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May 04, 2005
that's a day
i realize it's probably not a novelty for some of you, but this morning, i was in a meeting while at home in my pj's! i forgot to set my alarm to get up early and go in, so i just teleconferenced. it was rather nice.
when i got into work, i had a mail from my mom with some really disturbing news about one of my cousins. while my cousin was away camping last weekend with her dad, her best friend was stabbed to death in the apartment they shared, and then the apartment was set on fire-- so not only does she have the incredible trauma of losing her best friend in such a terrible way, but she has lost all of her posessions and her home as well. i can't imagine. she's only 19 and in college. i feel so bad for her. i am not close to any of my cousins, but i still shudder to think of what could have happened had she not been gone when it happened.
:|:
ah well. so last night jb came over and he sanded for a good while, with great enthusiasm. i was feeling really crappy and out of it so i was happy to let him work with the power tools while i puttered around and cleaned up the sand from sandblasting.
anyway, tonight i went back alone and worked for a while. i found that the wire brush was difficult for me to handle; it requires a lot of hand and upper body strength. my drill doesn't have a way to lock in the on position, so that's part of the strain. i briefly considered taping the trigger down but that seemed like a wildly unsafe thing to do. for me, it seemed to work well to still use the sander for large, flat areas, and the brush for smaller, harder to access areas.
now my arms and hands are very tired!
:|:
i watched veronica mars on tivo tonight. i have to admit that i was not there emotionally with this episode. there was something in the editing that was popping me out of the moment on a regular basis and it seemed jumpy. there were a lot of Plot Revelations, as predicted, but i felt as if it was too much, almost, and each one lacked development. i've seen all the episodes and i'll have to disagree with wordnerdy, i think it doesn't stack up against buffy. but i'll still netflix it and watch them all the way through in order, once the dvd's come out.
Posted by lisa at May 04, 2005 10:30 PM | TrackBack
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a lot of people on the twop forums agreed w/ you--there were 53 pages of discussion about the episode as of this morning. i just think there wasn't much more they could do with their 44 minutes--and i expect a lot of this stuff to play out next season. at least, i hope so.
are you comparing it to buffy as a whole or to buffy season 1? it's definitely better than buffy season 7 . . . :)
Posted by: alicia on May 4, 2005 11:02 PM
oh my god. i feel so bad for your cousin (and her friend's family). i have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that things that bad really happen.
Posted by: christa on May 4, 2005 11:13 PM
leesh: the problem is that, had joss been writing and directing.. he could have pulled off that much plot in 44 minutes-- he has. i was amazed sometimes at the way he'd get us from a to b and make it feel natural, and do it in just a minute or two. it takes incredible writing and directing. vm is great, but not joss great. as for the comparison with buffy, i guess i was trying to remember how i felt about the characters at the end of the first season, and i know i was much more attached to them than i am to the VM characters. the vm characters just do not pop off the screen the way buffy, willow, xander and giles do. hell-- i can't even keep their names straight half the time. even in seasons six and seven, there were episodes that VM can't compare to.
xa: yeah, i can't wrap my head around it either. it's like when michael was killed (which i still sit around and shake my head with wonder over, even now, years later), except even worse. i hope this one doesn't go unsolved the way his did.
Posted by: lisa on May 4, 2005 11:35 PM
I have a drill whose trigger locks down. Other than that, it's not much, but you're welcome to borrow it.
Posted by: Joseph H. Vilas on May 4, 2005 11:35 PM
ok, so a) your comment won't post right away because i have to approve it first and b) you might get a server error but your comment probably posted anyway and c) previewing doesn't work so i've removed the preview button.