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jecca_mehlota) wrote2006-08-18 08:13 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2006-08-18 08:13 pm
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It's raining birds...
As a bit more of a follow-up to the bird story, the next day, one of our neighbors (they'd heard about our bird) called us in the morning to report a bird had just fallen out of the sky into their yard and was experiencing similar symptoms. This is turning into a disturbing trend.
I may have (finally) been hired. I don't know for sure, but at least the employer called me back this time. ...It's not like I have a bad track record or was a terrible employee. I don't know why no one will call me back. >.<
I missed the call because I was downtown wasting money. Shush. I haven't bought anything since May. I can afford the occasional splurge... Though I wasn't planning on spending as much as I did. I picked up some stuff at the comic store on Church Street, then ended up buying two video games (one I've been looking to find for a long time, the other because, well... I'm a Final Fantasy addict and Dirge of Cerberus refused to stay on the shelf), two new books, and two toys.... (I wasn't planning on actually finding the Beast Wars 10th Primal and Megatron figures.)
When I saw the images for them, I wasn't too excited - Optimus looked a little weird. I've since revised my opinions - they're both pretty neat. Actually, the Optimus figure looks pretty close to the Universe design for Optimus, so I wonder if that's what they were actually going for. ...What did Universe Megatron look like? hmm.
Last year, I managed to "convert" a few of my friends over into the Transformers fandom. They didn't seem real big on the robots-to-vehicles angle, but they all liked Beast Wars a whole lot, so I brought all three seasons upand ended up watching them enough to have something like seventy-five percent of the entire arc memorized, ugh. I do not understand why they insisted I be there every single time they wantd to watch any of the series.
Now, this in itself isn't the problem. But one of my friends... I feel like she's trying to convince me she likes the show, or that she's trying to prove something. I don't know. She actively refused to watch Beast Machines (I'm not sure why - she'd never even heard of Transformers before I brought it up, so it wasn't as though she'd been reading up on it and hearing a lot of the negative things people have to say about it), and the only thing she knows about the other continuities is that there's someone named Megatron, someone else named Optimus ("PrimaL?" No, no, just Prime. Truck), and some other guy who possessed that annoying one (she doesn't actually know Starscream's name, I think).
She will very often tell me about how she "just heard" about some new Transformers thing and how it is awesome and so on and so forth. The movie trailer? She says she was the only one in her theater who cheered. She goes out of her way to tell me about things that would prove she is a great and knowledgeable fan, but... I dunno. They way she does it comes across as her trying to hard to prove she likes the series. I don't care. She doesn't need to prove to me she likes anything.
For example, I know she has absolutely no clue AT ALL what the Universe story line was about. She's completely unfamiliar with Unicron (I rather doubt she even remembers his brief mentions in season one of Beast Wars), and as far as she knows, Primus is part of a name of a book Megatron likes to quote. But I mentioned that I finally obtained the Primal and Megs 10th anniversary figures and that I was beginning to think they are (or at least Optimus is) supposed to represent their Universe incarnations. Her reaction to this is to squee about how awesome that is, and how cool it is that we get toys of the Universe line.
...She doesn't know what the Universe line is! I could make up a whole load of scrap and tell her it somehow relates into the Beast Wars continuity and she'd be all gung-ho over it. You cannot be familiar with the Universe storyline and not at least know that Unicron is a big, grumpy, planet-sized transformer who eats planets.
...It's perhaps more frustrating that it should be.
I just find it annoying that she feels she has to act like she knows this stuff (or even really cares about other angles of the continuity). I don't know why she does it, but, oh, it's irritating!
...I think I'm done now.
The garden is exploding with cucumbers. We have to go out and pick them every other day, and we usually come away with fifteen or so. (Then Dad brings most of them into work and gives them to his co-workers.)
I may have (finally) been hired. I don't know for sure, but at least the employer called me back this time. ...It's not like I have a bad track record or was a terrible employee. I don't know why no one will call me back. >.<
I missed the call because I was downtown wasting money. Shush. I haven't bought anything since May. I can afford the occasional splurge... Though I wasn't planning on spending as much as I did. I picked up some stuff at the comic store on Church Street, then ended up buying two video games (one I've been looking to find for a long time, the other because, well... I'm a Final Fantasy addict and Dirge of Cerberus refused to stay on the shelf), two new books, and two toys.... (I wasn't planning on actually finding the Beast Wars 10th Primal and Megatron figures.)
When I saw the images for them, I wasn't too excited - Optimus looked a little weird. I've since revised my opinions - they're both pretty neat. Actually, the Optimus figure looks pretty close to the Universe design for Optimus, so I wonder if that's what they were actually going for. ...What did Universe Megatron look like? hmm.
Last year, I managed to "convert" a few of my friends over into the Transformers fandom. They didn't seem real big on the robots-to-vehicles angle, but they all liked Beast Wars a whole lot, so I brought all three seasons up
Now, this in itself isn't the problem. But one of my friends... I feel like she's trying to convince me she likes the show, or that she's trying to prove something. I don't know. She actively refused to watch Beast Machines (I'm not sure why - she'd never even heard of Transformers before I brought it up, so it wasn't as though she'd been reading up on it and hearing a lot of the negative things people have to say about it), and the only thing she knows about the other continuities is that there's someone named Megatron, someone else named Optimus ("PrimaL?" No, no, just Prime. Truck), and some other guy who possessed that annoying one (she doesn't actually know Starscream's name, I think).
She will very often tell me about how she "just heard" about some new Transformers thing and how it is awesome and so on and so forth. The movie trailer? She says she was the only one in her theater who cheered. She goes out of her way to tell me about things that would prove she is a great and knowledgeable fan, but... I dunno. They way she does it comes across as her trying to hard to prove she likes the series. I don't care. She doesn't need to prove to me she likes anything.
For example, I know she has absolutely no clue AT ALL what the Universe story line was about. She's completely unfamiliar with Unicron (I rather doubt she even remembers his brief mentions in season one of Beast Wars), and as far as she knows, Primus is part of a name of a book Megatron likes to quote. But I mentioned that I finally obtained the Primal and Megs 10th anniversary figures and that I was beginning to think they are (or at least Optimus is) supposed to represent their Universe incarnations. Her reaction to this is to squee about how awesome that is, and how cool it is that we get toys of the Universe line.
...She doesn't know what the Universe line is! I could make up a whole load of scrap and tell her it somehow relates into the Beast Wars continuity and she'd be all gung-ho over it. You cannot be familiar with the Universe storyline and not at least know that Unicron is a big, grumpy, planet-sized transformer who eats planets.
...It's perhaps more frustrating that it should be.
I just find it annoying that she feels she has to act like she knows this stuff (or even really cares about other angles of the continuity). I don't know why she does it, but, oh, it's irritating!
...I think I'm done now.
The garden is exploding with cucumbers. We have to go out and pick them every other day, and we usually come away with fifteen or so. (Then Dad brings most of them into work and gives them to his co-workers.)