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I had a very bad attack of the chills this afternoon, which ended with the knuckles in my my right hand aching terribly -- they're still aching right now, in fact.

I'm way behind on my xmenfirstclass story -- it's at 400 words, and it's decidedly not cute-and-funny as it is, which is rather the whole point of Xmen First Class. And my hands are not making typing easy tonight...

My computer is being very slow, and I'm wondering if it was one of the XP updates or something else. Not that I have any idea how to fix it.

Oh, and the other-supervisor at work, the one who is most emphatically Not My Boss, has somehow managed to get my supervisor to agree to having me do some work for that contract -- aliquoting 1000 vials by the end of the month. Frankly, I want to say NO, because her people should really be the ones to do it, and it's not *that* hard to train people to aliquot, but it's not exactly my call. I think I'll work slowly though, maybe only 100 vials a day; my hands already hurt, and I am going to baby them as much as possible.

Current Music: Full Frontal Folk - Seven Bridges Road

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Having seen the trailer for the American remake of Life on Mars, I can only gape in horror. Ignoring the fact that US remakes of foreign films tend to majorly suck, the actors of LoM all had great on-screen chemistry with one another and were talented to boot. I watched this trailer and easily saw the stereotypes common on US tv. Plus for me Sam's attractiveness as a character was that he looked physically fragile while being tough as anything, not to mention his antagonistic relationship with a Certain Someone. And Annie's British actress looked and acted like a real woman, not this blonde actress who looks like a pale little girl and who might as well be Sam's daughter in the US version.

Someone should tell US studios to leave well enough alone.

Has anyone seen episode.3 of Himitsu: The Revelation? I need to squee with someone about the plot twist! XD

Wow. Lucy referred me to this scary article about how addictive massively multiplayer games can be, and how quickly they can absorb huge quantities of the players' time and money--especially when they're designed precisely with those objectives in mind.

Anyway, I've been wondering about one thing: has anybody ever seen/read/heard of/stumbled across an article, paper, or whatever that collects the various historical arguments that have been used to conclusively debunk the pervasive myth that militant European clergy in the Middle Ages fought only with blunt weapons because they were "forbidden to spill blood?" If not, maybe I'll consider writing about it here.