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lenora_roseI seem to have lost some of my endurance for reading for hours on the internet.
This does not surprise me; it has, after all, been a skill I have used less during the last while than I did, say, while working at the bakery, where I had, on average, 2 dead hours a day during busy times.
What's odd is I still find the subjects interesting; but I drift away faster in spite of this. 200 comments into a thread that is going well, active, non-repetitive, non-trolly, and about topics worth discussion, and my brain mutters, "enough."
And it's not any lack of ability to read on-screen; I can still handle that (admittedly, i do a fair bit of "Remember to periodically look up and refocus on something as far away as reasonable, ideally out a window or otherwise into natural light" - but i always did that to some extent and it's hardly like it's a *bad* thing.) As proven by, say, reading the entirety of Shadow Unit.
But today at this job is dead like a dead thing. Bleah. And I feel that at least if i'm looking at a computer monitor, I look more like I'm working than if I'm nose-deep in a book - though the person I'm replacing did in fact advise me to bring one, and Dust is in the backpack (Along with Tom Holt, whose book I decided fit perfectly into emergency book status and therefore traipses with me everywhere now, and even gets read sometimes.)
If I do drop it like a hot rock - and it's not out of the question - SMD is going well and I would be rather happy to have another day there. Although it will lead to swapping out batteries - and songs - on my MP3 player a *lot* more. (At SMD there are computer speakers on my desk. There is no computer, however - a monitor and a router of some kind only - so no CD slot, or alternate option for music-playing. I could very well justify a player with much more space if this keeps up. Eventually. Bookshelves first.)
Of course, this jump back to extra work has also meant my brains are boiled the majority of times when I come home. Watching movies or doing archery are ok. Creative work feels a little unlikely.
But I've done full time before. I will re-adapt soon. I hope.
Speaking of movies:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
I liked, in a fluffy way. Cristina had made the remark that if he tries to wear the same clothes as he did in Raiders of the Lost Ark, he's going to look an idiot. I dunno; the style was similar, but the part she was really worried about - trying to act like he's thirty - seemed to be covered. They didn't hide his aging; or Marion's, and it's rather more common in movies for men to get more mdistinguished or more grizzled - ie, age - and women to look the same. So glad they passed, and I think she stuill looked good; competent, intelligent, and a force to be reckoned with. They updated the villains from Nazis to Russians, as it's mid Red-Scare now in Indiana-Jones-world - oh, and to the FBI. Because it is the Red Scare, and Jones is a professor. ("You're a teacher?" "Part-time." I don't know why I loved that but I really really did.)
His supposed big declaration of love fell totally flat (Probably due to ending with the word "Baby", IIRC). The premise was full of the silly - but so were the others, and it was the kind of silly to be expected, and done about right to fit the rest of the series.
I'm not sure a "Mutt Jones" movie would quite work, title-wise, but if they do as they implied and continue the legacy, I'll give it one movie's worth of a chance. The actor (Shia LeBoeuf?) did reasonably well with his material; a few more clunks than the older ones or the villains, but not so much so I couldn't see him polishing up.
This does not surprise me; it has, after all, been a skill I have used less during the last while than I did, say, while working at the bakery, where I had, on average, 2 dead hours a day during busy times.
What's odd is I still find the subjects interesting; but I drift away faster in spite of this. 200 comments into a thread that is going well, active, non-repetitive, non-trolly, and about topics worth discussion, and my brain mutters, "enough."
And it's not any lack of ability to read on-screen; I can still handle that (admittedly, i do a fair bit of "Remember to periodically look up and refocus on something as far away as reasonable, ideally out a window or otherwise into natural light" - but i always did that to some extent and it's hardly like it's a *bad* thing.) As proven by, say, reading the entirety of Shadow Unit.
But today at this job is dead like a dead thing. Bleah. And I feel that at least if i'm looking at a computer monitor, I look more like I'm working than if I'm nose-deep in a book - though the person I'm replacing did in fact advise me to bring one, and Dust is in the backpack (Along with Tom Holt, whose book I decided fit perfectly into emergency book status and therefore traipses with me everywhere now, and even gets read sometimes.)
If I do drop it like a hot rock - and it's not out of the question - SMD is going well and I would be rather happy to have another day there. Although it will lead to swapping out batteries - and songs - on my MP3 player a *lot* more. (At SMD there are computer speakers on my desk. There is no computer, however - a monitor and a router of some kind only - so no CD slot, or alternate option for music-playing. I could very well justify a player with much more space if this keeps up. Eventually. Bookshelves first.)
Of course, this jump back to extra work has also meant my brains are boiled the majority of times when I come home. Watching movies or doing archery are ok. Creative work feels a little unlikely.
But I've done full time before. I will re-adapt soon. I hope.
Speaking of movies:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
I liked, in a fluffy way. Cristina had made the remark that if he tries to wear the same clothes as he did in Raiders of the Lost Ark, he's going to look an idiot. I dunno; the style was similar, but the part she was really worried about - trying to act like he's thirty - seemed to be covered. They didn't hide his aging; or Marion's, and it's rather more common in movies for men to get more mdistinguished or more grizzled - ie, age - and women to look the same. So glad they passed, and I think she stuill looked good; competent, intelligent, and a force to be reckoned with. They updated the villains from Nazis to Russians, as it's mid Red-Scare now in Indiana-Jones-world - oh, and to the FBI. Because it is the Red Scare, and Jones is a professor. ("You're a teacher?" "Part-time." I don't know why I loved that but I really really did.)
His supposed big declaration of love fell totally flat (Probably due to ending with the word "Baby", IIRC). The premise was full of the silly - but so were the others, and it was the kind of silly to be expected, and done about right to fit the rest of the series.
I'm not sure a "Mutt Jones" movie would quite work, title-wise, but if they do as they implied and continue the legacy, I'll give it one movie's worth of a chance. The actor (Shia LeBoeuf?) did reasonably well with his material; a few more clunks than the older ones or the villains, but not so much so I couldn't see him polishing up.
