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Eight Things Before Bed......
Nov. 30th, 2010 10:52 pm[Should warn you, am a bit in a snarky mood tonight - combination of bad weather, seasonal depression, slight cough, and work stress. Feel free to skip all of the below, I'll try to cut-tag as much as possible to assist you in that endeavor. Also, occurred to me today, that I'm probably the most free to be myself on this blog - or am the least compartmentalized. Considering I do it under a name other than my own, which I assume you figured out...unless of course you think there's actually someone with the first and last name shadowkat wandering about out there, and there very well may be, for all I know. If so, my sympathies. And their parents deserve to be slapped upside the head for being idiots in the naming department. I really wonder what people are thinking when they name their kids. While "Mighty" is a great name for a dog, it can be a pain for a kid. Reminds me of that song by Johnny Cash called "A Boy Named Sue".]
1. Hunger Games and Buffy reboot links: Found this link on at least two separate posts on my flist today:
http://io9.com/5700871/we-need-more-vampire-slayers--just-not-more-buffy
( thoughts on the above link and a link to why Hunger Games isn't Twilight )
2. Watched Glee tonight. Is it just my imagination or were there less musical numbers in the last few episodes? Glee works best when it has a lot of musical numbers and not all that much dramatic moments. Also, Rachel grates on my nerves. She's grated on my nerves from the beginning. Can they make her any more whiny and bossy? Apparently so. I agree with Quinn, every time she opens her mouth, I want to punch her. Except when she is with Kurt. When Rachel is with Kurt, I actually sort of like her - and well they tend to sing well together, so that also helps. Kurt brings out the best in Rachel. Finn and Rachel do not work for me. But Rachel and Kurt sound great together. (No, I don't want them together romantically - Kurt is gay, but a friendship...would work for me. Rachel needs a friend, she doesn't have any at the moment.) ( spoilers for tonight's Glee )
3. In other news, I appear to have developed a bit of asthmatic chest cough. I'm hoping it will go away. It feels allergy related. But last year allergy related developed into bronchitis. So don't want to repeat. Will take a bit of the codeine cough syrup tonight to put a halt to it.
4. Haven't seen much posting on "wikileaks" (okay any posting outside of one person in Germany) - which has however been filling the newspapers. Momster found it amusing - because most of it is just gossip, stupid gossip at that. Also depicts how really bad our internet security currently is. Doesn't take much for someone to hack into our nation's top secret files.
5.Am thisclose to caving and getting HBO in the Spring, just so I can watch Game of Thrones. Which is silly because it will be on DVD eventually, like everything else.
6. TV? I've come to the conclusion that the best tv shows of the new season are in order:
( Best New TV Shows This Season - Starting in the Fall, I'm not counting tv shows like Caprica that started last winter and got canceled )
7.Work has me strung out at the moment, yeah, I know, what's new? I've been whining about work all year. I should be grateful I got a job. Don't you hate it when folks whine about their job, particularly when you don't have one? I know I did. I don't hate my job. It's just stressing me and everyone else out at the moment...although, should look on the bright side, I'm not alone.
8. Haiti Forum article may actually get published in Church newsletter or something church related.
Interesting. I appear to be getting my journalistic social action essays/articles published. Tried with the Buffy stuff - but people weren't interested, so I gave up. And the novel - well, I'm working on getting that out, even bought two mags that have lengthy articles on how to write query letters and synopsises. Which I'm struggling with. It's not as easy as you might think to summarize a 390 page novel in ten pages and make it interesting. Particularly when it is your novel and you're sort of sick of it.
1. Hunger Games and Buffy reboot links: Found this link on at least two separate posts on my flist today:
http://io9.com/5700871/we-need-more-vampire-slayers--just-not-more-buffy
( thoughts on the above link and a link to why Hunger Games isn't Twilight )
2. Watched Glee tonight. Is it just my imagination or were there less musical numbers in the last few episodes? Glee works best when it has a lot of musical numbers and not all that much dramatic moments. Also, Rachel grates on my nerves. She's grated on my nerves from the beginning. Can they make her any more whiny and bossy? Apparently so. I agree with Quinn, every time she opens her mouth, I want to punch her. Except when she is with Kurt. When Rachel is with Kurt, I actually sort of like her - and well they tend to sing well together, so that also helps. Kurt brings out the best in Rachel. Finn and Rachel do not work for me. But Rachel and Kurt sound great together. (No, I don't want them together romantically - Kurt is gay, but a friendship...would work for me. Rachel needs a friend, she doesn't have any at the moment.) ( spoilers for tonight's Glee )
3. In other news, I appear to have developed a bit of asthmatic chest cough. I'm hoping it will go away. It feels allergy related. But last year allergy related developed into bronchitis. So don't want to repeat. Will take a bit of the codeine cough syrup tonight to put a halt to it.
4. Haven't seen much posting on "wikileaks" (okay any posting outside of one person in Germany) - which has however been filling the newspapers. Momster found it amusing - because most of it is just gossip, stupid gossip at that. Also depicts how really bad our internet security currently is. Doesn't take much for someone to hack into our nation's top secret files.
5.Am thisclose to caving and getting HBO in the Spring, just so I can watch Game of Thrones. Which is silly because it will be on DVD eventually, like everything else.
6. TV? I've come to the conclusion that the best tv shows of the new season are in order:
( Best New TV Shows This Season - Starting in the Fall, I'm not counting tv shows like Caprica that started last winter and got canceled )
7.Work has me strung out at the moment, yeah, I know, what's new? I've been whining about work all year. I should be grateful I got a job. Don't you hate it when folks whine about their job, particularly when you don't have one? I know I did. I don't hate my job. It's just stressing me and everyone else out at the moment...although, should look on the bright side, I'm not alone.
8. Haiti Forum article may actually get published in Church newsletter or something church related.
Interesting. I appear to be getting my journalistic social action essays/articles published. Tried with the Buffy stuff - but people weren't interested, so I gave up. And the novel - well, I'm working on getting that out, even bought two mags that have lengthy articles on how to write query letters and synopsises. Which I'm struggling with. It's not as easy as you might think to summarize a 390 page novel in ten pages and make it interesting. Particularly when it is your novel and you're sort of sick of it.
