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chinae, d_v_8 and lmondegreen came over for supper and for Smallville. It'd been a long time since we've done that - a long time since we've had a new episode to watch - and I really enjoyed the whole fannish ambience, being able to sit and relax and watch and make comments about the Clex (visible or otherwise).Comments on Smallville - just briefly, I need to think it over before saying anything intelligent -
(1) it was surprisingly hot
(2) I am as much in love with Lex Luthor as ever
(3) Lionel Luthor acting sweet is creepy and not as much fun as his usual high-handed style
(4) who kidnapped Martha and replaced her with a drone?
(5) enough of this virginity business!
(6) for some reason I couldn't pin down, Lana seemed quite unobjectionable - yes, this is me saying that, can you believe it? and I liked Jason better now he isn't her boyfriend. How can it be that there's an episode of Smallville in which I actually think I liked Lana better than Martha? Maybe it's because Lana wasn't interacting with Clark - I always like him least when he's with her, and like her even less than usual when she's with him.
(7) So now both Clark and Lex are annulled men!
On the bus this morning, I sat next to an attractive young man, probably in his late teens, who then spent the entire trip talking to himself and making weird motions and leaning against me. On the way home, I sat next to a young man who, though not particuarly attractive, made an instantly good impression on me - I'm not sure why. He made a few pleasant comments in my direction during the trip, nothing substantial, but I was left feeling good about the encounter. Almost a non-encounter. Just a ... an experience of good vibes.
Read about 12th century people at lunchtime, no new information, but it's always fun to read about old friends. Then I uncontrollably napped after eating. Damn! That kind of reaction right after lunch is a sure sign of candidiasis. Probably because I've been eating wheat.
On the way home I read the following interesting passage in Rubicon by Tom Holland:
Mussolini was the last world leader to be inspired by the example of Ancient Rome. The fascists, of course, had thrilled to its cruelty, its swagger, its steel, but nowadays even its noblest ideals, the ideals of active citizenship that once so moved Thomas Jefferson, have passed out of fashion. Too stern, too humourless, too redolent of cold showers.... Hero-worshipping the Romans is just so nineteenth century.
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Date: 2005-01-27 05:13 am (UTC)Seriously! Hopefully she's back next week (again)...
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Date: 2005-01-27 04:47 pm (UTC)My mechanic has recently turned out to have the most gorgeous charming son who, I'm quite sure, is still in his (late) teens. Long spiky black hair, pale angular face, big brown eyes, and exceptionally long dark eyelashes. He looks like a goth manga drawing - if such a thing exists! Extremely pretteh. And he's very sweet and chatty and friendly. I am more than slightly horrified by the realisation that he can't be much more than half my age.
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Date: 2005-01-27 05:52 pm (UTC)What is odd is that strange feeling of liking a person so much when you really haven't even met them, but you just have a sense of what they're like.
There's a young man (in his late teens) who sometimes acts at the OLT who reminds me of Peter Wingfield in his looks - my goodness, I do like to look at him! And he's talented, too.
People of all ages can just be so delightful to encounter.
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Date: 2005-01-27 08:26 pm (UTC)That is odd, because as you say, it happens with people you don't really know. And I think part of it, at least with me, is somehow sensing that they like you back, which is delightful but again, is based on nothing more than a feeling. The simplest conversation with someone like that can leave me with a smile on my face and a warm glow inside.
And it certainly doesn't hurt that this particular boy has rather wonderful looks. ;)
Who's Peter Wingfield? The name is ringing faint bells, possibly from the Lymond casting game, but nothing I can put my finger on.
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Date: 2005-01-27 08:38 pm (UTC)Yes, it's so nice when it happens. Sometimes it becomes a friendship. Usually it's just a chance meeting and doesn't develop. But it's great when it happens and I can't explain it!
Who's Peter Wingfield?
Mostly famous (at least in my mind) as Methos, the oldest of the Immortals on Highlander. I think of him as my ideal guy: dark-haired, with a large nose, slim, clever, wry, devious, resourceful. Nice eyes too. He's had roles in other things - some Canadian shows like Bliss and Cold Cases and he's been in Stargate SG1. He even had a momentary role as a minion in X2 and some of us think that if he'd played the Brian Cox role opposite Wolverine, it would have been mighty slashy.
But I'm biased.
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Date: 2005-01-27 08:44 pm (UTC)But then I am shallow and have a one track mind. LOL.
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