veronica

( Movies I've Logged, cut because it's a lot )


So obviously there has been… *gestures vaguely at everything*. And I know I've been incredibly inactive. And yes there can be plenty of reasons for that given… *gestures vaguely at everything.* But now more than anything it feels like my job. My job is good, I have good pay and benefits. But it's also exhausting. It's exhausting to ping pong between serious problems and threats, constantly stressed I won't find or know the right thing and what the consequences for that could be. I spend so much time already talking on the phone with people who are stressed or frightened or angry and the idea of finishing up a day and then pulling out my phone again to do phone banking is just more than my brain can take. Arguing more after spending a day writing or making arguments about law or public policy is more than my brain can take. I can occasionally text a friend to bitch about the SCOTUS hearings or something, but I just. Want to not be doing my job literally all the time.


Anyway, here are a couple books I've read –

( Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine )

( Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone )


And we've also watched some TV that we have not watched before –

( HBO did a Perry Mason reboot and I’ve never seen the original but I hold it up as an example of when TV did shows about defense attorneys so I have to watch it; spoilers! )

( The Great )


We also ended up rewatching (well, for me rewatching) the 2010 reboot Nikita which I had remembered watching and liking at least enough to watch all the way through, but I could only recall snippets of it. So it was kind of like watching it for the first time. And it was fun! It's a very CW show of Attractive People Doing Things, and you know, convoluted plot hijinks and absolute nonsense (can you avoid injury in a BALLISTIC MISSILE STRIKE by making it to the parking lot because I am doubtful). But I guess yet again I became very attached toward the characters, and I certainly have a thing for Action Hero Women Who Struggle With A Sense Of Inner Darkness. We've also been occasionally watching the 90s La Femme Nikita and I prefer Nikita's Very American Masculine Shane West Michael to the 90s "European Vampire Boyfriend" as I keep calling him. But then Shane West Michael is a banter-flirty-equals boyfriend and not a controlling asshole! Please come back next week for Veronica talks about 10+ year old shows that nobody cares about. But it's like the only other things we watch are Jeopardy and YouTube videos of people playing Among Us.

In other news, with this year’s Emmys there was something intoxicatingly freeing about not knowing anything about anything nominated and it honestly makes me wish I could just give up on liking things altogether. Like between that and every glance at any fandom I ever get right now just, Stop Liking Things Challenge 2021.

But of course because that won’t happen, I’m vidding again. I’m trying a thing of just stuffing random clips into the timeline so I at least have something down instead of empty space I agonize over, and in a few instances it did randomly create some nice match-ups. But then I also watched and at points thought ‘that actually looks pretty good’ before remembering that was in fact a sequence of clips I had purposefully arranged. I guess that’s not a bad thing.

And some day I will finish my Fish Nun fic. SOME DAY. When I stop gd playing The Sims again.