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I feel like crying out. I feel unhappy. How unreasonable of me: I always believed people have their own happiness within them.

I love books where people read books. It feels like I can fit in there somehow. But I guess I am a very inattentive reader, since I am at the middle of Fire and Hemlock and only now I have guessed what kind of name Thomas Lynn is.

Also, reading a book about Paris and getting another urge to travel (oh, and looking at photos of England. Especially the historic ones. Pity that old postcards at our used book store got so expensive and you can't get many postcards with views of other places without travelling to those places).

Still thinking what to do with DW account.

I am watching the 3rd season of Criminal Minds, the episodes I've missed, in random order, and the weird thing is that they keep disturbing me more and more. Especially the series with kids, I think. ... I don't know, being tired gets on my nerves, maybe.

I'm watching CM 3.14, and Hotch and Reid talk with the warden about interviews with killers in prisons - that sometimes the killers speak about the crimes that weren't discovered, so there could be even _more_ victims. And the warden asks whether it's ever _less_, and they say "No, never". But it struck me that they're wrong: CM 1.14 is just such a situation, where it turned out to be _less_ victims that they supposed.

Now, why hadn't I paid attention to the fact that ODNB has free podcasts& *grabs podcasts*

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/5445161/Russia-accuses-Poland-of-starting-Second-World-War.html

I really, really hope it's a local-level defense ministry fuckup.

Somehow I started thinking about Reid. I mean, he's a good profiler and is definitely qualified to 'read' people: take, for example, 3.19 and that murdered girl's father. However, his talk with JJ in 4.24 makes it seem as if he _doesn't_ see who he is talking to and how the other person in the conversation reacts. Does he compartmentalize that well? I never thought you truly could stop being a profiler for a time and then 'turn it back' again. And if he does compartmentalize, it obviously goes to hell when it comes to his own issues (take 4.07 or, possibly, 3.16).

Am ded from work. However, will be better next week. I think. I hope.

Somewhere in the depths of my computer I found a song I like a lot, by someone called Ann Percival. However, I can't find any other songs anywhere. Oh well, I'm still in search of music that suits my mood right now.

I wonder if decent non-gen fic for Criminal Minds is a thing totally impossible...

Are Google mail and Google docs having trouble, or is it just me?

At times I do not quite believe I'm real.

A peculiar state of happiness: walking around savouring the fact that you _don't_ have a splitting headache.

I fail at shipping: I invent pairing i'd like to read (if done exactly to my measure) and then I don't believe in them myself.

BTW, I have a Dreamwidth account now. Just in case.
... not sure what to do with it. The amount of xposted entries in my LJ flist where I can't leave comments is a little wearisome. Also, LJ flist more than half about DW? Not right.

Also, I want a bigger flist. *goes to look for journals to friend*

Watched two episodes of Life on Mars (embarrassment squick not as bad as I thought). Love Annie. The accent is fascinating too: I am bad at phonetics but here I can clearly hear that yes, they have an accent (and I like the way it sounds).

Also, last CM episode was quite good, I think. Not team-centered and good at showing the UNSUB who really is just... sick.

I am reading an LJ post about libraries in US and dying from envy. OMG, I want to go and live there (specifically in a library, not in US). Where's my access to L-space? ... My library allows me 6 books for a month. Six! It used to be 5, so quite a progress there. But they used to allow to extend the limit for keeping those by phone. Not any more: you need to come and do it in person. And maybe there are interlibrary loans - they are declared to exist - but I do not know anyone who managed to get something on loan.

Also, my computer keeps shutting down *panics mildly*.

From calanthe_b, Harriet Vane.

1) Do you like this character?

Mostly. I felt annoyed with her at times - her reactions to Peter are usually understandable but to an outside observer they can feel... too defensive.

2) What name(s) do you call this character?

Miss Vane or Harriet, depending on the context.

3) What image/color do you associate with this character?

Her and Lord Peter on the river. Even though I've never seen even the pictures of that river and such scenes, I feel I can imagine it.

4) What song do you associate with this character?

I don’t know the songs of that period that well.

5) What blood-type do you think this character is?

I have no idea.

6) Which character do you like to put this character with?

As in pairing? Well, Lord Peter obviously, but not until she's ready. If we're not talking pairings, I like her interaction with Miss Lydgate and with the Dean.

7) What would you want to say to this character?

Nothing, I think. She goes from the stage where she wouldn't listen to anything to the stage where she doesn't need anything said to her. Except maybe asking her to autograph one of her books.

8) What do you want to do with this character: shake hands, hug, or kiss?

Shake hands, definitely.

Watched CM 4x21. Ow. And triple ow. They do not pull any punches... I guessed what's going on at about the middle of the episode but hoped I was wrong. I wasn't.

They still continue to get very good guest actors. Or to make them do very good things, I don't know. Not much of a focus on any of the agents, but Prentiss was very well-shown, and Rossi, too.

And the Big Question which the cop of the week asked at the end... well, the team's answer was obvious: we do what we have to do, and we protect as much as we can. I doubt it helped that guy, though - is it much of an answer when your life goes to hell? Or, how much strength do you need for it to be your answer?

All I do is sleep, work and watch Criminal Minds. In this order, actually - my sleepiness is something else again.

Also: after watching s04 of Criminal Minds and the end of s03 it felt rather weird to go and watch an ep from the early s02. Like a trip back into the past. Gideon, and Hotch in a light suit and looking younger. And Reid with short hair.

... off to finish watching 4.21.

Never read this myself, but found it quoted and loved the list. From Salman Rushdie's "The Enchantress of Florence," a 16th century Indian emperor gives a list of what a woman of breeding must possess in the way of accomplishments

"In the arts of staining, dyeing, coloring, and painting her teeth, her clothes, her nails, and her body a woman should be beyond compare… . A woman should know how to play music on glasses filled to different heights with liquids of various sorts… . She should be able to fix stained glass into a floor. She should know how to make, trim, and hang a picture; how to fashion a necklace, a rosary, a garland, or a wreath; and how to store or gather water in an aqueduct or tank. She should know about scents. And about ornaments for the ear. And she should be able to act, and to lay on theatrical shows, and she should be quick and sure in her hands, and be able to cook and make lemonade or sherbet, and wear jewels, and bind a man's turban. And she should, of course, know magic."