Life! Vacation! Work! TV shows!
I'm going to be in West Palm Beach, FL, visiting my grandma from August 11 - 18. Yes, Tuesday to Tuesday. The flights are cheaper that way.
I'm really looking forward to the vacation, and I haven't seen my grandma in a while - this is the spunky Jewish grandma who goes on a different international cruise every year with her friends. She's more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
But it also won't be vacation, per se. I'm going to have to do at least some work while I'm away. There's never a good time to take vacation from work, but this ended up being an awful time. I'm producing a math video lecture shoot that starts on the 24th, and there's TONS of time-sensitive stuff that needs to happen beforehand, most of which is done by freelancers but I need to make sure that everyone's on top of their schedules.
In unrelated news, at V's urging I have started watching two new TV shows (on the internet, that is, since I don't actually watch TV shows on TV): Pushing Daisies and Chuck.
Pushing Daisies is an adorable tale about a socially awkward piemaker named Ned who has the magical power to bring things (including people) back from the dead by touching them. Any such reanimated things (including people) die again if he touches them a second time. And if reanimated things remain alive for more than one minute, something nearby with comparable life force spontaneously dies. He discovered these caveats rather traumatically when, as a boy, he brought his mom back from the dead, his neighbor dropped dead one minute later, and later his mom kissed him and died again. The pie shop is really just his day job - his power is useful in solving murders, since he can temporarily reanimate corpses, ask them who did it, and put them back to dead again; he works with a private investigator. In one of his jobs (the pilot episode) he reanimates his childhood sweetheart, and kept her alive - and they're adorably in love but in the awkward situation of being unable to ever physically touch each other.
Chuck is a spy show. The plot is surprisingly involved, but in a nutshell, the government built a supercomputer called the Intersect to analyze the total sum of all US intelligence data. The data to be analyzed was stored as images. The computer itself was destroyed in a rather involved act of espionage and all the data emailed to a perfectly innocent computer geek who works at a Buy More (i.e., Best Buy)'s Nerd Herd (i.e., Geek Squad), named Chuck. Chuck's particularly gifted mind internalizes the intelligence encoded as images, and becomes more or less a walking, talking, squealing-like-a-girl secret intelligence reference. He is thrust into the intense world of the NSA and CIA, and there's some wonderful UST (i.e., unresolved sexual tension) between Chuck and his knockout CIA protector. There's so much delicious drama I can't possibly scrape the surface here, so I won't try. It's an awesome show.
I'm really looking forward to the vacation, and I haven't seen my grandma in a while - this is the spunky Jewish grandma who goes on a different international cruise every year with her friends. She's more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
But it also won't be vacation, per se. I'm going to have to do at least some work while I'm away. There's never a good time to take vacation from work, but this ended up being an awful time. I'm producing a math video lecture shoot that starts on the 24th, and there's TONS of time-sensitive stuff that needs to happen beforehand, most of which is done by freelancers but I need to make sure that everyone's on top of their schedules.
In unrelated news, at V's urging I have started watching two new TV shows (on the internet, that is, since I don't actually watch TV shows on TV): Pushing Daisies and Chuck.
Pushing Daisies is an adorable tale about a socially awkward piemaker named Ned who has the magical power to bring things (including people) back from the dead by touching them. Any such reanimated things (including people) die again if he touches them a second time. And if reanimated things remain alive for more than one minute, something nearby with comparable life force spontaneously dies. He discovered these caveats rather traumatically when, as a boy, he brought his mom back from the dead, his neighbor dropped dead one minute later, and later his mom kissed him and died again. The pie shop is really just his day job - his power is useful in solving murders, since he can temporarily reanimate corpses, ask them who did it, and put them back to dead again; he works with a private investigator. In one of his jobs (the pilot episode) he reanimates his childhood sweetheart, and kept her alive - and they're adorably in love but in the awkward situation of being unable to ever physically touch each other.
Chuck is a spy show. The plot is surprisingly involved, but in a nutshell, the government built a supercomputer called the Intersect to analyze the total sum of all US intelligence data. The data to be analyzed was stored as images. The computer itself was destroyed in a rather involved act of espionage and all the data emailed to a perfectly innocent computer geek who works at a Buy More (i.e., Best Buy)'s Nerd Herd (i.e., Geek Squad), named Chuck. Chuck's particularly gifted mind internalizes the intelligence encoded as images, and becomes more or less a walking, talking, squealing-like-a-girl secret intelligence reference. He is thrust into the intense world of the NSA and CIA, and there's some wonderful UST (i.e., unresolved sexual tension) between Chuck and his knockout CIA protector. There's so much delicious drama I can't possibly scrape the surface here, so I won't try. It's an awesome show.
