this sudden burst of sunlight
I feel sort of like I'm doing the mental equivalent of that Unfuck Your Habitat thing -- my physical habitat is super unfucked! I brush the cats, I sweep and dust! I'm really excited for warmer weather because soon I shall fling open all the windows and do a deep-clean of the apartment! -- but I keep feeling massively stressed. Some of it is stuff entirely outside my control, of course, but I'm getting better at identifying the stressors and taking care of those, one thing at a time.
For example, this morning I registered for WisCon and got a room! Right now the going plan is to room with my sweeties and
such_heights, so exciiiiited. (I also bought a dessert ticket, because Jo Walton. ...I should perhaps read some of her stuff besides Among Others before the con.) I even called up the hotel and registered by phone, by speaking to another human being and everything, and it was okay. Somehow in the last five years I've become the sort of person who does not panic every time she needs to make a phone call, oh wow my endless relief.
Also, I have finally figured out the answer to my tumblr problem. (My tumblr problem, in this case, being that there is no way I can actually manage to keep up with it given the other more important commitments in my life and the fact that I don't have job that involves downtime in front of a computer.) The answer to my tumblr problem: don't even try to stay caught up! Just look at some stuff, reblog some stuff, wander off, and then go back to the new first page next time! It is less freeing than I want it to be, because I'm still a bit OCD about completing things, but this still seems like the wisest choice.
Meanwhile I have also been watching some TV? I'm very bad at keeping up with most of it! Plus Polaris and I are watching every Bond film ever (ALMOST DONE!) and I'm showing Housemate K all of Buffy (halfway through s2 now!) because she's never seen it. Even so, I have been watching:
Community! I'm so happy it's back! I ... should give up looking for anything resembling professional reviews, because all of them are so saaaad there's no more Dan Harmon, the show isn't the saaaame. And meanwhile -- idk if anything will live up to the glory that's most of s3, let's be honest, but I thought a lot of the back half of s2 was meh, and so far I've enjoyed this season so far! I mean, not ... really the most recent episode, I only had one good laugh in that one (when Abed slow-mo fell out of his chair) and idk, I just feel like Nazi humor is a really cheap shot? But I dug the Troy/Abed bits of the Inspector Spacetime ep (and laughed SO HARD at American Inspector Spacetime, shut up, I have some TVM trauma still), and I completely adored Paranormal Parentage, and while the opening ep wasn't spectacular, I am SO EXCITED about Dean Pelton living next door to Jeff now. (Seriously, my Community ships: Troy/Abed(/Annie if she wants), Dean/Jeff. Yep.) Also, Chang is less annoying when he's Kevin? Not holding out any hope, really, but my show, you are still a delight.
Elementary! I LOVE IT I LOVE IT. I love less that it took about twelve episodes to really take off, and I still think that the mysteries are the weakest aspect of the show, but HOLMES. Also WATSON. I love the Moriarty-wait-no-actually-Moran episode, and I love Detective Bell to tiny pieces, and I love the aspects of canon Holmes that they chose to pull out and emphasize in this show.
I did spend a lot of time feeling like Joan Watson, while clearly an awesome character, was not actually A Watson. I no longer feel like this! She is obviously A Watson, and it delights me! I think ... the problem was that the essential nature of Watson involves Watson actually actively helping Holmes with cases, and the rest is just whatever else you want to pull from the text. So Watson on the Granada show, and John on Sherlock, both skew in a starry-eyed enthusiastic "Holmes is brilliant even when he drives me slightly bonkers" direction; Watson in the Ritchie films, and Joan here, skew in the "Holmes, what even, are you fucking kidding me" direction. And both are great! But if Joan isn't also clearly Sherlock's crime-solving best buddy, she doesn't ping as Watson to me. So now she does! And having seen the whole evolution to that point, I retroactively accept her as A (Really Awesome) Watson all along, and am delighted. THIS SHOW, GUYS.
White Collar! I was SO STRESSED about White Collar the other week, let me tell you! Things I don't actually want to watch: Peter Burke in hospital, El advocating Neal lying to Peter. So that was awful! But then White Collar did the thing it always does, where it can't actually go more than an episode or two without everyone communicating admirably and hugging out their feelings. Seriously, that's what I love about this show: it might do kind of stressful plots, but I know that everyone is going to act like adult humans, and also that Peter and El and Neal are going to spend a lot of time gazing starry-eyed at each other.
I did laugh at this week's "Peter's been more of a father to me than you ever were," though, because -- seriously, show? I mean, at least they're totally aware that they're writing a show about Neal Caffrey's Amazing Found Family, and absolutely Peter mentors Neal a bit and gets lots of happy proud looks when Neal does something good or clever, so that's ... certainly a read you could do! Just. Dudes, you're making a show about an excellent D/s dynamic and Neal and El flirting a lot, maybe you should reexamine your choices to textually frame Peter as Neal's father figure. Or don't! If Neal wants to call Peter daddy in bed, that's totally up to Neal.
...Once upon a time I definitely had an excellent timeframe for the course of the Neal/Burkes relationship, and whether they were sleeping together yet. Uh. I'm pretty sure they're sleeping together now? I'd have to go back and track it, though, because I had this great theory that season three was about how they'd had the relationship conversation and then decided they couldn't while Peter was Neal's handler, and Neal pretended to be okay with that but then spent all of s3 bratting like crazy. But then Neal tries to run away and never come back! And that doesn't work, and when he does come back, it's textually understood that he's not going to try to run! So ... yeah, they're probably sleeping together unless Ellen's murder got in the way. Because Neal really isn't acting sad and pining at all anymore. Idk idk, no overarching theory for this season, but kiiiind of bored with James, the end.
Also, the Buffy rewatch is DELIGHTFUL. Housemate K adores Spike and Dru intensely, as well she should; meanwhile I'm mostly just really excited to watch her reaction faces, as we're about ... three episodes from Innocence right now. GOOD TIMES.
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For example, this morning I registered for WisCon and got a room! Right now the going plan is to room with my sweeties and
such_heights, so exciiiiited. (I also bought a dessert ticket, because Jo Walton. ...I should perhaps read some of her stuff besides Among Others before the con.) I even called up the hotel and registered by phone, by speaking to another human being and everything, and it was okay. Somehow in the last five years I've become the sort of person who does not panic every time she needs to make a phone call, oh wow my endless relief.
Also, I have finally figured out the answer to my tumblr problem. (My tumblr problem, in this case, being that there is no way I can actually manage to keep up with it given the other more important commitments in my life and the fact that I don't have job that involves downtime in front of a computer.) The answer to my tumblr problem: don't even try to stay caught up! Just look at some stuff, reblog some stuff, wander off, and then go back to the new first page next time! It is less freeing than I want it to be, because I'm still a bit OCD about completing things, but this still seems like the wisest choice.
Meanwhile I have also been watching some TV? I'm very bad at keeping up with most of it! Plus Polaris and I are watching every Bond film ever (ALMOST DONE!) and I'm showing Housemate K all of Buffy (halfway through s2 now!) because she's never seen it. Even so, I have been watching:
Community! I'm so happy it's back! I ... should give up looking for anything resembling professional reviews, because all of them are so saaaad there's no more Dan Harmon, the show isn't the saaaame. And meanwhile -- idk if anything will live up to the glory that's most of s3, let's be honest, but I thought a lot of the back half of s2 was meh, and so far I've enjoyed this season so far! I mean, not ... really the most recent episode, I only had one good laugh in that one (when Abed slow-mo fell out of his chair) and idk, I just feel like Nazi humor is a really cheap shot? But I dug the Troy/Abed bits of the Inspector Spacetime ep (and laughed SO HARD at American Inspector Spacetime, shut up, I have some TVM trauma still), and I completely adored Paranormal Parentage, and while the opening ep wasn't spectacular, I am SO EXCITED about Dean Pelton living next door to Jeff now. (Seriously, my Community ships: Troy/Abed(/Annie if she wants), Dean/Jeff. Yep.) Also, Chang is less annoying when he's Kevin? Not holding out any hope, really, but my show, you are still a delight.
Elementary! I LOVE IT I LOVE IT. I love less that it took about twelve episodes to really take off, and I still think that the mysteries are the weakest aspect of the show, but HOLMES. Also WATSON. I love the Moriarty-wait-no-actually-Moran episode, and I love Detective Bell to tiny pieces, and I love the aspects of canon Holmes that they chose to pull out and emphasize in this show.
I did spend a lot of time feeling like Joan Watson, while clearly an awesome character, was not actually A Watson. I no longer feel like this! She is obviously A Watson, and it delights me! I think ... the problem was that the essential nature of Watson involves Watson actually actively helping Holmes with cases, and the rest is just whatever else you want to pull from the text. So Watson on the Granada show, and John on Sherlock, both skew in a starry-eyed enthusiastic "Holmes is brilliant even when he drives me slightly bonkers" direction; Watson in the Ritchie films, and Joan here, skew in the "Holmes, what even, are you fucking kidding me" direction. And both are great! But if Joan isn't also clearly Sherlock's crime-solving best buddy, she doesn't ping as Watson to me. So now she does! And having seen the whole evolution to that point, I retroactively accept her as A (Really Awesome) Watson all along, and am delighted. THIS SHOW, GUYS.
White Collar! I was SO STRESSED about White Collar the other week, let me tell you! Things I don't actually want to watch: Peter Burke in hospital, El advocating Neal lying to Peter. So that was awful! But then White Collar did the thing it always does, where it can't actually go more than an episode or two without everyone communicating admirably and hugging out their feelings. Seriously, that's what I love about this show: it might do kind of stressful plots, but I know that everyone is going to act like adult humans, and also that Peter and El and Neal are going to spend a lot of time gazing starry-eyed at each other.
I did laugh at this week's "Peter's been more of a father to me than you ever were," though, because -- seriously, show? I mean, at least they're totally aware that they're writing a show about Neal Caffrey's Amazing Found Family, and absolutely Peter mentors Neal a bit and gets lots of happy proud looks when Neal does something good or clever, so that's ... certainly a read you could do! Just. Dudes, you're making a show about an excellent D/s dynamic and Neal and El flirting a lot, maybe you should reexamine your choices to textually frame Peter as Neal's father figure. Or don't! If Neal wants to call Peter daddy in bed, that's totally up to Neal.
...Once upon a time I definitely had an excellent timeframe for the course of the Neal/Burkes relationship, and whether they were sleeping together yet. Uh. I'm pretty sure they're sleeping together now? I'd have to go back and track it, though, because I had this great theory that season three was about how they'd had the relationship conversation and then decided they couldn't while Peter was Neal's handler, and Neal pretended to be okay with that but then spent all of s3 bratting like crazy. But then Neal tries to run away and never come back! And that doesn't work, and when he does come back, it's textually understood that he's not going to try to run! So ... yeah, they're probably sleeping together unless Ellen's murder got in the way. Because Neal really isn't acting sad and pining at all anymore. Idk idk, no overarching theory for this season, but kiiiind of bored with James, the end.
Also, the Buffy rewatch is DELIGHTFUL. Housemate K adores Spike and Dru intensely, as well she should; meanwhile I'm mostly just really excited to watch her reaction faces, as we're about ... three episodes from Innocence right now. GOOD TIMES.
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