Sleep

[tarotgal]

Well, I came home from dinner with friends (I finally got to try that strawberry cheesecake blizzard at Dairy Queen! And I refused to let Boyfriend pay for it!) and watched the Joan of Arcadia season finale (Whoa. I mean... WHOA! I just don't know how to feel about it... but WHOA!) And then I made myself go to sleep to try and get rid of all this sleep trouble I've been having. So I did. Slept pretty badly (I'm still in my clothes and all) but I slept at least 6 hours, probably closer to 7.5 though boyfriend woke me up calling twice and cat woke me up 4 times to snuggle. But point is, I'm feeling better about sleep now. YAY! :-)

And as I woke up and turned from Disney to TNT the Highlander movie was on. YAY!!!!!! What a nice way to wake up! *snuggles Christopher Lambert*

On a bad note, it means I didn't finish the Friday Fic yesterday, but I made lots of progress on it so I'll finish it up today for sure.

I've had this pain on my left side for a day now... it's starting to bug me. Hypochondriac that I am, I'm scared I have Appendicitis but I think it just has to do with my digestive track being all freakish these last few days. I don't feel sick to my stomach or feverish or anything... so I don't really think it's Appendicitis. I've just never had a pain like this last so long... growl.

I keep thinking about getting a Dream Journal... but I don't dream that much lately... and I only remember a couple fragments when I do. So I think I'll hold off until I start sleeping enough to dream normally again. My dreams are currently frequently taken over by what I hear on the TV as I'm sleeping. Like last night I had a brief dream about trying on striped clothes and someone telling me to tan- which I refused to do. And then I woke up and found 'What Not to Wear' was on TV So that was it. So, yeah, I don't think it would be of help to get a dream journal quite yet :-) But I love dreaming... it's very inspiring. So I want to eventually :-)

Is this enough rambling? Yes, I think so. I'm going to go work on my Friday Fic now! :-)

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[calliope-doll.livejournal.com]

HERHmiunh. I did not get to watch the Joan of Arcadia season finale and I can't find a summary. What happened!? I must know.

[tarotgal]

It was lots of weirdness... let me try to explain, okay?

First, the subplots- Grace confronted Luke about his geode gift last episode, said she didn't like, him, and then they shared a long, heated kiss. Adam was worried about opening up too much to Joan in last episode with his crying and worries and so everyone thought he was breaking up with her and he doesn't want to, he's just scared. Kevin had, like, 3 lines total so nothing actually happened with him.

Okay, so this is my attempt at a summary of the main events:
*Episode teaser opens with Mrs.G having a dream about the night cops came to her house to tell her Kevin had been in an accident. The dream went all weird (clowns instead of cops, etc.) and then she was in a Church and God started talking to her and said it was all about Joan(he was in the form of that young boy with a brown courderoy-sp??? jacket, and then turned into Joan but with the guy's voice)

*Next morning at breakfast, the mother explained her dream and Joan knew that particular appearance of God. Joan wasn't freaked out, just sighed and wanted to know what God said :-) Joan wasn't feeling too hot and had a rash on her legs no one seemed concerned about

*At school, Joan got sick (ick) and in the bathroom when she was washing her face, she sees two little girls in black dresses appear and talk to her about how she should go see a doctor because she's sick. Adam is avoiding her, she feels like shit (throwing up a lot, and very feverish), and Adam is avoiding her. She wants to go to the doctor but can't get ahold of her mother or father or Adam. There's an end-of-year carnival and a teacher wants Joan to do the three-legged race with him. She is about to refuse but time suddenly stops except for the school chicken mascot who walks up to her and tells her to do it. So she does, and ends up seeing things and freaking out, seeing the girls again and the teacher's eyes glowing and starts to think it's the devil, not God. She collapses and is taken to the hospital. Finally. I was worried about her, she looked very sick.

CONTINUED IN NEXT POST...

Part 2

[tarotgal]

CONTINUED- PART 2:

*Meanwhile, her father is at work. There's a man holding his wife hostage in one of the rooms at the station with a gun to her head, asking to talk to his mother. His mother comes and he gets emotional and accidentally shoots his mother dead. They take the guy into custody and the wife seems okay, but shaken up and angry. The mother dies in Will's arms. -COMMERCIAL BREAK- Then, suddenly, the mother isn't dead, just in critical condition and tells Will that it's the wife's fault since she lies a lot to provoke her husband. She gets taken to the hospital. Mr.G can't understand why she's still alive when he saw her die right in front of him. To tell you the truth, I can't understand it either.

*Meanwhile, Mrs.G goes to a Church to think about her dream and it ends up being the Church of that priest from earlier in the season. He talks to her about if she believes it was really God or not and tries to be supportive, thinking she's not over her son's accident yet. She goes to light a candle and they all blow out, and suddenly she knows something's wrong.

*Kevin, Luke, Grace and Adam sit waiting at the hospital to find out what's wrong. They can't get ahold of Mom or Dad. But Mom goes straight to the hospital (the cops in her dream had said to go to the hospital for Kevin) because she thinks/feels something's wrong with Joan. Dad goes straight to the hospital to follow up on the dead-but-not-dead woman. They meet, find the kids (finally), and go talk to the doctors.

CONTINUED IN NEXT POST... (LJ has word limits for replies, GAH!)

Part 3

[tarotgal]

CONTINUED- PART 3-

*The doctors say Joan has Lyme disease and has probably had it for weeks, months, or years. But it's still in the early stages and they can put her on antibiotics. But it apparently (in addition to fevers and rashes and getting sick) causes very vivid hallucinations. Everyone is glad to hear this but a little weirded out, thinking that she's been a different person for so long and wondering what will happen when the disease goes away. Adam worries now that he has only known her recently and likes her now and isn't sure he'll like her the way she was.

*Meanwhile, Mr.G. goes to see the not-still-dead woman who is at this point the eating-dinner-hardly-a-scratch-on-her-woman who says that her son was repeatedly attacked with a knife by his wife but too scared or loved her too much to report it. It's evidence that they couldn't see on the surface, but that makes his case when he takes off his shirt to show them. I think this is some sort of metaphor for truth being strange and hidden but important to search for (not taking things at face value). Mr.G goes back to the station to check on the husband and is told that the woman died of complications to her serious injury hours before. He's confused again, because he had JUST talked to her and thinks it's either a miricle or just weird altered reality that results in a very good outcome.

*Joan, sick and alone in her hospital room, is angry as to why God would give her a rash and make her sick when all she tries to do are the things he tells her to. God appears to her as multiple people all at the same time (the goth kid, the chess instructor, the little girl, the news guy on tv, the older woman-who gives her water thank goodness- I was still worried about her at this point, she looked so sick!). She is confused as to why there would be multiple people at the same time. God tells her it's a crisis of faith she's going through. She doesn't really think it is and is just feverish and confused. God says that maybe she just imagined him, and that she's always had a great imagination. She asks them to tell her what's going on and they don't say anything. She gets concerned because they won't talk to her any more, then they all walk out on her. Her parts come in and say they didn't see anyone leaving just then.

*Joan feels she has to tell someone, and tells Adam that she's been seeing God. He holds her hand, (he promised to believe her) and says he belives she believes she's been seeing and talking to God. She cries because obviously this is not the answer she wants and just wants someone to understand what she's been doing the whole season. She curls up on her side away from him and he leaves. (But comes back later to sit with her Mom when Joan's asleep)

*Her parents sleep in Joan's hospital room to watch over her and talk about how there are times in your life when things make sense, when things feel like they fit together and you're content with life because it's understandable, controllable and you seem a part of it, etc. But that there are also times in your life when things are out of control and mysterious and don't make sense around you. And that you have to go through these times to get to the good ones and then you can see how it all makes sense in the end (which applies to a lot of things, including this reason Joan thought God was talking to her, obviously, as it's now explained)

Okay... so that's it! Weirdness all around... and I don't think I really like the "it was Lyme Disease all the time- ha ha! Got you all!" twist. But it was interesting... Mrs.G's dream about God in a form Joan knew... Joan's confusion... etc. I want to know where the heck it's going from here!!! :-)

TVTome has a short summary for it that's pretty good- http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-17466/epid-324747/

Re: Part 3

[tarotgal]

Oh! And at the very end the parents are asleep, and Joan is asleep. God comes in, touches Joan's forehead, and walks out again.
Again with 'he's there even if you don't believe him' theme. But, yeah, the episode was very weird

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, I can't believe I missed it, let us know if it's showing again, okay???
Heeeeh.
~A

[tarotgal]

I'm sure it will be on in summer repeats... so keep your eyes open, too! :-)

It was... well.. a weird episode to say the least!

[calliope-doll.livejournal.com]

Eeee! Thanks so much for typing all that up for me n_n

<3
-Carolee