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I should be in NJ already, or nearly there. But I felt icky this morning, so I took naps and read and didn't get much of anything accomplished but resting my back -- last night the back of my neck felt like it was on fire.
(You would think that with two visits a week to the chiropractor, this would be better. But I seem to be giving myself an RSI from the knitting & crocheting, not to mention the typing on computers. So I'd better cool it with the marathon craft sessions -- which, really, weren't anything above like three hours at a time, watching TV and the like, not exactly abusing my arms and shoulders and back, but evidently too much all at once.
I finished Sock 3.0, which is really the best knitting I've done yet. But it's maybe a half-inch smaller around than Sock 2.0, so I'm thinking about ripping that one apart and reknitting it as 4.0, using the exact specifications of 3.0.
I haven't been talking about fannish things at all here, even though my fannish life continues apace.
* I watched the Batman Begins preview twice this morning. Wow... really really cool-looking, although I have to say, as a trailer, it would seem to give away all the plot points. Not that we didn't know the story already, but... geeze, I'd like to have some surprises, you know? Christopher (Memento) Nolan was a very good choice to direct, really, since you know he knows from damaged obsessed heroes.
* Smallville finale more entertaining than it had any right to be. (OK, except for the non-death of Lana. Nothing against the actor, she's just given an 'eh' role.) Too bad we won't have Jason Eckles around next year, since it seems he's going to another series, but that gives me hope he'll be around to decorate my TV again.
* Lost started paying off some season-long debts on Wednesday. I'd say that I can't wait until next week, except then there'll be a long long time after that until we get anything resolved.
* I've been spending an inordinate amount of time withStargate AtlantisFishbowl, one way or another. I dived deep into ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
astolat's fiction, as well as getting a regular helping of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
sga_flashfic, but I've also been re-watching a bunch of episodes and trying to download the ones that I'm missing. I've got a glimmering of an idea about a vid centered around the city itself -- the SFX are so very pretty, and sometimes spectacular.
* I promise to get back to due South real soon now. I've got 8/9ths of a story first drafted, really!
* And I'm dipping a toe into vidding... just enough to realize how very complicated it is to do well, anyway. I've been organizing clips from Twitch City with QuickTime 7.0 and iMovie. One thing that it makes me realize is how well-done the series really was. With many favorite shows, I'm simultaneously aware of the actors acting, which is luckily part of the pleasure for me -- but with TC, I start losing track of that and they're just Curtis & Hope & Lucky & Co. to me.
But then I also realize that the show is so made for vidding, now that I have a half-decent set of AVIs to play with. There's a surprising number of wordless reactions by the actors, interesting camera angles, focus on significant objects -- so that even for a show that's set in a very small apartment, there's a lot of useful footage, I think.
Whether I can make anything really interesting of it I don't know. I'm tending towards some surprisingly gen romantic concepts, because the whole Curtis/Hope interaction is so amusingly dysfunctional.
...
Eeek -- look at the time! If I'm going to put Escape to NJ into operation, I'd better pack up the computer, put my stuff in the car, and take off. My plan is now to stop at Old Sturbridge Village for maybe two hours or so, so that I don't hit the Tappan Zee until maybe 7 PM when some of the commuter traffic has died down. Later than I wanted, but at least I'm taking it slow & easy. Will be on intermittently from now until Sunday night sometime. (My niece is having a combination birthday and confirmation party, so should be fun....)
(You would think that with two visits a week to the chiropractor, this would be better. But I seem to be giving myself an RSI from the knitting & crocheting, not to mention the typing on computers. So I'd better cool it with the marathon craft sessions -- which, really, weren't anything above like three hours at a time, watching TV and the like, not exactly abusing my arms and shoulders and back, but evidently too much all at once.
I finished Sock 3.0, which is really the best knitting I've done yet. But it's maybe a half-inch smaller around than Sock 2.0, so I'm thinking about ripping that one apart and reknitting it as 4.0, using the exact specifications of 3.0.
I haven't been talking about fannish things at all here, even though my fannish life continues apace.
* I watched the Batman Begins preview twice this morning. Wow... really really cool-looking, although I have to say, as a trailer, it would seem to give away all the plot points. Not that we didn't know the story already, but... geeze, I'd like to have some surprises, you know? Christopher (Memento) Nolan was a very good choice to direct, really, since you know he knows from damaged obsessed heroes.
* Smallville finale more entertaining than it had any right to be. (OK, except for the non-death of Lana. Nothing against the actor, she's just given an 'eh' role.) Too bad we won't have Jason Eckles around next year, since it seems he's going to another series, but that gives me hope he'll be around to decorate my TV again.
* Lost started paying off some season-long debts on Wednesday. I'd say that I can't wait until next week, except then there'll be a long long time after that until we get anything resolved.
* I've been spending an inordinate amount of time with
astolat's fiction, as well as getting a regular helping of sga_flashfic, but I've also been re-watching a bunch of episodes and trying to download the ones that I'm missing. I've got a glimmering of an idea about a vid centered around the city itself -- the SFX are so very pretty, and sometimes spectacular.* I promise to get back to due South real soon now. I've got 8/9ths of a story first drafted, really!
* And I'm dipping a toe into vidding... just enough to realize how very complicated it is to do well, anyway. I've been organizing clips from Twitch City with QuickTime 7.0 and iMovie. One thing that it makes me realize is how well-done the series really was. With many favorite shows, I'm simultaneously aware of the actors acting, which is luckily part of the pleasure for me -- but with TC, I start losing track of that and they're just Curtis & Hope & Lucky & Co. to me.
But then I also realize that the show is so made for vidding, now that I have a half-decent set of AVIs to play with. There's a surprising number of wordless reactions by the actors, interesting camera angles, focus on significant objects -- so that even for a show that's set in a very small apartment, there's a lot of useful footage, I think.
Whether I can make anything really interesting of it I don't know. I'm tending towards some surprisingly gen romantic concepts, because the whole Curtis/Hope interaction is so amusingly dysfunctional.
...
Eeek -- look at the time! If I'm going to put Escape to NJ into operation, I'd better pack up the computer, put my stuff in the car, and take off. My plan is now to stop at Old Sturbridge Village for maybe two hours or so, so that I don't hit the Tappan Zee until maybe 7 PM when some of the commuter traffic has died down. Later than I wanted, but at least I'm taking it slow & easy. Will be on intermittently from now until Sunday night sometime. (My niece is having a combination birthday and confirmation party, so should be fun....)