Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Feld's Third Law: Any sufficiently expensive card game is indistinguishable from Magic™

By the time I stopped feeling too dizzy to drive last night, I fell asleep. Woke this morning feeling wrecked -- feeling a lot like when I have a high fever, minus the actual fever itself and the sound of sand sliding across a sheet of tin. Took me an hour of "I'm awake and uncomfortable and Perrine is staring at me waiting to be fed" to finally manage to move more than one limb at a time and get my eyes to focus. Drank some of the magic tea, and now my hypersensitivity to sound is reduced to the point that car horns and truck engines are painful but quiet cars and loud conversations on the far side of the intersection aren't any more. *whew* Experienced an odd neurological phenomenon during the worst of the audio hyperacuity though: a police siren made the fingers of my left hand twitch. Strange feeling.

So today's a day that requires medication, I guess. But I'm feeling more alert now. Awake enough to accuse juuro of eloquence, not alert enough to parse his rejoinder correctly at first.

Checking my email, I fumbled a keystroke and opened some spam I was about to delete, so I saw the bit where a diet aid was described as working, "because of this new element that was extracted from a plant in Africa, out of a cactus I think actually." I dunno, any new element discovered is gonna have a pretty short half-life, unless it's heavy enough to be in the next "island of stability", and either way I'm sure I don't want it in my body. (Besides, a discovery like that would be all over my friendslist long before anybody isolated a large enough quantity to sell.) And are there cacti in Africa? [Edit: Wikipedia says there are. But my dismissive tone is for the "new element" bit, the cactus-in-Africa part being an "oh, I should look that up" thing.] Sheesh. Of course, it was also one of those conversational "try to look like it was accidentally misdelivered" spams.

Since I failed to get out the door to 3LF rehearsal last night, I did see about two thirds of CSI:U.S.Navy, a show that I'd heard about from various people who like it a lot, but had never gotten around to peeking at until a month ago. I'm not all "oooh, gotta watch this" about it (which is a good thing, since there are two other shows I do want to catch in that time slot and I don't have that many working VCRs, so I only see it if I miss rehearsal), but I do enjoy it. Uh ... admittedly a large part of my enjoyment is the Cute Goth Geek (the actress so totally inhabits that character that it's hard to imagine her not being her character in real life -- it's going to be a brain-bender when I recognize her in some other role sometime -- and that's gotta be a fun character to play), but other characters get a lot of fun lines too.

Okay, perhaps "CSI:U.S.Navy" isn't entirely fair of me. but come on: it's a show on CBS about a forensics team. Can you blame me? Though yeah, one episode I've seen so far was more action/adventure oriented than forensics/crime-drama, and the pattern of relationships between the characters differs more from any of the CSI shows than CSI, CSI:Miami, and CSI:NY differ from each other. Still, I'm having trouble ignoring the parallels. NCIS resembles the CSI shows more than it does Crossing Jordan or Quincy.

Yeah, I'm just killing time here while I wait for the meds to work.