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8 Iyar/22 April, 2010
Apr. 22nd, 2010 11:00 pmArgh. More evidence on how insurance companies suck .
I’ve been feeling a bit stupid lately, it took me forever to realize that “Doctor Who” first episode of season five called “The Eleventh Hour” is a pun on Eleventh Doctor. Yeah. I was slow. And now it just occurring to me that Harry Dresden’s favorite spell of “Fuego,” which I knew referred to fire, is actually “fire’ in Spanish. Granted I’ve never studied Spanish and my knowledge of it comes from TV and popular culture, but still.
Q and A with Jim Butcher . Lots of good questions and answers. And he does like to tease immensely. At least is already working on the next book. “Changes” is a really good book. I think it is my second favorite now, after “Death Beat” since that was just amazing. But for authors who want to reboot the series twelve books in and keep it exiting half way through the whole book series – “Changes” is how one does it.
( Bones S5E18 )
Pacific Part 6 Too much battle in this one. I like the in-between character moments. I do appreciate how this episode shows the insanity and absurdity of war and the horror and scariness of it but I do wish it had more character stuff than just crossing the airfield. I wanted to see more John Basilone at home, for example.
One of relatives called me last Sunday and left a message that she wanted to talk to me. I finally got in touch with her today, reluctantly, because I knew exactly what she wanted to talk about. This woman likes to give very unsolicited advice about life based on her experience. I don’t have the same ideas as her and same values and the whole thing was just very frustrating. I’m so frustrated with people trying to teach me about life. I know they do this because I’m an almost 30 year old unmarried woman, oh horror, but still. My relationship with Bear is not of their business. He is doing his computer animation and he has a right to try for a job and career he can be happy in; just because he doesn’t have a high paying job right now doesn’t mean I need to start looking elsewhere or that I want to. I value different things in a relationship than just financial stability, especially at this moment. I want to stand on my own two feet and work on my career rather than depend on another person. I need to get my shit together first, which is something many older relatives don’t understand, because I’m a girl even though women always work in Russia. All this social pressure aimed at us makes me want to scream, and most of is heavily gendered and old fashioned. As one person I know put it, it would have been easier for us if we were in a lesbian or gay relationship – that kind of social pressure isn’t there (of course, there would be other issues and pressures). But then no-one would constantly ask when we will be married or when Bear will get a high paying job (which they don’t always ask of me). It is not like I’m acting irrationally or rushing into anything. Bear and I have been together for more than eleven and a half years and we were always deliberate. We never rushed. And we know that love won’t feed us or anything; that is why we are not married yet and I won’t even think about it until one of us has a decent job. But I don’t want all my decisions be all about cold practicality either. And no, some relatives, I can’t just date other people, I can’t and don’t want to. ARGH. This relative was trying to teach me about life for more than an hour by talking about her own ‘life experience and life lessons.’ And about having a man that would provide a ‘proper’ role model for a male child – this is so maddening.
I’ve been feeling a bit stupid lately, it took me forever to realize that “Doctor Who” first episode of season five called “The Eleventh Hour” is a pun on Eleventh Doctor. Yeah. I was slow. And now it just occurring to me that Harry Dresden’s favorite spell of “Fuego,” which I knew referred to fire, is actually “fire’ in Spanish. Granted I’ve never studied Spanish and my knowledge of it comes from TV and popular culture, but still.
Q and A with Jim Butcher . Lots of good questions and answers. And he does like to tease immensely. At least is already working on the next book. “Changes” is a really good book. I think it is my second favorite now, after “Death Beat” since that was just amazing. But for authors who want to reboot the series twelve books in and keep it exiting half way through the whole book series – “Changes” is how one does it.
( Bones S5E18 )
Pacific Part 6 Too much battle in this one. I like the in-between character moments. I do appreciate how this episode shows the insanity and absurdity of war and the horror and scariness of it but I do wish it had more character stuff than just crossing the airfield. I wanted to see more John Basilone at home, for example.
One of relatives called me last Sunday and left a message that she wanted to talk to me. I finally got in touch with her today, reluctantly, because I knew exactly what she wanted to talk about. This woman likes to give very unsolicited advice about life based on her experience. I don’t have the same ideas as her and same values and the whole thing was just very frustrating. I’m so frustrated with people trying to teach me about life. I know they do this because I’m an almost 30 year old unmarried woman, oh horror, but still. My relationship with Bear is not of their business. He is doing his computer animation and he has a right to try for a job and career he can be happy in; just because he doesn’t have a high paying job right now doesn’t mean I need to start looking elsewhere or that I want to. I value different things in a relationship than just financial stability, especially at this moment. I want to stand on my own two feet and work on my career rather than depend on another person. I need to get my shit together first, which is something many older relatives don’t understand, because I’m a girl even though women always work in Russia. All this social pressure aimed at us makes me want to scream, and most of is heavily gendered and old fashioned. As one person I know put it, it would have been easier for us if we were in a lesbian or gay relationship – that kind of social pressure isn’t there (of course, there would be other issues and pressures). But then no-one would constantly ask when we will be married or when Bear will get a high paying job (which they don’t always ask of me). It is not like I’m acting irrationally or rushing into anything. Bear and I have been together for more than eleven and a half years and we were always deliberate. We never rushed. And we know that love won’t feed us or anything; that is why we are not married yet and I won’t even think about it until one of us has a decent job. But I don’t want all my decisions be all about cold practicality either. And no, some relatives, I can’t just date other people, I can’t and don’t want to. ARGH. This relative was trying to teach me about life for more than an hour by talking about her own ‘life experience and life lessons.’ And about having a man that would provide a ‘proper’ role model for a male child – this is so maddening.
