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Haven't heard back about the high-intensity job. I'm kind of 'meh' about it TBH. I'd rather wait for something a little lower key, but if it gets me back in the ring...
*wibbles*
Right now, I'm quietly hoping that the client the contracting company is presenting me to nixes me, which might get the contracting company to shuffle someone else more suited into the high-intensity job and stuff me into their current position?
We can hope.
*hopes*
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So, I'm loving the responses to Captain Marvel on my f-list. Also, the real world friends are enjoying it which means I have good taste in friends.
Although one guy said "well, I liked the psychological thriller part of it" - by which he means the amnesia/betrayal twist - and his wife, who is not at all an action movie fan and didn't see the movie, exclaimed "if I have to hear about the 'psychological thriller' part one more time--!" He took the kids to see IW, came back and told her - quite accurately and wisely, I think - that she'd have hated it. This is a woman who's not sci-fi, not action-movies, not superheroes, not comics. It's very much out of her zone and IMO there's no point in trying to force her into that box!
Three women at church were interested in my reaction to the movie in the discussions over post-service supper, but I think only one will see it. I noted that it's lower key than your usual Marvel movie, that it had a different structure, and it didn't buy into the usual tropes, and left it at that. Another woman was trying to sell it to them like they were geeks which...wasn't helping the cause and may have actually hindered it.
Ah well. The two women who were "hmm, not convinced" would be long shots anyway (one is the woman whose husband liked the "psychological thriller" aspect) but painting it positively might mean they'd give it a go later on when it's on subscription. The third wanted to see it, and I asked if she wanted company and we might make a time to see it later this week. I might ask her more explicitly for early next week. If only I could be reasonably sure I wasn't going to be flat out from work.
But yes, reactions, responses, something that I don't have to brace for ick! ("BRACE FOR ICK! BRACE FOR ICK! PUT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR HEAD AND YOUR HEAD BETWEEN YOUR KNEES!")
LET THE JOY BE UNCONFINED. WE DO NOT HAVE TO BRACE FOR ICK.
eta: Captain Marvel and the Skrulls storyline
*wibbles*
Right now, I'm quietly hoping that the client the contracting company is presenting me to nixes me, which might get the contracting company to shuffle someone else more suited into the high-intensity job and stuff me into their current position?
We can hope.
*hopes*
--
So, I'm loving the responses to Captain Marvel on my f-list. Also, the real world friends are enjoying it which means I have good taste in friends.
Although one guy said "well, I liked the psychological thriller part of it" - by which he means the amnesia/betrayal twist - and his wife, who is not at all an action movie fan and didn't see the movie, exclaimed "if I have to hear about the 'psychological thriller' part one more time--!" He took the kids to see IW, came back and told her - quite accurately and wisely, I think - that she'd have hated it. This is a woman who's not sci-fi, not action-movies, not superheroes, not comics. It's very much out of her zone and IMO there's no point in trying to force her into that box!
Three women at church were interested in my reaction to the movie in the discussions over post-service supper, but I think only one will see it. I noted that it's lower key than your usual Marvel movie, that it had a different structure, and it didn't buy into the usual tropes, and left it at that. Another woman was trying to sell it to them like they were geeks which...wasn't helping the cause and may have actually hindered it.
Ah well. The two women who were "hmm, not convinced" would be long shots anyway (one is the woman whose husband liked the "psychological thriller" aspect) but painting it positively might mean they'd give it a go later on when it's on subscription. The third wanted to see it, and I asked if she wanted company and we might make a time to see it later this week. I might ask her more explicitly for early next week. If only I could be reasonably sure I wasn't going to be flat out from work.
But yes, reactions, responses, something that I don't have to brace for ick! ("BRACE FOR ICK! BRACE FOR ICK! PUT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR HEAD AND YOUR HEAD BETWEEN YOUR KNEES!")
LET THE JOY BE UNCONFINED. WE DO NOT HAVE TO BRACE FOR ICK.
eta: Captain Marvel and the Skrulls storyline
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