Year 2- Day #73...Raining...
May. 28th, 2021 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatBut not a bad day overall. It's cool and raining at the moment, and will be cool and rainy tomorrow. Hee Hee, my brother is cooped up with his daughter, her boyfriend, the friend from Hawaii and his wife during a rainy Memorial Day weekend. Mother told me that he had a friend from Hawaii ensconced in his barn, and his daughter's boyfriend was driving up from Virginia to spend the weekend with them.
You know? I think I managed to somehow miss out on the whole romantic teen experience. It's completely foreign to me. But I am rather glad that my brother has to deal with his teenage daughter visiting with her boyfriend, much the same way his parents had to deal with him and his teenage girlfriends.
Also...movies are back. Theaters are open again. I may be able to actually see a movie again - although I'm putting it off until late July early August. There's nothing out right now - that I want to see, but stuff is coming. At any rate - summer action movies have come back, yay! I missed them. I love summer action movies. (I'm told old for most of the rom-coms. Watching twenty-somethings and teens have sex isn't really my cup of tea any longer.)
Gunpowder Milkshake is coming to Netflix - it's a female action flick about mother/daughter assassins, portrayed by Karen Gillian and Lena Headly, with Michelle Yeoh, Angela Bassett, Carla Guigino, and Paul Giamatti.
Also, coming to theaters is The Eternals which stars Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Kit Harrington, and directed by Chloe Zhao.
The US could reach 70% vaccination by July, and NY could hit it before that, who knows - we're at 55% now. I don't know about anyone else? But I'm feeling hopeful.
(I'm also taking a break from the news again, which is irritating me. I know what's going on, I just have decided to ignore it for a bit. My nation's politics annoys me. I think it annoys everyone regardless of where you are on the political spectrum. Also, is it just me or is The Tokoyo Olympics Doomed?)
Crazy Workplace sent out a memo today letting us know that they are once again deciding to commemorate Juneteenth by giving us the day off prior to the Holiday. But it's not permanent because they don't want to give the union a holiday free of charge or interfere in the collective bargaining. I don't understand why the union didn't demand it in the last agreement - which was decided in 2020. I'd happily trade Columbus Day for Juneteenth. Or Election Day for that matter, which is confusing - since there's a law now that you get four hours off to vote.
Little has changed in my world since March 2020. But it is gradually beginning to change...and with any luck, I'll be able to make a field trip to the Botanical Gardens this weekend - I'm thinking Monday.
Work is also coming my way again, so I'm busy. And it's different work - so new challenges. I did update my Linked-in Account, and in so doing discovered another positive review of my book on Amazon - from the London, England. Which was lovely. (I added my non-traditionally published book to my Linked-in Account.) Also added various project that I've completed to the account - with links describing them. Linked-in is a business networking social media account.
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I finished The Rules of Civility by Amor Torres finally - which was very good. It’s haunting and my mind continues to play with the characters and stories long after it was done. I didn’t like it as well as Gentleman in Moscow - I liked the characters better in Gentleman. Rules of Civility reminded me a little of The Great Gatsby. Also, I can’t help but wonder if the writer was being ironic with the name “Content” (as in state of being and in content at the same time). The protagonist, Katie, or the narrator, reminds me a lot of the cipher protagonist/narrator in Gatsby…kind of shallow, kind of sneering, and a bit of a user who floats contently by, but doesn’t have much “content” herself to share. She's not all that interesting, while those around her are - and she kind of "sponges" off of them. (A problem with first person narration unfortunately.) While Tinker reminds me a bit of Gatsby - who is trying to push into the social classes, and finally realizes it’s not worth it and goes to back to the world he loved on the docs, never to see Katie again. Yet, she sees him, who unlike her, is immortalized in a photograph in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And Dickie, marries a substantial gal, and goes into politics. While Katie is fine with gossip, high glass apartments, and a guy from a wealthy “Long Island” family. The author nails the NY publishing world and its empty headedness - the world obsessed with content, but has little in its own heads - so little that the content often is missing from the very things it publishes. Content with just that. I think there’s a play on words here. It’s rather clever. The novel also reminded me of Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s - with Tinker. Then of course the reference to Walden Pond, where you just leave everything behind, but those who do have the funds and wherewithal to do so.
It's haunting novel about lives lead, and not lead. And the inability to trace back the steps. All we can do is live moment by moment. Katie Content at the end stands, sipping a cocktail in front of photos of herself and her husband and friends...content to sip.
I like fictional novels - if written well - they pull me into another's perspective and at the same time provide new perspective on my own world view and life. So that I am not quite the same afterwards, but not quite different either.
Anyhow, I'm beginning to realize what the fantasy novel I was dabbling with is about, and why I want to write it - so will go back to it soon. For a moment or so, I thought it was a passing fancy or romantic fantasy, best left to my head - but no, there's more there I think.
Picked up The Menopause Manifesto by Dr. Jen Gunter via audio books in the hope that I can get a grasp on how to combat the brain fog, weight gain, hot flashes, and mood swings. I'm thinking estrogen patch. I may contact the gynecologist and ask soon.
Hope all is well in your world. Mine is at the moment a rainy one, outside, but inside sunnier than usual.
You know? I think I managed to somehow miss out on the whole romantic teen experience. It's completely foreign to me. But I am rather glad that my brother has to deal with his teenage daughter visiting with her boyfriend, much the same way his parents had to deal with him and his teenage girlfriends.
Also...movies are back. Theaters are open again. I may be able to actually see a movie again - although I'm putting it off until late July early August. There's nothing out right now - that I want to see, but stuff is coming. At any rate - summer action movies have come back, yay! I missed them. I love summer action movies. (I'm told old for most of the rom-coms. Watching twenty-somethings and teens have sex isn't really my cup of tea any longer.)
Gunpowder Milkshake is coming to Netflix - it's a female action flick about mother/daughter assassins, portrayed by Karen Gillian and Lena Headly, with Michelle Yeoh, Angela Bassett, Carla Guigino, and Paul Giamatti.
Also, coming to theaters is The Eternals which stars Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Kit Harrington, and directed by Chloe Zhao.
The US could reach 70% vaccination by July, and NY could hit it before that, who knows - we're at 55% now. I don't know about anyone else? But I'm feeling hopeful.
(I'm also taking a break from the news again, which is irritating me. I know what's going on, I just have decided to ignore it for a bit. My nation's politics annoys me. I think it annoys everyone regardless of where you are on the political spectrum. Also, is it just me or is The Tokoyo Olympics Doomed?)
Crazy Workplace sent out a memo today letting us know that they are once again deciding to commemorate Juneteenth by giving us the day off prior to the Holiday. But it's not permanent because they don't want to give the union a holiday free of charge or interfere in the collective bargaining. I don't understand why the union didn't demand it in the last agreement - which was decided in 2020. I'd happily trade Columbus Day for Juneteenth. Or Election Day for that matter, which is confusing - since there's a law now that you get four hours off to vote.
Little has changed in my world since March 2020. But it is gradually beginning to change...and with any luck, I'll be able to make a field trip to the Botanical Gardens this weekend - I'm thinking Monday.
Work is also coming my way again, so I'm busy. And it's different work - so new challenges. I did update my Linked-in Account, and in so doing discovered another positive review of my book on Amazon - from the London, England. Which was lovely. (I added my non-traditionally published book to my Linked-in Account.) Also added various project that I've completed to the account - with links describing them. Linked-in is a business networking social media account.
***
I finished The Rules of Civility by Amor Torres finally - which was very good. It’s haunting and my mind continues to play with the characters and stories long after it was done. I didn’t like it as well as Gentleman in Moscow - I liked the characters better in Gentleman. Rules of Civility reminded me a little of The Great Gatsby. Also, I can’t help but wonder if the writer was being ironic with the name “Content” (as in state of being and in content at the same time). The protagonist, Katie, or the narrator, reminds me a lot of the cipher protagonist/narrator in Gatsby…kind of shallow, kind of sneering, and a bit of a user who floats contently by, but doesn’t have much “content” herself to share. She's not all that interesting, while those around her are - and she kind of "sponges" off of them. (A problem with first person narration unfortunately.) While Tinker reminds me a bit of Gatsby - who is trying to push into the social classes, and finally realizes it’s not worth it and goes to back to the world he loved on the docs, never to see Katie again. Yet, she sees him, who unlike her, is immortalized in a photograph in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And Dickie, marries a substantial gal, and goes into politics. While Katie is fine with gossip, high glass apartments, and a guy from a wealthy “Long Island” family. The author nails the NY publishing world and its empty headedness - the world obsessed with content, but has little in its own heads - so little that the content often is missing from the very things it publishes. Content with just that. I think there’s a play on words here. It’s rather clever. The novel also reminded me of Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s - with Tinker. Then of course the reference to Walden Pond, where you just leave everything behind, but those who do have the funds and wherewithal to do so.
It's haunting novel about lives lead, and not lead. And the inability to trace back the steps. All we can do is live moment by moment. Katie Content at the end stands, sipping a cocktail in front of photos of herself and her husband and friends...content to sip.
I like fictional novels - if written well - they pull me into another's perspective and at the same time provide new perspective on my own world view and life. So that I am not quite the same afterwards, but not quite different either.
Anyhow, I'm beginning to realize what the fantasy novel I was dabbling with is about, and why I want to write it - so will go back to it soon. For a moment or so, I thought it was a passing fancy or romantic fantasy, best left to my head - but no, there's more there I think.
Picked up The Menopause Manifesto by Dr. Jen Gunter via audio books in the hope that I can get a grasp on how to combat the brain fog, weight gain, hot flashes, and mood swings. I'm thinking estrogen patch. I may contact the gynecologist and ask soon.
Hope all is well in your world. Mine is at the moment a rainy one, outside, but inside sunnier than usual.