Loneliness And Blown Minds

As most people who know me are aware, I am by nature a solitary person.
Okay, reclusive might be a better way of putting it, but either way, the fact is that not only am I accustomed to being alone, I pretty much prefer it.
It’s not that I never get lonely – I do – or don’t enjoy spending time with other people, but spending the majority of my time without any other company isn’t exactly a hardship.
Ever since I’ve moved into my new place, which is considerably larger – and emptier – than anywhere else I’ve lived, and especially now that I’m spending even more time alone, I’m finding that the occasional moments of loneliness are becoming a lot more frequent and a lot less momentary.
I suspect that this explains why, of late, I’ve become fairly active in the comments threads on various blogs and Web sites, as it serves as a means of reaching out and connecting with people without having to, you know, actually connect with people.
After all, people are the primary reason I prefer to be alone.
Speaking of people that I actually like spending time with, today was new comics day. After hitting the comic shop, Scott and I tried out what looks to be the last new place to eat at, a Chinese restaurant. Looks like we’ll have to start cycling our way through the restaurants again.
The Chinese place had an item on the menu that, from the description, was very much like the shredded pork with dry bean curd that I like but can’t find at most places, so I ordered it.
What I got was nothing like shredded pork with dry bean curd, and I’m not entirely certain that it was even what I ordered. It wasn’t bad, exactly, just sort of weird, and it made me envious of Scott’s sesame chicken, which is what I was going to order before I saw the pork meal.
Oh well.
I put in a half-hearted attempt at following the schedule that I wrote up for myself, but the results were, unsurprisingly, less productive than I might have hoped.
I guess we’ll see what tomorrow brings.

You Just Blew My Mind Department:
I’ve been watching the new version of the Bionic Woman, and so far it’s been decent.
The star, actress Michelle Ryan, is from the UK (and is HOT), but does such a remarkably convincing American accent that, had it not been for her IMDb entry, I would have had no idea that she was not a native.
The other night I saw a movie in which she was speaking with her native accent, which seemed kind of weird.
Then on tonight’s episode she was undercover as a British woman.
So she was a Briton playing an American pretending to be a Briton.
Whoa!
It’s like the episode of Beavis and Butthead when Butthead does an impression of Beavis that sounded exactly like what it was; Butthead doing an impression of Beavis. What made it so impressive – and paradoxical – was that creator Mike Judge provided the voices for both Beavis and Butthead.
So he was doing the voice of one character impersonating the voice of another character that he does the voice for, and he made it sound like an impression rather than the actual voice.
Again, whoa!
In any case, on Bionic Woman there were a few little gags about her Britishness, with people saying things like “I hope you can do a decent British accent” and “Wow, you do a really good British accent,” and there was another bit when she was “staying in character” when talking to someone she works with and speaking in the accent, stating, when asked about it, “I’m a method actor.”
I got the impression that it was a relief for her to be able to just talk naturally.
Like the co-worker she was talking to, I would be fine with her always talking with the accent, because it was extremely sexy.
Oddly enough, actress Anna Friel of Pushing Daisies, which I watched before Bionic Woman, is another UK-born actress pretending to be an American (or possibly a Canadian; it’s kind of unclear on the show), whom I just discovered is British after watching a movie with her in it speaking with a British accent.
Wednesday nights are like a regular British Invasion.
A sexy British invasion.