Caught up with Firefly
Just got done watching the all the Firefly episodes. Better late than never, I guess. I can see why Orson Scott Card gives the scripting such high praise. Was up til 3 last night watching it on cable. It seems like this series was just what science fiction television needed, but I guess it couldn't last with all the forces that work on television to make it suck. I'm amazed that it got as far as it did with no way to do product placement tie-ins and such. I kept expecting the plot to go formulaic like Star Trek, but it never happened. At times, some of the scenes looked like Star Wars, but the characters actually mattered. Would that the current attempts at making Stargate SG-1 had the kind of scripting and relevance of Firefly.
Dropped by a game last night before I got news that it was cancelled. I had no idea that Dundracon was this weekend, but I can't muster up the will to go. After all, I have only been in the country for one week and I'm already out some significant cash for some classes I'm taking in the evening. Gaming kinda takes a back seat to re-assembling my life here. Actually, it is not really a re-assemblage so much as a new beginning in familiar territory. All this and I want to start studying Spanish at the intermediate level again. What a weird state of affairs this is. Right now I'm typing on my laptop in my folk's living-room, looking down at keys that have Russian characters clear-stickered on. I never even got around to setting up a Cyrillic re-map for those keys, but there they are. Picked up 100 Years of Solitude by Marquez in the original Spanish. One day this week I'll begin marking it with high-lighter pens, a different color for every part of speech (verb/pink, adverbs/orange, adjectives/blue...etc).
(yep...the River character in Serenity is very familiar to me. When she tore up the preacher's Bible, I had to laugh out loud.)
This weekend I have to catch up on some homework for the two classes that I came a week late to. On Wednesday I have a test in Intermediate Spanish that I'll probably just barely pass, if at all. I've even started tuning in to a Mexican radio station while driving around town. Yeah, I can engage in some really weird things when I have a large block of time to occupy. Next week I'll start doing temp work in the office I used to work in at Cabrillo. It won't be much, but it's the most I can do for the short-term and it is a more gainful situation than the one I left in Prague. This three day weekend will be very useful.
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Dropped by a game last night before I got news that it was cancelled. I had no idea that Dundracon was this weekend, but I can't muster up the will to go. After all, I have only been in the country for one week and I'm already out some significant cash for some classes I'm taking in the evening. Gaming kinda takes a back seat to re-assembling my life here. Actually, it is not really a re-assemblage so much as a new beginning in familiar territory. All this and I want to start studying Spanish at the intermediate level again. What a weird state of affairs this is. Right now I'm typing on my laptop in my folk's living-room, looking down at keys that have Russian characters clear-stickered on. I never even got around to setting up a Cyrillic re-map for those keys, but there they are. Picked up 100 Years of Solitude by Marquez in the original Spanish. One day this week I'll begin marking it with high-lighter pens, a different color for every part of speech (verb/pink, adverbs/orange, adjectives/blue...etc).
(yep...the River character in Serenity is very familiar to me. When she tore up the preacher's Bible, I had to laugh out loud.)
This weekend I have to catch up on some homework for the two classes that I came a week late to. On Wednesday I have a test in Intermediate Spanish that I'll probably just barely pass, if at all. I've even started tuning in to a Mexican radio station while driving around town. Yeah, I can engage in some really weird things when I have a large block of time to occupy. Next week I'll start doing temp work in the office I used to work in at Cabrillo. It won't be much, but it's the most I can do for the short-term and it is a more gainful situation than the one I left in Prague. This three day weekend will be very useful.
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