Whine and vampires
I know there are a lot of worse things in the world and this is stupid, but I am SO TIRED of smelling everything my neighbors do. Everything they cook comes through my vents. And it's not limited to indoor cooking. Right now they're grilling, and I knew because the lighter fluid fumes drift into my apartment. And there's no escape, it just collects here and stays, and it's not like I can open the windows to let the smell out, because that's where it's coming from. My throat is irritated, my eyes watering, and my head aches. I have that trapped, suffocating feeling I get when I'm in a room with central heat blowing in. Blaaah. (ETA - now it's charcoal smoke and meat grease. In my closed apartment. I want to drive to the mountains and bury myself in leaf mould. )
Should I use this post to talk about Moonlight? So it's not all me sucking?
* Saw the pilot! Not bad. And HEEEEE they used Evanescence. They didn't even wait for the emo fangirls to do it for them, they put it right in the episode! P.S. Sophia Myles is ADORABLE with her hair in braids and a baseball cap. (Her accent only slipped a couple of times.)
* Also saw an episode where a professor-type vampire accidentally sired a guy and there were Dire Consequences. I thought the story was a good way to introduce most of the vampire mythology of the show without getting annoying with exposition.
* And then I saw the new episode that aired Jan 11. OMG! They killed Kenny! Or whatever Beth's DA boyfriend's name was, it's more fun to say Kenny. I feel so stupid that I did not know he was going to die. It should have been obvious, because they reconciled and slept together happily in the beginning of the episode! That's a death mark. But no, once he got kidnapped I thought maybe they'd be able to save him, and then they did save him, and then he got shot and shot and shot again, and they spent so much time on Mick doing really careful and detailed (and maybe improbable) first aid that I really thought he might survive. But he didn't! And then Beth asked Mick to turn him, and he wouldn't, and she was PISSED! And it was all so drawn out and felt so REAL.
Honestly, that's one of my main complaints with death scenes on TV, that wounded people die too fast, and their would-be rescuers, including paramedics, stop trying to save them too soon. Dude. I would do CPR for 30 minutes if nobody stopped me, and if I had the stamina. You don't breathe for somebody twice, do five chest compressions, and then decide, darnit, it's not going to work, he be daid. You try to stop the bleeding, you do whatever you can, and you keep it up until people with better equipment come. At least, that's what I would do. I could be wrong.
So I was impressed with the detail and extent they went to in portraying the efforts Mick made to save Kenny. (It was important for the story, I'm sure, to see that Mick tried really really hard, but there was one thing he wouldn't do.) And I'm sure cauterizing an artery with a cigarette lighter and tying off another artery with a necklace are probably ridiculous, but I appreciated the general effort.
* From the one that aired Friday - I guess this is a spoiler too, so stop if you haven't seen it -
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The French Revolution was a vampire hunt! HEEEE.
I'm editing student papers. Later, I get to write a conference proposal! [insert grumpy face emoticon here]
ETA #2 - This all reminds me of my mother's revelation over the winter break. She put together my light sensitivity, my painfully acute sense of smell, and my nocturnal habits and decided I'm a vampire. At least I don't have to sleep on ice?
Should I use this post to talk about Moonlight? So it's not all me sucking?
* Saw the pilot! Not bad. And HEEEEE they used Evanescence. They didn't even wait for the emo fangirls to do it for them, they put it right in the episode! P.S. Sophia Myles is ADORABLE with her hair in braids and a baseball cap. (Her accent only slipped a couple of times.)
* Also saw an episode where a professor-type vampire accidentally sired a guy and there were Dire Consequences. I thought the story was a good way to introduce most of the vampire mythology of the show without getting annoying with exposition.
* And then I saw the new episode that aired Jan 11. OMG! They killed Kenny! Or whatever Beth's DA boyfriend's name was, it's more fun to say Kenny. I feel so stupid that I did not know he was going to die. It should have been obvious, because they reconciled and slept together happily in the beginning of the episode! That's a death mark. But no, once he got kidnapped I thought maybe they'd be able to save him, and then they did save him, and then he got shot and shot and shot again, and they spent so much time on Mick doing really careful and detailed (and maybe improbable) first aid that I really thought he might survive. But he didn't! And then Beth asked Mick to turn him, and he wouldn't, and she was PISSED! And it was all so drawn out and felt so REAL.
Honestly, that's one of my main complaints with death scenes on TV, that wounded people die too fast, and their would-be rescuers, including paramedics, stop trying to save them too soon. Dude. I would do CPR for 30 minutes if nobody stopped me, and if I had the stamina. You don't breathe for somebody twice, do five chest compressions, and then decide, darnit, it's not going to work, he be daid. You try to stop the bleeding, you do whatever you can, and you keep it up until people with better equipment come. At least, that's what I would do. I could be wrong.
So I was impressed with the detail and extent they went to in portraying the efforts Mick made to save Kenny. (It was important for the story, I'm sure, to see that Mick tried really really hard, but there was one thing he wouldn't do.) And I'm sure cauterizing an artery with a cigarette lighter and tying off another artery with a necklace are probably ridiculous, but I appreciated the general effort.
* From the one that aired Friday - I guess this is a spoiler too, so stop if you haven't seen it -
...
...
...
...
The French Revolution was a vampire hunt! HEEEE.
I'm editing student papers. Later, I get to write a conference proposal! [insert grumpy face emoticon here]
ETA #2 - This all reminds me of my mother's revelation over the winter break. She put together my light sensitivity, my painfully acute sense of smell, and my nocturnal habits and decided I'm a vampire. At least I don't have to sleep on ice?