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[shadowkat]

We're having what one of my cubicle neighbors likes to call "air conditioning/air circulation wars" at work. It is freezing in the morning and hot in the afternoon. Yesterday, I was boiling at 79 degrees and in a sweater shirt (couldn't take it off, nothing under it except the bra) and today I'm freezing with the air on full blast.

Currently eating soup, which I made over the weekend and is quite tasty.
While I'm getting better - didn't feel like braving the cold to go out to lunch with my colleagues who were taking one of the secretaries out for her birthday. I did contribute two bucks to her lunch though.

Everyone at work has the dreaded it. They either have a sinus infection they can't get rid of or bronchitis...which has lingered and become a sinus infection. We're all taking some brand of antibotic. Never knew there were so many brands...

Oh, in regards to Buffy - there are six characters I despised on that show, luckily for me they were all peripherial characters or guest characters, and rarely on it. Unfortunately for me, about four of them have popped up in the comic regardless of whether or not they were killed.
They are in no particular order - Harmony, Andrew, Warren, Amy, Robin Wood, and Sam Finn (Riley's wife). Of the six, the only actor I liked was the one who played Warren - he was great in it and in everything else he's been in. I don't expect I was supposed to like him in Buffy, much.

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[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about the temperature war at work... I've been in so many offices over the years with that problem (it often comes down to a power struggle between an office manager and someone else, each torturing everyone in the office while they try to show supremacy over the temperate settings). I've always tried to stay out of it by wearing a very thin light weight blouse or shell with a sweater or jacket than can be put on or removed throughout the day as the war rages on.... I just hope it doesn't bring your flu back on worse, because 79° is WAY too hot, and air-conditioning is just insane!

Re Buffy: Oh dear, this is something we really disagree on... well, except, I get why Harmony is annoying, but 'Disharmony' is one of my all time favorite episodes on Angel, and Andrew always worked for me right from the beginning....
I found Warren to be interesting but too creepy until I became a huge Common Rotation fan, and now I love to rewatch all his scenes.... And Amy got so twisted on Buffy that I was interested in seeing her in S8, just to see where Joss is going with that.

But I actually agree w/Robin Wood and Sam Finn, they were dull. Of course I also found Riley himself to be deadly dull (and I haven't liked the actor in other roles either).

I've been rewatching all of Buffy & Angel w/a friend who has never seen them before... we just got through 'The Body'. These shows just do not get old for me.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Ah, you probably aren't alone. A lot of Buffy fans don't get why Andrew and Harm get on my nerves.

I should probably qualify the above statement, or clarify it by stating - that I actually liked both characters on Angel or rather the episodes featuring them on Angel - Damage, Harms Way, Disharmony - partly because they were used sparringly and not in a way that tends to push my buttons. For some reason - the Angel writers developed the characters better and provided them with a depth that you don't see in Buffy. That said Espenson dealt with both rather well.

Harmony annoys me because she represents the girly girls that so many people stereotype women or believe women should be like. Pretty. Petite. Girly. With unicorns. And tiny fuffy doggies. And makeup. And skirts. She's such, if you will excuse the term, a bimbo. I don't mind male bimbos - because we see them in tv so rarely. Spike in some respects was depicted as a male bimbo on Buffy or sex object. So that felt different and rare. But women as bimbos are on every tv show out there - particularly sci-fi and comics.
Girls who exist for another reason but to titilate the male viewer and make him feel all manly and protective.
Like I said, the character just pushed my buttons - particularly on Buffy, not so much on Angel - where she was oddly enough depicted as a bit less girly. There were exceptions - Fool For Love was one. But mostly, she felt like the stereotypical bimbo.