tv! also science!
thursday was SO DEAD at work on account of everyone was off at a training. i could've left early and no one would've known. yesterday wasn't super busy either, altho we did have to print and bind forty copies of a report that was eighty-six pages. that was actually a lot of work.
oh, i keep forgetting to mention, i'm officially salaried now. yay. :D i'm not fully in the system yet, tho, so i can't, you know, submit my hours. i'm sure it's an it thing. they're working on it. still, salary. i can take a vacation and get paid for it! very exciting.
who else watched helix last night? what did you think? because i'm not sure what i think. on the one hand, it's kinda creepy and kinda disgusting, and despite me going "OH MY GOD THAT IS SO GROSS", i totally don't mind. (when they open the body bag and all that black goo slides out? ewww. i would've puked in my hazmat helmet too.) i don't particularly care that main cdc dude is now working with his ex and his assistant (i think she's his assistant - she's the most junior in age of the scientists, at least) who has a raging crush on him and who i imagine he's interested in as well, plus his brother and his ex slept together, presumably before she was an ex. the love triangle interests me not at all and i thought it was kind of easy and boring to bring it up so soon. altho it's definitely not the only thing going on with the three of them - i mean, there's all this science to do and this freaky mystery to solve, and they're all acting like professional adults which i really appreciate. but i can't figure out why it seems like the head of the facility is either in love with or just stalking the ex - there's the way he looks at her, and he has a photo album of her, which, what? personally creepy, yes, but really necessary? we know he's a secretive kind of villainous kinda guy without that. and while i don't dislike the ex, so far she doesn't seem exciting enough for all these men to want her. altho she's supposed to be really brilliant, which i do like because let's be honest, more smart female scientists is never a bad thing. and i'm down with a woman's attractiveness being in her brains. altho i also didn't think peter had to attack her in the shower, unless the show really wanted to show her vulnerable, in which case, hey, they succeeded. i guess if she'd been dressed and not soaking wet she might've been able to fight him off?
altho when they're interviewing the three scientists he attacked, and the one woman talks about how violated she felt, i thought that was spot-on.
i like the blonde scientist (altho her accent seemed wonky), and the security dude who used to be in the army (balleseros - i think he's the only one whose name i remember! and peter, the mutated brother), altho the little scene where balleseros tells the head of the facility "our bosses aren't too pleased with you and i don't want to keep cleaning up your messes" was a pretty cliched "look, secrets!" kind of scene. eh. but all the frozen monkey corpses were nicely freaky and (i thought) an interesting and quick way to get across what happened to them and hint at all the other really wrong shit going on. and cutting the scene of the blonde scientist and balleseros looking for live monkeys with cdc dude crawling through the air ducts looking for peter was interesting and nicely tense.
it seems very bad-science-horror-movie, and i'm curious to find out what happens. and from the previews it looks like we're going to get some jeri ryan, which is never a bad thing. and that song...! chirpy, cheerful, swingy san jose laid over that bright, artificially over-lit weird shit. yeek.
did the mention of transgenics make anyone else think of dark angel? i pictured joshua living in an abandoned part of the facility. i can't be the only one.
so there was that. also i liked grimm, altho is it me or does everyone seem to be a wesen now? i figured the kid - hank's therapist's brother - was a wesen as soon as nick wrestled him to the ground and the sister told him to calm down and not fight, and when she said their dad had a temper and it landed him in jail, i thought oh, of course, guy was a wesen and couldn't control it. so i wasn't at all surprised to be right. and add that to juliette's friend and the friend's abusive boyfriend also being wesen (is the plural just "wesen"? "wesens"?) and seriously, is everyone actually something else? but i did like the peek into rosalie's misspent youth and her comment that as a wesen kid all she wanted was to be normal, and hank and the therapist were very cute, and i liked that it was totally unremarkable that a black boy and a white girl were dating. i wasn't sure what the point was of juliette pushing her friend about her wesen-ness, tho. it seemed kind of invasive. if the friend doesn't want to talk about it, juliette, don't talk about it! i was amused that the boyfriend was scared off by nick being a grimm, tho. i guess that's one way to get rid of an abusive asshole.
getyourwordsout is still open for sign-ups, but if 150k words is too much for you, might i suggest findyourwords? the minimum pledge is 35k words for the year. it's a very low-key comm. sign-ups are open until jan 31. (full disclosure - i run it. :D )
gingerbread kaiju: the game - seriously! it involves baking cookies to use with candy as the game pieces. i'd probably get as far as the baking and then just eat my kaiju and have to start over.
i'm pretty sure everyone has heard of the little girl who asked australian scientists to make her a dragon and their first response and then their follow-up response, but if you haven't, now you have. :D how much do i love that they made her a dragon? in fifteen, twenty years, that little girl is going to be a professional scientist. (as opposed to a seven-year-old scientist, which is probably what she is now.)
oh, i keep forgetting to mention, i'm officially salaried now. yay. :D i'm not fully in the system yet, tho, so i can't, you know, submit my hours. i'm sure it's an it thing. they're working on it. still, salary. i can take a vacation and get paid for it! very exciting.
who else watched helix last night? what did you think? because i'm not sure what i think. on the one hand, it's kinda creepy and kinda disgusting, and despite me going "OH MY GOD THAT IS SO GROSS", i totally don't mind. (when they open the body bag and all that black goo slides out? ewww. i would've puked in my hazmat helmet too.) i don't particularly care that main cdc dude is now working with his ex and his assistant (i think she's his assistant - she's the most junior in age of the scientists, at least) who has a raging crush on him and who i imagine he's interested in as well, plus his brother and his ex slept together, presumably before she was an ex. the love triangle interests me not at all and i thought it was kind of easy and boring to bring it up so soon. altho it's definitely not the only thing going on with the three of them - i mean, there's all this science to do and this freaky mystery to solve, and they're all acting like professional adults which i really appreciate. but i can't figure out why it seems like the head of the facility is either in love with or just stalking the ex - there's the way he looks at her, and he has a photo album of her, which, what? personally creepy, yes, but really necessary? we know he's a secretive kind of villainous kinda guy without that. and while i don't dislike the ex, so far she doesn't seem exciting enough for all these men to want her. altho she's supposed to be really brilliant, which i do like because let's be honest, more smart female scientists is never a bad thing. and i'm down with a woman's attractiveness being in her brains. altho i also didn't think peter had to attack her in the shower, unless the show really wanted to show her vulnerable, in which case, hey, they succeeded. i guess if she'd been dressed and not soaking wet she might've been able to fight him off?
altho when they're interviewing the three scientists he attacked, and the one woman talks about how violated she felt, i thought that was spot-on.
i like the blonde scientist (altho her accent seemed wonky), and the security dude who used to be in the army (balleseros - i think he's the only one whose name i remember! and peter, the mutated brother), altho the little scene where balleseros tells the head of the facility "our bosses aren't too pleased with you and i don't want to keep cleaning up your messes" was a pretty cliched "look, secrets!" kind of scene. eh. but all the frozen monkey corpses were nicely freaky and (i thought) an interesting and quick way to get across what happened to them and hint at all the other really wrong shit going on. and cutting the scene of the blonde scientist and balleseros looking for live monkeys with cdc dude crawling through the air ducts looking for peter was interesting and nicely tense.
it seems very bad-science-horror-movie, and i'm curious to find out what happens. and from the previews it looks like we're going to get some jeri ryan, which is never a bad thing. and that song...! chirpy, cheerful, swingy san jose laid over that bright, artificially over-lit weird shit. yeek.
did the mention of transgenics make anyone else think of dark angel? i pictured joshua living in an abandoned part of the facility. i can't be the only one.
so there was that. also i liked grimm, altho is it me or does everyone seem to be a wesen now? i figured the kid - hank's therapist's brother - was a wesen as soon as nick wrestled him to the ground and the sister told him to calm down and not fight, and when she said their dad had a temper and it landed him in jail, i thought oh, of course, guy was a wesen and couldn't control it. so i wasn't at all surprised to be right. and add that to juliette's friend and the friend's abusive boyfriend also being wesen (is the plural just "wesen"? "wesens"?) and seriously, is everyone actually something else? but i did like the peek into rosalie's misspent youth and her comment that as a wesen kid all she wanted was to be normal, and hank and the therapist were very cute, and i liked that it was totally unremarkable that a black boy and a white girl were dating. i wasn't sure what the point was of juliette pushing her friend about her wesen-ness, tho. it seemed kind of invasive. if the friend doesn't want to talk about it, juliette, don't talk about it! i was amused that the boyfriend was scared off by nick being a grimm, tho. i guess that's one way to get rid of an abusive asshole.
getyourwordsout is still open for sign-ups, but if 150k words is too much for you, might i suggest findyourwords? the minimum pledge is 35k words for the year. it's a very low-key comm. sign-ups are open until jan 31. (full disclosure - i run it. :D )
gingerbread kaiju: the game - seriously! it involves baking cookies to use with candy as the game pieces. i'd probably get as far as the baking and then just eat my kaiju and have to start over.
i'm pretty sure everyone has heard of the little girl who asked australian scientists to make her a dragon and their first response and then their follow-up response, but if you haven't, now you have. :D how much do i love that they made her a dragon? in fifteen, twenty years, that little girl is going to be a professional scientist. (as opposed to a seven-year-old scientist, which is probably what she is now.)