February and March so far
In no particular order:
I just finished my Copyright Law midterm. It's fascinating learning when and how current laws became laws and when their current interpretations were handed down.
Thursday was the last night of my Business of Publishing class. It concluded with a group presentation that was plagued with (totally preventable) technical difficulties with our slide presentation. But regardless, we appear to have gotten an A, so yay!
Monday night I had a blast livetweeting Hawaii 5-0 with brak666,
caorann, and lankyguy. Unfortunately on Tuesday I was a wee bit exhausted for having stayed up past my bedtime.
I finally watched
zvi-recommended Lost Girl and am really enjoying it. The combination of developing friendships, paranormal investigations by someone who is both an insider and outsider to the supernatural (here, fey) world, and the male supporting character's voice is hitting my buttons. I'm up to episode 4.
I bought my father a used car 3 weeks ago and the amount of back and forthing I had to (and am still having to) deal with between NC (my father, the dealership, the insurance company) and here (me, my insurance company) both in person and through correspondence has been exhausting.
I am finding Being Human US to be interesting primarily for how it differs from the UK version. Watching both versions in the same week keeps confusing me about what has happened or not happened and when if it did. Anyway, I still think US version fell down on establishing the friendships at the outset and it is playing catchup on that front. On the other hand, the vampire-werewolf antagonism is better explained. Also Sally's death is a lot less cut-and-dried evil than Annie's was.
Season 3 of Being Human UK really brought back the friendship scenes that I felt were lacking last season. So far I think this is my favorite season since the pilot. It's a shame Mitchell just doesn't appear to be able to change because I think George has managed to grow a little this season. Annie … well, Annie and Mitchell are dead, so perhaps we really can't expect them to grow all that much.
I just discovered that there are Bluray players out there that will stream Netflix wirelessly. Now I'm thinking I'll hold off on a Roku and get a Bluray player instead-as long as it will work with the tv I have because I don't intend to go HD until late 2012 at the earliest.
You know, I'm used to Primeval not making much sense, but Ethan being Danny's brother comes way out of left field and doesn't make much internal sense what with him being some sort of serial killer from the Victoria era--maybe. Please BBC, don't bring it back. Thank you for killing off Helen, but we don't need another season that I would have to watch because I have no willpower.
I went on a small spree at one of the closing Borders and picked up
I think I've decided to wait for the paperback of Patricia Briggs's River Marked because I probably won't get around to reading it until then anyway. Or if I can't wait, I can get the Kindle edition.
Ok, I think that catches everyone up on what I've been doing. Now I'm off to clean the bathroom, change my sheets, and sort laundry. The excitement never ends at chez natlyn!
I just finished my Copyright Law midterm. It's fascinating learning when and how current laws became laws and when their current interpretations were handed down.
Thursday was the last night of my Business of Publishing class. It concluded with a group presentation that was plagued with (totally preventable) technical difficulties with our slide presentation. But regardless, we appear to have gotten an A, so yay!
Monday night I had a blast livetweeting Hawaii 5-0 with brak666,
caorann, and lankyguy. Unfortunately on Tuesday I was a wee bit exhausted for having stayed up past my bedtime.
I finally watched
zvi-recommended Lost Girl and am really enjoying it. The combination of developing friendships, paranormal investigations by someone who is both an insider and outsider to the supernatural (here, fey) world, and the male supporting character's voice is hitting my buttons. I'm up to episode 4.
I bought my father a used car 3 weeks ago and the amount of back and forthing I had to (and am still having to) deal with between NC (my father, the dealership, the insurance company) and here (me, my insurance company) both in person and through correspondence has been exhausting.
I am finding Being Human US to be interesting primarily for how it differs from the UK version. Watching both versions in the same week keeps confusing me about what has happened or not happened and when if it did. Anyway, I still think US version fell down on establishing the friendships at the outset and it is playing catchup on that front. On the other hand, the vampire-werewolf antagonism is better explained. Also Sally's death is a lot less cut-and-dried evil than Annie's was.
Season 3 of Being Human UK really brought back the friendship scenes that I felt were lacking last season. So far I think this is my favorite season since the pilot. It's a shame Mitchell just doesn't appear to be able to change because I think George has managed to grow a little this season. Annie … well, Annie and Mitchell are dead, so perhaps we really can't expect them to grow all that much.
I just discovered that there are Bluray players out there that will stream Netflix wirelessly. Now I'm thinking I'll hold off on a Roku and get a Bluray player instead-as long as it will work with the tv I have because I don't intend to go HD until late 2012 at the earliest.
You know, I'm used to Primeval not making much sense, but Ethan being Danny's brother comes way out of left field and doesn't make much internal sense what with him being some sort of serial killer from the Victoria era--maybe. Please BBC, don't bring it back. Thank you for killing off Helen, but we don't need another season that I would have to watch because I have no willpower.
I went on a small spree at one of the closing Borders and picked up
- Heroes at Risk-Moira J. Moore, I refused to get the latest also because darnit these series is really frustrating with its pretense at in-world questioning of the status quo that is never followed up on;
- The Dead and the Gone-Susan Beth Pfeffer, I was looking for the first book Life As We Knew It but it wasn't there, perhaps I will find it at another closing Borders;
- The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian-Sherman Alexie, I've been wanting to read some Alexie and this was rec'd to me as a good starting point; and
- Die Hard because my copy disappeared.
I think I've decided to wait for the paperback of Patricia Briggs's River Marked because I probably won't get around to reading it until then anyway. Or if I can't wait, I can get the Kindle edition.
Ok, I think that catches everyone up on what I've been doing. Now I'm off to clean the bathroom, change my sheets, and sort laundry. The excitement never ends at chez natlyn!