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[delga]

Hahahaha, picfor1000: I TOTALLY FORGOT. So that's something else that I need to sort out now.

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It's been almost a week since I 'properly' updated. I used to read people's journals where they were all, shit, I totally forgot to update! And I'd be sitting there thinking, wait, what? Except now I'm one of those people and it makes sense. I don't have anything to update about, really. Sometimes I think of things but I don't bother because, well, I don't bother.

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Life at the community centre continues on apace. This week is half term which means I get Friday off. I should have Wednesday off, too, but a woman from the college wants to talk to me so I have to get up early and be in by 9am. Which is the time I'm usually in but things are taking me a little longer than usual this week because my legs really hurt, so I'm trying to stay on top of that.

We're in the middle of setting up another Family History course for March so even when I'm not in the centre my brain is filled with phone numbers I need to call and messages that I need to double up on. Yeah, my life is thrilling.

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In other news, I spent Sunday and much of yesterday watching season 3 of The Wire. I got to about 3.04 last January and then stopped for whatever reason. This time I marathoned straight through the season. Some comments: I'd been spoiled for Stringer's death but even so, I didn't know the specifics. Watching Omar and Brother Mouzone walking down the street together was both awesome and surreal. Their showdown at the top of 3.10 was insane, too. I wonder if people didn't guess that Stringer was on his way out. I mean, in terms of the plot, there wasn't really a whole hell of a lot else he could do. It's weird that you feel his loss so immediately because Bunk and McNulty and Kima don't care about his death past the arrest they could have made, whilst the character himself is oddly sympathetic in his role as the anti-hero (or one of the anti-heroes) of the show. Plus, I freaking adore Idris Elba and his tall, fine self, and I'll miss him as part of the show.

Other things:

- Bunny Colvin and the free zones. Wow, he got majorly fucked over by the end of it, no? I liked that character, and I liked what he brought out in others, like Carver and McNulty.

- Ray Cole's death was something I'd seen in my first watch but I'd forgotten about it so it hit me again. Damn. Ray Cole!

- I really like the relationship between Kima and McNulty - that boysie relationship they have and the way they laugh. I love it when Lester is in on that tone, too, but I also love Lester ripping the two of them a new one.

- Fucking Prez. I cringed all the way through that plot. I really liked that guy. The way he redeemed himself in the first season and then continued to be sort of geeky? That moment when he's talking to Daniels in the interrogation room and he's all, say sorry to Lester for me. omfg, I totally cried.

- lols, Daniels and Rhonda Pearlman! I kind of love that ship? And I love when they're pressing on the judge for the wire and she oh-so-casually uncrosses and re-crosses her legs. OH BOY.

- a lot of 3.12 was pure porn. Kima and her lay? Daniels/Pearlman? Goddamn.

- Bubbles is a wise, wise man.

- Carcetti throws me because I can hear straight through his accent to the Brit on the other side and he comes off a little...smarmy? I can't tell if that's his face or if he's supposed to be projecting that persona. A lot of times I think I have the character nailed and then I don't fucking know all over again.

- the campaign woman that McNulty was sleeping with was a weird addition in the sense that I don't understand why so many of the plots were a bit, surprise! We're linked! There was that plot, then Daniels' wife and Dennis Wise/Cutty, and then - hilariously - Frank Sabotka's face all over torn up union election posters by the ports when Omar throws his loot into the water.

- I really like Cutty as a character; I liked his hesitation, his lack of direction - the way he went deeper into the shit before he could come out of it clean.

- I don't really know what to make of the Marlo plot. On the one hand it seemed really important; on the other hand it got shoved aside for a lot of other things.

- I am not a fan of Avon Barksdale.

I'm going to start on season 4 as soon as I've finished with this week's United States of Tara.

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I should really talk about Battlestar Galactica and Big Love before there's too much to say and I forget but with both shows I'm still processing a lot. For the latter I will say, goddamn, Chip Esten, you're still damn attractive.

This week's Being Human was enjoyable as ever though I felt the ending created more problems than it solved. I'm not sure that was the point but, uh, okay.

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I am having serious vocabulary issues recently. The word will be on the tip of my tongue and then it will just disappear. It's incredibly frustrating.

Comments

[pretty-cynical.livejournal.com]

I haven't looked at my picfor1000 prompt in ages. And I really don't plan on doing anything with it. Too busy trying to get through school, yo.

[tartary-lamb.livejournal.com]

The fourth season of the Wire is my favourite, but for me the third season is definitely in second place. On the face of it, it should be ridiculously over the top, and yet...

I should really rewatch the Wire again. It has much awesome.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I can pick a favourite, lols. At first I didn't think I'd enjoy the fourth season, but I really, really did. I just love it all.