Tuesday things
1. chaila43 has made a vid for all of us who were driven to cry, drink, and stab things by what they did to Laura Roslin in 4.5: loved her to ribbons. This is so cracktastically brilliant, I can't even! Technically, it's a Damages/BSG crossover vid, but you really don't need to know anything about Damages other than it stars Glenn Close. Chaila has made Patty Hewes stand in for all of us who had our hearts broken, and the vid is simultaneously hilarious and rage-inducing and devastatingly critical. And I don't know much about vidding, really, but it strikes me as quite a clever way to do POV in a vid. Warning, though: you will have to re-view footage of DOOM, and I was not prepared for how viscerally upset that would make me. But that's rather the point of the vid!
2. Is Castle losing a bit of its charm, or is it just me? I've felt like the past two or three eps haven't been nearly as (I hesitate to say "good" because that's not quite the adjective for this show) sparkly and fun as the ones before them. I mean, I'm still enjoying it well enough, but I find it, well, less sparkly.
3. Of course, possibly Castle's only shortcoming is not being Bones! ;) Yes, I'm still very enamored!!! This show is like every guilty pleasure ever, with every fluffy cliche in the book right there in sugary technicolor, and I'm eating it up. And I feel like this should make me a lesser person or something, but god, I don't even care! There's going to be a baby plot, apparently. And my first reaction, knowing what we know about my UTTER HATRED of baby plots, should have been "oh no! as soon as I fall for this show, babies! *headdesk*" That would have been the predictable reaction, yes? My actual reaction? "OMG BABIES YAY!!!!"
I DO NOT EVEN KNOW, Y'ALL!!!
It's possible this is all some kind of slightly delayed post-traumatic stress from BSG: the rebound summer fling that won't last but won't break my heart, either.
4. There are at least a couple of elementary school teachers among you, right? Any advice for a graduation gift for a sister just finishing student teaching and launching into a teaching career? I mean, it wouldn't have to be career-specific, I guess, but I feel like that would be nice, and I am at an utter loss. I'm so bad with gifts! Especially when they ought to be meaningful!
5. Two of my dearest friends from college had their baby girl yesterday! This makes the second baby among my closest friends, and it turns out my adoration for the first one (the son of another college friend, born a little over a year ago) was not a fluke: I'm wild about baby M. already! It's also a relief, in some ways, to discover that my general dislike of children seems not to extend to children for whom I serve some kind of "aunt" capacity (particularly good news for any actual nieces or nephews I may someday have). It turns out if I'm tremendously fond of the parents, I'm likely to be tremendously fond of the child, as well. I'm particularly tickled that baby M. is a girl because I can't wait to buy her The Paper Bag Princess! Does anyone have any other favorite feminist children's books? I fully intend to be the one filling M.'s library with this sort of thing!
2. Is Castle losing a bit of its charm, or is it just me? I've felt like the past two or three eps haven't been nearly as (I hesitate to say "good" because that's not quite the adjective for this show) sparkly and fun as the ones before them. I mean, I'm still enjoying it well enough, but I find it, well, less sparkly.
3. Of course, possibly Castle's only shortcoming is not being Bones! ;) Yes, I'm still very enamored!!! This show is like every guilty pleasure ever, with every fluffy cliche in the book right there in sugary technicolor, and I'm eating it up. And I feel like this should make me a lesser person or something, but god, I don't even care! There's going to be a baby plot, apparently. And my first reaction, knowing what we know about my UTTER HATRED of baby plots, should have been "oh no! as soon as I fall for this show, babies! *headdesk*" That would have been the predictable reaction, yes? My actual reaction? "OMG BABIES YAY!!!!"
I DO NOT EVEN KNOW, Y'ALL!!!
It's possible this is all some kind of slightly delayed post-traumatic stress from BSG: the rebound summer fling that won't last but won't break my heart, either.
4. There are at least a couple of elementary school teachers among you, right? Any advice for a graduation gift for a sister just finishing student teaching and launching into a teaching career? I mean, it wouldn't have to be career-specific, I guess, but I feel like that would be nice, and I am at an utter loss. I'm so bad with gifts! Especially when they ought to be meaningful!
5. Two of my dearest friends from college had their baby girl yesterday! This makes the second baby among my closest friends, and it turns out my adoration for the first one (the son of another college friend, born a little over a year ago) was not a fluke: I'm wild about baby M. already! It's also a relief, in some ways, to discover that my general dislike of children seems not to extend to children for whom I serve some kind of "aunt" capacity (particularly good news for any actual nieces or nephews I may someday have). It turns out if I'm tremendously fond of the parents, I'm likely to be tremendously fond of the child, as well. I'm particularly tickled that baby M. is a girl because I can't wait to buy her The Paper Bag Princess! Does anyone have any other favorite feminist children's books? I fully intend to be the one filling M.'s library with this sort of thing!