Random things
-- BWAHAHAHAHA. Okay, so you know that employee handbook that I edited for my mom's work a few months back? Well, apparently I missed something. Which isn't a shock -- hell, I was bound to miss something -- except this something was from the section on smoking and fires and whatnot that warned employees against throwing their cigarette butts in "pot plants" rather than the potted variety. My mom's boss was supposedly the only one really pissed about it -- everybody else got a good laugh out of it -- but as my mother pointed out, a LOT of people there looked that entire handbook over for errors before it was bound for the employees, and her boss was one of them, so he missed it, too. Heh. :)
-- I edited up to chapter ten on GPW today. I tried to write but I really need to break my brain of the need to have music playing while I write, since I can't play it while I work.
-- So I have this paperback that I've been reading on and off when I'm taking a bath. And it's an okay paranormal romance for the most part, except ... okay, look, if you were born to two witchy parents, in a town full of witches, and spent the first eighteen years of your life around them, I don't care if you've spent the next ten years as far from witches and magic as possible or that you were never that good at magic, there may be questions about things you don't know about magic due to your previous lack of ability at it that you may need to ask, but some questions are so basic even YOU should be able to figure them out.
Let's put it this way -- my grandfather owned a golf course at one time, every one of my aunts and uncles on my mom's side of the family golfs, my mom is an awesome golfer, and I grew up suffering through every single tournament she made us sit through during dinnertime. Can I golf? No, I suck. Can I at least identify golf clubs, name famous golfers, and understand scoring terms? Uh-huh. In other words, I would be a lot more likely to believe this protagonist were smart if she didn't keep asking about or not knowing very basic things that she should have picked up even though she sucked on toast at the whole magic thing.
... ahem. Yeah, not really liking this woman at ALL. And yet, I keep reading.
-- I may be the only person who read that Sarah MichelleGellarPrinze and Freddie Prinze Jr. named their new daughter Charlotte Grace and pouted because it wasn't a fun weird celebrity baby name. I mean, good on 'em for giving her a name she can genuinely live with, but at the same time, aw, half of the fun of celebrities having babies is the weird baby names.
-- The father who admitting to killing his wife and five kids said he wanted to take his own life, but did not have the courage to go through with it, "because if you kill yourself, you're not going to heaven." Uh, honey? Killing your whole family isn't going to send you to heaven either. I'm pretty sure that's a banning offense.
-- I edited up to chapter ten on GPW today. I tried to write but I really need to break my brain of the need to have music playing while I write, since I can't play it while I work.
-- So I have this paperback that I've been reading on and off when I'm taking a bath. And it's an okay paranormal romance for the most part, except ... okay, look, if you were born to two witchy parents, in a town full of witches, and spent the first eighteen years of your life around them, I don't care if you've spent the next ten years as far from witches and magic as possible or that you were never that good at magic, there may be questions about things you don't know about magic due to your previous lack of ability at it that you may need to ask, but some questions are so basic even YOU should be able to figure them out.
Let's put it this way -- my grandfather owned a golf course at one time, every one of my aunts and uncles on my mom's side of the family golfs, my mom is an awesome golfer, and I grew up suffering through every single tournament she made us sit through during dinnertime. Can I golf? No, I suck. Can I at least identify golf clubs, name famous golfers, and understand scoring terms? Uh-huh. In other words, I would be a lot more likely to believe this protagonist were smart if she didn't keep asking about or not knowing very basic things that she should have picked up even though she sucked on toast at the whole magic thing.
... ahem. Yeah, not really liking this woman at ALL. And yet, I keep reading.
-- I may be the only person who read that Sarah Michelle
-- The father who admitting to killing his wife and five kids said he wanted to take his own life, but did not have the courage to go through with it, "because if you kill yourself, you're not going to heaven." Uh, honey? Killing your whole family isn't going to send you to heaven either. I'm pretty sure that's a banning offense.