Welcome, 2003
Jan. 1st, 2003 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serenissimaI don't make resolutions: the word implies to me that they're no good after they've been broken once. But I do have some goals for the new year. Every day I'd like to
- Drink at least three water bottles' worth of beverage.
- Read at least half a chapter of A+ certification text.
- Walk for half an hour.
- Get rid of one item of mess from my room.
I'd like to eat less meat, and to write a little every weekend.
I've enjoyed these past several days: the short work weeks have seemed almost like a vacation. It's been nice having my brother home, too. We'll probably put away the Christmas tree this weekend. Dad returned the George Foreman grill I gave him & Mom for Christmas. He's afraid the high heat of grilling would form carcinogens in his food. I'm disappointed, but since I returned the pendant he & Mom got me and my brother exchanged a book they got him for CDs, I can't blame him.
A new girl started work Monday, and I was assigned to train her, not that there was much for me to explain. Most of the stuff you need to know is just dozens little bits of information for what to do in this or that infrequent situation, which I had to pick up over time. Thursday I'll try to pass along everything else I haven't told her yet.
Last week I finally went to see the second LotR movie. There was one thing I thought it did better than the books, and that was to show how Arwen and Aragorn (not to mention Eowyn) felt about each other, and the difficulty of Arwen's choice. The books just sort of mentioned all that in passing. But the jokes at Gimli's expense started to irritate me; I don't think the movie portrayed him as a serious warrior. I was surprised how small the city in Rohan was, I expected it to be a lot bigger and have more people -- and why were all the Rohanese dressed in black or dark brown? I would have liked to see more of the Ents (what happened to Quickbeam?), especially their singing, and it made no sense how quickly they appeared when called. My brother noticed that Aragorn had an awful lot of near-death experiences. And Faramir was not nearly as virtuous as in the book; the movie seemed to make him almost a villain. It didn't say why he was reluctant to release Frodo & Sam once he had found them, just had a quick line about some death penalty without further explanation.
There was moment that almost made me laugh: the guards marching past the Black Gate, as the Ringbearer & co. peered over a cliff at them, looked like they ought to be singing "Oo-oh, oh-ee-oh!" And then all the orcs assembled around Saruman's tower could have responded to his speech with a "Hayl Hitler!"
- Drink at least three water bottles' worth of beverage.
- Read at least half a chapter of A+ certification text.
- Walk for half an hour.
- Get rid of one item of mess from my room.
I'd like to eat less meat, and to write a little every weekend.
I've enjoyed these past several days: the short work weeks have seemed almost like a vacation. It's been nice having my brother home, too. We'll probably put away the Christmas tree this weekend. Dad returned the George Foreman grill I gave him & Mom for Christmas. He's afraid the high heat of grilling would form carcinogens in his food. I'm disappointed, but since I returned the pendant he & Mom got me and my brother exchanged a book they got him for CDs, I can't blame him.
A new girl started work Monday, and I was assigned to train her, not that there was much for me to explain. Most of the stuff you need to know is just dozens little bits of information for what to do in this or that infrequent situation, which I had to pick up over time. Thursday I'll try to pass along everything else I haven't told her yet.
Last week I finally went to see the second LotR movie. There was one thing I thought it did better than the books, and that was to show how Arwen and Aragorn (not to mention Eowyn) felt about each other, and the difficulty of Arwen's choice. The books just sort of mentioned all that in passing. But the jokes at Gimli's expense started to irritate me; I don't think the movie portrayed him as a serious warrior. I was surprised how small the city in Rohan was, I expected it to be a lot bigger and have more people -- and why were all the Rohanese dressed in black or dark brown? I would have liked to see more of the Ents (what happened to Quickbeam?), especially their singing, and it made no sense how quickly they appeared when called. My brother noticed that Aragorn had an awful lot of near-death experiences. And Faramir was not nearly as virtuous as in the book; the movie seemed to make him almost a villain. It didn't say why he was reluctant to release Frodo & Sam once he had found them, just had a quick line about some death penalty without further explanation.
There was moment that almost made me laugh: the guards marching past the Black Gate, as the Ringbearer & co. peered over a cliff at them, looked like they ought to be singing "Oo-oh, oh-ee-oh!" And then all the orcs assembled around Saruman's tower could have responded to his speech with a "Hayl Hitler!"