Slow smiles and sequential hugging? I don't buy it.

Me neither, honestly. The reaction was more "Oh, I thought you were taking another job!" than "Oh, I thought you were dead!" But Stargate's weird with emotional stuff.

Ple---

I have Batgirl Year One, Batman Year One (I bought that yesterday) and another Batgirl graphic novel but I forget which one. I bought the current Batgirl comic and several back issues and I wanted to buy the current Batman but there were several different...lines...not just Batman but stuff with different subtitles and I wasn't sure what I should get.

I probably should have just got Nightwing when I was looking at it.

Also---I finally watched the first disc of Sports Night---up to the Thanksgiving episode with the ghost and the turkey.

And the main question I had for myself was---why the hell didn't I watch this when it was on and why did I wait so long to watch the dvds! The show is just so....

I love the dialouge and the characters and omigod! Danny and Casey or so a couple. And I have a slight little crush on Jeremy.

I'm torn between wanting to send the disc back right away so I can get the next one, or holding on to this so I can watch it a few more times. I'm going to be going back and reading fanfic.

Askye, look for the Our Boys archive; it's Sabine & Punk's Sorkin recommendations archive. I don't think it's been updated in a while, but there's a ton of good fic linked off of it.

Jack doesn't leave people behind, even if he thinks it's a suicide mission. They go together.

Well... I dunno. I don't have that much trouble with it. As Daniel points out, everyone's expecting to go boom anyway, and dragging Daniel along while he bleeds out is not going to contribute to the Saving Six Billion People's Lives mission. Jack's obsessive, not stupid.

I'll grant you Jack doesn't seem quite as upset later as one would expect, though.

My favorite part of Within the Serpent's Grasp is trying to figure out who decided to not tell SG-1 that Daniel was okay. I mean, at the very least they had the retrieval time, some floating around on the Shuttle, the landing, the flight from Edwards or Florida depending on where they landed... but someone decided not to mention anything, just so they could see the look on their faces. Hammond, presumably. Which, I mean, come on.

This is a Thing I Cannot Think Seriously About (much like trying to make Hammond's behavior in S1 make sense while considering 1969).

I ordered Batman: Year One and Robin:Year One yesterday! I'm infected with the BATS fever.

Nightwing also looks interesting, but I think I want to read about his years as Robin first.

much like trying to make Hammond's behavior in S1 make sense while considering 1969

Oh! duh! You're so right.

t tries to figure it out

t brain starts to overheat

t smoke starts pouring out ears

t runs into the bathroom and sticks head under tap

BTW, Katie, how did your class turn out? Did you get internet in your hotel? How was the trip back? (Nattering unrepentently)

trying to figure out who decided to not tell SG-1 that Daniel was okay

Hammond's got this paternal thing going on in my view. If it was he who decided to wait and tell it was probably because he was pulling his equivalent of springing a surprise pet puppy on the kids.

As for time in the SG continuum, I like to think about it like time in Back to the Future, makes the pain less confusing.

See? Not helpful. 'Cause in the pilot, shouldn't he be all "hey! Look! It's the big black guy with the head tattoo who I remember from that time travel incident! Yeah, I'm totally on board with him being on the team."

BTW, Katie, how did your class turn out? Did you get internet in your hotel? How was the trip back? (Nattering unrepentently)

The class was good, if tiring - I mean, it was well-run enough that I paid quite a bit of attention, which then wiped me out. Most of the enforcement stuff was not new to me, but it's always interesting to see how other states do things. They were really pushing interagency cooperation hard, which I think is great; it was obvious that California's a much bigger state than Washington, though. I mean, particularly where I am, which is a 100-person office.

Still, it's a good thing to remember, since it's very easy to put on regulatory blinders. (Sometimes that's the right thing to do, I think, but not always.)

They did have internet at the hotel, but it was expensive, so I tried to resist (with some success). Also I was icked out by the fact that the history had porn in it. I mean, I'm pro-porn, but man, the computers were in the gift shop. Read your porn in private, you know? Nice hotel, good (if somewhat expensive, three cheers for per diem) food, got to walk around the grounds of the state capitol which were very nice, walked around Old Sacramento which was very kitschy. Nice buildings though.

Oh, and I had Thai curry, which I always enjoy and never get here. I need to learn how to make green curry myself. It can't be that hard.

Trip back was fine. I hit the airport here, looked around athe the ridges and the sagebrush, and felt that "oh thank God I'm home" moment. Man, I have got to escape this town before I get any more settled.

I ordered Batman: Year One and Robin:Year One yesterday!

Heh, I'm reading Batman: Year One right now, AIFG.