Avatar episode 16: The Deserter

Still watching Avatar! I've taken to commenting as I watch instead of trying to sum up afterward, so here are some thoughts on episode 16.

( The Deserter )

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Work is going to be tricky this week. PM has a family tragedy to deal with, which means the rest of us have to step up and get stuff done in her absence. This is going to be hard, since at the moment everyone but ET is irritated at BW for the way he handled notifying people about PM's situation (among other things).

I really should call PM with condolences, but I have no idea what to say, given the nature of the tragedy. It's one of those things where there really isn't anything to say. And yet, saying nothing would be worse. *sigh* Maybe tomorrow.

stuff Liz does at work; also, books and voting

Work went... well, it went. Which is actually better than I'd feared.

( assorted grumbling of no particular relevance to anyone but me )

Fay, one of our regulars, is bitching about the coffee again. She treats our store as if our only purpose in life is to provide perfect gourmet coffee for her. To which I want to say, "Look, dingbat, we sell magazines and tobacco. The coffee is a sideline. Also, we are the cheapest coffee in town for a reason: namely, that we are bare bones. All we promise you is coffee. We make no quality guarantees -- hell, we keep the stuff in airpots and don't brew any fresh after 4pm; that alone should tell you something!" But she hates the coffee made by every other establishment in town, she hates her apartment, she doesn't trust her water supply (to which I want to say, "You live on the Commons; we're only two blocks away; what makes you think our water's any better?"), etcetera, etcetera.

Fay has no mood control and her emotional volume is stuck on eleven. She drives us all nuts. Some days I honestly wish she'd do something so egregious we could kick her out and ban her -- and hey, she once threw a folding chair at a previous mayor of Ithaca, so I live in hope! -- but she never quite steps over that line. *grumbles*

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In other news, my copy of The God Delusion arrived via interlibrary loan today (all local copies were checked out last week), and I plan to read it on Friday, which is my day off this week. We shall see how that goes.

Also, today was Election Day in America. I voted; did you? Granted, I had almost nothing of substance to vote on -- all three local elections in my district were uncontested -- but there were two propositions to approve or deny, so I feel I have not totally wasted my time.

[Meme] fic snippet DVD commentary

Gacked from, oh, everybody and their dog, it feels like:

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.


Every piece of fiction I have ever posted online can be found via my master fiction directory post. (You can ask me about original fiction as well, though I warn you that such questions might result in unexpected world-building infodumps. *grin*)