Je suis fatigue, tres tres fatigue
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crankygrrl in French. Which made me giggle. My French sucks first thing in the morning, especially if I've taught Latin the night before. I spent five minutes trying to remember the word for why and only came up with ubi. I finally remembered, but my brain refuses to follow the nice path I'd like it to stay on.
My favorite Latin phrases remain Cartago delende est and Te Pedicabo. And my favorite non Latin phrase because I read the Livy in English and not - thank you God - in Latin, is "If they won't eat, let them drink," said the general who tossed the sacred chickens into the ocean because their refusal to eat signaled bad omens for the expedition. If I remember correctly, the chickens were right. But the disaster may have just been pay back for the fowl play.
Sorry, left my watch at home this morning and have been antsy ever since.
M. calls me on my cell phone last night at 8 p.m. as I'm driving to my Latin student's house. "It's almost 8, isn't there something you want me to tape for you. And where's last week's episode, and where's the tape?" Snort, the combination of utter sweetness and dorky boy can't find anythingness is just so endearing. If I hadn't lived with him for so damn long, I'd marry him. As it is we're such an old married couple. But it was sweet of him to be proactive about the taping. I had my VCR set for West Wing, which was pre-empted, but still made me think I was crazy because I didn't know this and was trying to figure out how the hell I managed to tape Law and Order.
But he did tape Angel...
And it sucked mightily. I'm sorry. I'm sure there were redeeming moments. I loved the pen, Wesley's longing looks at the pen. (And I really would like to know at what point the mindwipe is supposed to have started. Is it just pre-Connor, or did their lives go on Connor free, or what?)
Spike's snark is fine, but it was filler. And the pacing felt off, the whole dinner scene was totally anti-climactic. And again, I'm sorry, but Fred's reference to them being a dysfunctional family just annoyed me. Not that I don't think it's somewhat true, however, "A Jerry Springer kind of family. But family." FS just did that pronouncement way better. Spelling it out in Family Ties worked. Fred saying they were family in the back of a limo with the large breasted guest star just didn't do much for me. Neither did the communal misery of having a monster inside. I wouldn't mind seeing Angel find a love interest - and actually, wasn't at all unhappy with DB this week, but the whole thing felt, somehow, off kilter.
But Gunn in a suit. That was kind of nice. And his defense of himself. Go Gunn.
ETA: Happy Birthdaydouble_helix! May you get everything you wish for out of the coming year!
crankygrrl in French. Which made me giggle. My French sucks first thing in the morning, especially if I've taught Latin the night before. I spent five minutes trying to remember the word for why and only came up with ubi. I finally remembered, but my brain refuses to follow the nice path I'd like it to stay on.My favorite Latin phrases remain Cartago delende est and Te Pedicabo. And my favorite non Latin phrase because I read the Livy in English and not - thank you God - in Latin, is "If they won't eat, let them drink," said the general who tossed the sacred chickens into the ocean because their refusal to eat signaled bad omens for the expedition. If I remember correctly, the chickens were right. But the disaster may have just been pay back for the fowl play.
Sorry, left my watch at home this morning and have been antsy ever since.
M. calls me on my cell phone last night at 8 p.m. as I'm driving to my Latin student's house. "It's almost 8, isn't there something you want me to tape for you. And where's last week's episode, and where's the tape?" Snort, the combination of utter sweetness and dorky boy can't find anythingness is just so endearing. If I hadn't lived with him for so damn long, I'd marry him. As it is we're such an old married couple. But it was sweet of him to be proactive about the taping. I had my VCR set for West Wing, which was pre-empted, but still made me think I was crazy because I didn't know this and was trying to figure out how the hell I managed to tape Law and Order.
But he did tape Angel...
And it sucked mightily. I'm sorry. I'm sure there were redeeming moments. I loved the pen, Wesley's longing looks at the pen. (And I really would like to know at what point the mindwipe is supposed to have started. Is it just pre-Connor, or did their lives go on Connor free, or what?)
Spike's snark is fine, but it was filler. And the pacing felt off, the whole dinner scene was totally anti-climactic. And again, I'm sorry, but Fred's reference to them being a dysfunctional family just annoyed me. Not that I don't think it's somewhat true, however, "A Jerry Springer kind of family. But family." FS just did that pronouncement way better. Spelling it out in Family Ties worked. Fred saying they were family in the back of a limo with the large breasted guest star just didn't do much for me. Neither did the communal misery of having a monster inside. I wouldn't mind seeing Angel find a love interest - and actually, wasn't at all unhappy with DB this week, but the whole thing felt, somehow, off kilter.
But Gunn in a suit. That was kind of nice. And his defense of himself. Go Gunn.
ETA: Happy Birthday
double_helix! May you get everything you wish for out of the coming year!
