not really sick, just whiny

Rather than going to a church potluck dinner, I decided to avoid spreading my burgeoning cold tonight. Unfortunately that means I've eaten an apple, some crackers, and a handful of chocolate chips for dinner so far. I may add some string cheese to my unbalanced meal.

(This cold can't decide if it's going to get better or worse. Or possibly I'm just excessively medicated and lacking in sleep, and therefore I can't tell. So far it hasn't been too bad... and now I'm rambling.)

Too many snow days in the last three weeks has resulted in a veritable orgy of (reading, not writing) bad fanfic. I had a whole rant planned about the really annoying bits, but really, there's not much new I can say. Characters you don't like are easy to dismiss because they're hideous villains with no shades of gray! Lacking actual consent to sexual activity is fine if there's true love! Using the name of a character from existing media and creating your own, alternate characterization because it suits your story better is perfectly acceptable!

In other words, bad fanfic is all alike, whereas every good fanfic is good in its own way. (I never did like the original quote from Tolstoy about families and I'm amused to mangle it for my own purposes.)

Anyway, feel free to entertain me by commenting on my review of the pilot episode of T:TSCC. Then you can take pity on me and sign up to do your own recap of one of the unclaimed episodes. (Clearly I'm not meant to have a career as a media critic.)