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Well, I survived my first week as a temporary consultant
at the finance company. Repeat TEMPORARY assignment. This could end in two weeks, three weeks, a month, three months - and I could be right back where I was two weeks ago. Temp/consulting/freelance assignments suck in that regard, don't they?
( stuff on job )
In other news, I'm struggling with technology today. Aol won't let me email people, such as my parents and cjlasky. It keeps bouncing my email back. ( To AOL Users )
The other tech problem was my cable went down. Apparently Time Warner is having cable service outtages around the city tonight. Not that I'm overly concerned - not much on on a Sat night anyway. But it is annoying. I hope it's back on in time for The 4400 and The Dead Zone on Sunday night or I'll be annoyed. There's about four or five dramas on TV right now that are gripping me: Nip/Tuck, Rescue Me, The Dead Zone, The 4400, and The West Wing reruns on Bravo (which stopped right before last year, damn-it! I missed last year's episodes because of Angel and wanted to catch up. Not that the last two years of The West Wing have been that gripping, but still, I was curious to see how they wrapped up the Zoey Kidnapping storyline.)
( tv show ramble/rant whatever...vague spoilers on Alias for those who haven't seen past Season 2 )
In Books - I finished Summer Knight by Jim Butcher last night. Not bad. But not satisfying either. There's something missing in Butcher's Dresden series - that wasn't missing in Rowlings' Harry Potter and Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles. I think the characters evolve more in those series. In Butcher's Dresden seems to stay basically the same in each book which may be more a fault of the mystery genre he's writting in. All the mysteries serial novelists have this problem from PdJames, Conan Doyle, to Janet Evanovich. The characters tend to stay the same in each book, oh they have new things happen to them and are horribly tortured at times, but they don't really evolve or appear to learn much. Also the storylines tend to be similar in each book - a myster, jeopardy, almost killed five or six times, romance that can never be resolved, character survives to fight another day. In Lymond series - Dunnett resolves the storyline threads. Her characters do evolve and change. Each battle the character fights leads to something.
( spoilers for Lymond Chronicles, Harry Potter Chronicles, and Dresden, because I'm tired of trying to be vague )
Currently trying to decide between The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, and Bridge of Birds Barry Hughart.
Need a break before reading Butcher's Death Masks.
at the finance company. Repeat TEMPORARY assignment. This could end in two weeks, three weeks, a month, three months - and I could be right back where I was two weeks ago. Temp/consulting/freelance assignments suck in that regard, don't they?
( stuff on job )
In other news, I'm struggling with technology today. Aol won't let me email people, such as my parents and cjlasky. It keeps bouncing my email back. ( To AOL Users )
The other tech problem was my cable went down. Apparently Time Warner is having cable service outtages around the city tonight. Not that I'm overly concerned - not much on on a Sat night anyway. But it is annoying. I hope it's back on in time for The 4400 and The Dead Zone on Sunday night or I'll be annoyed. There's about four or five dramas on TV right now that are gripping me: Nip/Tuck, Rescue Me, The Dead Zone, The 4400, and The West Wing reruns on Bravo (which stopped right before last year, damn-it! I missed last year's episodes because of Angel and wanted to catch up. Not that the last two years of The West Wing have been that gripping, but still, I was curious to see how they wrapped up the Zoey Kidnapping storyline.)
( tv show ramble/rant whatever...vague spoilers on Alias for those who haven't seen past Season 2 )
In Books - I finished Summer Knight by Jim Butcher last night. Not bad. But not satisfying either. There's something missing in Butcher's Dresden series - that wasn't missing in Rowlings' Harry Potter and Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles. I think the characters evolve more in those series. In Butcher's Dresden seems to stay basically the same in each book which may be more a fault of the mystery genre he's writting in. All the mysteries serial novelists have this problem from PdJames, Conan Doyle, to Janet Evanovich. The characters tend to stay the same in each book, oh they have new things happen to them and are horribly tortured at times, but they don't really evolve or appear to learn much. Also the storylines tend to be similar in each book - a myster, jeopardy, almost killed five or six times, romance that can never be resolved, character survives to fight another day. In Lymond series - Dunnett resolves the storyline threads. Her characters do evolve and change. Each battle the character fights leads to something.
( spoilers for Lymond Chronicles, Harry Potter Chronicles, and Dresden, because I'm tired of trying to be vague )
Currently trying to decide between The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, and Bridge of Birds Barry Hughart.
Need a break before reading Butcher's Death Masks.
