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My back and neck have been bugging me today, along with my right knee. I blame the weather, and arthritis. And sitting at a desk all day. And the commute. Oh well, at least I scheduled my lab work. Now, I just have to schedule three more doctor appointments and two x-rays. And figure out where to do it around my schedule.
And try not to worry about the stupid union going on strike. Folks were worrying over it in line to get cookies at Insominac Cookies today. A strike would effectively shut down a good portion of the city and all of Long Island - it would be a nightmare for everybody - which is why I'm against it. The Insominac Cookie Clerk decided I deserved a free cookie and a discount - since I come in every day or every other day. I got three cookies today as a result, one was free, and I only paid $5.58 for all three of the home-made, freshly baked, chewey, warm cookies - and the cookies are medium size. I was in heaven. Insominac has the best gluten free cookies anywhere. I've not had better gluten-free cookies anywhere - the closest I've come to these are Heritage. They are even better than home-made tollhouse cookies and the old Mrs. Fields that I had prior to being diagnosed with Ceiliac. You've not had cookies until you've had these. Yum.
I wish there was a pill or something I could take - to get more patience. I feel I've almost reached my limit?
Mother thinks I've a phenomenal amount of patience.
Apparently folks in the publishing realm and in educational circles have decided that people are writing with AI, if:
* they are using em -- dashes.
* semicolons
* proper word syntax
* coma usage
Yes, we live in a world in which -- if you have learned to write well or know proper grammar usage, you are considered a robot. So, from now on - if anyone checks my grammar or syntax - can I accuse them of being a bot? Yeah, that'll end well.
***
Chloe Zhao was apparently interviewed (prior to the cancellation of the Buffy pilot) on the Buffy ships. (Damn, they must all be very disappointed that the Revival was cancelled - since they marketed the hell out of the pilot.) She stated that she was a huge Buffy/Spike fan in her twenties, but in her forties she understood the appeal of Buffy/Angel and Buffy/Riley a little more - that said, it was clear that Buffy/Spike was the end game. (None of that is surprising or interesting, what is interesting - is her comment that the difficulty with Angel is he's a runner. He doesn't stay and deal with anything. He just keeps taking off on Buffy - which was at a time the writer's way of showing Buffy's abandonment issues in regards to male father figures, she has the same problem with Riley and to a degree Giles, it's really not until Spike - that she gets past it, Spike keeps coming back, and eventually gets a soul for her, and sacrifices himself for her cause - allowing her to be finally free of the male abandonment issue. It wasn't meant to be a romantic arc, so much as handling "Daddy" issues are - there is a reason all of Buffy's romantic love interests were about 10-240 years older than her (Riley, Wood, Spike, Angel - even Parker was older, and all left but Spike (and technically Wood, although not sure he counts). If you watch Angel - he gets over the running away thing eventually, by the end of that series - he's confronting the problem head on, and isn't hiding or running away or letting others manipulate him any longer. Which is kind of why the S8 comics annoyed Angel fans. It's like they regressed the character of Angel to serve a plot point, and a bad plot point at that.
As an aside? I'd rather have a continuation of Buffy in animated form, than a continuation of Firefly. We've enough stuff like Firefly out there, I mean come on - Star Trek, BSG, Farscape, Star Wars, Expanse (which is a lot better by the way), etc... Firefly wasn't that good. I tried a re-watch and thought, damn, this is annoying in places - it may have gotten better. I should try again? I remember enjoying it, but I never really loved it. It was problematic? It kind of took the worst things in Westerns and threw them in the middle of a space opera, that reminded me a touch more of Space 1999 meets Star Wars? I'd have preferred more of Caprica - which was a bit more...innovative?
I don't see myself watching an animated Firefly. I barely watch animated Star Trek or Star Wars, and I liked those better.
And try not to worry about the stupid union going on strike. Folks were worrying over it in line to get cookies at Insominac Cookies today. A strike would effectively shut down a good portion of the city and all of Long Island - it would be a nightmare for everybody - which is why I'm against it. The Insominac Cookie Clerk decided I deserved a free cookie and a discount - since I come in every day or every other day. I got three cookies today as a result, one was free, and I only paid $5.58 for all three of the home-made, freshly baked, chewey, warm cookies - and the cookies are medium size. I was in heaven. Insominac has the best gluten free cookies anywhere. I've not had better gluten-free cookies anywhere - the closest I've come to these are Heritage. They are even better than home-made tollhouse cookies and the old Mrs. Fields that I had prior to being diagnosed with Ceiliac. You've not had cookies until you've had these. Yum.
I wish there was a pill or something I could take - to get more patience. I feel I've almost reached my limit?
Mother thinks I've a phenomenal amount of patience.
Apparently folks in the publishing realm and in educational circles have decided that people are writing with AI, if:
* they are using em -- dashes.
* semicolons
* proper word syntax
* coma usage
Yes, we live in a world in which -- if you have learned to write well or know proper grammar usage, you are considered a robot. So, from now on - if anyone checks my grammar or syntax - can I accuse them of being a bot? Yeah, that'll end well.
***
Chloe Zhao was apparently interviewed (prior to the cancellation of the Buffy pilot) on the Buffy ships. (Damn, they must all be very disappointed that the Revival was cancelled - since they marketed the hell out of the pilot.) She stated that she was a huge Buffy/Spike fan in her twenties, but in her forties she understood the appeal of Buffy/Angel and Buffy/Riley a little more - that said, it was clear that Buffy/Spike was the end game. (None of that is surprising or interesting, what is interesting - is her comment that the difficulty with Angel is he's a runner. He doesn't stay and deal with anything. He just keeps taking off on Buffy - which was at a time the writer's way of showing Buffy's abandonment issues in regards to male father figures, she has the same problem with Riley and to a degree Giles, it's really not until Spike - that she gets past it, Spike keeps coming back, and eventually gets a soul for her, and sacrifices himself for her cause - allowing her to be finally free of the male abandonment issue. It wasn't meant to be a romantic arc, so much as handling "Daddy" issues are - there is a reason all of Buffy's romantic love interests were about 10-240 years older than her (Riley, Wood, Spike, Angel - even Parker was older, and all left but Spike (and technically Wood, although not sure he counts). If you watch Angel - he gets over the running away thing eventually, by the end of that series - he's confronting the problem head on, and isn't hiding or running away or letting others manipulate him any longer. Which is kind of why the S8 comics annoyed Angel fans. It's like they regressed the character of Angel to serve a plot point, and a bad plot point at that.
As an aside? I'd rather have a continuation of Buffy in animated form, than a continuation of Firefly. We've enough stuff like Firefly out there, I mean come on - Star Trek, BSG, Farscape, Star Wars, Expanse (which is a lot better by the way), etc... Firefly wasn't that good. I tried a re-watch and thought, damn, this is annoying in places - it may have gotten better. I should try again? I remember enjoying it, but I never really loved it. It was problematic? It kind of took the worst things in Westerns and threw them in the middle of a space opera, that reminded me a touch more of Space 1999 meets Star Wars? I'd have preferred more of Caprica - which was a bit more...innovative?
I don't see myself watching an animated Firefly. I barely watch animated Star Trek or Star Wars, and I liked those better.