Variations on the same theme

Had a nice little holiday in Brittany, despite overall pretty crappy weather. I spent quality time with the family (I love my family!), ate some niiiice food, did some shopping, did some watching, did some iconing, did some writing. I'll post the writing as it gets betaread and approved for posting, and there'll be an icon post one of these days, and as for the watching... ( Find out! )

Other than that, we went to the cinema on Sunday night and caught Mr. and Mrs. Smith, which was really excellent. I didn't think I'd say that, but truly. It's such good entertainment, well-written, well-acted, everything. And I love Brad Pitt. So. Much, right now. Loved Vince Vaughn, too. I laughed quite a bit. Ok, more than a bit. And people clapped at the end!

Also watched 2x06 of Rescue Me, and am now consumed with anxiousness about the fate of a particular character. And I wanna comfort another one so much. Aw. Poor baby.

I'm now trying to catch up with my flist, but it's quite hard. I'll try to at least read whatever fiction has been posted, but I can't make any promise.

And I love Nathan Fillion.

Since I now can't even access my Free account, I'm trying again to post from my freesbee address (this is soon gonna get too tricky, I feel like the tech guys who handle the filters and I are in a fight for supremacy where they don't even know (or care to know) who I am - it's me trying to outsmart the system! And they'll probably prevail, who am I kidding?) and hopefully you'll get something else than a Tiscali ad.

So, how did the night out go? Quite, quite well actually. We missed the bus and were consequently an hour late, sorry again guys, but apart form that it all went without a hitch. We started in a bar called the Puna (salt and lemon tequilas, yay! And then a lovely cocktail called Sex on the French beach - don't ask me what was French about it though), and then only headed for Canal Street. We went to the Via Fossa, a bar/club decorated like a church. It was quite nice. And twixou, I'm sorry to report I did not see any Vince around (nor Stuart, alas). Daniel however got hit on by a variety of persons of both gender and was as drunk as he seems to get. A couple of teachers had come with us and it was all manners of nice to chat with them. Also, Fred had brought a couple of friends of his who were v. nice too. I had a lovely chat with Madeleine (well, more than one actually, but... oh well) and she lent me a couple movies and a show.

Did I dream that you'd joined the LJ community, Madeleine? If not: I'm done watching it all, I'll give you a ring one of these days to see about giving them back to you (and I can't read comments, in case you reply to this post - ask Fred for my e-mail address or phone number if you want - I'll friend you back whenever I have access to the LJ site). Tipping the Velvet was absolutely brilliant from beginning to end (Keeley!!! Sorrry.), Chutney Popcorn did not inspire me much at all and Better than Chocolate was a nice way to spend an hour and a half. I particularly liked the character of Judy, she was the most touching imho.

It took me a few minutes to actually realise where I'd seen one of the guest stars in the latest Spooks episodes: it was Andy Serkis! But he had long blond hair (no, not quite Elvish style). It was a good performance, as always. Also, I spotted Boomtown in the TV program! It's so good to see more of that show. I adore Donnie Wahlberg very very much. And I'm going to be able to watch Little Britain and see what the fuss is all about, a new season is starting on Friday.

I hope we'll be able to go out to Manchester again before break. I'm feeling a bit bluesy these days, however, I don't quite know why. I wasn't like that last year. Anyway. I can't wait to be back home and see y'all guys!

Joyeux anniversaire, fargo_01!

J'espère que tu as passé une bonne journée. 82 powaaa! (En espérant que je ne me plante pas dans l'année... ;) ) Et Jo vient de me dire qu'en fait tu étais du 30 - c'est la faute du calendrier de BR si je suis en retard!!



Other than that, ( about this weekend. )

Had my landlady on the phone, v. nice. No internet connection though. Got my claddagh ring back at last! It had been too long. Watched two episodes of Boomtown, amazing, one of MI-5 (not as good as I expected, will see how it develops), and four of The Jury (thanks again, yodah!), with a very funny Adam Busch and a whole lot of great actors. It's nothing earth-shattering, but it's quite well-written and I'm enjoying it immensely (too bad it's already got cancelled).