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[fajrdrako]

A nice day, on the whole. I slept late. Well, actually, the alarm woke me at 6:45, because I'd turned it off improperly last night and simple changed it from radio to buzzer. I went back to sleep. I woke up again about 8, when the men working on the balconies were having morning coffee and chatting about six inches from my head. I went back to sleep again and woke up when the budgies started calling again, wondering why they were still covered at 1 a.m. Meanwhile I was dreaming that I was hanging a tablecloth on a clothesline in rosiespark's back garden in Malta. Now, it happens that rosiespark doesn't have a back garden, and her clotheslines in on her roof, but that's probably the last time I actually hung clothes on a line.

Then maaseru and I went for breakfast at McDonald's. Ate overlooking the trees on the Rideau River near Billings Bridge. We saw a lovely monarch butterfly flying among the trees - haven't seen one in years. In the course of our conversation, she pointed out I have been being obsessive... Maybe I should have asked her more what she meant by that? I do tend to be obsessive but I'm not sure what facet of my obsessiveness she was talking about. Should have asked.

Then we dropped in on maaboroshi to see her new coloured fountain, from which tendrils of steam waft. Very dramatic. I expected it to look like something out of Harry Potter, but it was really much more Merlinesque. She as a colour-changing desk cube, too. Impressive.

Then maaboroshi showed me her new Myst game and I was enraptured. Now, I don't play video-games. I don't like video-games (much). I got stuck halfway through the first version of Myst and never went back to it; I only got through Riven because I was playing along with maaboroshi as a sort of sidekick. But I loved it. And this Myst has more mysterious tunnels, undecipherable writing and numeric systems, glowing lights, polished levers, unexplained pulleys, architectural marvels (lots of gates and domes) and bridges and walkways and stairways curving like ziggurats. I love pulling the virtual levers and turning the virtual doorhandles and discovering what's around each corner... I'm not good with puzzles, but I love the graphics and the style of this game.

Then I went and completely cleaned up my living room. Beulah and I had a little oneupmanship chat on the phone yesterday about which of us currently had the messier apartment. I decided I really didn't want to be the winner there, and so did something about it. While cleaning, I listened to the audio recording of The Stone Rose, a Doctor Who novel by Jacqueline Rayner. Now, I had expected the reading to be delightful, and it was - David Tennant's lovely, expressive Scottish voice, at its best when he was reading the Doctor's dialogue. I love it whenever he says something like, "Yes - welll, I mean no..." or vice versa.

Didn't expect to enjoy the story quite as much as I did, though. Light reading, yes (just the right kind of thing for housework), but the plot was fun, and set largely in ancient Rome - a setting I like.

Then, exhausted, I did some more writing, but my apazine deadline was met and I got an extension on the fanzine story.

Beulah and I bought a take-out supper at the Green Door (a vegetarian restaurant not far from my place), then came back to my apartment to watch the episode of Smallville that opened the sixth season, Zod. I'm not entirely sure how I felt about it, except to think that Michael Rosenbaum makes a sexy villain and I love his Zod-coat. Smallville just doesn't have the tone I used to love.

A few things I liked:
- decisive action by Martha
- an embrace between Martha and Lionel - I guess I'm a shipper for that pairing, I always enjoy seeing it
- Chloe looked wonderful, and I liked her role
- the bleak landscape of the Phantom Zone, like something out of Star Wars, all jagged blacks and masking whites
- Zod/Lana pseudo-sex and Clark kneeling to Zod
- a few Kryptonian characters, and a scene of Jor-El saying nice things to Martha - is that a first?

A few things I disliked:
- Jimmy Olsen. I took against him from his first second - was it the smarmy smile or the pointless dialogue?
- Clark Kent remains aimless and undirected. Martha says it's because he's young - but he isn't fifteen any more. He has superpowers greater than anyone else on the planet and he's hanging around his mother's farm worrying about his lack of purpose in life. I find that something less than admirable. Unheroic. Wussy.

Then the apa collation. It went well till after the apa was collated, thank goodness. StarWolf showed me a cool Fantastic Four anime and a funny clip about Marina Syrtis. (I was embarrassed to have forgotten who Marina Syrtis was.) But there are issues concerning the central mailership of the apa that certain people in the apa are upset about, and when that subject was raised, tempers exploded - including mine, but I was already angry about the issue from a chance comment the instigator made in e-mail during the afternoon. So there was a major shouting match, during which StarWolf spoke very intelligently and reasonably and others lost their cool big-time. (A pity this had to happen at Tasia's place.) The instigator tried to apologize to me for the raised voices and I probably raised mine a little in my reply to him, which didn't let him off the hook - there'd be no trouble if he wasn't making it. He was unrepentant. It's all an ego-game masquerading as a matter of principle. Faugh. I hate that.

Comments

[star-momma.livejournal.com]

In the comic he did nothing for me. In the movies, however, he made a great plot device for my fic - er, I mean, was a really nice guy. hehehehe

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

We use 'em as we see 'em!

There was the occasional story with Bobby Drake that caught my interest. Did you read the Amalgam comic where he was flirting with teh alternate-universe Gambit? that was fun.

[star-momma.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't! That *does* sound fun :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It was brief, but cute. I always think Bobby has potential that hasn't been used much; no one seems to have a sense of what to do with him (except in fanfic) so he gets sidelined. Too often he has been the 'boy next door' type, or, worse, the 'nerdy boy next door' type, which isn't very interesting. I like his interactions in the comics with Emma Frost.