"curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"
i. Right, so, I am leaving for Connecticut tomorrow; and yes, it's only a little less sudden to me than it is to you lot. Dad desperately needs a holiday and has managed to get time off of all of his jobs for this weekend, so we are running off to the Strawberry Park Folk Festival tomorrow and shall be back on Monday. I am rather excited at the prospect, abrupt as it is, because Richard Shindell will be there. (Also Lucy Kaplansky and Dave Mallet and...some other people.) And the weather will be chilly and a bit drizzly and the main stage is surrounded by trees and I could not ask for a better atmosphere. (See, the thing about music festivals is that they are usually terribly hot, and I am not fond of that sort of weather, nor tans, neither. Hot and shadeless, hark you. So this, really, is completely marvellous.) There will be internet access, but I doubt I'll be able to post. And oh, scarves and jumpers and cape, how I've missed you!
ii. In fact, it is beautifully autumnal today -- I am wearing my favourite orange jumper and a cranberry-coloured vest, and the wind is sharp and biting and crisp and evenings are beginning to be a bit witchy, with the wind whistling through the cracks in the windows and leaves fluttering hither and thither. The trees are still mostly green, but I can sense it -- any day now we shall wake up and find that the tree in front of my window has gone gold.
iii. Thanks to the machinations of the thoroughly magnificent![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lady_moriel , I have just seen my first episode of Firefly. This sounds horribly stoic and businesslike, so picture, if you will, me jumping over piles of clothing and papers and musical instruments in my bedroom, waving my arms like a crazed propeller. Because VERILY IT IS MADE OF AWESOME ADSKLHGLKHG *flail*. The characters! The music! The production values! The plot! The scifi-western-Chinese aesthetic! (Which is so perfectly right that it deserves a meta-y post of its own eventually.) The costumes! The witty repartee dialogue! The awesome! Have I mentioned the characters? Only I think I am madly in love with each and every one already.
And of course I would begin watching this right before I go off on holiday and can't see another episode for five days.
Which I ought to be preparing for straightaway. Oh, and still no word on Oliver!. Good grief, it's been a week. And, er, I am wretchedly behind on the f-list and on emails, so -- really, I'm sorry. I'm a bit harried at the moment, and I am trying to get to you all as best I can. ♥
ii. In fact, it is beautifully autumnal today -- I am wearing my favourite orange jumper and a cranberry-coloured vest, and the wind is sharp and biting and crisp and evenings are beginning to be a bit witchy, with the wind whistling through the cracks in the windows and leaves fluttering hither and thither. The trees are still mostly green, but I can sense it -- any day now we shall wake up and find that the tree in front of my window has gone gold.
iii. Thanks to the machinations of the thoroughly magnificent
lady_moriel , I have just seen my first episode of Firefly. This sounds horribly stoic and businesslike, so picture, if you will, me jumping over piles of clothing and papers and musical instruments in my bedroom, waving my arms like a crazed propeller. Because VERILY IT IS MADE OF AWESOME ADSKLHGLKHG *flail*. The characters! The music! The production values! The plot! The scifi-western-Chinese aesthetic! (Which is so perfectly right that it deserves a meta-y post of its own eventually.) The costumes! The And of course I would begin watching this right before I go off on holiday and can't see another episode for five days.
Which I ought to be preparing for straightaway. Oh, and still no word on Oliver!. Good grief, it's been a week. And, er, I am wretchedly behind on the f-list and on emails, so -- really, I'm sorry. I'm a bit harried at the moment, and I am trying to get to you all as best I can. ♥
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OH FIREFLY. -envies- I have been wanting to watch that for a very long time. Perhaps that's what I shall attempt after I finish the final two eps of Torchwood, since Life on Mars decided to hate me, or something. But yes. I've been watching Torchwood with Noelle over g-talk and half of what I say is keyboard smashing because LO: IT IS MADE OF WIN (although I am not entirely sure how you would feel about it).
Anyway. I will be sending threatening vibes in the general direction of the Oliver! directors. (But not too threatening; I wouldn't want them to think ill of you.)
♥♥
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and GIC: Gratuitous Icon Comment
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Don't watch the movie before you finish the series. Oh, and watch this (http://www.session416.com/): it's a really cool viral promo that Joss put out to promote the movie. No movie spoilers, though! But wait until you've finished the series before watching it.
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A word of advice: don't watch Serenity before you have seen all the episodes. I saw the film first, and although I love the show, it was a little sad from the beginning, knowing that I knew how it ended.
Welcome to the Browncoat ranks, Ensign Banui!
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But Firefly, yes. It is Made Of Awesome. :D
Enjoy the music festival... I really must get to one someday, only I think we haven't any at all within a reasonable driving distance. Pooey.
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April is the cruellest month; autumn is the most beautiful season. April has nothing to do with anything, no, but I wanted to quote Eliot, so shush.
Enjoy Richard Shindell! :)
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(-smirks-)
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Still sending good thoughts and wishes your way for Oliver. ♥
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Have a great time at the Festival!
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Also am most disappointed that you are Off, because on Monday I will be moving into college and then giving my computer to Repair Blokes and so probably really absent, woe & despair. :( I miss having 876-line conversations! actually we have had ones longer than that.
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(I have no idea why I felt the need to type that in all caps, but I also have no idea why I felt the need to ingest large amounts of sugar when I was already giddy over a wonderful first day at work, and now I am doing utterly silly things like skipping & dancing about & flailing over stuff & coming up with a list of Proofs Oscar Wilde & I Are Soulmates & leaving ridiculously long, nonsensical comments in other people's LJs.)
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Or if you commented on my![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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♥!! And of course you are Off already and not reading this comment, but alas! Come back to me! And the longest conversation on the first page of my chat archive is 1012 lines, and -- oh dear, it's that one. *chortle*
me: "YOU DESERVE IT. MUCKING AROUND IN T. S. ELIOT'S LARDER, FOR GOD'S SAKE."
"HAVE YOU NO SENSE OF DECENCY?"
Noldo: "OF COURSE I DO."
03:36 "I WASN'T MUCKING ABOUT IN HIS LARDER STARKERS."
:p
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♥ ♥! I am Off indeed, but college wireless is not bad so I have the time to talk (GET ON GTALK!). & oh dear, that one. Not that I have it saved on Word at all, no.
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My life is complete.
I just saw a BRAND NEW episode.
Every Friday night!
*waves it over you and taunts*
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But, OMG. "Blink" is pretty much my favourite episode of television ever. It's so pretty, and Sally is amazing, and it totally stands on its own as...a really, really short film, or something. Also, it contains the line, "This is my timey-wimey detector. It goes ding when there's stuff." :D
Still. Why can't we have BBC America on our cable plan instead of Style, or Hallmark, or the hunting channel? D:
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