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Jul. 2nd, 2024 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lakeeffectgirlI keep thinking, oh, I should post - but honestly there's not much to report besides a rundown of the television I've been watching.
Finally finished Northern Exposure - for all that I'd seen the early episodes several times, I'd never watched all the way through to the end. I know I mentioned in a previous entry how much the Joel/Maggie hate-flirt annoyed me, and it continued to annoy me all the way up until they actually get together. And then I didn't mind that it was canon, and after they broke up I wanted them to bang some more - it's just the stupid flirting via insults that I can't stand. (I also hate the "the boy pulling a girl's ponytail on the playground means he likes her" thing, and this is the grown up version of that!!) But Maggie's characterization mellowed as the seasons went by, which I appreciated, and I liked her much more by the end. ANYWAY, overall thoughts: I'm glad I powered through the whole series after all these years. I don't know if I'll write any more fic besides the little Joel/Ed thing I did, but never say never. I do have a gdocs file of vague ideas.
After that, I watched the rest of 30 Rock, which was fun! I'd seen the first two? three? seasons years ago but also never finished. But I needed a new nighttime show after finishing NX, and while I was enjoying The Mentalist it wasn't as comedic as I prefer for before bed. (I should go back to The Mentalist.)
Figured out the last remaining scenes for the Stucky and somehow I'm still mostly on track with my writing schedule for it - I just have to power through the rough draft stage for the last few scenes, and then I can tweak them more into shape. Currently I'm a little stuck but I know it's because I have two scenes that are sort of the same right in a row (that, or I just need to start the second one differently) so maybe I'll swap things around a little.
I was on staycation for a few days over my birthday; I went out to lunch with my dad, hung out with my sister, got my eyebrows waxed and took myself out to lunch one of the days so I could get some Stucky work done, and then mostly watched a lot of TV and tinkered with writing projects. I watched season one of 9-1-1, which ended up being less stressful and more so over the top with the ridiculous calls that I basically laughed in disbelief the whole time and was only sad about Peter Krause's character. (And I only cried at the old hoarder brothers episode.) I may or may not write an entire entry about it later on, but that depends on if I keep watching.
It's been slower at work since it's summer, so I'm using the downtime there to watch stuff on Hulu since the adblocker skips the commercials. I finished season one of The Bear yesterday - I'll probably keep going with it. I didn't find it as stressful as others have mentioned, just sad. (Aside from always being worried someone's going to cut themselves during the on-screen vegetable chopping.) It's definitely not a comedy!
Finally finished Northern Exposure - for all that I'd seen the early episodes several times, I'd never watched all the way through to the end. I know I mentioned in a previous entry how much the Joel/Maggie hate-flirt annoyed me, and it continued to annoy me all the way up until they actually get together. And then I didn't mind that it was canon, and after they broke up I wanted them to bang some more - it's just the stupid flirting via insults that I can't stand. (I also hate the "the boy pulling a girl's ponytail on the playground means he likes her" thing, and this is the grown up version of that!!) But Maggie's characterization mellowed as the seasons went by, which I appreciated, and I liked her much more by the end. ANYWAY, overall thoughts: I'm glad I powered through the whole series after all these years. I don't know if I'll write any more fic besides the little Joel/Ed thing I did, but never say never. I do have a gdocs file of vague ideas.
After that, I watched the rest of 30 Rock, which was fun! I'd seen the first two? three? seasons years ago but also never finished. But I needed a new nighttime show after finishing NX, and while I was enjoying The Mentalist it wasn't as comedic as I prefer for before bed. (I should go back to The Mentalist.)
Figured out the last remaining scenes for the Stucky and somehow I'm still mostly on track with my writing schedule for it - I just have to power through the rough draft stage for the last few scenes, and then I can tweak them more into shape. Currently I'm a little stuck but I know it's because I have two scenes that are sort of the same right in a row (that, or I just need to start the second one differently) so maybe I'll swap things around a little.
I was on staycation for a few days over my birthday; I went out to lunch with my dad, hung out with my sister, got my eyebrows waxed and took myself out to lunch one of the days so I could get some Stucky work done, and then mostly watched a lot of TV and tinkered with writing projects. I watched season one of 9-1-1, which ended up being less stressful and more so over the top with the ridiculous calls that I basically laughed in disbelief the whole time and was only sad about Peter Krause's character. (And I only cried at the old hoarder brothers episode.) I may or may not write an entire entry about it later on, but that depends on if I keep watching.
It's been slower at work since it's summer, so I'm using the downtime there to watch stuff on Hulu since the adblocker skips the commercials. I finished season one of The Bear yesterday - I'll probably keep going with it. I didn't find it as stressful as others have mentioned, just sad. (Aside from always being worried someone's going to cut themselves during the on-screen vegetable chopping.) It's definitely not a comedy!
