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So, Vanessa, bad lifestyle choices, eh? To be fair ( Read more... )

And in conclusion, who do we talk to in order to make Ferdinand Lyle's Egyptology Adventures a thing?

Just posted this on Facebook, for those who see me there, but . . .

Friends don't let friends take rush freelance jobs over long holiday weekends. Unfortunately, I was not a good friend to myself, and have a big deadline Tuesday morning. Plus I need to check in with my online class from time to time. So . . . I will be pulling 12-14 hour days today and tomorrow.

Wish me luck, or even better, share something good that's happening with you? Cheer me up when I take quick breaks to check social media . . . thanks!

Spoilers through 3.3 (last night's episode in the US):

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this is fun! anyone else?

Grantchester:
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Buffy:
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Orphan Black:
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I'm pretty devastated about the Agent Carter cancellation -- even though it wasn't unexpected, I'd really given this show my heart. No, it wasn't perfect, but it was one of the first times since Buffy ended its original run that I felt that real excitement about something on television.

So I've been responding to other people's disappointment in their comments. But I thought I'd share something I wrote in a response to a comment on my FB page: I recently rewatched Winter Soldier since eventually I will get the chance to get to a theater and see Civil War, and it struck me that if we can't have more Agent Carter, we should have an anthology series about the founding and earlier years of SHIELD -- Peggy and Howard would be leads in some and background characters in others, and some would be purely triumphant while others would show how Hydra was positioning itself within . . .

Also, there's a petition to ask Netflix to pick up the show. Even if she's too committed to her new ABC show to do more than an even-more abbreviated run, it's worth a try: https://www.change.org/p/netflix-save-agent-carter-bring-her-to-netflix

Finally got myself to do something I've been contemplating for a few months now -- to start running in the mornings. I bought the sneakers last week -- I hadn't owned proper trainers in probably a decade (just Converse high tops). And Saturday, I started. To begin with, I'm doing quite short runs -- just from my apartment up to and around Tompkins Square Park, and back -- which Fitbit tells me is just over a mile. I've gone the past two days and weather permitting will go on Monday as well; I'm not going to push myself on work days as I walk between 4 and 6 miles (again, according to Fitbit, but I do a cross-town walk to and from the PATH train which I take to work).

The plan is to build up -- once I've gotten to four times 'round the park, I will try East River Park, which has a trail along the water. Right now, I think I'd be totally winded by the time I get there!

My FB feed is clearly happy for me, as I've gotten more "likes" than I've seen on anything in a long while.

I fell out of this for so long that I'm going to catch up a bit today:

Three things you want to say to people:

To my cat Aeryn: Please keep sitting on my lap. It makes me feel so warm and loved.
To my husband: I love you. Now go away and let me be for awhile.
To my parents: Please live forever. (And stay healthy and alert . . . )

Pet Peeves:
manspreading on the subway. (This is where men sit with their legs far apart and crowd those who try to sit in the seats next to them.)
election coverage that seems to be trying to pre-determine the outcome, or that becomes obsessed with a certain candidate just because that candidate is amusing in a horrifying way.

One food and one beverage:
seltzer and vegetable curry. I could live on those.

Maybe a few more tomorrow. Sorry I have not been keeping up with commenting. I've loved the new volume since Circling the Wagons, but it's definitely harder to keep up. I'm also not cross-posting from DW as much, which has been noted, mostly because I'm being all meme-y over here. I think I'll go back to cross-posting except for these 30 Day memes, though.

My old friends are used to my fading in and out, but for the new folks: I've got some serious deadlines over the next few weeks and probably won't be keeping up. But then I'll be done (with the article, conference paper proposal, and departmental colloquium presentation) and back . . .

So my 30-day meme is likely to run closer to 50 or so. Oh well.

This is going to be tediously Euro- and North America-centric, because I'm middle aged and still paying off grad school (and the credit cards I overused while I was a grad student and sporadically-paid adjunct professor). So much as I might love to visit Japan, for example, it's not going to happen. Here are my reasonable goals:

- Scotland: My husband is from the UK, but I've only spend time in England. I really want to visit Scotland, which apparently is only about as far from London as Buffalo is from NYC. (An 8-hour drive.)

- Paris: I studied French in high school, and again, getting the Eurostar should be doable, once we've caught up enough to be visiting the UK regularly, again.

- Venice & Florence: I know Venice is like Disneyland, but it's so pretty and the history! And I'm such a Dante geek, that I really want to see his hometown, plus all that other art. (That counts as one trip, right?)

- Pacific Northwest: I've never been, and I suspect I'd like it. I might have a conference in Portland next spring, but I'm unsure I can afford to go. But there will be other opportunities . . .

- New Orleans: My husband and I have been there separately: his work did a Habitat for Humanity field trip about a year after Hurricane Katrina (when, sadly, a lot of people still needed to be rehoused). I did an academic conference that which was held on an Easter weekend; I got to wander about the French Quarter and to take a streetcar ride through the Garden District, but I barely scratched the surface. Oh, and because I had a panel I had to be at on Easter Morning, I went to Easter Vigil service at St. Louis Cathedral on Jackson Square. (Well, half of it -- I left before the Eucharist part because I'm not Catholic.) So yes, I would like to go back with him.

Describe your day, in detail?

Today, or an average day?

Today I'm on a visit to my parents; I watched an episode of Agent Carter on my tablet then got up, had breakfast and showered, talked on the phone with someone on Writing Center staff about a conference we're going to do next Saturday, went with my mom to donate some books (yay! I got them to start weeding out their collection, yay!), and now am settled down to get work done on academic projects. I will also hang out with my parents, but that's about it.

An average weekday: my husband gets up at 4, and the cats start bouncing on my head to get fed. If it's a weekday, I'm up by 4:30 to make him breakfast (if you can call coffee and toast making somebody breakfast) and feed the monsters; then I check email and etc. and once he's out the door, a little before 6, I shower and either get work done or watch something on TV. I walk across town from the East Village to the West Village to catch the PATH train to New Jersey, where I teach, do paperwork, have meetings, and otherwise pester the Writing Center staff. I usually leave about 5, to get home by 6:30. My husband makes the dinner (yay!), we catch up on our days and watch something on the DVR, and he usually goes to bed by 8 or 8:30. I'm up to anywhere from 9 to 11, depending on the day, either getting work done, reading, or watching tv -- or falling asleep on the couch with a book in my hand or the tv on. Generally a few cats drape themselves on or around me. Lather, rinse, repeat, as they say, though of course sometimes I meet friends for dinner, and one day a week I generally work from home to catch up on grading and etc. (Mondays this semester, but it depends on my teaching schedule.)

So, that was fascinating, eh?