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sophia_helix gave me the letter R, with five female characters to talk about. Comment to volunteer and I will give you a letter.

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1. I am having a good research day. I feel it is important to write these things down for the next bad stretch.

2. My sisters watch Revenge, and I have decided to start watching it too. I need more sociopaths in my fictional life. (Academia takes care of my real-life quota just fine).

3. I have a pseud Twitter so I can follow Russian opposition thought/electoral politics. It would drive me nuts as a means to keep up with people's actual personal lives, but it's definitely helping me keep track of the protests. Another reason to be back in America-- one of the proposed sites for the February 4th meeting is very near where we used to live.

4. I did create at Tumblr the other day because I was tired of having to read random links rather than having an organized list. In the grand tradition of today's internet, I expect I'll be using it to consume rather than generate content.

5. I still have not watched Series 2 of Sherlock. Maybe that will be my reward for finishing my next batch of files.

1. Sometimes, when I don't want to work on my dissertation, I watch classic TV as a kind of cultural history homework. This is the best way I can think of to explain all of the "Cheers" I have been watching. Main assessments: it still holds up well, and wow, "Friends" is more derivative than I could realize at the time.

2. I miss teaching, though I don't mind this being the first month of May in two years I haven't been surrounded by blue books.

3. I've posted in the past (the fairly distant past at this point, given that my 8 year LJ versary is coming up), about the problems with the writing of disabled characters in fanfiction. I used to love House because he refused to be the Inspirational Story of Disabled Person Triumphing Over Adversity. And if you've ever wondered why that was so refreshing to me check out this post on why people prefer their disabled people warm and fuzzy rather than fighting or cranky. On being a "Good Cripple".

4. I think in the epic battle of Me vs. Russian bureaucracy, I may win in the end. At least as far as getting both myself and the husband into the country goes, anyway.

5. And now for belated thoughts on this week's episode of "Alicia Florrick, how so awesome?" Otherwise known as The Good Wife. I'm still in the bowled over stages, so I think all I can actually say at this stage is that if this show gets cancelled I will cry, possibly for days.

So far, 2011 is my year of dissertation stuff and catching up on old television, now that I'm out of Downton Abbey. I'm working my way through Wonderfalls (which I watched when it aired, but I was always too busy teaching to watch our DVDs), and rewatching Homicide: Life on the Street. My husband is into BSG, and I am not, which leads me to the fannish opinion behind the cut, as well as my thoughts on my Homicide rewatch. HLoTs spoilers through the entire run, though I just finished "Crosetti." And somehow talking about BSG led me to think a little about Alias, too.

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So there are things to say about the state of my dissertation committee (nevermind my dissertation), but I have spent the last day and a half mainlining Downton Abbey, and it is time to tell the internet about it. Spoilers behind the cut.

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