and i've seen it all before
At noon today, if all goes well, my mother is having a defibrillator implanted. She's going to have to stay overnight in the hospital for observation afterwards, even though originally they told us that it was done on an outpatient basis (to which we all incredulously said, "Really?"), because the doctor likes to be appropriately cautious.
I offered to take the day off (both bosses are out and we close at 2:30) and go out there, but they were like, no, it's fine, there's no reason for you to sit around the hospital all day, so I'll head out tomorrow like originally planned (I have to go back to the optometrist today to discuss whether the trial run of my new contacts was successful. Spoiler: I think it mostly was.).
In other news, they're starting a book exchange thingy at work, which means I can bring in old books piecemeal to get rid of them instead of storing them up and lugging them to Housing Works in big batches. I approve! When I was at BEMC, we used to have an informal system of leaving books we were done with on the counter in the anteroom to the ladies room. That stopped when we moved floors and no longer had a counter in the ladies room.
In other, other news, I got a google+ invite and then it wanted me to fill in actual personal information and I just closed the tab in horror. I don't know why I thought it would be a good idea. Facebook-style social networking and I are unmixy things! I didn't want to know 90% of the people I went to high school with when I was in high school. Why would I want to know them now? *shudders*
On a more interesting note (segues are for the weak!), this is an interesting essay by Bill Simmons about whether Ryan Reynolds and Will Smith are actually movie stars. It's Bill Simmons, so if he irritates you (sometimes he irritates me), you know what you're getting into, but he makes some interesting points about how Hollywood tries to create movie stars and how it succeeds only in creating the perception that certain people are movie stars without them actually having the movies to back that up (e.g., Ryan Reynolds).
It's interesting, because you see the same thing on a smaller scale on television - how many failed shows did Alex O'Loughlin star in before H50 became a hit? To be fair, the process occasionally does produce genuine movie stars - see George Clooney and his string of failed pilots and bad movies before he became George Clooney. On the other hand, sometimes you end up with Shia LaBeouf, whose continued success is baffling to me. (thanks to
giandujakiss for the link.)
Lastly, my thread at the tell me why I'm awesome! meme. I haven't done one of these in a while, but I could use some good vibes. *smiles winningly*
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I offered to take the day off (both bosses are out and we close at 2:30) and go out there, but they were like, no, it's fine, there's no reason for you to sit around the hospital all day, so I'll head out tomorrow like originally planned (I have to go back to the optometrist today to discuss whether the trial run of my new contacts was successful. Spoiler: I think it mostly was.).
In other news, they're starting a book exchange thingy at work, which means I can bring in old books piecemeal to get rid of them instead of storing them up and lugging them to Housing Works in big batches. I approve! When I was at BEMC, we used to have an informal system of leaving books we were done with on the counter in the anteroom to the ladies room. That stopped when we moved floors and no longer had a counter in the ladies room.
In other, other news, I got a google+ invite and then it wanted me to fill in actual personal information and I just closed the tab in horror. I don't know why I thought it would be a good idea. Facebook-style social networking and I are unmixy things! I didn't want to know 90% of the people I went to high school with when I was in high school. Why would I want to know them now? *shudders*
On a more interesting note (segues are for the weak!), this is an interesting essay by Bill Simmons about whether Ryan Reynolds and Will Smith are actually movie stars. It's Bill Simmons, so if he irritates you (sometimes he irritates me), you know what you're getting into, but he makes some interesting points about how Hollywood tries to create movie stars and how it succeeds only in creating the perception that certain people are movie stars without them actually having the movies to back that up (e.g., Ryan Reynolds).
It's interesting, because you see the same thing on a smaller scale on television - how many failed shows did Alex O'Loughlin star in before H50 became a hit? To be fair, the process occasionally does produce genuine movie stars - see George Clooney and his string of failed pilots and bad movies before he became George Clooney. On the other hand, sometimes you end up with Shia LaBeouf, whose continued success is baffling to me. (thanks to
giandujakiss for the link.)
Lastly, my thread at the tell me why I'm awesome! meme. I haven't done one of these in a while, but I could use some good vibes. *smiles winningly*
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people have commented there.