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Hmmm...update meme:
1. Doing: Spent the day dealing with vendors, which was well trying and a touch stressful. Good news? Accomplished all three tasks.
* Air Conditioner Window Unit had an epic fail. It had been cricking and creeking all week long. Then wham ...water started flooding through it and leaking onto the floor. The bottom half of the cooling unit was frozen and coated with ice. Turned it off. Turned on the fan. Didn't work. Turned it off.
Panicked and hunted down a replacement. Why? Well, it's in the 80s and 90s this weekend and most of next week. And I'm getting hot flashes for some reason or other, I don't why I'm getting them all of a sudden. Hadn't had them for a long time, then for the past two weeks...all of a sudden, hot flashes. Yippee. Still having the period...so, not necessarily menuopause but may be.
Honestly, why is it embarrassing to talk about that? It shouldn't be.
Anyhow, spent from 11 - 2PM hunting someone to deliver and install a new a/c by Sunday. Struck out. The best I could get was PC Richards who would deliver an A/C sometime on Sunday. They refuse to tell me when until after 9PM tonight, and it will be a four hour window. I was hoping to go to church tomorrow and see MD one last time before she flies off to MVD for the foreseeable future.
Then, I talked to super's wife, who said yes, her husband would install new one and take out old one. I sort have to have them do it anyhow, because they have to supply the brackets.
After doing all of that...I put the a/c on fan for most of the day. It was okay. And now have it running on cold and it's fine. I've decided not to second guess myself and treat this as a gift. The Universe is letting me use the A/C until such time as a new is delivered and can be installed. So I can sleep. Frigging new A/C was expensive. Will have to put off second arm-chair/sofa and new coffee table purchase for a bit.
* Arm-chair arrived. Much better ergomatically than previous. In other words, it's higher, has a firmer back cushion, a thicker seat cushion and is more sturdy. Should be considering it cost more and came from a better vendor.
But watching them deliver it -- made me wonder if maybe I should go for a two and a half person arm chair and maybe ottoman over sofa? I may not have room for a love seat or two person sofa...although did for the futon couch.
* Got rid of existing futon sofa/couch. The futon comes off the wood frame. It was cheap. And fast. Took no time at all. They showed up at 1PM, picked it up, carted it out. Done. I may call them to remove the arm chair. They either sell it or recycle it.
Then went for a long meditative walk and grocery shopping. Because all of that, well the a/c stuff, was insanely anxiety inducing, also frustrating. And it went okay, or as well as can be expected.
2. What I am Watching?
Vietnam War Documentary on PBS by Ken Burns. And I'm bored. It is interesting in places. But too much information. Brain overload. I need to watch this when I'm not gainfully employed, and writing three books at the same time in my head. Plus trying to figure other things out.
Did learn a few things...the French do not come out as very nice. Actually it's an indictment of the French, British and Americans. Apparently the French colonized Vietnam and enslaved the inhabitants, justifying it as civilizing them. The Vietnamese could have done without the French version of civilization and didn't need them, thank you very much. Ho Chi Mingh went to the Americans to help them get out from under French rule. And the Americans sort of helped, but got caught up in well the Cold War and their fear of Communism. He tried, in various letters to various Presidents, to inform them that he wasn't a communist and he just wanted a free state for Vietnamese. (If anything he was more of a nationalist.) But alas, the CIA with its own agenda, refused to pass the letters on to the Presidents. Things escalated, the US became paranoid of Communism and hence the Vietnam War. The American fear of Communism and European urge to colonize killed over a million people.
Depressing. And hard to watch. I knew some of it already. What I didn't know was what the French did.
Okay, not completely true, the French father of a family that I stayed with in the 1980s in Brittany, did tell me a lot of it. But he told me in French, so I got about half of it. He was stationed there and had been in the trenches.
What else?
The Expanse, Mozart in the Jungle, Wynonna Earp S2, and General Hospital. Also tried to watch The 100, but I think I'm going to give up on it and delete. I just don't care about any of the characters any longer. I've no clue why. I liked the first two seasons, but the third one lost me a bit with the whole Allie arc and oh the world is going to blow up, again. My least favorite sci-fi subgenre is nuclear war. I got burned out on it in the 1980s.
3. What am I reading?
At the moment, Carrie Fisher's The Princess Diarist --- which is her publication of the diaries she kept while filming the first Star Wars film - A New Hope. The first 45% of the book is prologue or set-up to the diaries. She's basically setting the stage, so you can figure out what she's talking about in the diaries. Because Fisher is more like I am in her journal writing...she writes about feelings, how she feels about things, what her thoughts are, and less about what she did or what happened. She's a reflective and introspective writer, not a...oh today we had lunch, and went to the doctor, and did this, and that, and had sex with our boyfriend. She also isn't into doing graphic sex scenes...so if you were hoping for Star Wars porn...it's not there. I'm liking the diaries more than I expected, much better than the introductory material.
However...she does in the introductory material state that she'd received closure with Ford, and he was kind. Which explains why they had no problem doing the next two films together, and were able to remain friends or at the very least friendly. Ford is not the most emotionally reflective of folks, which if you read any of his interviews you probably already knew. Nor much of a conversationalist. He's fairly monosyllabic. But he does tell her...in response to her statement that she's such a hick. "No, I think you are a lot more intelligent than you think you are...so an intelligent hick." Pause.
Then after a bit. "You have the eyes of a doe and the balls of a samaria (sp?)." Which she realized was out of character for him to say and incredibly kind. In the interview -- the only thing Ford was willing to state about Fisher and the book, was more or less the same thing ...that she was brilliant, kind, and amazingly brave and he was glad to have known her. And to his credit, he'd thought when they entered their affair that she was a lot more experienced than she was, for she came across that way. And they smoked so much pot that Fisher can't remember much of it, and really just has her diaries and vague memories to go on. She does wonder why she didn't go for Mark, who would have been far more suitable. (Honestly? I know why. I'd have jumped Ford over Hamil when I was 19. At 12 I preferred Luke, but I was more romantic and less sexual at that point. And I'm ten years younger than she was.)
Also read a lot of romance novels. Come to the conclusion that I do not like the contemporary - the plots don't work, and I can't stand the female characters -- they are weak and simpering. And often whiny. I want to kick them. Also the writer goes out of their way to make them weak, hurt, or abused in order to justify this and make the guy macho. It's annoying. Granted it may well be the sub-genre of contemporary fiction that I'm reading. The only one I did like was Lisa Keyplas book which they turned into a really bad Hallmark Hall of Fame movie. (Remember when made for television movies used to be good on broadcast network television and won awards? Well not anymore.) It was Friday Harbor, about an artist and a carpenter. A small town book.
The last historical...was very plotty, with a sort of Georgette Heyer vibe to it. Lots of banter. Although I found it slow in places and the hero was weaker than I'd like. The heroine however was quite strong. I do however require a strong male lead along with a strong female lead. Inequality annoys me, regardless of the genders involved. I been reading these things like they are candy, and in a way they sort of are...brain candy. In one ear and out the other. Don't require much attention, calm me on the train, and make me smile at the banter. This past one was called 8 Simple Rules to Break...at least I think that was the title. I can't remember. The titles sort of blur together.
I'm eclectic and insanely diverse reader. There is not a genre that I have not binge read or read at one time in my lifetime. I just can't remember half of the books that I read in it...the downside of binge reading, I suspect. I do have my favorite -- go to genre, which is sci-fantasy, mainly because unlike romance and mystery, it tends to combine the other genres within it, and I like world-building apparently. Or crave something a bit more complex and thematic, with lots of metaphors. I jump into sci-fantasy in between other books.
4. What I'm writing...
Besides multiple things for work, and blog posts...still plodding away on my sci-fi novel, the one about the resistance leader negotiating a peace settlement with the aliens she's been fighting for a decade. Doing a lot of world-building in the midst of the action. At the moment sort of stuck on a plot bunny. She's in a Environmental Regulatory Device Operating Facility...looking for security breaches as part of an agreement with the alien leader. To date there's been various sabotage attempts on devices, and a few attempts on her life or to break up the peace talks. It's unclear whether she's the main target, or the peace talks or both. Most likely both. Some see her as a Resistance Leader, others as a Terrorist. Depends on whether you are an alien, alien-sympathizer, or a member of the All-Earth Resistance Movement. Anyhow, one of the tour guides is a hybrid -- she injected herself with alien DNA to turn herself into a hybrid Earth/Alien. The other is against that sort of thing, not hybridization in of itself, just Earth-Alien, because she doesn't want Earth to be part of their race. My protagonist is against it -- because that's her worst nightmare. Anyhow,
the Alien Leader has told her to trust him and go do this...to see if they are right about who has been planning the attacks. Only one person knew she was coming ahead of time and could plan. So they want to see if that person acts. But, she is not to play the hero and to take care of herself. No more heroic deeds.
Plot bunny? I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to put her in danger. The first time I plotted this story out in my head and told it to myself...a bomb went off after a hostage situation. And she got caught in the explosion. Almost died. He saved her life. I need her to be seriously injured and for him to save her life, but for her to question why he did. There's a romance between the two building -- but it's for plot, character, and thematic reasons, not for the romance. (I can't write romance for romance sake, can read it, love to critique it, can't write it, any more than I can make candy or ice cream. Savory stuff yes. Sweet stuff, I'm just not skilled at. Probably be traditionally published if I could. And incredibly fat, no wait, I can do that on my own don't need to be able to make the stuff.)
Bomb? Hostage crisis? Shot? Not sure bomb quite works...although considering she just escaped from something like that in the last section...that has a nice irony to it.
I've also decided to give this world a sort of feudal bartering system. She mentions missing branding and marketing, and the consumerism of the old Earth, along with Coca Cola bottles. The aliens don't understand it. And have a sort of feudal bartering system, advanced by technology. They are militaristic in some respects. Her former partner and husband was a libertarian, and free market capitalist. He saw the aliens as socialist or communist, but they aren't really. Derek who was her husband and co-leader in the Resistance, and is now dead, killed by the Alien Leader/romantic interest...was a survivalist. Not a villain, a complicated guy. And her mentor. He basically saved her life at one point, even though he also was abusive. (I don't like writing straight up villains, to me they don't exist, people are complicated.) I don't know what I'm trying to say there exactly. I never really do when I write stories. I don't think most artists do. It just sort of flows out of me that way.
1. Doing: Spent the day dealing with vendors, which was well trying and a touch stressful. Good news? Accomplished all three tasks.
* Air Conditioner Window Unit had an epic fail. It had been cricking and creeking all week long. Then wham ...water started flooding through it and leaking onto the floor. The bottom half of the cooling unit was frozen and coated with ice. Turned it off. Turned on the fan. Didn't work. Turned it off.
Panicked and hunted down a replacement. Why? Well, it's in the 80s and 90s this weekend and most of next week. And I'm getting hot flashes for some reason or other, I don't why I'm getting them all of a sudden. Hadn't had them for a long time, then for the past two weeks...all of a sudden, hot flashes. Yippee. Still having the period...so, not necessarily menuopause but may be.
Honestly, why is it embarrassing to talk about that? It shouldn't be.
Anyhow, spent from 11 - 2PM hunting someone to deliver and install a new a/c by Sunday. Struck out. The best I could get was PC Richards who would deliver an A/C sometime on Sunday. They refuse to tell me when until after 9PM tonight, and it will be a four hour window. I was hoping to go to church tomorrow and see MD one last time before she flies off to MVD for the foreseeable future.
Then, I talked to super's wife, who said yes, her husband would install new one and take out old one. I sort have to have them do it anyhow, because they have to supply the brackets.
After doing all of that...I put the a/c on fan for most of the day. It was okay. And now have it running on cold and it's fine. I've decided not to second guess myself and treat this as a gift. The Universe is letting me use the A/C until such time as a new is delivered and can be installed. So I can sleep. Frigging new A/C was expensive. Will have to put off second arm-chair/sofa and new coffee table purchase for a bit.
* Arm-chair arrived. Much better ergomatically than previous. In other words, it's higher, has a firmer back cushion, a thicker seat cushion and is more sturdy. Should be considering it cost more and came from a better vendor.
But watching them deliver it -- made me wonder if maybe I should go for a two and a half person arm chair and maybe ottoman over sofa? I may not have room for a love seat or two person sofa...although did for the futon couch.
* Got rid of existing futon sofa/couch. The futon comes off the wood frame. It was cheap. And fast. Took no time at all. They showed up at 1PM, picked it up, carted it out. Done. I may call them to remove the arm chair. They either sell it or recycle it.
Then went for a long meditative walk and grocery shopping. Because all of that, well the a/c stuff, was insanely anxiety inducing, also frustrating. And it went okay, or as well as can be expected.
2. What I am Watching?
Vietnam War Documentary on PBS by Ken Burns. And I'm bored. It is interesting in places. But too much information. Brain overload. I need to watch this when I'm not gainfully employed, and writing three books at the same time in my head. Plus trying to figure other things out.
Did learn a few things...the French do not come out as very nice. Actually it's an indictment of the French, British and Americans. Apparently the French colonized Vietnam and enslaved the inhabitants, justifying it as civilizing them. The Vietnamese could have done without the French version of civilization and didn't need them, thank you very much. Ho Chi Mingh went to the Americans to help them get out from under French rule. And the Americans sort of helped, but got caught up in well the Cold War and their fear of Communism. He tried, in various letters to various Presidents, to inform them that he wasn't a communist and he just wanted a free state for Vietnamese. (If anything he was more of a nationalist.) But alas, the CIA with its own agenda, refused to pass the letters on to the Presidents. Things escalated, the US became paranoid of Communism and hence the Vietnam War. The American fear of Communism and European urge to colonize killed over a million people.
Depressing. And hard to watch. I knew some of it already. What I didn't know was what the French did.
Okay, not completely true, the French father of a family that I stayed with in the 1980s in Brittany, did tell me a lot of it. But he told me in French, so I got about half of it. He was stationed there and had been in the trenches.
What else?
The Expanse, Mozart in the Jungle, Wynonna Earp S2, and General Hospital. Also tried to watch The 100, but I think I'm going to give up on it and delete. I just don't care about any of the characters any longer. I've no clue why. I liked the first two seasons, but the third one lost me a bit with the whole Allie arc and oh the world is going to blow up, again. My least favorite sci-fi subgenre is nuclear war. I got burned out on it in the 1980s.
3. What am I reading?
At the moment, Carrie Fisher's The Princess Diarist --- which is her publication of the diaries she kept while filming the first Star Wars film - A New Hope. The first 45% of the book is prologue or set-up to the diaries. She's basically setting the stage, so you can figure out what she's talking about in the diaries. Because Fisher is more like I am in her journal writing...she writes about feelings, how she feels about things, what her thoughts are, and less about what she did or what happened. She's a reflective and introspective writer, not a...oh today we had lunch, and went to the doctor, and did this, and that, and had sex with our boyfriend. She also isn't into doing graphic sex scenes...so if you were hoping for Star Wars porn...it's not there. I'm liking the diaries more than I expected, much better than the introductory material.
However...she does in the introductory material state that she'd received closure with Ford, and he was kind. Which explains why they had no problem doing the next two films together, and were able to remain friends or at the very least friendly. Ford is not the most emotionally reflective of folks, which if you read any of his interviews you probably already knew. Nor much of a conversationalist. He's fairly monosyllabic. But he does tell her...in response to her statement that she's such a hick. "No, I think you are a lot more intelligent than you think you are...so an intelligent hick." Pause.
Then after a bit. "You have the eyes of a doe and the balls of a samaria (sp?)." Which she realized was out of character for him to say and incredibly kind. In the interview -- the only thing Ford was willing to state about Fisher and the book, was more or less the same thing ...that she was brilliant, kind, and amazingly brave and he was glad to have known her. And to his credit, he'd thought when they entered their affair that she was a lot more experienced than she was, for she came across that way. And they smoked so much pot that Fisher can't remember much of it, and really just has her diaries and vague memories to go on. She does wonder why she didn't go for Mark, who would have been far more suitable. (Honestly? I know why. I'd have jumped Ford over Hamil when I was 19. At 12 I preferred Luke, but I was more romantic and less sexual at that point. And I'm ten years younger than she was.)
Also read a lot of romance novels. Come to the conclusion that I do not like the contemporary - the plots don't work, and I can't stand the female characters -- they are weak and simpering. And often whiny. I want to kick them. Also the writer goes out of their way to make them weak, hurt, or abused in order to justify this and make the guy macho. It's annoying. Granted it may well be the sub-genre of contemporary fiction that I'm reading. The only one I did like was Lisa Keyplas book which they turned into a really bad Hallmark Hall of Fame movie. (Remember when made for television movies used to be good on broadcast network television and won awards? Well not anymore.) It was Friday Harbor, about an artist and a carpenter. A small town book.
The last historical...was very plotty, with a sort of Georgette Heyer vibe to it. Lots of banter. Although I found it slow in places and the hero was weaker than I'd like. The heroine however was quite strong. I do however require a strong male lead along with a strong female lead. Inequality annoys me, regardless of the genders involved. I been reading these things like they are candy, and in a way they sort of are...brain candy. In one ear and out the other. Don't require much attention, calm me on the train, and make me smile at the banter. This past one was called 8 Simple Rules to Break...at least I think that was the title. I can't remember. The titles sort of blur together.
I'm eclectic and insanely diverse reader. There is not a genre that I have not binge read or read at one time in my lifetime. I just can't remember half of the books that I read in it...the downside of binge reading, I suspect. I do have my favorite -- go to genre, which is sci-fantasy, mainly because unlike romance and mystery, it tends to combine the other genres within it, and I like world-building apparently. Or crave something a bit more complex and thematic, with lots of metaphors. I jump into sci-fantasy in between other books.
4. What I'm writing...
Besides multiple things for work, and blog posts...still plodding away on my sci-fi novel, the one about the resistance leader negotiating a peace settlement with the aliens she's been fighting for a decade. Doing a lot of world-building in the midst of the action. At the moment sort of stuck on a plot bunny. She's in a Environmental Regulatory Device Operating Facility...looking for security breaches as part of an agreement with the alien leader. To date there's been various sabotage attempts on devices, and a few attempts on her life or to break up the peace talks. It's unclear whether she's the main target, or the peace talks or both. Most likely both. Some see her as a Resistance Leader, others as a Terrorist. Depends on whether you are an alien, alien-sympathizer, or a member of the All-Earth Resistance Movement. Anyhow, one of the tour guides is a hybrid -- she injected herself with alien DNA to turn herself into a hybrid Earth/Alien. The other is against that sort of thing, not hybridization in of itself, just Earth-Alien, because she doesn't want Earth to be part of their race. My protagonist is against it -- because that's her worst nightmare. Anyhow,
the Alien Leader has told her to trust him and go do this...to see if they are right about who has been planning the attacks. Only one person knew she was coming ahead of time and could plan. So they want to see if that person acts. But, she is not to play the hero and to take care of herself. No more heroic deeds.
Plot bunny? I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to put her in danger. The first time I plotted this story out in my head and told it to myself...a bomb went off after a hostage situation. And she got caught in the explosion. Almost died. He saved her life. I need her to be seriously injured and for him to save her life, but for her to question why he did. There's a romance between the two building -- but it's for plot, character, and thematic reasons, not for the romance. (I can't write romance for romance sake, can read it, love to critique it, can't write it, any more than I can make candy or ice cream. Savory stuff yes. Sweet stuff, I'm just not skilled at. Probably be traditionally published if I could. And incredibly fat, no wait, I can do that on my own don't need to be able to make the stuff.)
Bomb? Hostage crisis? Shot? Not sure bomb quite works...although considering she just escaped from something like that in the last section...that has a nice irony to it.
I've also decided to give this world a sort of feudal bartering system. She mentions missing branding and marketing, and the consumerism of the old Earth, along with Coca Cola bottles. The aliens don't understand it. And have a sort of feudal bartering system, advanced by technology. They are militaristic in some respects. Her former partner and husband was a libertarian, and free market capitalist. He saw the aliens as socialist or communist, but they aren't really. Derek who was her husband and co-leader in the Resistance, and is now dead, killed by the Alien Leader/romantic interest...was a survivalist. Not a villain, a complicated guy. And her mentor. He basically saved her life at one point, even though he also was abusive. (I don't like writing straight up villains, to me they don't exist, people are complicated.) I don't know what I'm trying to say there exactly. I never really do when I write stories. I don't think most artists do. It just sort of flows out of me that way.
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Vietnam War Documentary on PBS by Ken Burns. And I'm bored. It is interesting in places. But too much information. Brain overload. I need to watch this when I'm not gainfully employed, and writing three books at the same time in my head. Plus trying to figure other things out.
We're watching it, too. We're not bored--but it hits a bit closer to home for us. My husband was a week away from being called up--he'd turned 19 in December, his lottery number was seven, he'd had his physical, when suddenly in January 1973, Nixon ended the draft. God, but it is depressing to watch, especially since we keep making the same mistakes, over and over and over again.
The book you're working on sounds great.
Anyhow, one of the tour guides is a hybrid -- she injected herself with alien DNA to turn herself into a hybrid Earth/Alien.
How does that work in your universe, exactly? I ask because people who receive organ transplants have to take drugs to suppress their immune systems for the rest of their lives. Plus, that human/alien hybrid thing always worked out so badly in The X-Files... ♥
The other is against that sort of thing, not hybridization in of itself, just Earth-Alien, because she doesn't want Earth to be part of their race. My protagonist is against it -- because that's her worst nightmare.
I think it would be mine, too.
OT. Have you read Kristine Smith's Jani Killian series? It takes an interesting approach to human/alien hybridization and the aftermath of an inter-species war.
There's a romance between the two building -- but it's for plot, character, and thematic reasons, not for the romance.
That's the only way romance can work for me (and probably why I don't enjoy the genre).
I can't write romance for romance sake, can read it, love to critique it, can't write it...
Even mediocre romance must be hard to write--like any genre, it has rules and if you don't follow them, you risk losing your readers (except me--I prefer stories that can't be predicted ahead of time, at least up to a point).
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Yeah, that's my difficulty with the genre in a nutshell. I can't write it any more than I could write fanfic, because I hate following the rules. Instead I have a tendency to subvert them. That's what I did when I wrote a noir mystery, I basically broke the rules of the genre.
Guideline? What Guidelines? I don't read or follow them.
The romances I've enjoyed sort of break the rules. There are a couple out there.
They subvert the genre, go against the conventions, and sometimes make fun of them. Read a weird one recently, entitled The Windflower which made fun of the genre it was in, and broke several of the rules in the process. (Although I not sure people would pick up on it unless they'd read a lot in that genre and had read the reviews.)
Regarding the alien hybridization bit?
My worst nightmare is having my body changed or bio-engineered in anyway. Sci-fi shows like Altered States and Kafka's Metamphorsis...tended to give me nightmares. Also the Island of Doctor Moreau by HG Wells. But at the same time fascinate me. The idea of being alienated by your body. Falling Skies used this idea a lot...and in a nightmarish manner. (That was a hard series to watch, because the alien hybrids, skitters, were arachnid in form, and I am arachnaphobic.)
Anyhow, I'm getting away with some things by having the story told in first person pov by someone who is not a scientist. But the way it works is DNA splicing or DNA therapy...which they are beginning to do now. (That's how I got the idea for it.) And it's working with mixed results. The heroine or protagonist is against it and one of her conditions during the peace talks is that it only be granted for people who want to do it. Or voluntary. Not involuntary. They'd been doing involuntary experimentation. This is 20 some years after the aliens came, and after fighting them with mixed and mostly horrible results.
The aliens first attempt at hybridization resulted in a Mutant Zombie Apocalypse (which wasn't -- because the aliens contained it and took over, as opposed to the Walking Dead, where no one came in and took over.) Second attempt, was a miracle drug that gave various people longevity, but didn't change them on a cellular level -- hence the reason it worked. Trying to change them on a cellular level resulted in mutations and mindless zombies.
After that they've been experimenting with surgical and DNA splicing that is a bit more advanced and less drug or chemical related, and its been more effective.
Again I'm filtering this through someone who isn't an expert, in the hopes that I can get away without getting too detailed.
Still in the early draft stages, so will see if it works. It worked in my head or rather the movie playing in my head. Whether it works on paper is a whole other issue. Somethings just work better in my head but not so much on paper.
The romance is important -- because for fifteen years she hated this guy and wanted to kill him, and he either wanted to imprison her or kill her. (He killed her husband, and was responsible for most of her family and friend's deaths, including her parents. She's who she is now, in part because of him. And she lost the world she loved because of him. That's a lot to get past.) In the past five, she's gotten past the hate...because of her own misdeeds and a need to redeem herself in her own eyes -- there's been a lot of collateral damage. The worst thing that could happen to either character is for them to fall in love. It's actually the worst punishment for him. So, an impossible relationship...and I like impossible relationships as a writer and a reader. They are fun.
OT. Have you read Kristine Smith's Jani Killian series? It takes an interesting approach to human/alien hybridization and the aftermath of an inter-species war.
No, I haven't heard of it. Thank you for the REC. I may try that. I'm looking for new sci-fi. One's I have aren't working for me at the moment. Been on a bit of book slump.
God, but it is depressing to watch, especially since we keep making the same mistakes, over and over and over again.
It is, isn't it? I was thinking the same thing while watching episode one. I think that was my problem with it. I found it to be really depressing. And sort of hopeless, because we're still making the same mistakes. It's as if we've learned nothing.
My uncle was in Vietnam, Army Intelligence. He was Career Army, and a Major at the time. He got shot in Nam, while in a helicopter, with a bullet to the rear-end. Lucky. I'm glad your husband got out of the draft. It was a horrible war.
Afghanistan has actually been longer and there doesn't appear to be an end in sight for it.
Women in perimenopause must have air-conditioning.
God, yes. I'm only comfortable when it's cool. The current a/c is sort of working at the moment but not well. So am glad I got the new one. Seeing it as gift.
Because the super hasn't come up and I have no idea when he will get around to installing it. Luckily it will get cooler towards the end of the week. But I still need the a/c.