The 'What Has Madge Been Up To' Post

[magicallaw]

Mostly battling with this feckin' cold. If one more person tells me that this particular bug lasts for at least two weeks I shall cough all over them. Bah. Anyway, it is improving. Slowly. So I feel like getting back to the norm; which I am. I am writing fic. Whoop. Done about 300 words tonight which is good as this particular story has been on my mind for a while now. Will be fit to post one day, one hopes.

What else? Well, catching up on telly has been high on the agenda. Series two of Secret Diary of a Call Girl is nearly all watched now. Have to say, I prefer it to last year, but then I preferred the second book which focused more on Belle's personal life much like this series. Plus, like lizbee, I am having fun playing spot Billie's Baby Bump and/or Body Double. I swear they didn't even try to hide it with the Rapunzel outfit from episode 6.

Have also been watching Stephen Fry's Big Trip Around America In His Taxi (or whatever it's called). I do actually want him to adopt me. Watching him on a horse was very entertaining.

I am failing to watch SJA on the day it is broadcast, but that's what the iPlayer is for. I like watching it when I'm feeling particularly crappy as I can't tell you how much it fills me with glee. I have been looking for Clyde icons. I NEEDS MOAR CLYDE. WHERE ARE THEY ALL? HEY?

I know there's been more stuff... WORK. OMG. Yes, work. Have been working A LOT, and there is no sign of it easing up. At least I won't get bored. It would be nice to come home in the evening and not feel like collapsing in bed with a book. Oh yes, I finished New Moon. Oh, man. These books are terribly addictive, in that way where I want to point and laugh at Bella Swan for being so pathetic. Am borrowing the next one, whatever it's bloody well called, from a buddy real soon. THE SAGA CONTINUES OMG.

Must be off as my bed and Richard Hammond is calling me. I am of course referring to his autobiography which has big words and pictures. I AM READING LIKE A GROWN UP. Next up: The Magic Faraway Tree. Which was totally awesome, by the way.

Comments

[marah-sarie.livejournal.com]

Watching Stephen Fry get progressively more and more drunk during the bourbon tasting was adorably amusing. :) Looking at the US through Stephen Fry's point of view is more than slightly weird, but he just seems so... fond of the place (well, with the parts of it that aren't Miami, at least). It's nice to watch and have something to feel positive about, even if it still does make me feel strangely alien at times.

Hope your cold gets better soon! *sends get well vibes*

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, SJA! And also, something with Stephen Fry in it? Definitely needs to be watched.

[nonelvis]

I was so glad to catch Stephen Fry's show last night -- I'd already pre-ordered the DVD from amazon.co.uk sight unseen, figuring that it couldn't possibly be bad, and I was right. I wish I could remember his exact line about the Alabama-Auburn game being a microcosm of America, because it was *perfect*.

And honestly, after every episode of "Top Gear" in which Jeremy Clarkson slags off Americans, it's refreshing to see a Brit who appreciates us for the, um, unique aspects of our culture. Not that there aren't plenty of reasons to make fun of us, too, but we aren't all massively overweight butt-scratching rednecks.

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

I just wish Stephen Fry's series is going to be longer than just a few episodes. He dashes through so many of states with barely a couple of minutes to spend on them. I did laugh at his whiskey tasting though.