Catching up
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radegundAnother random collection of observations from the fevered mind of the Radzer:
I had ... not the week from hell, exactly, last week, but certainly the busiest in a very long time. My chamber choir gave a concert last Friday, and three of the previous six evenings were taken up with rehearsals. Meanwhile, my church choir also had an extra rehearsal, for a live broadcast yesterday morning. Plus I crazily said weeks ago that I'd deputise in the cathedral on Saturday, and that turned out to be a really tough and tense gig. All of this would tire me under any circumstances, but in my present condition it utterly flattened me. I spent the weekend in a glum daze, either semi-comatose or picking fights and getting extravagantly upset over things that I'd ordinarily be able to handle without too much difficulty. I still haven't really recovered.
Now that I'm Out at work, I've unlocked this entry, so anyone who reads this journal but isn't on my friends list can see it and understand the coy reference above to "my present condition".
I've just caught up on my friends page. Yet again. I suppose I should simply resign myself to this pattern: it happens frequently enough, after all. Now I'm seething with the update urge, but it'll have to wait because I'm already way past my New Official Bedward Start Time of 22:30 (I need scary quantities of sleep at the moment).
Somewhere in the dizzying rush of last week, my copy of Tesserae (latest collection of poems by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
siren_songs) arrived, and it rocks. I read poetry collections slowly, over weeks or months, and I can tell that this one is going to take some chewing :-)
Novel writing more or less collapsed last week. I'm debating trying to increase my daily quota for a while to make up for the lost time. On the one hand, that's what I did for NaNoWriMo and it worked. On the other hand, the larger goal might act as a disincentive. We shall see. Today was another lost day in any case.
As for your novel,yiskah, I'm afraid I still haven't managed to find a chunk of time to start reading it. But soon. Soon.
I watched my first ever episode of Buffy last night, courtesy ofstellanova via glitzfrau. (For fans, it was "Anne", from season 3.) Put me down as cautiously amused. I think it was the campest thing I've ever seen. I'll cheerfully watch another episode, but I'm still very much hanging warily back at the edge of the playground, observing, rather than running to join the crowd.
And on that telling note, friends, I really must go to sleep.
I had ... not the week from hell, exactly, last week, but certainly the busiest in a very long time. My chamber choir gave a concert last Friday, and three of the previous six evenings were taken up with rehearsals. Meanwhile, my church choir also had an extra rehearsal, for a live broadcast yesterday morning. Plus I crazily said weeks ago that I'd deputise in the cathedral on Saturday, and that turned out to be a really tough and tense gig. All of this would tire me under any circumstances, but in my present condition it utterly flattened me. I spent the weekend in a glum daze, either semi-comatose or picking fights and getting extravagantly upset over things that I'd ordinarily be able to handle without too much difficulty. I still haven't really recovered.
Now that I'm Out at work, I've unlocked this entry, so anyone who reads this journal but isn't on my friends list can see it and understand the coy reference above to "my present condition".
I've just caught up on my friends page. Yet again. I suppose I should simply resign myself to this pattern: it happens frequently enough, after all. Now I'm seething with the update urge, but it'll have to wait because I'm already way past my New Official Bedward Start Time of 22:30 (I need scary quantities of sleep at the moment).
Somewhere in the dizzying rush of last week, my copy of Tesserae (latest collection of poems by
siren_songs) arrived, and it rocks. I read poetry collections slowly, over weeks or months, and I can tell that this one is going to take some chewing :-)Novel writing more or less collapsed last week. I'm debating trying to increase my daily quota for a while to make up for the lost time. On the one hand, that's what I did for NaNoWriMo and it worked. On the other hand, the larger goal might act as a disincentive. We shall see. Today was another lost day in any case.
As for your novel,
yiskah, I'm afraid I still haven't managed to find a chunk of time to start reading it. But soon. Soon.I watched my first ever episode of Buffy last night, courtesy of
stellanova via glitzfrau. (For fans, it was "Anne", from season 3.) Put me down as cautiously amused. I think it was the campest thing I've ever seen. I'll cheerfully watch another episode, but I'm still very much hanging warily back at the edge of the playground, observing, rather than running to join the crowd.And on that telling note, friends, I really must go to sleep.
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Date: 2004-03-16 07:32 am (UTC)That's great, Yay! Huzzah! but Arrrgh! Out of sequence, out of sequence! Actually, Anne's pretty much almost a total stand-alone, so little harm done, but: Arrrgh! out of sequence! Spoilers! Arrgh! THE SPOILERS! While not as tightly bound as B5, Buffy really is a show that relies heavily on continuity and character development: finding out how the gang develops is ultimately much more important than the mystical secret that must be unravelled to defeat this episode's/season's big bad, and it's where the real suspense lies. So get thee to Season One, Episode One. (it's also a much easier introduction to Buffy than the Strum und Drang of Season 2/3). I'd send you a CD, but I've only got seasons one and two on DVD. I'll have a trawl through usenet and see if the buffy.reposters have cycled round to season one yet.
I too started off as cautiously amused and enjoyed Season One enough to watch Season Two when the opportunity presented itself: it was when I saw how they built off Season One into Season Two that I got really hooked. And yes, Anne is one of the campier episodes -- having Buffy the worker rail against her overlords in an industrial hell with a hunga-munga (which looks an awful lot like a crossed hammer and sickle) was laying it on a bit thick, as I think Whedon himself admitted in the commentary.
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Date: 2004-03-16 03:49 pm (UTC)