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Spent Thursday night through Sat morning in San Diego with family (and went to two parties, yay), so I missed all the episodes of the shows I'm watching right now: Grey's Anatomy, Avatar, and the premier of Ugly Betty, the title of which offends me but I thought I'd try because Salma Hayek is producing it and I've always liked her movies. Already from the commercials it looks like they chose an average-looking actress who probably would look pretty enough in the right outfits, so I'm not really sure how believable the "ugly" part is supposed to be. Kind of reminds me of She's All That, where the "ugly" girl was gorgeous underneath her overalls. ::eyeroll::

So I'm going to watch Avatar this afternoon and Grey's Anatomy tonight. I look forward to disliking Doctor Shepard even more!



I finally made my journal a new layout, since my other one disappeared. This is a temporary one, to be kept until I get lazy and change it. Pre-made layouts are so much trouble, as pretty as they are.

Also, my book poll has a three-way tie for second place. Please vote?

Avatar 2x15: Tales of Ba Sing Se

Since the episode is divided into miniature tales, it seems fitting to break up the reviews by the given titles.

The Tale of Toph & Katara ( and others... )

All in all, a good episode. Filler, but decent quality filler. We didn't really learn anything new (which is what separates shows like FMA from shows like Avatar... in FMA even the filler has a plot purpose somehow, though you might not see it for a long time), but it was still nice to have more personal looks at each character. I liked the structural style of the episode as well.

Now I'm off to go look at the after-effects, see if katara_zuko exploded. (EDIT: It didn't.) And then I have to finally, maybe, write some more for Our Cartography.