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shadowkat1. Quote found on Facebook:
Book Hangover: Inability to start a new book because you're still living in the last book's world.
So true. Have the same problem on occasion with television series for some reason, particularly after marathoning them either on DVD or DVR. Which is actually the downside of doing a tv series marathon, particularly if it is a good television series.
Except it wouldn't be called Book Hangover. TV hangover?
2. Speaking of books, struggling with revising my own. I keep picking at it. Not sure I trust the writers group to help. Should work on it this weekend. Keep procrastinating.
Part of me, I suspect, doesn't want to publish it or send it out to be ripped asunder by an unappreciative reading public, particularly when said reading public has questionable taste.
3. Still trying to avoid politics...it still gives me hives. A fight broke out on one of my friend's facebook pages when she made the mistake of posting criticism of the RNC, reminding me of why I tend to avoid doing this too often.
Last night's exchange:
Facebook shared page: RNC Convention is joke, seriously Clint Eastwood speaks to a chair, Paul Ryan Lies and Mitt's Deceptions...
BF: Was this posted by a socialist?
[Me: No, a centrist-libertarian, not quite the same thing. And...WTF does socialism have to do with Paul Ryan lying and Clint Eastwood speaking to an empty chair in a failed comedy routine? I fail to see the connection here.]
RG: If you take the train, go to the hospital, use the fire department, sanitation, and the police - than you have government services, you insane corporate worshiping nitwit (he actually used far worse language than that...I'm paraphrasing and being a bit politically correct here.) [ME: Interesting, but not quite the response I was going for here..maybe something more in the lines of..."WTF does lying have to do with socialism?"]
GFG: As if you aren't fueling the corporate body with your socialist rhetoric...(and it just took off from there with 85 comments)
[Me: alrighty then, when it comes to politics some people just aren't rational. Or remotely living in this reality...but that's another problem. And a bit silly. I'm also sort of thinking a few people should have their voting rights revoked until they take a few history, political science, math and economics courses. Not asking for much, just an 8th to 10th grade understanding. Either that or have their sanity checked. If you are can't figure out that someone who was born in Hawaii of an American mother (born in Kansas) and a Kenyan father is in fact an American by birth, you should not be permitted to vote due to the fact that you have failed a basic competency test.]
The fact of the matter is? The US is unfortunately, depending on one's pov (if you liked GW Bush it's probably a fortunate thing), not a democracy but a republic. This means that the elected party is NOT elected by popular vote. We have electoral college. Each state gets points or electoral votes based on its population size (and when it got into the union - first come first served, so to speak). So it is possible to have a guy win the popular vote but lose the election - this happened with Al Gore in 2000, he won the popular vote, but GW Bush won the election based on the electoral college. Think how much better life would have been if that was not the case? We might actually not be in a recession and fighting two Wars. Although hard to know for certain. Where's a Tardis when you need one? Solve so many problems (and create new one's...but still.).
4. Not a bad day. Cooler than yesterday, a bit overcast (it looked like it was going to rain at any moment but alas, never did), and humid. Took a long walk. About 5 miles, maybe less.
Okay off to bed. Have decided my biggest hurdle in losing weight is not getting enough sleep. I'm woefully sleep deprived. 5-6, sometimes 7 hours if I'm lucky, is not enough sleep. Terminal insominac. Runs in the family. Busy mind. Can't be helped. I do what I can.
Book Hangover: Inability to start a new book because you're still living in the last book's world.
So true. Have the same problem on occasion with television series for some reason, particularly after marathoning them either on DVD or DVR. Which is actually the downside of doing a tv series marathon, particularly if it is a good television series.
Except it wouldn't be called Book Hangover. TV hangover?
2. Speaking of books, struggling with revising my own. I keep picking at it. Not sure I trust the writers group to help. Should work on it this weekend. Keep procrastinating.
Part of me, I suspect, doesn't want to publish it or send it out to be ripped asunder by an unappreciative reading public, particularly when said reading public has questionable taste.
3. Still trying to avoid politics...it still gives me hives. A fight broke out on one of my friend's facebook pages when she made the mistake of posting criticism of the RNC, reminding me of why I tend to avoid doing this too often.
Last night's exchange:
Facebook shared page: RNC Convention is joke, seriously Clint Eastwood speaks to a chair, Paul Ryan Lies and Mitt's Deceptions...
BF: Was this posted by a socialist?
[Me: No, a centrist-libertarian, not quite the same thing. And...WTF does socialism have to do with Paul Ryan lying and Clint Eastwood speaking to an empty chair in a failed comedy routine? I fail to see the connection here.]
RG: If you take the train, go to the hospital, use the fire department, sanitation, and the police - than you have government services, you insane corporate worshiping nitwit (he actually used far worse language than that...I'm paraphrasing and being a bit politically correct here.) [ME: Interesting, but not quite the response I was going for here..maybe something more in the lines of..."WTF does lying have to do with socialism?"]
GFG: As if you aren't fueling the corporate body with your socialist rhetoric...(and it just took off from there with 85 comments)
[Me: alrighty then, when it comes to politics some people just aren't rational. Or remotely living in this reality...but that's another problem. And a bit silly. I'm also sort of thinking a few people should have their voting rights revoked until they take a few history, political science, math and economics courses. Not asking for much, just an 8th to 10th grade understanding. Either that or have their sanity checked. If you are can't figure out that someone who was born in Hawaii of an American mother (born in Kansas) and a Kenyan father is in fact an American by birth, you should not be permitted to vote due to the fact that you have failed a basic competency test.]
The fact of the matter is? The US is unfortunately, depending on one's pov (if you liked GW Bush it's probably a fortunate thing), not a democracy but a republic. This means that the elected party is NOT elected by popular vote. We have electoral college. Each state gets points or electoral votes based on its population size (and when it got into the union - first come first served, so to speak). So it is possible to have a guy win the popular vote but lose the election - this happened with Al Gore in 2000, he won the popular vote, but GW Bush won the election based on the electoral college. Think how much better life would have been if that was not the case? We might actually not be in a recession and fighting two Wars. Although hard to know for certain. Where's a Tardis when you need one? Solve so many problems (and create new one's...but still.).
4. Not a bad day. Cooler than yesterday, a bit overcast (it looked like it was going to rain at any moment but alas, never did), and humid. Took a long walk. About 5 miles, maybe less.
Okay off to bed. Have decided my biggest hurdle in losing weight is not getting enough sleep. I'm woefully sleep deprived. 5-6, sometimes 7 hours if I'm lucky, is not enough sleep. Terminal insominac. Runs in the family. Busy mind. Can't be helped. I do what I can.
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Book/TV Hangover
Date: 2012-09-03 01:26 pm (UTC)And I finished watching four seasons of Breaking Bad and then found I couldn't watch anything else for a bit because BB was still deeply in my head.
Re: Book/TV Hangover
Date: 2012-09-03 03:55 pm (UTC)Then you start looking for similar things...it takes a while to cleanse the mental palate.