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[shipperx]

I'm very behind on a lot of things.

Re: Sister:  She's back at work and feeling somewhat better.  They've hired a temp to replace the crazy man.  Reading the stuff on the shooting in Huntsville is scary because of its similarities with what happened to my sister.  A lot of the student complaints about the teacher and the Huntsville professor are frighteningly similar. What if he'd had a gun?  ::shudder::  At any rate, Sis is doing better.

Re: Kitchen Reno:  Finished grouting.  The buttercream was the right color grout and totally worth having to scrape out of the part I had grouted previously.  Now the tile looks like it's supposed to look.  The kitchen still needs painting in areas where I had to do drywall work after the old countertop was removed, and I'm still debating between kinds of under cabinet lights... but completion is closer!

Re: Being Human:  Downloaded this week's episode but have yet to find time to watch it.  It's on my list.

Re: Fanfic:  Have actually made some small, incremental progress.

Re: Reading: Have been reading Connie Willis's Blackout   Interesting premise (historians, doing research, time travel to WWII and inadvertantly begin changing history in small ways that could mess up the timeline).  Unfortunately, I have quibbles with execution.  For one thing, I question who in their right mind would fund such a thing.  Sending historians back in time to observe things that were actually fairly well documented in the first place seems difficult thing to justify.  I understand their 'convergence' points won't allow them to intervene/witness pivotal events first hand (though I can see that's being set-up to be blown out of the water), but who in the hell would fund sending people back in time to work as shop girls during the Blitz or to babysit measle infecting evacuees? (BTW, far too many annoying children with measles in this story and that particular historian never seems to do anything but babysit and try to catch transport back to the year 2060.  Thus far, I don't even know what the purpose her plot serves. ) The guy researching the evacuation of Dunkirk, I get.  Just wish there was more of his plot and less of the measel infected obnoxious tykes. If I want kids evacuated to the countryside during the Blitz, there had better be a wardrobe that leads to Narnia.  

And, quite frankly, other than their having different research assignments, I have a very difficult time telling the two female historians apart.   

Anyway, interesting premise.  Hope the story picks up.  I'm only a third of the way through so there is time.

Re: Lost  Yet again this week's episode inspires thinky-thoughts about fate and free-will.  I don't know if I will get around to posting about them, but I find I like the way the sideways-verse is forcing us to question what in Lost-verse was made to happen, what was 'destined' to happen no matter what--with or without interference--and what is legitimately up to the characters' free will to choose. Looking forward to watching how this pans out. 

Oh, and I found EW's episode recap The Man with the Plan  to be intriguing (though with far too many quotes from other material).

Comments

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

Being Human rocks this week! ZMG that ending!

Glad sister is doing better, but how scary!

[sourisvho.livejournal.com]

I just started reading "Blackout." Haven't even finished the first chapter yet. (I get so little time to read.) Have you read the first two books in the series? Well, I'm not sure if it's technically a series, more books set in the same universe with some of the same people. I think "Doomsday Book" is one of the absolute best books I've ever read. If you haven't read it, you should! I enjoyed the followup, "To Say Nothing of the Dog," but it's a different kind of book than DB -- much lighter.

I often find that when authors delve into the same well, subsequent books become less effective.

[calturner.livejournal.com]

I've only just discovered Connnie Willis and Blackout is on my 'to be read' list. It's only the first part of a two part story, though (the second part, All Clear, is due out in October), so I may wait a while before I read it.

I still have this weeks ep of Lost to watch yet, but I'm loving the final season so far. I even enjoyed last weeks Kate-centric episode - and that's saying something for me, as I'm not really a fan of the character. I can't wait to see how they wrap the whole thing up over the coming weeks!

I'm so glad to hear your sister is doing better. :)