Alexandra Leaving

RL sitrep
Catching up on many post-holiday things. Including a very dirty house. Seriously! Mr Alexander + house + two weeks = I should have thought more about leaving him alone there! Also featured:

- Working with my daughter on her confidence levels. She was described as above average in everything in her yearly school report but there was a mentioning of the fact that she is afraid of making mistakes.. (But jubilation! My baby is clever!) At the moment I am trying to help her to enjoy the fun of doing new things and to see that making mistakes is fun. I am trying my best not to overdo it and at the same time I am worrying madly that may be I am already overdoing it. But she seems to enjoy things we are doing together so I can't be overdoing it too badly. Optimism is the key :D

- Getting back to one's work after two weeks is a bit of a shock. I am not complaining because I love my job to bits but Can I have another week of holidays? Or may be two?

- Everyone around at work is having new babies. I want one too! (Ok, I know it is not a fast procedure but still!)

Fannish sitrep
But even though I am dozing off every evening at 9.00 pm because my body still thinks it is 12.00 pm of Moscow time I watched episode 8 of "The Nine", Turning Point yesterday. This was the start of the second part of this cancelled show (only 13 episodes but all great!) about a group of 9 hostages and 52 hours they spent in the bank stand-off.

I enjoyed this episode very much, it was very tense and full of suspense and unanswered questions ( like for example (the rest is spoilery) )

( Pictures on Nick Cavanaugh played by Tim Daly because he is so manly in everything )

PS "The Nine" is a great show and I am sad that it only has 13 episodes. ** sigh **..

Supernatural I couldn’t think straight all through “ Children shouldn’t play with dead things” because Dean was sporting some dark blue jacket and it somehow made him even more attractive then usual.. ** sigh **. I made screencaps and now I want to make some icons. Yep, it means I am really getting into this show. And then Dean was opening a little to Sam and that was so sweet. And the episode itself was kind of scary.

Deadwood season 1 Again – not much of non-shallow information, even though I went all crazy and watched episode 1 THREE times. ( I was trying to concentrate hard and understand what is going and I was making screen caps). But – Oh my poor heart! You were melted every other 3 minutes because of some incredibly soft notes in Seth Bullock’s voice. And he is so self-assured at the same time. And Wild Bill Hickok’s eyes are so very blue. But the main thing – PIGS!!!!!!! They eat people!!! This put me off my bacon for a while :).

The Nine, episode 4: Very good episode. The ratings are still low? Why? People just want escapist stories? This is a very very good show!!! My favourite character is Malcolm. And he is awesome. Plus Nick is fitting into my "types" and "ideals" to a tee. Conflicted, cool , composed, commanding. And he has that half smile!!!

( Tim Daly as Nick , picspam. Look at all this coolness!! )

+ I spend the good part of my Monday in the Sheffield teaching dentistry hospital. The thing is, I have one tooth which had nerve removed and filling made 17 years ago in Russia. This tooth became a main star of the show on Monday. I had to make x-rays of three different shapes and forms, and then all the students and tutors alike spent about 30 minutes discussing how bad my Russian dentistry work is and saying things like “Oh what are we going to do now??” They decided to let it be for now, but apparently they have not seen anything like it in their entire life. Hee! That was my moment of fame. :)

+ EEEE! Look at this! Because I helped my friend to put her web-site on-line she unexpectedly has sent me this fabulous necklace from Finland! I absolutely adore jewellery and in this sense I am a total magpie who likes all things shiny. And this necklace is lovely and looks very Scandinavian to me! I am so very happy!

( Fabulous Scandinavian necklace )

+ I have watched the first episode of "The Nine" Very interesting, but I can’t say more yet. I am definitely going to watch this – in this show there seems to be an attempt made to analyse/understand an effect of the hostage situation on hostages. This is an interesting subject from the start. It could be just me, but I think that in the recent films/shows about the terrorism there is too much emphasis on the terror-makers and their views and too little on the normal people who just happened to be involved in the terrorist attacks/hostage situations.

+ I have found my "Supernatural" love in this season. From the start of season 2 I am feeling very involved. Yes, brothers Winchester are pretty and all sorts of gorgeous and always have been. But there seems to be an improvement in the quality of the episodes and also there seems to be more emphasis made on their character development. Where before brothers seemed to be some sort of cardboard figures they are opening to be more of the interesting human beings now.

( To celebrate this, couple of the pictures of Winchester brothers )

+ And I fell in love with the Korea drama "A love to kill", or to say more precisely, with it’s main protagonist Kang Bog-ku (portrayed by the gorgeous Korean star Rain). Some more on A Love to Kill that I posted in dorama_chat