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Sep. 20th, 2024 10:44 pm1. The hardest thing - or so I've found - finding people who like the same things I do. More to the point? Enjoy analyzing the shit out of stuff.
It's actually why I'm on Dreamwidth and how I ended up online - on the Buffy Boards. I wanted to analyze the shit out of Buffy, and couldn't find anyone to do it with. The people I knew who watched it - didn't want to analyze it, or speculate. The rest didn't watch.
( Trying to find people to discuss GH and X-men comics with on the internet...is almost impossible, better luck with GH, zero luck with the X-men )
It's ironic, because I got into the X-men discussing it with friends in undergrad. They got me interested in it. We used to spend hours discussing and analyzing various character arcs and story arcs, and debating them.
But now? Eh, no such luck.
Sometimes I miss undergrad. But I don't miss the dorms.
Oh? Mother told me that now people hire interior designers to design their "dorm" rooms?? Apparently spend upwards of $10K to do that.
It's true.
"Considering the high price point — in 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported families paying professional designers up to $10,000 for dorm detailing — most parents unsurprisingly opt out of decorative assistance."
Parent Led Dorm Design - via People Magazine Exlusive
This is insane. I can't afford an interior designer - not that I'd want one. I'd feel like I was living in a hotel room.
2. Body aches, took a shower, feel slightly better. I had two charly horses in my upper calves today, and foot bothered me when I got home. But the shoes I wore today worked better. Still need to get X-ray, procrastinating, because it won't matter either way. Probably just a bruised bone or stress fracture, since there's no swelling or outside bruising to speak of.
3. Overall, I think I prefer DW to the other social media platforms. It's by far the kindest, easiest to monitor, manage, and calmest of the platforms. Also the least headache inducing.
Twitter - gives me a headache whenever I jump on it. Also it makes me aware of how many stupid violent people roam the earth. I'd rather not know this?
I really don't need to know that there are folks that would invite he who shall not be named to dinner.
There was a thread, where Mia Farrow asked: who would you invite to dinner?
Me: no one famous or remotely famous. I'd like to be able to eat and digest the dinner without nervous anxiety and awkwardness.
FB isn't as bad - just a lot of self-promotion and adds, unless you play in private groups. Same with Instagram - which is mainly positive sayings and platitudes, because I keep liking them. Although one or two a day is really enough, actually one or two a week is enough. I do not need to see 20-30 of them a day. That's a touch excessive?
4. Interesting...they are finally developing the Patricia Cornwell, Kay Scarpetta Mysteries - via Amazon. Except I'm leery of the casting?
I was thinking more Jodi Foster, and less Nicole Kidman. I'm getting Nicole Kidman as Scarpetta, Bobby Cannavale as Marino, and Jaime Lee Curtis as her sister (who I don't remember at all). Granted I read the books in the 1990s and early 00s. So it has been awhile. I kind of binge read mystery novels from roughly 1980 to 2010. Then I got burned out and haven't read them in a while.
Kay Scarpetta Series Greenlit by Amazon
I don't know if anyone but me has read these? I loved them. I told my mother about it - and she could barely remember them. She is 81, I should give her a break in that regard. Also I read more of them than she did.
I wish they'd do the Janet Evanouvich Stephanie Plum books as a series. Those are fun.
Hmmm, Detective Series - I'd like to see on television?
* Another attempt at the Dresden Files
* Stephanie Plum - Janet Evanovich
* Victoria Bliss - Elizabeth Peters
* Kay Scarpetta - Patricia Cornwell
What about you?
5. Saw this funky gal on the subway - she had spiked hair, sunglasses, a sleeveless t-shirt, long khaki pants, and was holding the cutest little dog - who didn't look quite real. Clearly recently groomed, and brown - you know those toy brown poodles? But are actual poodles? The dog was a puppy, pint sized. Fit in her arms like a kitten. And so cute. So I drew her when I came home, and plan on drawing her again tomorrow and doing a watercolor.
This is a rough sketch. The painting sketch will hopefully be cleaner. I usually do more than one. Sometimes get it right on the first round, sometimes not. It's harder to draw movement of hands, though.
( Read more... )
I indicated on the sketch the colors so, I'd remember them tomorrow.
It's actually why I'm on Dreamwidth and how I ended up online - on the Buffy Boards. I wanted to analyze the shit out of Buffy, and couldn't find anyone to do it with. The people I knew who watched it - didn't want to analyze it, or speculate. The rest didn't watch.
( Trying to find people to discuss GH and X-men comics with on the internet...is almost impossible, better luck with GH, zero luck with the X-men )
It's ironic, because I got into the X-men discussing it with friends in undergrad. They got me interested in it. We used to spend hours discussing and analyzing various character arcs and story arcs, and debating them.
But now? Eh, no such luck.
Sometimes I miss undergrad. But I don't miss the dorms.
Oh? Mother told me that now people hire interior designers to design their "dorm" rooms?? Apparently spend upwards of $10K to do that.
It's true.
"Considering the high price point — in 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported families paying professional designers up to $10,000 for dorm detailing — most parents unsurprisingly opt out of decorative assistance."
Parent Led Dorm Design - via People Magazine Exlusive
This is insane. I can't afford an interior designer - not that I'd want one. I'd feel like I was living in a hotel room.
2. Body aches, took a shower, feel slightly better. I had two charly horses in my upper calves today, and foot bothered me when I got home. But the shoes I wore today worked better. Still need to get X-ray, procrastinating, because it won't matter either way. Probably just a bruised bone or stress fracture, since there's no swelling or outside bruising to speak of.
3. Overall, I think I prefer DW to the other social media platforms. It's by far the kindest, easiest to monitor, manage, and calmest of the platforms. Also the least headache inducing.
Twitter - gives me a headache whenever I jump on it. Also it makes me aware of how many stupid violent people roam the earth. I'd rather not know this?
I really don't need to know that there are folks that would invite he who shall not be named to dinner.
There was a thread, where Mia Farrow asked: who would you invite to dinner?
Me: no one famous or remotely famous. I'd like to be able to eat and digest the dinner without nervous anxiety and awkwardness.
FB isn't as bad - just a lot of self-promotion and adds, unless you play in private groups. Same with Instagram - which is mainly positive sayings and platitudes, because I keep liking them. Although one or two a day is really enough, actually one or two a week is enough. I do not need to see 20-30 of them a day. That's a touch excessive?
4. Interesting...they are finally developing the Patricia Cornwell, Kay Scarpetta Mysteries - via Amazon. Except I'm leery of the casting?
I was thinking more Jodi Foster, and less Nicole Kidman. I'm getting Nicole Kidman as Scarpetta, Bobby Cannavale as Marino, and Jaime Lee Curtis as her sister (who I don't remember at all). Granted I read the books in the 1990s and early 00s. So it has been awhile. I kind of binge read mystery novels from roughly 1980 to 2010. Then I got burned out and haven't read them in a while.
Kay Scarpetta Series Greenlit by Amazon
I don't know if anyone but me has read these? I loved them. I told my mother about it - and she could barely remember them. She is 81, I should give her a break in that regard. Also I read more of them than she did.
I wish they'd do the Janet Evanouvich Stephanie Plum books as a series. Those are fun.
Hmmm, Detective Series - I'd like to see on television?
* Another attempt at the Dresden Files
* Stephanie Plum - Janet Evanovich
* Victoria Bliss - Elizabeth Peters
* Kay Scarpetta - Patricia Cornwell
What about you?
5. Saw this funky gal on the subway - she had spiked hair, sunglasses, a sleeveless t-shirt, long khaki pants, and was holding the cutest little dog - who didn't look quite real. Clearly recently groomed, and brown - you know those toy brown poodles? But are actual poodles? The dog was a puppy, pint sized. Fit in her arms like a kitten. And so cute. So I drew her when I came home, and plan on drawing her again tomorrow and doing a watercolor.
This is a rough sketch. The painting sketch will hopefully be cleaner. I usually do more than one. Sometimes get it right on the first round, sometimes not. It's harder to draw movement of hands, though.
( Read more... )
I indicated on the sketch the colors so, I'd remember them tomorrow.