I'm not dead
Just insanely busy. Working 20 hours/week and interning 20 hours/week. Then add class on top of that starting next month. Free time? Sleep time? Huh? It's a good thing I really love what I do at work/internship, because if I didn't, we'd be in real trouble.
Still trying to lose another 10 pounds. At this rate, I'd be content enough to just lose five, but I'll take what I can get. It really sucks. Every time I think I'm just about there.... urgh.
And now some food for thought. This came up in a discussion I had the other day, and I've been pondering it for a while now...
What's the most disturbing book you've read and/or movie you've seen? Not necessarily scary, but disconcerting, nerve-wracking.
My answer was Nein Gaiman's Neverwhere, of all things. I'm a fan of everything Gaiman's written, but Neverwhere particularly disturbed me - in a good way. I think it was the way he took the mundane, the everyday, and totally twisted it around. I think that scares me more than slasher or horror films; I don't really like them, as they're usually so unbelievable that I can't even get into them. But turning around something you see or do on a daily basis and turning it into something sinister and haunting? Those mysterious dark subway cars being the home of medieval feudal courts and monsters lurking in the gaps between cars and the platform? Deserted department stores and museums after dark? Waking up one day in a world that forgot you even existed - and knowing you can never go back? The book totally creeped the bejeezers out of me.
Still trying to lose another 10 pounds. At this rate, I'd be content enough to just lose five, but I'll take what I can get. It really sucks. Every time I think I'm just about there.... urgh.
And now some food for thought. This came up in a discussion I had the other day, and I've been pondering it for a while now...
What's the most disturbing book you've read and/or movie you've seen? Not necessarily scary, but disconcerting, nerve-wracking.
My answer was Nein Gaiman's Neverwhere, of all things. I'm a fan of everything Gaiman's written, but Neverwhere particularly disturbed me - in a good way. I think it was the way he took the mundane, the everyday, and totally twisted it around. I think that scares me more than slasher or horror films; I don't really like them, as they're usually so unbelievable that I can't even get into them. But turning around something you see or do on a daily basis and turning it into something sinister and haunting? Those mysterious dark subway cars being the home of medieval feudal courts and monsters lurking in the gaps between cars and the platform? Deserted department stores and museums after dark? Waking up one day in a world that forgot you even existed - and knowing you can never go back? The book totally creeped the bejeezers out of me.