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Sep. 21st, 2014 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolNot dead, despite the best efforts of my First Full Week At College. I am typing this in between breaks of reading and doing my homework. Homework, ahahaha. Mostly it's reading which luckily I am AMAZING at. The course itself does seem quite interesting, although the Thursday night teacher is chaotic. I also have to use Internet Explorer to use the college site, which is frustrating as that is where all of my sources are. Gah.
Anyway. Been a strange week, course stuff not withstanding. I have been mainlaining Defiance (only one season behind the rest of the world! Improvement, self!) which I am quite enjoying. The aliens could stand to be a great deal more alien, but I enjoy a good dystopia and world-building. Also, Stahma Tarr. Oh my god. Best character by a mile and oh my girlcrush is enormous. She sets off all of my Gul Dukat buttons, although minus the spoonhead thing.
Paying attention to fictional politics has been deeply preferable to paying attention to actual politics of late. For those not in the know, this week was the independence referendum in Scotland, where Scotland voted whether or not to stay in the UK. They voted to stay in the Union, which I personally gave a deep sigh of relief over. I wanted Scotland to stay part of the UK. Love Scotland, am married to a Scot, am personally English, like everyone else in the situation we sort of clung to our spouses and quietly calculated how we'd get to the visa office. THE THING IS THOUGH that it got quite nasty and personal, and a lot of the Yes voters are understandably deeply disappointed and unhappy. I get that, I do. And also? I want this to lead to proper constitutional change, with more powers for Scotland BUT ALSO Wales and Northern Ireland and England to make their own decisions. I also get quite antsy at the accusations that supporting the Union somehow makes you Nigel Farage, cackling over food banks and child poverty. It... doesn't. The whole thing just makes me a bit edgy and I've been trying to stay away from it on social media because I don't want to get involved or hurt anyone's feelings. Or, to be more precise, let myself take it personally.
I MEAN COME ON PEOPLE, I DIDN'T GET A VOTE, I DIDN'T CAMPAIGN IN IT, IT'S NOT ACTUALLY MY FAULT, PLEASE STOP SHOUTING AT ME, LET'S STILL BE FRIENDS.
Okay. Time for more Davis Ulrich, who apparently I basically need to accept as my new lord and master. LOL HR ACADEMIA JOKE *facepalm*
Anyway. Been a strange week, course stuff not withstanding. I have been mainlaining Defiance (only one season behind the rest of the world! Improvement, self!) which I am quite enjoying. The aliens could stand to be a great deal more alien, but I enjoy a good dystopia and world-building. Also, Stahma Tarr. Oh my god. Best character by a mile and oh my girlcrush is enormous. She sets off all of my Gul Dukat buttons, although minus the spoonhead thing.
Paying attention to fictional politics has been deeply preferable to paying attention to actual politics of late. For those not in the know, this week was the independence referendum in Scotland, where Scotland voted whether or not to stay in the UK. They voted to stay in the Union, which I personally gave a deep sigh of relief over. I wanted Scotland to stay part of the UK. Love Scotland, am married to a Scot, am personally English, like everyone else in the situation we sort of clung to our spouses and quietly calculated how we'd get to the visa office. THE THING IS THOUGH that it got quite nasty and personal, and a lot of the Yes voters are understandably deeply disappointed and unhappy. I get that, I do. And also? I want this to lead to proper constitutional change, with more powers for Scotland BUT ALSO Wales and Northern Ireland and England to make their own decisions. I also get quite antsy at the accusations that supporting the Union somehow makes you Nigel Farage, cackling over food banks and child poverty. It... doesn't. The whole thing just makes me a bit edgy and I've been trying to stay away from it on social media because I don't want to get involved or hurt anyone's feelings. Or, to be more precise, let myself take it personally.
I MEAN COME ON PEOPLE, I DIDN'T GET A VOTE, I DIDN'T CAMPAIGN IN IT, IT'S NOT ACTUALLY MY FAULT, PLEASE STOP SHOUTING AT ME, LET'S STILL BE FRIENDS.
Okay. Time for more Davis Ulrich, who apparently I basically need to accept as my new lord and master. LOL HR ACADEMIA JOKE *facepalm*
