notes on a febrile february

having spent the first week of this month with the flu & the latter weeks with an overwhelming sense of...being overwhelmed, I'm glad it's over. it brought with it a few good things, though?

first, TALK TO ME ABOUT: battlestar galactica, first & foremost. & always. much of the latter half of the third season was a drag. "maelstrom" included. (blasphemy? never!) I had a feeling that that wouldn't be the last we'd see of Kara Thrace. but! CROSSROADS. "all along the watchtower," the version I'd heard even before I heard the real thing, was everything I expected, just as lovely as I expected -- but the courtroom with Lee & Romo Lampkin & Baltar, Adama judging, Roslin on the other side was absolutely something. it's not in the least cheesy, as I'd feared it would be. not even when Lee has his Big Ol Monologue about Justice and Guilt and Accountability and all the most important things in the world, no, it's wonderful. it's wonderful & you will feel so righteous & so proud of what Lee's grown up to be. the Adama Drama of the entire season comes to an end; Lee's doing what he ought to have been doing all along. that is, showing the rest of the fleet how to do the right thing instead of being holed up as CAG.

RAZOR: didn't expect anything, was (as usual) completely surprised. there are few things I wish the show would do better: one of them is expand on the commander-xo relationship between Lee Adama & Kendra Shaw. also: Kendra + Kara, the friendship we deserve, the friendship we barely got to see before we said goodbye!

THE FIRST reading block of the year presented itself. usually, I enjoy jo nesbø's writing. COCKROACHES, however, was a drag. like, more of a drag than the all the tyrol-centric episodes of bsg combined. gillian flynn, on the other hand, has been a godsend. gobbled up SHARP OBJECTS, gobbled up GONE GIRL almost as fast (if only I hadn't totally spoiled it for myself). DUNE & its sequel DUNE MESSIAH proved far better than I thought they were upon my first reading of them at age 12; I still think the plot's pretty capital-B Basic, but what Herbert has to say about religion is killer. more later.

pictured: blackberry oat muffins (highly, highly modified from the linked recipe, which'll lead you to smitten kitchen's blue sky bran muffins. among other things: I didn't have any bran), mom's strawberry beignets,

a) i still exist (existence precedes essence, cogito ergo sum, what? r&g left me confused on several levels.)
b) i have been reading a lot! i have so much to say about so many books! mostly those by gillian flynn! but others as well! which leads me to the fact that i:
c) have changed my thesis topic, more later. (a thesis of little consequence, as i've said before, but a thesis i'm no less into because of it. think BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, but not in the same sense.)
d) also, i should memorize this in the next month.