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Mar. 31st, 2022 09:04 pmI found this quote on Twitter just now...
Writing: sometimes the words flow like the sweetest of streams and other times they stay locked in your brain bashing it with broken glass covered fists of fury.
Yup.
Work is mentally, emotionally, and physically exhausting at the moment. Co-workers have, however, been exceedingly nice to me this week. One even came by to check on me. So has management. I think they are afraid I might quit?
I definitely threatened to do so...repeatedly. Empty threats. For now.
The commute also is exhausting. I worry every time I catch the train about getting a seat, being safe, and getting to and from work on time. Plus there's an awful lot of stairs. Accessible, they aren't. I want ramps, not steps. Whomever thought steps was a good idea was an idiot. I may ask someone on the current project that I'm on - why they didn't go with ramps as opposed to stairs, escalators and elevators (I'm working on a project to make nine stations on long island accessible to folks with crutches, wheel chairs, disabilities...actually that's the project that's been taking up 90% of my time.) It's probably due to logistics, and icing conditions.
Hollywood is still whining about the slap on social media. Hollywood? It was just a slap, get over your entitled rich asses and move on. Sheesh.
My brother is annoyed with me for telling my mother that he stated she was very chatty.
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Mother also threatened me with her arthritis. Each month she reminds me that I too will suffer this fate. Just so I don't feel alone - my brother was also threatened with it.
**
At work - to break up the day a bit and while I was dozing off analyzing firm responsibility checks - I listened to one of Maurice Bernard's State of Mind youtube podcasts - this one featured an actor who became an alcoholic at the age of 9. ( Read more... )
***
There's an awful lot of bingeable television series premiering on streaming now:
1. Bridgerton S2 - Netflix (scheduled for this weekend)
2. Moon Knight (on Disney +)
3. Julia - on HBO Max about the making of Julia Child's television cooking show.
( excerpt from the vulture review )
4. Animals - that a coworker rec'd which is on Netflix
5. rest of The Gilded Age
6. Sandition
7. Killing Eve S4
And I may have forgotten a few. I keep meaning to watch Picard, finish Discovery, start 1883, and now we have The Offer (about the making of The Godfather) all on Paramount Plus. Plus, I've canceled my subscription to The National Theater Live Platform - but should at least finish watching various programs on it.
Ugh. A wealth of television shows, after a brief drought of nothing grabbing my interest (it was brief as in two weeks, let's face it this is the Golden Age of Television - we'll never run out of content).
People were demoaning the death of the novel again - somewhere. (It's the usual suspects - bored English Lit Professors, frustrated literary novelists, and bored book critics...one can't take them seriously any longer.) Barack Obama's response amused me - "we aren't in any danger of the novel dying, we're a story-telling species, it will always exist." He's right. It will.
[I know there's serious news stuff going on, I just don't want to talk about it or focus on it at the moment. It's not going anywhere, and me focusing on it - isn't going to change anything. I can safely ignore it.]
Writing: sometimes the words flow like the sweetest of streams and other times they stay locked in your brain bashing it with broken glass covered fists of fury.
Yup.
Work is mentally, emotionally, and physically exhausting at the moment. Co-workers have, however, been exceedingly nice to me this week. One even came by to check on me. So has management. I think they are afraid I might quit?
I definitely threatened to do so...repeatedly. Empty threats. For now.
The commute also is exhausting. I worry every time I catch the train about getting a seat, being safe, and getting to and from work on time. Plus there's an awful lot of stairs. Accessible, they aren't. I want ramps, not steps. Whomever thought steps was a good idea was an idiot. I may ask someone on the current project that I'm on - why they didn't go with ramps as opposed to stairs, escalators and elevators (I'm working on a project to make nine stations on long island accessible to folks with crutches, wheel chairs, disabilities...actually that's the project that's been taking up 90% of my time.) It's probably due to logistics, and icing conditions.
Hollywood is still whining about the slap on social media. Hollywood? It was just a slap, get over your entitled rich asses and move on. Sheesh.
My brother is annoyed with me for telling my mother that he stated she was very chatty.
( Read more... )
Mother also threatened me with her arthritis. Each month she reminds me that I too will suffer this fate. Just so I don't feel alone - my brother was also threatened with it.
**
At work - to break up the day a bit and while I was dozing off analyzing firm responsibility checks - I listened to one of Maurice Bernard's State of Mind youtube podcasts - this one featured an actor who became an alcoholic at the age of 9. ( Read more... )
***
There's an awful lot of bingeable television series premiering on streaming now:
1. Bridgerton S2 - Netflix (scheduled for this weekend)
2. Moon Knight (on Disney +)
3. Julia - on HBO Max about the making of Julia Child's television cooking show.
( excerpt from the vulture review )
4. Animals - that a coworker rec'd which is on Netflix
5. rest of The Gilded Age
6. Sandition
7. Killing Eve S4
And I may have forgotten a few. I keep meaning to watch Picard, finish Discovery, start 1883, and now we have The Offer (about the making of The Godfather) all on Paramount Plus. Plus, I've canceled my subscription to The National Theater Live Platform - but should at least finish watching various programs on it.
Ugh. A wealth of television shows, after a brief drought of nothing grabbing my interest (it was brief as in two weeks, let's face it this is the Golden Age of Television - we'll never run out of content).
People were demoaning the death of the novel again - somewhere. (It's the usual suspects - bored English Lit Professors, frustrated literary novelists, and bored book critics...one can't take them seriously any longer.) Barack Obama's response amused me - "we aren't in any danger of the novel dying, we're a story-telling species, it will always exist." He's right. It will.
[I know there's serious news stuff going on, I just don't want to talk about it or focus on it at the moment. It's not going anywhere, and me focusing on it - isn't going to change anything. I can safely ignore it.]