The velocity of randomness
Apr. 6th, 2003 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynMy mind has been racing with random thoughts about nothing and everything. I realized that I never wrote a review of Inside Out on Angel this week, which I suppose is no big deal, but my evil supervisor is watching me like a hawk now so I don't get the chance to goof off that way anymore. I even had a Spike dream the other night, which was insanely XXX-rated and then became some kind of vampire round-up where the police or some quasi-police organization was rounding up vampires for prison or execution, among them poor Spikey.
Stuff that is making me go hmmmm and just randomly spinning around in my head:
1. What will Faith and Willow talk about on the drive back to Sunny-D? It's not like they parted company as friends. As with so much of this season, Will's reaction to Faith at Angel's place happened off screen. What did she think?
2. Would Giles be able to restart the Council? And maybe make it a better place (i.e., no torturous experiments on slayers when they turn 18, etc.) assuming they even have slayers, which considering what the big eyeball head said, maybe they won't?
3. What is the mature girl way to behave if you end up realizing that you probably like someone and want them to be your friend more than they do you? I find it easy to cut most people out of my life when I don't like them, but what do you do when you probably enjoy someone's company more than they enjoy yours? I never had enough female friends in my life before to know how to handle it, and men are so different, and much easier to understand, for me. Lately I'm feeling torn between pouting and moving on, or petty, pouty hatred.
4. I got my new desk yesterday from Ikea, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
feochadn helped me put it together (because I am a spatial relationship moron, and cannot follow instructions). It's very large and very industrial looking, and I needed more desk space for reference manuals and things for this freelancing biz I want to get into eventually. Now the chair I was using is too short, and I look like a kid at the big person's table. I don't think there's any way to get a keyboard tray on this thing. Possibly this was a stupid idea. And moving my old desk out, I found peeling paint, rotting drywall, and mold over the lathe and plaster that was still remaining. The cretinous halfwits who had this house at one point modified the window in this room, and two years ago I had to replace the entire south wall of my house because they'd done such a piss-poor job that water had been getting into it for decades and the wall was riddled with rot, carpenter ants, wood-boring beetles, the like. We had to patch the inside of the wall, and now right next to it, there's more damage, and worse damage, than we'd seen before. In the past five years, I have had to replace the south wall, peel down to bare wall and repaint all of the siding there, replace my roof, replace part of the sewer line, replace the entire sewer line, have Roto-Rooter come out on average of twice a year and spent over $1,000 on them, and fix at least a hundred other things, including holes in the walls, the leaking faucet, the floor, etc. I know having a house is a good thing, but sometimes, I hate it so much I could cry.
5. With fewer and fewer dramas being given half a chance, I doubt we'll ever have another show like Buffy on the air. I realize that's cynical, but I feel like TV is being turned into a wasteland of reality and crappy news shows. One of the things I love about many of the shows I'm hooked on is the music -- I've discovered some exceptional music from La Femme Nikita, Buffy, Gilmore Girls, Birds of Prey, etc. WB is cool in that they often identify the musicians after the show, but even series on networks that don't do this have given me some great new places to go for music. I hate the fact that all the good shows are being killed in their infancy, but I really hate losing out on the music, too.
6. What is this "my fandom is... " thing that's going around everywhere? I realize I'm largely a clueless moron about most things, but I seem to have missed this wave and am seeing these icons everywhere.
7. Is there even the slightest interest in a story that is told from Willow's point of view about Buffy and Spike's changes this season? I'm not even sure this is worth working on anymore -- there seems to be so much dislike of Willow. I find her voice easy to write, but... I'm not trying to be coy or fishing, I just wonder if people would even have the slightest interest in something like that.
8. Why does it seem like everybody's so rude? How can people go through life without realizing that favors deserve a thank-you, that a little kindness goes a long way, that doing unto others is the only way they'll want to keep doing unto you, etc.? It must just be that I come from a different era, but I'm constantly baffled by the level of thoughtlessness I encounter from people on a daily basis.
9. I hate dalylight savings time. I can't handle the spring forward, and end up feeling like something Emma dragged in from the back yard for at least two days. I'm an insomniac on the best of days, and then losing what little sleep I get, always in the 5-6 a.m. time, annoys me. OTOH, the bus lights being out won't be a problem when I try to read on the commute home at night.
And five million other things, but that'll do for boring people now, I guess.
Stuff that is making me go hmmmm and just randomly spinning around in my head:
1. What will Faith and Willow talk about on the drive back to Sunny-D? It's not like they parted company as friends. As with so much of this season, Will's reaction to Faith at Angel's place happened off screen. What did she think?
2. Would Giles be able to restart the Council? And maybe make it a better place (i.e., no torturous experiments on slayers when they turn 18, etc.) assuming they even have slayers, which considering what the big eyeball head said, maybe they won't?
3. What is the mature girl way to behave if you end up realizing that you probably like someone and want them to be your friend more than they do you? I find it easy to cut most people out of my life when I don't like them, but what do you do when you probably enjoy someone's company more than they enjoy yours? I never had enough female friends in my life before to know how to handle it, and men are so different, and much easier to understand, for me. Lately I'm feeling torn between pouting and moving on, or petty, pouty hatred.
4. I got my new desk yesterday from Ikea, and
feochadn helped me put it together (because I am a spatial relationship moron, and cannot follow instructions). It's very large and very industrial looking, and I needed more desk space for reference manuals and things for this freelancing biz I want to get into eventually. Now the chair I was using is too short, and I look like a kid at the big person's table. I don't think there's any way to get a keyboard tray on this thing. Possibly this was a stupid idea. And moving my old desk out, I found peeling paint, rotting drywall, and mold over the lathe and plaster that was still remaining. The cretinous halfwits who had this house at one point modified the window in this room, and two years ago I had to replace the entire south wall of my house because they'd done such a piss-poor job that water had been getting into it for decades and the wall was riddled with rot, carpenter ants, wood-boring beetles, the like. We had to patch the inside of the wall, and now right next to it, there's more damage, and worse damage, than we'd seen before. In the past five years, I have had to replace the south wall, peel down to bare wall and repaint all of the siding there, replace my roof, replace part of the sewer line, replace the entire sewer line, have Roto-Rooter come out on average of twice a year and spent over $1,000 on them, and fix at least a hundred other things, including holes in the walls, the leaking faucet, the floor, etc. I know having a house is a good thing, but sometimes, I hate it so much I could cry.5. With fewer and fewer dramas being given half a chance, I doubt we'll ever have another show like Buffy on the air. I realize that's cynical, but I feel like TV is being turned into a wasteland of reality and crappy news shows. One of the things I love about many of the shows I'm hooked on is the music -- I've discovered some exceptional music from La Femme Nikita, Buffy, Gilmore Girls, Birds of Prey, etc. WB is cool in that they often identify the musicians after the show, but even series on networks that don't do this have given me some great new places to go for music. I hate the fact that all the good shows are being killed in their infancy, but I really hate losing out on the music, too.
6. What is this "my fandom is... " thing that's going around everywhere? I realize I'm largely a clueless moron about most things, but I seem to have missed this wave and am seeing these icons everywhere.
7. Is there even the slightest interest in a story that is told from Willow's point of view about Buffy and Spike's changes this season? I'm not even sure this is worth working on anymore -- there seems to be so much dislike of Willow. I find her voice easy to write, but... I'm not trying to be coy or fishing, I just wonder if people would even have the slightest interest in something like that.
8. Why does it seem like everybody's so rude? How can people go through life without realizing that favors deserve a thank-you, that a little kindness goes a long way, that doing unto others is the only way they'll want to keep doing unto you, etc.? It must just be that I come from a different era, but I'm constantly baffled by the level of thoughtlessness I encounter from people on a daily basis.
9. I hate dalylight savings time. I can't handle the spring forward, and end up feeling like something Emma dragged in from the back yard for at least two days. I'm an insomniac on the best of days, and then losing what little sleep I get, always in the 5-6 a.m. time, annoys me. OTOH, the bus lights being out won't be a problem when I try to read on the commute home at night.
And five million other things, but that'll do for boring people now, I guess.
