Odds and ends..
Feb. 28th, 2004 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatAm avoiding doing the quizzilla things which have apparently taken over my friends list - have they taken over live journal as well? Can't tell. Would have to hop around other's friend's lists to do that and who has the time or the energy? Anyhoo - don't expect to see any here - takes far too long for me to do them on this dial-up now, the test takes forever to process and the images download slowly...not mention the fact that I get disconnected from the internet at least twice while doing them. Just too aggravating. Much better to skip.
Time...ugh. Feel as if time is passing me by and far too quickly. Probably because I have a birthday coming that I sort of don't want to come. It's not that I don't want to celebrate it (don't mind that)so much as I just wish it would not come. I'm not ready to be 37, damn it. Along with my mother visiting, a brother's baby shower (which she's coming for), and well...this is going to be a very tough two weeks, we'll see if I get through them. Especially since my mother has decided to go on the South Beach diet - which means she can't have any bread or carb products. Which wouldn't be a problem, except I'm sort of living off pasta and crackers right now - because it's cheap. Plus I'm terrified she'll take one look at my apartment and how I live, actually she's staying with me for five days...so it doesn't have to be limited to one look, and think, okay that's it, we're moving you in with us until you find a job. (Like I'm going to have an easier time finding a frigging job in human resources management on Hilton Head Island, SC? Ugh! I'm too old for this nonsense. How many frigging jobs do I have to apply for and interview with to find one? A billion?)
I'm just grousing because I had yet another nightmare about the evil company. This time, I had been rehired by them on a part-time basis and was brought in to the evil boss's office where he derided me for not bringing in content. I still had 0 budget to bring in the content. But he didn't care.
And I was demoted or something. Lots of long hallways in this dream and cave-like offices. No wonder I'm loving Angel S5, I completely identify with the situation. Methinks my subconscious is reminding me that no matter how bad things get, quitting evil company was a good thing.
Oh a bit of humor for anyone following the whole Caveman vs. Astronaut debates on the fanboards. Origin of the cavemen vs. astronaute debate.
Apparently the debate originated with the Mutant Enemy writers specifically David Fury and Stephen De Knight, who mentioned it while doing the Comic-con 2003 Writers Panel and actually launched into the debate right there on stage. Apparently in real life the ME writers argued over this for an entire hour. (This according to a reviewer at Dark Horse who was there.) Now, what I want to know is which writer was arguing cave-men and which astronauts? My current guess? Fury was arguing for the cavemen and Deknight for the astronauts. I can just see Whedon explaining all this to JM and DB while directing them for this episode. Oh to be a fly on the wall during that one. Hmmm...so Deknight and Fury are fighting over it. Whedon comes in and asks the Wes question: "do they have weapons..." after Bell warns him to stay far away from it. (Anyone else really want Whedon to do commentary for Hole in The World for S5 ATS DVD?)
What's even funnier...is I can totally imagine this fight, and they probably had it around the time they were co-writing either Awakenings or Destiny. Possibly Destiny. Since they argued during the writing of Destiny about who should win the Angel/Spike fight. Pretty heatedly. Fury won that one. (Being co-showrunner does help.)
In other news? A shred of hope for us Angel fans, according to whedonesque 19 of WB's affiliates are as pissed off about the news concerning Angel's cancellation as we are. And they are major league ones - in big urban areas. Hee Hee.
Time...ugh. Feel as if time is passing me by and far too quickly. Probably because I have a birthday coming that I sort of don't want to come. It's not that I don't want to celebrate it (don't mind that)so much as I just wish it would not come. I'm not ready to be 37, damn it. Along with my mother visiting, a brother's baby shower (which she's coming for), and well...this is going to be a very tough two weeks, we'll see if I get through them. Especially since my mother has decided to go on the South Beach diet - which means she can't have any bread or carb products. Which wouldn't be a problem, except I'm sort of living off pasta and crackers right now - because it's cheap. Plus I'm terrified she'll take one look at my apartment and how I live, actually she's staying with me for five days...so it doesn't have to be limited to one look, and think, okay that's it, we're moving you in with us until you find a job. (Like I'm going to have an easier time finding a frigging job in human resources management on Hilton Head Island, SC? Ugh! I'm too old for this nonsense. How many frigging jobs do I have to apply for and interview with to find one? A billion?)
I'm just grousing because I had yet another nightmare about the evil company. This time, I had been rehired by them on a part-time basis and was brought in to the evil boss's office where he derided me for not bringing in content. I still had 0 budget to bring in the content. But he didn't care.
And I was demoted or something. Lots of long hallways in this dream and cave-like offices. No wonder I'm loving Angel S5, I completely identify with the situation. Methinks my subconscious is reminding me that no matter how bad things get, quitting evil company was a good thing.
Oh a bit of humor for anyone following the whole Caveman vs. Astronaut debates on the fanboards. Origin of the cavemen vs. astronaute debate.
Apparently the debate originated with the Mutant Enemy writers specifically David Fury and Stephen De Knight, who mentioned it while doing the Comic-con 2003 Writers Panel and actually launched into the debate right there on stage. Apparently in real life the ME writers argued over this for an entire hour. (This according to a reviewer at Dark Horse who was there.) Now, what I want to know is which writer was arguing cave-men and which astronauts? My current guess? Fury was arguing for the cavemen and Deknight for the astronauts. I can just see Whedon explaining all this to JM and DB while directing them for this episode. Oh to be a fly on the wall during that one. Hmmm...so Deknight and Fury are fighting over it. Whedon comes in and asks the Wes question: "do they have weapons..." after Bell warns him to stay far away from it. (Anyone else really want Whedon to do commentary for Hole in The World for S5 ATS DVD?)
What's even funnier...is I can totally imagine this fight, and they probably had it around the time they were co-writing either Awakenings or Destiny. Possibly Destiny. Since they argued during the writing of Destiny about who should win the Angel/Spike fight. Pretty heatedly. Fury won that one. (Being co-showrunner does help.)
In other news? A shred of hope for us Angel fans, according to whedonesque 19 of WB's affiliates are as pissed off about the news concerning Angel's cancellation as we are. And they are major league ones - in big urban areas. Hee Hee.
