I get a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs
I've just checked my emails and I've got one from Private company B - they're pushing back the assessment! I have an extra week to prepare!
*Glee*
If I'd been preparing I'd probably be having a little hissyfit about having to spend more time stressing about it - but I didn't get round to doing any research and preparation today, and tomorrow's taken up with preparing for my parents' dinner party (and I'm going out for dinner as well). So I was expecting Sunday to be fairly miserable.
But now it won't have to be!
Oh, but that is good news. I feel so much better already.
So what have I been doing today? I went running in the afternoon, and managed to get to 25 again despite the first 10 minutes of feeling like a massive stitch was about to drop me. (It didn't really go away but by the time I had 10 minutes left I wasn't going to stop for anything.) Of course when I was running it started raining, when I'd delayed going out for just that possibility.
When I got home it stopped raining, and I thought that was just typical until the thunder started (and then more rain). (Basil enjoyed that immensely, let me tell you. Little chicken dog.)
After my recruitment agent meeting* yesterday I went to the library and was just browsing the DVD shelves for things to watch. They had Dr. Horrible! And it must be a pretty new acquisition because there aren't any scratches on it at all! I've been watching it pretty much constantly all day today - they even have one of the commentaries in musical format, which was pretty cool.
I'm still pretty conflicted about Joss Whedon. I enjoyed Buffy, never really got into Angel, I've read his take on the X-men and Runaways, liked some aspects of Serenity and Firefly (really hated others), haven't seen Dollhouse because I know I don't like the premise. Though I have to say hearing the musical commentary makes me feel a bit more hopeful about Joss' future work. Maurissa Tancharoen, an actress who also cowrote some of the songs as well as the script got to sing about how few roles there are for Asian American actors, and pointed out that Penny could have been Asian (so why wasn't she?). So hopefully, Joss is listening.
I'm still upset about how it ended, but I think I'm understanding trying to understand another point that the show was trying to put across.
I think it's a fair point that neither Billy nor Captain Hammer really got to know Penny. The stalker photo? Yeah, that still creeps me out (when will the stalking = romantic meme end?). But it shows that Billy never really talked to Penny before deciding she was the one for him. Maybe he did get to know her eventually, but that was afterwards when it was almost too late. And she was doing her own stuff before either of them got involved, which I think is better than most superhero girlfriend depictions.
Even when Penny dies, the papers are: "Hero's girlfriend killed!" "Nation mourns whats-her-name!" Which makes fun of the superhero tragedy-trope, I think. She was never the focus of the nemesis relationship between Dr. Horrible and Captain Hammer - she was just an unfortunate innocent who got in the middle.
Which is still upsetting! Why is the only main female character just something to be fought over? But I'm trying to be more forgiving.
But it fails the Bechdel test, both the original version and the race version! How is this so hard, people?
I don't know. I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about it! I thought I'd got something pinned down, but writing it out makes me angry all over again. But man, the music is good. I may end up buying the DVD anyway. Or maybe just the CD.
Tomorrow night is a dinner with school friends. Something like 10 people are expected, which seems pretty big. It should be good.
* Meeting itself was OK, we just talked for about half an hour about what roles I'm looking for and what I currently am waiting on. Most likely she'll be able to find me temporary or contract work to do while I'm waiting around trying to land the more long-term positions. She seemed pretty impressed (she sent an email to my dad, which he forwarded to me), which was more than a little bemusing. Nice, but bemusing. She asked about my photography. :D
The one month I've been looking for work here has done more for my self-confidence than all the months I was looking in the UK.
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Listening to: Owl City - Fireflies
via FoxyTunes
*Glee*
If I'd been preparing I'd probably be having a little hissyfit about having to spend more time stressing about it - but I didn't get round to doing any research and preparation today, and tomorrow's taken up with preparing for my parents' dinner party (and I'm going out for dinner as well). So I was expecting Sunday to be fairly miserable.
But now it won't have to be!
Oh, but that is good news. I feel so much better already.
So what have I been doing today? I went running in the afternoon, and managed to get to 25 again despite the first 10 minutes of feeling like a massive stitch was about to drop me. (It didn't really go away but by the time I had 10 minutes left I wasn't going to stop for anything.) Of course when I was running it started raining, when I'd delayed going out for just that possibility.
When I got home it stopped raining, and I thought that was just typical until the thunder started (and then more rain). (Basil enjoyed that immensely, let me tell you. Little chicken dog.)
After my recruitment agent meeting* yesterday I went to the library and was just browsing the DVD shelves for things to watch. They had Dr. Horrible! And it must be a pretty new acquisition because there aren't any scratches on it at all! I've been watching it pretty much constantly all day today - they even have one of the commentaries in musical format, which was pretty cool.
I'm still pretty conflicted about Joss Whedon. I enjoyed Buffy, never really got into Angel, I've read his take on the X-men and Runaways, liked some aspects of Serenity and Firefly (really hated others), haven't seen Dollhouse because I know I don't like the premise. Though I have to say hearing the musical commentary makes me feel a bit more hopeful about Joss' future work. Maurissa Tancharoen, an actress who also cowrote some of the songs as well as the script got to sing about how few roles there are for Asian American actors, and pointed out that Penny could have been Asian (so why wasn't she?). So hopefully, Joss is listening.
I'm still upset about how it ended, but I think I'm understanding trying to understand another point that the show was trying to put across.
I think it's a fair point that neither Billy nor Captain Hammer really got to know Penny. The stalker photo? Yeah, that still creeps me out (when will the stalking = romantic meme end?). But it shows that Billy never really talked to Penny before deciding she was the one for him. Maybe he did get to know her eventually, but that was afterwards when it was almost too late. And she was doing her own stuff before either of them got involved, which I think is better than most superhero girlfriend depictions.
Even when Penny dies, the papers are: "Hero's girlfriend killed!" "Nation mourns whats-her-name!" Which makes fun of the superhero tragedy-trope, I think. She was never the focus of the nemesis relationship between Dr. Horrible and Captain Hammer - she was just an unfortunate innocent who got in the middle.
Which is still upsetting! Why is the only main female character just something to be fought over? But I'm trying to be more forgiving.
But it fails the Bechdel test, both the original version and the race version! How is this so hard, people?
I don't know. I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about it! I thought I'd got something pinned down, but writing it out makes me angry all over again. But man, the music is good. I may end up buying the DVD anyway. Or maybe just the CD.
Tomorrow night is a dinner with school friends. Something like 10 people are expected, which seems pretty big. It should be good.
* Meeting itself was OK, we just talked for about half an hour about what roles I'm looking for and what I currently am waiting on. Most likely she'll be able to find me temporary or contract work to do while I'm waiting around trying to land the more long-term positions. She seemed pretty impressed (she sent an email to my dad, which he forwarded to me), which was more than a little bemusing. Nice, but bemusing. She asked about my photography. :D
The one month I've been looking for work here has done more for my self-confidence than all the months I was looking in the UK.
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Listening to: Owl City - Fireflies
via FoxyTunes