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shadowkat1. Felt like crap after a night coughing and coughing a good portion of today. I think I need to buy honey. I have it -- it's just difficult to get out of the jar.
And I'm trying to crack down on sweets.
Cancelled my movie plans for Sunday --- when I realized all I wanted to do was sleep and drink tea and cough in peace.
Did get stuff done at work however. And got along with everyone for the most part, of course I felt horrible -- so didn't care and I let everyone know I felt horrible and to leave me alone.
When I get sick, I just want to be left alone.
Bought a lot of soup, water, and cough drops. Also lots of tea. And two huge boxes of kleenex. I need to get a humidifier. Or, I can create my own...
Co-workers (the movie goer ones who are both under the age of 30) are insistent that I see Parasite in a theater. This is a really good movie they both inform me. I don't know..I'm rarely enthused about seeing movies in theaters any longer, unless they are big event movies and even then? I was enthused about the Avengers Endgame, but frankly? I enjoyed watching it at home more.
Chidi: I don't get why you don't like the movie experience in the theater -
Me: Well, the other movie goers are rather rude and text message, and I'm taller than you are and have longer legs -- the theaters are not made for people of my height.
Chidi (looks up at me): You got a point there.
I tower over him. He's five foot seven. I'm close to six foot.
My brother had a conversation with my 15 year old niece -- who is five foot 8, my brother is six foot five, and I'm almost six foot.
Brother: Be happy with your height. You can fit into more places than we can.
Neice: Well, you're scary tall Dad
Me (and he is built like a pole...the boy takes up about as much room as a pole): He has a point. You don't want to be this tall. Planes, movie theaters, cars...beds..the world it was not made for long-legged people.
2. I've learned over time not to give unasked for or unwanted advice either at work or online. Unless someone directly asks me for advice, I'm staying quiet. Because no good comes from unasked for advice.
Often I don't know all the particulars and just annoy the person. It's better to not say anything. Or just say, I'm sorry, I hope things get better soon.
3. Finished "The Harlot Countess" which was poorly paced and had one too many sex scenes. [ Granted it was called the Harlot Countess - so really, what did I expect?] Also I never quite warmed to the characters. I skimmed 90% of it. I found it boring to be honest.
And the writing was uneven and jarring in places.
The bad guy did get it in the end -- so it at least resolve itself, but at the price of the heroine's art career -- which annoyed more than one reader, including myself. The hero gets to keep his political career, but she sacrifices her career as an artist -- and it all felt rather contrived.
The Cat Sebastian book was the best of the romance novels that I've read this year. [ And no, it wasn't The Harlot Countess, it was entitled A Duke in Disguise. Honestly, romance writers suck at titles, just saying. No wonder I can never remember them. My mother and I have fun with this..
Mother regaling me with a synopsis of the romance she just read.
Me: What's the title?
Mother: I've no clue. I can't remember. Duke something or other.]
I'm craving a good relationship drama in book form and I'm not finding it. (And no, I don't mean dysfunctional family drama -- I can get that reading social media and talking to Wales.)
4. Also been reading the X-men Dawn of X books. There's an article in EW about the reboot of the X-men (it made the EW Must List of the Decade..). The books are a mixed bag. I like some more than others. Right now, the one's with the most innovative art are - Fallen Angels, X-Force and New Mutants. X-Men isn't bad, it's good enough, I suppose. I don't know I've been a tad disappointed in it. (I want more relationship drama and less, oh, we're a big happy family now and nothing horrible happened ever.) I like relationship drama angst in my comic books. I want them to be soapy, dang-it.
Fallen Angels is the most interesting, not perfect by a long shot, but interesting.
New Mutants took the rather clever approach of sending the New Mutants into Shiar Space to find Sam Guthrie. Thusly removing the New Mutants from the adult X-men, and the other characters -- which means they can be the central focus of their own storyline.
Maruders has the best female characters in Kate Pryde, Emma Frost, and Storm.
It also is interesting in its own way, with an edginess. (I like Jean Grey a lot, but God she's boring.)
Excalibur -- feels like a book for teens. And I'm not sure what the point of it is. Except that it makes me miss the original version.
X-Force feels like a retread of the gritty X-men books where everyone is being killed by horrible human killing machines.
X-men -- should be better than it is. But I'm giving it a chance, because it focuses on my favorite comic book character of all time. A character that I can guarantee will NEVER get his own movie or any movie made about him (or if he's in one, he'll always be a supporting or sideline character). Why? The movie makers find him boring for some reason. I always like characters and narratives that defy movie and television adaptations. I don't know what that says about my taste exactly.
And I'm trying to crack down on sweets.
Cancelled my movie plans for Sunday --- when I realized all I wanted to do was sleep and drink tea and cough in peace.
Did get stuff done at work however. And got along with everyone for the most part, of course I felt horrible -- so didn't care and I let everyone know I felt horrible and to leave me alone.
When I get sick, I just want to be left alone.
Bought a lot of soup, water, and cough drops. Also lots of tea. And two huge boxes of kleenex. I need to get a humidifier. Or, I can create my own...
Co-workers (the movie goer ones who are both under the age of 30) are insistent that I see Parasite in a theater. This is a really good movie they both inform me. I don't know..I'm rarely enthused about seeing movies in theaters any longer, unless they are big event movies and even then? I was enthused about the Avengers Endgame, but frankly? I enjoyed watching it at home more.
Chidi: I don't get why you don't like the movie experience in the theater -
Me: Well, the other movie goers are rather rude and text message, and I'm taller than you are and have longer legs -- the theaters are not made for people of my height.
Chidi (looks up at me): You got a point there.
I tower over him. He's five foot seven. I'm close to six foot.
My brother had a conversation with my 15 year old niece -- who is five foot 8, my brother is six foot five, and I'm almost six foot.
Brother: Be happy with your height. You can fit into more places than we can.
Neice: Well, you're scary tall Dad
Me (and he is built like a pole...the boy takes up about as much room as a pole): He has a point. You don't want to be this tall. Planes, movie theaters, cars...beds..the world it was not made for long-legged people.
2. I've learned over time not to give unasked for or unwanted advice either at work or online. Unless someone directly asks me for advice, I'm staying quiet. Because no good comes from unasked for advice.
Often I don't know all the particulars and just annoy the person. It's better to not say anything. Or just say, I'm sorry, I hope things get better soon.
3. Finished "The Harlot Countess" which was poorly paced and had one too many sex scenes. [ Granted it was called the Harlot Countess - so really, what did I expect?] Also I never quite warmed to the characters. I skimmed 90% of it. I found it boring to be honest.
And the writing was uneven and jarring in places.
The bad guy did get it in the end -- so it at least resolve itself, but at the price of the heroine's art career -- which annoyed more than one reader, including myself. The hero gets to keep his political career, but she sacrifices her career as an artist -- and it all felt rather contrived.
The Cat Sebastian book was the best of the romance novels that I've read this year. [ And no, it wasn't The Harlot Countess, it was entitled A Duke in Disguise. Honestly, romance writers suck at titles, just saying. No wonder I can never remember them. My mother and I have fun with this..
Mother regaling me with a synopsis of the romance she just read.
Me: What's the title?
Mother: I've no clue. I can't remember. Duke something or other.]
I'm craving a good relationship drama in book form and I'm not finding it. (And no, I don't mean dysfunctional family drama -- I can get that reading social media and talking to Wales.)
4. Also been reading the X-men Dawn of X books. There's an article in EW about the reboot of the X-men (it made the EW Must List of the Decade..). The books are a mixed bag. I like some more than others. Right now, the one's with the most innovative art are - Fallen Angels, X-Force and New Mutants. X-Men isn't bad, it's good enough, I suppose. I don't know I've been a tad disappointed in it. (I want more relationship drama and less, oh, we're a big happy family now and nothing horrible happened ever.) I like relationship drama angst in my comic books. I want them to be soapy, dang-it.
Fallen Angels is the most interesting, not perfect by a long shot, but interesting.
New Mutants took the rather clever approach of sending the New Mutants into Shiar Space to find Sam Guthrie. Thusly removing the New Mutants from the adult X-men, and the other characters -- which means they can be the central focus of their own storyline.
Maruders has the best female characters in Kate Pryde, Emma Frost, and Storm.
It also is interesting in its own way, with an edginess. (I like Jean Grey a lot, but God she's boring.)
Excalibur -- feels like a book for teens. And I'm not sure what the point of it is. Except that it makes me miss the original version.
X-Force feels like a retread of the gritty X-men books where everyone is being killed by horrible human killing machines.
X-men -- should be better than it is. But I'm giving it a chance, because it focuses on my favorite comic book character of all time. A character that I can guarantee will NEVER get his own movie or any movie made about him (or if he's in one, he'll always be a supporting or sideline character). Why? The movie makers find him boring for some reason. I always like characters and narratives that defy movie and television adaptations. I don't know what that says about my taste exactly.
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Date: 2019-11-23 03:39 am (UTC)And yes, having long legs is a pain in most places with fixed seating. I'm lucky that I'm only slightly uncomfortable. My really tall friends suffer.