Catching up...

Playing catch-up with my friends list this morning, since I was unable to respond or even read most of the entries this week. Work only permits minimial personal internet access. Basically I can go online to get plane tickets, check train schedules, check to see if a friend and I are still meeting for lunch or dinner - which is actually very hard, because I do not have access to personal email. Livejournal yes. Email no. As a result, the only time I have to play on the internet now is when I get home, which I suppose is as it should be.
The difficulty is I'm spending all day long reading complex agreements on the computer screen, and checking the information in them on a database. So my eyes are killing me by 5pm. I can read a book, but a computer screen...sigh.
Not complaining so much as explaining.

Work...well it is better. Tired though. And hoping I get paid today. Please. Getting paychecks in the mail.

Had some lovely dinners this week with aresthusa (Wed), pumpkinpuss (Thurs), and cjlasky (Friday) - nice long chats about everything from ATS to personal stuff. cjlasky and aresthusa elicited my opinion on their Season 6 fanfic writing project.

( stuff on fanfic writing in general, not specifically the S6 project )

Regarding the S6 project? ( my two cents for whomever is interested )

Finally - condolences to all those on my friends list, and off
who have suffered violence sexual or otherwise. There are too many of you. I feel like I am in the minority and that fact saddens me more than anything else. I know far too many people who have been raped, physically beaten, sexually molested or violated or assaulted. The world does not have to be hellish, it is our choice to make it that way and I think our choice to make it something else. And I admire those who have spoken out. I also admire those who continue to suffer in silence.

( Read more... )

Must go look at email now. And then get off line and wait for cable repair man to call me or come - from 2-6pm. Sigh.

Patience...

It's the little things that annoy me...like not getting my paycheck.

( whine about not getting my paycheck, skippable )

On the other hand...my cable is back! Yay!! Apparently the problem was the splitter that the old cable guy had used which made the box go kablooey after a while. He fixed it in five minutes. Quick fix, long wait. Life in a nutshell.

I honestly don't know how people who aren't patient survive.
Most of my time is spent waiting.

After reading Rahael's lovely posts on her grandmother, I called mine today, haven't talked to her in a while. She's doing well. The same snarky lady as always. I told her about my paycheck problems and she laughed. Granny always trys to laugh in the face adversity. She also reads alot. Fast reader. Read Gone With the Wind in 18 hours (she kept track way back when it was first published) and reads most 312 page books in maybe 3 hours. She doesn't remember much of it afterwards but as she puts it, she doesn't remember much of what she watchs on TV afterwards either. Now it takes me a week to read a 300 page book, on most occassions. Course I am reading other things, not just that book, but still, even if I sat and read just that book it would take at least two days. That said - I did manage somehow to read Richardson's 1300 page epic Clarissa in two weeks back in college. So maybe it does depend on how much other stuff you are plugging into the brain. They say we are reading less now, but as cjlasky and I discussed last night - if anything, we are reading more. It's just we aren't reading books published by publishers and housed between covers as much. Why? Because we can now read books online, fanfiction, essays, emails (same as letters but more of them), websights, posting boards, livejournal entries, newspapers, newsletters, magazines, webzines, teleplays on the net, etc. Sooner or later we will watch information overload, considering the sheer amount we stuff into our brains each day. I know I'm starting to forget things again...just the other day, I made lunch for myself before I left for work, chopped some cheese, got some meat, stuffed it in bag, lugged it to work, stuffed it in the fridge there - went to get my lunch and found much to my suprise, I'd taken the entire hunk of cheese with me to work. (Sigh). Oh well. I guess some information needs to drift loose for the rest to attach, right?