This is madness!
Woke up this morning with a sore throat, and as the day goes on I'm feeling increasingly shaky and weak. WHAT. I have been exercising for a month straight now and taking boatloads of vitamins every day for TWO months. Not to mention that I'm completely obsessive about washing my hands. This is NOT. COOL. THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN TRYING TO AVOID. For the first time in months I have tea in front of me instead of coffee. ARGH SHE SAID ARGH! :[
It is so tempting to launch into a big rant about work but I will refrain. It's Friday, after all. It's PAYDAY. I am thankful to have a job that gives me a PAYDAY. And I want to fixate on all the awesome things I plan to do this weekend, cold or no cold. I am going to head down to the beach and take a long frelling walk to nowhere in particular, even if it means bundling up in layers. I am going to tear through the wonderful books I'm reading right now - L'Engle (A Swiftly Tilting Planet) and Merton (Raids on the Unspeakable) and Promise of the Wolves, each of which is speaking to me in a different way right now. I am going to write. I am going to game (bite me, Cid Raines!). I am going to eat and sleep and lounge around catching up on Legend of the Seeker with krisology (this is a very special kind of therapy).
And I greatly look forward to all of these things.
This is a bit belated but I must also mention that I finally saw The Princess and the Frog this week and adored it. The beginning threw me off a bit, until I realized it was setting up commentary on the whole Disney Princess establishment. Heh. I appreciate that while the movie pokes a lot of fun at the holes in certain brands of Disney logic, it is also respectful of how ingrained that legacy is - so it just finds ways to bring the message back down to Earth. The need to have dreams and go for them is balanced by "sometimes what you wish for isn't what you really need." I am so behind that.
Also, the movie reinforced the fact that nothing will ever compare to the feeling (and accomplishment) of hand-drawn 2D animation. It's like a painting come to life. I love Pixar as much as anyone, but it says a lot when one of the top dogs over at Pixar is the one kicking Disney in the butt to re-start their 2D department. Thank you, John Lasseter. Oh, and thank you to Clements and Musker, two of my favorite Disney directors. You haven't missed a beat.
And now! I shall do my best not to keel over. Ayyyy, please be improving yourself, Friday.
It is so tempting to launch into a big rant about work but I will refrain. It's Friday, after all. It's PAYDAY. I am thankful to have a job that gives me a PAYDAY. And I want to fixate on all the awesome things I plan to do this weekend, cold or no cold. I am going to head down to the beach and take a long frelling walk to nowhere in particular, even if it means bundling up in layers. I am going to tear through the wonderful books I'm reading right now - L'Engle (A Swiftly Tilting Planet) and Merton (Raids on the Unspeakable) and Promise of the Wolves, each of which is speaking to me in a different way right now. I am going to write. I am going to game (bite me, Cid Raines!). I am going to eat and sleep and lounge around catching up on Legend of the Seeker with krisology (this is a very special kind of therapy).
And I greatly look forward to all of these things.
This is a bit belated but I must also mention that I finally saw The Princess and the Frog this week and adored it. The beginning threw me off a bit, until I realized it was setting up commentary on the whole Disney Princess establishment. Heh. I appreciate that while the movie pokes a lot of fun at the holes in certain brands of Disney logic, it is also respectful of how ingrained that legacy is - so it just finds ways to bring the message back down to Earth. The need to have dreams and go for them is balanced by "sometimes what you wish for isn't what you really need." I am so behind that.
Also, the movie reinforced the fact that nothing will ever compare to the feeling (and accomplishment) of hand-drawn 2D animation. It's like a painting come to life. I love Pixar as much as anyone, but it says a lot when one of the top dogs over at Pixar is the one kicking Disney in the butt to re-start their 2D department. Thank you, John Lasseter. Oh, and thank you to Clements and Musker, two of my favorite Disney directors. You haven't missed a beat.
And now! I shall do my best not to keel over. Ayyyy, please be improving yourself, Friday.