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Well, after being canned, I took a couple of days to get over it (and get my usual revenge fantasies out of my system.) Relaxed, played Nethack, and dealt with some sort of bug.

Friday, Kirsten and I went out (which I want to do more often.) We went to see Ultraviolet. Kiri liked it. I found it less than stellar.

My main problem, along with the fact that there was almost no plot to speak of - just a series of increasingly strange fight scenes, was that Violet was never in danger. Every single fight she gets in is against overwhelming odds and she never gets touched. The first time, it was impressive. By the end of the film, its tedious. To contrast, consider Neo in The Matrix. He gets beaten by Morpheus, fails the jump test, doubts himself and even gets told by the Oracle that he isn't the One. So when he fights, and defeats Agent Smith, its a strong moment.

Violet never faces that. So there's no real "journey" for her.

Saturday, we were supposed to go to Consonance for the Cynthia McQuillan memorial circle. I made it there, and bought a CD, but then my stomach rebelled and I beat a hasty retreat. Spent the day doing a little writing, and watched a lot of TV. Sunday I vegged. I did get my resume updated (with the help of my personal Word Wizardess) and checked craigslist.org for some leads.

Today was the last of my stomach ick (I hope.) Went to the DMV and got my print out. While perusing craigslist, I found an ad for Atwood! So I walked over there and spoke with my old boss. While there is a position, he's already pretty much decided on a new guy, and he's close to retiring. So no luck there.

Job hunt:

Email with resume sent to 1-800-GOT-JUNK

Starting tomorrow, I'm going to devote one hour a day to writing, and one hour to cleaning.

Date: 7 Mar 2006 08:34 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 10binary-cats.livejournal.com
There is another Ultraviolet the is MUCH better. It's a british series (of british series length 6-7 eps), that from all the advertising appeared to be a police drama.

It IS actually a very well done british police drama, with vampires.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169501/

Date: 10 Mar 2006 09:43 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] johno.livejournal.com
It was great to see you, even if it was for a sad event.

...

We (the Consonance Concom) are compiling a list of con reports, can we have your permission to add a link to your post to the list?

Date: 10 Mar 2006 16:13 (UTC)

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