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fredericksI dislike Mother's Day as a commercial product (show your mother how much you love her by buying her this!), but I'm a fan of any day that forces us to take a step back and think consciously about people or things we might take for granted. My mom definitely isn't perfect, but she's been there when I needed her. She sacrificed a lot for her kids, and it's hard to encapsulate "thank you" with flowers, brunch, and a card (we're not the most physically or verbally affection 'round here), but I think she gets it.
Moms on my FL, keep rocking on.
Yesterday involved lots of running around. My bros and I had planned on seeing Thor in the afternoon, but I had to head uptown to get my father's Mother's Day present to my mom. I met a jeweler friend of a my dad, a guy who my dad has known for almost as long as I've been alive. He also has to be one of the most earnestly racist people I've ever met. After I bought the earrings my dad had sent me for, the jeweler and his son treated me to a quiet hate-filled diatribe on the ethnicity that's caused Washington Heights to fall into decay. He'd initially seemed like such a sweet level-headed guy (fighting pancreatic cancer, no less), so to hear him tell me that this one group was a "lower breed" and "genetically one step above swinging on trees"... I was actually struck dumb. I deal with people every day, some of them very ill, and I know that ignorance and hate comes in many packages. But, yeah, it was still an awkward and painful situation to run into. I just listened and "hmm"'d at certain intervals, but otherwise beat a hasty retreat.
We did end up seeing Thor in the evening , after I had to come back home and deposit the earrings and the shit ton of flowers I ended up buying for my mom and aunts. I liked Thor, found it to be very funny at times, but I was definitely expecting more after the raves I'd been seeing. I could have done without the Jane parts, probably because I'm not at all familiar with the Marvel comic verse, and I could have used more Heimdall (I love you Idris Elba!), but Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Tom Hiddleston as Loki totally knocked it out of the park. I really liked how Loki wasn't portrayed as a jester or overtly evil, just a god who lied very well.
On the entertainment front, while I've been DVRing A Game of Thrones I haven't watched anything but the first episode. I didn't mind the first episode, but it's lost my attention. The only things I think I routinely watch on TV are repeats of It's Always Sunny, Reno 911!, and the new Let's Make a Deal (I do indeed DVR that show). I've started watching Happy Endings on ABC and have found it more than a little amusing, even though it is of the Friends vein. I'm supposed to be reading The Book Thief for a bookclub, but I find myself slogging through. It's a massive book, and I find the e-format more daunting because it seems like I'm making no headway.
Aside from that - worksleepwork. Life, it is not exciting. But I make do.
Moms on my FL, keep rocking on.
Yesterday involved lots of running around. My bros and I had planned on seeing Thor in the afternoon, but I had to head uptown to get my father's Mother's Day present to my mom. I met a jeweler friend of a my dad, a guy who my dad has known for almost as long as I've been alive. He also has to be one of the most earnestly racist people I've ever met. After I bought the earrings my dad had sent me for, the jeweler and his son treated me to a quiet hate-filled diatribe on the ethnicity that's caused Washington Heights to fall into decay. He'd initially seemed like such a sweet level-headed guy (fighting pancreatic cancer, no less), so to hear him tell me that this one group was a "lower breed" and "genetically one step above swinging on trees"... I was actually struck dumb. I deal with people every day, some of them very ill, and I know that ignorance and hate comes in many packages. But, yeah, it was still an awkward and painful situation to run into. I just listened and "hmm"'d at certain intervals, but otherwise beat a hasty retreat.
We did end up seeing Thor in the evening , after I had to come back home and deposit the earrings and the shit ton of flowers I ended up buying for my mom and aunts. I liked Thor, found it to be very funny at times, but I was definitely expecting more after the raves I'd been seeing. I could have done without the Jane parts, probably because I'm not at all familiar with the Marvel comic verse, and I could have used more Heimdall (I love you Idris Elba!), but Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Tom Hiddleston as Loki totally knocked it out of the park. I really liked how Loki wasn't portrayed as a jester or overtly evil, just a god who lied very well.
On the entertainment front, while I've been DVRing A Game of Thrones I haven't watched anything but the first episode. I didn't mind the first episode, but it's lost my attention. The only things I think I routinely watch on TV are repeats of It's Always Sunny, Reno 911!, and the new Let's Make a Deal (I do indeed DVR that show). I've started watching Happy Endings on ABC and have found it more than a little amusing, even though it is of the Friends vein. I'm supposed to be reading The Book Thief for a bookclub, but I find myself slogging through. It's a massive book, and I find the e-format more daunting because it seems like I'm making no headway.
Aside from that - worksleepwork. Life, it is not exciting. But I make do.
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Date: 2011-05-09 02:39 pm (UTC)B. It sucks that people are asshats.
C. Sometimes it really does feel like you make no progress in an ebook. I'm going to try to read The Stand in June and I'm anticipating the same frustration.
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Date: 2011-05-09 06:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-10 01:37 am (UTC)THOR. Totes yeah.
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Date: 2011-05-10 01:38 am (UTC)