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Hoooooome. *flops around* My absolute favourite thing about coming home to Christchurch is probably... the obscene amount of television I can watch before uni starts. So far this week I've bleached and scrubbed the bath and toilet, cleaned out the kitchen (including wiping every single cupboard both inside and out) and my bedroom, set up my room, and done several loads of washing.
I also had a really productive and exciting meeting of my choir's committee. We're a casual/fun choir associated with the university - except we're not associated as a choir but as a club. A few years ago we were apparently really big and pretty good, but some disasters with management, etc, in 2004 (the year before I arrived) basically sent most people packing, and since then we've struggled to keep more than twenty members. Last year our director of the previous year pissed off without finding a replacement, which basically sucked ass since none of the rest of us are music students (since the music students are all in the auditioned choir that I'm too scared to try out for.) So, Victoria directed and I helped out a bit and we got through to the end of the year okay, which was a relief but it was basically a long and sucky year, choir-wise. So we had a committee meeting - it's testament to the shape the choir was in that I got shoved onto the committee in my first year just because they were so desperate to get a quorum, but I actually really enjoy it. It looks like we're all excited about choir this year, we're planning an ambitious re-name and reimagining ourselves as a choir with, hopefully, a lot more personality.
We're thinking of calling ourselves Choirsoc, which IMO is a) way more fun-sounding than Bel Suono, b) more descriptive of what we actually do since, hey, we're a choir and we're social, c) way less off-putting than stupid italian. We're going to have singstar at Clubs Day - basically to get people coming over to us - and big signs and music and hopefully, fingers crossed, some scratch choir singing at lunch time. And our repertoire this year is going to be really different - we've previously sung a lot of traditional stuff which I love but - let's face it - it's boring and traditional. Hooooopefully this year we're going to sing some song by A Perfect Circle (yeah, doesn't do much for me, but whatevs, Vic's excited and it's different) and we're going to do some musical medleys - Rent, yay! and some more jazz and I'm going to see if I can find some swing and basically we're going to have a lot of fun this year. I really, really hope.
I've also watched the end of season two, all of season three, and the first two discs of season four of Gilmore Girls. (Um, I also, like, caught up with my mates and drank tequila til four in the morning and, you know, left the house. A lot! Honest!) Also, the last two episodes of SPN and the most recent BSG,
Gilmore Girls
Okay, I love Dean and I like Jess, and I actually really enjoyed that whole bit in the third season where she was dating Jess and friends with Dean and it was just cute. I like Dean. I'm not so thrilled he's about to cheat on his wife, because only Lee really sells that to me and I dislike him for it. On the other hand, he got married at eighteen, I dunno what he thought was going to happen anyway. The last few episodes of Jess' storyline felt like such a cheat to me... I know he comes back to Stars Hollow eventually and more successfully, I just think that if he'd come back to Stars Hollow, repeated that year, maybe gotten back together with Rory... well, anyway, then I wouldn't be about to get Rory/Dean back, so I guess I should stop the fuss.
Oh, re: that fistfight in S3? God, Jared's fake fighting skills have SO IMPROVED since then. I couldn't stop laughing.
Can't wait til Luke/Lorelai at the end of this season. I am SO original.
BSG: The Woman King
I really enjoyed this episode, I thought it was solid and less of a huge drain than watching Kara and Lee's marriages and friendships fall apart. Next week looks like it will be more of the same, so yay. :)
Supernatural: Born Under a Bad Sign and Tall Tales
I LOVED "Born Under a Bad Sign". Everyone has been saying how amazing Jared was and for once I completely agree. I've been known to be a bit twitchy about both the boys occasionally, but Jared really pulled out all the stops. I think it is a huge shame that its ratings sucked so much because it was really a show-stopper. I also thought Alona Tal did pretty well in basically a kind of sucky part, and yes, it did feel like a goodbye to me, too. :( Oh, well, I live in hope, as the priest said to the princess.
"Tall Tales"... um, basically I think it's a shame Tall Tales had to follow a fantastic, strong episode like Born Under a Bad Sign. And may I just add, I loved Hell House. But this? :-/ Okay, at least partly it was vexed for me by the fact that I found it more intensely embarassing than funny - that kind of humour really just doesn't do it for me. OTOH, I loved Bobby. I also liked their trickster figure - although I thought it was pretty shitty mythology to say that tricksters are demigods. I mean, yes, Loki and Anansi are pretty famous trickster demigods, but let's try for something we couldn't get out of a Neil Gaiman novel, hmm? Like sprites, pixies, the little people? All much more likely entries in the SPN bestiary than Loki and Anansi, don't you think? Plus, as we saw, demideities in this show just frustrate its narrative convention - you really can't get rid of them unless you make a big big fuss. :-/
Tonight I'm watching two weeks' worth of House and Bones. Hooray!
ETA: Oh, oh, the funniest "Houses of the Holy" recap.
Also, gang, I'm reading the flist only sporadically on account of it's a little bit sprawling right now. I'm going to cut some comms and things before uni start (and if you've been wanting to defriend, go ahead and do it, although I'll probably cry it'll be good for my grades ;)) but if I've missed something do link me?
I also had a really productive and exciting meeting of my choir's committee. We're a casual/fun choir associated with the university - except we're not associated as a choir but as a club. A few years ago we were apparently really big and pretty good, but some disasters with management, etc, in 2004 (the year before I arrived) basically sent most people packing, and since then we've struggled to keep more than twenty members. Last year our director of the previous year pissed off without finding a replacement, which basically sucked ass since none of the rest of us are music students (since the music students are all in the auditioned choir that I'm too scared to try out for.) So, Victoria directed and I helped out a bit and we got through to the end of the year okay, which was a relief but it was basically a long and sucky year, choir-wise. So we had a committee meeting - it's testament to the shape the choir was in that I got shoved onto the committee in my first year just because they were so desperate to get a quorum, but I actually really enjoy it. It looks like we're all excited about choir this year, we're planning an ambitious re-name and reimagining ourselves as a choir with, hopefully, a lot more personality.
We're thinking of calling ourselves Choirsoc, which IMO is a) way more fun-sounding than Bel Suono, b) more descriptive of what we actually do since, hey, we're a choir and we're social, c) way less off-putting than stupid italian. We're going to have singstar at Clubs Day - basically to get people coming over to us - and big signs and music and hopefully, fingers crossed, some scratch choir singing at lunch time. And our repertoire this year is going to be really different - we've previously sung a lot of traditional stuff which I love but - let's face it - it's boring and traditional. Hooooopefully this year we're going to sing some song by A Perfect Circle (yeah, doesn't do much for me, but whatevs, Vic's excited and it's different) and we're going to do some musical medleys - Rent, yay! and some more jazz and I'm going to see if I can find some swing and basically we're going to have a lot of fun this year. I really, really hope.
I've also watched the end of season two, all of season three, and the first two discs of season four of Gilmore Girls. (Um, I also, like, caught up with my mates and drank tequila til four in the morning and, you know, left the house. A lot! Honest!) Also, the last two episodes of SPN and the most recent BSG,
Gilmore Girls
Okay, I love Dean and I like Jess, and I actually really enjoyed that whole bit in the third season where she was dating Jess and friends with Dean and it was just cute. I like Dean. I'm not so thrilled he's about to cheat on his wife, because only Lee really sells that to me and I dislike him for it. On the other hand, he got married at eighteen, I dunno what he thought was going to happen anyway. The last few episodes of Jess' storyline felt like such a cheat to me... I know he comes back to Stars Hollow eventually and more successfully, I just think that if he'd come back to Stars Hollow, repeated that year, maybe gotten back together with Rory... well, anyway, then I wouldn't be about to get Rory/Dean back, so I guess I should stop the fuss.
Oh, re: that fistfight in S3? God, Jared's fake fighting skills have SO IMPROVED since then. I couldn't stop laughing.
Can't wait til Luke/Lorelai at the end of this season. I am SO original.
BSG: The Woman King
I really enjoyed this episode, I thought it was solid and less of a huge drain than watching Kara and Lee's marriages and friendships fall apart. Next week looks like it will be more of the same, so yay. :)
Supernatural: Born Under a Bad Sign and Tall Tales
I LOVED "Born Under a Bad Sign". Everyone has been saying how amazing Jared was and for once I completely agree. I've been known to be a bit twitchy about both the boys occasionally, but Jared really pulled out all the stops. I think it is a huge shame that its ratings sucked so much because it was really a show-stopper. I also thought Alona Tal did pretty well in basically a kind of sucky part, and yes, it did feel like a goodbye to me, too. :( Oh, well, I live in hope, as the priest said to the princess.
"Tall Tales"... um, basically I think it's a shame Tall Tales had to follow a fantastic, strong episode like Born Under a Bad Sign. And may I just add, I loved Hell House. But this? :-/ Okay, at least partly it was vexed for me by the fact that I found it more intensely embarassing than funny - that kind of humour really just doesn't do it for me. OTOH, I loved Bobby. I also liked their trickster figure - although I thought it was pretty shitty mythology to say that tricksters are demigods. I mean, yes, Loki and Anansi are pretty famous trickster demigods, but let's try for something we couldn't get out of a Neil Gaiman novel, hmm? Like sprites, pixies, the little people? All much more likely entries in the SPN bestiary than Loki and Anansi, don't you think? Plus, as we saw, demideities in this show just frustrate its narrative convention - you really can't get rid of them unless you make a big big fuss. :-/
Tonight I'm watching two weeks' worth of House and Bones. Hooray!
ETA: Oh, oh, the funniest "Houses of the Holy" recap.
Also, gang, I'm reading the flist only sporadically on account of it's a little bit sprawling right now. I'm going to cut some comms and things before uni start (and if you've been wanting to defriend, go ahead and do it, although I'll probably cry it'll be good for my grades ;)) but if I've missed something do link me?