LJ ate my last attempt at posting, so let's try this again.

[peroxidepirate]

What I was going to say on Friday:

DAMMIT, SELF, STAY AWAY FROM THE FREAKING SPOILER THREADS.

Ahem.

I picked the wrong time to go poke the Mastiff board at Goldenlake. Now I'm two-thirds of the way through the book, spoiled, distressed, and too tired to finish reading tonight.

Also my knee hurts.


Now that it's Monday, I've been finished with Mastiff for two days and I'm still reeling. I loved it, even though it broke both my brain and my heart into itty bitty pieces. I dreamed about it Saturday night -- I think I was Beka in the dream? I'm not sure. Anyway, I'll put up a longer post on that if/when I can get my thoughts in some kind of order. For now, have a warning: likely spoilers in comments.


My knee still hurts, casualty of a 6.7 mile run/walk on Friday. But it was so worth it, just because there was a stretch of a couple of miles in the middle where it felt like we could run forever. I haven't had that feeling since... early October, maybe? It was grand.

I'm getting in the habit of stretching again, which is why it was possible to go so far at all. During the summer I was cross-training by biking 1-2 days a week, and I stopped stretching before runs because it didn't seem to make any difference. It does now. I'm going through some basic leg stretches before and after running, as well as in the morning on days I don't run and before bed every day, and the leg pain that plagued me through most of November is gone.


Other things that are gone/done, or nearly so:

• NaNoWriMo (I finished November 29).
• The suspense over what happens in Mastiff.
• Ficmas fics (the one I wrote, and the awesome one written for me).
• The owners of my company (out of the country from the past weekend until late March of 2012! Which will make all of our lives so much easier!)
• College football season and the ridiculous weekends it brings me (last game was November 26).
• My epic rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation (I have just six episodes to go and the next two days off work).
• The little monsters I'm knitting for the out-of-state nephews (should have them done by Wednesday, too).

Meaning... I don't quite know what I'm going to do with myself. I have other holiday giftie stuff to knit, and I just acquired a book that gives awesome detailed instructions on knitting sweaters to fit boobs and other curves, so I am not going to be bored. But I have to/get to make some decisions!

Speaking of: I need to settle on a new show, too. Candidates include:

• the original Star Trek
• Deep Space Nine
• Supernatural
• Jeremiah
• Dollhouse
• the rest of Missing

Comments from the peanut gallery?

Er, sometime I need to get serious about reading source material for Yuletide, too. Maybe Wednesday? And sometime I need to put together an episode guide for Guinan episodes for where_no_woman.


Or, you know, I could reread Mastiff and then write heaps of fic for it instead of doing anything else, ever. That would be cool, too.

Comments

[boosette.livejournal.com]

I VOTE TOS.

It is ridiculous.

Lost Girl is also really wonderful.


(Dollhouse, however, alternates between being gross and just plain bad, IMO.)

[peroxidepirate.livejournal.com]

I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT. *g*

I'll check out Lost Girl. I will have to watch Dollhouse sometime because it's Joss Whedon and I'm a completist like that, but I have heard extremely mixed reviews of it. :/

[elsceetaria.livejournal.com]

I spoiled myself for Mastiff.

I might have to make those monsters. They are so cute. :)

I've read the Big Girl Knits book as well as the second one. They're pretty good.

[peroxidepirate.livejournal.com]

The monsters are adorbs and don't require much yarn. I'll post up pictures of the next one in progress if I remember to take them... I used white yarn to knit the teeth into my monsters as I went along, since I am craft glue impaired. :D

[elsceetaria.livejournal.com]

I think that actually sounds cleaner. :)

[erimthar.livejournal.com]

Basically... Dollhouse is a good show if you want it to be a good show. If you're a Whedon lover you'll probably like it, and if you're a Whedon skeptic you'll probably hate it.

TOS is still my favorite iteration of Star Trek. Be forewarned that if you get the new remastered versions, you're not seeing it the way it was originally. It's kind of weird to see 21st-century state-of-the-art CGI backgrounds in one scene, and in the next scene Kirk is fighting a guy in a goofy rubber alien suit. They should have just left it alone...

I've been watching Supernatural myself. I'm midway through season 5 now, but I only watch one episode a week so I'll probably never catch up to the broadcast show. That means I get spoility-spoiled all the time, of course. :-(

Deep Space Nine is OK. I wasn't a big fan of Avery Brooks, but I like most of the supporting characters.

[peroxidepirate.livejournal.com]

Be forewarned that if you get the new remastered versions, you're not seeing it the way it was originally. It's kind of weird to see 21st-century state-of-the-art CGI backgrounds in one scene, and in the next scene Kirk is fighting a guy in a goofy rubber alien suit. They should have just left it alone...

*shudders* I am so sorry to hear that, but glad for the warning!

Sadly, I've become a Whedon skeptic thanks to the later half of the S8 comics, in spite of my deep and abiding love for Firefly and BtVS. :/

[erimthar.livejournal.com]

I've kind of made peace with the second half of season 8. I'm pretty happy with season 9 so far.

[oseri]

Did Mastiff remind you of a certain book series, by any chance?

[peroxidepirate.livejournal.com]

Er... no, and your comment makes me incredibly curious!

[oseri]

12 Houses? Senneth/Sabine, a rougher lover in service to the Crown, travelling round the kingdom, Gentle Mother/Daughters of the Pale Mother.

[peroxidepirate.livejournal.com]

Oh, I did catch the Gentle Mother/Pale Mother parallel, but the story's presented so differently I didn't make any other connection! I do see it, now that you mention it.

... which naturally brings me to thinking about Tayse pulling a Tunstall, and just NO. *shivers*

Anyway, "traveling the kingdom on a quest/mission/adventure" is one of my favorite fantasy tropes, so it's no surprise I loved them both. :)

[oseri]

Yeah, I mean, obviously they're only loose connections, but Sabine reminded me so irresistibly of Senneth that I couldn't help myself linking more! It's why I felt very strongly that you'd like the book, and was looking forward to you reading it.

I agree with you with the Tayse-is-no-Tunstall, though. Comparing the two brings out more flaws in Tunstall than I saw previously.

[peroxidepirate.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is interesting! I'll have to see how much I pick up the Senneth/Sabine similarities on a reread. I do like them both, but I don't have the same sense of who Sabine really is that I have from Senneth. There are still a lot of blank spots in Sabine's history and personality for me, while I feel like I know enough of Senneth's back story and have seen enough from her viewpoint to understand her better. And my Mastiff binge just put me so far inside Beka's head that I'm still a little fuzzy on everything else. But with your comments in mind, I'm pretty sure I'll continue to like Sabine even more... ;)