Catching up to being behind
May. 22nd, 2009 09:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daidoji_giseiThis was not a good week for me even by my current standards, which are pretty low.
I started coming down with a sinus bug on Wednesday. I should have been suspicious when I stated sneezing constantly through the day--my allergies never make me sneeze--but I came home from work Wednesday night feeling lifeless, badly congested and slightly feverish. I woke up Thursday feeling worse and went into work for a few hours anyway because someone had to bag and put out the day's bread and I was the only one available. I'd feel guilty about going into work sick except that sinusitus isn't considered a food-borne disease: I washed my hands a lot, wore gloves, and got out of there as quickly as I could. Of course, this puts my bakery even farther in the hole production-wise, but I'm starting to become numb to that.
Wednesday afternoon one of my night bakers, the newest one, called me up and gave notice. I now have yet another employee I have to replace. I'm feeling numb about that too. Is that good or bad?
Since I was home most of Thursday I could have worked on my fiction assignment. Instead I slept and watched Advent Children again, along with all the little extras on the second disk of the set, because fever is second only to alcohol in things that destroy my ability to write. I know someone who says that fever helps them write because it makes them more creative. Whatever works for you, but--creativity is not something that I have issues with. It wafts out of the creases of my brain like perfume from a cabbage rose. To write I need discipline, and fever scalples that part of my brain right out of me. So I'm behind on that too.
At some point during Thursday I became restless enough to start googling for information about the backstory of AC and Final Fantasy VII in general. It was unexpectedly interesting reading; not just for the fiction aspect but also for how the FFVII universe has developed. It struck me as being similar to L5R, in that it was started with a game in a particular format and was popular enough that the company started offering games in different formats, and had stories that expanded on what had been known about the past and also took it into the future. Food for thought, I guess.
I also started coming across information on the new Advent Children Complete movie, which has already been released in Japan and is supposed to come out here in June. I was pretty much uninterested in it when I first heard about it, for a couple of reasons. One is, it is coming out on Blue-ray, a format I do not have the technology for. More pressing was that I am deeply suspicious of the concept of 'the director's cut'. In my experience as a writer editing makes for a stronger story, and so a film where the director had the freedom to go back and put all of their favorite little cool bits in is likely to have gotten worse. (As a story, that is. It might have become a better movie for finding out what the director's idea of a cool bit is, but I'm not enough of a movie person to care about that.)
However, eventually I saw enough to make me curious and interested in ACC. For one thing, the new version is supposed to add quite a bit of plot development, and even I must admit this could be a good thing. For starters, why in the heck did the SHM take the children to the monument thing? This has bugged me since the second time I saw AC. Also, how did Rufus Shinra know that Cloud had been attacked earlier by the SHM? It's not like Cloud had time to talk to anyone about it, even if he were talking at all which at the time he wasn't. So yeah, there's room for some more plot.
And then I saw some of the trailers--Sweet cherry blossom petals and butter, I want to see this film. It's got even more footage of Cloud racing around on his motorcycle and looking determined. It's got more Reno-piloting-a-helicopter action! And it's got Rude packing a shoulder cannon. *swoon* Because as ZZ Top once noted, every girl's crazy about a sharp-dressed man. With heavy artillery. It also has what appears to be very grainy footage of a half-naked Kadaj, but I'm trying not to think about that.
At some point (some future Wiscon?) I MUST show this to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yhlee and helen_keeble. We can ooh and ahh over the pretty explosions and then have intense discussions over which L5R clan the various characters belong to. It will be wonderful!
I started coming down with a sinus bug on Wednesday. I should have been suspicious when I stated sneezing constantly through the day--my allergies never make me sneeze--but I came home from work Wednesday night feeling lifeless, badly congested and slightly feverish. I woke up Thursday feeling worse and went into work for a few hours anyway because someone had to bag and put out the day's bread and I was the only one available. I'd feel guilty about going into work sick except that sinusitus isn't considered a food-borne disease: I washed my hands a lot, wore gloves, and got out of there as quickly as I could. Of course, this puts my bakery even farther in the hole production-wise, but I'm starting to become numb to that.
Wednesday afternoon one of my night bakers, the newest one, called me up and gave notice. I now have yet another employee I have to replace. I'm feeling numb about that too. Is that good or bad?
Since I was home most of Thursday I could have worked on my fiction assignment. Instead I slept and watched Advent Children again, along with all the little extras on the second disk of the set, because fever is second only to alcohol in things that destroy my ability to write. I know someone who says that fever helps them write because it makes them more creative. Whatever works for you, but--creativity is not something that I have issues with. It wafts out of the creases of my brain like perfume from a cabbage rose. To write I need discipline, and fever scalples that part of my brain right out of me. So I'm behind on that too.
At some point during Thursday I became restless enough to start googling for information about the backstory of AC and Final Fantasy VII in general. It was unexpectedly interesting reading; not just for the fiction aspect but also for how the FFVII universe has developed. It struck me as being similar to L5R, in that it was started with a game in a particular format and was popular enough that the company started offering games in different formats, and had stories that expanded on what had been known about the past and also took it into the future. Food for thought, I guess.
I also started coming across information on the new Advent Children Complete movie, which has already been released in Japan and is supposed to come out here in June. I was pretty much uninterested in it when I first heard about it, for a couple of reasons. One is, it is coming out on Blue-ray, a format I do not have the technology for. More pressing was that I am deeply suspicious of the concept of 'the director's cut'. In my experience as a writer editing makes for a stronger story, and so a film where the director had the freedom to go back and put all of their favorite little cool bits in is likely to have gotten worse. (As a story, that is. It might have become a better movie for finding out what the director's idea of a cool bit is, but I'm not enough of a movie person to care about that.)
However, eventually I saw enough to make me curious and interested in ACC. For one thing, the new version is supposed to add quite a bit of plot development, and even I must admit this could be a good thing. For starters, why in the heck did the SHM take the children to the monument thing? This has bugged me since the second time I saw AC. Also, how did Rufus Shinra know that Cloud had been attacked earlier by the SHM? It's not like Cloud had time to talk to anyone about it, even if he were talking at all which at the time he wasn't. So yeah, there's room for some more plot.
And then I saw some of the trailers--Sweet cherry blossom petals and butter, I want to see this film. It's got even more footage of Cloud racing around on his motorcycle and looking determined. It's got more Reno-piloting-a-helicopter action! And it's got Rude packing a shoulder cannon. *swoon* Because as ZZ Top once noted, every girl's crazy about a sharp-dressed man. With heavy artillery. It also has what appears to be very grainy footage of a half-naked Kadaj, but I'm trying not to think about that.
At some point (some future Wiscon?) I MUST show this to
yhlee and helen_keeble. We can ooh and ahh over the pretty explosions and then have intense discussions over which L5R clan the various characters belong to. It will be wonderful!
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Date: 2009-05-23 08:28 am (UTC)I will look forward to that day!
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Date: 2009-05-26 05:29 am (UTC)