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up and down like a honeymoon blanket
Tuesday, 5 July 2005 11:31 pmOne of those upsy-downsy sort of days. Downside: bad dose of insomnia last night, didn't get to sleep until after 4.30 am, and woke at 8.30 this morning. Upside: had a good book handy to read through the small hours. I thoroughly recommend K.J. Parker's Colours in the Steel, first in a fantasy series whose main character is a lawyer, i.e. is hired to fight to the death with a rapier in order to settle lawsuits. Very well written - interesting characters, rather nice deadpan humour, amazing use of magic as this kind of weird inexplicable background thing that mostly achieves unlikely coincidences. Shall have to hit ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
starmadeshadow for the rest of the trilogy.
Downside: four hours of sleep meant I was incapable of actually achieving anything today, certainly not the Tolkien paper I should be finishing. However, I wrote several pages of it yesterday (obvious rush of blood to the head), and, upside, managed to watch Batman Begins, Godzilla and half of Donny Darko during the course of today. Downside, Godzilla was bloody awful (if mildly entertaining), and Donny Darko in my sleep-deprived state is making me hallucinate giant rabbits, which is disconcerting, so I've had to pause it in the middle to finish tomorrow.
Upside, I really enjoyed Batman Begins, which was well acted, well scripted, and made a darned fine attempt at actually rationalising some of the tortured superhero hooey which attaches to the Batman myth. I liked the ninja mystical wossname and the fact that the gadgets looked real and slightly grungy as opposed to slick and unrealistically space-age. Christian Bale a bit gruff in places, I thought, but I am pleasingly agog for more movies from the same bunch, all of whom have been signed for the next one, except Katie Holmes. (Does vindictive joy dance). Downside, it was Tuesday and school holidays and the movie theatre, while only a third full, had a good proportion of children, characterised mostly by small bladders, tiny attention spans and feet like elephants. Both I andstarmadeshadow were trodden on several times in moments of maximum tension by small children fleeing to the bathroom, or snack counter, or whatever. Upside, at least I don't have starmadeshadow's mutant toe.
Downside, I really want to read the rest of the Fencer trilogy, so frustration, but upside, this month's F&SF arrived today. Not that I'm capable of appreciating it until I've caught up on sleep. Apart from hallucinating rabbits, I'm probably a dead ringer for Donnie Darko right now. In his more squiffy-eyed and shambling moments. 'Night.
starmadeshadow for the rest of the trilogy. Downside: four hours of sleep meant I was incapable of actually achieving anything today, certainly not the Tolkien paper I should be finishing. However, I wrote several pages of it yesterday (obvious rush of blood to the head), and, upside, managed to watch Batman Begins, Godzilla and half of Donny Darko during the course of today. Downside, Godzilla was bloody awful (if mildly entertaining), and Donny Darko in my sleep-deprived state is making me hallucinate giant rabbits, which is disconcerting, so I've had to pause it in the middle to finish tomorrow.
Upside, I really enjoyed Batman Begins, which was well acted, well scripted, and made a darned fine attempt at actually rationalising some of the tortured superhero hooey which attaches to the Batman myth. I liked the ninja mystical wossname and the fact that the gadgets looked real and slightly grungy as opposed to slick and unrealistically space-age. Christian Bale a bit gruff in places, I thought, but I am pleasingly agog for more movies from the same bunch, all of whom have been signed for the next one, except Katie Holmes. (Does vindictive joy dance). Downside, it was Tuesday and school holidays and the movie theatre, while only a third full, had a good proportion of children, characterised mostly by small bladders, tiny attention spans and feet like elephants. Both I and
starmadeshadow were trodden on several times in moments of maximum tension by small children fleeing to the bathroom, or snack counter, or whatever. Upside, at least I don't have starmadeshadow's mutant toe. Downside, I really want to read the rest of the Fencer trilogy, so frustration, but upside, this month's F&SF arrived today. Not that I'm capable of appreciating it until I've caught up on sleep. Apart from hallucinating rabbits, I'm probably a dead ringer for Donnie Darko right now. In his more squiffy-eyed and shambling moments. 'Night.
