I didn't get any of the eBay stuff photographed this weekend. I was about to, when Matt was all, "Come and watch Sopranos with me. Just for a couple of hours, then I'll go do homework and you can take your pictures then." Which sounded plenty reasonable, but then of course once we were done with Sopranos we remembered we still had a Nip/Tuck DVD we needed to get watched to send back to Netflix, and once we were done with that, it was time for my shows on SciFi.
Speaking of which, still feeling let down by Dresden Files, although it is showing signs of improvement. As long as I don't compare it to the books and tell myself that these are not the characters I already know and love, but simply unrelated characters in an unrelated universe who just happen to have the same names (something I've had plenty of practice doing with Smallville), then I can enjoy the show and admit that it is, at least, an entertaining hour of television. So I'm just going to leave it at that.
And then there's BSG. OMGLaura! So scary, with all the talking--no, screaming of airlocking Baltar! Eeee, that was awesome! As for Karleedeeanders--WTF-ever. Seriously. It's becoming my fondest wish to see Dee and Sam hook up and live happily, functionally after and leave Kara and Lee alone with their whiney-ass loser selves. I can't believe they cut an entire interrogation scene between Laura and Caprica for their self-inflicted melodrama. Bah.
As for the rest of my weekend...
- Hugo's: I meant to take a picture of my breakfast so you could see for yourselves how much food they give you, but I got all mesmerized by the mountain of forbidden carbs before me and forgot until I was halfway done eating. Lordy, that was good stuff.
- Pan's Labyrinth: Good, but slightly overrated, much as I'd feared. It was a very well done, engrossing movie, but it didn't really move me the way all of the praise being heaped upon it led me to expect. Matt felt the same way. He doesn't even really like the whole fairy-tale genre, but he was disappointed that the film didn't spend more time in its own fantasy world. It also reminded us both a lot of Devil's Backbone, which we rented not too long ago, and we both suspect that maybe that's why we weren't blown away by it, since we'd both already been exposed to that whole "real life is scarier and more cruel than anything the supernatural could throw at you, especially if you're a little kid" sensibility that it had going on. I did like the ambiguous ending and the way it was left wide open for interpretation, and that's all I'm going to say about that.
- I knitted several little projects over the weekend, making up my own patterns as I went. I'll go into more detail about them over at the knitting blog later, but I think with a few pattern adjustments and embellishments these will make good projects to sell.
- I went all day yesterday without any caffeine. It wasn't by design, it just sort of happened that way. I thought about trying to see if I could repeat it today, but then I woke up with a headache that only coffee could cure. Oh well.
Today is all about getting back on track. I'm still caught up (mostly) at work, I've eaten only healthy things so far today, and I power-walked a mile and a half at the gym. I also wrote a little this morning, and I'm going to try to finish out the chapter I'm currently working on today. If I'm happy with it I might even post it, but I'm going through a really self-conscious phase right now when it comes to my writing, so we'll see.
My life is comfy and dull.
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