Uncomfortable personal truths
1. I played Star Wars the Old Republic a bit this spring, but became really bored and gave it away to charity. I may just not be an MMO person.
2. I sort of liked the John Carter movie (but thought it was awfully marketed), and am glad I saw it on the big screen.
3. I think facebook weakens some friendships through sheer passivity. What I mean is: just like facebook can bring some far away acquaintances closer, it can also distance some friends that were fairly close - if you aren't terribly active on facebook, which I am not. It's a site that promotes the most lazy of armchair relationships, and thus I have noticed that some friendships that were vital, became less so because of it.
4. I've become pathetically attached to dachshunds since Gertrude came into my life last year. I sometimes go on dachshund rescue sites to look at em'.
5. Tolkien is a very uneven verse-smith. Some of his poems are actually better in the Swedish translation by that awful old (now dead) fart Åke Ohlmarks.
6. If GRR Martin kills off John Snow and doesn't write more about Arya or Brienne, I may stop following the books, and just do the HBO show. Tyrion is a favorite and Daenerys is all well and good, but A Dance with Dragons was way too much about the torment of evil characters by even more evil characters...which I found less interesting.
7. Living in the US has probably made me way more to the left politically than I ever was before. I used to be something of a centrist. Used to. I can't deny the logic for why this has happened though.
8. I have seen so many fucked up families in my life, that I do specifically not value family automatically over friendships. I usually feel uncomfortable talking about this openly though because of the immense cultural pressure to root for family above all.
9. I am terrified of having a high status job. But I'm not gonna be a coward if it comes to that.
10. Sometimes the writing of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle irritates me. And I'm in a Sherlock society. Sigh.
Come and confess your own uncomfortable personal truth, or post this in your journal! Kidding haha, you don't have to do anything of the kind... ;)
Oh, and obviously you should watch this if you haven't already:
ETA: ms_danson has a great post about contextual friendship worth reading here, loosely related to my point about fb and friendship in this post.
2. I sort of liked the John Carter movie (but thought it was awfully marketed), and am glad I saw it on the big screen.
3. I think facebook weakens some friendships through sheer passivity. What I mean is: just like facebook can bring some far away acquaintances closer, it can also distance some friends that were fairly close - if you aren't terribly active on facebook, which I am not. It's a site that promotes the most lazy of armchair relationships, and thus I have noticed that some friendships that were vital, became less so because of it.
4. I've become pathetically attached to dachshunds since Gertrude came into my life last year. I sometimes go on dachshund rescue sites to look at em'.
5. Tolkien is a very uneven verse-smith. Some of his poems are actually better in the Swedish translation by that awful old (now dead) fart Åke Ohlmarks.
6. If GRR Martin kills off John Snow and doesn't write more about Arya or Brienne, I may stop following the books, and just do the HBO show. Tyrion is a favorite and Daenerys is all well and good, but A Dance with Dragons was way too much about the torment of evil characters by even more evil characters...which I found less interesting.
7. Living in the US has probably made me way more to the left politically than I ever was before. I used to be something of a centrist. Used to. I can't deny the logic for why this has happened though.
8. I have seen so many fucked up families in my life, that I do specifically not value family automatically over friendships. I usually feel uncomfortable talking about this openly though because of the immense cultural pressure to root for family above all.
9. I am terrified of having a high status job. But I'm not gonna be a coward if it comes to that.
10. Sometimes the writing of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle irritates me. And I'm in a Sherlock society. Sigh.
Come and confess your own uncomfortable personal truth, or post this in your journal! Kidding haha, you don't have to do anything of the kind... ;)
Oh, and obviously you should watch this if you haven't already:
Click to viewETA: ms_danson has a great post about contextual friendship worth reading here, loosely related to my point about fb and friendship in this post.