A Can of Worms

Happy Birthday dresta11!!!

...or, um, maybe condolences...time is mightier than we all ...and 31 is kinda moving towards the inevitable decline *eg* and I'll always be younger than you ...nananananana...or whatever. On the plus side, you have less than a month left until the "retirement" *gg*!
Also, if you will not get decent internet connection to that damn island, I'll pester you to death in various ways, some of them even innovative. Maybe keep visiting a lot. Or infest move in to the sauna attic.

There's a new challenge up at highlander100, Challenge # 133 "Killing Time / In Memoriam".

Happy Birthday lastrega!!!
Happy Birthday unovis_lj!!!
Happy Birthday amonitrate!!!

Some of those wishes are a bit late, but still sincere, and better late than never, I guess.

Happy Birthday marys_scribbles!!!

I wish you all manners of happiness and all the luck you need (and some left over), fulfilment of wishes, satisfying days and some nicely muse-filled nights...and all manners of good fic. Also, *HUGS*. Lots.

Random tidbit of linguistic variety - in English, the word 'right' means both the direction/side and 'correct, true, proper'.(And I think that Russian has about the same meanings for the equivalent word). The Estonian equivalent, 'parem' also has different meanings, of which one is also of course direction/side, but the second one would, translated to English, mean 'better, superior'. (Also, a word 'pahem' - an older version of the term 'left' consequently also means 'worse'.) I am aware of the quite universal concept of connecting the right side with positive connotations etc, just what makes me wonder is the difference in the 'degrees of goodness' attributed to the 'right-side term' in different languages.*frowns' And in Finnish that's closely related to Estonian, the meanings go again more on the lines of 'right side/true, correct'. I do think that 'parem' is maybe a bit more recent word in the Estonian than 'oikea' is in Finnish, and I dimly recall that maybe some variation of 'õige' was used in Estonian to mark the right side (and that word has a second meaning that corresponds exactly to the English 'right' as in 'correct, true', also, could mean 'straight'). Hmmm. Heh, makes me wonder whether we went from black and white to shades of grey as the times passed? From 'right' to just 'better'?


Also, one can probably deduce from the abovementioned that Cali has been using brain for too much proper work and the brain is rebelling. I finished translating a 73-slide presentation that was very much an emergency-rush-job, so I can sympathise with my brain. It deserves the playtime.


Estonian national TV channel has started with the new Russian screening of Bulgakov's Master and Margareta, which is a miniseries and of which I have heard reviews of high praise. After the first episode tonight I agree, it does seem to be a good one, as far as I can see, it's very much following the book - which I think is a nice change from all those interpretations in different media I've seen. Though, I have loved them all. Should dig the book out again. Pity I cannot read it in Russian (my Russian isn't quite up to reading literature), but the Estonian translation is of a very high quality.


Well, time for some 'badfic with porn' a.k.a. Queer As Folk USA 4th season. The 1st and 3rd season methinks were the best of that so far, though I am now sure that it cannot be in any way compared to the UK version that was witty and crazy and well-written. But, well, as a teenager I did watch several seasons of the Bold and the Beautiful....so I guess I can watch a queer equivalent of thereof 15 years later. Just for kicks. Also - is it just my impression, or do maybe the shows with a crappier writing quality and consistency generate the best fanfic? I mean, of course there's crap fanfic out there too, but some of it is far far better than the show itself.

...to come over and play!

I have posted the 130th Challenge for highlander100 - and this time, it's Missing Chronicles X - that means that all previous Challenge prompts listed in the profile are fair game. So, um, prod your Highlander muses (crossovers are welcome, too) and pimp the challenge to all and sundry and, well, drabble!

Hmph. I am NOT amused. The rat under the ribcage has returned. Or, well, like I was afraid of, the latest high-fever virus has managed to piss off my myocardium. I am not happy. The cardiologist called me 'borderline recidive' *snickers* which at least has a nicely sinister ring to it. Just, well, that means copious ibuprofen consumption (I can see yoghurt consumption rising exponentially), familiar little red pills (only now they're pink, and I don't even get to choose between a red or a blue pill...*snh*) and two weeks with serious exhortation to do nothing. Don't imagine my workplace will be glad, but then, it's not as if I can do anything about it.
Well, I'll be laying around here, then, spitting on the ceiling, after I've managed to shake that bone-deep tiredness. It's god at least that it's not a fullblown myocarditis yet, and if I can do anything about it, it will not become one either. I had quite enough the first time, thank you.
That also means my picfor1000 story is going to be late... at first I had zero inspiration, and then I was sick. And now I have not only an idea, but the story is writing itself in my head, but I still have to get it written out of my head *g* and betaed. When I'm less tired, I guess.
Finished watching new dr Who 1st season and started on Torchwood. I can see why one could get fannish about Jack Harkness. Mmm. Cute. My youngest cat has decided to approve, sitting in front of the computer screen and patting captain Jack tenderly with a paw. Heck if I know why.

( cut for those who want to stay unspoiled..though, I guess the best way to stay 'unspoiled' is not to watch at all *g* )
Yeah. Visuals quite pretty. As expected, interaction between AP, PW and JB delicious. Music, good. Plot and character motivations - nonexistent. Villains - an insult to the term.

I guess I'll go with Pat on this - OPTH is taken to having weird nightmares after TB/NTB and Methos has to shush him out of them.

Well, it could've been worse. I didn't have high expectations anyway. Just, I feel sorry for DA. The original scriptwriters should be lynched.

I did it a while back when it was going 'round, but I was tagged again by babydraco, so...
Rules:
1.] grab the nearest book.
2.] open the book to page 23.
3.] find the fifth sentence.
4.] post the text of the next three sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5.] don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! i know you were thinking about it! just pick up whatever is closest.
6.] tag five other people to do the same.
Book - "The End of Faith" by Sam Harris
"And so it is that every human being comes to desire genuine knowledge about the world. This has always posed a special problem for religion, because every religion preaches the truth of propositions for which it has no evidence. In fact, every religion preaches the truth of propositions for which no evidence is even conceivable."

An interesting book, recced by someone from lj-land...and I really ought to finish it, despite being pressed for free time lately. Finishing it would mean I could make an oral summary for my Granny and discuss it with her (I adore my Granny who with almost no eyesight at age 86 has still brains and will strong enough to be someone I can discuss neuroscientific theories about the basis of belief, the idea of religion and other stuff with).
Also, that'd mean I could pick up Roger Zelazny's short stories waiting under Sam Harris next.
And no, there aren't currently any books in Estonian on my bedside table. Maybe I ought to be somehow disturbed by it, but to my shame, I'm not.
Also, not tagging anyone specifically. Just... "Tag, you're it!"