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Eh, it's a cold ...sunny day with snow on the ground. Not much. Maybe a half-an inch, possibly less. And I feel less than motivated to go out in it. Lacking in the motivation department this month. All I want to do is curl up with a cup of hot tea or coco, eat chocolates (which I've thankfully run out of) and read or watch tv. Maybe write a bit.

In short, I want to hibernate like a bear in my little cave. I did sleep in - until 9 am, which is late for me, considering I get up at 6 am every morning. Anything earlier will kill me. I do not know how my co-workers do it. (Possibly they go to bed a lot earlier than 11pm?)
[As an aside does this happen to anyone else? You are typing along, exactly what is in your head and you go back to read it - and discover that instead of typing "done" you typed "down"
and instead of typing "bed" you typed "be". Not always just in weird places. Now the be vs. bed I can understand. But what's up with the down instead of done?? The mind, it boggles.]

Am resisting the urge to marathon my new DVD Once Upon a Time S1. Will most likely get tempted to get S2 as well, when it comes out. They are actually fairly cheap considering. $24 on Amazon. Not bad. Considering I've seen DVD's priced at $69. (Which I don't buy).

Watched Glee - the first episode since the fall, and it...well, sucked beans is unfortunately an understatement.

Admittedly the last three - four episodes of this show didn't quite work. Their handling of Marley's eating disorder is borderline offensive. And the writers still don't seem to know how to handle or write female characters in a manner that doesn't feel suspiciously misogynistic or sexist or down-right grating? Also they seem to have no understanding of emotional characters arcs. This is admittedly a long-running issue with Ryan Murphy/Brad Falchuck. They don't do long-serials well. It's as if they get bored half-way through with their characters, and think okay what shocking outlandish thing can we do with the characters next? Also, who else can we offend and how badly?

I wish they'd stay away from romantic relationships, particularly heterosexual ones, they do not seem to know how to build or write them well.

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Fairly relaxing day of doing very little...well not quite. Made butternut squash soup (quite easy, poured pre-chopped butternut squash, celery, carrots, onion with a little olive oil in a pot, added sea salt (sauteed for 10 minutes) then pepper, sage and ginger, plus 3 cups vegetable stock (boiled for 20-30 minutes), then pureed. Also made Betty Crocker's Gluten-Free Chocolat Chip cookies (btw - Betty Crocker's Gluten Free Chocolate Chip cookie mix is by far the best - and yes I've tried all the health nut ones, not to mention the cheapest.) Cleaned. Bundled up, took down various boxes, trudged six blocks for groceries, trudged back. Read. Watched tv. Wrote on the internet. Read flist.

Notable news items online or things that I feel like commenting on:

1. So, now that Disney has bought Star Wars, they've assigned their go to guy and current cult fav, JJ Abrahams to direct. (Hee, they'd ask the other cult fav director (which is under contract to them) - Joss Whedon - but they already assigned him the entire Marvel franchise to develop and oversee, one franchise per customer, please.) So now, Abrahams is doing both Star Trek and Star Wars? Oh dear. Isn't that two franchises? (To be fair the Marvel Universe is a bit bigger than the Star Trek/Star Wars franchise). Although Star Trek admittedly was more entertaining than I expected, I don't see Star Wars being rebooted well.
I'm hoping he chooses to go with door number three - continuation of the story or Star Wars the next Generation/Rebuilding the Republic - which is the story I've always been the most interested in.

2. Stephen King decided to write a 25 page essay about Gun Control - telling gun owners that it is time for stricter regulations! Which was great, except for one thing...the essay isn't free nor readily available to anyone who doesn't own a Kindle or feels the desire to buy it for 99 cents on the Kindle. So, the mind boggles, why didn't he just blog the essay or send it to a magazine so that people could scan it and share it across the net? It's not like he needs the money or anything.

3. CW has ordered a Lord of the Flies style pilot series called The Hundred, about a post-nuclear society who decides to send 100 juvenile delinquents with dark pasts to investigate the possibility of colonizing a post-nuclear holocaust Earth - hundreds of years after the fact.

Now...two questions come to mind:
1) If you are a juvenile delinquent - doesn't a dark past sort of come with the territory?
2) Why would any society seeking to re-colonize/return to a planet that was out of commission for ages, decide to send a bunch of juvenile delinquents to do it? How is that going to tell you it can be colonized or habitable? Unless you are bored and thinking, you know, we can get rid of the kids who are driving us crazy and host a reality tv series to entertain everyone else on-board our ship at the same time? Also, if they happen to survive and thrive...bonus, we can send a real team to investigate without worrying about losing any vital crew members or supplies in the process? Still seems a bit counter-productive.