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| Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 | | 2:12 pm |
I say something nice about OLTL
I have a whole bag full of criticism (the horrendous writing for Shane these days), but I'm gonna save it. I'm going to talk about what they're doing right. And how the show actually made me cry last night. And I haven't been emotionally invested enough to do that for some time. So who had me tearing up? Brody. I was several days behind, so last night while doing my nails I sat down to watch Thursday onwards. Brody already had me feeling for him with the crying in the shower last week. And had the evil little part of me cheering for him when he knocked Marcie out. But this whole PTSD thing... I know OLTL is not the first show to deal with this subject matter, but I'm just surprised at how well they're dealing with it. Poor production values aside, the flashbacks to what he dealt with over there, interspersed with everything with Shane. The chilling images of him teaching his 'son' to fire a gun. Wow. It really worked for me. And admittedly, there are reasons this struck such a chord with me. I have students going over there and students who have just come back and seeing what it does to them will really shake you up. And as far as social issues go, I'm glad OLTL picked this one to deal with. I was really worried this storyline would end with Brody getting shot, and I'm glad that didn't happen. I still have a bad feeling he'll be quietly shuffled off to St. Anne's never to be seen again, but I really hope it doesn't happen. I really hope they keep him on the show and we get to see a realistic depiction of his struggle to regain his sanity and reenter normal life. Too much to hope for? Probably. But I look for hope for this show where I can. | | Thursday, September 18th, 2008 | | 7:30 pm |
Another update?
Twice in as many days. Wow. I have to comment on two things. 1. Because I think it's obligatory that I address the John/Jared scene yesterday. Okay, for starters, I'll be rational. I understand that this scene had one real function and that was to give John an excuse to run off to Colombia. I get it. They can't have John get too worried about Natalie because if he did, he'd stay, and then poor little defenseless Cristian would be stuck in a cell doing push ups in a skimpy shirt forever (la dulce pauses to fantasize... ) with no one to come to his rescue. I get it. But I think they could have written the whole thing a little better to make it believable. I know John and Nat aren't together now, but they weren't together when he dug up a grave to get her out of jail either, so his dismissal of her possible kidnapping seems odd. (Also, John, how many times has she BEEN kidnapped? Why is that not automatically everyone's first assumption when they can't find her for an hour or two) I like that they made it clear that John still doesn't trust Jared. I liked him blaming Jared's actions for her leaving. How would I have rewritten this? Had Jared go to John and Bo at the same time. Then once the Mortimer Bern thing comes out, Bo tells John that they need him to go to Colombia and promises he'll look into the Natalie disappearance. After all, just as Antonio was too close to the Cristian case, John's too close to this one. From there throwing Bo off track shouldn't be too hard. But in other news ( Cut for spoiler mention ) | | Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 | | 8:05 pm |
Una (dulce) vida para vivir
So... yeah. I don't use this space at all. I think I should work on that. It's one of those things I'm always meaning to do, but forget. *Sigh* I'm not sure anyone's out there reading. Exciting news today: Wegmans has in season candy corn! I bought some. I shouldn't've. It's horrible gross disgusting stuff that's not good for my body. But it's so yummy!!! I balanced the purchase with oranges and broccoli. Don't worry, I will not be mixing any of these. I don't know why, but I'm feeling the need to comment on One Life to Live over the past couple days. (Did you get the joke in the title? Babelfish it). I haven't watched today's ep yet, but recent thoughts: ( Cut for her pleasure... ) | | Thursday, April 24th, 2008 | | 2:14 am |
Quick and dirty update
Okay, it's not dirty because my social life is not that exciting. Well, there might be developments on the social front, but I'm keeping them under wraps for now (in part because I have a feeling they might make you all think less of me. But just a little less, I haven't done anything immoral, just possibly stupid). In the time I haven't been updated I've been crazy busy grading papers and torturing students. Also have taken up aerial dance. Mostly low trapeze which is fun for all kinds of bruises (yes, I know the lupus makes it worse, but it's fun!). Started a little on silks last week and am super excited. Oh hey, and I have icons! Well, I have icon. But I have more on photobucket, I just need to bring them over here. And then I need some diversity in my icons. | | Thursday, February 28th, 2008 | | 2:10 am |
Lookit my Icon
I have nothing to say. Just wanted to point out I have a new icon. Yes, I know. 'Bout time. | | Thursday, January 10th, 2008 | | 5:27 pm |
So I'm a weirdo...
So I scared my roommate last night. While trying to cheer her up. I swear, I thought it would make her laugh. Seems that's not everyone's reaction to watching student film makers get run out of a haunted hotel by bricks flying through the air by unseen forces. I forget people are scared of ghosts. | | Sunday, December 30th, 2007 | | 11:36 pm |
A minirant
I know better. Never argue with a fool. Really never argue with a fool on a message board who you know loves to stir up trouble. So why oh why would I wander into a thread on race at the abc OLTL board. There a certain individual informed me that it is not possible to be both Hispanic and white. I'm now left with a quandry. Which am I? I have seven names and can roll my "r"s so that certainly makes me sound Hispanic. My parents both trace their ancestry to Spanish speaking countries which was, I thought, the major prerequisite. On the other hand, I'm so pasty I'm practically albino and my hair is red. Hmm.... that kinda makes me sound white. But I can only be one, so which is it? Maybe I'm neither. Maybe I don't exist. Said individual then took it upon herself to tell me about discrimination against Hispanics. Here's the kicker--she's black. And not a Black Hispanic, just African American. Well thank goodness she was there to tell me about all this, 'cause I had no idea. It certainly escaped my attention when I got those death threats this summer. Or last year when they threatened to deport my mother. Yeah. I had no idea people discriminated against Hispanics. Thank goodness she set the record straight. | | Monday, December 24th, 2007 | | 6:10 pm |
Not really an update
But a funny maybe some of you will understand as many in my real life do not. I went to my old place of employment yesterday where my one former coworker who is also an ABC soap addict and I got to talking. She's more of a GH fan than anything else and I told her I'd stopped watching the show when they killed Georgie because she was the only female character I didn't want to regularly smack very hard with a blunt object. And she said, "That's funny. You always reminded me of Elizabeth." What?! Take it back! NoOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I'm not a whiny lying, slut, am I? Okay, I lie a bit, but at least when I lie, I'm honest with myself and others about it. Anyway, I think her connection was mostly physical (which I don't see, but am less offended by), but I thought the whole thing was amusing in its offensiveness. | | Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 | | 3:40 pm |
An update (sorta)
Haven't updated in forever, mostly because I had very little to say. Work's going well, though I see a lot of things I wish I'd done differently this semester. I'm willing to chalk them up to new professor mistakes and move on. It's little things like not pestering students who stop coming to class or turning in assignments. On the one hand, I don't think I should have to. They're adults. No one did that for me when i was in school. But I remember that they're very young and this is a little community college where a lot of the kids might need that extra push. I know I was within my rights as a professor not to, but I wish I had. Also, next semester I'll be calling on students more in class. I always hated profs that did that, but what I see now is that I've made it way to easy for them to not do the readings (they aren't tested on them). I got my work website up and running. Disgustingly proud of it as I taught myself html in order to do that. I'm not a computer person, so this is a big deal. Comment if you'd like the link. It's got lots of pics of me being real purty. I marched in a parade last night and actually had fans I don't know personally screaming my name (my stage name, not my real name, that would have been creepy). Made me extremely happy. There's some other stuff going on I'm not quite ready to talk about, but maybe an update on that later. Nothing major, I'm fine, just some things that have happened to really make me think. Oh and my moving to Canadia prospects have broadened. I'm now looking at York University in Toronto as well as MUN. It has a program that might fit my needs and has the advantage of not being in Newfoundland. Though I've heard good things about St. John's, I just know it's location would mean putting my performance career on hold while I'm in school there, and I don't know if I'm ready for that. I may have to break down and turn on the heater in my room today. I've been resisting this with all my might as I hate the hot dry air and what it does to my lungs and also, there's stuff on the radiator that I'd have to move. Our awesome apartment has thermostats in each bedroom and one in the living room so roommate does not have to freeze because of me and she doesn't suck all the moisture out of the air. I should move to Louisiana, shouldn't I? | | Thursday, August 30th, 2007 | | 6:57 pm |
My Favorite music Meme
Thanks to Manda for bringing it back. Put your music player on shuffle. ...Press forward for each question. ...Use the song title as the answer to the question. ...No cheating! | | Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 | | 9:27 pm |
I should be offended, but...
It was too damn funny. There's an elderly lady who lives in the apartment next to ours. I've seen her several times in the hall and she seemed nice enough. A little bit of a busy body in that way older people who live alone often are, but no biggie. So today I ran into her in the laundry room and she talked my ear off. Mostly about how the neighborhood had gone down hill since she got there. Why? Well mostly because of those Mexicans. ("Or Salvadorans or what have you" she said). Yes, it turns out that the Mexicans (I'm increasingly sure I'm the closest thing to a Mexican northern Virginia actually has) are invading. And none of them speak English. They only understand three things--time, money, and sex. And she doesn't know how the school system deals with them because some of them have artistic (it became clear she meant autistic) kids. Their kids are all messed up because they stick to their own brood and have sex with their siblings and cousins. But you know, they don't know any better. Also the complex now has Muslims who it turns out worship the devil. Yeah, she tells me all this as I sit there nodding and trying not to laugh. Roommate and I are now plotting a thousand different passive aggressive modes of revenge... | | Thursday, August 9th, 2007 | | 9:17 am |
Quote meme
I'm stealing this meme from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) diamondrocker because it looked like fun and because I have a screensaver full of delightful quotes. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to ID the speaker(s) and the television show from which the quote originated. 1. A: But my Lord, I've been with your family since 1582! B: Yes, but so has syphilis. 2. "If there's nothing wrong with me....then there must be something wrong with the Universe!" 3. Word of advice, Jonathan--never sell your face, even if you need the money. Flynn, OLTL (kpcoltl) 4. You got something to say spill it. I got chestnuts to roast. Rex, OLTL (kpcoltl after a bit of prompting) 5. "You blow up one sun and suddenly everyone expects you to walk on water!" 6. "'Cause I'm on druuuuuuuuugggss" 7. "It's my side-arm, I swear." 8. " But then you're so lucky. The only thing you've ever had to wear twice is a sour expression" Anne Shirley, Anne of Avolnea (diamondrocker) 9. Now why do you do that? I'm on fire with my bug analogy and you interrupt me with a cliche. David, OLTL, (kpcoltl) 10. You can eat anything if it's fried! And I'm stopping at 10 because I must take roommate to work. More to come later when we address rl issues such as the boy, my lawsuit against the moving company, and how awesome my new apartment is. | | Monday, June 18th, 2007 | | 7:57 pm |
Donde esta la Dulce?
Never fear. I am here and alive and all that yotz. Life's been insane. Fifteen sec synopsis, I graduated, I'm largely unemployed, and I'm getting evicted. Fun times. I'm trying to catch up on all your entries, but let me just say I've missed you all and I hope all is well. Most of my time and life force has been directed towards the faire, which is now over, so maybe I'll be around more. In other news, do you think it's fate or just irony that I should fall for the one performer I've met with the same chronic and potentially (tho' not probably) fatal illness as I have? And what of the fact that he shares a name with a deceased soap opera character? | | Saturday, May 5th, 2007 | | 8:25 pm |
Obligatory Holiday Post
My Salvadoran neighbors are having a Cinco de Mayo party. I'd go over there and explain the irony, but sometimes you just need an excuse to party and I respect that. Might I suggest that all of you celebrate in the traditional Mexican fashion by burying one of your limbs with military honors. Real update later, I promise. Current Mood:  amused | | Saturday, April 28th, 2007 | | 8:12 pm |
Meme!
Leave a comment and I'll give you a letter. Then you list 10 things you like starting with that letter. Post them in your journal and give out new letters to your commenters in turn.
diamondrocker gave me the letter "c" so...
| | Saturday, April 21st, 2007 | | 9:11 pm |
Argh!!
So the weather is finally beautiful. Perfect slackrope walking weather. But guess who sprained her ankle at work yesterday morning (five minutes into an 8 hour shift). Sooooooo unhappy about that. Not only does it hurt like *&^%$ but I have a gig on Saturday. I think it's not that severe of an injury--swelling is minimal and so is bruising. So I'm going to be very nice to it and hope it heals quick. It seems to be the will of the gods that I should start every faire season with an ankle injury. At least this time it's my left (I use my right to get on the rope, so it's a little trickier when you hurt that one.) It did get me out of work tonight though! (work's been crazy--EarthDay kinda sucks when you work for an environmentally focused company) Sigh. And no luck on the job search as yet. But it looks like I might get my thesis in this week! Finally! Current Mood:  annoyed | | Wednesday, April 18th, 2007 | | 4:34 pm |
Life, current events, etc
So I haven't been doing that well. School, job hunt, all of the above have sucked on many levels I won't go into. Unless something changes in a couple months I'll be back to renting a room from my parents. And the health stuff's taken a down turn again, right as I'm about to lose my insurance. And as awful as that is Monday reminded me how much worse it could be. I have a lot of connections at VT. A friend of mine's an engineering student, five of my former studetns are there, a kid I used to teach dance to, and some former coworkers. I spent most of Monday tracking them down. They're all thankfully alive, but I won't go so far as to say all right. One of my students said she was awakened by the gunshots. My ex-dancer lived in the dorm, the floor below where it happened. Another one of my students is really upset about it, and not a native English speaker he's having a really hard time expressing himself. So far the worst of it is that my friend's roommate from last year was among the dead. I never met her, but she babysat my nephew a couple times. My friend has class in the room where she was killed, she's just beyond devastated. It's just so hard to wrap your brain around, I really don't know how to deal with it yet. | | Monday, April 9th, 2007 | | 11:06 am |
Meme!
I snagged this from diamondrocker. Comment and I will do the following things for you.
1) Tell you why I friended you.
2) Associate you with something. A fandom, a song, a color, a piece of fruit. SOMETHING.
3) Tell you something I like about you.
4) Tell you a memory I have of you.
5) Associate you with a character/pairing.
6) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7) Tell you my favorite userpic of yours.
8) In retort, you must spread this disease in your LJ (if you're so inclined.) | | Saturday, April 7th, 2007 | | 10:13 am |
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