Joan of Arcadia 2x05 The Election (and sundry RL things)
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oyceterGah, Luke and Grace kill me every single time they're on the screen. Just... wow.
I also liked how God was less evident in this episode, which I suppose is part of why he's in Joan's life? She's starting to grow more, to figure out what should be done and listening to her own conscience instead of an outside force. I very much liked how God didn't just swoop down and tell her not to mess with Lars' life like he has in previous episodes. She makes the decision by herself, and I think it makes her a stronger character. While she's horribly self-centered and snotty sometimes, Joan has these moments when you can see she knows what she should do, doesn't want to, but goes and does it anyway. That's why I *heart* her. It was that look in her eyes right before she went up and helped Brian Beaumont pick up his flyers.
Judith continues to annoy me.
However, I am very much liking the new chief of police so far. She reminds me of a Holly Hunter character.
Alas, I overslept both days this weekend and missed the book/prints/whatnot fair in Oakland. Sigh. I also don't want to go to work tomorrow. Does anyone ever want to go to work on Monday? It's sort of stupid, considering that I just got a new job, but now I'm trying to think of a job that will make me want to go to work on Monday. Probably it's the Job Holy Grail or something.
We went to Andronico's today for lunch, and they had samples of twenty different kinds of cheese, I swear. I read in a book once that places do this because people feel guilty about sampling a lot and end up buying the things. I must have somehow missed this memo, because my first reaction is "Free food! Must take!" and go on shopping without a backward glance. Unless, of course, the sample is so yummy that I go back for another one, in which case I figure it may be worth buying the actual thing. I really love cheese, despite issues with lactose. However, Alton Brown said that the harder, older cheeses have less lactose, yay.
I think I need to set up a book buying budget. I have tons of books that I've bought that are lying about unread in the house... I'm not quite as worried about the fiction, given the rate I go through fiction. Plus, now that I can't borrow books from the bookstore, there will be more chances to read books I own. It's the non-fiction pile that I'm a little worried about, given my last two very large EAS buys. Also, it takes me forever to get through academic non-fiction, mostly because I keep getting distracted by fiction.
I haven't read very much romance of late. It's interesting... I was on a huge romance streak the first half of this year, but it seems to have died down a bit. I blame this entire on Dunnett. It's sort of hard to go back to your average romance after having been immersed in the romance and the history and the overall drama of the Lymond Chronicles. It's not that the romances are bad, it's just that Dunnett had six books to do it in. So my regular genre diet of much fantasy and the occasional SF continues.
I saw the updated Bright Shiny Objects and smacked myself on the head after I realized I have never pimped![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
minnow1212's Things Left Undone, a series of shorts taking place after "Not Fade Away." It's very, very good. And it makes me cry every single time I read it. It's bizarrely funny, morbid, and heart-breaking at the same time, and some parts have already become a part of my own personal canon. So go and read and praise it better and more articulately than I do.
I also liked how God was less evident in this episode, which I suppose is part of why he's in Joan's life? She's starting to grow more, to figure out what should be done and listening to her own conscience instead of an outside force. I very much liked how God didn't just swoop down and tell her not to mess with Lars' life like he has in previous episodes. She makes the decision by herself, and I think it makes her a stronger character. While she's horribly self-centered and snotty sometimes, Joan has these moments when you can see she knows what she should do, doesn't want to, but goes and does it anyway. That's why I *heart* her. It was that look in her eyes right before she went up and helped Brian Beaumont pick up his flyers.
Judith continues to annoy me.
However, I am very much liking the new chief of police so far. She reminds me of a Holly Hunter character.
Alas, I overslept both days this weekend and missed the book/prints/whatnot fair in Oakland. Sigh. I also don't want to go to work tomorrow. Does anyone ever want to go to work on Monday? It's sort of stupid, considering that I just got a new job, but now I'm trying to think of a job that will make me want to go to work on Monday. Probably it's the Job Holy Grail or something.
We went to Andronico's today for lunch, and they had samples of twenty different kinds of cheese, I swear. I read in a book once that places do this because people feel guilty about sampling a lot and end up buying the things. I must have somehow missed this memo, because my first reaction is "Free food! Must take!" and go on shopping without a backward glance. Unless, of course, the sample is so yummy that I go back for another one, in which case I figure it may be worth buying the actual thing. I really love cheese, despite issues with lactose. However, Alton Brown said that the harder, older cheeses have less lactose, yay.
I think I need to set up a book buying budget. I have tons of books that I've bought that are lying about unread in the house... I'm not quite as worried about the fiction, given the rate I go through fiction. Plus, now that I can't borrow books from the bookstore, there will be more chances to read books I own. It's the non-fiction pile that I'm a little worried about, given my last two very large EAS buys. Also, it takes me forever to get through academic non-fiction, mostly because I keep getting distracted by fiction.
I haven't read very much romance of late. It's interesting... I was on a huge romance streak the first half of this year, but it seems to have died down a bit. I blame this entire on Dunnett. It's sort of hard to go back to your average romance after having been immersed in the romance and the history and the overall drama of the Lymond Chronicles. It's not that the romances are bad, it's just that Dunnett had six books to do it in. So my regular genre diet of much fantasy and the occasional SF continues.
I saw the updated Bright Shiny Objects and smacked myself on the head after I realized I have never pimped
minnow1212's Things Left Undone, a series of shorts taking place after "Not Fade Away." It's very, very good. And it makes me cry every single time I read it. It's bizarrely funny, morbid, and heart-breaking at the same time, and some parts have already become a part of my own personal canon. So go and read and praise it better and more articulately than I do.Tags:
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Mon, Oct. 25th, 2004 05:17 pm (UTC)