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Nora Roberts, BtVS, Roswell, LASIK
Oct. 19th, 2004 05:22 pm
Met/saw Nora Roberts today w/ ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
corianderstem. NR had a dryer sense of humor than I was expecting, and that made me like her. <g> She was also very no nonsense; she has a specific process for things, right down to the autographs. She said she was v. disciplined and linear when she writes (6-8 hours every day), which is why she's able to write so much. She gets a first draft out pretty quickly, without editing or rereading, and then goes back and does that later. (Personally it takes me HOURS to edit my own stuff, and we're not even talking novel length; I don't know how she does it.) I did end up buying her latest, Northern Lights, less because it sounded interesting than because I like having signed copies of books by authors I've met. : ) Won't it be a pleasant surprise if I do like it?
But really how NR won me over was by saying: "Does anyone watch Lost? That show is fantastic. I had to find something to watch now that Buffy's gone."
OMG NR is a BtVS fan! That strikes me as being v. odd, but cool. I mean, she's such a no-nonsense, put-together, dry-witted woman that I just don't see her being a BtVS fan. I could tell the older women in the audience were like, What huh? :))
I've been watching my Roswell S2 DVDs. "Christmas Carol" is so, so good. It 'feels' more like an episode of My So-Called Life, and reminds me that Jason Katims was fairly bigwiggy at the end of that show's run. I genuinely like all the characters in this episode -- including Tess -- how did it all go so wrong? Sigh. And Jason Behr, when he's saving all those kids ... so hot. But speaking JB, he's in a movie w/ Sarah Michelle Gellar, called The Grudge. It sounds v. interesting, and "Lie to Me" (an ep of BtVS that JB and SMG did together) is one of my favorite eps.
Also, I'm contemplating getting laser vision correction, like LASIK. My normally killer health plan does not cover it, although I am able to get a discount. I've wanted to do this for a long, long time, since contacts/glasses are such a pain in the ass, but I've always had this fear that I'll be that in that miniscule percentile in which something goes horribly awry and I'm blinded for life. Plus we don't have very many studies about the long-term effect of the procedure; in the U.S. we only have 3-year clinical trials. :-S Still, at least it's cheaper now than it used to be -- $799 per eye (unless I want the custom treatment, which is $1,199/eye) -- and the doctor seems good (Mark Walker, though why is there no picture of him?).
corianderstem. NR had a dryer sense of humor than I was expecting, and that made me like her. <g> She was also very no nonsense; she has a specific process for things, right down to the autographs. She said she was v. disciplined and linear when she writes (6-8 hours every day), which is why she's able to write so much. She gets a first draft out pretty quickly, without editing or rereading, and then goes back and does that later. (Personally it takes me HOURS to edit my own stuff, and we're not even talking novel length; I don't know how she does it.) I did end up buying her latest, Northern Lights, less because it sounded interesting than because I like having signed copies of books by authors I've met. : ) Won't it be a pleasant surprise if I do like it?But really how NR won me over was by saying: "Does anyone watch Lost? That show is fantastic. I had to find something to watch now that Buffy's gone."
OMG NR is a BtVS fan! That strikes me as being v. odd, but cool. I mean, she's such a no-nonsense, put-together, dry-witted woman that I just don't see her being a BtVS fan. I could tell the older women in the audience were like, What huh? :))
I've been watching my Roswell S2 DVDs. "Christmas Carol" is so, so good. It 'feels' more like an episode of My So-Called Life, and reminds me that Jason Katims was fairly bigwiggy at the end of that show's run. I genuinely like all the characters in this episode -- including Tess -- how did it all go so wrong? Sigh. And Jason Behr, when he's saving all those kids ... so hot. But speaking JB, he's in a movie w/ Sarah Michelle Gellar, called The Grudge. It sounds v. interesting, and "Lie to Me" (an ep of BtVS that JB and SMG did together) is one of my favorite eps.
Also, I'm contemplating getting laser vision correction, like LASIK. My normally killer health plan does not cover it, although I am able to get a discount. I've wanted to do this for a long, long time, since contacts/glasses are such a pain in the ass, but I've always had this fear that I'll be that in that miniscule percentile in which something goes horribly awry and I'm blinded for life. Plus we don't have very many studies about the long-term effect of the procedure; in the U.S. we only have 3-year clinical trials. :-S Still, at least it's cheaper now than it used to be -- $799 per eye (unless I want the custom treatment, which is $1,199/eye) -- and the doctor seems good (Mark Walker, though why is there no picture of him?).
