The week :

Reading – Undercover by Lauren Dane was fantastic.  I love futuristic romance, and Lauren’s books are always amazing.  The way she handles the D/s parts of what are some very complicated relationships worked for me on every level. One of many things I love about Lauren’s books is that she writes such amazingly strong women – kick ass, tough on the outside but all woman inside women (cue the Enjoli commercial).  But in the bedroom Sera, her heroine, had no problems submitting to her men.  It is her strength that makes her submission so much more powerful to a reader.  I don’t know why this one sat on my TBR for so long before I picked it up, but it’s earned a spot on my keeper shelf now.  The rest of the reading week was much less exciting. 

Watching – This week, finally, the premier of Dollhouse.  Was it great, the best TV ever?  No.  But I remember another series that I kind of felt the first way about after the first episode.  Besides the brilliance of Joss Whedon, these series have another thing in common – FOX screwed with the pilots, in one case not even showing it in favor of an episode they thought was more commercial, and in the other forcing a complete rewrite/reshoot.  Why does FOX hire some of the most unique writing talent in Hollywood and then try to make it fit into their mold?  The only thing that gives me hope that Dollhouse could make it past season 1 is that FOX has actually kept Sarah Conner Chronicles around for 2 seasons (even if they have done everything a network could do to stop any possible fan base from forming). 

Workouts – 5 days on the treadmill.  I found Weeds on Netflix, which got me through 3 miles on Friday.  I need to work some sort of light weight training into my workouts soon – I’m looking at a few DVD’s on Netflix, and bought resistance cords at Target yesterday. 

Music – Alison Krauss and Robert Plants Please Read The Letter – this song haunts me.  The video, with that big almost empty house, like a life in the process of being emptied of the past.  This song is beautiful to me.

Writing – 2k more on My Christmas Wish.  It’s coming along.  Made myself cry while I was writing one day, which is usually a good sign that there’s some emotion going into the page

We loved with a love that was more than love.  ~Edgar Allan Poe.