In Flux

[shipperx]

So, tonight, for the first time in months, I left work before 7pm! Yay!

The behemoth set of drawings (turned out to be 280 pages of drawings. Let me clarify, 280 pages of 36"x48" drawings. I cannot LIFT the set of drawings) has finally, finally been sent to the printers (and I'm not allowing myself to think of the equally large building we have to design next).

I was too tired this weekend to do anything. So I still haven't finished the never ending chapter of my Spuffy fic. The really disheartening thing is that it's so close to being finished, but I simply haven't had the time.

Also, sadness because BAPS is gone. I really haven't had time to comment on it all since I've been buried at work. While in many ways I understand why Alane wanted to close the list, it still makes me nostalgic for the fun days of latter Season 5 and the summer after Season 5. There were good times (and some bad times) but it was a hell of a ride. I'm sorry that chapter of it closed, even though I wasn't particularly shocked by it.

I did manage to make it to the opening game of the football season. We beath Hawaii. 25 to 17. The sad thing was that it was 25 to 3 until the 4th quarter. Heck, it was 28 to 3 until they recalled a touchdown (and would have been even higher than that if they hadn't recalled the touchback). And somehow in the fourth quarter we slackened up and Hawaii pulled a comeback. They were really, really close to tying up the game at the end of the evening. Which is to say that Hawaii was actually a good team. They had a great offense. If they had had a defense to match they could do really well this season. Of course Alabama always depends on its defense, so no big surprises there. Someone (my brother-in-law, I think) made the sarcastic comment about us depending on the defense to win "and that's never happened." Yeah. If there's one thing you can depend on with Alabama, it's that we live and die by our defense. So our offense turning in what was actually a fairly solid game is somewhat marred by our defense having given up 17 points. They'll have to work on that.

Already posted on Nip/Tuck.

Did a drive by on a couple of soap boards I never visit any more. Jack and Jennifer depart Days of Our Lives in two weeks. Sad that that fandom is going kaput as well, but, there's nothing to do about it. It's been crawling along on its last legs for about a decade. And there's a rumor that "All My Children's" scribe may be fired... which would be a blessing to all AMC fans who (deservedly) hate AMC's headwriter. It's too darn boring to even bother complaining about any longer... which is usually a deathknell for a show. I haven't watched in so long I don't even know what the current storylines are about and there are characters that I don't recognize.

Finally, I've been exhausted all weekend, and I'm still rather exhausted now. I think the stress and sleep deprivation is catching up with me.

Comments

[boschette.livejournal.com]

ROLL TIDE!!! I didn't know you were a fellow fan. I'm a 2000 grad, and a born and raised football nut. I thought John Parker looked good, especially for his first time starting. You're right about the defense. They need to step it up.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Oh you bet! I'm like a 5th generation Alabamian. Football is sort or part of our genetic make-up, isn't it? Although (whisper) I went to the other school (Alabama doesn't have an architecture department).

Roll Tide. :)

[acristleo.livejournal.com]

Sorry work is kicking your tush. Hopefully you at least had a long weekend off for Labor Day.

As for BAPS, well I guess it was inevitable. The closing part that is. I think it could have easily gone on as it was for a while with discussion of other genre shows. I fully expected posting to pick back up when the fall season was underway. That is neither here nor there though. I *understand* wanting to put it to bed. It has been a long, long time - and one does grow tired.

But I really am at a loss over the deletion of the archives. Somehow 'I have my reasons that I can't share' really does not take the sting out of losing so much history. In the grand scheme of things I know that it really isn't that big of a tragedy, but it sucks. A lot.

As for AMC - lately Emma has been taking her nap during that time so I'll sit down and try to watch but I fall asleep every day. I know that this is largely due to being pregnant and exhausted, but still - not a good sign. My other problem is that the film format/ shaky camera work gives me a headache. What is up with that?

[drujan.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why Alane decided to delete archives either. Tabula Rasa list all but died, and didn't have any traffic for the last two years, but its archives are still there. So what gives with BAPS?

I get that Alane was the listowner and chose to do whatever she wanted, but I always thought of BAPS as a community, and its archives as our shared history... It stings.

[rahirah]

I never knew Alane well, so I couldn't even begin to imagine what her reasons are...but I do get the impression that she always considered it her list--to be shared with others, but ultimately hers to dispose of. :/

[mlgm.livejournal.com]

No matter how dumb the storylines were, AMC used to have some zingers with good actors to put them across. Now the dialog is lifeless, and we're getting less and less good acting and more and more young and pretty.

I can't even remember the last time I watched the Soap Channel.

[drujan.livejournal.com]

I haven't visited BAPS in ages, but I was saddened when I heard the news. I made Monday into my "goodbye BAPS" day: I dusted off my Spike tapes which I haven't seen in three years, read through BAPS archives, remembered the joy, and then sorror, and then rage...

I was actually very surprised to realise that after all this time, when I thought I forgot all of it completely, I was so easily reminded of all the intense emotions I felt those years back. For one day, I still hated Buffy and despised Joss. I still loved Spike. And then it was over.

I'm not sad that BAPS is gone, since I closed that chapter a long time ago. But I do not understand why the archives were deleted. That was a fine piece of fandom history, and who knows, maybe some of us would like to re-visit in the future, to remember what made us laugh and cry.

It shouldn't have been up to Alane to do this unilaterally, that's all I'm saying. Although, remembering the kerfuffle that resulted in temporary closing of BAPS and creation of Tabula Rasa, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.