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shadowkat1. Apparently the first episode of "Sherlock! S3" has premiered in the UK. I know this because flist has posted reviews. But thankfully behind cut-tags. So am not spoiled. Well except for:
poster1: I liked it.
poster2: And I liked it...
poster3: In brief? I seriously did not like it.
One of the things I love most about livejournal is contradictory reviews spaced on top of each other. I find rather reassuring and quite comforting. Although - was sorely tempted to spoil myself on the "seriously did not like it" post.
Suffice it to say - Sherlock has not premiered in the US. Probably waiting until Downtown finishes airing? Or they have an arrangement with the BBC that they can't air it until it completes its run in the UK first?
2. Started reading The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarity - it's an Australian novel that made a lot critical best of the year lists. It's in three points of view, separate from each other, actually at this point they don't even know each other as far as I'm aware, and sort of stream of consciousness. Quite witty in places. And has been advertised as a touching, realistic and at times satiric take on Australian suburban life.
Here's the Good Reads Blurb:
Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive. . . .
Cecilia Fitzpatrick has achieved it all—she’s an incredibly successful businesswoman, a pillar of her small community, and a devoted wife and mother. Her life is as orderly and spotless as her home. But that letter is about to change everything, and not just for her: Rachel and Tess barely know Cecilia—or each other—but they too are about to feel the earth-shattering repercussions of her husband’s secret.
Acclaimed author Liane Moriarty has written a gripping, thought-provoking novel about how well it is really possible to know our spouses—and, ultimately, ourselves.
Far more literary than last five books I read, although that admittedly wouldn't be hard.
I'd throw it in contemporary women's literature. Not chick-lit - too literary, more along the lines of Colette, Anne Taylor, and Lorrie Moore, albeit less poetic or descriptive.
Right now - it's quite gripping.
3. So the first big snowstorm of the season is called "Hercules".
Coworker: When did they start giving names to snowstorms??
Good question. For some reason we've become more terrified of storms in the 21st Century than in the 20th. You'd think it would be the opposite - considering how much information we have at our disposal, and well how many storms we've survived to date. But no...the media reacts to a storm as if its armageddon or the end of the world as we know it. I think the problem may well be that we have too much media and there just is not enough news to go around. So when any story hits - they go bonkers. Because it's far more interesting to report on a monster snow-storm than the latest cat video to hit the internet.
Because I happen to work in the transportation industry, specifically a commuter railroad that is located on an island - which has a tendency to get hit hard by storms, I know a lot about these storms - often 48 hours prior to their arrival. Plus co-workers who all live out towards the end of the island, in what amounts to the suburban version of "the boondocks", I tend to learn more about the on-coming storm than most.
Currently it will dump 5-10 inches on NYC, most likely 10-15 on Long Island. With temperatures dropping to the teens, with windchills below 0.
Co-workers are freaking out. They checked to see if our building would be open tomorrow.
(I don't know why they thought it would be closed - it stayed open during the last three blizzards, why should this one be any different. Plus while other workplaces may close, transportation agencies don't. It didn't close during the blackout. And it tells us that safety is its number one concern - apparently not in regards to its workforce attempting to get to work. Hey, we aren't on site, so they aren't liable.) Schools however are closed. (Beginning to think school teachers and school nurses have cushy jobs - they get the entire summer off, two weeks at Christmas, Spring Break, and snow days. Although there is the down-side of having to discipline unruly kids 8 hours a day - which I would not be able to do.)
Oh, well Hercules has hit. Nice name for a storm. Personally, I think they should be more ironic with their names - call it something like Tiny or Pipsqueak.
4. Discussed diet with nutritionist, who thinks I'm unbelievable or amazing and wants me to either write my entire story down (sort of did on lj at New Year's) and tell it a lecture she's giving. I've already inspired a co-worker, who asked me for the name of my holistic healer for her daughter, who is going through something similar to what I went through and is desperate.
The nutritionist also told me, and I found this rather interesting - that our emotions are linked to what we are digesting. That the intestinal track is directly linked to the brain and affects how we feel. In short - we do think with our gut. My own personal experience supports this - before I gave up sugar, grains, alcohol, cheeses...I was angry all the time, depressed, anxious, filled with envy and jealousy, after I gave up all sugar, grains, etc...I stopped feeling envy, jealousy, rage, spiraling anxiety, or depression. These emotions disappeared. It was so weird.
Also apparently toxins are released through the skin - so breakouts, rashes, etc are signs of these toxins being released. Same with itches beneath the skin.
Rather interesting. There's a book she suggested I read entitled: "Molecular Emotions" - I think that's the title. Will have to check.
So far dietary reading list includes:
* Good Calories/Bad Calories
* The History of the Human Body: Evolution, Science and Disease
* The Paleo Manifesto
By the way, Paleo - comes from Paleoithic - this is considered the caveman, hunter-gatherer,
and primal diet. The view is that our diet has progressed faster than we've evolved. And we are not eating to fit our bodies needs. Also everyone's body is different. Some people are born vegetarians, other's really aren't. (I'm not. I'd die if I tried to be a vegetarian, I know this for a fact, mainly because I sort of tried it. I'm a carnivore. But I've met vegetarians who would die if they ate meat.) Add to this the number of ways the people who mass produce and farm our food are poisoning it with pesticides, antibotics, hormones, etc. So organic and local, without pesticides, gmo's or antibotics is best. Skip Soy - in the US it's horribly processed. Overseas not as bad. And the issue with Pork, is pigs don't sweat so don't release the toxins...there was a reason some religions don't permit it.
I keep fact-checking all of these things. I have over time become an excellent fact-checker, plus I have great fact-checkers on my flist.
poster1: I liked it.
poster2: And I liked it...
poster3: In brief? I seriously did not like it.
One of the things I love most about livejournal is contradictory reviews spaced on top of each other. I find rather reassuring and quite comforting. Although - was sorely tempted to spoil myself on the "seriously did not like it" post.
Suffice it to say - Sherlock has not premiered in the US. Probably waiting until Downtown finishes airing? Or they have an arrangement with the BBC that they can't air it until it completes its run in the UK first?
2. Started reading The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarity - it's an Australian novel that made a lot critical best of the year lists. It's in three points of view, separate from each other, actually at this point they don't even know each other as far as I'm aware, and sort of stream of consciousness. Quite witty in places. And has been advertised as a touching, realistic and at times satiric take on Australian suburban life.
Here's the Good Reads Blurb:
Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive. . . .
Cecilia Fitzpatrick has achieved it all—she’s an incredibly successful businesswoman, a pillar of her small community, and a devoted wife and mother. Her life is as orderly and spotless as her home. But that letter is about to change everything, and not just for her: Rachel and Tess barely know Cecilia—or each other—but they too are about to feel the earth-shattering repercussions of her husband’s secret.
Acclaimed author Liane Moriarty has written a gripping, thought-provoking novel about how well it is really possible to know our spouses—and, ultimately, ourselves.
Far more literary than last five books I read, although that admittedly wouldn't be hard.
I'd throw it in contemporary women's literature. Not chick-lit - too literary, more along the lines of Colette, Anne Taylor, and Lorrie Moore, albeit less poetic or descriptive.
Right now - it's quite gripping.
3. So the first big snowstorm of the season is called "Hercules".
Coworker: When did they start giving names to snowstorms??
Good question. For some reason we've become more terrified of storms in the 21st Century than in the 20th. You'd think it would be the opposite - considering how much information we have at our disposal, and well how many storms we've survived to date. But no...the media reacts to a storm as if its armageddon or the end of the world as we know it. I think the problem may well be that we have too much media and there just is not enough news to go around. So when any story hits - they go bonkers. Because it's far more interesting to report on a monster snow-storm than the latest cat video to hit the internet.
Because I happen to work in the transportation industry, specifically a commuter railroad that is located on an island - which has a tendency to get hit hard by storms, I know a lot about these storms - often 48 hours prior to their arrival. Plus co-workers who all live out towards the end of the island, in what amounts to the suburban version of "the boondocks", I tend to learn more about the on-coming storm than most.
Currently it will dump 5-10 inches on NYC, most likely 10-15 on Long Island. With temperatures dropping to the teens, with windchills below 0.
Co-workers are freaking out. They checked to see if our building would be open tomorrow.
(I don't know why they thought it would be closed - it stayed open during the last three blizzards, why should this one be any different. Plus while other workplaces may close, transportation agencies don't. It didn't close during the blackout. And it tells us that safety is its number one concern - apparently not in regards to its workforce attempting to get to work. Hey, we aren't on site, so they aren't liable.) Schools however are closed. (Beginning to think school teachers and school nurses have cushy jobs - they get the entire summer off, two weeks at Christmas, Spring Break, and snow days. Although there is the down-side of having to discipline unruly kids 8 hours a day - which I would not be able to do.)
Oh, well Hercules has hit. Nice name for a storm. Personally, I think they should be more ironic with their names - call it something like Tiny or Pipsqueak.
4. Discussed diet with nutritionist, who thinks I'm unbelievable or amazing and wants me to either write my entire story down (sort of did on lj at New Year's) and tell it a lecture she's giving. I've already inspired a co-worker, who asked me for the name of my holistic healer for her daughter, who is going through something similar to what I went through and is desperate.
The nutritionist also told me, and I found this rather interesting - that our emotions are linked to what we are digesting. That the intestinal track is directly linked to the brain and affects how we feel. In short - we do think with our gut. My own personal experience supports this - before I gave up sugar, grains, alcohol, cheeses...I was angry all the time, depressed, anxious, filled with envy and jealousy, after I gave up all sugar, grains, etc...I stopped feeling envy, jealousy, rage, spiraling anxiety, or depression. These emotions disappeared. It was so weird.
Also apparently toxins are released through the skin - so breakouts, rashes, etc are signs of these toxins being released. Same with itches beneath the skin.
Rather interesting. There's a book she suggested I read entitled: "Molecular Emotions" - I think that's the title. Will have to check.
So far dietary reading list includes:
* Good Calories/Bad Calories
* The History of the Human Body: Evolution, Science and Disease
* The Paleo Manifesto
By the way, Paleo - comes from Paleoithic - this is considered the caveman, hunter-gatherer,
and primal diet. The view is that our diet has progressed faster than we've evolved. And we are not eating to fit our bodies needs. Also everyone's body is different. Some people are born vegetarians, other's really aren't. (I'm not. I'd die if I tried to be a vegetarian, I know this for a fact, mainly because I sort of tried it. I'm a carnivore. But I've met vegetarians who would die if they ate meat.) Add to this the number of ways the people who mass produce and farm our food are poisoning it with pesticides, antibotics, hormones, etc. So organic and local, without pesticides, gmo's or antibotics is best. Skip Soy - in the US it's horribly processed. Overseas not as bad. And the issue with Pork, is pigs don't sweat so don't release the toxins...there was a reason some religions don't permit it.
I keep fact-checking all of these things. I have over time become an excellent fact-checker, plus I have great fact-checkers on my flist.
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Date: 2014-01-03 01:12 pm (UTC)