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Spent most of yesterday watching Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. Would have watched Return of the King but there was a Trafalgar thing I wanted to watch and after that finished it was way too late to start watching ROTK.

Added thoughts having watched the films yet again: Orlando Bloom really doesn't do a bad job as Legolas, especially after Gandalf falls he's all 'well this is strange and new, and very, very bad'.

I love Gimli so very, very much. And casting Cate Blanchett was a great move.

I still say that Haldir's death is the best shot of all three films. Because all the other deaths are grand and dramatic and glorious while his is very 'this is a bad thing, stuff glory and whatnot'.

Mostly watching to try and expunge mad crying jag that I'd been on since watching the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. They were doing a Nelson thing and I just went into floods. Very, very odd. I know why, it was the whole 'thank God, I have done my duty' thing while dying. Then again he was a man who made jokes about Collingswood (?) only becoming fleet commander over his dead body at the same time.

I think they were all a bit stark, staring bonkers brave at that time though. During the Battle of the Nile, one of the French captains had his legs removed by a canonball shot and was bleeding to death, so he ordered his men to get the bran tub, stick him in and continued to order his ship about.

The Trafalgar thing was a docudrama about the Victory's ship surgeon. Was quite good too.

Onto other, non-nautical matters, happy birthday, Lossi. As promised here are some paragraphs of demented fic.

( A Story in Several Hotels )

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Things that are bad:
1 - have definitely lost fic disk. Thankfully I know what I've written in the fic of doom.
2 - lab stuff has gone back to not working.
3 - My Chemical Romance - the reason Gerrard Way has to wear a flak jacket are my numerous threats. And that's a joke. PS - any Emo kids who take offence, grow the fuck up. (sorry about that, I don't know why but emo bands wind me up by breathing)
4 - Landlord did not come to fix light. Living room still in darkness.

Things that are good:
1 - Green Day winning best music vid award and Billy Joe's acceptance speech. I <3 them so.
2 - went to the gym. Managed to see VMAs which meant no MTV Base or Kiss. Yes!
3 - Library back to normal opening hours. Yay, don't have to go back to darkness of doom.

Things that fit in neither category:
1 - my eyes are too sensitive to light to work in psychology experiments, apparantly my pupils contract too much. Well duh, have you seen my pupils, they're huge.

2 - weight down by 2kg. My weight yo-yos far too much for its own good, and very little of it is my fault, I'm just not a regular schedule type person.