Quite a character.
Watched "The Cloverfield Paradox" last night, very much enjoyed it. Haven't read many reviews on it other than a few headlines, but now that I've seen it, gonna see what I can dig up because I'm interested in people's take on the film. Especially since it appears that the script was not originally a Cloverfield sequel and they just added that bit towards the end.
Slept in, almost 10 hours of sleep, which was wonderful, especially after such a long and difficult day yesterday. Garage sale days really take their toll on me. Luckily today is just a visual day, in fact, it's a visual overnight. And unlike at the Gap, overnight at REI means 10-ish since we tend to finish early. It's less clothing that we deal with, but it's a lot more specified clothing, so while I can't really compare the two companies to each other in that regard, it's pretty clear to me who's got the better plan when it comes to landing their floorsets.
But I'm not here to complain about my past employer, nor to comment about my current employer! I'm here to do today's prompt!
Day 11: Three Favorite Book Characters
Oh dear. Other than Hermione Granger is anyone else really my favorite?
I look over to my bookshelf to see what books I have other than the ones I listed yesterday, and the majority are nonfiction books. And while we can all call ourselves characters (that's a bad joke), I can't say that there are any "favorite characters" in those nonfiction books.
So let's see...
1) Hermione Granger is definitely number one. The Harry Potter books for me came out exactly at the right age. For the first 3 books I was the same age as the kids were, and in the last 4 I was moving away to college and becoming this joke of an adult that I am. But the books helped me transition from child to adult. Most kids today will devour the books in a months or years, but I had to wait to read them as they came out, and every time there was a new book, I would reread the older ones and catching things I hadn't noticed before, whether that was from lack of attention or my own growth. So to see Hermione grow up in the books at the same time as I was, it made me feel less alone in all of my self-made drama. If this girl could deal with all the issues one has in high school and deal with the dark lord, then I could deal with the simple shit I was going through. J.K Rowling really puts in all the best and worst qualities we see in ourselves into Hermione and gave us someone to look up to. Sure she is fallible and not perfect, but that's what makes her so relatable.
(side note, I made my tea too sweet this morning. It's like drinking flower flavored sugar water)
2) Wonder Woman/ Diana Prince. Ok, ok, she's a comic book character, but still, she is a fictional person whose life is being played out on the pages of countless of graphic novels and comic books! So she totally counts. And if we thought Hermione was perfect? Diana is the epitome of perfection, hell she's a god and a superhero. And as I read more and more comics (from the very first to the very latest) I begin to see flaws in that perfection and that's what makes her all the more amazing. The writers of Wonder Woman have crafted a character that embodies everything we want to be and everything we want our leaders to be, but not without flaws, because without struggle how else do we learn. I hope that as I continue to read these comics, I learn more from Wonder Woman about the woman I want to be.
There is a quote I keep at my desk about the Amazonian ethic for battle
"Don't kill if you can wound. Don't wound in you can subdue. Don't subdue if you can pacify. And don't raise your hand at all until you've first extended it."
Now I don't ever plan on killing anyone, but it's great words of advice for how to deal with any problem. Kinda like my "don't present a problem to someone unless you have at least 2 solutions". Instead of going at it full force pissed off feeling like you can kill someone, go through those steps and you'll find a peaceful resolution that will benefit all rather than just burning bridges and fucking yourself over.
3) Does Kate Beckett count? No? She's not a book character. Damn. Ok, Harriet the Spy then. She was the first to turn me onto detectives and true crime. I SOOO wanted to be her. From sneaking around and investigating to having cool tools and taking notes. Hell I still want to be her, but my days of being a detective are long ad gone. Instead of trying to solve crimes and mysteries, I'm just trying to figure myself out. Which in a way is the same thing :)
Well that's not that bad of a list. And with that, I'm going to go get ready for this "overnight".
Slept in, almost 10 hours of sleep, which was wonderful, especially after such a long and difficult day yesterday. Garage sale days really take their toll on me. Luckily today is just a visual day, in fact, it's a visual overnight. And unlike at the Gap, overnight at REI means 10-ish since we tend to finish early. It's less clothing that we deal with, but it's a lot more specified clothing, so while I can't really compare the two companies to each other in that regard, it's pretty clear to me who's got the better plan when it comes to landing their floorsets.
But I'm not here to complain about my past employer, nor to comment about my current employer! I'm here to do today's prompt!
Day 11: Three Favorite Book Characters
Oh dear. Other than Hermione Granger is anyone else really my favorite?
I look over to my bookshelf to see what books I have other than the ones I listed yesterday, and the majority are nonfiction books. And while we can all call ourselves characters (that's a bad joke), I can't say that there are any "favorite characters" in those nonfiction books.
So let's see...
1) Hermione Granger is definitely number one. The Harry Potter books for me came out exactly at the right age. For the first 3 books I was the same age as the kids were, and in the last 4 I was moving away to college and becoming this joke of an adult that I am. But the books helped me transition from child to adult. Most kids today will devour the books in a months or years, but I had to wait to read them as they came out, and every time there was a new book, I would reread the older ones and catching things I hadn't noticed before, whether that was from lack of attention or my own growth. So to see Hermione grow up in the books at the same time as I was, it made me feel less alone in all of my self-made drama. If this girl could deal with all the issues one has in high school and deal with the dark lord, then I could deal with the simple shit I was going through. J.K Rowling really puts in all the best and worst qualities we see in ourselves into Hermione and gave us someone to look up to. Sure she is fallible and not perfect, but that's what makes her so relatable.
(side note, I made my tea too sweet this morning. It's like drinking flower flavored sugar water)
2) Wonder Woman/ Diana Prince. Ok, ok, she's a comic book character, but still, she is a fictional person whose life is being played out on the pages of countless of graphic novels and comic books! So she totally counts. And if we thought Hermione was perfect? Diana is the epitome of perfection, hell she's a god and a superhero. And as I read more and more comics (from the very first to the very latest) I begin to see flaws in that perfection and that's what makes her all the more amazing. The writers of Wonder Woman have crafted a character that embodies everything we want to be and everything we want our leaders to be, but not without flaws, because without struggle how else do we learn. I hope that as I continue to read these comics, I learn more from Wonder Woman about the woman I want to be.
There is a quote I keep at my desk about the Amazonian ethic for battle
"Don't kill if you can wound. Don't wound in you can subdue. Don't subdue if you can pacify. And don't raise your hand at all until you've first extended it."
Now I don't ever plan on killing anyone, but it's great words of advice for how to deal with any problem. Kinda like my "don't present a problem to someone unless you have at least 2 solutions". Instead of going at it full force pissed off feeling like you can kill someone, go through those steps and you'll find a peaceful resolution that will benefit all rather than just burning bridges and fucking yourself over.
3) Does Kate Beckett count? No? She's not a book character. Damn. Ok, Harriet the Spy then. She was the first to turn me onto detectives and true crime. I SOOO wanted to be her. From sneaking around and investigating to having cool tools and taking notes. Hell I still want to be her, but my days of being a detective are long ad gone. Instead of trying to solve crimes and mysteries, I'm just trying to figure myself out. Which in a way is the same thing :)
Well that's not that bad of a list. And with that, I'm going to go get ready for this "overnight".
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