Here I am at the library
Working late, because it's finals week or reading day or something. So the library is open till 9 (usually it closes at 5 on Friday).
But fortunately for me, they changed the schedule so I just have to work my regular Saturday, not Saturday and Sunday, and another guy will do 6-9 both days (usually the library closes at 6 on the weekend). So I will have a little time tp prepare and get things done before I have to go to Connecticut.
Last night, I watched the first 2 eps of Lie To Me and it was much funnier and better than I expected. The fake bees were a bit much, but the plot is unrolling in a much more interesting way that I had expected from the summary. And I do adore Yoon Eun Hye. So I'm looking forward to more eps of that, and the new eps of Best Love.
It occurs to me I should dl a bunch of dramas to watch while I am at my mother's, or at the hospital. That should cheer me up a bit. I still have JIN2 to catch up on, and I could watch Game of Thrones, it should be out by then. That might make the whole thing more tolerable.
I have books to read too, of course. I'm looking forward to taking the train to CT so I can read, yay! But I might have to drive, the logistics can be better that way sometimes. I'll have to discuss it with my mom.
I spent much of the time here (I've been at work since 1) reading about Dominique Strauss-Kahn. There's a whole "Room For Debate" thing on Are French Women More Tolerant? to which the consensus answer is, perhaps predictably, No, not really, but maybe French men feel more entitled.
The comments are better than the articles, as usual.
I feel sorry for French women, there's a tendency for them to get trapped in the idea that their way to power is to please men. So there's a lot of emphasis on being the kind of woman who attracts a man's interest because that's the way to get ahead. Here in the US there's more of a tendency to think you should be able to get ahead on merit alone (although god knows it doesn't hurt to look good as well).
There's also a funny piece in The Financial Times about how different cultures express intimacy, which is tangentially related to the whole discussion. The writer is British, so of course the punchline is that English people can only express intimacy when drunk.
Applying Carroll’s theories to Britons, you understand why foreigners think we are repressed. Americans won’t touch strangers, the French won’t talk to them, but Brits will neither touch nor talk to them. ... No wonder Britons drink ever-increasing amounts of alcohol. Alcohol was first distilled so that British people could reproduce.
Which is sort of true. Americans and English feel guilty about sex in a way the French just don't, I think.
I have no idea about the Japanese.
But fortunately for me, they changed the schedule so I just have to work my regular Saturday, not Saturday and Sunday, and another guy will do 6-9 both days (usually the library closes at 6 on the weekend). So I will have a little time tp prepare and get things done before I have to go to Connecticut.
Last night, I watched the first 2 eps of Lie To Me and it was much funnier and better than I expected. The fake bees were a bit much, but the plot is unrolling in a much more interesting way that I had expected from the summary. And I do adore Yoon Eun Hye. So I'm looking forward to more eps of that, and the new eps of Best Love.
It occurs to me I should dl a bunch of dramas to watch while I am at my mother's, or at the hospital. That should cheer me up a bit. I still have JIN2 to catch up on, and I could watch Game of Thrones, it should be out by then. That might make the whole thing more tolerable.
I have books to read too, of course. I'm looking forward to taking the train to CT so I can read, yay! But I might have to drive, the logistics can be better that way sometimes. I'll have to discuss it with my mom.
I spent much of the time here (I've been at work since 1) reading about Dominique Strauss-Kahn. There's a whole "Room For Debate" thing on Are French Women More Tolerant? to which the consensus answer is, perhaps predictably, No, not really, but maybe French men feel more entitled.
The comments are better than the articles, as usual.
I feel sorry for French women, there's a tendency for them to get trapped in the idea that their way to power is to please men. So there's a lot of emphasis on being the kind of woman who attracts a man's interest because that's the way to get ahead. Here in the US there's more of a tendency to think you should be able to get ahead on merit alone (although god knows it doesn't hurt to look good as well).
There's also a funny piece in The Financial Times about how different cultures express intimacy, which is tangentially related to the whole discussion. The writer is British, so of course the punchline is that English people can only express intimacy when drunk.
Applying Carroll’s theories to Britons, you understand why foreigners think we are repressed. Americans won’t touch strangers, the French won’t talk to them, but Brits will neither touch nor talk to them. ... No wonder Britons drink ever-increasing amounts of alcohol. Alcohol was first distilled so that British people could reproduce.
Which is sort of true. Americans and English feel guilty about sex in a way the French just don't, I think.
I have no idea about the Japanese.