...and go for a long walk.
Friday, call doctor's office to renew prescription that regulates heart beat, and also has the happy effect of a feedback loop that reduces manifestations of stress. It's a twofer!
Yesterday morning, no prescription. Call doctor. O yes so sorry will call it in immediately. Yesterday evening no prescription.
This morning, call doctor; o yes, so sorry - patients waiting 3 hours, didn't get to it - will call now.
Five min later 'ping!' from pharmacy. No medicine. Back ordered.
Call pharmacy. When? Tomorrow.
RAGE1111!!!Kiiiiiilllllllll!!!RAGE111
Remembers have not taken medicine.
Four tablets left.
Takes medicine.
No need to kill before Thursday.
Friday, call doctor's office to renew prescription that regulates heart beat, and also has the happy effect of a feedback loop that reduces manifestations of stress. It's a twofer!
Yesterday morning, no prescription. Call doctor. O yes so sorry will call it in immediately. Yesterday evening no prescription.
This morning, call doctor; o yes, so sorry - patients waiting 3 hours, didn't get to it - will call now.
Five min later 'ping!' from pharmacy. No medicine. Back ordered.
Call pharmacy. When? Tomorrow.
RAGE1111!!!Kiiiiiilllllllll!!!RAGE111
Remembers have not taken medicine.
Four tablets left.
Takes medicine.
No need to kill before Thursday.
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My sister and I both try to avoid getting rid of DVDS by sending them to each other. I went through the the shelves tonight and didn't pull as many as I expected, but the following are available for the cost of shipping and handling. Need to clear space here!
The Great Train Robbery (Connery, Sutherland)
The Man with the Screaming Brain (Bruce Campbell)
Milk (Sean Penn)
Amazing Grace (Ioan Gruffudd)
Fantastic 4 – Rise of the Silver Surfer (Ioan Gruffudd, Chris Evans, Jessica Alba)
Capote (Phillip Seymour Hoffman)
Augustus (Peter O’Toole)
InkHeart (Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany)
Changeling (Angelina Jolie)
The 300 Spartans (Richard Egan)
The Men Who Stare at Goats (George Clooney)
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Smilla’s Sense of Snow (Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne)
The Hours (Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julia Moore)
Beautiful Creatures (Rachel Weisz, Susan Lynch)
Affair of the Necklace (Hilary Swank)
The Virgin Suicides (Kirstin Dunst, Kathleen Turner, James Woods)
L4yer Cake (Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Michael Gambon, Sienna Miller)
Casnova (Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller)
Snow White & the Huntsman (Kristin Stewart, Chris Hemsworth)
End of the Affair (Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rae)
Anonymous (Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis)
Black Hawk Down (Josh Harnett, Eric Bana, Ewan McGregor)
The Craft (Fairuza Balk, Robin Tunney)
Tales of an Ancient Empire (Kevin Sorbo, Michael Pare) [might pay someone to take it]
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Matt Damon, Gwynetth Paltrow, Jude Law)
Swimming With Sharks (Kevin Spacey, Frank Whaley)
Grey Gardens (Drew Barrymore, Jessica Lange)
Tom Jones (Samantha Morton, Brian Blessed, Max Beesley)
Foyles War – 1st series 4 Disc set (PAL)
The Great Train Robbery (Connery, Sutherland)
The Man with the Screaming Brain (Bruce Campbell)
Milk (Sean Penn)
Amazing Grace (Ioan Gruffudd)
Fantastic 4 – Rise of the Silver Surfer (Ioan Gruffudd, Chris Evans, Jessica Alba)
Capote (Phillip Seymour Hoffman)
Augustus (Peter O’Toole)
InkHeart (Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany)
Changeling (Angelina Jolie)
The 300 Spartans (Richard Egan)
The Men Who Stare at Goats (George Clooney)
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Smilla’s Sense of Snow (Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne)
The Hours (Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julia Moore)
Beautiful Creatures (Rachel Weisz, Susan Lynch)
Affair of the Necklace (Hilary Swank)
The Virgin Suicides (Kirstin Dunst, Kathleen Turner, James Woods)
L4yer Cake (Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Michael Gambon, Sienna Miller)
Casnova (Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller)
Snow White & the Huntsman (Kristin Stewart, Chris Hemsworth)
End of the Affair (Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rae)
Anonymous (Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis)
Black Hawk Down (Josh Harnett, Eric Bana, Ewan McGregor)
The Craft (Fairuza Balk, Robin Tunney)
Tales of an Ancient Empire (Kevin Sorbo, Michael Pare) [might pay someone to take it]
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Matt Damon, Gwynetth Paltrow, Jude Law)
Swimming With Sharks (Kevin Spacey, Frank Whaley)
Grey Gardens (Drew Barrymore, Jessica Lange)
Tom Jones (Samantha Morton, Brian Blessed, Max Beesley)
Foyles War – 1st series 4 Disc set (PAL)
Appropriate.
I went out to see McKellen's 'King Lear' last night in yet another driving storm advanced by a tropical depression. This is the second time I've seen it at a time of bad weather (H. Katrina) with a weak man in power (Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job!')
Initially, Lear is problematic. Is the respect that good men give him on account of his crown, or because he was a great king? Clearly he was not a good father (Neither is that jerk Gloucester.) Lear makes really stupid decisions: he divvies up the kingdom, Cordelia is disowned, resigns his authority. The remaining sisters collude, but when Lear goes to live with Goneril, his men behave like Drunken Frat Boys (Oh, yes, they did!) and one is not entirely unsympathetic with her wanting them out of the house. The degree of offense against Lear has to be taken as stated, but then McKellen has his scene with the fool, while packing a steamer trunk and being dressing to the 9's. McKellen's voice is like roughened timber, and we are easily persuaded to see Lear's point of view.
Reagan turns out to be as bad a lot as Goneril. Lear, deprived of dignity and proclaiming himself homeless, curses them all and stomps off into the night. [As he becomes one of them, the plight of the poor and homeless in the modern is evoked. There is much giving of coats.]
The storm grows; Lear loses his mind, but not his friends, in fact, he makes a new one. In the meantime, France takes advantage of the political turmoil to invade (or maybe this is a rescue party?). Gloucester is betrayed by his bastard son Edmund and blinded. I am rapt in my seat as collusion and conspiracy play themselves out. I know this won't end well, but I'm agog to see what happens next.
The Duke of Albany is conflicted, but principled; he fights the invading army; Lear fights with the Resistance. Lear and Cordelia are captured; Edmund makes his bid for the top spot; Goneril poisons Reagan; Reagan stabs Goneril; Edgar kills Edmund. Lear staggers in with Cordelia's body. The stage is littered with bodies. Albany says,
“The weight of this sad time we must obey,
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
The oldest hath borne most: we that are young
Shall never see so much, nor live so long.”
There is no happy ending but one accepts that as inevitable as is the fact that it is still pouring rain when I leave the theater and Trump is still King.
Notes:
Sinead Cusack plays Kent.
This is a 'modernish' production. Lots of uniforms. Lear in 40s mufti, the daughters in '60s good taste' (this changes as their characters are revealed, becoming flat-out up-to-date military battle dress in Cordelia's case).
I liked that Lear's madness in the storm could be attributed to hypothermia and the dehydration to which older people are susceptible. Rest and IV fluids and he is on his feet, ready to accept defeat.
Shakespeare fans are nothing if not committed and the theater gave everyone rain-checks for turning out like champs. (A stranger gave me hers! Yay! Two free movies!)
I went out to see McKellen's 'King Lear' last night in yet another driving storm advanced by a tropical depression. This is the second time I've seen it at a time of bad weather (H. Katrina) with a weak man in power (Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job!')
Initially, Lear is problematic. Is the respect that good men give him on account of his crown, or because he was a great king? Clearly he was not a good father (Neither is that jerk Gloucester.) Lear makes really stupid decisions: he divvies up the kingdom, Cordelia is disowned, resigns his authority. The remaining sisters collude, but when Lear goes to live with Goneril, his men behave like Drunken Frat Boys (Oh, yes, they did!) and one is not entirely unsympathetic with her wanting them out of the house. The degree of offense against Lear has to be taken as stated, but then McKellen has his scene with the fool, while packing a steamer trunk and being dressing to the 9's. McKellen's voice is like roughened timber, and we are easily persuaded to see Lear's point of view.
Reagan turns out to be as bad a lot as Goneril. Lear, deprived of dignity and proclaiming himself homeless, curses them all and stomps off into the night. [As he becomes one of them, the plight of the poor and homeless in the modern is evoked. There is much giving of coats.]
The storm grows; Lear loses his mind, but not his friends, in fact, he makes a new one. In the meantime, France takes advantage of the political turmoil to invade (or maybe this is a rescue party?). Gloucester is betrayed by his bastard son Edmund and blinded. I am rapt in my seat as collusion and conspiracy play themselves out. I know this won't end well, but I'm agog to see what happens next.
The Duke of Albany is conflicted, but principled; he fights the invading army; Lear fights with the Resistance. Lear and Cordelia are captured; Edmund makes his bid for the top spot; Goneril poisons Reagan; Reagan stabs Goneril; Edgar kills Edmund. Lear staggers in with Cordelia's body. The stage is littered with bodies. Albany says,
“The weight of this sad time we must obey,
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
The oldest hath borne most: we that are young
Shall never see so much, nor live so long.”
There is no happy ending but one accepts that as inevitable as is the fact that it is still pouring rain when I leave the theater and Trump is still King.
Notes:
Sinead Cusack plays Kent.
This is a 'modernish' production. Lots of uniforms. Lear in 40s mufti, the daughters in '60s good taste' (this changes as their characters are revealed, becoming flat-out up-to-date military battle dress in Cordelia's case).
I liked that Lear's madness in the storm could be attributed to hypothermia and the dehydration to which older people are susceptible. Rest and IV fluids and he is on his feet, ready to accept defeat.
Shakespeare fans are nothing if not committed and the theater gave everyone rain-checks for turning out like champs. (A stranger gave me hers! Yay! Two free movies!)
Title: The Loves of Lucifer Morningstar - Part 2: Will
Author: Taz (aka)
Fandom: Lucifer (TV), Shakespear In Love
Characters: Lucifer Morningstar (Samael), William Shakespeare (Will)
Pairing: Lucifer Morningstar (Samael)/William Shakespeare (Will)
Word Count:+6000
Rating: Moderately Mature
Summary: A gloss on Season 3's Episode 6: "Vegas With Some Radish, in which it was hinted that Lucifer (Samael) and William Shakespeare (Will) had enough of a 'thang' that Will inscribed an original manuscript to him. There is a good deal of ‘gadzookery’ and allusion herein.
Will
Author: Taz (aka
Fandom: Lucifer (TV), Shakespear In Love
Characters: Lucifer Morningstar (Samael), William Shakespeare (Will)
Pairing: Lucifer Morningstar (Samael)/William Shakespeare (Will)
Word Count:+6000
Rating: Moderately Mature
Summary: A gloss on Season 3's Episode 6: "Vegas With Some Radish, in which it was hinted that Lucifer (Samael) and William Shakespeare (Will) had enough of a 'thang' that Will inscribed an original manuscript to him. There is a good deal of ‘gadzookery’ and allusion herein.
Will
Title: Cain (Series: The Loves of Lucifer Morning Star)
Author: Taz (aka) for the hell of it
Fandom: Lucifer (TV)
Characters: Lucifer Morningstar (the Devil), Marcus Pierce (Cain)
Pairing: Lucifer/Pierce
Word Count: 4,085
Rating: Moderately Mature
Summary: A gloss on Season 3 Episode 13, 'Til Death Do Us Part', in which sex and the Devil do more than malt and Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
Cain
Author: Taz (aka
Fandom: Lucifer (TV)
Characters: Lucifer Morningstar (the Devil), Marcus Pierce (Cain)
Pairing: Lucifer/Pierce
Word Count: 4,085
Rating: Moderately Mature
Summary: A gloss on Season 3 Episode 13, 'Til Death Do Us Part', in which sex and the Devil do more than malt and Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
Cain
Title: The Start of His Brilliant Career
Author: Taz (aka) for 
calime
Fandom: Highlander (TV)
Characters: Duncan MacLeod, Methos, Sean Burns, Walter Graham, Kristin Giles, Original Characters
Pairing: Duncan MacLeod/Methos; Duncan MacLeod/Original Female Character
Word Count: 14,037
Rating: Moderately Mature
Summary: Returning to England in 1660, after his encounter with Kristin Giles, Duncan is given an opportunity to learn enhanced survival skills.
The Start of His Brilliant Career
Author: Taz (aka
calimeFandom: Highlander (TV)
Characters: Duncan MacLeod, Methos, Sean Burns, Walter Graham, Kristin Giles, Original Characters
Pairing: Duncan MacLeod/Methos; Duncan MacLeod/Original Female Character
Word Count: 14,037
Rating: Moderately Mature
Summary: Returning to England in 1660, after his encounter with Kristin Giles, Duncan is given an opportunity to learn enhanced survival skills.
The Start of His Brilliant Career
Title: The Devil in the Details
Author: Taz (aka tazlet)
Fandom: Lucifer (TV)
Pairing: Lucifer Morningstar/Dan Espinoza
Word Count: 2170+
Rating: Moderately Immature.
Summary: God, I hate summaries, nonetheless, plot happens when Lucifer finally comes out with it and asks for Dan’s help.
The Devil in the Details
Author: Taz (aka tazlet)
Fandom: Lucifer (TV)
Pairing: Lucifer Morningstar/Dan Espinoza
Word Count: 2170+
Rating: Moderately Immature.
Summary: God, I hate summaries, nonetheless, plot happens when Lucifer finally comes out with it and asks for Dan’s help.
The Devil in the Details
Title: And the Devil Will Drag You Under
Author: Taz (aka tazlet)
Fandom: Lucifer (TV)
Pairing: Lucifer Morningstar/Dan Espinoza
Word Count: 2300+
Rating: Approaching somewhat mature.
Summary: No, the devil’s sperm is not ice cold, but it is highly addictive, and somewhat hallucinogenic.
And the Devil Will Drag You Under
Author: Taz (aka tazlet)
Fandom: Lucifer (TV)
Pairing: Lucifer Morningstar/Dan Espinoza
Word Count: 2300+
Rating: Approaching somewhat mature.
Summary: No, the devil’s sperm is not ice cold, but it is highly addictive, and somewhat hallucinogenic.
And the Devil Will Drag You Under
Comments
This is a lovely little snippet. Very Methos!
(Sorry for the random comment, I am currently meandering my way through Highlander fanfic following the links here…