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meganbmoore) wrote2007-11-09 05:02 pm
meganbmoore) wrote2007-11-09 05:02 pm
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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?
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?
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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).
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I am still bitter over their recasting Teal'c's wife.
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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.
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