planning the revolution

So, I decided that I'd cap one of my favourite scenes in L&O:CI for the top 5s meme. It took me a while to find the right episode but that didn't matter so much because the show brings me an intense amount of glee. Except when I found the right episode, I also realised its cross-fandom value. So, a tiny picspam!

Susan Misner (aka Lt. Burnett)! She has the NY accent down so well. I love her! She's so badass! She's also an L&O repeater - she turns up a season or two later as a reformed nun. Man. I love that episode, too.

Have been up since seven - can see daylight, hurrah! It's a nice morning; may head out to the park later. Today will be used for: writing a sonnet, a 1k analysis, and my presentation on Paradise Lost for tomorrow. Tried to do the sonnet yesterday and failed.

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We've had no net connection for a few days which is why I was up early this morning, calling Tiscali. Was on a bad line with a guy in India (of course) who had no idea what I was talking about. Anyway, ended up connecting to the router using an ethernet and running the set up wizard that way. Everything seems to be working now so from now on, whenever we have a problem, I'm going to try that first. What a palava!

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Making use of yesterday morning's free time, I took a couple of hours to cook enough fajita filling to last me out the week. I have a new pan and a new knife, both of which have made my life so much simpler (it's the little things that please), and I actually remembered to add sweetcorn this time so that was yummy.

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Back to Monday - I ditched the essay writing on Sunday because I was too knackered (wtf, it was only midnight) to keep at it, and instead decided to wake early on Monday and get the damn thing written. Which I did, by midday. Handed that in, came back to the house, read, ate, watched Doctor Who (Partners in Crime, again) with The Flatmate. I think we're watching the Pompeii one tonight.

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LAST NIGHT WAS SORT OF MARVELLOUS. The Flatmate and I went to see French and Saunders live and it was a great big bundle of yay. I have never really found them massively funny (I prefer stand-up to sketch comedy most of the time) but last night was excellent. They did the original sketch which inspired Absolutely Fabulous, a skit involving granny scooters, this hilarious Catherine Zeta Jones thing and loads of other hilarious scenes. AB FAB, GUYS, AB FAB.

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ZOMG, NEW WEEPIES ALBUM OUT V. V. SOON.

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Am having issues with Norton AntiVirus. "Your virus definitions are out of date." So I hit LiveUpdate, it tells me that there are no new updates available, I close that window and STILL that fucker of an icon is throwing an AMBER EXCLAMATION POINT in my face. On a bike! What must I do to supplicate your ire, oh defender of this virtual realm? Must I sacrifice lolcats? IS THIS WHAT THE WORLD HAS COME TO?

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Eee, new Bones! New Amsterdam finale! Actually, I watched last week's episode yesterday over lunch and was pleasantly surprised: I was generally very pleased with the episode! Apart from the ending. But the rest of it was great! Still in need of more Omar, but great! Hurrah.

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.

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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( New Amsterdam, 1x05. )

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

PIMP PLEASE.

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I am just about to start watching New Amsterdam, 1x04, but I just finished 1x03 and I feel ( spoils. )