Random things

[apocalypsos]

-- 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 Michelle GellarPrinze 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.

Comments

[shehasathree]

hunh. here in Australia, we don't really have 'potted plants', just pot plants. maybe it's because we don't use 'pot' to refer to cannabis as much?

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

Maybe pot plants could be pot plants? "Potted plants" sounds like potted meat and gives me flashbacks to Enid Blyton.

[deepbluemermaid.livejournal.com]

Same thing in New Zealand!

[honorh.livejournal.com]

Charlotte Grace--that's a lovely name! Very old-fashioned.

And yeah, last I looked, killing off your family wasn't a good way to get into Heaven. It's one of God's odd little quirks.

[cherrymmm.livejournal.com]

So...golf smarts huh? What did Jensen mean when he said he hadn't broke 81 yet?

Also, you shouldn't put you cig butts in pot plants OR potted plants so you got it right.

I'm glad SMG and FP Jr. named their kid something normal. Good on them. I like normal. What did Alyson Hannigan name hers? I can't recall.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

If I'm remembering correctly, it means he's not going to win any golf tournaments anytime soon, but he's not bad. (I might be able to get 81 ... if I only play nine holes ... and I have a good day.)

And Alyson's daughter is Satyana. It's Aramaic (I think). I really like that one -- weird, but pretty.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Killing your whole family isn't going to send you to heaven either.

According to what I've been told by several Christians, their god will let any behaviour pass as long as you sincerely regret it and ask for forgiveness.

[honorh.livejournal.com]

Repentance--basically, what it means is that, understanding what you did and how wrong it was, you turn away and head the opposite direction. Doesn't mean, "Sorry 'bout that, God, and here's an apology in advance for next time I do it." And forgiveness isn't, "That's okay." Forgiveness firstly recognizes the wrong done and that it's *not* okay--and then lets go, anyway.

There's your quick Christian theology lesson for the day. Hope it was painless!

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

Isn't it that suicide is the bigger sin because you have no time to repent after it's been done?

[scary-being-me.livejournal.com]

There is usually a penance involved as well; often in the form of prayer.

Until recently, the only sins you couldn't atone for were suicide and performing the black mass.

I want to say it was about a decade ago that they started letting people atone for the black mass.

Suicide cannot be atoned for because you are dead. You can atone for a failed suicide attempt.

[scary-being-me.livejournal.com]

The author is probably trying to iuse the character's lack of knowledge to inform the readers of these things.

It is a time honored literary device; but it seems that it's being executed poorly.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I know that, but like you said, her "voice of the audience" is somebody who should know this stuff already, which just makes her look irritatingly stupid.

[elusive-life-77.livejournal.com]

wow...are you reading "wanna be witch" ? SOunds a lot like it.