New Adventures of Peter + Wendy

I still don't really grok webseries--it's kind of like, just when something gets interesting, they cut off and there's a new episode and I'm thrown out of the story--but I ran across The New Adventures of Peter + Wendy this evening and wound up watching the entire first season. It's kind of like if Pushing Daisies-era Bryan Fuller had somehow gotten ahold of Spaced. And put in a lot of annoying talking-to-the-camera parts, but it seems that this is standard in webseries. The actress who plays Wendy is very good (she reminds me of Olive/Kristin Chenoweth but with more straight man qualities), as is the guy who plays John, and Peter and Wendy are undeniably adorable.

(I have to admit that it irks me somewhat how there are three women on the show--if you count Tinkerbelle--all of whom are in love with a guy who, frankly, doesn't that many great qualities, and are all vaguely jealous of each other because of it.)

It does take a while to get used to, though. I spent the first five episodes doing a lot of, "Wait, what? Why is Peter Pan a slacker and Wendy a journalist and Michael a pothead and why do they all live in modern-day Ohio and hang on, fairies still exist here?"

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Via wintercreek, the Ultimate Trope Showdown. ( My results are unsurprising in the extreme. )

Vicious Backwards Curry Exercises

More camel success this afternoon! P happened to be watching when I did my best of the session and gave me a big thumbs up from across the rink, which was gratifying.

I bought a skate spinner from Amazon the other day, in part because I heard they were good for getting the right position on back spins, and in part because I really, really love the feeling of pushing into a spin and letting physics kind of carry me away, and this way I can get it any time I want! We'll see if it's similar to actually being on the ice. I'm also going to have to figure out the place to try it that has the fewest obstacles to crash into should it send me flying off. (Let's hope this doesn't happen.)

I got to the point on Vicious Backwards Curry Exercise that I could add what I remembered of the arms, though I wasn't really concentrating on them and they probably looked terrible. Before I do my Bronze test program (at least a year away), I need to get to a point where I can do arm-related things that don't just look like flailing and/or karate chopping.

I also discovered that the biggest problem with that exercise is no longer my poor ability to tell right from left, but the fact that my left leg is a good inch shorter than my right. Not a big deal when both are in a roughly vertical position because my hips are the same amount off, but a bigger deal when one is at a 45-degree angle out to the side. My right lobe is much larger than my left lobe. Bah.

I'm almost to the point where I don't have to slow down before the mohawk to change from forward to back power perimeter stroking in the first Bronze Moves pattern. I'm not sure if that's because I'm more confident about mohawks at speed or because I'm generally slower on that pattern than I was prior to surgery.