I miss the BBC, and other random things
It's 10.30 at night, I'm mooching around on the internet, and I thought, hey, why don't I post to LJ?
In truth, very little has happened in my life in recent weeks. Most of my head space has been taken up with planning my now rather imminent trip to SE Asia (I depart on 2 Feb). I channelled emmzzi today and made a Word doc with my itinerary: flights, other travel, where I'm staying, etc. It looks good, I'm pretty much planned and booked!
For the last 4 weeks I've been house and/or pet sitting, first for UK friends who were Christmassing in the motherland, and now for one of pootlus's colleagues who has two yappy dogs, a cat and a budgie. I feel terrible for the budgie and it makes me sad just to look at him. The dogs are a Jack Russell and a smaller, yappier dog that I don't know the breed of. I'm not a small dog person, especially if they're jumpy and yappy, but they live out in the back yard so I don't have that much to do for them except try and stop them from tearing the house apart when I open the door to go out to feed them.
Fannishly, I decided to give Buffy a go. Somewhat late to that party. I just finished Season 6 and I'm really enjoying it. It got way better once they ditched Cordelia and Angel and the whole high school teenage thing, but I could really, really do without Dawn. Keep hoping someone's going to accidentally kill her off, but to no avail. Buffy/Giles is my OTP, in case you're interested.
Reading-wise I'm up to Reaper Man in Discworld, just finished The Girl Who Played with Fire (after avoiding those books for the longest time due to the violence in the first film, I actually love the forensic detail in them), and I'm now reading So Much For That by Lionel Shriver. This I found in the gigantic stash of books in the garage of the house I'm currently staying in that are due to be got rid of, and I'm very pleased I did as I love it.
Broadchurch 2 has started, and it's at times like this I miss the UK.
In truth, very little has happened in my life in recent weeks. Most of my head space has been taken up with planning my now rather imminent trip to SE Asia (I depart on 2 Feb). I channelled emmzzi today and made a Word doc with my itinerary: flights, other travel, where I'm staying, etc. It looks good, I'm pretty much planned and booked!
For the last 4 weeks I've been house and/or pet sitting, first for UK friends who were Christmassing in the motherland, and now for one of pootlus's colleagues who has two yappy dogs, a cat and a budgie. I feel terrible for the budgie and it makes me sad just to look at him. The dogs are a Jack Russell and a smaller, yappier dog that I don't know the breed of. I'm not a small dog person, especially if they're jumpy and yappy, but they live out in the back yard so I don't have that much to do for them except try and stop them from tearing the house apart when I open the door to go out to feed them.
Fannishly, I decided to give Buffy a go. Somewhat late to that party. I just finished Season 6 and I'm really enjoying it. It got way better once they ditched Cordelia and Angel and the whole high school teenage thing, but I could really, really do without Dawn. Keep hoping someone's going to accidentally kill her off, but to no avail. Buffy/Giles is my OTP, in case you're interested.
Reading-wise I'm up to Reaper Man in Discworld, just finished The Girl Who Played with Fire (after avoiding those books for the longest time due to the violence in the first film, I actually love the forensic detail in them), and I'm now reading So Much For That by Lionel Shriver. This I found in the gigantic stash of books in the garage of the house I'm currently staying in that are due to be got rid of, and I'm very pleased I did as I love it.
Broadchurch 2 has started, and it's at times like this I miss the UK.