Spontaneous Musings

1. Talked to Babs, who is having the same issues that I am in regards to sleep. Goes to bed too late. And if she's really lucky? Gets 6 hours and some minutes of sleep. Is a lazy slug on weekends. And tired a lot of the time.

We have a difficult job - it's basically pushing a boulder up a cliff while people throw rocks at you. Or as Babs puts it shoveling shit against the tide. Mother calls it trying to pull jello off a wall.

I like aspects of it, of course, or I wouldn't do it. I don't hate my job, I dislike my management, which isn't quite the same thing. As long as management leaves me alone - I'm okay. They are for the most part this year.

I told Babs I felt bad about New Gal. But Babs told it wasn't my fault. I didn't do anything but try to help her. We both did. It was outside our control. Babs really despises BYT. And was sick to her stomach about what happened to NG, who she tried to help. She's seen BYT treat ten of her colleagues in this manner, along with herself. I honestly think Babs would push BYT in front of a train if she could get away with it.

I've found a way to get along with BYT, I'm basically handling her the same way I did BOSS, and hoping for the best. At least she doesn't sneak up behind me and tap me on the shoulder like BOSS did, giving me an anxiety attack. Actually that isn't happening much if at all this year. All the people who did it - have moved away. Leaving behind those who have no need to. I do not miss that - that's a blessing.

2. Had Vegetarian Chili with cheese and crackers tonight - hopefully it won't cause too many issues? Also had chocolate for desert (which I shouldn't have done) the two together was well a spike in the old blood sugar. It sucks growing old. ( Read more... )

3. Contemplating some day trips or hiking trips...- hiking trips around NY State. If I can talk Wales into doing them with me. Unlikely. I may have to do it on my own. Also going to the American Natural History Museum.

4. And seeing Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan. (Mother is going on Saturday with Mean Girl Friend, they both adore Cillian Murphy (Peaky Blinders) who stars as Oppenheimer.)

I like Nolan films - he is excellent at visuals, and explores interesting and complex themes and characters. Granted they are very male centric films, but that doesn't bother me.

Barbie, I'm wary of...however, it is tempting based on Rolling Stone's Review header.. Barbie the Most Subversive Blockbuster of the 21st Century. (I'm leery, because I do not like broad satire or broad comedy. I like subtle dry witty comedy. Absurdist. Gallows humor. But big in your face comedy often annoys me. If you see it? Let me know how broad the comedy is?)

Per NPR... Go See Oppenheimer and Barbie in Theaters, Double Header or Not, it's your call. Oppenheimer is three hours, no. I can't do a six hour double header.

(I need to take a day off soon...or a couple, I am resenting the folks taking vacations again. If I see one more out of office on vacation notification - I may spork someone.)

5. I'm in the mood for a horror novel. I suppose I could read a Colleen Hoover Romance - which are in reality contemporary anti-romance horror novels. It's a sub trope in the romance novel category - that non-romance readers know about. Where basically the woman falls in love with a powerful and insanely abusive guy, who rapes and beats her, but says he loves her, and sometimes the rape is seduction, mostly brutal, and the suspense is - will she escape him?

See Stop Praising Colleen Hoover's IT ENDS WITH US

( excerpt from article )

Then What's the Story with Colleen Hoover's Romance Novels?

Over a million reviews and ratings on Good Reads for It Ends With Us. Dear God, why? I told this to a co-worker, who was shocked, after I also told him what they were about. He was surprised. I wasn't. Also, it's not new. Hoover didn't create the trope. Rosemary Rodgers wrote it before she did, as did Richardson with Clarissa. I have a long essay about it on Ao3.

I'll pass. I've already read far too much in that particular trope - enough to be happy that I'm single. I swear these books are written to encourage me to stay single and not date. That and Ask Aubrey columns. You want to despise heterosexual men? Read those books. Although they are oddly appealing if you are single.

Found in my email... Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror so far according to Good Reads

Flirting with Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLoui

and...The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

Okay, it's late off to bed.