Five for Friday
Dec. 1st, 2017 08:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee341. Yesterday I got paid a surprise stipend of almost $500 for a program I am developing for spring implementation for our QEP. I was in it for the glory LOL, but I am very pleased about the moolah.
2. I started writing and addressing cards. If you want one and didn't comment on my card post, just PM me your details.
3. Emma and I are rewatching SGA, and I had forgotten how good the show is right out of the, well, gate. Most of my deeply beloved episodes (The Storm, The Eye, Before I Sleep) come from this first season. I'm also struck on this rewatch by how much Rodney has already changed (starting in the first episode) from the Rodney we saw on SG1. I'm also struck by how much he and John gravitate toward each other, right from the beginning. In my memory they had taken awhile to warm up to each other, but they're friendly right from the get go. We just watched Before I Sleep, and I love that episode so much. Elizabeth!Prime gives up her whole life to save her people; the pacing of the episode is a bit difficult to figure out, but I think she's only on Atlantis a matter of weeks, maybe a few months, before the Ancients all leave and she gets into the stasis pod. She's ten thousand years old in actuality but in reality not even a year older than Elizabeth. I get Janeway in the finale of Voyager goosebumps just thinking about it.
4. I've started reading Disraeli's Sybil, and it is clearly going to take forever to slog through all the political treatise bits to get to the actual story bits. I'm not well versed enough in British and European history/politics of the 17th and 18th centuries to follow along with a lot of what he's talking about even despite the footnotes.
5. I'm getting my hair cut and colored today. It astonishes me how quickly it grows and how evident that growth is when it's so short; when it's longer, I could go 8 or ten weeks sometimes between cuts and it wasn't really all that evident that it had grown much. I think my platonic ideal would be five weeks, but I've been going six and sometimes seven in between because of scheduling, etc.
2. I started writing and addressing cards. If you want one and didn't comment on my card post, just PM me your details.
3. Emma and I are rewatching SGA, and I had forgotten how good the show is right out of the, well, gate. Most of my deeply beloved episodes (The Storm, The Eye, Before I Sleep) come from this first season. I'm also struck on this rewatch by how much Rodney has already changed (starting in the first episode) from the Rodney we saw on SG1. I'm also struck by how much he and John gravitate toward each other, right from the beginning. In my memory they had taken awhile to warm up to each other, but they're friendly right from the get go. We just watched Before I Sleep, and I love that episode so much. Elizabeth!Prime gives up her whole life to save her people; the pacing of the episode is a bit difficult to figure out, but I think she's only on Atlantis a matter of weeks, maybe a few months, before the Ancients all leave and she gets into the stasis pod. She's ten thousand years old in actuality but in reality not even a year older than Elizabeth. I get Janeway in the finale of Voyager goosebumps just thinking about it.
4. I've started reading Disraeli's Sybil, and it is clearly going to take forever to slog through all the political treatise bits to get to the actual story bits. I'm not well versed enough in British and European history/politics of the 17th and 18th centuries to follow along with a lot of what he's talking about even despite the footnotes.
5. I'm getting my hair cut and colored today. It astonishes me how quickly it grows and how evident that growth is when it's so short; when it's longer, I could go 8 or ten weeks sometimes between cuts and it wasn't really all that evident that it had grown much. I think my platonic ideal would be five weeks, but I've been going six and sometimes seven in between because of scheduling, etc.
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Date: 2017-12-01 02:53 pm (UTC)SGA season one is so nicely untainted by later seasons in my mind. I know it got ridiculous, but that's when I was in the fandom, both online and IRL, and I have a great fondness for it.
ETA And I see below that you loved it throughout, so I don't mean to throw cold water on things! But I am a big fan of "and then they stayed out of contact for quite some time" AUs that we didn't get on the show. Same goes for Voyager, really.
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Date: 2017-12-01 11:26 pm (UTC)I really wish it had been more Voyager in execution, too; I love so much of what fanfic has done with the expedition being cut off from earth for years, even decades (or even forever). However, I gotta admit, Caldwell showing up at the end of season 1 and saving the day does make my heart grow three sizes. LOL
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Date: 2017-12-01 02:59 pm (UTC)I have strayed so far from my roots. Instead, I'm all anxious about whether I can write a decent writing studies article.
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Date: 2017-12-01 03:24 pm (UTC)I think that I will like it more as we get more story. Right now, the political lectures about the 17th century aren't doing it for me. LOL
(Also, I am positive you can write a decent writing studies article. :) What are you going to write about?)
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Date: 2017-12-01 09:46 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-12-01 03:26 pm (UTC)I have to admit that I loved the show from the start to the finish, but I can understand why people lost interest as it went on.
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Date: 2017-12-01 04:05 pm (UTC)I was talking about the jump from SGA to SGU, where I felt like they lost their series' entire momentum by trying to go for a tonal shift and the whole mood of the series itself changed. It went from hopeful to something darker, and the "generally people work together" went to "there's a schemer in every corner." Plus there was the creeptastic communication stone conjugal visit issue. (If I'm remembering the whole thing right, anyway. I never watched much SGU and read a lot of synopses instead.) The series lost too much of their core audience over SGU.
Riffs from the PTB on wanting a younger viewer base definitely didn't help retain a fan base that had been with them for 15+ years either.
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Date: 2017-12-02 03:02 pm (UTC)I think this is the point where I have to also admit that I really liked SGU. I do not like the dismissive comments the showrunners made about their female fanbase, and I think they would have done better to have a concurrent run of a couple of years of SGU and SGA like they did with SGA and SG1.
I haven't seen all of SGU; I believe it started airing at some point opposite another show we watch and since we don't have a DVR, we dropped SGU, but it's on my agenda to finish the show.
If I remember correctly, the communication stone being misused in that way was never presented as acceptable in the show, but it's been a long time since it aired; I don't want to say for sure. I do remember that I liked the characters and the premise and the darker tone; I love me some optimistic people who mostly work together and don't give in to despair, but I also really liked the desperate tone and the way they were just in over their heads and really scared. I think the difference is that SGA expedition went into things already a team; many of those people had already worked together before, probably for years, and the military contingency was a team by dint of their nature and training. On SGU a disparate group of people who hadn't worked together in some cases and had no group goals were thrown together; so the scheming and factioning made sense to me.
But all of that said, I am not an SGU evangelist and am not out to convert anyone to liking the show. :) I got miffed a bit at the time it was airing and I was enjoying it when so many people (I'm thinking some BNFs from SGA in particular) made all these vitriolic posts about a show they hadn't seen and weren't going to watch that were really not true in their characterization. But *shrugs*. That's water under the bridge. I completely get being annoyed about SGA being cancelled, and I completely get being annoyed by the showrunners saying they didn't care about their female viewership; I'm still annoyed about those things.
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Date: 2017-12-01 07:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-02 03:05 pm (UTC)I'm so happy. At the beginning of this year, I did a balance transfer on my credit card, so I could spend this year paying it down with zero interest, and now I have an extra 500 to throw at it. *beams* I'm really proud of myself. I've been able to pay it down considerably; I wish I'd been able to get it to zero, but we just couldn't afford to pay that much. I'm still holding out hope that we get some money for Christmas that I can throw at it; I think it will start garnering interesting again in January.
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Date: 2017-12-01 11:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-02 03:05 pm (UTC)What is your icon from? I love it.
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Date: 2017-12-02 11:19 pm (UTC)the post says it's from the work of edward gorey.
https://oraclegreen.dreamwidth.org/tag/books:+edward+gorey
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Date: 2017-12-03 05:24 pm (UTC)Some of the Christmas cards I'm sending this year have Gorey artwork on them; they're pretty weird, but I like them. :)
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Date: 2017-12-02 01:51 am (UTC)I resisted SGA for a long time, pretty much after it finished and THAN found out about, well, Radek. And Rodney. And Teyla. (I have a habit of going for closed canon, which did at least make for peaceful fannish paddling...)
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Date: 2017-12-02 03:07 pm (UTC)I love SGA so hard. I'm having so much fun watching with Emma. I'm hoping that once I finish my Yuletide story *crosses fingers for this weekend* I can start working on some SGA fic.
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Date: 2017-12-03 02:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-03 05:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-02 02:52 am (UTC)I've gotten so lazy about colouring my hair since I cut it really short...
*hugs*
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Date: 2017-12-02 03:08 pm (UTC)I'm just glad styling it is so easy now; on the one hand, I have to style it every day or it looks like a rooster head, but on the other hand, it takes two minutes, so score!
I love short hair and I love it on just about everyone.
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Date: 2017-12-05 07:29 pm (UTC)Heh. I've been known to watch shows just because I liked a female character's short haircut (*cough*OUaT for a while*cough). :-)
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Date: 2017-12-06 09:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-03 11:20 pm (UTC)I hope your hair came out beautifully.
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Date: 2017-12-04 11:35 pm (UTC)