What we've been eating: Too much junk food!!!!! Probably should move on to the next category!
What we've been watching: HOUSE. I love amazon prime, because the show comes with all the cast info for each episode, the bloopers and relevant factoids about, in this show's case, some of the medical devices in the show. And in the case of season 2 e 24, I got to see character names, which aren't always spoken during the episodes. "Dr. Moriarity" appears in this one, although I wouldn't know the writers' playful joke unless I hadn't accidentally clicked the corner of my screen. House is more than a little like Sherlock Holmes, famous British detective who was plagued by his arch-nemesis "Moriarity," - both are reckless and their ideas come to them in a flash under pressure. Both are on their own schedule. House sometimes unexpectedly retreats (to his office to watch TV or play bounce ball,) and rest while his ideas formulate. Holmes sinks into strange and lengthy depressions, where he does almost nothing and speaks to noone. Both have unshakeable confidence once they know the right answer. House definitely foregoes good manners in favor of a dead focused pursuit of the truth. Holmes kind of has Watson around to be collected and to remember and record all that Holmes experiences in the heat of the moment, and he helps Holmes with his consultations. House's addiction is from pain management. He's the one with the injury, rather than Holmes' Watson, who was a convalescing military man when the pair met and became roommates. Emotionally, House's corollary to Watson is Wilson, who is his moral anchor in his private matters. They aren't such a pair of bachelors as Holmes and Watson, and then again, they are. But in deed, House's Watson is his staff trio, Foreman, Chase and Cameron, who assist him in all cases and "let themselves into" homes to search for evidence for House on many occasions. In this line of duty, they nostalgically act like the original crime-stopping duo, who fudge the line of legality themselves in pursuit of the end of their urgent mystery. In all, House, like Holmes, is "the best diagnostician in the hospital." The doctor show definitely makes a great modern take on a detective story, and I think it's a great follow from Sherlock Holmes, since it's all about cutting edge medical science. Difficult diagnosis is a thrill, a puzzle and a mystery for a brilliant doctor. His team is assigned only the most challenging cases. Otherwise his boss knows he will dismiss them with abrupt sarcasm (and the diagnosis.) And he suffers in the chore of clinic duty, visiting regular patients, which gives him comical and haughty surprise (he sees everything strange and difficult in his cases but the most out-of-this world cases must gravitate to him in clinic duty, too.) When he is on a challenging case, something lights a fire in his soul. Sometimes his co-workers and boss worry that he has no respect for the importance of human rights and the limits of acceptable risk involved in the field. And House, with his unsettling ability to solve the difficult cases time and again, keeps us on the edge of our seats. Also, Holmes' favorite hobby was chemistry. On top of that, House actor, Hugh Laurie, does an amazing American accent for the show, but he's actually British! Morgan Freeman flick: "JUST GETTING STARTED;" Wow!!!! This was a fun movie that I'd have never chosen (I didn't know retirement homes could make such a funny interesting subject,) so it's always nice to have a friend choose the movie once in a while and get a pleasant surprise. And I think this scandalous screenplay was a dead on Shakespearean comedy. I looked and looked but couldn't find any reviews that agreed with me or any of the Bard's comedies I know off the top of my hat that fit this story. I can't say if "Just Getting Started" is a Renaissance-style screenplay or a Shakespeare adaptation, but all the elements kind of stuck out. The supporting characters were in "choruses" or groups of three, just like in Love's Labors Lost or Midsummer Night's Dream, but more so like the former because of the mirrored groups of males and females. Like Shakespeare, this story cast the hero in quite questionable light. No one escapes sarcasm. Everyone is human. But the hero undoubtedly has vision. The course of the plot brings his motives/methods to question and casts doubt upon him. I think the rapid pace of the dialogue, and the almost unreasonable loft or like, long leaps, the script takes, are a: an example to me that Shakespeare still excites! Between the lead and supporting male role, I couldn't decide who was the hero or villain! and b: bawdy is bawdy, no matter which century you're living in! For other modern takes on Renaissance drama, I offer the Cohen Brothers? Some of their films, I feel, follow theatrical, dramatic arcs and although they are much darker... again, I can't find any reviews that agree with my assertion! What we've been doing: Counting COVID VACCINE symptoms: When I went to get my second shot, the check in nurse asked me to report any allergies to the first vaccine. At first I said no, but then corrected myself: nausea. She remarked that almost every person responded "no" to that question, and that they probably "just wanted to get out of there," and I added that "maybe all the people expecting a bad reaction went to their doctor's office for the shot." But as soon as I got hit with the 24 hr fever and chills of that second vaccine (which started up about 7 hours after I got my shot,) I remembered that besides the two bouts of mild nausea, I had been experiencing sore breasts , and towards the end of that period, achy, fatigued calf muscles. My wrist and elbow joints were also loose, and I didn't correlate any of these symptoms with my first vaccine until the second, because I was inclined to believe they were just caused by my routine body issues! I blamed the pollen for my sore tired legs! Anyway, now I'm past the fever but full of gas bubbles in my belly, and praying for some people I've learned of who are suffering from complications after their bout with Covid!
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