Michelle's Journal

I don't exactly get why media companies don't release things at the same time world-wide. Accounting purposes maybe? Although with instantaneous communication and file sharing these days, you'd think that releasing things at the same time would maximize the number of people wanting to buy it.

The latest Thursday Next book is out in the UK, but doesn't come out in the US until October. I suppose I could try to get the Kindle version (would that even work?), but it's actually annoying to buy things overseas - my CC company tends to freak out.

And don't get me started on the Doctor Who book I want that's been out in the UK forever but supposedly is out at the end of the month here.

And movies! Why release it at different times? Are having a bunch of different celebrity premieres really that crucial to ticket sales? And is it really that much difference if the Hobbit movie does its celeb turnout in London vs. LA vs. New Zealand? A red carpet is pretty much a red carpet anywhere. So are the photos.

Important discovery! While the Sherlock tv series fic has overwhelmingly pregnant John, the fic from the Sherlock RDJ movies has lots of pregnant Holmes.

Maybe it's the height that determines the mpreg preference?

Jude Law = 6'0"
RDJ = 5'9" = PREGNANT

Benedict Cumberbatch = 6'0"
Martin Freeman = 5'7" = PREGNANT

:O

I'm actually not quite sure what makes for mpreg preferences in fandom. I don't think it's woobieness, since Sherlock is woobied more than John. Maybe John is the exception due to his cuddly jumpers. Because cuddly jumpers = babies?

I finally broke down and ordered myself a FasTrak transponder. I figured that some days a couple of bucks will be worth saving my sanity.

Semi-related: I still don't quite understand London's system. (One I only know about from watching Top Gear.) You have to call when you're in the car or something? But what if you don't have a phone? Will they hunt you down through the omnipresent CCTVs?

And not-at-all-related-but-thought-of-because-I-thought-about-London: If I ever saw the Queen, would I have to curtsy even though I'm not a subject? IT COULD TOTALLY HAPPEN IN A STARBUCKS. YOU NEVER KNOW.

I watched Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution this weekend. Talk about eye-opening. I never went to a school with a lunch program, so I never realized how much processed junk is served. That's what the government deems to be nutritious, and also what comes in under budget. For as suspicious we are of our government at getting too involved in things and telling us what to do, for some reason in this area we've completely let bureaucrats take over. And we're all pretty okay with it. And it's not just with school lunches, but all processed foods. There's this idea that if the FDA doesn't have a problem with it and it's in our grocery store, then it's fine to eat. We even get defensive about it. Why do we do that? Why do we feel the (sometimes) very strong need to protect sub-standard food?

I think it really got to the root of the problem with obesity in America. (Well, it's even more than an "obesity" issue - it's a general health issue.) There's this sort of ambivalence to food and nutrition a lot of times. (And sometimes even a belligerent attitude of "it's my right to eat crap.")

Somewhere along the way we've fallen down on eating right, with time, money and convenience outweighing health. I'm not pointing fingers - I've been guilty of it myself. Who doesn't love a good burger? And popping something in the microwave is easy. And I don't think it's bad to have that from time to time. It's just when an entire diet revolves around it, it's problematic. If I hadn't already stopped eating frozen dinners a year or so ago, this show would make me stop. I kind of wish everyone in the U.S. had to watch it.

I love my dad. Every year he wants to color Easter eggs. You know, for himself. He's in his 60s. :D In the process of making plans to get together that weekend, one of his emails ended with "can we color eggs?"

And in other news, I picked up the latest miniseries "Emma" the other day since I wanted something long to watch while on the treadmill. Confession: I've never actually read Emma, but I have seen how many ever adaptations of it. One thing I really like about this new series is that it seems to go into more depth than I'm used to, and I'm assuming it's much closer to the book. Very nice insight into the reasoning behind things and so on.

But one thing that's cracking me up is that everyone is so bitchy in this! XD It seems like everyone is in this perpetual state of crabbiness, and that goes for Emma and Mr. Knightly as well. I'm not quite half way into it, so maybe people eventually chill out. (And maybe this is how the book really is.) Also, I'm not overly wild about Jonny Lee Miller's Mr. Knightly, but maybe he'll grow on me.

Tonight I quickly hit the button on my radio when a song came on the air - one that's been driving me NUTS lately because they play it all the time. To me it's the whiniest, most pathetic emoing emo ever. IT BURNS. Tonight I decided to look it up, since I had no clue what it was. *drumroll* It's "You Belong With Me" by Taylor Swift.

(Yes, this was pretty much just an excuse to post from MY SHINY.)

(And since it seems like it's been too long since I've posted any D/R, have a pic! That's right! I'm using HTML on My Shiny! (Still need a name.))


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