Ordinary Day

Snurched off of the Fandom Lounge community over on JournalFen, I bring you tw_babiez. As the JF poster asserted, this is indeed better than the actual program. ;>

Whatever kicked my ass between Wednesday and Thursday did a pretty fair job of it: I wound up being home sick both Thursday and Friday, pretty wiped out still on Saturday, and only just this afternoon started feeling coherent enough that I needed to get out of the house for a while. Ergo, solarbird and I went down to the shops for the usual Sunday market run, and even after that, I needed a long nap.

I'm still not entirely sure what it was that hit me. I was quite nauseous and weak, and periodically hit with chills; I was not, however, running a temperature. I'm kind of wondering if the BBQ sandwich I had at Lake Forest Park on Wednesday night just severely disagreed with me, or if I caught some sort of funky mild bug or what.

I spent a good chunk of the time getting caught up on the Doctor Who tapes that spazzkat had gotten out for me to watch, as I've previously posted. I got all the way through the Sixth Doctor storyline "Revelation of the Daleks" as well as the First Doctor's "The Chase" (which, as it turned out, was the final appearance of the Companions Ian and Barbara). This leaves me with the two non-canon Doctor Who remake movies that had Peter Cushing in them; Paul likes to call these "Grand Moff Doctor". Hee.

Meanwhile, risu and I have commenced getting caught up on Torchwood, since mamishka kindly brought us a rental of the first two discs of Series 1 from Scarecrow. We've made it through the first four episodes so far. Survey says, pilot held up better than I expected on a second viewing, and episodes 2 and 3 weren't half bad. But episode 4 was godawful. I do like the tie-ins to plotlines from Doctor Who, and I like Gwen as a character as well as the glimpses of character development we've seen for Jack so far. Gwen's boyfriend is a nice character as well. The rest of the Torchwood team, though, vacillates between being non-entities and being actively annoying. I'll hope they mesh better as a team as the series progresses.

And, since rmd and clauclauclaudia were in town over the weekend, they came by yesterday along with kathrynt and llachglin and their baby Lillian, as well as Meems and off-LJ friend Danny. Wii bowling was enjoyed by all, as well as a bit of the new Guitar Hero game; pizza was consumed, pleasant conversation was had, and there was much amusing interaction with le bebeh, who is working very, very hard on that whole Standing Up concept.

All of this wound up being about all I could manage over the last few days. What did not happen was editing, and I really need to get back on the stick with that starting tomorrow night. I owe aerialscribe a major revision, and it needs to be done before Japan. So no one be surprised if I drop off the face of the Net over the next week or two, hey?

Last but not least, just for giggles and grins, let's try cross-posting this to all the journals I have up now and see if this works.

Miles since the 21st: 70.7
Miles out of Hobbiton: 2271
Miles out of Isengard: 478
Miles to Minas Tirith: 308