1.) Warum schau ich mitten in der Nacht „The Mummy Returns“?

2.) Warum ist Oded Fehr nur in „The Mummy“ und „The Mummy Returns“ dermaßen fesch?

3.) Mag ich vielleicht „Tomb of the Dragon Emperor“ hauptsächlich deshalb nicht, weil Oded Fehr nicht mitspielt?

1.) Der erste Prince of Persia Trailer ist da. Hehe. Defy the Future. (And the dialect coaches!!!)

2.) Mein neuester Lieblings-Timewaster: My Life Is Average

3.) Erkenntnis: Mein Deutsch scheitert grammatikalisch an vorzeitigen Weihnachtsgeschenken. Ich bin sehr froh über die warme Jacke, die mir das Christkind gebracht haben werden wird. (?)

4.) Wenn meine Fernschau-Routine ohne Vorwarnung gestört/verändert/unterbrochen wird, dann bringt mich das unverhältnismässig aus der Fassung.

5.) Warum bin ich, wenn ich 7 Stunden schlafe, ausgeschlafener als wenn ich 4 Stunden schlafe, dann kurz geweckt werde, und dann nochmal 4 Stunden schlafe?

I just wrote a lovely post about this (if I do say so myself).

Then WordPress ate it.

Now I’m grumpy, so you’ll just have to imagine all the witty and wonderful things I had to say.

Feel free to join me as I cheer myself up. (Note: This *never* fails.)

For some reason I haven’t been in the mood to watch anything much while I was ill. So I read instead.
And what have I been reading? Slash, a book on British history, slash, Artemis Fowl, more slash, Dorian Gray. … My mind, it is addled <ô.Ô>

Anyway…Halloween is coming up. And although I 1) reject the observance of Halloween in Austria on the basis of it being an example of aggressive cultural imperialism and 2) will be spending the weekend in M-Zell, where they’re not too big on heathen rituals (homegrown or otherwise) I’ve been thinking about scary stuff.
Just to illustrate how very bored I can get when I’m stuck on a couch with intermittent headaches and what my doctor described as „generalised feeling of illness“ (translation: my body threw a several-day-long tantrum), here’s my list of the Top Scariest TV Show Episodes (in case anyone wants to do a marathon, or something):

1) Blink – Dr Who
2) Hush – Buffy The Vampire Slayer
3) Countrycide – Torchwood or, depending on how you like your thrills, Benders – Supernatural, or Home – X-Files (more or less variations on a really, really scary theme)
4) Legacy – Criminal Minds (That’s a very personal one. I just couldn’t get over the way the killer kept whistling „Joanna“ from Sweeny Todd while pushing his victims along the corridor *shudder*)
5) Squeeze and Tooms – X-Files

Er hat verloren.

Eine Runde Mitleid…

So, we sit there watching some obnoxious, clichéd Italian guy beat his chest on TV.

Me: Whoa…that guy thinks he’s Tony Soprano.
B: Oh? So you’ve finally watched that movie?
C: (almost at the same time) Did they ever catch that guy?

Me: ?
B: ??
C: ???

Note to self: Check whether present company has even the faintest chance of ‘getting’ your reference to TV-show-that’s-almost-unknown-in-Austria. If no, keep mouth shut.

The Bad News:
- I’m sick.
- The antibiotics I have to take are absolutely HUGE. Think watermelons. Or soybeans, at the very least.
- I have to drink Coke. Not Diet Coke. Regular Coke. Bleh.

The Good News:
- Skiing!!! On TV, but still ^^
- When the evil trolls aren’t tapdancing in my head, there’s lots of timewasters on the internet.
- When the evil trolls are tapdancing in my head, there’s good music that sounds nice even at a low volume.