Fierce Rawthorne

One of my discord pals yesterday was like, "Lake, are you living your best life this week?" and the answer is of course a resounding (fannish) YES!!!

McQuarries & Tom in Rome on Monday...

( MI:DR1 Rome premiere. )

and McQuarries & Tom in London on Thursday...

( MI:DR London premiere. )

And the yellow dress happened on MY BIRTHDAY, it was A Lot. Heather doesn't usually wear sleeveless and low-cut to premieres! But Rome was apparently quite hot.

I went with my sister to see The Flash on Monday (also Ben Affleck for my birthday!), which was better than I expected but my expectations weren't all that high to begin with. Ben gets a good Bruce Wayne scene and then the final pre-credits cameo was worth it to me. We saw it on the UltraScreen which was nice and I'm sure there were some parts that worked better in that format vs just watching it at home on my decade-old television. If anyone wants spoilers, let me know!

Winter has finally reached the Midwest much later than expected; two weeks ago there was a big snowstorm so the P canceled classes - it wasn't too bad driving home, and the next morning things were fairly clear. Then last week Wednesday/Thursday we got an ice storm, which knocked out power to my part of town for about eight hours. I keep my car in the garage in the winter (as any Midwesterner should) so I was trapped in my house with no heat for the morning and didn't make it in to work until a little past noon on Thursday. And two days after that everything was almost all melted again, and it rained all day Monday. WTF, February!

rsadelle and I have been watching Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, years after everyone else - so far they've been enjoyable! The plots are sometimes a little thin but truly isn't the point Phryne's fabulous outfits, and not plot?

We were hoping McQuarrie would show up at the Producer's Guild Awards last weekend, but MI8 filming has resumed for a few days in Italy and it sounds like Tom pretty much flew straight there after getting his fancy PGA award on Saturday night. There is a hilariously blurry cryptid picture of McQ going into their hotel, a picture of his back because he's facing away from the person taking Tom's picture, and that is all so far [sad face emoji]. But they are apparently doing aerial stuff so it's not like the Rome/Venice street filming where people were taking pictures out their apartment windows. I just need Heather McQuarrie to wear a fun dress to the Oscars, universe, surely you can provide that...