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Dec. 29th, 2004 11:50 amSome of the benefits of having been ill this past week:
I wasn't mentally up to reading anything too challenging or teaching-related, so I finally got to finish the Patrick O'Brian series. The characters are old friends by now and even if I missed some stuff in my fog, these are getting reread someday . . . What amazes me is that he never seems to slacken or burn out -- there were a few minor inconsistencies I think I caught, but the quality of the writing and the stories stays strong throughout. I love the fact that the series ends in progress, because Stephen and Jack's Excellent Adventures would and should never ever end! ( Read more... ) I'm not quite done, because I've got a copy of 21 -- or strictly speaking, I've got a copy of The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey, as that is the title of the British edition, which this is, in front of me.
Lots of DVD watching time, too, in the lack of anything more productive happening. In my joy at the announcement about more LFN DVDs, I rewatched season 1. Not only does it hold up, but the darkness of the world and some of the performances (esp. Roy Dupuis) amazed me all over again. Much as I love Alias, I'll have to say that when six-foot tall Peta Wilson kicks the butt of many large men, I kinda find it easier to believe than when smaller, delicate Jennifer Garner does same.
I can wear my maroon velvet trousers to M.'s office party (on New Years' Day, of all times); I'd put on a little bit of weight, just enough that a few things no longer fit, when M. was out of work and doing the cooking (large plates of steak frites do not maintain my sylphlike form) -- now that I'm eating in my own more healthy and sparing way again I will keep it off but I hadn't been quite sure how to get it off. The whole "no interest in food" part of the illness helped there.
And in non-illness related happiness,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
seanmoon's announcement a week or so ago that Chow Yun-Fat will be in the Pirates sequel has me very, very happy. I'm a big fan (and have a great big crush on the guy), and have many of his Asian and Hollywood films on DVD, but frankly after the mediocre Bulletproof Monk, I was afraid his star was on the wane. For someone with CYF's charisma to have to share the spotlight with William Seann Leonard? He just hasn't broken through quite as strongly as Jackie Chan or Jet Li, maybe in part because his acting tends to involve, you know, language more, and his English is still getting up to speed. . . . So yay for CYF the pirate -- ya'll can keep Jack Sparrow for yourselves if I can have him!
I wasn't mentally up to reading anything too challenging or teaching-related, so I finally got to finish the Patrick O'Brian series. The characters are old friends by now and even if I missed some stuff in my fog, these are getting reread someday . . . What amazes me is that he never seems to slacken or burn out -- there were a few minor inconsistencies I think I caught, but the quality of the writing and the stories stays strong throughout. I love the fact that the series ends in progress, because Stephen and Jack's Excellent Adventures would and should never ever end! ( Read more... ) I'm not quite done, because I've got a copy of 21 -- or strictly speaking, I've got a copy of The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey, as that is the title of the British edition, which this is, in front of me.
Lots of DVD watching time, too, in the lack of anything more productive happening. In my joy at the announcement about more LFN DVDs, I rewatched season 1. Not only does it hold up, but the darkness of the world and some of the performances (esp. Roy Dupuis) amazed me all over again. Much as I love Alias, I'll have to say that when six-foot tall Peta Wilson kicks the butt of many large men, I kinda find it easier to believe than when smaller, delicate Jennifer Garner does same.
I can wear my maroon velvet trousers to M.'s office party (on New Years' Day, of all times); I'd put on a little bit of weight, just enough that a few things no longer fit, when M. was out of work and doing the cooking (large plates of steak frites do not maintain my sylphlike form) -- now that I'm eating in my own more healthy and sparing way again I will keep it off but I hadn't been quite sure how to get it off. The whole "no interest in food" part of the illness helped there.
And in non-illness related happiness,
seanmoon's announcement a week or so ago that Chow Yun-Fat will be in the Pirates sequel has me very, very happy. I'm a big fan (and have a great big crush on the guy), and have many of his Asian and Hollywood films on DVD, but frankly after the mediocre Bulletproof Monk, I was afraid his star was on the wane. For someone with CYF's charisma to have to share the spotlight with William Seann Leonard? He just hasn't broken through quite as strongly as Jackie Chan or Jet Li, maybe in part because his acting tends to involve, you know, language more, and his English is still getting up to speed. . . . So yay for CYF the pirate -- ya'll can keep Jack Sparrow for yourselves if I can have him!
