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The Little Girl Recovers
Ros seems to be over whatever nastiness she's had the last three days, and is now down for her bedtime. Which is awesome. I don't think any of us was looking forward to another night like last night. (At the worst, Ros was waking up about every 2 minutes, wimpering and crying in utter misery.
It was difficult, but at least she never hit the go straight to Emerg, do not pass go warning signs that the Telehealth gave us. Which was an axillary (armpit) temp that hits 104 or a dose of Tylenol that doesn't bring down the fever at all. Her axillary temp peaked around 103.4, and the last Tylenol took the fever down a grand total of 0.5 degrees, so we came close to throwing her in the car and running to the hospital, but we held off.
Now I just have to convince myself to go to bed early. We didn't get much sleep at all until 3 a.m., and not much quality sleep after that. Not with a thrashing, feverish little girl between us. (We don't usually let her sleep with us, because she usually takes that to mean it's playtime and why aren't we getting up to play with her.) Though I've been extraordinarily alert considering just how little sleep I've had the last two nights.
It was difficult, but at least she never hit the go straight to Emerg, do not pass go warning signs that the Telehealth gave us. Which was an axillary (armpit) temp that hits 104 or a dose of Tylenol that doesn't bring down the fever at all. Her axillary temp peaked around 103.4, and the last Tylenol took the fever down a grand total of 0.5 degrees, so we came close to throwing her in the car and running to the hospital, but we held off.
Now I just have to convince myself to go to bed early. We didn't get much sleep at all until 3 a.m., and not much quality sleep after that. Not with a thrashing, feverish little girl between us. (We don't usually let her sleep with us, because she usually takes that to mean it's playtime and why aren't we getting up to play with her.) Though I've been extraordinarily alert considering just how little sleep I've had the last two nights.
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I was working at a book shop on Sundays when The D'oh Vinci Code first exploded and I got sooooo tired of hearing about how it was the greatest book ever written. C'mon, the world's greatest authorities on Da Vinci can't spot that the clue is written backwards for a WHOLE chapter? Egads! I knew about Da Vinci's mirror writing journals when I was a little kid.
My undergraduate work is in film, drama and English literature. My film degree was taught by very left-y leaning radical film maker profs so we tended to study Jean Luc Godard rather than Point Break... although we did study Saturday Night Fever and Debbie Does Dallas... interesting programme it was. *g*
The piece in question is more odd homage than anything. I really didn't think anyone in my fandom would roll with it... and they surprised me yet again. The older LoM fandom was really something to hug to one's bosom. *g*
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I'm definitely checking out your LoM piece now. I'm always in for work that breaks down borders and does the unexpected. I wish more fandoms were open to that sort of play.
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Studying drama and lit at the same time -- triple major, who needs sleep? -- really provided an interesting experience too as I was studying and acting in Brecht plays at the same time as looking at film.
I can roll through anti-illusionism but the with the movements after that I get less and less... civil, critically speaking. When *reading* about what a film maker intended is more interesting than watching the film I can't really see the point.
I love classic cinema. I used to torment my film profs by writing papers on things like Busby Berkeley's musicals. *eg*
Oh I hope you're not disappointed. It was more an odd topic in that it wasn't the "obvious" choice for the prompt in terms of the fandom's "norms" -- the fandom has a tendency to overlap with Doctor Who given Simm and the timey wimey bit -- and that it crossed it with a novel. Egads!
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I did my M.A. when Lacanian psychoanalysis was in vogue in film criticism. I am far from civil when talking about that sort of bilge. I was always far more interested cultural history than crazy French theory.
Busby Berkeley is AWESOME! (I tended to favour Hawks' westerns and Hong Kong action films myself.)
And the LoM piece is lovely. Have commented on the post.
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Oooh I'm a big fan of Hawks... I'm also very fond of Anthony Mann's rather unorthodox takes on Westerns... and yeah, I have a soft spot for John Ford, so sue me! *g* I'm particularly fond of The Quiet Man, not a western of course but who can resist his vision of an Ireland that never was?
Oooh... Erm... HUGE Jackie Chan fan.
Thank you. ♥
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Have you seen any of Budd Boetticher's westerns? He made a number of films in the '50s with Randolph Scott and they are a revelation. Definitely in the same key as Mann.
I'm also a huge Jackie Chan fan. (I've got a framed insert from the Drunken Master 2 soundtrack hanging in our living room.) Also Jet Li and Chow Yun Fat. And Lau Ching Wan. (Lau Ching Wan is a genius!)
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I think Mann and Boetticher are the origins of the Spaghetti westerns. I obviously didn't grow up near a reservation -- not unless there was one on Clapham Common that nobody told me about -- but even as a small child I refused to join in games of cowboys and indians as it just struck me as wrong.
I love Chan, Li and Yun Fat... I'm much less familiar with Lau Ching Wan. The Hong Kong action film isn't as popular in the South as it is with me. *g*
I'm also a big fan of film noir and recently while watching Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid I was laughing twice as hard as my mates because unlike them I was very familiar with all of the original films as well. *g*