BLEAK HOUSE, Y'ALL. BLEAK. HOUSE.

( Cut for spoilers to a hundred and fifty year old book. )

( A couple of brief responses to Doctor Who 3x07, spoilers abounding! Plus some speculation on upcoming episodes. )

At the moment I am weekending in Barcelona with Mom and Tess. After this evening, if Tess wants to kill me, I would understand, and here is why --

Me: *watching latest Bones* OH MY GOD I HAVE SO MUCH EMOTION.
Tessa: *reading second Hunger Games book* So...so many terrible things are happening ( Read more... )

I really want to make a Mad Men vid about Don and Betty's marriage set to "Castles Made of Sand" by Jimi Hendrix, because it is a fucking beautiful song, but I'm still trying to decide if it's worth it with the possible problematic aspects (making a verse about an "Indian brave" be about a white dude, making a verse about a disabled woman be a ( Read more... )

So, I'm watching season one of The Gilmore Girls, and I'm not sure I can keep going with it, because I don't think I can do seven years of, I don't know, straightness and drama (this isn't really my genre). However, I would be happy to watch the show forever if it consisted solely of ( Read more... )

The weird thing about rewatching The West Wing now, after a few years break, is all I keep thinking is "Peggy Olson and Gus look so young" when I see Zoe and Charlie and "Mike from Yours, Mine, and Ours slash the kid from Animal House looks so old" when I see the vice president ( Read more... )

So, I have seen this meme going around, and since I am not doing much for the next thirty days (okay, for the next twenty-odd days -- in thirty days I'll be in Italy for a spell), I decided to just give and do it, as I so clearly wish to.

( The list of prompts. )

My attempt to watch a movie where TWO PEOPLE FALL IN LOVE AND IT IS AWESOME has been kind of a HORRIFICALLY EMBARRASSING FAILURE. It's been all LOVE TRIANGLES and MISSED CONNECTIONS and LAST MINUTE HOOKUPS. What if I just want to watch a SLOW, INEVITABLE ROMANCE?

So far this month:

( Spoilery descriptions, but I don't name any of the movies. )

Guys! I just got accepted to be an English teaching assistant to middle schoolers in France! I've been placed in l'academie de Montpellier, which means I could be in the city, but could also be placed in a small town around it. It's near the oceaaaaan and is a relatively short drive from BarcelooooonaOf course, I just sent in my application from ( Read more... )

1) Oh my god, no more Ugly Betty!

2) In re: this week's Bones and ( spoilers )