{ got a little city, ain't it pretty. }

[delga]

So, the only weather that the UK really does properly is rain. That said, we got snow on Sunday - snow that disappeared by 3pm. Witness: our schizophrenic weather.

This is the backyard at around 7-8am.

This is the backyard when I got back from work. Yeah.

Anyway. Yes.

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The Dad is going to that awards presentation later; I'm not going any more. I did spend 15 minutes labelling and stuffing envelopes today. See? PA. Then I spent another 10 minutes filling out a student survey which was asinine.

Later I'm going to watch Lost; currently I'm spending time listening to the New Yorker fiction podcast which is both entertaining and interesting. After the reading the fiction editor talks to the person who chose the short story. It's a nice segment, and though I've never really been big on spoken word texts, I like the idea of taking time to listen to a story.

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Haha, last night I had to let my computer run the anti-virus software so I went to sit with my parents for about an hour. I ended up watching the second half of Entrapment with them, a film that we've each seen at least twice (I've seen it more than that). I spent a long time trying to convince the rents that yes, they had actually seen this film before. The Dad was adamant that he hadn't. Five minutes after the discussion ended ("Look, whatever. Watch the film and let me knit in peace!"), what does The Dad say?

"Oh. I've seen this."

Yes. Yes, Dad, you have. SIGH. (Naturally The Mother didn't remember until the very last scene of the film, when Connery and Zeta Jones are on the train platform? "Oh. The ending to this is rubbish." Yes. I remember you thought that the last two times we saw this.)

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SIGH. SIGH SIGH. I like the crime-solving part of the show, which is weird because it's not a huge part of it. I was ready to buy into the John/Sarah relationship, too! And then SHE WALKED OFF. Which. She based her mistrust on a Google search? Woman, please.

I spent a good deal of the episode trying to identify the new Sarge; just before I fell asleep, I remembered she was a guest star in an early L&O: CI episode. Yes, my brain retains these things. I remember because she was pretty but her facial features were peculiar. She was also a brunette back then. I like her, mostly; I LOVE Eva's reaction to her. In fact, Eva and Omar are my favourite characters. (She's so take-it-or-leave-it! He's so CHARMING! Love them both.)

I know I was lamenting the flashbacks last week, but I really liked them this time? Yeah. But I want more Omar flashbacks! Or, at least, more flashbacks with Amsterdam's seventy-odd offspring (that's what he said, right?) like that woman who was his secretary when he was dating Omar's mother. She seemed spry! I'd like to see more about her!

To conclude: my yayarms/woearms relationship with this show continues on apace.

Comments

[tartary-lamb.livejournal.com]

Yet one more thing that the UK and Canada has in common. Well, my bit of it, anyway. ;)

But you really do have a lovely back yard. ♥

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Hee, I was going to say - most Canadians know are constantly in lament of the lasting snow!

Thank you. Ironically, I don't actually go to the end of it too often.

[muldy.livejournal.com]

Wow that's some major change in those photos! :-|

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

That's because we're crap at everything, lols, including durable snow.

[lauren-sark.livejournal.com]

Woah... That some strange weather indeed. Seriously. How could it all have just vanished that quickly? Sure, snow can vanish here rather quickly too but not that much on such short period of time :P It really looks as if though it would be a winter picture and a spring picture and not at all during the same day

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was pretty crazy. The weirdest part is that over the weekend we went from heavy snow to bright blue skies within a matter of minutes. INSANE.

[inflightdata.livejournal.com]

You have a really nice backyard. And SNOW. ifiyafyiafssfiy9aa09 damn you Australia!!

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Also: we don't always get snow! At least, not stuff that settles. And as evidenced above, it didn't settle for long, lols.

[hestia8.livejournal.com]

At least yours settled! Ours just made everything wet :(

(OTOH, it provided a very good excuse to stay in and do nothing all weekend)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

:( Indeed. (Haha, it's GORGEOUS this morning. Oh, England. I love you a lot.)

(Whilst I had to go to work in it, lols.)

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

that's your backyard? can we trade? please?

as to Sara Dillan, I think it's not so much what she found on her google search...as what she didn't find. John Amsterdam has told her that he isn't part of any relocation program or government agency - yet he didn't exist five years before she met him. tis a little suspicious.

and I agree that Eva is entirely wonderful.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Hee. That depends on what your backyard's like :) (Low maintenance I can deal with, lols.)

Haha, yes, I get that but when it comes to that show, I don't take the 'ship so seriously, you know? Either they get together, or he dies trying (tragic!) It just felt like a contrived way to add drama to the relationship. (Is that her name? lols. I am so bad with new fandoms, I can't even remember.)

She is SMASHING.

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

slow-growing grass, two hills, a grilling deck and a sunroom.

ah, okay; though its nice to know that, at his age, there are some things that can still flabbergast him (ie, Sara saying she didn't believe in true love). well, he'd only die if he succeeds. ;) true; but as plot devices go, not the worst I've seen. Dillane, I think.

She's fantastic.