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Didn't sleep well, and got up way too early with the intent to do laundry. (I got up at 5:34 am and was in bed by 11:30, and kept waking up.) So I'm glad I took today off - I was in a mood, and worse couldn't really focus until now. And lots of hot flashes.
Got into the laundry room - only to run into a guy who had gotten there a good hour or more before I did. ( Whining about doing laundry, feel free to skip )
I swear doing laundry shouldn't be this stressful. I never know when that room will be vacant and an obstacle course. Some days - it is, others, not so much. There's no telling. And whenever I think I've picked a perfect time - someone comes along and takes it from me. For a while there - weekday mornings at 6 AM was perfect. Then Thursday's at 5:15 pm. But alas, someone else always picks up on it too eventually.
Good news? The new machines will be more expensive and most likely dissuade the volume laundry users. And folks under forty. Also, I don't have to do laundry again until Thanksgiving. By that time, the new machines will be in place.
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I'm struggling with my Spanish trip plans. I want to go. I'm just nervous about the trips.( Read more... )
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Because of the sleep-deprived brain fog, and the irritability, I just binge-watched television shows.
* Lessons in Chemistry on Apple TV, starring Brie Larson, and based on the novel of the same name - is...compelling, but not as good as Julia (on HBO or as entertaining). It's supposed to be funny or a comedy, but I didn't find it to be funny. And spent a good portion of it - yelling at my television set.
It kind of brought out the misanthrope in me? There are maybe three-four nice men in the series? Everyone else, I wanted to smack into next week. There's lots of two-dimensional male chauvinist and sexist pigs in this series. And it is rather heavy handed in how sexist the 1940s, 50s and early 60s truly were.
The plot? Elizabeth Zott is a talented chemist. But after getting fired from her job as a lab tech, ends up as a television talk show/cooking host a decade later. Actually what that doesn't tell you is...why she is fired, and why she isn't able to get a good job as a chemist. So I will, but behind the cut. ( spoilers )
By the end of six episodes? I wanted to kick a lot of men in the groin.
So, make of that what you will?
* The Buccaneers - this is the series adapted from Wharton's half-finished novel. It's not the first adaptation, albeit maybe the most modern, with the pop music in the background. Whomever adapted this - borrowed heavily from Shondra Rhimes Bridgerton.
It's kind of fun, if a little slow in places. And made me want to kick various male Brits, but not all men. So progress? In other words, for being a historical, it's not quite as heavy handed in regards to its commentary on misogyny and sexism throughout time. A little more even-handed in this regard, and focusing a touch more on classism. Most stories that are about the late 1800s/early 1900s do.
Has a kind of Pride and Prejudice vibe to it. Merchant class American heiress falls for Titled Duke, without realizing it. The actors are somewhat appealing? But I may be too old for it. You know you are too old - when Christina Hendricks (who is much younger than I am) is playing the leads' mother.
Both of these are on Apple TV.
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On the book front?
I'm almost done with the audible version of Turn of the Screw by Henry James - I liked the play adaptation better. James is too flowery in his description for my taste. I really don't need graphic descriptions of everything. I can figure it out for myself. At any rate, I have an hour and thirty two minutes to go, and I'm bored. Considering this is a short work by James, and considered his most thrilling, I'm thinking I just have to accept the fact that Henry James is not to my taste and call it a day.
Picked up Barbara Streisand's Memoir My Name is Barbarafor a credit on Audible, and Stephen Fry's readings of various ghost stories, including MR James (my father once owned the collected ghost stories of MR James) - I don't know if they still have it. If so, I may ask my mother for that book.
[Damn, it's pitch dark at five now. I keep thinking it is eight o'clock and it's only five o'clock. My body is struggling to adapt to Standard Time. I really wish they'd stop switching back and forth. Pick one, guys, I really no longer care which.)
Also a free podcast of a comedian's take on grief and loss.
***
Gail Simone asked which comic book got you hooked? I honestly don't remember. It was an X-men comic. I'm thinking the Dark Phoenix Saga which I devoured in 1985, my freshman year of college. I'd not seen anything like it before - prior to that, comics in my head were all about male superheroes. Outside of Wonder Woman, women had no power or agency in comics or graphic novels. I was blown away by the fact that so many did in this one, also they were so diverse. There were five women with power in that comic. That blew me away.
Speaking of? I think the general public has burned out on superhero films and no longer feels the need to see them in theaters? The Marvels apparently cost $300 M to make, and only made $45 Million its first weekend. Compared to Barbie and Oppenheimer (which cost $200 million), that's nothing. Barbie and Oppenheimer made over $100 million their first week aout.
Got into the laundry room - only to run into a guy who had gotten there a good hour or more before I did. ( Whining about doing laundry, feel free to skip )
I swear doing laundry shouldn't be this stressful. I never know when that room will be vacant and an obstacle course. Some days - it is, others, not so much. There's no telling. And whenever I think I've picked a perfect time - someone comes along and takes it from me. For a while there - weekday mornings at 6 AM was perfect. Then Thursday's at 5:15 pm. But alas, someone else always picks up on it too eventually.
Good news? The new machines will be more expensive and most likely dissuade the volume laundry users. And folks under forty. Also, I don't have to do laundry again until Thanksgiving. By that time, the new machines will be in place.
***
I'm struggling with my Spanish trip plans. I want to go. I'm just nervous about the trips.( Read more... )
***
Because of the sleep-deprived brain fog, and the irritability, I just binge-watched television shows.
* Lessons in Chemistry on Apple TV, starring Brie Larson, and based on the novel of the same name - is...compelling, but not as good as Julia (on HBO or as entertaining). It's supposed to be funny or a comedy, but I didn't find it to be funny. And spent a good portion of it - yelling at my television set.
It kind of brought out the misanthrope in me? There are maybe three-four nice men in the series? Everyone else, I wanted to smack into next week. There's lots of two-dimensional male chauvinist and sexist pigs in this series. And it is rather heavy handed in how sexist the 1940s, 50s and early 60s truly were.
The plot? Elizabeth Zott is a talented chemist. But after getting fired from her job as a lab tech, ends up as a television talk show/cooking host a decade later. Actually what that doesn't tell you is...why she is fired, and why she isn't able to get a good job as a chemist. So I will, but behind the cut. ( spoilers )
By the end of six episodes? I wanted to kick a lot of men in the groin.
So, make of that what you will?
* The Buccaneers - this is the series adapted from Wharton's half-finished novel. It's not the first adaptation, albeit maybe the most modern, with the pop music in the background. Whomever adapted this - borrowed heavily from Shondra Rhimes Bridgerton.
It's kind of fun, if a little slow in places. And made me want to kick various male Brits, but not all men. So progress? In other words, for being a historical, it's not quite as heavy handed in regards to its commentary on misogyny and sexism throughout time. A little more even-handed in this regard, and focusing a touch more on classism. Most stories that are about the late 1800s/early 1900s do.
Has a kind of Pride and Prejudice vibe to it. Merchant class American heiress falls for Titled Duke, without realizing it. The actors are somewhat appealing? But I may be too old for it. You know you are too old - when Christina Hendricks (who is much younger than I am) is playing the leads' mother.
Both of these are on Apple TV.
***
On the book front?
I'm almost done with the audible version of Turn of the Screw by Henry James - I liked the play adaptation better. James is too flowery in his description for my taste. I really don't need graphic descriptions of everything. I can figure it out for myself. At any rate, I have an hour and thirty two minutes to go, and I'm bored. Considering this is a short work by James, and considered his most thrilling, I'm thinking I just have to accept the fact that Henry James is not to my taste and call it a day.
Picked up Barbara Streisand's Memoir My Name is Barbarafor a credit on Audible, and Stephen Fry's readings of various ghost stories, including MR James (my father once owned the collected ghost stories of MR James) - I don't know if they still have it. If so, I may ask my mother for that book.
[Damn, it's pitch dark at five now. I keep thinking it is eight o'clock and it's only five o'clock. My body is struggling to adapt to Standard Time. I really wish they'd stop switching back and forth. Pick one, guys, I really no longer care which.)
Also a free podcast of a comedian's take on grief and loss.
***
Gail Simone asked which comic book got you hooked? I honestly don't remember. It was an X-men comic. I'm thinking the Dark Phoenix Saga which I devoured in 1985, my freshman year of college. I'd not seen anything like it before - prior to that, comics in my head were all about male superheroes. Outside of Wonder Woman, women had no power or agency in comics or graphic novels. I was blown away by the fact that so many did in this one, also they were so diverse. There were five women with power in that comic. That blew me away.
Speaking of? I think the general public has burned out on superhero films and no longer feels the need to see them in theaters? The Marvels apparently cost $300 M to make, and only made $45 Million its first weekend. Compared to Barbie and Oppenheimer (which cost $200 million), that's nothing. Barbie and Oppenheimer made over $100 million their first week aout.