Comments | rivlee: oh, travel

rivlee

oh, travel

Dec 26, 2009 16:04

Back in New England, there is still snow on the ground, but at least they managed to clear the sidewalks off this time around.

Note to self: Never travel the day after Christmas ever again.

Also: I saw Sherlock Holmes last night as a last hurrah with the family. I enjoyed it. It dragged in some spots, and you did feel the length of it, but there ( Read more... )

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ahria December 27 2009, 00:33:23 UTC

Glad you're home safe.

AHAHAHA, after watching the Sherlock Holmes trailer for the first time I was like, "...wow, the slash almost writes itself." LOL.

rivlee December 27 2009, 02:10:54 UTC

Thank you. :)

There were so many times while watching the movie where I was like, "Wow, who needs subtext?" Seriously, there is this time where Mary, Watson's soon to be wife, says to Holmes' face "I know you love him just as much as me" or something. I was cracking up.

ahria December 27 2009, 02:16:15 UTC

Awesome. XD

I really do want to see it, but we've been trapped in our house for two days. We have 4-10 snow drifts all around and there is no road to speak of... I haaaaate ND. *whine*

rivlee December 27 2009, 02:21:50 UTC

I am telling you, fandom explosion is going to happen any hour now.

::hugs:: Well, I would prefer you at home, safe, and not dying in a snowbank over seeing a film that's been out for only two days. At least you still have internet.

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red_ajah December 27 2009, 00:34:16 UTC

Back already?

And travel is going to get much worse now. Frakking terrorists. Just die!!

Oh, what kind of books?

rivlee December 27 2009, 02:16:31 UTC

Yeah, I have work on monday.

Oddly enough there were no added security measures for my flight, I think it's more international flyers. We shall see.

Um, long list and in no order but

Murder of a Medici Princess by Caroline P. Murphy
The Great War and Modern Memory; The Illustrated Edition by Paul Fusell
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kater Summerscale
Who Murdered Chaucer? A Medieval Mystery by Terry Jones
Henry VIII by Alison Weir
Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner (which no, I have not read yet.)

I wonder what it says about me since three of those books have "murder" in the title.

red_ajah December 27 2009, 03:49:03 UTC

That you love a good mystery and like to uncover stuff. Oi, historian. Maybe you should take up forensics too, lol!
Sorry, too much Bones...

That first one sounds quite nice...

rivlee December 27 2009, 05:12:40 UTC

I actually did take a forensic antro course for my anthro minor. Loved it. ::sighs:: If only I was better at math.

The Medici Murder one is an Oxford University Press paperback (so, peer reviewed history) about Isabella de'Medici's murder at the hands of her brother and his co-conspitors. I've just started it and it flows rather nicely, not a dense academic history book.