Where did my day go?

[mousme]

Today got sacrificed on the altar of the Migraine Fairy. I awoke with a headache around 8:00 after a night of more or less restful sleep, and gave it up as a bad job shortly before 11:00 and took a very long nap. Luckily that got rid of it, but it also meant my day was essentially shot. Alas.

So now I'm back at work, and I'm waiting for it to be over. I've been lucky to have a relatively quiet time of it at work. It's all been routine stuff that I know how to deal with, which is great for my stress levels.

:::ETA:::

No sooner had I written that than the heavens opened up and poured work over my head. Whoops. Anyway, I'm back, nearly an hour after starting this post. I should know better than to taunt the work gods like that.

Anyway, I am once again in the unenviable position of having not much to report. Things are okay at work, if busy. I really hate Daylight Savings Time. I had to get up at what felt like 2:50 on Sunday morning to get to work on time, which is just fucking brutal. I don't understand the couple of people I know who manage that every working day. 3:00 is an evil time that should not be used for waking up. It's the middle of the freaking night, and all I want to do at that hour is sleep. I could go on a long rant about how DST has very few proven benefits, actually disrupts farming activity, and is generally only well-received by retailers and people who want to go outside after regular business hours, but I will spare you. The short version is that DST makes my life a lot harder than it needs to be for about two weeks out of the year while my body adjust to the new time.

Grumpy cat is grumpy, what can I say?

I'm rewatching Criminal Minds, slowly. I'd forgotten just how intense the first few seasons are. While I think the show did even better once Mandy Patinkin left (I love the guy, but he chewed the scenery constantly and overshadowed everyone else with his grandstanding), the kinds of stories they told early on were a lot more diverse than what they're doing now, or so it seems. There were not just serial killers but also arsonists and bombers and terrorists and cults. It feels like the last few seasons have been more about making the serial killers more inventive and horrific, rather than broadening the BAU's scope in the type of crimes they deal with. It's disappointing, in a way. I'd much rather they profile more arsonists and bombers than finding newer and more creative ways of torturing and killing women. :/

I have finished watching True Detective, all eight episodes, and mostly I'm confused. I think I need to rewatch them in order when I'm not as tired and unfocused, so that I can at least work out what the hell is happening in individual episodes. I wonder if I should read The King In Yellow and see if that will help me figure things out a little. It's not like I have the time or the concentration for either of those things, but hey, a girl can dream. Mostly my takeaway from this show is that it is super, super beautiful. Much like Hannibal, for that matter, but at least I understand what's going on in that show.

I will confess that I'm watching Hannibal for two reasons: 1) It's really, really beautiful. 2) The fandom stuff on Tumblr makes me laugh until I cry. Seriously, for such an utterly fucked-up show, the fandom is hilarious. Completely irreverent and whimsical, and they come up with the wackiest stuff about the show. They are a delightful bunch and I always look forward to seeing what they come up with for each new episode.

And I guess that's it for now. I can't promise that future updates will be any more riveting, alas.

Comments

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

I just finished S1 of Hannibal and am fixing to start True Detective. Hannibal is a real feast for the eyes (HA HA, I crack me up.) It almost lost me in the middle, when it was getting too hard to believe, but won me back in the last two episodes. I'm really looking forward to TD, though! Mmmm, Southern Gothic!

[agelade.livejournal.com]

Just finished True Detective like maybe fifteen minutes ago. You may benefit from rewatching. We watched them two at a time (more than that at a go would have been too much, and I feel the same way about Hannibal) over the last few days, so it's possible we were able to retain the thread a little more easily, without the detriments of having to wait between episodes and being able to watch a couple at a time. The finale, we thought, was pretty amazing. The dude was inconsolable at the end, we just sat together and I let him cry on me for like ten minutes. Now he's on the phone with his friend chatting about it. It affected him profoundly. I, on the other hand, am medicated right now and while I teared up, I wasn't as affected. I def recommend giving it a rewatch.

We need to catch up on Hannibal. I can't wait to see how it gets to where it's going to go.

[elanya.livejournal.com]

I will tell you straight up that reading The King in Yellow will not really make anything make more sense, but it (or at least the first few stories) is awesome in its own right.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

You are terrible! :D

Once I let go of my need for the show to be believable, Hannibal became so much more enjoyable.

Let me know what you think of True Detective, when you get to it. :)

[mousme.livejournal.com]

I definitely need to rewatch. There are so many times I had to pause and rewind because I missed things, and I'm quite sure I still missed a lot.

I can't say I was all that affected, but then I spent most of the time being really confused. ;)

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Duly noted!

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

Okay, watched the first two episodes of TD: am loving it! Since I grew up in that tri-state region, it resonates. It's very depressing, though, so binge-watching might lead to some serious ennui in the viewer. ;)

McConaughey is AMAZING. Woody Harrelson isn't bad either. I've seen some contention (on tumblr, of course) regarding one of the female characters but I'm not sure I've met her yet.

Good stuff!