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toosutoWhile the new jobs are great they aren't so bad either. My work studies in the morning are mostly competent (some are lacking a little training but that's not their fault) and pretty funny. It'll be nice to get them on their feet and actually doing stuff in the office because the woman before couldn't be bothered to train or trust them. The afternoons are relaxing (even if I'd really like to browse the interwebs) I'm getting a fair amount of reading done and I found the needed third person to play D&D eventually.
Saw Clolverfield twice this weekend (once with Sara and then on Sunday with friend Mike). For the record, if you missed the creature splashing into the ocean in the last shot you didn't miss much, it's just one of those things where it is kind of cool to know it's there, I was looking for it and found it barely noticeable. I'd like to see a second film made (one without all the first person film making) as I am now curious to what came after? Did the creature win mostly? Did it go on to graze across North America? On the other hand perhaps J.J. Abrams is best at creating mystery and we should let it go at that (Lost is awful). I was happy that the second time around I jumped just as much and spent the movie nearly as tense as I spent the first.
What I don't get is the 9/11 garbage that seems to have been appended to the analysis of the film. I just don't get it. I can see where there a few things that have entered the public consciousness as scary things (buildings falling down etc.) but I don't see how having a giant space creature causing the collapse of a building automatically makes any sort of 9/11 statement. I haven't looked to hard because mostly I don't want to find that any "post 9/11..." statements were actually uttered by anyone attached to it.
I'm mailing off bought prints this week (yay! someone who is not my family wants some art of mine) and MS project is going pretty smoothly. Even better I don't even feel like I am shouting fire in a crowded theater. That's mostly because I think safety messages should be "Don't be stupid" rather than "If you make one mistake on the interwebs someone will steal your identity, drain your bank accounts, stalk you and kidnap your children." I mean really people, let's all just be cool ok?
Oh also: the first episode of Torchwood series two had it's moments but the show is still feeling a little uneven to me like it can't decide what it wants to be. Hopefully there will be a stronger over all series arc this time. Although we're not likely to stop watching anytime soon though...
Saw Clolverfield twice this weekend (once with Sara and then on Sunday with friend Mike). For the record, if you missed the creature splashing into the ocean in the last shot you didn't miss much, it's just one of those things where it is kind of cool to know it's there, I was looking for it and found it barely noticeable. I'd like to see a second film made (one without all the first person film making) as I am now curious to what came after? Did the creature win mostly? Did it go on to graze across North America? On the other hand perhaps J.J. Abrams is best at creating mystery and we should let it go at that (Lost is awful). I was happy that the second time around I jumped just as much and spent the movie nearly as tense as I spent the first.
What I don't get is the 9/11 garbage that seems to have been appended to the analysis of the film. I just don't get it. I can see where there a few things that have entered the public consciousness as scary things (buildings falling down etc.) but I don't see how having a giant space creature causing the collapse of a building automatically makes any sort of 9/11 statement. I haven't looked to hard because mostly I don't want to find that any "post 9/11..." statements were actually uttered by anyone attached to it.
I'm mailing off bought prints this week (yay! someone who is not my family wants some art of mine) and MS project is going pretty smoothly. Even better I don't even feel like I am shouting fire in a crowded theater. That's mostly because I think safety messages should be "Don't be stupid" rather than "If you make one mistake on the interwebs someone will steal your identity, drain your bank accounts, stalk you and kidnap your children." I mean really people, let's all just be cool ok?
Oh also: the first episode of Torchwood series two had it's moments but the show is still feeling a little uneven to me like it can't decide what it wants to be. Hopefully there will be a stronger over all series arc this time. Although we're not likely to stop watching anytime soon though...