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Today was an utterly horrible day at work, and tomorrow might just be worse, and the only good thing about it is that I finally mustered up the strength to start handling a few issues I've been postponing for forever - the kind of things that get worse and worse to deal with the more you push them off.
I ended up leaving work at 9, wiped, not really up for anything. Having skipped lunch, I bought dinner in a delicious new place across from our offices that is always too crowded during lunch break, and then went to my sister, where I was criminally overcharged for parking but had a soothing evening intermittently dozing in front of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and introducing my sister to Parks and Rec, which like, no matter how bad your day is, if there is a show that will bring a smile to your face, it will be that.
I guess. Tomorrow will be a day, and then another one, and then one more and then the weekend. Things to look forward to.
Happier thoughts: I watched Zero Motivation (why is there no trailer with English subs, WHY) last week, which is a new Israeli comedy about non-combat female soldiers in a godforsaken base down south, directed by a woman. It won first place in Tribeca this year so it's gotten some buzz, and it is fan-freaking-tastic. It's funny, it's tragic, it's so well done, the acting is excellent, the script is great, it gets nuances perfectly, and it has some scenes and images that it will take me a very long time to forget. If it happens to be showing in a theater near you, it is heartily, heartily recommended.
Speaking of the military, about a month (or two? ack, time) ago I had a day of reserve duty, which included - let me just put it this way - about two hours of me lounging on a bench sipping iced coffee in the desert, watching US Army soldiers jog and exercise in their training uniform short shorts. AUs would have spring to mind in any fandom I'd have been in, but as it was, all I could think about was hockey because haha short shorts and thighs and biceps were like, all around me, and they were all built like Jonathan Toews. It was glorious. I do not often get to witness in real life the kind of buff that North American athletes tend to be, and it was certainly inspiring.
There are really two military AU scenarios I would love to read about for Kaner/Tazer. One is the one where their meet-cute is being paired together for night-navigation when they're cadets with officer school, because it's basically the military equivalent of being handcuffed together and sent off to hike in the middle of the night. For points. And your partner can be so annoying and the night can be so breathtakingly beautiful and I can just imagine them sniping at each other the entire time and then saving each other's asses and then huddling for warmth and making out* (*that part does not happen in the IDF officer school. Theoretically. No touching anyone of any gender for more than 3 seconds. Theoretically.)
The other is an AU where Tazer is, whatever, Kaner's boss, or captain, or something irl, and is assigned to a new reserve unit, and one day they both get called up for reserve duty and discover that Tazer's been assigned to Kaner's reserve unit and as long as they're in the army, Kaner is Tazer's commander! PLOT TWIST. This is a kind o scenario that actually happens here sometimes, and I would love this in any fandom basically.
Okay, my laptop has 10 minutes of battery left, which is as good a sign as any (though maybe not as good as the time) that I should log off. I hope July has started well for everyone and that everyone is happily celebrating national holidays/world cup participation/other happy things.
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I ended up leaving work at 9, wiped, not really up for anything. Having skipped lunch, I bought dinner in a delicious new place across from our offices that is always too crowded during lunch break, and then went to my sister, where I was criminally overcharged for parking but had a soothing evening intermittently dozing in front of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and introducing my sister to Parks and Rec, which like, no matter how bad your day is, if there is a show that will bring a smile to your face, it will be that.
I guess. Tomorrow will be a day, and then another one, and then one more and then the weekend. Things to look forward to.
Happier thoughts: I watched Zero Motivation (why is there no trailer with English subs, WHY) last week, which is a new Israeli comedy about non-combat female soldiers in a godforsaken base down south, directed by a woman. It won first place in Tribeca this year so it's gotten some buzz, and it is fan-freaking-tastic. It's funny, it's tragic, it's so well done, the acting is excellent, the script is great, it gets nuances perfectly, and it has some scenes and images that it will take me a very long time to forget. If it happens to be showing in a theater near you, it is heartily, heartily recommended.
Speaking of the military, about a month (or two? ack, time) ago I had a day of reserve duty, which included - let me just put it this way - about two hours of me lounging on a bench sipping iced coffee in the desert, watching US Army soldiers jog and exercise in their training uniform short shorts. AUs would have spring to mind in any fandom I'd have been in, but as it was, all I could think about was hockey because haha short shorts and thighs and biceps were like, all around me, and they were all built like Jonathan Toews. It was glorious. I do not often get to witness in real life the kind of buff that North American athletes tend to be, and it was certainly inspiring.
There are really two military AU scenarios I would love to read about for Kaner/Tazer. One is the one where their meet-cute is being paired together for night-navigation when they're cadets with officer school, because it's basically the military equivalent of being handcuffed together and sent off to hike in the middle of the night. For points. And your partner can be so annoying and the night can be so breathtakingly beautiful and I can just imagine them sniping at each other the entire time and then saving each other's asses and then huddling for warmth and making out* (*that part does not happen in the IDF officer school. Theoretically. No touching anyone of any gender for more than 3 seconds. Theoretically.)
The other is an AU where Tazer is, whatever, Kaner's boss, or captain, or something irl, and is assigned to a new reserve unit, and one day they both get called up for reserve duty and discover that Tazer's been assigned to Kaner's reserve unit and as long as they're in the army, Kaner is Tazer's commander! PLOT TWIST. This is a kind o scenario that actually happens here sometimes, and I would love this in any fandom basically.
Okay, my laptop has 10 minutes of battery left, which is as good a sign as any (though maybe not as good as the time) that I should log off. I hope July has started well for everyone and that everyone is happily celebrating national holidays/world cup participation/other happy things.
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