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My heart!

(Yes, I am totally behind-the-times, but what else is new?)

Also caught up on Downton Abbey this week. (I decided TV was more important than doing homework for work. Which, you know, is what normal people think all the time.)

BBC is a drug. Short bouts of ecstasy and then loooong, agonizing bouts of withdrawal. Oh, the price one pays for television that is actually good.

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My library made a music video and I'm in it as a back-up singer! It is [HERE], should you wish to see me and my coworkers being total dorks. We released it to the wilds of the Internet on Monday morning and it's already got 1400 views. O_o As with anything on the Internet, there are some haters, but we had tons of fun making it and the feedback has been overall positive, so whatevs! :D (Though, if you felt inclined to leave a nice comment on the video page, that would be awesome.)

In other news, RL is super insanely crazy-busy. As evidenced by my lack of attention to LJ/DW. I do miss you all, though! :( Oh! We're overdue for a tea party anyway, right? I'll scope out a slightly less busy weekend when I'll be able to play hostess. :)

Meanwhile, TV shows are back next week! What are you all excited about? I'm excited for Castle, Hawaii Five-O, and Glee. :D Oh, and Psych and NCIS:LA. Of the new shows, I'm going to try the two fairy tale ones, of course: Grimm and Once Upon A Time (such original titles...). One of them looked more interesting than the other, but of course I'll try them both.

[ETA: Whoops, I totally forgot to mention Doctor Who! Still excited about that, too! Although, I'm currently stuck on "Night Terrors" because I get creeped out way easily. /o\ So now I will probably just put off all the remaining episodes until Thanksgiving and have a mini-marathon with my bff like last year.]

Hugs all around! ♥

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Just a reminder for those who watch that both shows are switching nights.

White Collar will be on Tuesdays at 10pm, returning 19 January (tomorrow!).

Psych will be on Wednesdays at 10pm, returning 27 January (next week).

Happy watching! (Hopefully. They're both part of the contingent of Shows That I Think About Too Much And Therefore Have Been Supremely Annoyed By. But I still watch! At the very least there are hot guys....)

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I will be submitting a job application tomorrow or Wednesday. And then there shall be waiting. I hate the waiting part. :/

Also, I am sad that I have not read any of the Newbery books or any of the other [youth media award winners]. I haven't even heard of most of them. I was so out of the loop last year. :( Hopefully I'll be more on top of things this year!



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Another brain-bleeding-out-my-ears day at work, so I was extra happy that today was a [Riese] day! :D

I have to say, I am annoyed with the writing and/or characters on nearly every other TV show that I watch lately. But the only thing that annoys me about Riese is how short the episodes are and having to wait two weeks between — which I am willing to put up with for such interesting characters and story. It's not perfect, of course, but given their budget limitations, I am very impressed. They'll be filming the second chapter soon, yay!

Also, I love love love that they are incorporating Norse mythology into the 'verse! It makes me so gleeful. :D I am half-Scandinavian myself, and I've been interested in their tales since I fell hard core for mythology of any kind in about sixth grade, but you seldom see non-classical mythologies in pop culture. Of course I first fell in love with the wolf on Riese, who happens to be named Fenrir, and then I am so happy whenever there are other references to the Norse tales. I was grinning so hard in episode 2 when I saw Asgard. *glees*

Watch the new episode and/or catch up at the [Riese YouTube Channel]! (And don't forget to comment on YouTube or the [forums]. ♥)

Belatedly, this makes me so sad: ['Reading Rainbow' reaches its final chapter].

I loved Reading Rainbow as a kid. (Shocking, I know.) And I can tell you without reservation that it was the TV show that had the most impact on me. I mean, I may have had ridiculous amounts of love for the Thundercats or My Little Pony or other such embarrassing shows from the '80s, but Reading Rainbow stuck with me. I still look at picture books in a library or bookstore and see titles that I know from Reading Rainbow.

"Since then, [Simensky] explains, research has shown that teaching the mechanics of reading should be the network's priority."

And that's what really breaks my heart. Because that's absolutely the wrong way to go about it. Yes, the mechanics are important, but if that's all you focus on, you get kids who can read but who don't enjoy it. There's no magic if all they're taught is sounds and syllables and syntax.

I was really lucky because both of my parents read to me a lot when I was a kid. I'm sure I would have grown up loving reading anyway thanks to them. But there are so many children who don't have that luxury, whose parents are too tired after work or are never around or just don't care. And that doesn't make readers. I know. My two half-sisters weren't read to anywhere near as much as I was, and they (being 9 and 13 years younger than me) are growing up with schools that put more and more emphasis on the "mechanics" (and all those evil standardized tests) — and they hate reading. They just have no interest in it because there's no magic for them. All it is to them is homework. And it makes me so sad that that's how we're raising our children now and apparently we can't even have just one "reading is fun!" show.

I was taking a break to watch this week's episode of Castle (which I find amusing, though not at all plausible, but mostly it has Nathan Fillion), and after you finish watching ABC suggests some other shows you should watch (because heaven forbid you only watch one). They just throw whatever they feel like up there for you, it's not based on similar genre or anything (which, you'd think they'd do something more like, "you watched show X, perhaps you'd also enjoy shows Y or Z?").

Anyway, one of the shows that came up tonight was Cupid and I was sort of vaguely curious because I am a mythology geek, so I clicked to watch the first few minutes. (Premise: Cupid has been exiled from Olympus and has to make 100 matches without the aid of his bow, and naturally the mortals think he's a whack job so he ends up in the psychiatric ward of a hospital.) ( Collapse )

Pop culture, you fail.

Thanks to lavvyan, I am hopelessly addicted to Merlin. Pretty much all she had to say was "hey, there's this new show called Merlin and it's awesome" before I ran off to check it out because 1) I was a HUGE Arthuriana geek in high school and 2) I trust her judgment.

And, dudes, it is fabulous. :D

Right now, it's only Arthurian legend if you tilt your head to the side, squint, and say, "hey, there's a bunch of people who have names from the Arthurian legend". But, you know, that's refreshing since everyone knows the regular legend. And I am particularly fond of reinventions of legends and fairy tales and such like.

So, it's got anachronisms and fanficcy storylines and pretties. How about a wee picspam of enticement?

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So, you know, it's rather ridiculous. But delightfully so and it makes me go :D lots.

Also, for further enticement, new podfic!

// Whims by Corona (entangled_now) (Merlin; Merlin/Arthur)

It's a shiny new fandom! Come play with us! :D

Oh man, you go on vacation from vacation for a couple days, to a small place with lots of sea and sky and awesomely random old books, where there is literally only about two square inches of land that gets cell phone reception, and yes they have internet but you're only checking your email 'cause you don't have time to get lost in the wilds of the vast internets, and then on your last day you get turned away from the tiny British tearoom and are therefore deprived of the full British tea you've been looking forward to for ages, you get stuck for an hour and a half on a twenty-mile stretch of desert highway (by Bakersfield) and finally make it back home only to find that your flist is full of nothing but sadness because your show has been canceled. Today kind of sucked.

Everything I love always gets canceled. I hate my television karma. What did I doooooo?

*curls up in bed, sniffling vaguely and feeling rather adrift*

.eta: Way to rub it in, LJ. Today's writer's block question: If you could pick any TV show that has been off the air to come back for one more season, which show would you pick and why? ;_;

I had another crazy person encounter today!

Okay, she was more randomly interested in opinion-based stuff than trying to find out actual personal facts about me, but still. Yeesh.

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When did I become a crazy person magnet? (Of the sketchy-crazy variety; I love all my crazy-awesome friends. ♥)