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I took yesterday off in order to attend a job fair/continuing education event at Jacob Javitz. My initial plan was to print out tons of resumes, wake up at the asscrack of dawn to get out there by 8am to sit through the first class, and hit up the recruiters in-between the remaining two class sessions. However, I'd stayed up until 2am Thursday night (my willpower is nothing!), so I ended up not getting up and out there until nearly 10:30 sans resumes (my new Word program doesn't have a template and I didn't feel like putting the effort into putting something together). Which actually wasn't a bad thing, because the only people recruiting at the fair were hospitals or home care agencies looking for staff nurses or nurse managers. No, thanks kindly. There were nursing schools there as well, and I found a perfect program for me at Hunter College: a dual Masters of Urban Public Health/Masters of Public Health Nursing degree. 57 credits and 8 years part-time, but I'm not going anywhere (neither, does it seem, are my loans) so part-time it is.

I also ran into one of my nursing professors at my nursing school's booth. She was quite nice, if good at inadvertently making me feel like crap by mentioning one of my research papers that we'd talked about working on for publication before vanishing into the ether (*snort*, yeah lady, as if my e-mail box suddenly decided to block you; but whatever).

THEN (fast-forwarding a couple of hours) there was Star Trek at IMAX. I think what heightened the experience was watching the movie in close proximity to a number of enthusiastic Trek fans (although I was sort of taken aback at the beginning because these same people cheered loudly at the Transformers preview that played before the movie; I really disliked that movie).

What I didn't like:
* Coupling Simon Pegg's Scotty with a sidekick. Seriously, dude can manage humor without the cute little scaly backup.
* Uhuru. Uhuru, Jesus Christ. Note that I'm not saying Zoe Saldana, because I think it's what she was given to work with and not a slight to her acting ability. I'm not experiencing Joss Whedon syndrome where I expect every female character to be able to KICK ASS and TAKE NAMES, but Uhuru basically did nothing besides intercept that first critical communique and run after Spock. Here we have a reboot of the series and the one prominent original recipe female is kept more or less within her old mold. She was eye candy, and I have a special hatred in my heart for the females that are little more than eye candy. Although she seems to have magical vagina on tap...God, look, don't get me started. Let me move on.

What I did like:
* Most everything else. My ficcer heart near skipped a beat when I realized the plot was essentially an AU time-travel device. And the ships that sailed! Lovely! :)

Will most likely end up taking my brothers to see it this evening. Might be able to type up an actual review after that.

Today is the NAMI walk (thanks big-big to those of you who contributed!). I will take pics, attempt to look for