windemere: (barrels out of bond)
I'm assuming, once the DVD comes out in March, that perhaps there might be other fan vids on youtube than the heaps and heaps of Fili/Kili slash? Or worse, Thorin/Fili/Kili slash? Also, set to much better music than seems to currently be on offer. One can only hope.

On that note, the fan vids after the EE of There and Back Again are going to KILL ME. I'm going to need therapy or some other fandom that doesn't kill off main charactes.

[On that note as well, everyone on my f-list has read the Hobbit right? We all know how this ends?]

Still going...I will not read The Hobbit. I will not read The Hobbit. I will finish Cloud Atlas so I have some idea what the hell is going on when I see the movie, and I will spend the next week squeeing over Richard [the III, honestly, which Richard did you think I was talking about?] and then finish Battle Royale. I will not read The Hobbit. Not until August 2014.

Lastly, there are some really depressing character driven Spooks fan vids on YouTube. To be fair, the writers and Lucas North have made it rather easy on the fans. Richard Armitage (yes, yes, other Richard, though apparently he might have been named after the King? Which amuses me? In a really ironic sort of way?) does tortured (pun entirely intended) really well. I feel this will come in handy in about, oh, 17 months?

See, I totally made a circular post. Aren't I awesome?

Uh, Fili & Kili fic is going...well...had to go track down the script again. I seem to be quoting Bilbo more than anything. I should probably be worried about that.

Spooks fic is up to the second commercial break. No one has died yet, but I have high hopes for at least some blood later on. Of course, I wrote the ending as the teaser so I know where it ends up...basically. Always start a spy thriller with a gun to someone's head.

And Castle this week? Can I just say? EVIL BASTARD. It's sort of like Heroes all over again, except worse. And I am missing Alexis and Martha these days. Feels like it's been ages since we've seen them. Or any Castle/Beckett kissykissy.

Again, circular post. I need to...bake a lot this weekend. And eat a lot. And see Lincoln and Richard. How is this my life? It's awesome.
windemere: (rosy slippers)
So, I am learning how to pronounce Spanish correctly, because I've been doing it wrong since I was 14 and first learned a word of it. Oops? The number of fluent speakers that have probably gringed inside after I said anything is a very large number. Like, everyone I've ever talked to who is fluent in Spanish. Of course, I routinely butcher the French language, so at least I don't play favourites with the Indo-Europeans!

How does a shopping trip for cheese end in £8 of stuff that included chocolate and cookies? I need to stop going to the grocery store. It's dangerous.

In other news, I did five minutes of work today. Go me! I also have plans to go to the gym. Since I week ago I was wishing for death curled in bed with a migraine, I feel this is pretty good. I also really need to take my Vitamin D regularly to avoid the winter hibernation feeling. I am also sniffly today though, which is a BAD SIGN, as the housemate has been sick this last week. I have had two colds in the last two months and do not want to make it three for three. This is what I get not getting sick for 5 years; it's the universe paying me back, right?

Watching my parents TV in Canada while in England has still not lost it's 'WEE! Isn't technology awesome?!' feeling yet. Even if the internet here keeps crashing from streaming. I watched Castle this morning and it was legal. Also, Dad and I have agreed not to sit at our respective computers on two different continents and argue over who gets the Slingbox at any particular hour. I get it in the morning, he gets it after that. And no one dies.

There is a show called Ripper Street on BBC. It stars Matthew Macfadyen. It takes place in 1889, a year after the last confirmed Ripper kill and is about the Police department in Whitechapel. Needless to say, I was hooked in the first, oh, preview? I am not contemplating how to cross this show with Sanctuary, because I may destroy my brain that way. But it is still awesome.

I have so much work to do, but I have no idea where to start and I have convinced myself that doing anything before Thursday's meeting is a waste of time, as I don't know exactly what I need to do. But putting it like that makes me feel small and useless and my brain immediately responds with 'who's doing this PhD anyways, you or Ross?' and I just want to crawl into a corner. So I'm not putting it like that. I'm putting it like...I need a holiday to recover from my 'holiday' and want to make certain I am not getting sick before I visit a friend on Thursday.

Tomorrow I am going to have to get out of bed before 11am. If only by necessity. The fact that I can sleep that late is probably a bad sign about the health of my body right now.

I said random in the tag, didn't I?
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I'm enjoying the novelty of lying in my bed in the sun, because it's finally at the right angle. At least for about 30 minutes of the day, when it's sunny. So for 30 minutes out of the week then.

I have no other news, because I am sick and in bed and managed to miss ALL THE FUN this weekend, including starting my field research. So I'm annoyed and miserable in equal parts. And Not Doing Work because I can't breathe, see or think at even 50% efficiency. Stupid people should keep their stupid germs to themselves!

Why is everyone liking Elementary? I don't get it. I've watched it and I don't get it. Maybe I'm too much of a Sherlock Holmes (I mean the books) fan to tolerate America ripping off a British classic.

Also, the election is in, like 24 hours and I'm TERRIFIED.
windemere: (Default)
Mostly, I'm too tired to update about academic assignments, a boat load of obligations, and wanting to sleep all the time, so...

This is me, not updating.

Yeah, I never do so well at those sorts of things.
windemere: (Default)
I watched gymnastics covereage. I went to the library for books. I skimmed a book. Then I ate sugar and watched Iron Man.

Yeah, that's been my day thus far. Now I am watching it sun shower and contemplating dinner.
windemere: (more thought in costumes)
Apparently, Leicester has a Quidditch team. And they practice on Sunday mornings in the park. I was going to do work tomorrow, but...most of it can wait (except the scholarship application for a scholarship I might actually have a chance at.)

I called in my first noise complaint today. Since the gentleman above me has been causing a headache for weeks, I feel I'm doing pretty good. Of course, whoever it was who answered the RA phone happened to be visiting Chantel when I called. She was laughing in the background and said to say 'hi'. Friends in high places are good friends (as are all others). The accomodation service must hate me, considering how many times my name comes up, but someone has to be the one to make honest complaints, otherwise nothing happens. This year, apparently, it's me.

I might have had two doughnuts and a chocolate bar today. Because I forgot about the doughnuts until after I'd eaten the chocolate bar. There goes 8 days of being good! I went for a second walk to make up for it...well, as much as that can make up for it. To be fair, they were mini-doughnuts and it was a small chocolate bar. But when the first ingredient of each is 'sugar', I know I'm being bad. I just can't seem to kick the sugar habit this time! I am trying not to hate myself for having no will power, but when I end up feeling like crap because I have no will power, it's pretty hard not to hate myself for being weak.

Had a workable PhD thought today. Did all five of the ways to happiness. Not bad for a Saturday.

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