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Oct. 11th, 2009 12:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brokenrecordOk, so I talked to my mom about my dad changing law firms. Apparently this new place has been after him for a year now. He's not really happy where he is; he's worked there for 30 years, but the people who hired him have all retired yet, as have all his friends who worked there except for like 1, and he feels marginalized. Like they don't appreciate him enough. Whereas this other place REALLY wants him and would appreciate him. This new place is much smaller, and it's actually just the floor below where he works now, so it's not like the commute (which is 15 minutes from our house) changes or anything. And he would have to retire at the place he is at now in 5 years, and then he'd be stuck figuring out what to do next anyways, so he might as well switch now and be happier and not have to retire in 5 years. And apparently he asked my mom and a bunch of other people what they thought, and not a single one of them thought he shouldn't do it. He just made the decision a few days ago which is why I hadn't heard about it before and why it was so sudden that he couldn't come. So that all makes a lot more sense now that it's been explained. It still was a huge shock when he first told me, though, because it's not like I discuss my dad's work with him pretty much ever, so I wasn't aware of all these factors.
Anyways, my mom was here this weekend, which was great. I got to eat out and go shopping and stuff! It was fun. And we started watching my The Big Bang Theory Season 1 DVDs. She had only seen one episode from season 2 randomly (and she didn't really remember it). She liked the show, but she's not at all invested. And it really isn't a very deep show; I just love it because it makes me so happy most of the time and it's just really entertaining. We did only get to around 1.13, so she hadn't seen what I think are the absolute best episodes of the series. She likes Sheldon (she says that she relates to him a lot, and that she has a lot of the same quirks as he does, which I found interesting). And she didn't say anything about Leonard/Penny, but when we were talking, I was like "The one storyline I don't like is Leonard pining after Penny" and she immediately agreed and when I said that actors didn't have chemistry, she was like "Oh yeah, I really don't care about their relationship" or something to that extent. And she said that she didn't like Leonard's character when he was around Penny because he's only interested in her because of how she looks and basically everything I've said I hate about them from the beginning. I don't think she ships Sheldon/Penny like I do (but she's not really a shipper), but I mentioned that the show gets better as it starts focusing on Sheldon more, and that Sheldon and Penny get more scenes together and that I really liked the dynamic between them, how Penny actually challenges Sheldon in a way that the other characters don't, and that he challenges her similarly. And how he's the only one who isn't interested in her because of how she looks; their friendship has no ulterior motives. And she totally agreed with all of that. And, I mean, she wouldn't just agree with what I was saying just to make me happy, you know; she totally lets me know when she disagrees. So I find it amusing and cool that she reached the same conclusions about all this stuff, and she doesn't even ship Sheldon/Penny. Come on TBBT writers, everyone can see that Leonard/Penny are terrible and boring!
Also, I remember the first time I watched the series, 1.09 was an episode that really made me get more invested in the show and more addicted, and I remember liking it a lot. And I was kind of wondering why since it has been so long since I saw it, and then when we watched, I was like "OH HEY, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME SHELDON AND PENNY EVER HAVE A SCENE ALONE TOGETHER, BASICALLY." Heh. I was totally a Sheldon/Penny shipper from the start, even though I remember after season 1 my attitude was pretty much "I enjoy scenes with Sheldon and Penny, but I don't know if I ship them. I do know that Leonard and Penny are boring as hell together." But clearly I was subconsciously shipping them or something.
Anyways, as I said, we only got to 1.13, but I want to finish the season 1 DVDs and get to season 2 now. Of course, I have a huge amount of TV to get through since I didn't have time to watch anything on Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. I also have a fair amount of homework, so there's no way I'll get all my work done I need to and watch all the stuff I want to. I'm going to try to balance it out a bit. I don't have TOO much stuff to do this week (it's definitely not as bad as last week or the week before), but I do need to do a good amount.
I got my IRB comments back. My research is approved pending I address some comments they have (which is what happens to everyone, basically; no one just passes outright). I feel like I should feel really great about this, and part of me does, but another part of me just feels kind of... weird? And I keep obsessively going over the comments? I don't know. I think part of it was before this research was just me discussing it with my adviser and the other 5 members of my group, and it's just been so supportive, so even the criticism is easy to take, you know? Because it's like we're all encouraging of each other and know where each other is and all that. But this is an entirely different group of people who aren't familiar with what I'm doing, and it's just not the same kind of feel. I don't know. I'm overly sensitive. The professor who e-mailed me the comments did begin with the fact that they found my proposal overall very impressive, and everything they had issues with I fully understand why they did. I need to stop being so negative and just be thrilled I'm this much closer to getting my research done.
Anyways, my mom was here this weekend, which was great. I got to eat out and go shopping and stuff! It was fun. And we started watching my The Big Bang Theory Season 1 DVDs. She had only seen one episode from season 2 randomly (and she didn't really remember it). She liked the show, but she's not at all invested. And it really isn't a very deep show; I just love it because it makes me so happy most of the time and it's just really entertaining. We did only get to around 1.13, so she hadn't seen what I think are the absolute best episodes of the series. She likes Sheldon (she says that she relates to him a lot, and that she has a lot of the same quirks as he does, which I found interesting). And she didn't say anything about Leonard/Penny, but when we were talking, I was like "The one storyline I don't like is Leonard pining after Penny" and she immediately agreed and when I said that actors didn't have chemistry, she was like "Oh yeah, I really don't care about their relationship" or something to that extent. And she said that she didn't like Leonard's character when he was around Penny because he's only interested in her because of how she looks and basically everything I've said I hate about them from the beginning. I don't think she ships Sheldon/Penny like I do (but she's not really a shipper), but I mentioned that the show gets better as it starts focusing on Sheldon more, and that Sheldon and Penny get more scenes together and that I really liked the dynamic between them, how Penny actually challenges Sheldon in a way that the other characters don't, and that he challenges her similarly. And how he's the only one who isn't interested in her because of how she looks; their friendship has no ulterior motives. And she totally agreed with all of that. And, I mean, she wouldn't just agree with what I was saying just to make me happy, you know; she totally lets me know when she disagrees. So I find it amusing and cool that she reached the same conclusions about all this stuff, and she doesn't even ship Sheldon/Penny. Come on TBBT writers, everyone can see that Leonard/Penny are terrible and boring!
Also, I remember the first time I watched the series, 1.09 was an episode that really made me get more invested in the show and more addicted, and I remember liking it a lot. And I was kind of wondering why since it has been so long since I saw it, and then when we watched, I was like "OH HEY, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME SHELDON AND PENNY EVER HAVE A SCENE ALONE TOGETHER, BASICALLY." Heh. I was totally a Sheldon/Penny shipper from the start, even though I remember after season 1 my attitude was pretty much "I enjoy scenes with Sheldon and Penny, but I don't know if I ship them. I do know that Leonard and Penny are boring as hell together." But clearly I was subconsciously shipping them or something.
Anyways, as I said, we only got to 1.13, but I want to finish the season 1 DVDs and get to season 2 now. Of course, I have a huge amount of TV to get through since I didn't have time to watch anything on Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. I also have a fair amount of homework, so there's no way I'll get all my work done I need to and watch all the stuff I want to. I'm going to try to balance it out a bit. I don't have TOO much stuff to do this week (it's definitely not as bad as last week or the week before), but I do need to do a good amount.
I got my IRB comments back. My research is approved pending I address some comments they have (which is what happens to everyone, basically; no one just passes outright). I feel like I should feel really great about this, and part of me does, but another part of me just feels kind of... weird? And I keep obsessively going over the comments? I don't know. I think part of it was before this research was just me discussing it with my adviser and the other 5 members of my group, and it's just been so supportive, so even the criticism is easy to take, you know? Because it's like we're all encouraging of each other and know where each other is and all that. But this is an entirely different group of people who aren't familiar with what I'm doing, and it's just not the same kind of feel. I don't know. I'm overly sensitive. The professor who e-mailed me the comments did begin with the fact that they found my proposal overall very impressive, and everything they had issues with I fully understand why they did. I need to stop being so negative and just be thrilled I'm this much closer to getting my research done.
