Sunday, January 9, 2011
Jan. 9th, 2011 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyPretty ordinary day, which is a good thing. I read a bit more of Marco Polo and Silk Road and I watched the second episode of Russian Sherlock Holmes tv show which was really close to the “Study in Scarlet” book. Really great adaptation.
I also saw the first two episodes of “Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child” the very first Doctor Who that aired in 1963. I liked the first episode when Barbara and Ian, schoolteachers, first meet the Doctor. They were teaching Susan, the Doctor’s granddaughter, and got curious and concerned about her and her weirdness. I saw the pilot episode first and then the actual first episode, which was reshot in the first meeting with the Doctor. In the pilot Doctor was too strict and too serious and creepier and was kidnapping them. So I’m glad for the reshots. He is a little more like the Doctor them. The second episode was a little boring with the cavemen but I’ll see where it is going. I do like Barbara and Ian a lot. I really enjoyed watching the comedy sketches that came with the DVD.
I liked “Brothers and Sisters” episode and I thought it was a good goodbye to Holly but I’m not sure about the end with the old video of Nora. Are they setting up a new mystery? And what is going on with Kitty?
Poor little girl, Christina, who was killed yesterday in the Arizona shooting. I caught a phone interview with her mother on TV and it was so hard to just listen to that account and to imagine being that family.
Exercise: 30 minute walk. Today’s weather was very nice.
Cross-stitch: I finished the ducky body with light yellow and light orange and started on the bow around ducky’s neck with a really beautiful color of dark pink. Every Sunday I’m taking a picture of what the project looks like so I can assemble a string of pictures showing the progress. Because this project has a deadline I need to really keep at it.
I also saw the first two episodes of “Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child” the very first Doctor Who that aired in 1963. I liked the first episode when Barbara and Ian, schoolteachers, first meet the Doctor. They were teaching Susan, the Doctor’s granddaughter, and got curious and concerned about her and her weirdness. I saw the pilot episode first and then the actual first episode, which was reshot in the first meeting with the Doctor. In the pilot Doctor was too strict and too serious and creepier and was kidnapping them. So I’m glad for the reshots. He is a little more like the Doctor them. The second episode was a little boring with the cavemen but I’ll see where it is going. I do like Barbara and Ian a lot. I really enjoyed watching the comedy sketches that came with the DVD.
I liked “Brothers and Sisters” episode and I thought it was a good goodbye to Holly but I’m not sure about the end with the old video of Nora. Are they setting up a new mystery? And what is going on with Kitty?
Poor little girl, Christina, who was killed yesterday in the Arizona shooting. I caught a phone interview with her mother on TV and it was so hard to just listen to that account and to imagine being that family.
Exercise: 30 minute walk. Today’s weather was very nice.
Cross-stitch: I finished the ducky body with light yellow and light orange and started on the bow around ducky’s neck with a really beautiful color of dark pink. Every Sunday I’m taking a picture of what the project looks like so I can assemble a string of pictures showing the progress. Because this project has a deadline I need to really keep at it.
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Date: 2011-01-10 02:21 pm (UTC)Poor little girl, Christina, who was killed yesterday in the Arizona shooting. I caught a phone interview with her mother on TV and it was so hard to just listen to that account and to imagine being that family. THANK YOU! Finally someone who is thinking about everyone else who was involved in the shooting. I was getting so bad at the news broadcasts. They were focusing on the congress woman, and sure it’s sad, but there were other victims too. Sigh. I cannot begin to imagine what that poor family is going through. Have they figured out why the nutcase did it?
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Date: 2011-01-10 11:27 pm (UTC)The whole thing with Arizona shootings is just so tragic. The guy is not saying why he did it but there are reports of his mental instability. He was suspended from his college for weird behavior. But for the families of six people who died and many injured it is just terrible no matter his motive. I don't know if he is actually sure what his motive was.
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Date: 2011-01-11 12:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
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