I know I'm in my own world... it's okay, they know me here

Oh. My. God.

Just watched movie version of Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfaddyen (or however you spell it.)

Best. Thing. Ever.

American alternative ending is so much better. English ending sucks and is very anticlimactic and, to put it very bluntly and vulgarly, like being denied orgasm. Yes, this is probably the sound of your incredulous laughter.

I don't care.

I went online and bought the American version of the DVD instead because I don't want to have to hit the bonus section every time I watch it.

BEST. THING. EVER.

I'M BACK!!!

I bought a million t-shirts and a million books and four DVD boxsets (Sears is really weirdly cheap, whole seasons for what is the equivalent atm of £20 with the great exchange rate - got Prison Break Season One, The Sentinel Season One, Medium Season One and Numb3rs Season One) and it was fab right up to the point in the queue to check-in for the flight back where I CAUGHT MY DAD'S STUPID AWFUL COLD. It managed to develop from a slightly bunged nose then into a full-on stuffed-up, sore throat, headache horrible cold by the time I got on the plane for the first leg of our trip home, a six-and-a-half hour flight from Chicago to Dublin overnight. And then when we finally got home I tried to take some better medicine and threw up in the sink. I'm a bit better now, thanks to Day Nurse, but it couldn't have bloody waited until we were all the way home so I didn't have to do the whole journey like that, could it. Nooooo...

ANYHOO

Had a great time. The sky is so big in Wisconsin, it's actually kinda scary for somebody who's used to the hills and not those great wide plains with nothing to obscure the view. And Chicago - if ever I go to live in the States, which I might for a couple of years (you can do that as an orthoptist, which is neat) then I'd like to live there. Pretty much everyone is really friendly and helpful, and there aren't as many really dumb annoying people as you think there might be (no offense to any Americans, but we don't get the best impression of you here in Britain any more. Blame George Bush.) I was really glad to get home, anyway. Proper British cars! Proper British trees and spindly old fences! Proper British windy little lanes where not even two Mini's can get past each other but we manage anyway!

BTW - can anyone give me a synopsis of this whole thing with the terrorists and the planes? This happens every year when I go on holiday, and then I can never find out enough about it to really understand what's going on.

Also, pobbit, did you get the CD of SGA I posted you? And does anyone have eps four and five of season three? ETA: Found them with a million seeds, so got them basically dled now :)

ETA2: Would anyone be interested in an essay I'm thinking of writing about slash, and the things that make us see that in relationships between male characters? I was trying to get to sleep one night in the States and ended up thinking about it as a proposal for the next Slash Study Day, if I end up being able to go. It's going to have a kick-ass title, too, "All But(t) Sex - What Are You Seeing That I'm Not?" (The original was "All But(t) Sex - You're Making This Shit Up, Aren't You?" but I decided it wasn't descriptive enough despite being funny ^-^)

Last night we went to see Hayfever, a Noel Coward play in London starring Judy Dench. It was a lovely, short, gorgeously silly piece of fluffy nonsense, and it was great. Dame Judy, naturally, was as always fantastic. (And isn't it fannish of me to suddenyl think, 'why isn't she in Harry Potter?')

Also, despite my best efforts to be good and not buy more DVDs, I liked Angel enough that I then went on ebay and, seeing a really good offer, bought all five seasons on boxset DVD. (oh, the shame!) But it was less than £10 a season! How could I not? (her justifying-bad-behaviour inner voice cries)