State of Thea Checklist

[itsallovernow]

- Draft 1 of Remix done. Yes, my Remix is approximately 40 times as long as the original fic. It is in the hands of a delightfully able beta. Whoo Hooo!

-Still deaf.

- Still cranky, especially after reading that this sort of ear infection can get into one's brain!! I mean technically I know my brain is in there, that it's close to my ear canal and sinus passages and that it makes sense that things could infect the brain, but really, that concept is just kinda gross.

- Abandoned Riddlemaster trilogy in favor of a re-read of Busman's Honeymoon. Acceptable because of the deafness and general miserableness.

- M. did all of the dishes with an electric scrubby brush he bought at Ralph's. There is nothing about this that isn't funny. It looks like a vibrator with a spinning scrubby thing at the end and it sounds just like a vibrator and it's nearly impossible not to think, "Dude, I'm doing the dishes with a vibrator." and even better, "OMG, M. is doing our dishes with a vibrator." That makes up for a multitude of his sins.

- Tried desperately to stay up and watch the first two eps of Doctor Who, but crashed during The End of the World, which is okay because I've seen it already, and am already in love. I will say to those doubting, those who are new to Who, that the commercials are distracting and taping and fast forwarding or TiVoing is adviseable. I will also suggest that the love really starts in the next few episodes, although I really like The End of the World. And, honestly, I think I fell in love the very first time the Doctor says "FanTAStic." But I'm easy like that.

This could and should probably lead to a post on why Doctor Who works for me on a fannish level when BSG really doesn't, but the answer is so painfully easy. It's the absolute joyousness of the endeavor. The snark, and the way it turns from hilariously bad to perfectly delivered pathos with this black, brilliant, wacky vision of humanity. Who loves humanity, believes in it in all it's fallacies and absurdities, and BSG, well, it fails to celebrate what's so delightfully absurd and saveable about humanity.


Okay, I started this post last night and got distracted.

Remix was done, sent to beta, returned from beta, and now, post-bath, I finally figured out the theme. And really, I've sort of totally said fuck it to the original concept, although not exactly, but all of a sudden I understand the theme and I both love and hate that it happened.

I had a minor freakout in Rite Aid. I've been mostly deaf since Monday, and it just...knocked into me like a Pacific wave tonight. I was sitting in a restaurant for a client meeting, and it was too loud, and I felt lousy and I couldn't hear, and I'd finally eaten a normal amount (and figured out why I've not had an appetite. Sudafed=pseudoephadrine=appetite suppresant=speed) and my stomach hurt and I just wanted to cry. I couldn't get up and leave and it was just far too much to deal with at the moment. So when I finally got in the car, I drove to Rite Aid and harassed the pharmacist who told me to just take more Sudafed and then I did start to cry, which was embarrassing because who cries in Rite Aid over Sudafed. Especially the six different types of Sudafed that I hauled up to the counter to demand of the pharmacist which would be the most effective.

Despite all of that, I took three Sudafed, am watching Grey's Anatomy and life is not so bad.

Comments

[pdxscaper.livejournal.com]

{{{Hugs}}}...

I'm sorry that you're still feeling so crappy, I hope tomorrow is a better day.

I watched my first ever Dr. Who on Friday night and it was delightful. I'm glad there's more good stuff to look forward to.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

The effects remain cheesy, but the heart and warmth of it just grows and grows. And the doctor will break your heart.

[denyeverything1.livejournal.com]

I'm very annoyed the pharmacist couldn't help you better. V. unprofessional. {{{T}}} I hope you feel better soon.

"OMG, M. is doing our dishes with a vibrator."

This cheered me up too. *g*

I couldn't watch Dr. Who. Woe. I liked Rose a lot, and totally get the new Doctor = teh hot thing going around, but I had to dive behind my laptop when the disembodied hand and arm attacked. I *know* it was cheesy and silly and funny, but I can't do anything even remotely like horror -- and later there was a disembodied talking head and just... no. *sigh* I'm such a baby. But seriously, some day I will regale you with the kinds of dreams I have after seeing stuff like that. I don't need horror films -- I have my own subconscious. :P

[cofax7]

Well, if it matters, you won't see them again. Although there are two eps in the middle of the run that I found seriously disturbing and scary. Eeeks!

Still, I recommend. It's a great fun show.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Those two eps though are scary in a very different sort of way though. Not jumping out of the bushes scary, but disturbing scary:)

That may not help sell the cause...

[denyeverything1.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I do much better with high concept scary than low humor scary.

Make of that what you will. *g*

I might give it another shot if I can tape it so I have a fast forward option.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Truthfully, I find that it works best in batches (but then these days, I find most TV works that way for me). So fast forward would be a fine idea.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

The pharmacist mostly suggested that my antibiotic wasn't strong enough. And there's nothing I can do about that right now. And she told me not to take more than 240 mg of Sudafed, so that was sort of helpful.

The electric scrubby is never going to stop being funny:) I offer it up to the universe as a gift:)

Hugs you:) Does not laugh that you can watch SGA and not Doctor Who! IT's not funny. Really it's not. There's always an element of the horror/fantastical, but I don't recall anything really frightening until near the middle of the season and those eps are really scary, but not so much for the imagery as the atmosphere. Hugs you again for giving it a chance though!

[denyeverything1.livejournal.com]

The pharmacist mostly suggested that my antibiotic wasn't strong enough.

Considering how long this has been going on, she may be on to something. And you're right -- there's really nothing the pharamcist could do about that. *sigh*

Does not laugh that you can watch SGA and not Doctor Who!

*L* Thank you. I don't know why. The horror in SGA feels... more fantastical? More... well, you have to buy into a whole set of improbabilities -- stargates, other universes, etc. -- to get to the horrific part, whereas something as prosaic as a disembodied arm suddenly leaping off an overstuffed couch in an English duplex living room and *attacking people's faces* is enough to send me screaming under the covers. It's the injection of horror into every day objects that really, really gets me. Every time.

And yes, clowns and dolls frighten me too.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

I hate talking dolls - real or possessed on TV!

[cofax7]

Oh, honey. {{hairpats}} I hope you feel better soon!

Pressie: Ben.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Thank you dear. I just want to hear again!! That doesn't seem like so much to ask.

And, mmmmm. That's a fantastic prezzie, certainly enough to distract me from the deafness, because really, who needs to hear in the face of all that pretty.

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

*gentle hugs* for you and your poor ears. I hope things get better for you soon.

Give up on Riddlemaster. I really like McKillip, most of the time, but that was just way too much undiluted McKillip at a go. I've found that the earlier Big Epics of good fantasy authors tend to be unreadable past a certain age anyhow; it's like they have to get the Tolkien out of their systems and you have to be young enough to overlook that. I've loved her shorter novels, where the dense prose is part of a fascinating journey, but if it gets too long I get bored. Especially with, as you say, those damn descriptive, abstract paragraphs that take place in dreams or magical realms or whatever, and Big Symbolic Things happen to the characters in them while you're kind of skimming and losing patience.

Harpist in the Wind was especially egregious in its use of that technique, and when I just kept waiting for some damn thing to happen, I had to give up. Which is too bad, 'cause, pretty world. But enjoy Sayers, and try shorter McKillip instead. :)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

I made it through Riddlemaster of Hed. But I felt like I read this whole novel, and things happened, but if she'd just written the things that happened, it would have been about 40 pages. The prose made me a little nutty. And yeah, I've found that with the shorter novels I can fall into it and not care that not much happens because I'm sort of caught up in the atmosphere and the words. But even there, the action, the movement of the characters gets lost in the prose.

And I'm sort of wallowing in Busman's Honeymoon. I love it like I love really good fic because it's such a fantasy come to life for Peter and Harriet and yet I love them so much, want to stroke the pages in the same way I feel utterly in love with the existence of the words in certain fic, the way I want to touch certain paragraphs when I read them on my screen. Sayers totally ficced her own characters in this, and I find it utterly charming.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Man, that sounds still crappy. Sorry, Thea. Want an icon? A drabble (but you gotta be specific with your prompts)? & :-)

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

sending you best wishes, and good writing thoughts. i hope that you're better today. *hugs*

and heh! an electric scrubby brush? ::::boggles a bit and giggles too:::

and serious dr. who squeeeing....i never get tired of watching the episodes. and i agree, seeing them with commercials was hard. ack. and very good point about the joy. it's all mixed in with the harder edge of what they end up dealing with. but all along is the joy of connection, hope and redemption. fantastic indeed.

[ropo.livejournal.com]

Oy the ears, still, and the sudafed and the pharmacist! Hope you're all better soon.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Thanks hon! You and me both. I really love the bruised pair icon as well:)

[minnow1212.livejournal.com]

:hugs: I'm sorry. Adult ear infections *suck.*

Also, yay for Who! You really encapsulate my own delight in the series.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Thanks honey. Suck is an entirely appropriate word. I was looking far too fondly at the turkey baster last night!

[raithen.livejournal.com]

and you know, without some context, one could read a whole WORLD of wrongness into that comment.

:).

[kernezelda]

Oh, honey. ((((((Thea))))) I hope you feel better. An earache as an adult is just miserable.

Dishwashing vibrators, eh? Talk about multi-tasking. *g*

I love Riddlemaster, and read it every few years.

Also, Remix, yay!

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think Riddlemaster is one of those things you have to read much earlier than I am to really feel the love for it. I plan on finishing it, but I'm not enjoying in the way I'd hoped to.

And thanks honey.

[haphazardmethod.livejournal.com]

It's the absolute joyousness of the endeavor.

You are so smart. This is exactly right and I never could have articulated the difference myself. {{{T, but gently because of your ears}}}

[electricland.livejournal.com]

*hugs you*

Feel better soon, and I'm glad you have Who to console you!

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Thanks honey.