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[cornerofmadness]

that's what today was. I hate having very little to do. I feel so lifeless and bored. I did have things to grade and I did accomplish that. I'm working on finishing my scarred soldier novella before i miss a shot at the deadline. Also working on my writers group stuff. Also editing a text book chapter for a very nice 150$ honorarium and hoping to get another one sent my way.

I'm also not feeling so well. I'm a little better now. Around five I had to go take a nap. I'm not a napper. I woke up a half hour later, not only disoriented but shaky and a little cold. I turned the heater on (well it's rainy and cold today so...). I'm feeling a bit better now but I just ate some questionable food. Let's see how dumb I've been.

Legend of Korra

The good - the art, the characters, the acting. I already really like Korra and Mako especially. Well who didn't know I'd like Mako right off the bat?

The bad - They're using the same plot device that made me stop reading the X-Men. I'm trying not to let it stop me but I loathe the normals against the benders (or mutants) thing. I do. I had two reasons for stopping the X-men that was one of them (the fact they spread the storyline between a half dozen or more books and got too costly was the other). I'm concentrating on the characters and hoping they carry me through this

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A lot of my friends have posted dangerous animal foods/toys recently. this scares me even more than those. dangerous food frauds

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

The food frauds thing is scary. I want to find a local beekeeper (I understand there is one across the river in Kentucky at the farmer's market there). I also would like to have enough land to garden and also keep cows, like we did when I was a kid. Don't see that happening any time soon, but I can hope. At least I can grow tomatoes, if it doesn't get too hot for them again this year.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

and i'm beginning to wonder if you can even remotely trust the local beekeepers either.

cows would be too much work for me and since i don't drink milk...

i've had 5 years of bad tomatoes here. it's disheartening

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more about meat than milk re: cows.

Someone recommended this beekeeper to me.

We didn't have a good year last year, but the year before was wonderful.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I don't eat much beef any more either, not enough to eat a whole cow

i use some of the keepers here doesn't mean i entirely trust them but i'm not dead yet.

yeah i remember. not so here.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

It'd probably take me a year to eat half a cow...

Well, there you go.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes and it would go bad in the freezer before then. you'd need to find someone to share with

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I hadn't even thought of the X-Men parallel. Huh. I spent most of that scene figuring out how the take-away-the-bending thing worked -- chi blocking at the third eye? Brr.

[caffeinified.livejournal.com]

Hope you feel better soon.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have dogs. :D

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

they'd gladly gnaw on the carcass and roll in it

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. the way my sugar is bouncing around that day will n ot be today

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah I wondered about that and of course about how this man has a power only an Avatar should.

I read the X-Men from the 70's until the late 90's and off and on in the 21stcentury so I've 30 years of this same tired plot in my head

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Of course they would!

Or, you know, drag the elk carcass out of the mountain.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

and then live in it

[yuukihikari]

They're using the same plot device that made me stop reading the X-Men

Ohhhh so that's what I was feeling from Korra... never been a fan of that plot device, but it's not quite a turn off for me (though, I do hope they focus on things beyond that).

Hope you're feeling better!

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

And try to drag it inside the house, via climbing over the A.C.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there'll be a lot of other stuff to distract me from it but from what I've read that is the main plot thread and yeah, like I was telling nebroadwe I've been an X-men fan for over 30 years and I've seen this plot just about that long. sigh.

still it looks like a good show and I'm going to watch it.

thanks, not so much yet but i'll straighten out.

[ital-gal.livejournal.com]

well, I suppose it's too late to say enjoy a day of down time, you are always super busy...

still seems like you have done a lot hope you are feeling better.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Ow. That could certainly kill a plot. All I know about the X-Men I learned from the cartoons and movies, so it's not as tired for me. (Yet.)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

And for the target audience it should be almost unknown

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. once the allergies and sugar sorts itself out I might be okay.