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May. 6th, 2011 07:35 pmMom had her tonsils out on Monday and thus has spent most of the week on the couch, being lethargic and pitiful and all the other things that people recovering from surgery are allowed to be. So she has been using my laptop, mostly, and I have not.
Not that anything of great importance has happened that needed to be recorded, but I feel a bit odd if I go more than a day or so without posting. So here I am.
I did manage to make Mom watch the first episode with the Eleventh Doctor, which seems to have been a success. DS9 kinda crashed and burned with her*, but maybe we can do Doctor Who together instead. Fringe ends for the season tonight, after all - we're going to need another show to watch in its place.
(Not that I imagine I'll be watching Fringe tonight, since Mom's bedtime this week has been about 8, it comes on at 9, and I can't watch without her. The DVR'll get it - it'll wait till tomorrow.)
Also! I have been reading Persuasion, because![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
toft posted about it a bit ago and I haven't read any Austen that isn't Pride and Prejudice and it's in public domain and thus cheap to read on my kindle. I'm about 3/4 of the way through and I love it, mostly because it's really nice to have a heroine who is shy and quiet and retiring and obliging to those around her, occasionally to her own detriment, and still (I'm assuming, because it is Austen) gets to have a happy ending without having to change herself. It's possible that I am over-identifying with Anne a bit. Which is nice, too, because it's very pleasant to read a story and go "This person is just like me!" without that story being written by Shirley Jackson.***
And those are my thoughts this evening.
*She doesn't like Kira. Which I don't understand. I mean, we only got about 5 episodes in and, yes, tastes differ and maybe I am blinding by my occasionally embarrassing crush on her** but...Kira. How does one not like Kira?
**Hey, she canonically ends up with a person who is essentially asexual, in humanoid terms. It could work out. (Another time, we will deal with the fact that the only fictional people I can think of who are asexual and not considered by canon to be in some way damaged are all aliens. Ah, well.)
***It's not a very comfortable thing, when the literary character one most sees one's self in is Eleanor from The Haunting of Hill House.
Not that anything of great importance has happened that needed to be recorded, but I feel a bit odd if I go more than a day or so without posting. So here I am.
I did manage to make Mom watch the first episode with the Eleventh Doctor, which seems to have been a success. DS9 kinda crashed and burned with her*, but maybe we can do Doctor Who together instead. Fringe ends for the season tonight, after all - we're going to need another show to watch in its place.
(Not that I imagine I'll be watching Fringe tonight, since Mom's bedtime this week has been about 8, it comes on at 9, and I can't watch without her. The DVR'll get it - it'll wait till tomorrow.)
Also! I have been reading Persuasion, because
toft posted about it a bit ago and I haven't read any Austen that isn't Pride and Prejudice and it's in public domain and thus cheap to read on my kindle. I'm about 3/4 of the way through and I love it, mostly because it's really nice to have a heroine who is shy and quiet and retiring and obliging to those around her, occasionally to her own detriment, and still (I'm assuming, because it is Austen) gets to have a happy ending without having to change herself. It's possible that I am over-identifying with Anne a bit. Which is nice, too, because it's very pleasant to read a story and go "This person is just like me!" without that story being written by Shirley Jackson.***And those are my thoughts this evening.
*She doesn't like Kira. Which I don't understand. I mean, we only got about 5 episodes in and, yes, tastes differ and maybe I am blinding by my occasionally embarrassing crush on her** but...Kira. How does one not like Kira?
**Hey, she canonically ends up with a person who is essentially asexual, in humanoid terms. It could work out. (Another time, we will deal with the fact that the only fictional people I can think of who are asexual and not considered by canon to be in some way damaged are all aliens. Ah, well.)
***It's not a very comfortable thing, when the literary character one most sees one's self in is Eleanor from The Haunting of Hill House.
