Random babble
Yesterday was graduation. Yes, I graduated in December, but we only had the pinning ceremony then. This was the cap-and-gown deal. Due to having used up all my pool time (mostly on just getting through school in the first place without collapsing from exhaustion, but most recently brought the total down to near-zero by going to Aeternitas), I took off neither the night before nor the night after. Thus, the day is mostly a blur, though I do vaguely recall seeing and hugging classmates I'd not seen since December or so, so that was nice. Relying on others for pics though, as I did bring but did not use my camera at all.
Oh! One very memorable bit was seeing the prof I've been known to call Canon!Snape as grand high poohbah or whatever the official term is for the person who gets to carry the college's mace and pound it on the floor to punctuate things. That was ... very fitting. :-D
Fun was getting the voicemail after that work would like me to come in at 8pm please. I returned the call, pointed out I hadn't been to sleep yet since my previous shift, which they actually knew, and thus if they wanted me remotely functional, they'd muddle through and I'd be in at midnight as scheduled. Fortunately, the per diem who was on until 8 was able to stay till midnight. Well, fortunately by some lights. One of these days, I'd like my boss to actually have to fill in one of these gaps, as he is actually required to do but has never, ever done.
Did watch "The Rebel Flesh." Am very WTF about it. What is this, Avatar? No, seriously, it would seem like a reasonably intriguing premise if there hadn't just been a blockbuster movie about lying in some device and animating another version of yourself that can better survive the harsh environment in which you're required to work that was also about how you define the personhood of others. I did like seeing Rory's caring instincts for others brought to the fore, but on top of "The Hungry Earth/Whatever Part Two Was Called" it really does seem like the "men have more compassion than women" theme is getting beaten to death and annoying the crap out of me. Do it once, and it's actually a kind of subversive take on the usual stereotype (cue rant #753 about the Kinder Gentler Matriarchal Utopia That Was Ruined By Teh Eebul Menz). Do it twice, and it starts really coming across as misogynistic.
Even aside from that, it seems like a rehash of the same thing as THE/WPTWC, except, of course, for the reappearance of Patch-Lady, suggesting yet again that this is all some dream Amy's having while in the clutches of The Silence. So, yeah, not my fave part of this season so far. (I'm apparently in the minority for not having hated the pirate ep.) I do look forward to this all making sense in the end, though I'm a bit freaked out that we're going to have a big gap after the next ep or two. Can't remember when the break happens, though I'd expect it to be in the middle of a two-parter, not at the end of one, so I'm guessing we've two more eps.
Thanks to a tweet from The Moff ( Only matters to me, but today is the 6th anniversary of the broadcast of my first Dr Who. Blimey! But it's not the end of world ... oh!!), I also rewatched The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances at work last night. That's always fun, and I finally caught the explanation of something that I'd thought was a continuity error all this time. Jack is never shown seeing the outside of the TARDIS, so it always seemed a bit weird when he finally entered that he commented about it being "much bigger on the inside." He did, however, comment on it to the Doctor when Rose first introduced them, mentioning that he'd seen it when he'd thrown the Chula ambulance in front of them as bait and complimenting the paneling on their "capsule." Huh. Love finding little stuff like that.
Have this week off from tutoring. Plan is currently to dress all interviewy, grab a stack of resumes and the Yellow Pages, and apply in person to every nursing home within driving distance. After that, I think I'm left with making paper airplanes out of them and launching them at utter random.
Stopped at the local comic shop after graduation, ostensibly to check my folder (which had the latest DW comic, yay!) but mainly to follow up on a convo I'd just had with dawnrune about the possibility of a fic-writer meetup-and-write group along the lines of a wrimo whilst not waiting around for November. Turns out, there's already something in the works, which is kinda cool. Emphasis will, understandably, be on writers and artists who do manga/anime and gamer stuff, but open to whomever. That could be cool. In other news, I'm hoping that the added free time this week will see me finally a) trying to expand at least one or two of the drabbles I did at Aeternitas and b) trying out some of the spreads and concepts from ceciliatan's workshop on using the Tarot with writing.
Also need to write up something about Thargelia for the HTAZP blog. *winces* It's been a week already. Oops. And I need to get cracking if I'm going to do an additional choreography for Philokhoria on top of the troupe choreo I'm teaching the others. I'm thinking "Fireflies," though "Sandansko" and "Graovsko" are also possibilities. So just a few things on the to-do list then.
Hugs to all that want them, and have a great week!
Oh! One very memorable bit was seeing the prof I've been known to call Canon!Snape as grand high poohbah or whatever the official term is for the person who gets to carry the college's mace and pound it on the floor to punctuate things. That was ... very fitting. :-D
Fun was getting the voicemail after that work would like me to come in at 8pm please. I returned the call, pointed out I hadn't been to sleep yet since my previous shift, which they actually knew, and thus if they wanted me remotely functional, they'd muddle through and I'd be in at midnight as scheduled. Fortunately, the per diem who was on until 8 was able to stay till midnight. Well, fortunately by some lights. One of these days, I'd like my boss to actually have to fill in one of these gaps, as he is actually required to do but has never, ever done.
Did watch "The Rebel Flesh." Am very WTF about it. What is this, Avatar? No, seriously, it would seem like a reasonably intriguing premise if there hadn't just been a blockbuster movie about lying in some device and animating another version of yourself that can better survive the harsh environment in which you're required to work that was also about how you define the personhood of others. I did like seeing Rory's caring instincts for others brought to the fore, but on top of "The Hungry Earth/Whatever Part Two Was Called" it really does seem like the "men have more compassion than women" theme is getting beaten to death and annoying the crap out of me. Do it once, and it's actually a kind of subversive take on the usual stereotype (cue rant #753 about the Kinder Gentler Matriarchal Utopia That Was Ruined By Teh Eebul Menz). Do it twice, and it starts really coming across as misogynistic.
Even aside from that, it seems like a rehash of the same thing as THE/WPTWC, except, of course, for the reappearance of Patch-Lady, suggesting yet again that this is all some dream Amy's having while in the clutches of The Silence. So, yeah, not my fave part of this season so far. (I'm apparently in the minority for not having hated the pirate ep.) I do look forward to this all making sense in the end, though I'm a bit freaked out that we're going to have a big gap after the next ep or two. Can't remember when the break happens, though I'd expect it to be in the middle of a two-parter, not at the end of one, so I'm guessing we've two more eps.
Thanks to a tweet from The Moff ( Only matters to me, but today is the 6th anniversary of the broadcast of my first Dr Who. Blimey! But it's not the end of world ... oh!!), I also rewatched The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances at work last night. That's always fun, and I finally caught the explanation of something that I'd thought was a continuity error all this time. Jack is never shown seeing the outside of the TARDIS, so it always seemed a bit weird when he finally entered that he commented about it being "much bigger on the inside." He did, however, comment on it to the Doctor when Rose first introduced them, mentioning that he'd seen it when he'd thrown the Chula ambulance in front of them as bait and complimenting the paneling on their "capsule." Huh. Love finding little stuff like that.
Have this week off from tutoring. Plan is currently to dress all interviewy, grab a stack of resumes and the Yellow Pages, and apply in person to every nursing home within driving distance. After that, I think I'm left with making paper airplanes out of them and launching them at utter random.
Stopped at the local comic shop after graduation, ostensibly to check my folder (which had the latest DW comic, yay!) but mainly to follow up on a convo I'd just had with dawnrune about the possibility of a fic-writer meetup-and-write group along the lines of a wrimo whilst not waiting around for November. Turns out, there's already something in the works, which is kinda cool. Emphasis will, understandably, be on writers and artists who do manga/anime and gamer stuff, but open to whomever. That could be cool. In other news, I'm hoping that the added free time this week will see me finally a) trying to expand at least one or two of the drabbles I did at Aeternitas and b) trying out some of the spreads and concepts from ceciliatan's workshop on using the Tarot with writing.
Also need to write up something about Thargelia for the HTAZP blog. *winces* It's been a week already. Oops. And I need to get cracking if I'm going to do an additional choreography for Philokhoria on top of the troupe choreo I'm teaching the others. I'm thinking "Fireflies," though "Sandansko" and "Graovsko" are also possibilities. So just a few things on the to-do list then.
Hugs to all that want them, and have a great week!