Cookies, yay!
Yep, I finally made cookies. I don't think I've talked about it a lot here, since it's not that important, but I've been meaning to make more of those chocolate cookies, that are very addictive, and I finally made some. What's more, I finally got some keyboard practice today. I haven't been in the mood lately, or I've been too tired, or I've had other things to do, and I always get a bit nervous: what if I can't play anymore, or at least can't play as well as I did before the break. I know it's not the way it happens, because when something is imprinted in your kinetic memory, it tends to stay there if you don't get a serious brain injury, but I still worry a bit, because I've only kept up a somewhat regular drill for less than a year. However, I haven't lost it, and I need to keep it up, so that's what I intend to do.
I realize that I haven't been enthusing about the seventh season of House the way you might expect, since I love the series. And it's a good season, I think, but somehow, I'm more into comedy and mysteries right now, and the series seems to be in a serious place. I miss the skits with the moronic clinic patients, although it's nice to have the actual main characters developed. And I do like Masters, the new and impossibly idealistic med student, who joins House's team. She didn't impress me when I read about her, but she's actually a lot tougher in action than on paper. You might even say that she's an anti-Cameron. Cameron (who was the former girl in the team) wasn't above lying to patients, and especially their families, if she thought it would make them feel better, but it was done out of genuine empathy. Masters, on the other hand, is honest to a fault, and somehow the empathy seems lacking, at least so far. What I've always liked about House is that although he's brutally honest, and doesn't have a bedside manner, he really wants to ultimately do the right thing, according to his own ethics. I think the writers may be trying to make the point that Masters is too inexperienced and young to actually have her own moral code, and that she instead goes for full-time honesty, even if it would be more prudent to lie.
I'll write about virtues tomorrow, if I have the time, and if not, see you on Monday!
I realize that I haven't been enthusing about the seventh season of House the way you might expect, since I love the series. And it's a good season, I think, but somehow, I'm more into comedy and mysteries right now, and the series seems to be in a serious place. I miss the skits with the moronic clinic patients, although it's nice to have the actual main characters developed. And I do like Masters, the new and impossibly idealistic med student, who joins House's team. She didn't impress me when I read about her, but she's actually a lot tougher in action than on paper. You might even say that she's an anti-Cameron. Cameron (who was the former girl in the team) wasn't above lying to patients, and especially their families, if she thought it would make them feel better, but it was done out of genuine empathy. Masters, on the other hand, is honest to a fault, and somehow the empathy seems lacking, at least so far. What I've always liked about House is that although he's brutally honest, and doesn't have a bedside manner, he really wants to ultimately do the right thing, according to his own ethics. I think the writers may be trying to make the point that Masters is too inexperienced and young to actually have her own moral code, and that she instead goes for full-time honesty, even if it would be more prudent to lie.
I'll write about virtues tomorrow, if I have the time, and if not, see you on Monday!