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Aug. 26th, 2005 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liptonrm_backupStill fighting The Plague. Didn't come into work yesterday but there was Drama so came in today. Not Work Drama but Family Drama. The Mum isn't too happy with me at the moment. Drama, drama, drama.
It's hard to focus when I'm feeling this way. Thoughts and ideas don't settle down and my mind is always wandering around dazedly. And people get more annoying. Grrrrr.
Read The Stand this week. It's a fun book, nice and apocalyptic-y. I saw the mini-series when it was first on tv and was happily surprised to discover how accurate to the book it was. The biggest problem of the mini-series was some bad casting and the psychological neutering of the human villains. With regards to the book, I'm not completely sure Stephen King pulled off the Big Apocalyptic Battle. One minute the focus of the story was going one way and then the next minute it was off on a whole new tangent. I'm not sure what it was but something about the ending just didn't work for me, it's never worked for me. It's hard to pinpoint.
You know the best thing about staying home all day? Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. That show is so great. For me it ages better then The Next Generation (which comes on right after). The characters are richer, in some way. Sure Picard is great on TNG but he's the only one that is consistently intriguing. Shoot, it took DS9 to make Worf into a character I could love. I got to watch one of the mirrorverse episodes yesterday with nympho!Kira and rebel!Sisko and the enslaved human race. Great fun. Then there was another episode that had this great O'Brien-Bashir drunk scene and Colm Meaney totally let his Irish accent out to play and that was great because I had watched about half of Intermission the night before.
I have the desire to do something creative or productive but am really out of it so will just sit here and let all of you be interesting for me.
Word Origin of the Day: Annoy - In Latin, odium is the word for "hatred." This developed into anoier in Old French, meaning "to generate hate," before appereaing in Middle English as anoien, the direct ancestor of the modern English word. But by this time, the meaning had softened to imply something less extreme.
ETA: In another life my father was a political operative.
It's hard to focus when I'm feeling this way. Thoughts and ideas don't settle down and my mind is always wandering around dazedly. And people get more annoying. Grrrrr.
Read The Stand this week. It's a fun book, nice and apocalyptic-y. I saw the mini-series when it was first on tv and was happily surprised to discover how accurate to the book it was. The biggest problem of the mini-series was some bad casting and the psychological neutering of the human villains. With regards to the book, I'm not completely sure Stephen King pulled off the Big Apocalyptic Battle. One minute the focus of the story was going one way and then the next minute it was off on a whole new tangent. I'm not sure what it was but something about the ending just didn't work for me, it's never worked for me. It's hard to pinpoint.
You know the best thing about staying home all day? Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. That show is so great. For me it ages better then The Next Generation (which comes on right after). The characters are richer, in some way. Sure Picard is great on TNG but he's the only one that is consistently intriguing. Shoot, it took DS9 to make Worf into a character I could love. I got to watch one of the mirrorverse episodes yesterday with nympho!Kira and rebel!Sisko and the enslaved human race. Great fun. Then there was another episode that had this great O'Brien-Bashir drunk scene and Colm Meaney totally let his Irish accent out to play and that was great because I had watched about half of Intermission the night before.
I have the desire to do something creative or productive but am really out of it so will just sit here and let all of you be interesting for me.
Word Origin of the Day: Annoy - In Latin, odium is the word for "hatred." This developed into anoier in Old French, meaning "to generate hate," before appereaing in Middle English as anoien, the direct ancestor of the modern English word. But by this time, the meaning had softened to imply something less extreme.
ETA: In another life my father was a political operative.
