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brokenrecord) wrote2008-07-07 11:17 pm
brokenrecord) wrote2008-07-07 11:17 pm
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So, I'm totally going to suck at updating all summer. It's just, I work during the afternoon when I'd normally post, and anyways, all I have to talk about these days is work, which isn't really that interesting to people who aren't there. (But now I'm going to go on and pretty much just talk about various work stuff for a few hours.)
Like, this one guy is the son of a friend of my dad and he is the absolute most annoying person I work with and last week the manager told him to go home early because we had too many people working and he got really upset for some reason and punched the door to the box office and yelled a bunch of stuff in front of customers and scared people and he nearly got fired but he cried and didn't and for like a week after that he was super nice to everyone for a week and now that he's found out he's not fired, he's back to being annoying as hell. He brags about everything so much. This one time when I was telling him I was probably going to major in psychology, he was like "I could have gotten my PHd in psychology by now" and I was like "...really." Because he's like just graduated high school I think (in any case, he's not in college). And he was like "Yeah, when I was in middle school, I would just read through tons of textbooks." And I'm like "...uh. To get a PHd, you have to run studies and write a dissertation and get it approved and stuff. I'm pretty sure if all you needed to do to get a PHd was to read or even memorize a bunch of textbooks, way more people would have PHds."
There's this other guy who has a son and he's 24 and he found out about the son like 2 weeks after he was born and didn't get to name him and I don't know if he sees him at all or how old he is now (I think he's fairly young, though), and ok, that's fine, but then the younger sister of one of the girls who works there and her friend come to hang out at the theater (they can get in for free because her sister works there) and they basically just stalk him and flirt with him and he TOTALLY flirts back and she's freaking 13 years old. Just SO CREEPY. But he's actually a really nice guy. Just... creepy when they're around.
Oh, and there are FOUR Irish guys who work there. Like... two of them know each other, and then the other two know each other, but they didn't all come together, so it's kind of weird that two separate sets of Irish guys came to work there. And yeah, they're not THAT hot, but they're Irish, so all the girls go kind of crazy over them. It's kind of hilarious. And they're really nice guys. And now at least one more Irish guy, if not two, have applied and I think were hired. So now there will be a maximum of 6 Irish guys working there. It is totally crazy. (But very awesome.)
Today was Siena's last day at work since she's going to Spain to study for the summer, which sucks. It's so weird that I'm actually kind of friends with her now. We carpooled last week and one day when she got sent home early and I didn't and I was like "I'm so jealous" and she was like "Awwww" and gave me a half-hug which was bizarre. But yeah, I don't know. I felt really comfortable talking to her which is so weird because it should have been much more awkward, but it wasn't. I'll actually miss working with her, which is really surprising. I've been getting along really well with this girl who's 18 and just got promoted to manager (she was actually a shift leader my first day and she trained me on box office) so I at least have her to talk to. And actually, I feel like I've made better friends at work in like 3-4 weeks than I did all year at school. I don't know if I'm different or if the people are different or if the environments are different that's causing it, but yeah. I'm kind of sad I'm only working here for another month and a half (and then also not sad, because the hours suck SO MUCH).
I saw the Doctor Who finale and I read a few reactions and it seems like people either hated it or loved it. I'm pretty much in the loved it camp for various reasons. (This is not as much a reaction post as a reaction to other people's reactions post.) I don't know, I get why people hated the Rose resolution and think that it was pointless she even came back, and part of me agrees, but at the same time... I ship them so much that I don't care. I don't think that it negates the end of Doomsday like I've seen other people think (although that's just my opinion). I'm glad Rose can have a version of the Doctor who can love her and grow old with her and all that. I totally squeed when they kissed, and I'm not ashamed of that. I love them together, and it always hurt so much knowing that Rose was trapped in a parallel world against her will, always wanting to be with the Doctor. And I do still feel bad for the Doctor, because he clearly loves her, but he knows he can't be with her.
...so yeah. I don't know what I'm really trying to get across here. But I enjoyed that bit. (Please don't hate me forever.) I do wish that people like Martha and Jack and all had been used more. I kind of wish they had cut back the amount of people who had come back. They could have easily cut Sarah Jane Smith's bit and I wouldn't have cared at all (mostly because I don't watch her show, so I didn't understand anything that was going on with her and her kid and that computer and all that). And I would've liked much more interactino between Rose and Martha (although Rose saying she liked Martha and then Martha's realization of who she was and saying "He found you" and all that was just awesome). And man, there should have been SO much more between Rose and Jack. That made me sad. Rose didn't even seem surprised to see him at the end of the last episode/beginning of this episode.
But anyways. I don't know. I've seen people say also that this season really sucked, but... I don't think it did. I don't know. Maybe it had a few more bad episodes than other seasons, but... I don't know. I still really enjoyed it. Part of it was Donna's awesomeness, definitely. There were episodes I didn't like, like the Agatha Christie episode and the second part of the library two-parter and the Ood episode to some extent. But there were some great episodes in there, too, and there have been plenty of bad episodes in the pervious seasons.
But yeah, on the subject of bad episodes, can I just say how much I hated the second part of the library two parter? It was just so disappointing. The first episode built everything up really well, but that episode just... really fell short. Part of it was that I desperately wanted them to confirm who River Song was, but that never happened. And I really wanted them to reveal that she is just a future companion and not someone that the Doctor had a relationship with. I mean, when I think of how Martha (especially Martha when she had that crush on the Doctor) would react if she met the Doctor before he met her, I think she might have reacted similarly. And I hate that she's introduced as already being interesting to the Doctor and awesome and all that, so we're supposed to like her (and the Doctor is as well) when she's done nothing to show that. It was just very... presumptuous, I guess? And I know that they're never going to return to this storyline in the future, so it's just like... this dangling plot thread. I don't know. I just didn't like any of it. =/
Um, yeah. But back to what I was saying, I think I need to just not read other people's reactions. Because most of the time I think I don't expect as much from Doctor Who, and other people's reactions just bring me down. And that's not to say that I think no one should say anything negative about the show, because of course everyone is entitled to their opinions and the right to discuss their thoughts and all that. But I just know that if I do read the negative reactions, that I'm just going to... feel bad, I guess? And I don't want to feel bad about this show. So logically the best thing for me to do is just to avoid other people's reaction posts.
Anyways. I got off work today at 9:30 and I'm still kind of wired and that's why this post is so babbly and stream-of-conscious and all that. Tomorrow and Wednesday I have off, thankfully, and I'm getting paid on Friday, so this week is looking up. Tomorrow morning I'm taking my mom to see Iron Man since we're the only two people left in the world who haven't seen it, and I've been told a million times how amazing it is. So yeah. Looking forward to that.
Like, this one guy is the son of a friend of my dad and he is the absolute most annoying person I work with and last week the manager told him to go home early because we had too many people working and he got really upset for some reason and punched the door to the box office and yelled a bunch of stuff in front of customers and scared people and he nearly got fired but he cried and didn't and for like a week after that he was super nice to everyone for a week and now that he's found out he's not fired, he's back to being annoying as hell. He brags about everything so much. This one time when I was telling him I was probably going to major in psychology, he was like "I could have gotten my PHd in psychology by now" and I was like "...really." Because he's like just graduated high school I think (in any case, he's not in college). And he was like "Yeah, when I was in middle school, I would just read through tons of textbooks." And I'm like "...uh. To get a PHd, you have to run studies and write a dissertation and get it approved and stuff. I'm pretty sure if all you needed to do to get a PHd was to read or even memorize a bunch of textbooks, way more people would have PHds."
There's this other guy who has a son and he's 24 and he found out about the son like 2 weeks after he was born and didn't get to name him and I don't know if he sees him at all or how old he is now (I think he's fairly young, though), and ok, that's fine, but then the younger sister of one of the girls who works there and her friend come to hang out at the theater (they can get in for free because her sister works there) and they basically just stalk him and flirt with him and he TOTALLY flirts back and she's freaking 13 years old. Just SO CREEPY. But he's actually a really nice guy. Just... creepy when they're around.
Oh, and there are FOUR Irish guys who work there. Like... two of them know each other, and then the other two know each other, but they didn't all come together, so it's kind of weird that two separate sets of Irish guys came to work there. And yeah, they're not THAT hot, but they're Irish, so all the girls go kind of crazy over them. It's kind of hilarious. And they're really nice guys. And now at least one more Irish guy, if not two, have applied and I think were hired. So now there will be a maximum of 6 Irish guys working there. It is totally crazy. (But very awesome.)
Today was Siena's last day at work since she's going to Spain to study for the summer, which sucks. It's so weird that I'm actually kind of friends with her now. We carpooled last week and one day when she got sent home early and I didn't and I was like "I'm so jealous" and she was like "Awwww" and gave me a half-hug which was bizarre. But yeah, I don't know. I felt really comfortable talking to her which is so weird because it should have been much more awkward, but it wasn't. I'll actually miss working with her, which is really surprising. I've been getting along really well with this girl who's 18 and just got promoted to manager (she was actually a shift leader my first day and she trained me on box office) so I at least have her to talk to. And actually, I feel like I've made better friends at work in like 3-4 weeks than I did all year at school. I don't know if I'm different or if the people are different or if the environments are different that's causing it, but yeah. I'm kind of sad I'm only working here for another month and a half (and then also not sad, because the hours suck SO MUCH).
I saw the Doctor Who finale and I read a few reactions and it seems like people either hated it or loved it. I'm pretty much in the loved it camp for various reasons. (This is not as much a reaction post as a reaction to other people's reactions post.) I don't know, I get why people hated the Rose resolution and think that it was pointless she even came back, and part of me agrees, but at the same time... I ship them so much that I don't care. I don't think that it negates the end of Doomsday like I've seen other people think (although that's just my opinion). I'm glad Rose can have a version of the Doctor who can love her and grow old with her and all that. I totally squeed when they kissed, and I'm not ashamed of that. I love them together, and it always hurt so much knowing that Rose was trapped in a parallel world against her will, always wanting to be with the Doctor. And I do still feel bad for the Doctor, because he clearly loves her, but he knows he can't be with her.
...so yeah. I don't know what I'm really trying to get across here. But I enjoyed that bit. (Please don't hate me forever.) I do wish that people like Martha and Jack and all had been used more. I kind of wish they had cut back the amount of people who had come back. They could have easily cut Sarah Jane Smith's bit and I wouldn't have cared at all (mostly because I don't watch her show, so I didn't understand anything that was going on with her and her kid and that computer and all that). And I would've liked much more interactino between Rose and Martha (although Rose saying she liked Martha and then Martha's realization of who she was and saying "He found you" and all that was just awesome). And man, there should have been SO much more between Rose and Jack. That made me sad. Rose didn't even seem surprised to see him at the end of the last episode/beginning of this episode.
But anyways. I don't know. I've seen people say also that this season really sucked, but... I don't think it did. I don't know. Maybe it had a few more bad episodes than other seasons, but... I don't know. I still really enjoyed it. Part of it was Donna's awesomeness, definitely. There were episodes I didn't like, like the Agatha Christie episode and the second part of the library two-parter and the Ood episode to some extent. But there were some great episodes in there, too, and there have been plenty of bad episodes in the pervious seasons.
But yeah, on the subject of bad episodes, can I just say how much I hated the second part of the library two parter? It was just so disappointing. The first episode built everything up really well, but that episode just... really fell short. Part of it was that I desperately wanted them to confirm who River Song was, but that never happened. And I really wanted them to reveal that she is just a future companion and not someone that the Doctor had a relationship with. I mean, when I think of how Martha (especially Martha when she had that crush on the Doctor) would react if she met the Doctor before he met her, I think she might have reacted similarly. And I hate that she's introduced as already being interesting to the Doctor and awesome and all that, so we're supposed to like her (and the Doctor is as well) when she's done nothing to show that. It was just very... presumptuous, I guess? And I know that they're never going to return to this storyline in the future, so it's just like... this dangling plot thread. I don't know. I just didn't like any of it. =/
Um, yeah. But back to what I was saying, I think I need to just not read other people's reactions. Because most of the time I think I don't expect as much from Doctor Who, and other people's reactions just bring me down. And that's not to say that I think no one should say anything negative about the show, because of course everyone is entitled to their opinions and the right to discuss their thoughts and all that. But I just know that if I do read the negative reactions, that I'm just going to... feel bad, I guess? And I don't want to feel bad about this show. So logically the best thing for me to do is just to avoid other people's reaction posts.
Anyways. I got off work today at 9:30 and I'm still kind of wired and that's why this post is so babbly and stream-of-conscious and all that. Tomorrow and Wednesday I have off, thankfully, and I'm getting paid on Friday, so this week is looking up. Tomorrow morning I'm taking my mom to see Iron Man since we're the only two people left in the world who haven't seen it, and I've been told a million times how amazing it is. So yeah. Looking forward to that.
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