1 post tagged “television”
Not good:
My right shoulder. About a month ago, after a pretty vigorous class with a combination that involved rolling from one side to the other on the floor and then pushing up into a sort of monkey hand-gallop (because this is the sort of thing that happens in a modern dance class, in case you ever wondered), it started hurting. For the first week I figured it was just muscle soreness, carefully stretched it every night and morning, and then went through it all again after a second week with the same combination in class. By the third week I realized it wasn’t going away and kind of backed off from the stretching and class exertions, but continued the heavy-laptop-in-backpack commute. Now, after starting a new yoga class this weekend plus the same dance class (new combination though) I am experiencing searing pain pretty much every time I try to reach behind from resting. I should have learned something from last year’s left hamstring attachment experience … but no, I am reluctant to see a medical professional. I have health insurance, I don’t want another chronic injury perpetuated my own neglect/stupidity, but I also don’t want to see a doctor or stop dancing. Note to self: accept that my aging body can’t just “push through” injuries, adapt movement, embrace post-class ice.
Good:
Doctor Who, Season One. For the past 15 years or so (warning: self-righteousness ahead) my television viewing has been limited to 1) BBC/A&E adaptations of the novels of Jane Austen and Victorian writers, 2) the first two seasons of Xena: Warrior Princess, and 2) the first season of Flight of the Conchords, a very fine Xmas present from my friend Lucinda. Plus the bootlegged Max Headroom I bought on eBay a few years ago, and this, um, squirrel porn, but only for my kitties’ enjoyment:
I became aware of the new Doctor Who because the lead actress starred in the recent adaptation of Mansfield Park, and was curious since the first season stars Christopher Eccleston (who I happen to think is kind of hot. Michael Winterbottom’s Jude, anyone? I also wish to point out that the actress who plays Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale-North, had a supporting role in the BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters, which also starred the actress who played BBC’s Tess of the D'Urbervilles … oh, what an incestuous little world British television is), and checked it out of the library, and now am hooked. And more than a little embarrassed to admit it after ragging on G’s television talk in the thing I posted on five days ago, but feel I compelled to, perhaps as a form of penance. Plus it’s Guilty Pleasure Tuesday. And anything with alien zombies is all right by my book.
