me feel better about getting everything done today (little bit.)
I really have nothing else to do right now, so I'm going to go do something bad with my time and then I'll go be productive someplace.
Ta,
Bec
9.11.11
Clearly, Not Enough Homework To Do...
I have descended to a new level of crazy. Bear with me here:
If you are a fan of Sherlock on the BBC, you have no doubt:
Watched the three episodes a dozen times each
Snorted derisively at Robert Downey Jr. fans who INSIST theirs is the only Sherlock to be had
At least taken a stab at the books, if you hadn’t read them before
Wondered speculatively where on earth you could get a riding crop, a fluffy jumper, or that COAT.
If you have no bloody clue what the hell I just talked about, it’s best you look away now and not spoil everything for yourself. And go watch Sherlock already.
Meanwhile, Series 2 is nearly, nearly here (two months away is nearly, oh yes it is) and I have been pondering, maybe a lot too much, on this. Spoilers in heaps below!
SPOILERS SPOILERS SHERLOCK'S GENIUS SUCK IT ANDERSON WATSON'S AWESOME
(Thanks to the Daily Mail for this picture.)
Yes, that’s your favorite asocial detective after falling 70 feet off the roof of St. Barts. (This picture terrifies the living hell out of me, by the way.) The circumstances of the fall don’t really matter at this moment, what matters is THIS…
(Thanks so much to Cumberbatchweb for this poster.)
And yes, while this is an awesome poster that sends me into eddies of delight, LOOK AT SHERLOCK, besides the fact that he's sitting in John's chair (Union Jack pillow just visible behind him.)
Note the knuckles of his left hand. Bandages?
Note his chin. Something’s happened there.
And note the right side of his neck. That appears to be a scar, or at least a healing cut.
What befuddles me is that these aren’t injuries consistent with falling off of a building (broken bones, big open wounds that require lots of stitching, a bandage or two, and most telling, a lack of a bandage on his head where it's clear in the other photo he's bleeding from.)
I'm pulling a Sherlock here, and I'm going to say that these are injuries consistent not with someone who fell off a building, but someone who got into a nasty fight. The knuckles are broken open because he punched someone; the chin mark is from where they got him; the scar is obviously a cut that has been stitched closed, or a stab wound. It’s way too straight to be anything else.
I don't know what episode the second picture hails from (first one is from Scandal), so I can't tell you if his big fight comes before or after he makes too close of buddies with the ground outside Bart's. Since the Scandal ep is listed second at the moment, I'd say this might be from the first or the third episode, because he's going to spend most of the second one healing from you know, FALLING OFF A BUILDING. He's probably going to be in no condition to fight anyone.
So, we have Sherlock getting into one hell of a fight, falling off a building and winding up on a stretcher, and conceivably going over a waterfall with his archenemy and disappearing into the mist. All I can think is, Dear God, they are banging him about this year. Last year, they choked him twice in the same episode and then he was almost smothered in the next, but clearly the ante has been upped.
If you are a fan of Sherlock on the BBC, you have no doubt:
Watched the three episodes a dozen times each
Snorted derisively at Robert Downey Jr. fans who INSIST theirs is the only Sherlock to be had
At least taken a stab at the books, if you hadn’t read them before
Wondered speculatively where on earth you could get a riding crop, a fluffy jumper, or that COAT.
If you have no bloody clue what the hell I just talked about, it’s best you look away now and not spoil everything for yourself. And go watch Sherlock already.
Meanwhile, Series 2 is nearly, nearly here (two months away is nearly, oh yes it is) and I have been pondering, maybe a lot too much, on this. Spoilers in heaps below!
SPOILERS SPOILERS SHERLOCK'S GENIUS SUCK IT ANDERSON WATSON'S AWESOME
(Thanks to the Daily Mail for this picture.)
Yes, that’s your favorite asocial detective after falling 70 feet off the roof of St. Barts. (This picture terrifies the living hell out of me, by the way.) The circumstances of the fall don’t really matter at this moment, what matters is THIS…
(Thanks so much to Cumberbatchweb for this poster.)
And yes, while this is an awesome poster that sends me into eddies of delight, LOOK AT SHERLOCK, besides the fact that he's sitting in John's chair (Union Jack pillow just visible behind him.)
Note the knuckles of his left hand. Bandages?
Note his chin. Something’s happened there.
And note the right side of his neck. That appears to be a scar, or at least a healing cut.
What befuddles me is that these aren’t injuries consistent with falling off of a building (broken bones, big open wounds that require lots of stitching, a bandage or two, and most telling, a lack of a bandage on his head where it's clear in the other photo he's bleeding from.)
I'm pulling a Sherlock here, and I'm going to say that these are injuries consistent not with someone who fell off a building, but someone who got into a nasty fight. The knuckles are broken open because he punched someone; the chin mark is from where they got him; the scar is obviously a cut that has been stitched closed, or a stab wound. It’s way too straight to be anything else.
I don't know what episode the second picture hails from (first one is from Scandal), so I can't tell you if his big fight comes before or after he makes too close of buddies with the ground outside Bart's. Since the Scandal ep is listed second at the moment, I'd say this might be from the first or the third episode, because he's going to spend most of the second one healing from you know, FALLING OFF A BUILDING. He's probably going to be in no condition to fight anyone.
So, we have Sherlock getting into one hell of a fight, falling off a building and winding up on a stretcher, and conceivably going over a waterfall with his archenemy and disappearing into the mist. All I can think is, Dear God, they are banging him about this year. Last year, they choked him twice in the same episode and then he was almost smothered in the next, but clearly the ante has been upped.
7.11.11
Four Weeks, Five Days
33 days to madness
47 till Christmas
5 days till Skyrim
Too many damn days till Sherlock
Scratch that first one. I'm there already today.
I am busy glaring at this computer screen as if it has done me some great personal wrong. It makes me feel better. My brain has quit working and I have three weeks of school left, so it’d better start up again and fast.
And now I’m hearing Pop Goes the Weasel in my head. It must be Monday.
Three bloody assignments down. Four to go. One nearly there, three not even really begun. I am in for a rough two weeks coming up here if I can’t get my neurons to start firing SOMETHING off that isn’t poetry, fanfiction, or novel stuff, because that’s all they’ve been firing for the last three blooming weeks.
Add to that: I have to work tomorrow, so the laundry and shopping has been pushed back to Wednesday, but only if I don't have to go and do homework on that day. So it might be Thursday. Or Friday. And if I get Saturday off this week it might be then. But I don't know. Sunday's shot through because of the CONCERT! EEP! which I'd forgotten all about until this very morning. Then I remembered that, yes, it WAS this weekend, you ninny, and you have tickets in the 5th row.
Yes, I called myself a ninny. Out loud.
The neighbors must be sick of me by now.
Sigh.
I must get back to work.
Ta,
Bec
47 till Christmas
5 days till Skyrim
Too many damn days till Sherlock
Scratch that first one. I'm there already today.
I am busy glaring at this computer screen as if it has done me some great personal wrong. It makes me feel better. My brain has quit working and I have three weeks of school left, so it’d better start up again and fast.
And now I’m hearing Pop Goes the Weasel in my head. It must be Monday.
Three bloody assignments down. Four to go. One nearly there, three not even really begun. I am in for a rough two weeks coming up here if I can’t get my neurons to start firing SOMETHING off that isn’t poetry, fanfiction, or novel stuff, because that’s all they’ve been firing for the last three blooming weeks.
Add to that: I have to work tomorrow, so the laundry and shopping has been pushed back to Wednesday, but only if I don't have to go and do homework on that day. So it might be Thursday. Or Friday. And if I get Saturday off this week it might be then. But I don't know. Sunday's shot through because of the CONCERT! EEP! which I'd forgotten all about until this very morning. Then I remembered that, yes, it WAS this weekend, you ninny, and you have tickets in the 5th row.
Yes, I called myself a ninny. Out loud.
The neighbors must be sick of me by now.
Sigh.
I must get back to work.
Ta,
Bec
5.11.11
Five Weeks and Counting
I have been struggling with something lately, and so I haven't been in the mood to blog. It's a bit better now; I'm handling it. I won't go into details because I'd just embarrass myself, so I'll just let you know that I'm all right and spent all of yesterday working on homework instead of moping about whining. Definitely an improvement.
Of course, the Powerpoint I created is so freaking long it might as well be a movie. Oh well. It finished at 34 slides, while Byron himself only lived 36 years. I think I covered him pretty thoroughly.
Merlin review of, well "Merlin" up later today. I'll plunk it at the bottom of this entry.
Ta,
Bec
SPOILER LINE
Little later than I'd planned, but here it is, a review of "Servant of Two Masters."
This episode felt like a prelude to a lot of other things. It sets up more Emrys stuff, mostly with Morgana (but do you think the knights are going to be all friendly now that he knocked them on their asses?) Morgana meets the stuff of nightmares and the stuff of nightmares kicks her butt and kills her baby hydra.
First off, Merlin's Goa'uld infestation was funny and dark and typically very Merlin-esque. Really wish he could have fought the thing off with the power of his mind or something, but let's not complicate matters. Colin's acting was spot-on (THREE distinct personalities in this one) and his slightly more acidic personality here was hilarious-you could actually tell Merlin wasn't himself at all. Was nice to see Gwen help Gaius with his treatment by clonking Merlin upside the head with the water pitcher twice (such a lovely, helpful girl.)
Every scene with Arthur and Merlin was pure awesome here, and I suspect the ONLY reason Arthur hugged Merlin was to get his armor nice and dirty for boring old stuffy George.
Agravaine plants suspicion of Gaius in Arthur's mind. After all the loyalty Gaius has shown, and how many times he DOESN'T leave the castle these days, you would think that would be enough. Arthur has that stupid loyalty to family thing, which I don't get, probably because mostly everyone outside of my immediate family that's related to me pretty much sucks.
Agravaine shows real care for Morgana after she gets whopped by Emrys, and speaking of which...
Loved Morgana's freaked out face when she saw her nightmare walking around, snooping in her stuff. Chemistry between Emrys and Morgana-you could feel the air crackle in the room. Didn't think I'd ever see that between a 20-something witch in training and a 20-something wizard pretending to be much older, but whew! Seems like everytime Colin and Katie go head-to-head like this, there are sparklers going off in the background.
I suspect that later this season, Merlin's magic will get revealed to her, and Morgana will still think Emrys is out there, but she won't have a clue that the two beings are one and the same.
Next week: Gaius gets kidnapped, and clearly Arthur is feeling suspicious about the whole business. Someone knows who Emrys is, and I BET they get it wrong (or get stabbed before they get to talk.) And if you thought Morgana was dead, that would be a no.
Of course, the Powerpoint I created is so freaking long it might as well be a movie. Oh well. It finished at 34 slides, while Byron himself only lived 36 years. I think I covered him pretty thoroughly.
Merlin review of, well "Merlin" up later today. I'll plunk it at the bottom of this entry.
Ta,
Bec
SPOILER LINE
Little later than I'd planned, but here it is, a review of "Servant of Two Masters."
This episode felt like a prelude to a lot of other things. It sets up more Emrys stuff, mostly with Morgana (but do you think the knights are going to be all friendly now that he knocked them on their asses?) Morgana meets the stuff of nightmares and the stuff of nightmares kicks her butt and kills her baby hydra.
First off, Merlin's Goa'uld infestation was funny and dark and typically very Merlin-esque. Really wish he could have fought the thing off with the power of his mind or something, but let's not complicate matters. Colin's acting was spot-on (THREE distinct personalities in this one) and his slightly more acidic personality here was hilarious-you could actually tell Merlin wasn't himself at all. Was nice to see Gwen help Gaius with his treatment by clonking Merlin upside the head with the water pitcher twice (such a lovely, helpful girl.)
Every scene with Arthur and Merlin was pure awesome here, and I suspect the ONLY reason Arthur hugged Merlin was to get his armor nice and dirty for boring old stuffy George.
Agravaine plants suspicion of Gaius in Arthur's mind. After all the loyalty Gaius has shown, and how many times he DOESN'T leave the castle these days, you would think that would be enough. Arthur has that stupid loyalty to family thing, which I don't get, probably because mostly everyone outside of my immediate family that's related to me pretty much sucks.
Agravaine shows real care for Morgana after she gets whopped by Emrys, and speaking of which...
Loved Morgana's freaked out face when she saw her nightmare walking around, snooping in her stuff. Chemistry between Emrys and Morgana-you could feel the air crackle in the room. Didn't think I'd ever see that between a 20-something witch in training and a 20-something wizard pretending to be much older, but whew! Seems like everytime Colin and Katie go head-to-head like this, there are sparklers going off in the background.
I suspect that later this season, Merlin's magic will get revealed to her, and Morgana will still think Emrys is out there, but she won't have a clue that the two beings are one and the same.
Next week: Gaius gets kidnapped, and clearly Arthur is feeling suspicious about the whole business. Someone knows who Emrys is, and I BET they get it wrong (or get stabbed before they get to talk.) And if you thought Morgana was dead, that would be a no.
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