Aren't they something. They're like butterflies, or little pieces of wrapping paper blowing around.

Kaylee ,'Shindig'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

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


erikaj - Sep 23, 2015 11:11:38 am PDT #5810 of 30003
Always Anti-fascist!

It's okay. Not like the real thing, but not bad.


Sue - Sep 23, 2015 2:30:19 pm PDT #5811 of 30003
hip deep in pie

I am back from my trip. It was all too short, packed with so much, and a great time. I arrived home yesterday, but I was a jetlagged zombie after 10 hours of travelling.

Highlights were definitely seeing The Oresteia on the West End. Hamlet was okay...Cumberbatch was great, the set was amazing, but the play had some holes. The Bakkhai, despite having Ben Whishaw and Bertie Carvel was NOT GOOD. I also loved going to Hampstead Heath and Keats House, The Wallace Collection, getting to see a Downton Abbey preview of the first ep, plus a q & a with Lady Edith, Isobel, the costume designer and one of the producers.

And Dublin remains my happy place. Also, I touched a mummy's finger! It was so weird.


-t - Sep 23, 2015 2:50:54 pm PDT #5812 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That all sounds amazing, Sue! Yay!


Calli - Sep 23, 2015 3:04:53 pm PDT #5813 of 30003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Sounds like a great trip, Sue!


-t - Sep 23, 2015 3:23:46 pm PDT #5814 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I think I am out of steam. Also, my fantasies about how much I would be able to accomplish with these days off were highly delusional. I don't think I actually finished any one thing that I wanted to get done. Did make considerable progress, even if it is only apparent to me. I expect I will be too tired to do anything tomorrow after work, because work after being off for almost a week is pretty much guaranteed to be exhausting, but I hope I can get more shit done over the weekend (which is gratifyingly soon). For now, I'm gonna try to do one seriously tiny bit of mending while I watch TV, maybe fold the towels when they are done drying, and that's it.

Oh crap, I think I am too tired to go to an event I signed up for that has free massages and champagne. Not to mention I am sweaty and gross and by the time I showered and changed and drove over there it would be way late. Damn it. Ah well, maybe next time.


-t - Sep 23, 2015 3:30:46 pm PDT #5815 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Also, I think I let the salsify go too long, the roots were both woody and spongy which I don't think is right. Fortunately, I have a lot more plants to try to time harvesting.


javachik - Sep 23, 2015 3:31:31 pm PDT #5816 of 30003
Our wings are not tired.

Very cool, Sue! And I appreciate the Hamlet review. It was on my list and maybe now it won't be!


JZ - Sep 23, 2015 4:21:15 pm PDT #5817 of 30003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Sounds like an amazing time, even with the ehn Hamlet, Sue!

And I knew I'd planned on being something else for Halloween but couldn't remember what it was, until the bike ride home: THIS.


amyth - Sep 23, 2015 4:31:13 pm PDT #5818 of 30003
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

That's perfect, JZ!

I'm going as an Eternal Scout from Welcome to Night Vale. (The third of three costumes that I had planned to wear in one day last Halloween, and didn't have the energy for.) So I feel like I'll be your evil twin, in a way.

I just did (another) re-watch of Over the Garden Wall last night while unpacking, and I feel like there is so much Halloween costume potential there, but this costume has been waiting a year, and I'm not going to attempt multiple costumes in a day again. That's exhausting!


Steph L. - Sep 23, 2015 4:33:49 pm PDT #5819 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I'm going as an Eternal Scout from Welcome to Night Vale.

AWESOME.