there's at least 4 things here to bore you with
1. I'm totally stumped on a meme/prompt that daystarsearcher gave, but mostly in a good way...just got to get those non-fic creative juices flowing. Because this meme is everything I loved about writing with my writing partner
2. I'm the worst kind of reviews whore -- I began posting a story on ff.net that I'm nearly finished with and I guess I'm a little disappointed in the turn out just because of how long I've been working on it...plus it's a little different for me and I just want to know it doesn't suck.
3. I went home for a family gathering this weekend...sometimes I'm good with this, but this weekend I just wasn't in the mood for some reason. I just feel displaced around my family anymore because the only niche I have is my mom and I'm kinda of sick of feeling more like her spouse than her grown daughter. Plus my cousin who've I've spent more whole life trying to keep up with is having a baby in a few months (well techincally his wife is) and it's not even that I want a baby because I honestly don't want to be repsonsible for the mental well-being of another human life (I'd be the parent like Steve Martin's character in "Parenthood"). And for the most part I like his wife and she tends to gravitate towards me because we're close to the same age, but alot of their political views and views on minorities really bother me. And it makes me sad because I know those views are going to get past on to their son and it's just...hmph. I guess it's just hard because I feel like she fits in better than I do and I've got 27 years on her in the family. As I've gotten older I actually feel more in place with my dad's family...I guess because we all are aware that we don't really know each other in the first place.
4. I've been watching "Oz" (thank you Netflix) and just...Dude! There's so many things to say that to -- Meloni - his Keller could turn a typically het shipper into a slasher and Beecher -- he's like that guy in "Heart of Darkness" who ends up putting chopped off heads on pikes outside his tent...just such a desent into resentment and insanity. And after watching "Juno" I never really thought JK Simmons could creep me out, but Dude. I guess what I like is the lack of a hero in the story and how it tricks you into sympathizing for these characters that really could be very one deminsional. Like Alverez -- I really wanted him to redeem himself at some point and I'm a little sad where he's ended up (I'm in season 3 right now)
5. I had my performance review at work and I was really surprised. It was the first time in two years where I felt really validated and that my department wasn't being forgotten in the effort to ignore certain other people's fuck-ups. I actually feel a little hopeful because I think we're going to get some support we've been needing. We will see...change comes slowly in this place, but I at least I feel like they know I'm doing as best I can.
2. I'm the worst kind of reviews whore -- I began posting a story on ff.net that I'm nearly finished with and I guess I'm a little disappointed in the turn out just because of how long I've been working on it...plus it's a little different for me and I just want to know it doesn't suck.
3. I went home for a family gathering this weekend...sometimes I'm good with this, but this weekend I just wasn't in the mood for some reason. I just feel displaced around my family anymore because the only niche I have is my mom and I'm kinda of sick of feeling more like her spouse than her grown daughter. Plus my cousin who've I've spent more whole life trying to keep up with is having a baby in a few months (well techincally his wife is) and it's not even that I want a baby because I honestly don't want to be repsonsible for the mental well-being of another human life (I'd be the parent like Steve Martin's character in "Parenthood"). And for the most part I like his wife and she tends to gravitate towards me because we're close to the same age, but alot of their political views and views on minorities really bother me. And it makes me sad because I know those views are going to get past on to their son and it's just...hmph. I guess it's just hard because I feel like she fits in better than I do and I've got 27 years on her in the family. As I've gotten older I actually feel more in place with my dad's family...I guess because we all are aware that we don't really know each other in the first place.
4. I've been watching "Oz" (thank you Netflix) and just...Dude! There's so many things to say that to -- Meloni - his Keller could turn a typically het shipper into a slasher and Beecher -- he's like that guy in "Heart of Darkness" who ends up putting chopped off heads on pikes outside his tent...just such a desent into resentment and insanity. And after watching "Juno" I never really thought JK Simmons could creep me out, but Dude. I guess what I like is the lack of a hero in the story and how it tricks you into sympathizing for these characters that really could be very one deminsional. Like Alverez -- I really wanted him to redeem himself at some point and I'm a little sad where he's ended up (I'm in season 3 right now)
5. I had my performance review at work and I was really surprised. It was the first time in two years where I felt really validated and that my department wasn't being forgotten in the effort to ignore certain other people's fuck-ups. I actually feel a little hopeful because I think we're going to get some support we've been needing. We will see...change comes slowly in this place, but I at least I feel like they know I'm doing as best I can.