vital functions
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kaberettWatching. We finished Orphan Black! I had a lot of feelings! I am very glad A also cares about this show!
CXG S03E13. Two things I particularly Noticed:
There are so many ways in which Nathaniel at this point is early-series Rebecca (the moving to West Covina; the way he reacts to Rebecca Making Him Feel A Way He's Never Felt Before; how much of Rebecca's shitty behaviour he excuses or overlooks or brushes off, in exactly the way Rebecca did in re Josh; he needs SO MUCH THERAPY) and I'm... well. I want to be able to leap wholeheartedly aboard the good ship Rebecca/Nathaniel but I can't without a lot of fix-it, so I am going to subside back into grumbling about how brilliantly this show resists easy answers and lampshades itself.
Playing. I continue to build dinosaurs for A!
Cooking. Yet another go at the confit tandoori chickpeas; they still weren't right, but I think this time I know what I need to do differently next time...
Eating. All else aside: the raspberry & passion fruit cheesecake I thought I would not ever be able to buy outside central London again, which A picked up for me when I was extremely Migraine Sads, and goodness but I am grateful.
Exploring. ZSL Whipsnade! Excellent date activity; highly recommended.
Growing. I have potted up a squash I am sort of speculatively attempting to overwinter, but have not yet managed to bestir myself to pot up the basil (which was the item actually on my list for today). The saffron I planted at home is coming up! And we are definitely getting on for time to put things to bed.
Observing. ... we didn't really register the extent to which A had been overwhelmed by the snail tank and not quite getting around to it until he went to muck them out today and. and there. there were fifty-plus babies, all of them small enough to escape via the air holes, many of which had promptly done so in their Search for an Up they could climb.
... they have been gently extricated and shepherded outside to fend for themselves underneath the hedge.
CXG S03E13. Two things I particularly Noticed:
- MORE PARALLELS BETWEEN NATHANIEL AND REBECCA. Specifically: he came to West Covina for Rebecca! And then learned a lot about himself from all these people! And I noticed this specifically because his taking out (& then cancelling) a hit on Josh's lolo was so precisely a mirror of Rebecca's cancelled hit on Mona -- and all of the ways in which he's shifting in to enabling Rebecca as Paula is (finally) shifting out of them.
- THE THEME MUSIC, THOUGH. I DO/I DON'T WANT TO BE CRAZY as both the arc of the season ("I don't have borderline! ... I... do. have borderline.") and the arc of the episode ("I'll plead insanity! ... I... actually really do not want to plead insanity.")
There are so many ways in which Nathaniel at this point is early-series Rebecca (the moving to West Covina; the way he reacts to Rebecca Making Him Feel A Way He's Never Felt Before; how much of Rebecca's shitty behaviour he excuses or overlooks or brushes off, in exactly the way Rebecca did in re Josh; he needs SO MUCH THERAPY) and I'm... well. I want to be able to leap wholeheartedly aboard the good ship Rebecca/Nathaniel but I can't without a lot of fix-it, so I am going to subside back into grumbling about how brilliantly this show resists easy answers and lampshades itself.
Playing. I continue to build dinosaurs for A!
Cooking. Yet another go at the confit tandoori chickpeas; they still weren't right, but I think this time I know what I need to do differently next time...
Eating. All else aside: the raspberry & passion fruit cheesecake I thought I would not ever be able to buy outside central London again, which A picked up for me when I was extremely Migraine Sads, and goodness but I am grateful.
Exploring. ZSL Whipsnade! Excellent date activity; highly recommended.
Growing. I have potted up a squash I am sort of speculatively attempting to overwinter, but have not yet managed to bestir myself to pot up the basil (which was the item actually on my list for today). The saffron I planted at home is coming up! And we are definitely getting on for time to put things to bed.
Observing. ... we didn't really register the extent to which A had been overwhelmed by the snail tank and not quite getting around to it until he went to muck them out today and. and there. there were fifty-plus babies, all of them small enough to escape via the air holes, many of which had promptly done so in their Search for an Up they could climb.
... they have been gently extricated and shepherded outside to fend for themselves underneath the hedge.
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Date: 2021-10-24 09:49 pm (UTC)oh nooooo! I'm glad you were able to find them and put them outside where they belong.
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Date: 2021-10-24 10:09 pm (UTC)HE'S JUST FOUND ANOTHER TWELVE
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Date: 2021-10-25 05:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2021-10-25 12:03 am (UTC)Oh no the intrepid little babies!
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Date: 2021-10-25 10:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-10-30 05:21 pm (UTC)