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tarotgalOnce upon a time, I was in love with Lord Byron. Yes, Highlander: the series was almost completely to blame. I devoured some of his poetry as a teen (I say "some" because I don't think I ever made it through Don Juan all the way through). I loved the whole romantic essence he and Shelley had going on.
So when I found out there was a "new" Byron BBC production, I excitedly bumped it up to the top of my Netflix queue.
Number of times I've now watched Johnny Lee Miller as Byron sneeze: 3 million
Seriously, it's a thing of beauty. I especially love the way the first one bursts out of him and then how he sneezes widely from behind his hand after half-stifling the second one.
On another note, I've only had my doorbell ring THREE TIMES tonight. What the heck? Where are all the children? When I was young, trick-or-treating in a townhouse development was the best thing ever because you could hit so many houses so quickly and get so much more candy. What gives? My favorite so far, though, was a family with three kids and two parents. The dad was dressed as a pirate and the mother was dressed as... Mary Poppins--complete with umbrella and bag. If I'd known I'd only be getting three sets of trick-or-treaters, I totally would have insisted Mary Poppins take the rest of my candy because, the costume was amazing. I was so impressed!
And on another another note, I had the strangest allergist appointment yesterday. It was like they had never had a patient before and didn't know what to do with me. I'll recount it some other time, when I'm not trying to finish up some things before NaNoWriMo starts tonight. But, yeah, weird. But they tested me and I'm back on allergy pills and will resume shots next week, so I can almost breathe like a normal person again. YAY!
Oh, also, I bought a new toy. My laptop that I usually write NaNoWriMo on died, so I had to buy something new. It's a 2-in-one laptop/tablet and much smaller than I'm used to. But I look forward to getting to know it well over the next month, especially next week on my trip to LA for work.
So when I found out there was a "new" Byron BBC production, I excitedly bumped it up to the top of my Netflix queue.
Number of times I've now watched Johnny Lee Miller as Byron sneeze: 3 million
Seriously, it's a thing of beauty. I especially love the way the first one bursts out of him and then how he sneezes widely from behind his hand after half-stifling the second one.
On another note, I've only had my doorbell ring THREE TIMES tonight. What the heck? Where are all the children? When I was young, trick-or-treating in a townhouse development was the best thing ever because you could hit so many houses so quickly and get so much more candy. What gives? My favorite so far, though, was a family with three kids and two parents. The dad was dressed as a pirate and the mother was dressed as... Mary Poppins--complete with umbrella and bag. If I'd known I'd only be getting three sets of trick-or-treaters, I totally would have insisted Mary Poppins take the rest of my candy because, the costume was amazing. I was so impressed!
And on another another note, I had the strangest allergist appointment yesterday. It was like they had never had a patient before and didn't know what to do with me. I'll recount it some other time, when I'm not trying to finish up some things before NaNoWriMo starts tonight. But, yeah, weird. But they tested me and I'm back on allergy pills and will resume shots next week, so I can almost breathe like a normal person again. YAY!
Oh, also, I bought a new toy. My laptop that I usually write NaNoWriMo on died, so I had to buy something new. It's a 2-in-one laptop/tablet and much smaller than I'm used to. But I look forward to getting to know it well over the next month, especially next week on my trip to LA for work.
