Freaky dreams

I woke up somewhere in the dark hours having dreamed a zombie apocalypse. ( Read more... )

Zombies rather bother me. I mean, a lot of monsters bother me, because they start with the idea that people can start out in category 'people' and then be disquailfied. ( Read more... )

I wanted to write about ghosts. They're already dead, and that's their big problem. Killing people, even the people what murdered them, isn't going to be helpful, because logically you'd then end up with two pissed off ghosts. Ghosts are a hydra problem, you can't cut them down, but unlike the hydra 'smarter violence' isn't the answer either. Exorcism is a stupid cheat. Exorcism is taking the ignored and trying to kick it further out. Sod that. You've got to negotiate with them, figure out their unfinished business, solve their problems - live with them, and treat them as part of a society that is in general ignoring them. It's the only way left. And it's the right way anyway.

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Last night (er, the night before the one with the zombies) I had a much better dream where I was with a team in Paris trying to investigate an imminent bit of magical terrorism, ( Read more... )

We totally kicked arse.

In dreams with magic, that's the kind of stuff I can do. Lightning spells, fireballs, and now cold, with flight or speed and decent shields. In dreams without magic? I'm toast.

So I decided after the zombie dream I didn't really fancy carrying that into the day (hah! like that worked so well...) so I went back to sleep. And then I dreamed a *nuclear* apocalypse, where I'd been preparing for years and woke up knowing today was the day and couldn't get anyone to listen to me, ( Read more... )

and the very last thing I saw was the whole world going white.


I hear other people have, like, rest when they sleep.

Concept.

My day was kind of awesome

This morning started with the weird dreams. And the cranky snippy BE. But it got much better.

I spent the morning reading (Murders on the Rue Morgue, which is weird, and a theory book).
I think this semester is full of Actually Learning Stuff, and will be fun. Yaays!

Then the mail arrived and I'd won £25 on my premium bonds. Yaays!!

And then I spent it all on Big Finish Audio Doctor Who adventures... er, and a bit more... eh, I'd buy them all eventually anyway, it would have been cheaper to admit that from the start...

Then when I'd just finished downloading them all (yaaays!!!) my employee rang and was available this afternoon. I'd figured after yesterday was called on account of snow that was the chance gone for the week, but no, we could go. So we started at 1530 and went all round Norwich looking at housing, actually mostly housing I'd looked at before, because it was in some cases six months ago and I couldn't remember why I didn't likes it. This time a couple of properties went back on the interesting list because taking a different route there it's much closer than I thought... and a couple of properties I remembered why I *don't* want to go there, which is also helpful. This moving thing is more complex than it sounds. And it didn't sound easy.

So, all that done, we were hungry, so we stopped at the Thai Dragon like we went to for the NSFG meal, and we had three plates of vegetarian starters. Also employee had a dessert, but she got that for free, because they were being awesome. I like the food there. The triangles are best. Also they make art out of carrots, which is cool.

Then we hunted a local paper to find out what was on at which cinema, and we found Sherlock Holmes at the Vue around the corner was starting right about when we were reading. But, that was the listed start time, so we might get there before the ads finished. So we tried it, and we were just in time.

Sherlock Holmes rocked. I like this version of Holmes and Watson, it's not a version I've seen before, yet having just finished reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes I can see where they got all the pieces from. I can also see how Holmes would have hated it, because he said the important bit was the logic, not all the running around. But this one had rather a lot of running around. And, also, great acting. And I liked the technique to make bare knuckle fighting into a cerebral art, and also the use of rewinding to follow a different perspective. Also I really liked Irene Adler. She got her own bit of hero stuff! Win! Tis the tricksy bit of the source, what happens to all the women. I think it still Bechdel failed. 4 women, 3 got names, no two talked. That could improve. But what we got had adventure and win and smart and funny and also some most excellent fight scenes and Holmes being quite as chemically altered as he should be and just as wild in the thinkings and yet still with the logics. Could have been more logics but it was fun. And the pull quotes I recognised flowed, which can be a problem when someone says recogniseable words. Also I really, really loved their London. That was gorgeous. Great fun all round.

Then home again... and trying to post about this with Firefox acting up cranky. This morning it said 'you have a new version of Firefox!' and since then it has crashed 4 times and the last couple eroded how many windows and tabs I had. I am running virus check and hoping it'll stay stable now. Restoring the window set from this afternoon seems to have got everything back... thus far. #xfingers#

So that was good day full of many many. Win :-)