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Hello to everyone who's recently subscribed to this journal thanks to kouredios's friending meme! Welcome, and I hope you find some interesting discussions here (or recipes, or picspams of pretty actors, or whatever drew you). It's wonderful to have so many new people to talk to.

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Now I feel like I ought to be interesting, so naturally I can't think of a thing. I'm a bit braindead at the moment. I work in retail (how I got from academia--I used to be an English professor--to retail is a long story that says a lot about the state of the US economy) and of course it's our busy season. I am also doing Yuletide, although my story has been stuck at 823 words for several weeks. *sigh*

The last movie I saw (in the cinema) was Skyfall, which I liked enormously; the next movie I plan to watch (rental) is The League of Gentlemen, which is about Second World War veterans who decide to rob a bank and which looks awesome. I'm currently reading A. Lee Martinez's The Automatic Detective (meh, I'm afraid) and watching series 7 of Foyle's War (also a bit meh, although I loved the first few series of it). I'm looking forward to the Doctor Who Christmas special, the return of Cabin Pressure, and The Hobbit (I'm not especially a Tolkien fan, but I love Martin Freeman).

Comments

[frayadjacent]

Hi there! About 85% of my excitement for The Hobbit is Martin Freeman love. I did enjoy LoTR, both books and movies, but yeah. Martin Freeman is fantastic.

[st_aurafina]

I am also doing Yuletide, although my story has been stuck at 823 words for several weeks

Jealous! I have sixty words. Only 940 to do, whee!

[amalnahurriyeh]

Today I came up with a title for my Yuletide story. A WINNAR IS ME.

Skyfall was pretty awesome. Although I have thoughts about the ways in which it's a recursion to an older iteration of Bond, which the Judi Dench M years were very different from. But at the same time, there was a lot that was awesome in it--Moneypenny! The M-centric plot! da Silva's dramatics!

[wishfulaces]

Yeah, the early series of Foyle's War were so delightful that I was a bit disappointed in the last two series or so. I was rather especially disappointed in some of what happened with Milner's character--no internal continuity at all, it felt like.

[surexit]

I had no idea you used to be an English professor!