Jayne (Husband): Oh, I think you might wanna reconsider that last part. See, I married me a powerful ugly creature. Mal (Wife): How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people? Jayne (Husband): If I could make you purtier, I would. Mal (Wife): You are not the man I met a year ago.

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


§ ita § - Sep 22, 2010 10:05:27 am PDT #25470 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Start keeping a sleep log now (there are examples on-line) as this may chop a big ol' chunk of time off the solvation process

They gave me some reading material/questionnaire with the appointment (the sleep specialist is in the same neurology dept as my migraine guy), so I'm ahead of the game there. And I have done some sleep hygiene work before.

But TWO HOURS MONITOR FREE BEFORE SLEEP???? Are you bugging me? Yes, I will get a lot more book reading and drawing done, but I needs my stuff! My people! Fictional and invisible both!


Lee - Sep 22, 2010 10:07:56 am PDT #25471 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

But TWO HOURS MONITOR FREE BEFORE SLEEP???? Are you bugging me? Yes, I will get a lot more book reading and drawing done, but I needs my stuff! My people! Fictional and invisible both!

Yeah, exactly. Though you could print out fic to read off screen, I guess.


Vortex - Sep 22, 2010 10:07:59 am PDT #25472 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

One of the first things they will rec is 2 hours TV, computer, any kind of monitor-free before bed.

unpossible. Especially at the start of the new fall TV season.

I realized that I have dinner plans tonight, and will miss Undercovers (the first major network non-comedy to have two black leads). In honor of our past, I invoke the VCR prayer.

Attention all religious people, established or not, pagan or Wiccan or Bible Belt or Jewish or Bead Jiggler (like me): Please pray to the VCR gods tonight for all of us who are Unavoidably Unable To Be Home. May the cable systems all remember. May the tapes be fresh and have plenty of space. May our power not brown out and reset the VCR clocks. May kids and SOs and stray kittens not wander by and reset the apparatii. May our UPN affiliates not fold, spindle, or mutilate the show with weird crawls, ads for other inane shows, sports, or teasers for the Ten o'clock News. May we all come home to Buffy, just Buffy and purest Buffy, from Previously to the previews. Amen.


Jessica - Sep 22, 2010 10:12:17 am PDT #25473 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

As painful as it is, several studies show that screentime before bed can delay sleep by up to two hours. (Anything with a backlight is confusing to the parts of your brain that are trying to keep track of diurnal rhythms. Indirect light from a reading lamp doesn't have nearly as strong an effect as direct light from an LCD screen.)


§ ita § - Sep 22, 2010 10:14:27 am PDT #25474 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I realized that I have dinner plans tonight, and will miss Undercovers

I have dinner plans too! And I feel like ass. But I will not cancel. I have not seen this chick in years. If it gets cancelled, it's on her. But my backlog is getting bigger and bigger. Hopefully I can at least clear Criminal Minds off it tonight. I know I can't stay out at dinner too long.


Vortex - Sep 22, 2010 10:16:40 am PDT #25475 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I can't cancel dinner to stay home and watch two of the hottest men on the planet, right? I mean Boris Kodjoe AND Shemar Moore (who will be rocking the manpain tonight)? I don't know if I'll be able to handle it.


§ ita § - Sep 22, 2010 10:16:56 am PDT #25476 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

several studies show that screentime before bed can delay sleep by up to two hours

What about those of us that fall asleep in front of screens?

Well, it's not like I've gotten any sleep without the aid of drugs in about a year, so I don't count. But I would regularly fall asleep in front of the TV before the insomnia started.

Huh. I just said "sistas before mistas!" to my sister. I feel like I've crossed some sort of invisible crazy person line. But I think she went there first.


tommyrot - Sep 22, 2010 10:17:52 am PDT #25477 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Top UK spies revealed as wankers

The UK spy agency MI6 experimented with using semen as invisible ink; presumably because this fluid was readily available to several of their field agents on a few moments' notice. The agent in charge of the project? Mansfield Cumming. This and other revelations appear in MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949, to be published this week.

A member of staff close to "C", Frank Stagg, said that he would never forget his bosses' delight when the Deputy Chief Censor said one day that one of his staff had found out that "semen would not react to iodine vapour".

Stagg noted that "we thought we had solved a great problem".

However, the discovery also led to some further problems, with the agent who had identified the novel use having to be moved from his department after becoming the butt of jokes.


§ ita § - Sep 22, 2010 10:19:28 am PDT #25478 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

the butt of jokes

Did they really want to go there?


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 22, 2010 10:25:44 am PDT #25479 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

What about those of us that fall asleep in front of screens?

Yeah, I sometimes find myself falling asleep while sitting up in front of the computer, and often while watching TV. And I almost always go to bed with a TV on in the bedroom so the flickering light against my eyelids can lull me.

Total darkness and I aren't good friends, though we occasionally work together when Happy Fun Migraine stops by for a visit.