ideas and complaining about work
Dec. 13th, 2018 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oanjaI really hope that if fandom, or at least parts of fandom, come back to DW for a while we could get back fests, where there would be a theme or prompts for fanfic and then people would have time to write and then everyone would post their fic. I really don't like the exchange versions that have completely replaced fests, as I feel it's too much pressure to write a fic for a specific person according to their wishes. It also makes it so much easier to have multi fandom participation if the parameters are more trope or prompt specific instead of trying to match participants by their pairings/fandoms *sigh*
Then a real life update. I'm sick and at home, I went to see a nurse yesterday after leaving work in the middle of the day and she wrote me a sick leave note for wednesday-friday. So on the one hand, yay free time from work, but at the same time, urgh having the flu is not fun. I'm also really sick and tired of my boss, who is a terrible personal manager and seems to have no skill in dealing with her employees in a way that's not demeaning/mean/rude or just inconsiderate. Also I still don't have my new contract for January and I have a feeling she's not even that keen on giving me a new contract. So that sucks and I'm thinking that if they give me the new contract I'll stay until autumn (so I can use my holiday days and have an actual vacation for once) and then quit, unless something changes for the better. This really sucks, because I've actually pretty much liked the work itself and it's really disheartening how much effect a bad boss and a bad relationship with your boss can effect me personally.
I binged the whole Castlevania netflix show yesterday/this morning and it was very good (hello ot3!), but very very gory and violent.
I've also started listening to "everybody hates Rand" podcast about the Wheel of Time books and because they are super critical about Rand and to some extent of the other characters it's made me think about them and why I like or dislike some characters. I don't think they'll convince me not to like Rand (he's my favourite) but they make good points about how his views of women and how he treats women are really messed up and sexist. I think some of it is understandable and due to circumstance, but some of it is just bad writing from Jordan/Sanderson.
I've been thinking that I want to do one of those 'let's read' series about a book or a series for a while, but I'm torn about if I should pick something I've never read or do a reread. (if I did a reread I could pick something like the Goblin emperor, or one of the Dragon Age books, but I think it would be a good idea to start with a standalone, so I could maybe actually finish it) I think picking something is the hardest part... but it might also turn out to be a LOT of work and very time consuming, so I'm not sure I have the time. I think it might also be fun to do it like Mark reads does, and do a youtube video too, except that English is not my native language and I have an accent, not to mention that I doubt anyone would watch the videos anyway. :D haha~ I used to make voice posts on LJ sometimes, so I guess I could just do a recording instead. Does someone have ideas? Or recs to good read-along blogs they follow? I used to follow a lot of them on tor.com when they did wheel of time and Malazan, but they idiotically stopped those like half way through.
Then a real life update. I'm sick and at home, I went to see a nurse yesterday after leaving work in the middle of the day and she wrote me a sick leave note for wednesday-friday. So on the one hand, yay free time from work, but at the same time, urgh having the flu is not fun. I'm also really sick and tired of my boss, who is a terrible personal manager and seems to have no skill in dealing with her employees in a way that's not demeaning/mean/rude or just inconsiderate. Also I still don't have my new contract for January and I have a feeling she's not even that keen on giving me a new contract. So that sucks and I'm thinking that if they give me the new contract I'll stay until autumn (so I can use my holiday days and have an actual vacation for once) and then quit, unless something changes for the better. This really sucks, because I've actually pretty much liked the work itself and it's really disheartening how much effect a bad boss and a bad relationship with your boss can effect me personally.
I binged the whole Castlevania netflix show yesterday/this morning and it was very good (hello ot3!), but very very gory and violent.
I've also started listening to "everybody hates Rand" podcast about the Wheel of Time books and because they are super critical about Rand and to some extent of the other characters it's made me think about them and why I like or dislike some characters. I don't think they'll convince me not to like Rand (he's my favourite) but they make good points about how his views of women and how he treats women are really messed up and sexist. I think some of it is understandable and due to circumstance, but some of it is just bad writing from Jordan/Sanderson.
I've been thinking that I want to do one of those 'let's read' series about a book or a series for a while, but I'm torn about if I should pick something I've never read or do a reread. (if I did a reread I could pick something like the Goblin emperor, or one of the Dragon Age books, but I think it would be a good idea to start with a standalone, so I could maybe actually finish it) I think picking something is the hardest part... but it might also turn out to be a LOT of work and very time consuming, so I'm not sure I have the time. I think it might also be fun to do it like Mark reads does, and do a youtube video too, except that English is not my native language and I have an accent, not to mention that I doubt anyone would watch the videos anyway. :D haha~ I used to make voice posts on LJ sometimes, so I guess I could just do a recording instead. Does someone have ideas? Or recs to good read-along blogs they follow? I used to follow a lot of them on tor.com when they did wheel of time and Malazan, but they idiotically stopped those like half way through.
