Monday, with rain & story-writing
Apr. 16th, 2007 09:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bironic1. SGA Season Three Catch-up Plan A is a go. Taped the episode that aired Friday night. Obtained most of what I missed. Have seen up to ep five now ("Progeny"?). Man, I thought "Duet" was funny, but "Irresistible"'s right up there. And was that or was that not John Diehl, who did the original glyph translations Daniel corrected in the Stargate movie? That breaks my brain. Laughed at Rodney's happy remark about how Ronon held him against the wall while he and John Diehl had a nice long chat, and all the jokes and double entendres and deliberate subtext about how all the men (except John) were in love with the herb guy. Also Rodney on morphine in "Sateda." And the delightful Robert Picardo, conducting intrusive interviews with friends and colleagues just like Dr. Zimmerman did in the DS9 episode "Dr. Bashir, I Presume?" wherein Bashir's Big Secret was revealed.
2. Went to see Meet the Robinsons Saturday night. Usually you have to drag me kicking and screaming to an animated movie—have overdosed; my dad loves them—but the promise of time travel and the fact that it was based on a book (though there were seven screenwriters) convinced me to do the family bonding thing, and you know what? It's one of my favorite animated movies ever. Maybe it just hit the spot, but it was all Disney-fied hovercars and robots and science geekery and sci fi/pop culture references and celebration of failure as a learning tool and sparkly time-warp bubbles and a dinosaur and mobster frogs and snarky gay flowerpots and the happy ending where if you stay true to yourself you find people who love you for who you are. The too-many-cooks rule seemed not to apply to the screenplay, miraculously, and the pacing was decent. The villain was a hoot and a half, too—a twitchy, loveable string bean of an idiot trying to be eeeevil but repeatedly failing. He had a happy unicorn binder. You all should go see it. In 3-D!
3. Rain all day yesterday, rain today, rain tomorrow. Also wind. It hasn't been nearly as bad here as it has in New Jersey and upstate-New-York-that-we-Long- Islanders-call-upstate-even-though-people-who-live-there-insist-it-isn't, which is good in the sense that we don't have much flooding or downed trees or power outages, but bad in the sense that we were promised a storm and got kind of a fizzly nothing. If it's going to rain, I want it to rain buckets! None of this half-hearted drizzle and occasional brief downpour nonsense.
4. Finished my![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
remix_redux story, which turned out okay after all. Had it betaed and then uploaded it. Took a glance at the list of stories uploaded so far and discovered that I am the luckiest remixee ever because somehow there are two remixes of my stories and I love the remixer(s)'s choices and I cannot wait to read them.
Unfortunately for the impatient among us, the stories are all locked until Sunday the 22nd (with author reveals on the 29th), so to fill the gap between finishing my story and getting to read everyone else's, I offered to pinch-hit. Not that I have the time, but it felt fair when someone did two for me, and I was very specific on what I'd be willing to do—and it worked, because this morning I got an assignment that is exactly the sort of assignment I'd been hoping to get the first time 'round, for an awesome person in an awesome fandom, which is... awesome.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a story to write by the end of the week.
*runs*
2. Went to see Meet the Robinsons Saturday night. Usually you have to drag me kicking and screaming to an animated movie—have overdosed; my dad loves them—but the promise of time travel and the fact that it was based on a book (though there were seven screenwriters) convinced me to do the family bonding thing, and you know what? It's one of my favorite animated movies ever. Maybe it just hit the spot, but it was all Disney-fied hovercars and robots and science geekery and sci fi/pop culture references and celebration of failure as a learning tool and sparkly time-warp bubbles and a dinosaur and mobster frogs and snarky gay flowerpots and the happy ending where if you stay true to yourself you find people who love you for who you are. The too-many-cooks rule seemed not to apply to the screenplay, miraculously, and the pacing was decent. The villain was a hoot and a half, too—a twitchy, loveable string bean of an idiot trying to be eeeevil but repeatedly failing. He had a happy unicorn binder. You all should go see it. In 3-D!
3. Rain all day yesterday, rain today, rain tomorrow. Also wind. It hasn't been nearly as bad here as it has in New Jersey and upstate-New-York-that-we-Long- Islanders-call-upstate-even-though-people-who-live-there-insist-it-isn't, which is good in the sense that we don't have much flooding or downed trees or power outages, but bad in the sense that we were promised a storm and got kind of a fizzly nothing. If it's going to rain, I want it to rain buckets! None of this half-hearted drizzle and occasional brief downpour nonsense.
4. Finished my
remix_redux story, which turned out okay after all. Had it betaed and then uploaded it. Took a glance at the list of stories uploaded so far and discovered that I am the luckiest remixee ever because somehow there are two remixes of my stories and I love the remixer(s)'s choices and I cannot wait to read them. Unfortunately for the impatient among us, the stories are all locked until Sunday the 22nd (with author reveals on the 29th), so to fill the gap between finishing my story and getting to read everyone else's, I offered to pinch-hit. Not that I have the time, but it felt fair when someone did two for me, and I was very specific on what I'd be willing to do—and it worked, because this morning I got an assignment that is exactly the sort of assignment I'd been hoping to get the first time 'round, for an awesome person in an awesome fandom, which is... awesome.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a story to write by the end of the week.
*runs*
