THE DAY<\/p>\n
So some of that fun is with the writing and some with a bunch of Facebook folks who finally convinced me to give Dr. Who a try.<\/p>\n
I know: trivial, right?<\/p>\n
But here’s the thing. \u00a0We ALL need down-time. \u00a0We ALL need to find something that stokes our creative juices, gets us excited.<\/p>\n
Now, I have resisted Dr. Who for, like, forever. \u00a0It just looked stupid. \u00a0What, a time-traveler in a police box? \u00a0Hokey aliens and silly special effects? \u00a0(I distinctly remember a very campy Who episode with an actor I know now is Tom Baker: black and white, and I do believe there was a Dalek because now that I’ve actually seen one today, I’m almost positive that’s what I saw.) \u00a0It looked dumb then; they look only slightly less silly now. \u00a0Mostly, the Daleks look like oversized salt shakers with a bad temper.<\/p>\n
So why waste my time?<\/p>\n
Well, beats crap out of me. \u00a0One guy suggested I start with Season 5 of the reboot, which would be the 11th Doctor, Matt Smith. \u00a0So I thought, okay, it’s on Amazon Prime; why not?<\/p>\n
Watched the first episode. \u00a0Actually liked it. \u00a0Smith is fabulous at slapstick comedy; he knows how to be goofy and since this is an extremely campy show to begin with, he knows how to play things so you laugh with and at him.<\/p>\n
So I had fun. \u00a0I did. \u00a0I had SO much fun I watched the next two episodes today, which is how I know about the Daleks and that “Silence will fall and the Pandorica will open.” \u00a0I’m about to figure out what Weeping Angels are.<\/p>\n
And this is fun ENOUGH that I told the husband that, after we finish House of Cards,\u00a0<\/em>I’d willingly watch these again with him from the beginning so he’d know what was going on.<\/p>\n I know; I know; I’m the last person on the planet to get into this. \u00a0So sue me. \u00a0But I can see why people like this, I really can. \u00a0Now whether I can STICK with it–or it with me–is another matter. \u00a0We’ll see.<\/p>\n So, anyway…yeah, so I’m working, too. \u00a0I can tell you that I jerked awake at two this morning, thinking of all the things I must be sure to write down to add. \u00a0This is a good thing.<\/p>\n WRITING OUT LOUD Day 1: 1000 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Day 23-26: 9450 Blog Post: 540 THE DAY So some of that fun is with the writing and some with a bunch of Facebook folks who finally convinced me to give Dr. Who a try. I know: trivial, right? But here’s the thing. \u00a0We ALL need…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3947,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions\/3947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nStay\u00a0Dead\u00a0(started 5\/05; Days 1-4, false start)<\/p>\n
\nDay 2: 1200 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Day 27: (novella) 2000
\nDay 3: 1800
\nDay 4: 1350
\nDay 5: 1000
\nDay 6: 2000
\nDay 7-10: ~4500
\nDay 11-12: ~5000
\nDay 13: 1600
\nDay 14: 2300
\nDay 15-17: 4450
\nDay 18-19: 4500
\nDay 20-22: 5220<\/p>\n
\n***
\nWhat I’m Watching:
\nFirst,\u00a0The Americans\u00a0<\/em>(great, again). \u00a0Then\u00a0Dr. Who, Season 5: Eps. 1-3\u00a0<\/em>so far.
\n***
\nWhat I’m Reading:
\nWhat\u00a0am\u00a0<\/em>I reading? \u00a0Oh, yeah…the first story in King’s\u00a0Bazaar\u00a0<\/em>of Bad Dreams. \u00a0<\/em>I was underwhelmed. \u00a0I wasn’t the least bit sold that this is how a kid thinks. \u00a0Still, an okay story if both predictable and a little too long (but almost all King’s stories are). \u00a0The second story was not only predictable but boring (like I flipped ahead to the end and thought,\u00a0Yup, knew it<\/em>). \u00a0On to the third story. Glad I got this one out of the library.
\n***
\nWhat I’m Listening to:
\nRenaissance music. \u00a0The husband came home in the middle of a Gregorian chant and asked who’d died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"