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-Last year I wanted to talk about Star Trek, but I had so many things to say that go in so many random directions, I eventually just started this doc I just randomly add to from time to time. I've started breaking it down and posting pieces of it every Tuesday, but not today, because:
-My laptop is broken. The backlight doesn't work. My dad says it's probably just a $1.70 capacitor on the inverter board which he can solder on, but he's in Houston. I'm going to be in Houston in 3 weeks, so . . . three weeks until I have a computer. The shop says $150-250 for a repair. Do I buy a new comp, or wait for Dad? Choices, choices.
-Earlier this year I posted about a girl at work, T. I got very busy over the summer both at work and in my personal life, so I had little time to check in with T. However, recently I've been checking in again and she seems much better. She talks about her plans for the future. While she still doesn't seem ready to implement these plans, she's thinking about it. I think her apparent happiness may in large part be due to the fact that a guy who worked with her got fired. He hassled her a lot, and it upset her more than I realized.
I still think T needs help. She still doesn't have many friends, or at least not as many as she thinks she should have, or not the ones she wants. Part of the problem is that although I think she likes hanging out with me because it's something to do, I don't think I'm the friend she wants or thinks she should have. She really wants a "girlfriend" who calls her on the phone all the time and talks about boys and goes shopping. She has also expressed she wants friends the same age and background as her. I really don't know how to help her on that front.
T leaves work earlier than me and doesn't seem inclined to wait for me; nor does she seem inclined to ride the bus to meet me somewhere. But I do think she's gained something from the time we've spent together. I brought her to movie night once; we watched His Girl Friday and I made her ravioli. I don't think she'd ever seen a black and white movie, and she'd definitely never had ravioli. She says the movie was weird because it was like nothing she'd seen before, but she also says she thought it was interesting because it was so different.
Maybe I'll try to have lunch with her at work some days, or invite her to another movie night. I never did get her any phone numbers for people who might help her; I should still try to do that.
-I have been watching Avatar: The Last Airbender. I have a short list of shows that I really respect. I have an even shorter list of shows that are really my favorite. This show is on both of them. It pretty much has absolutely everything I want. It pretty much fixed almost every problem I've been starting to have with Hero's Journey quest stories. I feel like it's restored my faith in . . . a lot of things. Everything seems so shiny.
I could go on and on about this show, but the things I actually want to say would take a really long time. As with Star Trek, I don't think I can say them without 50 pages or so of blathering. Since I don't have a computer right now, I'll just throw the thoughts in a stew and hopefully it can slowly simmer out over time.
-I started an Avatar: TLA Haiku Comment Fest.
Go write a haiku.
It can be a lot of fun.
I did it--now you!
-My laptop is broken. The backlight doesn't work. My dad says it's probably just a $1.70 capacitor on the inverter board which he can solder on, but he's in Houston. I'm going to be in Houston in 3 weeks, so . . . three weeks until I have a computer. The shop says $150-250 for a repair. Do I buy a new comp, or wait for Dad? Choices, choices.
-Earlier this year I posted about a girl at work, T. I got very busy over the summer both at work and in my personal life, so I had little time to check in with T. However, recently I've been checking in again and she seems much better. She talks about her plans for the future. While she still doesn't seem ready to implement these plans, she's thinking about it. I think her apparent happiness may in large part be due to the fact that a guy who worked with her got fired. He hassled her a lot, and it upset her more than I realized.
I still think T needs help. She still doesn't have many friends, or at least not as many as she thinks she should have, or not the ones she wants. Part of the problem is that although I think she likes hanging out with me because it's something to do, I don't think I'm the friend she wants or thinks she should have. She really wants a "girlfriend" who calls her on the phone all the time and talks about boys and goes shopping. She has also expressed she wants friends the same age and background as her. I really don't know how to help her on that front.
T leaves work earlier than me and doesn't seem inclined to wait for me; nor does she seem inclined to ride the bus to meet me somewhere. But I do think she's gained something from the time we've spent together. I brought her to movie night once; we watched His Girl Friday and I made her ravioli. I don't think she'd ever seen a black and white movie, and she'd definitely never had ravioli. She says the movie was weird because it was like nothing she'd seen before, but she also says she thought it was interesting because it was so different.
Maybe I'll try to have lunch with her at work some days, or invite her to another movie night. I never did get her any phone numbers for people who might help her; I should still try to do that.
-I have been watching Avatar: The Last Airbender. I have a short list of shows that I really respect. I have an even shorter list of shows that are really my favorite. This show is on both of them. It pretty much has absolutely everything I want. It pretty much fixed almost every problem I've been starting to have with Hero's Journey quest stories. I feel like it's restored my faith in . . . a lot of things. Everything seems so shiny.
I could go on and on about this show, but the things I actually want to say would take a really long time. As with Star Trek, I don't think I can say them without 50 pages or so of blathering. Since I don't have a computer right now, I'll just throw the thoughts in a stew and hopefully it can slowly simmer out over time.
-I started an Avatar: TLA Haiku Comment Fest.
Go write a haiku.
It can be a lot of fun.
I did it--now you!
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I don't know if K will like it. I can never figure out what she likes either. I also don't know how to get her to watch things, but she says she's interested. (She watched the first two episodes.)
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