Accidental double post

I had to take an insurance class this week so I can take the test for my new job. My boss insisted on an in person rather than online class, and there was only option. My instructor was...a nightmare. These are a few highlights from the week.

It makes you someone with working eyeballs.

The only non-scored music in the first film were played over the credits. That seems like a likely scenario for Catching Fire as well. And the song used for the credits wasn't one of the big ones people made a big deal out of beforehand, if I recall correctly. I didn't actually follow the news that much for the…

I finally read the Hunger Games series. I liked the first movie even without having read the books, but rewatching it now means a lot more. I do have a few quibbles and things I would have preferred were left closer to the books, but overall I think it was a really good adaptation.

I think it was 20/20 that did a story years ago about how it wasn't really about homophobia, it was a robbery gone wrong or something. And they interviewed one of the murderers and a bunch of people in town to make their case. While I was in a class for Gay and Lesbian literature the people who wrote the Laramie…

Are scifi/fantasy really more popular, or just more talked about online? I mean, sales wise, are non-scifi/fantasy not selling as well? Or are they read just as much but talked about less? I think online fandom culture tends to attract a lot of scifi and fantasy nerds because 'real life' can be more hostile to…

Never read the books but I'll watch for Maggie Q. Probably. Unless pre-release buzz is that it's absolutely terrible.

I'm having a horrible time job hunting.

This one time I was in NYC with a college class and we were taking a night to be gross tourists. And the Scientology Center near Times Square was having an open house and one of my friends went in to watch the movie because she wanted to know just how fucking crazy they were. I refused to go in but waited outside to…

Scientology is a cult. I both dislike the higher up 'celebrities' and worry about everyone in general. They have very, very strong koolaid, it's hard to break away once they suck you in.

Old Spice is literally the only deodorant I've found that doesn't give me a rash. Specifically the clear gel kind. No idea why, I've never really cared much just so long and my armpits aren't itchy pools of fire.

Thanks! It helps that my best friend and I made the move together. I knew I wanted to get out of the state I grew up in, and it just kept not happening, and she was going off to grad school, and I was like...you know, I'm tired of making excuses. I'm getting out.

I just moved 900 miles away from home last week. It's kind of scary, and I don't have a job yet which is also kind of scary (thankfully I have a small savings to get me through at least a month, probably a couple if I'm frugal). But even though it's scary, it's also amazing. I am SO HAPPY right now. I'm so happy…

I was watching one of his movies once, where the fantasy was very much consensual nonconsent, and at one point in the middle the woman in question, who was gagged at the time, seemed like she might be in real distress. Deen stopped the scene, stopped the other guy who was also involved, and checked with her to make…

On a more serious note, I had to watch a bullshit documentary at work a month ago or so. Parts of it were good, but there was also a lot of promoting homeopathy. And there was a whole section praising Safeway for their program making people pay more for their insurance based on things like BMI, and how it encouraged…

You're still implying that women who don't want to face their attackers are weak. So fuck you.

The '09ers' aren't 2009 graduates, they're the snobs from the rich, prestigious 90909 zip code that tormented Veronica for most of high school. This is supposed to be the 10 year reunion. I'm not an expert but google tells me that you can become a lawyer in about 7 years of school, so she'd have had time to get a…