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Wow..a couple of people are breaking up.
Niece broke up with boyfriend number 2 (not to be confused with boyfriend number 1 who is the wannabe politician). This is the one she met out in Colorado and is the wannabe journalist/writer but not doing much of anything at the moment. ( Read more... )
Meanwhile..I just found out on Twitter, that Cat Valente had broken up with her partner/co-parent Heath Miller. Interesting that. That suprised me more. Heath informed everyone not Cat. Which was odd.
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Church aka Society
Tomorrow, I'm taking the Facilitator training. We'll see how this pans out. I didn't get the materials and information until today - they forwarded it to us after training Thursday's group on Zoom. I'd rather meet in person than on Zoom. I find it hard to connect or be present with folks on Zoom.
My mind wanders more. And I have done way too many Zoom meetings in my job.
A little nervous about it. I'm thinking I'll just be a circle facilitator not a lead. I'm not really sure why I felt the need to volunteer to do this. Except I want to help and I have no idea how else to do so? This I do have a background in - sort of, or in more aggressive less thoughtful situations.
Hopefully I don't live to regret it? God knows at this point. I place myself in the Universe's hands and pray for the best.
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Crazy Org
The bright side of my current job duties is I don't have to deal with Bright Young Thing aka the Drill Sergeant any longer, also no more site tours or monitored Zoom meetings.
( eh, more than you want to know... )
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Making headway finally in The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies. I'm annoyed with the twin sister of the narrator/protagonist. Mainly because she wants to go back to the quiet orderly life of tea. And I'm bored without that. Also, I may be over-identifying with the protagonist a tad - she's tall, bigger, and kind of rational. ( vague spoilers )
Also making headway through...Ancillary Justice - it's harder to follow. I keep getting confused. We have all these characters. Fifty or more, and some of them have similarly sounding names. So far I've figured out that it's about Breq, an AI, who is part of the Ship The Justice of Toren, or an ancillary of it. ( vague spoilers ) Add to that confusion? The protagonist (and first person narrator - it's told in first person by the Ancillary, Breq) - refers to everyone as she. They see themselves as she, and pretty much everyone else as she. Gender is irrelevant to them. Which is fine. But hard to distinguish, and there's a lot of so and so said this and that. Making me want to delete the word said from my own novel.
"Said" works fine when you are reading, you're eyes skip over it. But it is annoying when it is read. Although I'd probably be even more confused. At least this narrator can do multiple voices. That's imperative. Narrators who can't are hard to follow.
Will Wheaton who did "Starter Villain by John Scalzi" - can do maybe two or three voices, if that. Luckily Scalzi's novels aren't as complex, and a whole lot easier to follow. Usually feature a nerdy lead male character, and a lot of somewhat annoying humans pestering them. Here? The true heroes and the best characters were the cats and the dolphins. I was able to follow it for the most part, but Wheaton is not the best narrator or voice actor. He pretty much sounds like Will Wheaton, and having listened to two Scalzi books done by him, I think Scalzi sounds the same way. The word said really bugged me here.
I adore Marsters reading voice - so will have to grab more of his. Also the narrators of Illona Andrew's books are quite good - they pick good narrators. And this one, Ancillary Justice is marvelous.
It's so odd, prior to the pandemic - I hated audio books and couldn't understand how people listened to them. Now? I adore them. Did a 180 on that, my friends. Goes to show you? I'm generally agnostic on things, and can change my mind. I may get stubborn, but I can be gently persuaded, just not forced, into liking most cultural items and activities. It all depends on the approach, apparently.
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Off to bed. Wish me luck tomorrow. This part will actually be the easy part, it's leading one of the groups...which isn't until June 15, assuming people sign up.
Niece broke up with boyfriend number 2 (not to be confused with boyfriend number 1 who is the wannabe politician). This is the one she met out in Colorado and is the wannabe journalist/writer but not doing much of anything at the moment. ( Read more... )
Meanwhile..I just found out on Twitter, that Cat Valente had broken up with her partner/co-parent Heath Miller. Interesting that. That suprised me more. Heath informed everyone not Cat. Which was odd.
***
Church aka Society
Tomorrow, I'm taking the Facilitator training. We'll see how this pans out. I didn't get the materials and information until today - they forwarded it to us after training Thursday's group on Zoom. I'd rather meet in person than on Zoom. I find it hard to connect or be present with folks on Zoom.
My mind wanders more. And I have done way too many Zoom meetings in my job.
A little nervous about it. I'm thinking I'll just be a circle facilitator not a lead. I'm not really sure why I felt the need to volunteer to do this. Except I want to help and I have no idea how else to do so? This I do have a background in - sort of, or in more aggressive less thoughtful situations.
Hopefully I don't live to regret it? God knows at this point. I place myself in the Universe's hands and pray for the best.
***
Crazy Org
The bright side of my current job duties is I don't have to deal with Bright Young Thing aka the Drill Sergeant any longer, also no more site tours or monitored Zoom meetings.
( eh, more than you want to know... )
***
Making headway finally in The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies. I'm annoyed with the twin sister of the narrator/protagonist. Mainly because she wants to go back to the quiet orderly life of tea. And I'm bored without that. Also, I may be over-identifying with the protagonist a tad - she's tall, bigger, and kind of rational. ( vague spoilers )
Also making headway through...Ancillary Justice - it's harder to follow. I keep getting confused. We have all these characters. Fifty or more, and some of them have similarly sounding names. So far I've figured out that it's about Breq, an AI, who is part of the Ship The Justice of Toren, or an ancillary of it. ( vague spoilers ) Add to that confusion? The protagonist (and first person narrator - it's told in first person by the Ancillary, Breq) - refers to everyone as she. They see themselves as she, and pretty much everyone else as she. Gender is irrelevant to them. Which is fine. But hard to distinguish, and there's a lot of so and so said this and that. Making me want to delete the word said from my own novel.
"Said" works fine when you are reading, you're eyes skip over it. But it is annoying when it is read. Although I'd probably be even more confused. At least this narrator can do multiple voices. That's imperative. Narrators who can't are hard to follow.
Will Wheaton who did "Starter Villain by John Scalzi" - can do maybe two or three voices, if that. Luckily Scalzi's novels aren't as complex, and a whole lot easier to follow. Usually feature a nerdy lead male character, and a lot of somewhat annoying humans pestering them. Here? The true heroes and the best characters were the cats and the dolphins. I was able to follow it for the most part, but Wheaton is not the best narrator or voice actor. He pretty much sounds like Will Wheaton, and having listened to two Scalzi books done by him, I think Scalzi sounds the same way. The word said really bugged me here.
I adore Marsters reading voice - so will have to grab more of his. Also the narrators of Illona Andrew's books are quite good - they pick good narrators. And this one, Ancillary Justice is marvelous.
It's so odd, prior to the pandemic - I hated audio books and couldn't understand how people listened to them. Now? I adore them. Did a 180 on that, my friends. Goes to show you? I'm generally agnostic on things, and can change my mind. I may get stubborn, but I can be gently persuaded, just not forced, into liking most cultural items and activities. It all depends on the approach, apparently.
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Off to bed. Wish me luck tomorrow. This part will actually be the easy part, it's leading one of the groups...which isn't until June 15, assuming people sign up.