Lizardbeth's Tale

A bit on the ( most reacent eps of Justified )

All right, I should go back to doing something useful.

Kiddo persuaded me to try playing Super Mario Brothers on our Wii last night. MY THUMB STILL HURTS. How do people do this for hours and hours??? I guess I need thumb pilates or something...

yesterday's BSG ficlet:
Dancing in the Fountain. PG, Final Five on oldEarth, esp Tory

I realized that as much as I like writing delicious nummy angst emotionally difficult things, it's pretty clear that I also avoid them and that's why some projects take so long. Writing the middle part of Triad is just... draining. I get a couple of scenes and I just can't do anymore - like I am TOO far in that head space, or it takes so much effort to get there mentally that I have to go find something else. I think this is why I elided the bits in Road to Tartarus which cover similar ground.

( Justified - the one about Karen Sisco, or would be except someone else has the rights, oops, lol )

- I'm still a bit grumpy that anberlin is playing with 30 Seconds to Mars in every (most) concert except the one I saw. (reminded because shuffle just tossed Neon Trees at me, who opened for them last year). Why did we have someone sucky? :(

- Speaking of, I am voting in a silly poll - 30STM vs linkin park -- and now all I can think of is how awesome it would be to have Chester and Jared swap vocals on, say, The Kill and What I've Done. Internet gods, get on that!

- Yay Cylons for Round 4 of twelvecolonies!!! Wow, what a nail-biter. And a clever crazy last-second sneak attack from behind! :D

- Tonite! The season finale of Justified. HOLY MACKEREL SOME STUFF HAPPENING TONITE. Hard to believe the season's over so soon. It's been quite a ride.

- and also, yay, for a well-timed comment on an oldish story! always feels so nice. :)

I've had an entry open for two days now. Did I mention it was spring break for the kidlet? Yeah. Next week I'll just be gone on vacation, but this week... home with a highly bored, highly energetic little kid. He doesn't want to go to bed or sleep either (he's usually a pretty good sleeper, but not this week).

But despite this, we had our parent teacher conference for the middle term and found that I have the most amazing child in all of kindergarten. Or, y'know, words to that effect. :)

In dumb project news, I've been trying to finally get "Meteor Storm" off my DVR by saving it to disk. I was hoping I could connect to the DVR and grab the VOB or whatever file it is, but my computer won't talk to it. boo. So I video captured the movie, and it inexplicably saved at mediocre resolution. The whole POINT of making my own was to do a high-def version for pretty caps. I'm full of technological ineptness this week. bah So I'm kind of watching it again, as I cut it: the premise is still ridiculous, but it's watchable and pretty. Really, it could be worse.

(in Skiffy Movie news, I am CRUSHED to discover that Misha Collins' Skiffy Saturday spectacular Stonehenge Apocalypse doesn't air until at least June, looks like. BOO. C'mon, STONEHENGE APOCALYPSE... how can that not be awesomely bad?)

(three zillion years later in this tab... Kidlet didn't go down until almost 10. ARRRRGH)

THERE WAS TEEVEE.

Justified continues to rock my world -- it's such a nice change of pace to have crooks be actual small time criminals and dirtbags working the angles and betraying each other for five g's, rather than (a) criminal masterminds or (b) serial killers, like most cop shows. It's light-hearted and obviously the drama's heightened, but in some ways, it feels more grounded in reality (than, say, a show like Castle which is fun, too, but very teevee-ish). Three eps in, I'm still liking it (and I have a notoriously short attention span).

Before that, there was LOST.

( I LOST THE PACKAGE )

I dvr'd V and hopefully I'll get a chance to watch tomorrow.