Right around Christmas and the turning of the year, dicea asked me to post my review of "The Time of the Doctor" and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. I said I would, and would throw in Catching Fire for free ( Read more... )

"As you know I have made a vow never to give you information that could potentially alter your destiny. Your path is yours to walk, and yours alone."

That said, because my friend Tom requested it, here are my thoughts about Star Trek: Into Darkness. (Tom asked for a review, I'm not sure this is that, but here goes ( Read more... )

One of my friends on Facebook (a friend long before there was a Facebook) has been going off on people, ungracious, and sometimes downright mean. I know her life sucks right now (hubby working far away all week long, menopause, economy is trashing her business), but I might just have to hide her until she stops being...irrational.

Saw The Hobbit ( Read more... )

• So, I was out in my car today when the "near tornado" weather came through. Smart enough to pull over to the shoulder during the first, stopped and parked in a store lot for the second. The second was definitely the worst, with the car moving very alarmingly and the peanut sized hail. When I went into the grocer's the power was out. They did, ( Read more... )

...but not in the doomy, ominous Vorlon sorta way ( Read more... )

Grades are done and submitted. My summer class starts May 31, so I've got at least a little time to de-frag the mental hard drive, and deal with some life.

Took a break in the middle today to go to Thor with chosen brother, his beloved, and her eldest, then dinner before coming home to finish the last class's work ( Read more... )

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It has been a brutal 8 weeks. Administrative phoo. No contract. Screwups with my paycheck. Me sick. Colleagues sick. Kids sick. Weather that seems to conspire to really play hell with my MWF classes. So need Spring Break ( Read more... )

Well yay! the annoying whiny part of the book is over!! (Yup--just saw Deathly Hallows.) On the other hand, the first four previews demonstrated that my childhood is being trashed, one movie at a time. Green Hornet, Yogi Bear, Red Riding Hood, and Gulliver's Travels. Fortunately the trailers for Green Lantern (I think I may have seen Sinestro in ( Read more... )