Comments | nematoddity: damn, girl, I like you already

nematoddity

damn, girl, I like you already

Sep 19, 2007 12:36

I'm watching Ghosts of Mars. It was the Carpenter film I hadn't yet seen, the girl's asleep, I ache in every single bone and bit of me....it was all I could do to get up, track down a pain pill, and start a load of laundry.

Honestly, at this rate? I'd rather be coughing up a lung. The muscle weakness and joint pain is not helping ( Read more... )

ow, weirdness, illness, links

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sphynxcatvp September 20 2007, 00:05:58 UTC

On the other hand, it could be worse, and probably would be, were it not for the spiffy C powder. (Just don't gloat, Sphynx, okay? I get it. I'm slow but I get it.)

I've been *inhaling* the stuff the last few days. I finally had *vague* signs of body saturation....about 3 hours ago. Whatever this is, I'm tired of my head feeling like I have brains of peach fuzz in an overstuffed beach ball. :P

(No, you're not the only one sick at the moment.)

And either America is too obsessed with dentistry, or again, England just doesn't really care

One of the reasons I just absolutely *adore* British shows - everyone in them looks so refreshingly....NORMAL! Or at least normal, as in, not Hollywood cosmetized. :) It's one of the reasons I was crazy about Ultraviolet when I finally saw it oriignally, oh way back when...It was full of people who I didn't recognize and looked like REAL people.

Ok, back to chugging C and groaning now...

nematoddity September 20 2007, 00:46:47 UTC

I'm just hating today and wanting it done with, frankly. Over the whole concept.

Woke up: eleven ayem. After getting a little over eight hours of sleep, even. First pain pill: 11:30 am. Second pain pill: 3:00 pm. Third pain pill: 5:30 pm.

I'm going to hold out as long as I can, but I think I may take four Tramadol today, and I have never, ever needed that much.

And this is on top of staggered doses of ibuprofen, 1000 mgs every four hours. This is serious pain.

I don't like. At all.

sphynxcatvp September 20 2007, 01:48:23 UTC

I've got enough peach fuzz in my brain I never thought of pain pills. I'm not sure they'd help...I mean, there's aches? But they're not painful enough to interfere with things, so I tend to leave them alone.

As an interesting observation... symptoms of scurvy do include joint pain. Not that I'm saying "OMG scurvy panic!" but that a lot of ailments tend to force bodily consumption of vitamin C at rapid rates. Considering how much I've gone through this week....eeek.

joanne_c September 20 2007, 00:18:13 UTC

As an Australian? Too obsessed. I never even noticed the gap until the US audience kept pointing it out in horror.

nematoddity September 20 2007, 00:43:42 UTC

Sadly, I think it's part of our conditioning. I see shows from other places and I realize how completely and utterly sanitized the television form of humanity is. We've lost something, maybe everything, and I don't know what we can do to get it back.

Shows like Roseanne, oddly, were actually helping, but then they left the air and it went back to glossed and buffed to extinction again.

Thing is, she's pretty, she's fresh, she's smart, there's absolutely nothing wrong with her...her characters have heart and charm and beauty. But yeah, Americans? We shriek at the tooth gap.

We are so goddamn shallow.

joeyfalconetti September 22 2007, 15:47:21 UTC

I happen to think she's terribly sexy, but I did note that she sure doesn't look like the ladies I'm used to seeing on American television. It's funny, because the teeth are really obvious...but, in general, I see a lot more human females on British TV than I ever do on ours.
There is a specific obsession with the teeth, though, because we allow all manner of overweight and unattractive men on TV over hear, but we still freak out when we see these British male actors with crooky teeth...wonder what it is about the teeth.

joeyfalconetti September 22 2007, 15:42:57 UTC

in re:torchwood, I'm really curious what American TV is doing with it. There's an awful lot of swearing and boy on boy action. I hope it's not too heavily edited.

in re:milk, it should be noted that school's follow nutrition guidelines provided to them by special interest groups headed by barons of the meat and dairy industry (who hold most of the influential positions at the FDA). The recommendations are only backed by "science" that is funded by those that stand to make a profit off of the sale of certain foods. So, really, I have to agree that constantly telling children that they should drink as much milk as possible when it is an irritant to the immune system and can cause numerous health problems in some children is not the best way to care for our kids....I wouldn't call it endangerment, though...just general stupidity.

btw, lovin' the Sweeney Todd pics.....yummy!