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[bosantibe]

Man, I've been having a pretty good week owing mostly to the weather and good company... then last night my sister explodes at me and flies off the fucking handle for no good reason. Sometimes she can be way too oversensitive. She's also apparently decided to push my buttons by playing the "I'm closing the shop" card whenever she can't handle

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[the_seraph]

I used to love working in the stockroom of a Sears back when we lived in Missouri - i called it decent, honest work. When I was done at the end of a day, yeah i might've been sore, but I could point and say 'i did that'... sometimes it might've been the absence of something (like there's no longer this huge pile of boxes there anymore).

[bosantibe]

Ironically, I've done that a few times at this café, but I think all the organizing and systematizing and such has eroded back into chaos. That explains some major part of why I'm not enjoying working for sis. At the comic book store, at least when I changed something it stayed in place for the most part, you know?

[the_seraph]

yeah... working at the retail bookstore (and to a lesser extent the library) was what I always considered a never-ending battle against the forces of chaos.

[bosantibe]

Unfortunately, here the forces of chaos are championed by my sister.

[the_seraph]

going to start calling her Elric then, are we?

[bosantibe]

You know, I just this year read the Lord of the Rings, but I haven't gotten to Moorecock's satire-opus yet. That said, I'm positive she wouldn't get the reference. I asked her last night if this rival café with the name reversed was a bizarro café and she had no idea what I meant even though she's seen the Seinfeld episode with the Bizarro cast.

[the_seraph]

Moorcock's series is ok... in parts. The first couple of books, from what I vaguely recall. But by the time the Elric saga was near the end, I was less and less pleased with it.

But, hey, YOU get the reference. Doesn't matter if she does or not, maybe even better that she doesn't.

[bosantibe]

You know, I felt the same way about the Dune series. I got really annoyed with it as early as Children of Dune and decided not to get into God Emperor at all based on what I'd heard.

[the_seraph]

I got thru the Dune series, but yeah, there were books from it that just weren't all that great.

The TON of prequel and sequel stuff that his son and the ghost writer have done from his notes are kind of the same way. They did each set as little trilogies, but it all links up in one long long narrative. Parts of them are good, but there are parts that seem to just drag along too.

[bosantibe]

Guy Gavriel Kay I believe is the ghost writer. I hate that guy. Someone told me to read one of his books and it was the most contrived crap I ever read. Like a really awful D&D campaign where the players are being railroaded even after given the knowledge that they're destined to do X, fight Y and marry Z. Awful.

[the_seraph]

Not sure if that's the writer or not.

But in any case, there's a whole philosophical sub-plot in the books about how prophecy solidifies the future (and how to escape it), so maybe the comparison to railroading isn't so off the mark.

[bosantibe]

Oh, wait, Kay was an editor/ghost writer for Christopher Tolkien. Still ridiculously awful, though.