Re: Fantasy/sf TV shows Re: past discussions

--- On Thu, 4/12/12, Kelley Robbins <kelannrob@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Until I start grad school in the fall, finances will
> continue to restrict our TV service to whatever the rabbit
> ears and Texas weather allow us to receive.  Things
> were tolerable as long as Downton Abbey was on,

They're making more. Did you get the Christmas special yet?

Julian Fellowes, who writes Downton, has a new one on the air here about the Titanic, but I've not bothered with it. We're kind of tired of the Titanic in the Southampton area. We have a new Titanic museum in Southampton. Passengers paid at least £6K to travel on a boat from Southampton following the Titanic's journey. I think they're at the site of the sinking now and are having some sort of memorial there. However, they're sailing on to the US and not sinking also. They're just not in the right spirit of things.

The Beeb have a reporter or three on that ship and they were showing the thirty-minute queues just to get into the giftshop on board! Seriously. 30-minute waits to buy junk souvenirs! I suppose if you can afford £6,000 for a cruise, you can afford to buy souvenirs. Or maybe hire someone to wait in line for you. ;)

>
> Of the shows I miss, Eureka, Big Bang Theory, and the BBC
> Top Gear top the list. 
>
Is Big Bang cable in the US or is it just a hard to receive channel where you are? I remember recording Buffy and Angel in the late '90s for a student whose family moved to the mountains outside Boulder and lost TV reception. They eventually got satellite (I think they could get one channel in their little canyon), but until then, he used to give me blank videos and I'd record the shows. (He was a yearbook editor also, so he had privileges -- like feeling comfortable asking his science-fiction/fantasy fan teacher to record Buffy. :)

Ellen, who's on holiday this week, but is at work. Our internal inspections are next week. I could be observed first thing on Monday morning! Eep! And for those observations, we have to hand over to the evaluator a packet containing a detailed lesson plan (including Every Child Matters links, differentiation etc.) and a complete scheme of work for the subject. I could be seen Monday, Tuesday or Friday -- any class I teach any of those days. So, I spent today at work, well, working... At least it's quiet here. I'm the only one in the English office, so I've had Folk Alley or WXPN playing the whole time. I'm not finished, but I'm getting there for Monday's lessons -- and I finally officially adapted the lit scheme of work for what I'm teaching. Still need to figure out Tuesday's lessons and I'm hoping they don't make me wait for Friday... I've had to move mock exams to the next week...

My brain hurts. :(