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Sep. 24th, 2006 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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The writing group went well, though the meeting ran a little long (something about an escaped 3-year-old -- don't ask). We're going to meet once a month, and my goal is to bring a new story to every meeting for critique. We'll see how it goes.
Everything Else
So, I watched the season opener for CSI. Seems like they spent a lot of money on Cirque du Soleil and John Mayer and forgot to budget for decent extras, or at least decent special effects. Both of the show's corpses were breathing on the autopsy table. And not in a so-subtle-only-geeks-would-notice way, either. It was so blatant, I thought they were going to sit up and say a few lines. What's up with that? And has anyone else noticed how much John Mayer looks like Brandon Lee? Eerie.
Also, there's this new Blue's Clues movie, Meet Blue's Baby Brother. We TiVo'd it, and watch it several times a day, because YB loves it. The show's host, Joe, looks about ten pounds heavier in this movie than in the regular series. And it looks like he is wearing a really bad toupee, which is odd, as he's probably only in his late twenties. I guess maybe the fame is getting to him, heh.
Finally, we bought and watched United 93 this weekend. I didn't like it as much as A&E's Flight 93. Maybe because I saw the latter well before the 5th anniversary of 9-11, so it was a fresh reminder, whereas United 93 came after all the memorials and replayed news footage and basically just reliving that day and I was already numb by then. Hubby actually fell asleep during the first 20 minutes or so, but woke up when the first plane hit. Given that, I'm not sure I can recommend the movie, but I don't think it's the kind of movie you buy because someone recommended it, anyway.
And, in other news, the pool filter has apparently given up the ghost. It still runs, but the little cleaning heads aren't popping up, and it shows the pool temperature as 164 degrees, which I'm thinking is probably not a good thing. As I am obviously out of my league at this point, I'll be calling in the Marines.
Interesting thing #28: I have a hard time telling my left from my right. I have to look for my wedding ring to remember which hand is which. As you might imagine, this can make giving directions quite...interesting. I console myself with the knowledge that this is supposedly a problem experienced by many people with high IQs. If you know differently, please don't disabuse me of the notion. Heh.
The writing group went well, though the meeting ran a little long (something about an escaped 3-year-old -- don't ask). We're going to meet once a month, and my goal is to bring a new story to every meeting for critique. We'll see how it goes.
Everything Else
So, I watched the season opener for CSI. Seems like they spent a lot of money on Cirque du Soleil and John Mayer and forgot to budget for decent extras, or at least decent special effects. Both of the show's corpses were breathing on the autopsy table. And not in a so-subtle-only-geeks-would-notice way, either. It was so blatant, I thought they were going to sit up and say a few lines. What's up with that? And has anyone else noticed how much John Mayer looks like Brandon Lee? Eerie.
Also, there's this new Blue's Clues movie, Meet Blue's Baby Brother. We TiVo'd it, and watch it several times a day, because YB loves it. The show's host, Joe, looks about ten pounds heavier in this movie than in the regular series. And it looks like he is wearing a really bad toupee, which is odd, as he's probably only in his late twenties. I guess maybe the fame is getting to him, heh.
Finally, we bought and watched United 93 this weekend. I didn't like it as much as A&E's Flight 93. Maybe because I saw the latter well before the 5th anniversary of 9-11, so it was a fresh reminder, whereas United 93 came after all the memorials and replayed news footage and basically just reliving that day and I was already numb by then. Hubby actually fell asleep during the first 20 minutes or so, but woke up when the first plane hit. Given that, I'm not sure I can recommend the movie, but I don't think it's the kind of movie you buy because someone recommended it, anyway.
And, in other news, the pool filter has apparently given up the ghost. It still runs, but the little cleaning heads aren't popping up, and it shows the pool temperature as 164 degrees, which I'm thinking is probably not a good thing. As I am obviously out of my league at this point, I'll be calling in the Marines.
Interesting thing #28: I have a hard time telling my left from my right. I have to look for my wedding ring to remember which hand is which. As you might imagine, this can make giving directions quite...interesting. I console myself with the knowledge that this is supposedly a problem experienced by many people with high IQs. If you know differently, please don't disabuse me of the notion. Heh.
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Date: 2006-09-25 03:56 pm (UTC)I actually knew someone with that same exact condition. He couldn't tell right from left to save his life. His directions consisted of east, west, north and south ONLY. You couldn't even tell him to turn right if he was driving. Very interesting indeed.
I hope it doesn't imply that those of us with exceptional directional sense are morons (although that would confirm some people's opinion of me).
Sigh....it's gonna be a long Monday, methinks.
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Date: 2006-09-25 06:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-25 06:21 pm (UTC)Yeah, I've read about that. Apparently, the aliens think those cleaning heads are for their use after they, uh, use your pool... Nasty little green men.
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Date: 2006-09-25 06:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-25 08:13 pm (UTC)Oh, and I recall the dead emperor in Gladiator had that same rare condition: corpse-breathing.