Miscellanous stuff
Apr. 18th, 2005 01:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
estepheiaI feel vaguely virtuous. I spent several hours gardening and weeding over the past few days. My garden looks quite nice already. I buried lots of flower bulbs last autumn, and now I have several bunches of beautiful yellow mini-tulips that I'd forgotten I ever planted. :-) Lots of weeds, though. After about 6 hours of thorough weeding I'm still only half-way through. :-(
I watched Dead Again with a friend tonight and then introduced her to the opening scenes of Branagh's wondefully warm Much Ado About Nothing (Kenau Reeves was never prettier) and his powerful Henry V. And now I feel like watching his other movies again, like Peter's Friends and In the Bleak Midwinter. Branagh is definitely one of my favorite directors. Other favorites are Howard Hawks and Clint Eastwood.
I finally started rewriting Let's Talk About Sex. I always felt that the opening chapters were pretty weak, so I tinkered with them a few times, but now I am quite resolved. I already added the first revamped chapter to my archive. The others will follow in short succession. I intend to get rid of a few pet peeves of mine. I'm also de-woobiefying Spike a little and making his utterances choppier. There were also formatting problems, inconsistent punctuation, and a few other problems that I'm hoping to eliminate without compromising the essence of the series.
I'm hoping to get back into a Spander frame of mind so I can work on my Spander WIPs. My Xander voice and my Spike voice are both (more than) a little rusty these days.
Toyah seems to have fully recovered. She eats like a horse and she played with a friend all afternoon. I'll send her back to kindergarten on Tuesday. Tomorrow she's allowed to stay at home. Meaning very little writing time for me. *sigh*
Eyes is growing on me. Slick. Blind Justice gets bad ratings but I still like the show. Numb3rs is cute. Dare I admit that I adore Peter MacNicol's character, the physicist, more than the (very cute) main characters? I am getting a bit bored with the whole maths angle, but the soap stuff is fun. Oh, and the last House episode had a few very powerful scenes. Hugh Laurie rocks! Amazing how different Gregory House is from Bertie in Jeeves and Wooster or, for that matter, from his various Blackadder appearances.
I watched Dead Again with a friend tonight and then introduced her to the opening scenes of Branagh's wondefully warm Much Ado About Nothing (Kenau Reeves was never prettier) and his powerful Henry V. And now I feel like watching his other movies again, like Peter's Friends and In the Bleak Midwinter. Branagh is definitely one of my favorite directors. Other favorites are Howard Hawks and Clint Eastwood.
I finally started rewriting Let's Talk About Sex. I always felt that the opening chapters were pretty weak, so I tinkered with them a few times, but now I am quite resolved. I already added the first revamped chapter to my archive. The others will follow in short succession. I intend to get rid of a few pet peeves of mine. I'm also de-woobiefying Spike a little and making his utterances choppier. There were also formatting problems, inconsistent punctuation, and a few other problems that I'm hoping to eliminate without compromising the essence of the series.
I'm hoping to get back into a Spander frame of mind so I can work on my Spander WIPs. My Xander voice and my Spike voice are both (more than) a little rusty these days.
Toyah seems to have fully recovered. She eats like a horse and she played with a friend all afternoon. I'll send her back to kindergarten on Tuesday. Tomorrow she's allowed to stay at home. Meaning very little writing time for me. *sigh*
Eyes is growing on me. Slick. Blind Justice gets bad ratings but I still like the show. Numb3rs is cute. Dare I admit that I adore Peter MacNicol's character, the physicist, more than the (very cute) main characters? I am getting a bit bored with the whole maths angle, but the soap stuff is fun. Oh, and the last House episode had a few very powerful scenes. Hugh Laurie rocks! Amazing how different Gregory House is from Bertie in Jeeves and Wooster or, for that matter, from his various Blackadder appearances.
