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[meganbmoore]

1.  One of my coworkers has us voting all night on one of those little girl beauty pageants.  I feel like I have sold my soul as I utterly despise those things, but I have been promised free food.

2.  Remember my mentioning a coworker named Meghan Marx?   When I got my paystub today, I didn't even look, just grabbed it and went back to my desk.  When I opened it, I almost panicked when I saw 1/4 thr vacation time I have listed...then looked and saw they had given me the wrong one.  I gave it to Meghan(who was literally 5 feet away) and went to get mine.  Got a slightly suspicious look when I said I had given her her checkstub, but got my stb after forging her name.

3.  I am reading Naomi Novik's Empire of Ivory, which is just as good as other books in the series, but I am annoyed by a back cover blurb, saying "Enthralling reading-it's like Jane Austen playing Dungeons & Dragons with Eragon's Christopher Paolini."  Now, first of all, please don't compare and excellently written and characterized series with  some of the worst fantasy to ever be published.  Second of all...these books are the Napoleonic Wars with Dragon's...if you're going to compare it with something, compare it to Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series(though, unlike Sharpe, Lawrence doesn't have a new girl every book, even if he still has the girl from a previous book) not Jane Austen...completely wrong  type of story expectations there. 

4.  Ordered from Amazon: 10 books, 1 DVD set, all in 1 order.  Shipping from Amazon: 5 boxes, all arriving the same day.

5.  How lost will I be if I watch season 1 of Stargate: Atlantis only having seen s1-4 of SG-1?

Comments

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

"Enthralling reading-it's like Jane Austen playing Dungeons & Dragons with Eragon's Christopher Paoline."

Dude, that's the most insulting thing I've read all day.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

That was my reaction when I saw it...and it's the quote right above the book description (it's ok Lawrence and Tereraire, I know you're far, far superior to those other 2...)

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

See, this is why you need to choose the 'Super Saver Shipping' option when ordering from Amazon.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I have amazon prime and chose the option for having as many items as possible arrive in one shipment.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that works. Hm. Well, I'll chalk it up as just being pretty frickin' weird.

Tangently, I wish my grandmother could get some perspective on my Amazon habits -- I ordered four books off of Amazon marketplace, they arrived seperately, and she got upset at me spending all my money on books (which were a penny plus shipping).

[chomiji]

I'm reading the Novik book too ... it isn't grabbing me really hard, but it certainly doesn't deserve that cover blurb. Gotta agree with magicnoire - that's one of the most insulting things I've read recently. Dude, even my 15-yr-old thinks Paolini is lame!!!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I'm loving the Novik book(I just love Temeraire, really) but I'm not ripping through it like I did the first three books. I read each other the first three in as close to one sitting as I could, while I stopped this one to read Yurara after finishing part one.

[ladysaotome.livejournal.com]

5. How lost will I be if I watch season 1 of Stargate: Atlantis only having seen s1-4 of SG-1?

Sadly, probably pretty lost. They don't even find the outpost that eventually leads them to Atlantis until the season 7 finale. I'd say that's when you'll be safe to start Atlantis (even though it officially starts closer to . Some majorly critical things happen around SG1 s5-7 that will probably be very confusing otherwise.

[ladysaotome.livejournal.com]

When I say lost - actually, now that I think about it - you're probably safe to watch the first Atlantis season just fine. Things might get a little confusing in season 2, though, but not so confusing that it'll spoil you or anything.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Ah. I assumed as much. I shall place it on hold(though I think I know some of the things you're referring to...like Daniel)

[ladysaotome.livejournal.com]

In that case, go for it. Because of the distance & lack of interaction with earth, the series don't really begin to cross much until season 4.

[nthmike.livejournal.com]

More like season 3, really.

I may be wrong, but I believe that only two of SGA's major characters were introduced in SG-1, and one of those didn't show up till the season 7 finale (and was played by a different actress, to boot).

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

recasts...BAH!

I am still bitter over their recasting Teal'c's wife.

[nthmike.livejournal.com]

Oh, and did I mention that the character in question goes from blond to brunette as a result of the casting change?

Having only seen the two SG-1 episodes with the blond Dr. Weir well after I started watching Atlantis, it was weird seeing the character being played by someone other than Torri Higginson.

[ladysaotome.livejournal.com]

True but they don't do anything really relevant or ever refer back to them in Atlantis, right?

[nthmike.livejournal.com]

Not really. The season 7 finale and possibly the season 8 opener (which I haven't seen) do, I believe, set the stage for Atlantis, but everything you need to know is covered in the Atlantis pilot.