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[shadowkat]

I'm a little buzzed so more likely to write things will later regret. Did the vodka tonic after work. The work I do...sigh, so many people drink to take the edge off.
People kid about it at work. Want to know something?? My essential tremor completely disappears when I drink alocohol or if I smoked. I don't do either at work. I take medication instead. Thanks to a doctor I met on the ATPOBTVS board who informed me when he met me that you can get medication to take care of that. It's genetic. And frustrating - because everyone associates it with nervousness or anxiety, except for the best boss I ever had, who sits across the aisle from me. I hate her politics, but she is an amazing person. Proving to me at least that the Archie Bunker's of this world can be the most amazingly giving people. Don't make assumptions and don't generalize. NEVER do that. And when you do, slap yourself upside the head. Every time I do it? I'm proved wrong. My former boss? A ultra-conservative Republican, loved George W. Bush, and makes incredibly politically incorrect statements, but she has a heart as big as the world and she would give her left arm for you. How do I know this?
She did it for me. She's done it for co-workers. And I knew a guy who was a liberal,
that I politically agreed with, and he was scum. He hurt me more than anyone. He drove me into unemployment and a depression with clever and manipulative serial bullying. So...I learned the hard way, that political views, television interests,
etc? DON'T MATTER! The only thing that matters is the values of the person, whether they care about others. That's it. I guess I am lucky that I learned this lesson, a lot of people never do.

In other news...MD has advised that I read the Help, which she believes is much better than the movie. Emma Stone was miscast in the lead role. MD by the way is black. I only mention this because it is important to realize that there are black people who liked The Help. MD is from the Caribbean Islands. CW who is also black but never read the Help and is very conservative, is offended by it. While MD is not.
Proof that you mustn't generalize in regards to people. I've decided to read the Help for myself and make up my own mind.

I've found that I can't watch violent show any longer. I don't know why. Fringe is okay, it's weird violence. But I'm not sure how I will deal with Justified and Game of Thrones next year...will wait and see. Vamp Diaries doesn't bug me. It's cartoon violence. Nor does True Blood. Supernatural on the other hand, I may have to give up on. Along with American Horror Story. I've turned a corner.

Want to know what brought me to my Unitarian Universalist church? This weird quote:

"All who have stories? Bring them here." Or something to that effect. I remember thinking, I've come home. Because for me? It's all about the stories, it always was.

Comments

[empresspatti.livejournal.com]

The Help was ok - but my book club then read "The Warmth of Other Suns" and it was a truly epic work of research and mind opening. I highly recommend it.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I'd actually advise the Audio version of the book "The Help". Somehow hearing it in the voices of the characters made the POV work better. And the Audiobook is well acted.

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

In the end it never pays to value ideologies to much. They all create a us/them situation that dehumanizes the other side. And if people actually get that people are more important than their cause then they will be good to be around no matter which way they swing politically.

[ann1962]

The Help resulted in more book talk at my book group than any other book we'd ever selected. Wish I hadn't heard some of what had been said though. ::boggles::

The book is better than the movie, but both have some serious, let us say, issues. Fast read. I like the book's pov structure moreso than the movie's. In the book, only the black people are written with a Southern dialect, with the y'alls etc. She stripped the whites of any dialect.