just stuff

*So* sleepy. Donno why exactly. Just am. Stupid allergies are kicking my butt. Not sleeping particularly well, which, y’know, probably has something to do with the so-sleepiness. o.o I’ve got Allegra, which is helping, but I’m still feeling snorfly. Stupid allergies. Mom and Dad came over for dinner last night, for Mother’s Day, and Ted made a completely astounding rockfish ‘in paper’, which is basically a light poach with onions and garlic and fennel and some lemon juice and put it all on top of parmesan risotto, and it was…

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Van Helsing

You know how Highlander IV was a surprisingly good movie until about the final third, where it all inexplicably fell apart? Well, probably not, because I think I was one of the six people in the world who saw it, but nevermind that. The theatre release (I haven’t seen the director’s cut) just dissolved into a total lack of a story in the last act. Van Helsing was like that, except exactly the other way around. It was unmitigatingly awful and then somehow pulled it all together for a startlingly…

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