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shadowkat1. I don't know if I'm better or not -- did robot vacuum the apartment, got rid of 95% of the dust. Also...found a dead mouse behind my massive collection of canvas bags. Poor thing. It was tiny and looked fake. I threw it out. May have been recent, since not rotting and no flies or anything. (Weird and somewhat gross tid-bit - my brother told me that his cats will eat every part of the mouse but it's stomach and intestines, which they'll leave everywhere. He's always stumbling upon it and picking it up. ) I'm not afraid of rodents -- I actually think they are kind of cute. Don't mind reptiles either. But big insects and spiders really bother me.
Coughing is driving me crazy. Thought I was coughing up a couple of lungs last night. Chest and throat just burned. By about 5 am, my body had had it -- and just stopped. So I was able to finally sleep. Slept until 9:45.
Today coughed a little less than yesterday, and mostly in the afternoon - after I'd cleaned. So that may have aggravated it? Hard to say.
Been doing all the things one is supposed to do for this sort of thing. Whenever I'm sick like this I have to remind myself it is temporary -- it will resolve itself.
Talked to mother -- which resulted in another coughing fit. Also my vocal chords hurt. Coughing takes a lot out of a person.
2. Well...looks like the Republicans are getting their karmic day in court finally, and just prior to the 2020 election year. CNN Got an Exclusive that Giuliani Associate is willing to testify that Devin Nunes met with an ex-Ukranian offical to get dirt on Biden
What's weird about all of this is Biden isn't really that viable a candidate to begin with. He's making errors when he speaks, it's clear that he forgets stuff, and he's in his late 70s. I don't know about you? But I refuse to vote for anyone over the age of 74. (I'm willing to make an allowance for Elizabeth Warren at 70/71, but
the old white boys need to be put out to pasture already.)
Also it's so early in the game. This Fall 2019. We don't have the first primary until January, and you don't tend to know who is going to be picked until late June.
There's been quite a few people who joined the race just this past week. And several who dropped out.
So why risk your career, reputation, and the security of your country investigating a political rival who will most likely crash and burn in early 2020, and isn't even running against you at the moment?
I don't know how this going to turn out. But there's certainly a lot of hairpin twists and turns, which I wish were shocking but alas aren't.
3. This week's The Good Place was by far the best episode of the season. Also for the first time, we got some insight into who Chidi was as a character and his back story, plus a lot sequences I'd have preferred seeing more of, over the dumb inside work-place humor jokes that writers felt the need to throw at me. If I liked the work-place satire, I'd have watched the Office. (I don't.) At any rate this episode was a delight -- in oh so many ways, I even chuckled once or twice.
I think the reason I like Chidi so much is I sort of identify with his quirks. I overthink things, get indecisive, and feel the need to think it through before I leap. I'm also somewhat obsessed with doing the right thing for everyone involved-- when often there is no such thing. Having your superpower be -- analytical + empath -- is part curse and part gift.
The episode also really examined what Chidi's central issue was -- or the driving force of his indecisiveness and overthinking. He'd come to an epithany prior to making the choice to have his memories erased. And he wrote it down and gave it Janet, with the request to give it back to him when he requested it.
Janet: If you are asking me for it -- that means you remember it. Why do you need to see it too?
Chidi: I just do. Thanks.
In the flashbacks Chidi has while Michael is giving him back all his memories -- Chidi has one problem that keeps screwing him up, over and over again. He can't decide. But that's not really the route of it. The route is to understand how things work. He's looking for answers. He wants certainty that everything will work out. Basically he's hunting spoilers. Tell me this is my soul mate -- or the person I should be with. Tell me that I should be this person. Tell me that if I do this it will work out the way I want.
Along the way, he figures out that you don't have that in life. And relationships are built, not instantaneous. It's not pre-planned. There is no answer. And often the answer is the person you've come to trust and care for. (the second part I could have done with out and was a bit cheesy on the part of the writers -- who appear to be sappy romantics.)
Coughing is driving me crazy. Thought I was coughing up a couple of lungs last night. Chest and throat just burned. By about 5 am, my body had had it -- and just stopped. So I was able to finally sleep. Slept until 9:45.
Today coughed a little less than yesterday, and mostly in the afternoon - after I'd cleaned. So that may have aggravated it? Hard to say.
Been doing all the things one is supposed to do for this sort of thing. Whenever I'm sick like this I have to remind myself it is temporary -- it will resolve itself.
Talked to mother -- which resulted in another coughing fit. Also my vocal chords hurt. Coughing takes a lot out of a person.
2. Well...looks like the Republicans are getting their karmic day in court finally, and just prior to the 2020 election year. CNN Got an Exclusive that Giuliani Associate is willing to testify that Devin Nunes met with an ex-Ukranian offical to get dirt on Biden
What's weird about all of this is Biden isn't really that viable a candidate to begin with. He's making errors when he speaks, it's clear that he forgets stuff, and he's in his late 70s. I don't know about you? But I refuse to vote for anyone over the age of 74. (I'm willing to make an allowance for Elizabeth Warren at 70/71, but
the old white boys need to be put out to pasture already.)
Also it's so early in the game. This Fall 2019. We don't have the first primary until January, and you don't tend to know who is going to be picked until late June.
There's been quite a few people who joined the race just this past week. And several who dropped out.
So why risk your career, reputation, and the security of your country investigating a political rival who will most likely crash and burn in early 2020, and isn't even running against you at the moment?
I don't know how this going to turn out. But there's certainly a lot of hairpin twists and turns, which I wish were shocking but alas aren't.
3. This week's The Good Place was by far the best episode of the season. Also for the first time, we got some insight into who Chidi was as a character and his back story, plus a lot sequences I'd have preferred seeing more of, over the dumb inside work-place humor jokes that writers felt the need to throw at me. If I liked the work-place satire, I'd have watched the Office. (I don't.) At any rate this episode was a delight -- in oh so many ways, I even chuckled once or twice.
I think the reason I like Chidi so much is I sort of identify with his quirks. I overthink things, get indecisive, and feel the need to think it through before I leap. I'm also somewhat obsessed with doing the right thing for everyone involved-- when often there is no such thing. Having your superpower be -- analytical + empath -- is part curse and part gift.
The episode also really examined what Chidi's central issue was -- or the driving force of his indecisiveness and overthinking. He'd come to an epithany prior to making the choice to have his memories erased. And he wrote it down and gave it Janet, with the request to give it back to him when he requested it.
Janet: If you are asking me for it -- that means you remember it. Why do you need to see it too?
Chidi: I just do. Thanks.
In the flashbacks Chidi has while Michael is giving him back all his memories -- Chidi has one problem that keeps screwing him up, over and over again. He can't decide. But that's not really the route of it. The route is to understand how things work. He's looking for answers. He wants certainty that everything will work out. Basically he's hunting spoilers. Tell me this is my soul mate -- or the person I should be with. Tell me that I should be this person. Tell me that if I do this it will work out the way I want.
Along the way, he figures out that you don't have that in life. And relationships are built, not instantaneous. It's not pre-planned. There is no answer. And often the answer is the person you've come to trust and care for. (the second part I could have done with out and was a bit cheesy on the part of the writers -- who appear to be sappy romantics.)
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Date: 2019-11-24 02:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-11-24 03:17 am (UTC)Six Against the Universe
Date: 2019-11-24 02:46 pm (UTC)Just like S3, most of this season felt like throat clearing, or recapitulation of previous character beats. The new experiment and the various plot machinations couldn't disguise the fact that our core six had pretty much arrived at their new and improved selves at the end of last year and weren't going to progress (or regress) further. The one truly interesting character beat--Michael's shame over his demonic past--nearly got lost in the murk. (Granted, it can be difficult to sustain interest in a crew whose major flaws have been sanded down over 300 years of afterlife.)
The "all Chidi, all the time" plot of "The Answer" was more recapitulation, but we got the totality of his character arc in one potent blast, which was kinda neat. I love it when TV shows go "in between" previous episodes to show us what we missed, or how certain events were perceived by a specific character. And even though this was the Chidi Show, his fellow Team Cockroach players all contributed to his progress in their own inimitable style.
(The way Eleanor looks at Chidi... Kristen Bell just sells it.)
So now what? "Eleanor is the Answer" is great for the shippers out there, but the Judge might need some more convincing. "Aw, isn't that sweet?", I can hear her coo--and then: "Welp, time for the boom!"
The roller coaster's climb to the top is over. Time (1/9/20) for the final plunge.