Steph, I've been meaning to ask, how did Big!Boss do with his bout of flesh-eating bacteria?

Well, he ultimately lost most of his left arm (to just above the elbow), and the infection left him with severe jaundice and requiring dialysis every day. That was March of 2005. He was back in the office in January 2006, and he eventually was able to get off dialysis. As if that in and of itself isn't amazing enough, by the middle-to-end of 2006, he was back in the office every day, working at least 8 hours a day.

By this point, almost 3 years later, at the age of 77, it's as if it never happened. Because he wears a suit jacket, the way the left sleeve hangs, if you walked up on his right side, you wouldn't even know that he lost an arm. As it is, he zips around like he's the Energizer bunny.

I am in love with Billie Piper, but man, was that awful. I couldn't watch the whole thing.

I am also sick with a cold AGAIN, so am annoyed.

Why couldn't they have, at least, done something about her HAIR? Do you think she refused to allow it? I mean, wouldn't it have helped her get into her part to have the right 'do?

(And Henry Crawford was played by the actor who played Malachi on Hex. I KNEW that I had seen him somewhere before.)

This is so wrong I'm not gonna comment on it: PILFS: 8 Puppets We'd Like to F___

Um, worksafe....

I really dug Persuasion. I think it would be hard to do a teleplay for, but it was romantic. And I didn't hate Northanger Abbey, which is hard to like because she is such a dimwit. But Mansfield...I thought it might just be me because I was in a weird/bad mood yesterday, and had already been disappointed by Volver.

I really dug Persuasion.

I wasn't crazy about Persuasion (although I thought ASH was perfect!). I thought it was kind of lifeless and rushed.

No, Mansfield was bad and boring. Persuasian was not in the same class as the Amanda Root/Ciaran Hinds version and they made some inexplicable changes to the story.

Oh, my god, Monday. No. No, no, no.

I don't think my brain is awake enough to fully appreciate the horror that is Monday....

My Monday (so far; all of this occurred before 9:30):

People, if you keep saying the M-word, you're only going draw it's attention.

continues avoiding M----y like someone I owe money

I took the plain coffee back to dunkin and they replaced it with my ordered yums latte. YAY!

Why couldn't they have, at least, done something about her HAIR?

I know. I don't think she refused, because I saw a commentary from who where she was saying that her hair was dyed red for a part or audition or some such. I was left thinking that somehow they couldn't afford a wig?