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chelseagirlYou know what's kind of cool? Being without my cell phone. I left mine at someone's apartment on Wednesday, and didn't pick it up until yesterday just before dinnertime, and there was something quite lovely about being unreachable for a period of time. [As an adjunct, I have no office phone, and I've been spending a lot of library time lately.] Dunno -- kind of peaceful, like this is my time and any messages'll be there when I get home and meanwhile, I'm just in some nice private space. The funny thing is I'm not one of those constantly-chatting types on my cell anyway, and most often people email me or call my home phone. So it was more the notion that nobody *could* reach me.
M. made a lovely, lovely curry last night, which makes me wish he was around at dinnertime on a regular, permanent basis. Must somehow inspire him to find a career goal outside of the restaurant business. But what?
I haven't been watching *Stargate* faithfully this season, but did watch the season finale. When the ad for next season came on, with glimpse of Ben Browder, I gave a carried-away kind of scream that caused my beloved to nearly drop something in the kitchen. Okay, my actor-crushes are few, but apparently louder than I had suspected. As for *Battlestar Galactica*, so Laura "I see visions" Roslin is starting to realize that Gaius "Raving Loony" Baltar might just be off his head. About time. The guy has been having conversations with invisible people and dry humping the air just a bit too often to escape notice. So he's a genius with good hair (usually; it was a greasy mess last night) -- even so, people, this is NOT normal, not even in the high-stress situations they've been in. So stop putting important strategic situations in his hands, and do NOT elect him to any more major offices. (Geez, he is one terminally-ill heartbeat away from the presidency -- scary!) We spent the beginning of the episode trying to figure out how Lee/Apollo could be sparring with his father at the same time he was in bed with Kara/Starbuck. Eeep! Poor Baltar, though -- used to dating supermodel cylons and being the pursued; gets the pilot he fancies in bed and all the time she's thinking of someone else. And all the jealous snits that ensue, and Kara "I must have been drunk; or was it the dress?" just straightforwardly admitting she's a screwup. And yet, it not descending to the level of "The O.C. in Space." Although, since Supermodel Cylon (Six, is it?) is pretty much Baltar's equivalent of John Crichton's Harvey, having *her* throw a jealous fit was just too amusing. (Though to be fair, Crichton doesn't airhump Harvey, outside presumably of fanfic.) It's interesting, too, since on *Deadwood* at the same time we have Seth Bullock having married his dead brother's widow (presumably in order to take care of her since it's clear he's not in love), and here we have Lee showing signs of being in love with his dead brother's fiancee. I know there are only seven plots in all of fiction, but puh-lease. [And speaking of the O.C., not that I admit to watching it or anything, but if Marisa and Ryan's brother now hook up, I'm lodging a formal "plot overuse" protest with the appropriate authorities.]
Poor Sharon/Boomer, in both of her incarnations; there's something very Manchurian Candidate about her situation on Galactica -- being a sleeper cylon and not knowing it, or not being sure. Though, how does someone try to blow her brains out and blow a hole in her cheek instead? It's so telegraphed that Kara is going to find Helo when she runs Roslin's mission to Caprica; poor "Just Because I'm a Cylon That Doesn't Mean I Don't Love You" Caprica!Sharon.
Much as I dislike the original series and love this one, the one thing that bugs me is that, while I'm glad to see Latinos and Asians in space, that the two major black roles from the original have been recast as non-blacks, replaced only by the girl who works in command and the priestess. I guess since Tighe (sp?) is such a negative character in this version, it's as well he's not. But if they're going to add any major characters, strong casting suggestion?
Is this an unusually stressed time in NYC? Yesterday on the subway, I saw a man and a woman have a peculiar quarrel -- both were standing in a crowded train. SHE: "Do you mind? I don't really want to sit on her lap." HE: "I was just trying to get comfortable." SHE: "Yes, but your getting comfortable doesn't leave any room for me." HE: "You crab! [A phrase I haven't heard outside of *Peanuts* for years, btw.] I should push you through the window!" SHE: "Chivalry is dead, clearly."
At lunchtime I was at a hole-in-the-wall little pizza place, and this woman's stroller had totally blocked me in -- I could not get around it and there was no other way out. So I asked, politely, if she could move it, pointing out that I was kind of trapped. The look she gave me . . . Now, I completely appreciate the logistics of kids and transportation in New York; I have friends who have to lug a pair of carseats every time they take a taxi with their toddler-and-infant combo, and I have helped people get their strollers up and down subway steps. But . . . I'm somehow a bad person for not sitting there until her meal is done?
M. made a lovely, lovely curry last night, which makes me wish he was around at dinnertime on a regular, permanent basis. Must somehow inspire him to find a career goal outside of the restaurant business. But what?
I haven't been watching *Stargate* faithfully this season, but did watch the season finale. When the ad for next season came on, with glimpse of Ben Browder, I gave a carried-away kind of scream that caused my beloved to nearly drop something in the kitchen. Okay, my actor-crushes are few, but apparently louder than I had suspected. As for *Battlestar Galactica*, so Laura "I see visions" Roslin is starting to realize that Gaius "Raving Loony" Baltar might just be off his head. About time. The guy has been having conversations with invisible people and dry humping the air just a bit too often to escape notice. So he's a genius with good hair (usually; it was a greasy mess last night) -- even so, people, this is NOT normal, not even in the high-stress situations they've been in. So stop putting important strategic situations in his hands, and do NOT elect him to any more major offices. (Geez, he is one terminally-ill heartbeat away from the presidency -- scary!) We spent the beginning of the episode trying to figure out how Lee/Apollo could be sparring with his father at the same time he was in bed with Kara/Starbuck. Eeep! Poor Baltar, though -- used to dating supermodel cylons and being the pursued; gets the pilot he fancies in bed and all the time she's thinking of someone else. And all the jealous snits that ensue, and Kara "I must have been drunk; or was it the dress?" just straightforwardly admitting she's a screwup. And yet, it not descending to the level of "The O.C. in Space." Although, since Supermodel Cylon (Six, is it?) is pretty much Baltar's equivalent of John Crichton's Harvey, having *her* throw a jealous fit was just too amusing. (Though to be fair, Crichton doesn't airhump Harvey, outside presumably of fanfic.) It's interesting, too, since on *Deadwood* at the same time we have Seth Bullock having married his dead brother's widow (presumably in order to take care of her since it's clear he's not in love), and here we have Lee showing signs of being in love with his dead brother's fiancee. I know there are only seven plots in all of fiction, but puh-lease. [And speaking of the O.C., not that I admit to watching it or anything, but if Marisa and Ryan's brother now hook up, I'm lodging a formal "plot overuse" protest with the appropriate authorities.]
Poor Sharon/Boomer, in both of her incarnations; there's something very Manchurian Candidate about her situation on Galactica -- being a sleeper cylon and not knowing it, or not being sure. Though, how does someone try to blow her brains out and blow a hole in her cheek instead? It's so telegraphed that Kara is going to find Helo when she runs Roslin's mission to Caprica; poor "Just Because I'm a Cylon That Doesn't Mean I Don't Love You" Caprica!Sharon.
Much as I dislike the original series and love this one, the one thing that bugs me is that, while I'm glad to see Latinos and Asians in space, that the two major black roles from the original have been recast as non-blacks, replaced only by the girl who works in command and the priestess. I guess since Tighe (sp?) is such a negative character in this version, it's as well he's not. But if they're going to add any major characters, strong casting suggestion?
Is this an unusually stressed time in NYC? Yesterday on the subway, I saw a man and a woman have a peculiar quarrel -- both were standing in a crowded train. SHE: "Do you mind? I don't really want to sit on her lap." HE: "I was just trying to get comfortable." SHE: "Yes, but your getting comfortable doesn't leave any room for me." HE: "You crab! [A phrase I haven't heard outside of *Peanuts* for years, btw.] I should push you through the window!" SHE: "Chivalry is dead, clearly."
At lunchtime I was at a hole-in-the-wall little pizza place, and this woman's stroller had totally blocked me in -- I could not get around it and there was no other way out. So I asked, politely, if she could move it, pointing out that I was kind of trapped. The look she gave me . . . Now, I completely appreciate the logistics of kids and transportation in New York; I have friends who have to lug a pair of carseats every time they take a taxi with their toddler-and-infant combo, and I have helped people get their strollers up and down subway steps. But . . . I'm somehow a bad person for not sitting there until her meal is done?
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Date: 2005-03-26 04:47 pm (UTC)M. and food: curry? Why not encourage him to become a personal chef? They are highly paid, I hear tell. I have no idea what the hours are but they can't be any crazier than the ones he has now. Unless he likes the gig now - in which case, I suppose you should let it be. :-)
One Stargate and BSG: Am I the only one I know not these shows? I must be. And through both seem to have inspired many people who taste I trust to raves - I still have no desire to watch them. I think I am at full series capacity with Deadwood, Boston Legal, 24 and Lost.
One NYC stress levels: Is it a particularly stressful or stressed time in NYC? I don't think so - or at least I have not noticed it. I do think it's a particularly stressed time in the subways. Think about how many system wide shut downs, delays and simple stupidity has plagued the system over the past two or three months. People are growing REALLY testy about it (and they should since half of the things happening are doing so through neglect and laziness on the part of the system overlords) and the other half is 'cause by extremely slow processes involved in any major overhaul. Oh and the money. They raise the fares and **poof** the system starts cracking like an aging stars face after botox injections start wearing off.
On babies on board: are you a bad person for asking the women to temporarily move her baby's stroller? No. But then you and I are not entitlement whores. Oh, I don't say people with kids are either. But people who expect the rest of us to accommodate them and their entourage of stuff without a peep and from sheer admiration that they have a baby in tow - THEY are entitlement whores.
There's a huge difference between someone who thanks you for holding a door for them since they obviously have their hands full and someone knocks you over in their race to get in before you get out.
There is an ENORMOUS difference between the person who asks me to move slightly so they can get their stroller through and the person slams the stroller into the back of the chair repeatedly until you understand that she trumps you because she stop menstruating for nine months and you didn't.
I too hold door, move chairs, assist people up and down stairs and in and out of buses. I am happy to do so. Babies ADORE me (inexplicably but true) so I am happy to help the baby's get on their way if I can. But I do not acknowledge that I am a second hand citizen destined to be inconvenienced because Mama Bear lacks manners, consideration and thinks she should be treated like a queen simply because she has a baby in tow. If she wants to be treated like a queen - let he go home and demand her partner treat her that way.
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Date: 2005-03-26 04:59 pm (UTC)M. is thinking about chef school as a future possibility; don't think he'd feel himself competent for personal chef-fing quite yet. At least right now the goal is to get him into a saner restaurant environment than Haru, then I'm trying to convince him to go back to school part-time for graphic design or one of his other interests. He is a great cook, though. I've been promised Beef Wellington for Easter dinner.
Just don't see you as a spaceship-show type person, somehow. ;-) Too firmly grounded? I'm not a big Stargate fan; usually tape it for M. since he generally works Fridays, but I happened to get watching the first part of this season ender. Galactica caught me by total surprise; since I hated the original I thought I'd hate this, and just tape it for M.; instead, it's a well-written and acted drama. I'm overcapacity for series at present, which is odd, because this fall all I was watching was Lost.
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Date: 2005-04-01 03:52 am (UTC)Re BSG: >>Eeep! Poor Baltar, though -- used to dating supermodel cylons and being the pursued; gets the pilot he fancies in bed and all the time she's thinking of someone else.<<
I loved it; I thought it served him right since he thinks he's such a stud and he's really just a big ho.
>Though, how does someone try to blow her brains out and blow a hole in her cheek instead?<
I was thinking the same thing!!
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Date: 2005-04-01 05:57 pm (UTC)I have a real love/hate relationship with Baltar. He's a bad, bad man, and yet the way he's gotten himself into all this and the way he copes with it, fascinates me. Plus, sadly, he's the closest thing to "my type" on the show. (Love Lee as a character, but Jamie Bamber is just so much cuter when he's talking British and has lovely blond locks and is wearing Napoleonic naval uniforms, as in Hornblower!)