Joy!!!

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I mostly participated in More Joy Day non-fannishly: I took the time to get back in touch with some people I haven't been the best about keeping in touch with, I called some people up for no reason--just because I wanted to say hi. And I'm not always the best about doing that sort of thing, but I should be better, because it's a joyful thing to do

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My problem is keeping in touch with people who aren't connected to their email and/or Facebook 24/7. Because I've never been a big phone person anyway, and especially since I've moved to Canada, people feel like they can't call me because it's not included in their plan, and even though I have US long distance included in mine, I just...forget. And as a result, there are two or three of my very dearest friends that I will go months and months and months without talking to, so much that I sort of forget how much I miss them, until suddenly I think of them and it's like a ton of bricks how much I miss them. So yeah. Trying to do better with that. I wonder if it would help to make it a proper resolution...

As for Sarah Connor, I think it's so interesting that you say the show feels textual to you. I'm not sure it does to me. Textual, after all, is what I'm good at talking about, and this still just makes me want to point and bounce. I think a lot of it comes down for me not to text but to drama--and specifically to dramatic irony. There are so many different levels of what each character knows and doesn't, and what the audience knows and doesn't, that sometimes I feel like the story mostly happens in these ironic gaps in our knowledge. Maybe that is textual, in some way--after all, dramatic irony is one of those classic Intro to Lit terms, or at least that's how I always think of it--but it's the kind of textual that is really hard to pin down and analyze, which both frustrates and fascinates me.

As for Lie to Me, I'm not sure whether you'd like it or not. The format is still pretty episodic and formulaic (each ep, generally two cases--A plot and B plot that don't necessarily interact--though the couple of eps I've seen from season 2 seem to be mixing that up a little), so you might still be as bored as you were with, say, Castle. But the premise is that these characters are really good at telling when people are lying (so they get hired by the police and others to help determine that), and what makes it interesting are the dynamics between all these people who work together and always know when each other are lying. So some of them are really good liars, and others of them try never to lie, and there's just this ongoing concern about the ethics of honesty, both in justice (as related to the cases, in which, inevitably, there are times when it seems more just to conceal the truth) and in friendships (is it prudent to always be honest with your best friend? and how do you maintain close friendships--or even just collegial relationships--with people if you can tell whenever they're lying to you?). It's not a deeply nuanced, brilliant show, but it is meatier than most of the other regular network procedurals around.

And it's possible I started reading fic for it after the first ep I saw... I also already have an icon. *points* :D