catch-up post
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kindkit1) I have the energy to post again now, because the doctor took me off the medicine (a beta-blocker) that was making me dizzy, exhausted, and brain-dead. I'm starting to remember what normal feels like, yay! Maybe soon I'll be together enough to resume writing fic.
2) I've been back at work since Sunday. It was very hard at first (especially while I was still having bad dizziness) but the boss and my co-workers have been pretty damn awesome. I'm readjusting, which is good because tomorrow I have to work a full eight hours on my feet. Eep.
3) There aren't a whole lot of upsides to anemia, but I have learned to cook dirty rice, which is very tasty as well as containing lots of iron-rich chicken livers. (I put great dollops of hot sauce on mine, as though it's jambalaya.) Any of you know other good recipes for chicken livers in, er, a fairly disguised form? I don't dislike the taste of liver, exactly, but I find it too strong to eat more than a couple of bites of, say, a sauteed chicken liver.
4) Yesterday I read Mary Roach's Packing for Mars, and now I need to read everything else she's ever written. Her writing has a lot of style and wit, and I must bow down to someone who includes, in her book on the pitfalls of space travel, a detailed discussion of a porn movie ostensibly shot in zero G (Roach concludes, based on the behavior of, er, liquids, that it wasn't).
5) I have also now read all of the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels except the very last. Well, all of the ones with Fitz in, except the very last. I can't quite bring myself to start The Gallifrey Chronicles, partly because I don't want the series to end, partly because it's by Lance Parkin, who hates my favorite characters. I've heard enough bad stuff about what he does in the book to make avoiding it seem wise. And yet my inner completist nags me.
6) The second half of Sanctuary S3 starts very soon! Which is great, but also bad because my fic (partly set after the aired episodes) is very much not finished and will now inevitably be jossed. Also, I fear there will be More Canonical Het Romance For Everyone. *sigh* I'd much rather see Great Adventures For Everyone. Or Genuinely Thoughtful Character Development For Everyone.
7) I'm trying to cheerfully look forward to the Doctor Who Easter special while simultaneously keeping my expectations low. (I am unspoiled. Please don't make any spoilery comments at all, not even hints.) It's not that I have any particular reason to worry, just that I find my relationship with new Who is happier if I don't get my hopes up too much.
8) Tell me things! What are you enjoying, fannishly, or looking forward to? What's something cool you've read/watched/listened to lately? I feel out of touch. I've been trying to keep up with my DW and LJ reading lists, but I haven't had much brain to spare. Which is also why in a lot of cases I haven't responded to comments. Sorry about that; your comments are always appreciated, it's just that for most of the last three weeks I've had the energy level and brain capacity of blue-green algae.
2) I've been back at work since Sunday. It was very hard at first (especially while I was still having bad dizziness) but the boss and my co-workers have been pretty damn awesome. I'm readjusting, which is good because tomorrow I have to work a full eight hours on my feet. Eep.
3) There aren't a whole lot of upsides to anemia, but I have learned to cook dirty rice, which is very tasty as well as containing lots of iron-rich chicken livers. (I put great dollops of hot sauce on mine, as though it's jambalaya.) Any of you know other good recipes for chicken livers in, er, a fairly disguised form? I don't dislike the taste of liver, exactly, but I find it too strong to eat more than a couple of bites of, say, a sauteed chicken liver.
4) Yesterday I read Mary Roach's Packing for Mars, and now I need to read everything else she's ever written. Her writing has a lot of style and wit, and I must bow down to someone who includes, in her book on the pitfalls of space travel, a detailed discussion of a porn movie ostensibly shot in zero G (Roach concludes, based on the behavior of, er, liquids, that it wasn't).
5) I have also now read all of the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels except the very last. Well, all of the ones with Fitz in, except the very last. I can't quite bring myself to start The Gallifrey Chronicles, partly because I don't want the series to end, partly because it's by Lance Parkin, who hates my favorite characters. I've heard enough bad stuff about what he does in the book to make avoiding it seem wise. And yet my inner completist nags me.
6) The second half of Sanctuary S3 starts very soon! Which is great, but also bad because my fic (partly set after the aired episodes) is very much not finished and will now inevitably be jossed. Also, I fear there will be More Canonical Het Romance For Everyone. *sigh* I'd much rather see Great Adventures For Everyone. Or Genuinely Thoughtful Character Development For Everyone.
7) I'm trying to cheerfully look forward to the Doctor Who Easter special while simultaneously keeping my expectations low. (I am unspoiled. Please don't make any spoilery comments at all, not even hints.) It's not that I have any particular reason to worry, just that I find my relationship with new Who is happier if I don't get my hopes up too much.
8) Tell me things! What are you enjoying, fannishly, or looking forward to? What's something cool you've read/watched/listened to lately? I feel out of touch. I've been trying to keep up with my DW and LJ reading lists, but I haven't had much brain to spare. Which is also why in a lot of cases I haven't responded to comments. Sorry about that; your comments are always appreciated, it's just that for most of the last three weeks I've had the energy level and brain capacity of blue-green algae.
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Date: 2011-04-15 03:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-15 05:43 am (UTC)As for the chicken livers... Red bean chili or a curry might work?
I'm currently busy myself, so I've lost touch with fandom a little as well, but I'm looking forward to getting my copy of Kim Harrison's latest, Pale Demon, as soon as the paperback comes out. (Stop judging, it's only the covers of her books that are horrid. *g*)
I also tried to watch Sanctuary, but it didn't really grab me. I'll probably try again at some point, when I have more free processing space in my head, because there has to be some reason half my f-list got into it. I only watched the first few episodes for now and felt vaguely bored, as well as annoyed with the what's-his-name main character, and angry about the, well, patronising way everyone behaves towards not-quite-humans. Helen seemed interesting, but not enough to make me watch the rest. Oh, well, maybe at some point. :)
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Date: 2011-04-15 06:16 am (UTC)(Sanctuary fandom is so weird. I keep drifting away. Then back. Then running away, then creeping back.)
Liver! *shudders* Don't forget to have some Vitamin C.
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Date: 2011-04-15 10:31 am (UTC)3. Can't go wrong with Finnish-style liver casserole. It's actually genuinely tasty. I don't like it with lingonberry jam, though, because I just plain don't like lingonberries.
4. That looks pretty awesome.
8. Ahah, as if it's not obvious where my mind's been. Writing reams and reams of Green Hornet fanfic that I can't show yet because of challenge timelines. It's totally out of control. DVD's coming out next month. I want to see Sucker Punch, but just never seem to get around to making a trip to the cinema. Watched a few episodes of Shattered, with Callum Keith Rennie as a dissociative disorder detective, which was relatively interesting. I liked how it want to such dark places from episode one, and later there was a woman who liked sex and worked in the sex industry and I never could decide if the portrayal was better than usual or not. She showcased some negative stereotypes, but none of the other characters shamed her and the storyline treated her and her relationship fairly kindly. No gay people anywhere obviously, even though it was a Canadian show. Oh well.