In which I discuss Harry Potter and Holby City
Had a lovely quiet weekend and even had an unplanned nap on Saturday afternoon. Drat Kate and her kitty-sleepy-vibes!
So far, I'm getting very tired and starting to get some low-level cramps, but that's about the extent of things (other than the blood-loss). My aim is to get through this without time off. We'll have to see how viable that plan is, though, and I concede that I can't push myself too far. I see Awesome GI Guy on Wednesday and I'll talk to him about what dosage of prednisone I should do, and for how long, if I feel that things are getting too awful.
I'm frustrated with my body now. Why can't it just behave and cooperate with the meds?
That aside...
I'm reading a very long Harry fic on my Kindle. Very long. Nicely plotty. I want to re-read all the Harry books now and I'm getting a wee bit excited about the movie next month. And to add to that fun, there is now the prospect that I'll finally be able to have Harry on my Kindle in the next few months. Never again will I have to figure out how in hell to hold up Order of the Phoenix because that thing is just too big for comfortable reading!
Not that I'll be getting rid of my paper copies. Nu-uh. I just want to have the added convenience of ebooks for travel and bedtime reading, while still having the lovely book-ish-ness of my paper copies to curl up with at times. It's possible that I'm obsessed....
On Saturday, I finally got round to watching last week's Holby.
I admit, I sort of quietly sighed at the idea of an entire episode featuring one of my least favourite characters. One of the characters high on my "please can he be hit with a bus" list. If his behaviour towards Penny wasn't bad enough, he's a whiny, self-serving, incompetent brat. It's very hard to see the excellent doctor that Malick keeps insisting is hiding inside Olly.
So, an Olly episode told mainly through flashbacks. It took in some of Elizabeth's story as well, which was mostly predictable until the confrontation between Ric and the pastor. That was a fabulous scene and the look of dawning realisation on the pastor's face as Ric's words sunk in...just right. I was all prepared to hate the pastor for enabling Elizabeth's mother in the abuse and for not realising how ill the woman was, but then the pastor turned out to a decent person after all. Nicely done. OK, turning up on the doorstep of Elizabeth's mother with Ric and a psychiatrist might not have been the best approach, but at least we didn't get a long, drawn-out suffering story. I think the interest from this story may come from what happens next to Elizabeth, her mother and Ric.
Back to Olly. I'd expected to rather hate the episode because I could not see any way to redeem or fix the character. It isn't going down in my favourites list (no Jac or Frieda, it's hard to love an episode without either of them) but I did get caught up in the story. Watching Olly unravel was expected, but finding out a bit about Penny and their family background was not what I expected. It made sense of some of his more annoying characteristics and I'm actually starting to feel a tiny bit (very tiny) of sympathy for him.
I'm not quite sure why Hanssen has given him a second chance after Olly's confession that he's not technically a doctor, but Hanssen is fabulous so I'm assuming that he has seen something in Olly that only Malick has so far. It will be interesting to see how Olly develops over the next few weeks. If he has finally found a reason to care about his profession and is actually living like regular people, maybe he'll turn into a tolerable character?
Still, let's not have another totally Olly week, OK? I missed my other characters.
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So far, I'm getting very tired and starting to get some low-level cramps, but that's about the extent of things (other than the blood-loss). My aim is to get through this without time off. We'll have to see how viable that plan is, though, and I concede that I can't push myself too far. I see Awesome GI Guy on Wednesday and I'll talk to him about what dosage of prednisone I should do, and for how long, if I feel that things are getting too awful.
I'm frustrated with my body now. Why can't it just behave and cooperate with the meds?
That aside...
I'm reading a very long Harry fic on my Kindle. Very long. Nicely plotty. I want to re-read all the Harry books now and I'm getting a wee bit excited about the movie next month. And to add to that fun, there is now the prospect that I'll finally be able to have Harry on my Kindle in the next few months. Never again will I have to figure out how in hell to hold up Order of the Phoenix because that thing is just too big for comfortable reading!
Not that I'll be getting rid of my paper copies. Nu-uh. I just want to have the added convenience of ebooks for travel and bedtime reading, while still having the lovely book-ish-ness of my paper copies to curl up with at times. It's possible that I'm obsessed....
On Saturday, I finally got round to watching last week's Holby.
I admit, I sort of quietly sighed at the idea of an entire episode featuring one of my least favourite characters. One of the characters high on my "please can he be hit with a bus" list. If his behaviour towards Penny wasn't bad enough, he's a whiny, self-serving, incompetent brat. It's very hard to see the excellent doctor that Malick keeps insisting is hiding inside Olly.
So, an Olly episode told mainly through flashbacks. It took in some of Elizabeth's story as well, which was mostly predictable until the confrontation between Ric and the pastor. That was a fabulous scene and the look of dawning realisation on the pastor's face as Ric's words sunk in...just right. I was all prepared to hate the pastor for enabling Elizabeth's mother in the abuse and for not realising how ill the woman was, but then the pastor turned out to a decent person after all. Nicely done. OK, turning up on the doorstep of Elizabeth's mother with Ric and a psychiatrist might not have been the best approach, but at least we didn't get a long, drawn-out suffering story. I think the interest from this story may come from what happens next to Elizabeth, her mother and Ric.
Back to Olly. I'd expected to rather hate the episode because I could not see any way to redeem or fix the character. It isn't going down in my favourites list (no Jac or Frieda, it's hard to love an episode without either of them) but I did get caught up in the story. Watching Olly unravel was expected, but finding out a bit about Penny and their family background was not what I expected. It made sense of some of his more annoying characteristics and I'm actually starting to feel a tiny bit (very tiny) of sympathy for him.
I'm not quite sure why Hanssen has given him a second chance after Olly's confession that he's not technically a doctor, but Hanssen is fabulous so I'm assuming that he has seen something in Olly that only Malick has so far. It will be interesting to see how Olly develops over the next few weeks. If he has finally found a reason to care about his profession and is actually living like regular people, maybe he'll turn into a tolerable character?
Still, let's not have another totally Olly week, OK? I missed my other characters.
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babbles on the entry on Dreamwidth