who's a grumpbucket? me
Stuff to talk about. Maybe rant about. A little. We'll see how this goes.
Thing One:
Writing club and I were shockingly not chosen for the Miami dating show we accidentally auditioned for. S I G H. I think I'm the only one actually bummed about this? Everyone else was really not looking forward to the 'dating' part of the show, but since dating has always been a semi-mythical foreign concept to me I'd have looked at it all as a bizarre social experiment and laughed in anyone's face if they'd told me to take it seriously. (...perhaps this is why I am not on the show...)
Thing Two:
I have my first substitute teaching job lined up! Unless I get something more between now and then, my first day of work will be Wednesday (through Friday), subbing for the same French teacher I had in high school. So. \O/
Thing Three:
Writing club had me send off five more queries for the folkband novel--I've already received one more rejection! \o/
Keeping my chin up, but it's getting a little bit harder? Mostly because the rejection letters are completely vague and pre-written, so I don't know what I'm doing wrong. If it's the writing, the story, the query, the synopses, or if it's something on their end (they're busy, disinterested, or it really is just not what they're looking for.)
Thing Four
I saw Jack and the Giant Slayer, which was so. fucking. boring. I can't even rant about how boring it was. Ewan McGreggor was the SHINING LIGHT and BEAUTIFUL, possibly the most beautiful I have ever seen that beautiful beautiful man in a film, and he still couldn't carry the movie.
The friends I went with (non writing club friends) LOVED the movie, in a general oh-yay-this-was-great way that didn't seem to garner any actual discussion--and then, when I expressed my general bleh-ness about the film, they started chewing me out for being hyper-critical, it's just a movie, how do you like ANY movie when you're so judgemental about it, etc.
(eta: I realize that this sounds like I was grilling them, maybe trying to force them to admit that their opinion was a wrong one--I really didn't mean it to come across that way if it did, and I bit my tongue fast when the criticisms I offered up were shut down. I do not want to want to be That Person who leaves a bad taste in your mouth regarding the things you like.)
But you know what? I am critical of movies/tv shows. YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE I HAVE SPENT THE LAST SIX YEARS OF MY LIFE BEING TRAINED TO ANALYZE STORIES. I HAVE A DEGREE IN IT. I'M HONESTLY AND SINCERELY GLAD YOU LIKED THE MOVIE, I JUST FOUND THE STORY-TELLING TO BE LAZY AS FUCK.
AND IF YOU'RE GOING TO SET IT IN -ACTUAL HISTORIC ENGLAND- FUCKING DO YOUR RESEARCH.
So I'm already kind of frustrated, but I'm trying to let it go, when R & the BFF invited me over the other day and we watched Elementary--the episode they played after the superbowl with the serial killer and Maggie from Leverage as a profiler and I've seen the episode before, it's fine, it's a good ep...
I had to hold both their hands through the plot. Explaining things that had already been explained by the characters, if you'd been paying one inch of attention. Which, supposedly, you are, because you're sitting there in silence (except when you're not) with your eyes on the tv. And this is Elementary, I mean, I love this show to pieces but it isn't exactly cutting edge with its deductions/plot lines.
I had. nooooo idea. that people. could be bad. at watching television.
/rant. C, if you're reading this, my frustration is not directed toward YOU, I wanted to spend time with you before you left, this is not the first (or sixth, or twelfth) time I've been criticized for liking things by the bff or R and I'm feelingggg kind of sensitive. 8|
I do realize I'm dangerously close to sounding like I have my nose in the air like a hipster demanding that everything meet my exacting standards, and of course, OF COURSE people are allowed to like what they like! If you liked Jack the Giant Slayer I have no problem with you! I am not judging you! I'm just frustrated because it felt like I was being criticized for thinking critically when that's something I can't really...turn off.
sigh idk
Thing Five
And then there's this asshole:
look at his faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace
Thing One:
Writing club and I were shockingly not chosen for the Miami dating show we accidentally auditioned for. S I G H. I think I'm the only one actually bummed about this? Everyone else was really not looking forward to the 'dating' part of the show, but since dating has always been a semi-mythical foreign concept to me I'd have looked at it all as a bizarre social experiment and laughed in anyone's face if they'd told me to take it seriously. (...perhaps this is why I am not on the show...)
Thing Two:
I have my first substitute teaching job lined up! Unless I get something more between now and then, my first day of work will be Wednesday (through Friday), subbing for the same French teacher I had in high school. So. \O/
Thing Three:
Writing club had me send off five more queries for the folkband novel--I've already received one more rejection! \o/
Keeping my chin up, but it's getting a little bit harder? Mostly because the rejection letters are completely vague and pre-written, so I don't know what I'm doing wrong. If it's the writing, the story, the query, the synopses, or if it's something on their end (they're busy, disinterested, or it really is just not what they're looking for.)
Thing Four
I saw Jack and the Giant Slayer, which was so. fucking. boring. I can't even rant about how boring it was. Ewan McGreggor was the SHINING LIGHT and BEAUTIFUL, possibly the most beautiful I have ever seen that beautiful beautiful man in a film, and he still couldn't carry the movie.
The friends I went with (non writing club friends) LOVED the movie, in a general oh-yay-this-was-great way that didn't seem to garner any actual discussion--and then, when I expressed my general bleh-ness about the film, they started chewing me out for being hyper-critical, it's just a movie, how do you like ANY movie when you're so judgemental about it, etc.
(eta: I realize that this sounds like I was grilling them, maybe trying to force them to admit that their opinion was a wrong one--I really didn't mean it to come across that way if it did, and I bit my tongue fast when the criticisms I offered up were shut down. I do not want to want to be That Person who leaves a bad taste in your mouth regarding the things you like.)
But you know what? I am critical of movies/tv shows. YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE I HAVE SPENT THE LAST SIX YEARS OF MY LIFE BEING TRAINED TO ANALYZE STORIES. I HAVE A DEGREE IN IT. I'M HONESTLY AND SINCERELY GLAD YOU LIKED THE MOVIE, I JUST FOUND THE STORY-TELLING TO BE LAZY AS FUCK.
AND IF YOU'RE GOING TO SET IT IN -ACTUAL HISTORIC ENGLAND- FUCKING DO YOUR RESEARCH.
So I'm already kind of frustrated, but I'm trying to let it go, when R & the BFF invited me over the other day and we watched Elementary--the episode they played after the superbowl with the serial killer and Maggie from Leverage as a profiler and I've seen the episode before, it's fine, it's a good ep...
I had to hold both their hands through the plot. Explaining things that had already been explained by the characters, if you'd been paying one inch of attention. Which, supposedly, you are, because you're sitting there in silence (except when you're not) with your eyes on the tv. And this is Elementary, I mean, I love this show to pieces but it isn't exactly cutting edge with its deductions/plot lines.
I had. nooooo idea. that people. could be bad. at watching television.
/rant. C, if you're reading this, my frustration is not directed toward YOU, I wanted to spend time with you before you left, this is not the first (or sixth, or twelfth) time I've been criticized for liking things by the bff or R and I'm feelingggg kind of sensitive. 8|
I do realize I'm dangerously close to sounding like I have my nose in the air like a hipster demanding that everything meet my exacting standards, and of course, OF COURSE people are allowed to like what they like! If you liked Jack the Giant Slayer I have no problem with you! I am not judging you! I'm just frustrated because it felt like I was being criticized for thinking critically when that's something I can't really...turn off.
sigh idk
Thing Five
And then there's this asshole:
look at his faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace