what your daughter has is called a sense of humor.
And the TV is broken again. **weeps** I didn't appreciate it functioning enough, I guess; or else I was just blithely assuming the roofing guys would keep fiddling with the cable at the end of every day to keep it working. We tried to fiddle with the cable ourselves, but it didn't help. The actual TV repair people are supposed to come by today - not soon enough to get me prompt Burn Notice, of course, but I'm betting USA will re-air the eps I've missed. This thing where I have to limit the amount of video I watch online is just killing me. :P
Still, it gave me and my mother a reason to actually watch some of the DVDs we've been accumulating recently. We got through a full disc of S1 West Wing, which fills me with nostalgia and fuzzy feelings. I also got The Black Swan (1942) from Netflix, and actually watched it on the TV instead of just doing the unexciting and fully legal things I usually do and then sending it on. Despite historical levels of fail in various arenas, it's charming - basically Curse of the Black Pearl with '40s-level special effects. Lady Margaret is Elizabeth Swann the feisty governor's daughter from Port Royal, and while they don't give her enough to do most of the time, I deeply enjoyed the scene where she hit Jamie on the head with a rock. And the ending, while not terribly well-paced, was adorable. Maureen O'Hara makes a smokin' pirate.
I am - mostly successfully, at the moment - juggling my NaNo with racking up more Newsies cliché bingo fic bits. /o\ The NaNo has, as always, gotten kind of unfocused in the process; when I get stuck, I tend to take that as a sign that I need to add a new plot thread, so I am acquiring open plot arcs at a sort of ridiculous rate. Still have a few spare days in there, though, so if I just work through Thanksgiving, I should be able to finish the fifty thousand words just fine - if not, you know, the story. I am so bad at actually completing my NaNos. :P
As for Newsies, I guess I'll just have to give in and let it own my soul for a while. New fandom love is like the Borg: resistance is futile.
Oh, and: snow! Probably won't stick all day, it was really just a dusting, but it did manage to actually accumulate on the ground. :D
[crossposted; original at Dreamwidth]
Still, it gave me and my mother a reason to actually watch some of the DVDs we've been accumulating recently. We got through a full disc of S1 West Wing, which fills me with nostalgia and fuzzy feelings. I also got The Black Swan (1942) from Netflix, and actually watched it on the TV instead of just doing the unexciting and fully legal things I usually do and then sending it on. Despite historical levels of fail in various arenas, it's charming - basically Curse of the Black Pearl with '40s-level special effects. Lady Margaret is Elizabeth Swann the feisty governor's daughter from Port Royal, and while they don't give her enough to do most of the time, I deeply enjoyed the scene where she hit Jamie on the head with a rock. And the ending, while not terribly well-paced, was adorable. Maureen O'Hara makes a smokin' pirate.
I am - mostly successfully, at the moment - juggling my NaNo with racking up more Newsies cliché bingo fic bits. /o\ The NaNo has, as always, gotten kind of unfocused in the process; when I get stuck, I tend to take that as a sign that I need to add a new plot thread, so I am acquiring open plot arcs at a sort of ridiculous rate. Still have a few spare days in there, though, so if I just work through Thanksgiving, I should be able to finish the fifty thousand words just fine - if not, you know, the story. I am so bad at actually completing my NaNos. :P
As for Newsies, I guess I'll just have to give in and let it own my soul for a while. New fandom love is like the Borg: resistance is futile.
Oh, and: snow! Probably won't stick all day, it was really just a dusting, but it did manage to actually accumulate on the ground. :D
[crossposted; original at Dreamwidth]