I went to see Rogue One a week+ ago, but then I read this post from a fellow information-professional, and it made me remember I was going to say something to someone about this, so I wrote a half-assed thing in FB and now I want to write a bit more here, because I can.

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crap. I've run out of time to write, but that was my initial thoughts. If anyone wants to talk more about this, I wanna talk about it too

Tonight's the last night QE works for the week. The last night he's not home right now.
Next Thursday I am not going to spend my evening watching a(n excellent) movie about kids with terminal cancer.
Yeah, that about covers it for now.

OK. What's up with rushing to criticize the second someone is announced as the new face of [fill in the name of fictional person, usually superhero].

First of all, the original source material? Drawn. Nobody can live up to that. Second, every fan's idealized version of that character has a heavy overlay of nostalgia making the human choice even more unbearable. The movie is not even in production yet, and everyone slags the director, producer, and star. Yes, it might be the worst thing since the last worst thing. Or it might be Serenity. Why don't we wait until it's out and we've had time to think about it before we damn the enterprise with derision and snark.

Entirely related: no more "eat a sandwich." Just stop it. I'm telling myself this, too. I've been at fault and no more.

I watched Cabin in the Woods this evening. I don't normally do horror, but it's Joss, guys. JOSS. I thought it was very well done, but the big thing about gory/scary is that I have a hard time separating the scary after its over and it follows me around. Example: Would not go down in the basement to put stuff away just now. Nope. It can wait til the sun is up. quiet_elegance did have a very valid point, though. We are immune, because we are not young. So, it's OK. Also, monsters can't hide under my bed. It's too crammed with stuff, and there has to be some room for the monster. This is my scary movie logic and I will not be gainsaid. 

I will not talk about plot points here in case purple_terror gets around to watching it sometime soon. I was pleased nobody even hinted at what The Big Surprise would be. Except... Kevin?? 

Stuff-
-QE goes back for the same test he had last week. They want to replicate the results before they go making permanent changes. 
-I found a madeleine pan and feel confident I can make these cookies. I ended up eating them all weekend. Probably not the smartest thing I've ever done, but they are best fresh.
-I did see Hunger Games last Monday- I implied it, but then didn't comment on the movie itself. I found it to be a very good adaptation from the book. Next big thing: Avengers. 
-Friends whose kid is closer to teenage than baby gifted us with a baby bike chariot (trailer). QE installed hardware. Now I need to get a helmet for the baby and make sure the cabin is free from garage debris. It's a sweet little rig. 
-Work is... work. I'm glad I have it. The things that were bothering me last week are still a problem, but when dealing with major institutional shift, contention is one of the few predicable outcomes. My annual review is any second now. I'm hoping there will be a chance to have some real conversation about it. 
-Mad Men is eating my brain. Smash is quickly losing me, but hasn't done anything so spectacularly bad to make me entirely quit. 
-I realize I need to re-discover some evening activities, but nothing's really keeping my interest. I should be working on the Cook's Illustrated index, but quite frankly, it's exactly like work and I haven't found the platform that I actually want to use with the finished product. Mostly, I want to just have a certain number of fields to capture what issue, what recipe, then have the option of as many tags as I want to throw in so I can look for "vegetarian," or "main course" with "poultry." Or whatever. I'm currently using a google spreadsheet. I've considered having a dedicated LJ set up- but that's super-clunky and not what it's built for. Anyway, if anyone's gotten this far down the ramble and has a suggestion, let me know. ... seriously- these magazines are staring at me balefully, wondering why I'm wasting time writing an entirely boring post than just entering the data.   

I started reading John Green and David Levithan's book: Will Grayson, Will Grayson today. I appear to be a quarter of the way through already. I somewhat wished my commute was longer. I almost didn't use the hot tub this evening (more therapeutic than generically recreational this week) because I wanted to read more. So I took the book - very carefully- into the tub. I'd read more except that whole get up early tomorrow after a night of very interrupted sleep.

I finished Possession yesterday. I initially thought having it in audio format would make it more palatable, but it meant I couldn't skim. At least the last 2 chapters got to the goddamn point. Can't say I'd recommend it, but then again, I'm not fond of academic faffing over research (sorry, just NMK) and I find most poetry to be OK, but I don't need to read a book that gets all meta about it. Book club Wednesday. Once again woodwardiocom's brother and I can have another chapter of our ongoing conversation in which I play the role of the one who can't stand any books. It's quite ridiculous how often this happens to me in book club, but I keep coming back. Also, NO idea what next to suggest. The theme for the reading year is "romance"- as in the big sweeping dramatic things put forth by Bronte and Byron. And other B names. Except, you guessed it- don't love that kind of lit. Em suggested we go for the straight up Harlequin style. When we did the Nancy Drew month for mystery, we all chose one and compared/contrasted. I think we were thinking  we'd do the same for Harlequin. 

Robin and I went to see Albert Nobbs yesterday. I feel like it was half a movie. If you're going to do a niche movie like that, may as well have played to it's potential audience of GLBTQ folk who like historical. I did just check, and apparently it is based off a short story, so... OK. I guess it had to stick to the point. I feel somewhat compelled to go find it and see if the original text is as lacking in plot. Really, I'd rather someone else who has already read it and seen the movie tell me. Going back now: I already know one version is disappointing. I'd hate to waste my time twice.  I'd be happy to go on about why I found the movie to be entirely frustrating, but it takes a while and see aforementioned thing about having to go to bed and the new bit about how I probably shouldn't have started writing this in the first place and just gone directly to bed.  The only other point on the disappointing movie is that I will have to read up on movies more before I go these days. I don't have the luxury of going out like that sans Crime Fighter to waste on the  mediocre.   

It was a great day yesterday, despite rain. Roll call starts here....
purple_terror 's mom arrived at 10 (3 hours after she left Camden), stood around, met asciikitty  (eee, surprise!) had some coffee then wondered WTF we were doing still standing around for and let's get rolling, already. She and K went off to The Unicorn to clean everything in sight. Woah. The woman is a force to be reckoned with. It set the day off to a great start, because seriously- you need MOM energy and that mom can zomg-clean. K's major task was dealing with the window screens, which had apparently never been cleaned in this lifetime and had stopped being transparent. Gross work, but aren't we glad we're doing it now so that gunk didn't settle into the house? Yeah.
fiddledragon  and her crew showed up first, took away pillows to be re-fashioned into not pillows and just about all the clothes we'd bagged up. She's happy because now there is a ton of raw material for her project. I'm thrilled because it's gone.
rintrahroars  showed up before the rain really got started and proceeded to attack my kitchen with vim and vigor.
lifecollage  arrived a bit after that and was given the challenge (and honor) of stowing quiet_elegance 's knife alter. Quote she: "there's some talky things on that table, dude." Oh, yes- aren't there? That was a task we could not delegate to many. We were both hugely grateful for her attentions.
caulay  and ahf  arrived ready to rumble and took on the donations to the vets, then dealt with the last book case, which they then took home (case not contents)- to everyone's great satisfaction.
library_sexy and zzbottom  arrived right at the transition point, took away one of quiet_elegance 's hand built cabinets he'd been using for hand tools for the last N years, but will not work in the new space: too small to contain the current collection and the new place is limited on where our stuff can be anchored to walls. It's seriously a gorgeous piece and it was killing me wondering where it ought go. I mean, really.  There's debate on the object that was the knife alter still. Hoping it's re-established in not our house within the next week, or at least decided. l_s and zz relocated to The Unicorn and helped in furniture assembly-- made a great bit of progress, too, from what I heard. Yay! Places to put STUFF.

Seriously-- I am always over the moon when things of perfectly good use and quality that have lived out their time with me then get relocated to places where they'll continued to be used.

I had enough energy to fold all the laundry and walk up to get the indian food (my turn to "cook"- it's the week of guess we're doing take out most of the time). I sat through all of Country Strong (on the strength of Gweneth Paltrow's time on Glee- clearly she can sing)- but the damage! Ohhh the damage of those characters. I had to thank q_e for us not being anything like that.  In other AV entertainment observations,  I also had fun with shows featuring pregnant people and how clearly they're not really pregnant because XYZ. Specifically, they didn't coach Angela on Bones very well on how to stand/walk as a 6 month-pregnant person. Also costume folks needed to pad her out a bit more up top. Not voluminous enough by far. Hilarity!

To sum up: this community kicks some serious ass. I'm entirely confident that the big move on Friday will be pretty painless and mostly because of the excellent work performed yesterday. I was somewhat taken aback that I actually didn't have the chance to pack anything myself because I was too busy directing one group or another. I am less likely to over-extend if I'm the director, so further serious win.

In reverse order of happening and significance....
Soon there will be blueberry and peach cobbler. That's almost like pie.
Scott Pilgrim: funny as long as I turn off my Hathor Legacy brain, which isn't even mine, but actually Robin's since she's the one who reads the forums and tells me about it. Anyway- great visuals, funny dialog. Probably would be even funnier if I played video games. Even so, I can put the pieces together. I may well go see it again, even for the little jokes that are everywhere.
ariesd  memorial in Marblehead. It was at the Unitarian church so there was a certain comfort and familiarity. ceo  and I agree: church, it smells the same. A bit of mildew and old coffee. Weird but comforting. I still think the EoS/spinning will be the real memorial.
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*headdesk*
I hit the wrong button and lost my entry halfway through. This will be a very short version:
- I helped missdimple  move yesterday. I'm very glad I did- it went smoothly considering, but today is a 2 cup of coffee day what with the expected results of box-hauling. The second cup actually is helping so I don't necessarily have to hide in my office all day.
- I have a new composter, and it is awesome! I had hoped for an R2-D2 shaped one, like my neighbors have, but instead it's much more dalek shaped.  On further reflection, I believe the one I originally referred to as R2 shaped can be interpreted just as easily as dalek. If anyone has a better match for the square one I do have, I'm happy to entertain nicknames.
- Movies recently watched: Slumdog Millionaire, Up in the Air. Both left me with a bit of a "...huh" feeling, but both reasonably well done.
- Movie to see soon: zomg-IRONMAN!... just sayin'. Scarlet Johansson.
- Lexington was rather ghost-townish on Saturday since all the food-selling establishments, including ice cream parlors and movie theaters, were ordered to close. I expected zombies or tumbling tumbleweeds in the mostly abandoned parking lots. Aside from being thwarted from my ice cream fix, this water thing is a non-thing on the scale of bothersome things. Not so much for 80% of the gym-goers today. shrug. Don't know. Don't care.

Right. I have videos to make for work. Did I mention that the upgraded software and my computer are not getting on well and my computer will show its displeasure with a solid blue motif after a while? Yeah, not a good thing. Fingers crossed.

(Cross posted from FB with a bit of an addition)

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So that's what I think. There might be more, but I may have mentioned the lack of breakfast and coffee.
Well, except one other thing- I was thinking of darkrose most of the time thinking what on-going fantastic slashfic you could pull from the Draco/Snape interactions. And a few others. Just a few. ;)