Day #262

In between worrying about not being busy enough at work, and well COVID, I'm hanging in there today. Also irritable. So I did the Loving Kindness Meditation this morning, that I found on the Internet. Mainly because I couldn't remember the words.

It helped. Very calming.

The internet is still trying to scare and irritate me, but I refuse to let it.

Other items of note..
pop culture items...

1. Fans, Films and Franchizes - an Interview with Jeff Gomez
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2. I'm strongly considering watching the Netflix flick "MANK" about the making of Citizen Kane, but I can't say I agree with this critic that Citizen Kane is the best movie ever made. I'm afraid the appeal of Citizen Kane is entirely lost on me. I've seen it three times. I've gone to sleep during it more than one. Hence the repeated viewings. I find it duller than dirt.

But, I do like some of Herman J. Mankiewicz's films...such as Pride of the Yankees and Man of the World, even if I can't remember them that well.

Family

Mother: So you know that video on FB that was a scam? The one in which your Aunt D sent by FB Messenger, and later posted was a scam?
Me: Yes...( Read more... )

Meanwhile, mother had talked to brother, apparently brother didn't know that niece couldn't get into the seminar she was supposed to take.

Mother: So why was my granddaughter unable to get into the Seminar? Didn't she have to take that? Your sister didn't seem to know.
Brother: Wait. What? What do you mean she couldn't get in? This is the first I'm hearing of this.( Read more... )

Crazy Company

Today we did the Safety Stand Down Meeting Via Teams. Some time back the organization decided that if it had Safety meetings once a month or every three months (like everything else in crazy org, it's not exactly consistent), that the org would be safer. So we have these meetings - usually about safety things that have zip to do with us. Sometimes we don't have them at all - BOSS (who after doing a couple, realized they were a colossal waste of his time), started just sending us the information and the attendance sheet. OR he delegates it to someone else on his team.
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Watching crazy org handle COVID has been an experience. One I could have done without, to be honest. Like everyone else - they are kind of floundering.

New York vs. COVID

While Britain administers its first vaccines to the elderly, and infirm, New York waits for final approvals and vetting to distribute theirs. They received 100,000 vaccines from Pfizer, which NY is distributing to frontline health care workers and nursing home residents first (that was the majority of deaths - and they can't afford to lose any more hospital staff). They've figured out that they have enough to cover all the nursing homes and frontline healthcare workers in the State. (In NY State - I'm after 270,000 people to get the vaccine.)

Regarding the news about the Doofus passing on getting the next round of 100 million vaccines from Pfizer, and as a result they won't be available until June - I actually remember that. ( Read more... )

( Governor's email )

Mustn't argue with people on social media, bad mojo. So I'm posting this picture instead...

Day 33 of the 50 Day Book Challenge

The prompt, I don't like and can't really do - it's name a book with a love triangle. Here's my problem - I don't like love triangles, so don't read books with love triangles. I don't really understand them being monogamous. If I found out someone loved me and another person, I'd most likely just get out of the way and say - take them, I'm gone. Bye, now.

This may explain why I'm still single. I don't compete with people for other people. It always ends badly. I don't like competition. It requires hurting someone, which I'd prefer not to do, if I can help it.

Also, for the individual who can't choose? Why?

Like I said, this is a trope that irritates me and doesn't really work well for me. I put up with them on television serials, but reluctantly. (They are kind of impossible to avoid on television serials.)

So instead of that, although you can do it if you want to, I'm creating my own prompt.

Name a book that features an LGBT romance by an LGBT writer.

I wanted to name one by Poppy Z Brite, which I read in the 1990s and loved, but I can't remember the title of the book.

So, I'm going with Alice Walker's The Color Purple.

I read it in high school - and it was among the first books that I read that featured a lesbian romance at its center. And it was written by a woman who was openly in love and involved with another woman in the 1990s.

Even now, “The Color Purple” is the only Pulitzer-winning novel to feature a lesbian protagonist and also be written by a woman. While Walker has never openly conformed to any one label under the “women-loving-woman” umbrella, she was openly and romantically involved with the singer Tracy Chapman in the 1990s, telling the Guardian, “(It) was delicious and lovely and wonderful and I totally enjoyed it and I was completely in love with her but it was not anybody’s business but ours.”

The Color Purple - a Sublime Portrayal of Lesbianism ahead of its time

This was adapted into a musical and a film.

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I adored this book. It had been rec'd to me by my drama teacher in high school. It's told in letter format, or epistolary style, which I was enamored with at the time.