the sickie speaks
Jan. 27th, 2010 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Thanks guys, for all your well wishes.
I'm slowly recuperating. Keyword being slow. The body aches seem to be gone now (though two nights ago they came back, in a milder form). Biggest symptoms now are chest congestion, coughing, alternately stuffed/runny nose, PITA stuff like that. The worst part is really not being able to smell or taste anything. My stuffy nose is actually a lot better than before, and yet my sense of smell and taste haven't returned, and now I'm freaking out that I've lost them forever. I really really miss it.
On the other hand, I'm a really good person to cook for right now. My appetite is still strong (so in my mother's book, I'm fine). As long as the texture is decent I'll eat it up, doesn't matter in the least what it tastes like. The other day I made a fried egg and there was a bit of spilled oil that the heat from the burner cooked up. S. was like, is something burning? And I was like, no? Couldn't smell it at all.
Tomorrow K. and I had planned to go to Olivar for dinner. They were having a guest chef for 2 nights and offering a 5-course meal for $50/person. We were really looking forward to it, until this happened. Then I was like omg that I have to pay $50 for a meal I can't even taste. She had to put down her credit card for a down payment. The "good" news is that they allowed her to cancel w/o any penalty. The bad news, of course, is that I still can't taste anything and it was going to be a fun, nice time out that now I won't get to have. Sigh.
I've been a stellar couch potato. I've been watching a lot of TV shows/movies.
Mad Men: Really enjoying this one. I love the characters (even if I'm not really rooting for any particular one) and find them all very interestingly drawn. I especially love learning history from this show. It's basically like peering into what life was like in the 1950s/60s, but not in a dry, documentary-like way. Being told the facts is different from showing the daily life aspect. It's all very interesting, but slow paced. Not a whole lot goes on, and that's okay. It's more about the characters and the portrait of everyday life, especially for women.
United States of Tara: Loved this one also, though it's different from what I expected. Toni Collete is, of course, great, but surprisingly, so are the others, particularly the daughter, who manages to be a typical bratty teenager w/o being super annoying. The episodes are shorter than I had expected... it's a half-hour show rather than hour-long. That makes it even more surprising where they've taken the plotline. I mean, obviously Tara has a mental illness. But given the previews I'd seen of the show, and the fact that it was a half hour, I expected it to be more comedic in tone, more about the wacky daily life of living with someone who has that condition. But it's gotten into the serious mental illness part right away, and that is unexpected. Because now the question is, where's that going to go? If Tara doesn't get cured, it's sad and depressing. If she does get cured, the show's over. I would have expected maybe one or two seasons of hijinks coupled with some therapy, then get into the serious therapy stuff later on. But what the heck do I know.
Grey Gardens: Ugh, Drew Barrymore at her most annoying. And it wasn't her fault, really; it was her character. The characters/real people she and Jessica Lange played were just so super annoying and unlikable on just about every level. I guess the most shocking thing is how closely related they were to Jackie O.
9: The animated film, not the other one. I was underwhelmed by the previews for the movie and the movie itself did nothing to prove those initial expectations wrong. It was trite and boring, frankly. It was an an animated Terminator meets Toy Story meets Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Nothing was overly impressive, from the graphics to the plotline. Disappointing, but lived down to my expectations.
The Young Victoria: Didn't much like this one either. There are so many stories/films made about the royal families of Britain that you really have to step it up if you're going to do one. It was boring. The story pieces were lamely done. I mean, I don't care if in real life each family was off in their own little corner arguing about how best to manipulate Victoria; make it interesting, for god's sake, you're making a movie. It was basically just scenes intercut with scenes of people arguing. Really lame and poorly done. Emily Blunt was fine, but either the character as written wasn't very interesting or she just didn't make her very interesting (I'll give her the benefit of the doubt and say it was the script/overall vision). The conflicts barely made any resonance. The struggle Victoria had with her mother/Sir John Conroy was the most interesting part, and yet that went nowhere fast... nothing really came of it at all. So yeah, meh.
Gamer: Disappointing. I was actually really looking forward to this one, as the premise was interesting. But I didn't like the way it was shot, too overexposed and all crazy modern. Not my thing.
That's all I can remember... I might have watched other stuff during this sickie phase but don't recall them right now.
I think there might be squirrels or racoons or birds or all of the above living in the crawl space between my roof and my ceiling. In the mornings I'm frequently woken up by animal(s) running/scratching, sounding like they're right above my ceiling. Sometimes it sounds like a woodpecker is tapping away. I always assumed it was just wild animals running around on the roof but I actually went out to look today and didn't see anything, and when I went back to my room the sounds were still there. So that makes me think they're in that crawl space. *shudder* If they aren't birds I don't know how they got in there. Do I call an exterminator for this sort of thing? I mean, what if I'm wrong and it's really just animals on the roof? Do I really want to poke my head into the crawl space and possibly get my eyes pecked out/rabies/etc.? Then again do I want to call for an exterminator/people who look into crawl spaces only to have them tell me I'm imagining things and there's nothing there? Sigh.
I'm slowly recuperating. Keyword being slow. The body aches seem to be gone now (though two nights ago they came back, in a milder form). Biggest symptoms now are chest congestion, coughing, alternately stuffed/runny nose, PITA stuff like that. The worst part is really not being able to smell or taste anything. My stuffy nose is actually a lot better than before, and yet my sense of smell and taste haven't returned, and now I'm freaking out that I've lost them forever. I really really miss it.
On the other hand, I'm a really good person to cook for right now. My appetite is still strong (so in my mother's book, I'm fine). As long as the texture is decent I'll eat it up, doesn't matter in the least what it tastes like. The other day I made a fried egg and there was a bit of spilled oil that the heat from the burner cooked up. S. was like, is something burning? And I was like, no? Couldn't smell it at all.
Tomorrow K. and I had planned to go to Olivar for dinner. They were having a guest chef for 2 nights and offering a 5-course meal for $50/person. We were really looking forward to it, until this happened. Then I was like omg that I have to pay $50 for a meal I can't even taste. She had to put down her credit card for a down payment. The "good" news is that they allowed her to cancel w/o any penalty. The bad news, of course, is that I still can't taste anything and it was going to be a fun, nice time out that now I won't get to have. Sigh.
I've been a stellar couch potato. I've been watching a lot of TV shows/movies.
Mad Men: Really enjoying this one. I love the characters (even if I'm not really rooting for any particular one) and find them all very interestingly drawn. I especially love learning history from this show. It's basically like peering into what life was like in the 1950s/60s, but not in a dry, documentary-like way. Being told the facts is different from showing the daily life aspect. It's all very interesting, but slow paced. Not a whole lot goes on, and that's okay. It's more about the characters and the portrait of everyday life, especially for women.
United States of Tara: Loved this one also, though it's different from what I expected. Toni Collete is, of course, great, but surprisingly, so are the others, particularly the daughter, who manages to be a typical bratty teenager w/o being super annoying. The episodes are shorter than I had expected... it's a half-hour show rather than hour-long. That makes it even more surprising where they've taken the plotline. I mean, obviously Tara has a mental illness. But given the previews I'd seen of the show, and the fact that it was a half hour, I expected it to be more comedic in tone, more about the wacky daily life of living with someone who has that condition. But it's gotten into the serious mental illness part right away, and that is unexpected. Because now the question is, where's that going to go? If Tara doesn't get cured, it's sad and depressing. If she does get cured, the show's over. I would have expected maybe one or two seasons of hijinks coupled with some therapy, then get into the serious therapy stuff later on. But what the heck do I know.
Grey Gardens: Ugh, Drew Barrymore at her most annoying. And it wasn't her fault, really; it was her character. The characters/real people she and Jessica Lange played were just so super annoying and unlikable on just about every level. I guess the most shocking thing is how closely related they were to Jackie O.
9: The animated film, not the other one. I was underwhelmed by the previews for the movie and the movie itself did nothing to prove those initial expectations wrong. It was trite and boring, frankly. It was an an animated Terminator meets Toy Story meets Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Nothing was overly impressive, from the graphics to the plotline. Disappointing, but lived down to my expectations.
The Young Victoria: Didn't much like this one either. There are so many stories/films made about the royal families of Britain that you really have to step it up if you're going to do one. It was boring. The story pieces were lamely done. I mean, I don't care if in real life each family was off in their own little corner arguing about how best to manipulate Victoria; make it interesting, for god's sake, you're making a movie. It was basically just scenes intercut with scenes of people arguing. Really lame and poorly done. Emily Blunt was fine, but either the character as written wasn't very interesting or she just didn't make her very interesting (I'll give her the benefit of the doubt and say it was the script/overall vision). The conflicts barely made any resonance. The struggle Victoria had with her mother/Sir John Conroy was the most interesting part, and yet that went nowhere fast... nothing really came of it at all. So yeah, meh.
Gamer: Disappointing. I was actually really looking forward to this one, as the premise was interesting. But I didn't like the way it was shot, too overexposed and all crazy modern. Not my thing.
That's all I can remember... I might have watched other stuff during this sickie phase but don't recall them right now.
I think there might be squirrels or racoons or birds or all of the above living in the crawl space between my roof and my ceiling. In the mornings I'm frequently woken up by animal(s) running/scratching, sounding like they're right above my ceiling. Sometimes it sounds like a woodpecker is tapping away. I always assumed it was just wild animals running around on the roof but I actually went out to look today and didn't see anything, and when I went back to my room the sounds were still there. So that makes me think they're in that crawl space. *shudder* If they aren't birds I don't know how they got in there. Do I call an exterminator for this sort of thing? I mean, what if I'm wrong and it's really just animals on the roof? Do I really want to poke my head into the crawl space and possibly get my eyes pecked out/rabies/etc.? Then again do I want to call for an exterminator/people who look into crawl spaces only to have them tell me I'm imagining things and there's nothing there? Sigh.
