The Ink-Pot and the Palette

Was it just me, or was this week's Glee extra-good?

Sure, there was a certain Afterschool Special quality to it, but as to the particular message, if not Glee, then who? And if now now, then when? The scene where Karofsky silently threatened Kurt freaked me the hell out. Gah! Both actors really sold the reality of what bullying and terrorizing does to its victims. I love that Kurt is both truly terrorized and brave enough to ask for help. Kurt is basically the hero of the whole show.

The (main) wedding was fantastic. Everyone should have a fabulously beautiful young troupe of performers sing and dance them down the aisle, and then get the vows done quick.

As to the other wedding, it was bizarrely perfect, and Sue's track-gown was...I don't even know the word for it, but she sure looked good in it. The costume designers must've had a field day this week.

Carol Burnett still sounds amazing for a woman of nearly 80, and she hasn't stopped being hilarious either.

The whole ep (which I just watched in the BToR) has left me feeling really happy. It was worth the goal-point it cost me to watch it.

Oh, everything is just so wonderful right now! Portland is filled with a fresh east wind and yellow leaves and slanty sunshine and horse-chestnuts.

After a perfectly fantastic visit from vampirefan (during which she got me addicted to both "Glee" and "Drop Dead Diva" because she is an evil fangirl and drives the crack van), I spent a whopping one day at work last week, not nearly enough to ruin my high.

Yesterday I treated myself to some new bed linens at IKEA: plum, raspberry, bronze and pumpkin, all stripey and cozy boudoir-ish, and they're out flapping in the breeze right now, enjoying their freedom from captivity in plastic wrappers. They make a nice (and probably meaningful) change from the taupe-black-white-gray I've had for the last couple of years.

I rode Clyde to Fred Meyer (local everything-store, two miles away) for a couple of small items yesterday, and it was so much fun that I did it again today. It's chilly enough to warrant riding gloves, and I have this vintage pair of hot-pink leather dress gloves, so I wore those. You know, for visibility. I forgot something and darn it, I need to go again!

I completed recording on the first chapter of my Podbang entry on Friday night. Since it's a "secret Santa" kind of thing, I can't say much about what I'm working on, but I can say that it's in the SPN fandom, it's VERY long, and there is music involved which I'm having indescribable amounts of fun with, all fading in, fading out, lining up--gah! I'm just in geek heaven!

So, life is good! Happy Autumn to my northern hemisphere friends.