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1. Feeling 89% better on the foot bit. Thank you for the advice - decided to get another ortho triad pad - this one provided more arch support like cactuswatcher suggested. It is working. I have arches and require arch support.

I think I'll be able to do the activities I wanted to do this weekend. Yippe-ki-aye.

2. For people online who live in the US:

Tell Congress you #DemandAPlan to reduce gun violence. via @DemandAPlan http://www.demandaplan.org/endgunviolence


Note - I'm not saying you should stop having a gun nor are we banning guns. I get the whole gun ownership bit. (Personally, I think guns are problematic, my own experience in criminal defense proves that guns do not protect you. But I get why people own them. Plus there's a whole industry around their manufacture. If you did away with all guns - a lot of people would suddenly be unemployed. It's not a simple situation. I was close friends with a gun dealer in law school - he was a libertarian - and he required extensive background checks. One of my second cousins works in a munitions factory. My grandfather and two uncles on my mother's side own hand-guns.)

What they all agree is that we need tougher laws and regulations on guns. And laws in place to handle gun related violence, trafficking of guns, and mentally ill accessibility to guns. You should not be able to walk in to any store and just buy one (which you could do in NY until recently and can still do elsewhere.)

Also you do not need an assault weapon, handgun or machine gun to kill a deer. Let's work to find a compromise, so we don't have to keep seeing children die brutally. You know what a gunshot feels like?

http://wesclark.com/jw/orwell_gunshot.html

http://www.fluther.com/35612/what-does-a-gunshot-wound-feel-like/

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_a_gunshot_wound_feel_like

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091205162914AAUCub3

3. It's silly but I'm looking forward to tonight's Vamp Diaries. I actually missed it and I like it. Sure I make fun of it. But it's not a hate-watch show. I don't hate watch shows - don't have the time or the patience for that. Or energy for that matter. May explain why I can't watch reality shows - you sort of have to be into hate-watching to like reality shows, I suspect. Vamp Diaries much like General Hospital, Arrow, Merlin, Once Upon a Time, Grey's Anatomy, and sigh so many others..is my guilty pleasure viewing. An odd thing...guilty pleasure television is often more enjoyable than critically acclaimed tv. Which may explain why I watch so much of it?

I struggle with historicals - both written and film versions. Unless it's clearly a fantasy, like Game of Thrones, I expect a certain level of accuracy. It's why I gave up on The Tudors. I didn't like any of the character or care/interested about them (has to be one or the other) so got bored.
Or the writer will put in all these famous people and it just does not ring true (Gore Vidal and John Jakes come to mind). And the history wasn't even accurate. What's the point? Having much the same issues with Downton Abbey...so we shall see how long I stick with it. I like the servants, the Dowager Countess, and Edith...and am curious to see how they write out Matthew...so, there is that. It's also my difficulty with Phillipa Gregory - bears too close a resemblance to historical romance novels. Look, be a historical romance. Don't tease. Be a grown-up and admit that is what you are. Had the same problem with Diana G's Outlander, and Margret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind - both are historical romance novels with gratingly whiny heroines.

4. Still haven't seen Justified yet, and behind again on Elementary, Arrow, and various others.
I have too many tv shows I'm watching. I did try Deception - it does not work. I don't buy the set-up. I kept raising my eyebrow and rolling my eyes at the tv...yeah right, there's no way they aren't going to do a background check and discover she's a cop. Particularly if they are as clever and dastardly as the cops think. Plus none of the characters are clicking. The plot is so cliche. Bored. Revenge this ain't. But kudos for the person of color casting.

5. Frustrating week...people aren't listening. It's annoying. I just want to smack them. Listen.

Rite Aid

Lady in line to security guard: Can you help me - I'm hunting Quaker Oats -
Security Guard: I wouldn't know, I'm just paid to stand at the door and be a security guard-
Lady: But is the Quaker Oats on sale and do you know where it is?
Security Guard: I don't know - am a security guard, you'd have to ask a sales associate.
Lady: Is the Quaker Oats on sale, I think it should be here, see this is what my coupons state..
Me: He can't tell you. He's a security guard. You have to ask a sales associate.
Lady: I wasn't talking to you.
ME (watching Security Guard go up to cashier and stop her transaction causing a longer wait): Regardless, he still can't get an answer for you because he doesn't know! He's the security guard. You aren't going to get the answer from him.
Security Guard comes back and shrugs, I don't know.
LAdy in line gives me the evil eye.

On way out, security guard thanks me.
Me: yeah well, she didn't want to listen.

I should have said, true, but you aren't listening to anyone either except yourself. So you will never get what you want, you nitwit. But I was trying to be diplomatic. She came up to my waist.
And so did her boyfriend. They knew better than to take it further. Height has its advantages.

Vamp Diaries...After School Special

Well that was interesting and entertaining...although, again, show stop teasing me about killing main characters, seriously you are worse than Downton Abbey teasing me about the loss of Downton Abbey. I know you aren't going to go through with it - there wouldn't be a tv show.

Must say it was a hoot to watch this after General Hosptial - which is currently doing an off-beat homage to its vampire soap opera spin-off series "Port Charles" (GH's 1990s spin-off) which predated Buffy by about two years. In it - Lucy Coe was the vampire slayer. So now, Lucy's back on GH and so are the actors who played vampires on Port Charles, but completely different characters on GH. Lucy is convinced they are vampires still. The other characters have to keep telling her that vampires don't exist. "But, but," sputters Lucy, "I'm the vampire slayer. They have you hypnotized. You can't see it. They showed up as a rock band. Then the king of vampire's morphed into a priest, and now he's morphed into a cop." (Klaus apparently has nothing on Michael Easten's former vamp character Caleb). Hilarious. Particularly because in a soap opera, that absurd plot-line is actually possible. (In this day and age, soap operas actually make fun of themselves. One week they had the characters state that no one in this town ever stays dead...possibly because of the unknown vampire population? Hey, it's one explanation.)

Also the promos for the YA Zombie/Human romance Warm Bodies continues to amuse me. Particularly when I think about all the Buffy fans who were squicked over Buffy loving vampires on BTVS. Because you know, necrophilia. And how they'd joke about vampire romance, how lame it is, and say no one does that with zombies. Hee. People? Friends of mine?

Warm Bodies was made just for you.

But back to my guilty pleasure, because frankly I find rotting corpses gross, so prefer vampires to zombies...Vampire Diaries.

( eh, spoilers...and eeny meany moe who is the worst vampire tonight? )