You Know You're an Archives Geek When...

...Tonight on Arrow they had a shootout in the City Archives.  It was the first time I kinda wanted to punch Oliver in his little green face.

(Then at almost the last minute of the show he was cute with Felicity ... so maybe I can let him off with a stern lecture  :-)

Checking In and Sherlock Wishlist

So real life first.  Nothing really to report.  I'm learning a lot about cataloging archival records, finding out just how much I prefer teaching 15 students as opposed to a 160, planning a church building scavenger hunt for Young Womens, and trying to figure out how to read on Trax without getting motion sick.  Oh - and I finally got the Christmas tree taken down, exciting stuff.   Now that I've proved I am capable of dealing with reality I can move on to....Sherlock

 Okay...so first things first.  If you haven't watched the first episode of Sherlock Season Three and you care about spoilers, don't read any more. 

I think my love of Sherlock has been firmly established.  The theme song is my ring tone, and I don't even want to fess up to how many times I rewatched the first two seasons.  (That's what a two year wait for new episodes will do.)  So I had a couple of things on my wish list for the season three opener...first, that John Watson's reaction to Sherlock's miraculous reappearance would be some kind of violence, that I would like the character of Mary Morstan, and that it would make me laugh out loud. 

I got all three of those wishes. It was really, really fun.

Arrow Nitpicking

So I've become slightly obsessed with Arrow over the past couple of months.  While I was getting Christmas stuff ready I re-watched a lot of the first season, and while it is officially my second favorite show these days (Castle still holds the top spot of course) it doesn't mean there aren't things about it that drive me a little crazy.  Here's my little list....

5 Things That Bug Me About Arrow

1. Oliver’s atrocious island hair.  Even the actor commented on how bad it was in one of the blooper reels.

2.  Any time anyone but his little sister calls him “Ollie.”  Normally I have no problem separating the Smallville Oliver Queen from the Arrow Oliver Queen, but since the Smallville character went by this nickname so often, every time they use it on Arrow I think, “That’s not Ollie.”  I just don’t like the awkward mental collision.

3. The “not trusting your people” thing.  I’ve blogged about this before, but I hate the whole “I can’t let people be close to me because my life is oh-so-dangerous.” It’s so overdone, especially in these kinds of stories.  Seriously, cops and firefighters have families, so Oliver needs to get over himself and quit using this as excuse #1 every time he actually likes a girl.  

4. The inconsistency of Laurel Lance and Thea Queen’s characters – seriously their personalities and roles in the show change about every twenty seconds.

5. The fact that uber-tough-superhero Oliver Queen still essentially lives, apparently rent free, at his very Versailles-looking mother’s house.  Which, by the way uses the same exterior shots as the Luther Mansion in Smallville, taking us back to the whole awkward mental collision thing. 

The show has been steadily improving this season, so here's hoping that some of this stuff eventually sorts out.   And thanks for not minding that this is a fairly ridiculous thing to write a blog post about. 

Intern Girl

So I started my job at the Church History Library today, and I think I'm going to really like it there.  The commute home was interesting.  There was a major problem with Trax and Tracy had to drive all the way downtown to pick me up ... my knight in shiny armor!

Though the view from the walking part of my commute was pretty good...