'Gates and books

[icepixie]

Giving up on To the Lighthouse. It's become almost as incomprehensible as The Waves. I think I'll give it a few years and try again, though. I think my root problem with this and The Waves is that they both start out int he minds of children. Not only do I dislike children on general principles, but Woolf's characterization of them as unreasoning, ruled-by-their-emotions sorts, which certain true to life, is just not as much fun to read as other things, y'know? I dunno, it's just off-putting from the very beginning, whereas Orlando, which starts from when the title character is a teenager or young man, not a young child, and more importantly is told from the POV of a "biographer," not from inside his head, exactly, was not.

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Cam and Landry (but mostly Landry): Okay, so you're wandering around in the woods in the middle of deer(?) season, when, as you characterize them, a "bunch of drunk yahoos" are out thinking to shoot anything that moves...in full, no-orange-in-sight CAMO?

*headdesk*

At school, during the week of hunting season in December, we were encouraged by security to wear bright colors, preferably neon orange or yellow, if we were just going on the walking/biking trail, much less anywhere in the woods.

Ahem. Vala and Mitchell really do make the show these days, don't they? They're actually quite funny. I might have to watch next week. And other weeks. But I don't know that I'll ever get back into needing to watch it every week. *shrug*

I did rather like Atlantis tonight, mostly because Lizzie got to go off-world. Yay! I kind of want to go read Shep/Weir fic again (it's been at least five months since I last paid any attention to them).

Raise your hand if you went, "No, not the mind probe!" anywhere in this episode.

I spotted the actress who played Gretchen (the "Christmas and Easter Jew" from Wonderfalls) in a Philadelphia cream cheese commercial. Hee. She's still playing a ditz.

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Grrr, argh, prickly heat. *scratches legs*