Three Good Stories, and a diversion.
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semiotic_pirateWatched three things tonight. The first two were especially tasty.
The first was Evelyn with Pierce Brosnan. A bit of Irish goodness with a crescendo building from the beginning and a bell shattering fabulous ending. It made me even more intent to go to Ireland and find out where my roots are. Of course, when I get there I won't make a big deal about it, because I'm sure that half the tourists that go over there claim to be doing that. With all of the expatriots emigrating back to the home country now that it is better off there I don't want to be unseemly. Again it is like all the wonderful movies that I've seen, where the community pulls together to fight against a great wrong. Each person able to bring in one more to work on the problem, seven degrees of seperation to all of the people you want for a time of need. The welcome view of the (mostly) good and kind nuns. I remember them from my own childhood. My bunch were a French-Catholic sect though... Lovely and good women.
The second was L'Auberge Espanol (sorry, cannot figure out how to put the tilda over the o). It was also fantastic. Much better than the watered down fake "The Real World" on MTV. I think that the Erasmus idea is a very good one, to expose those of neighboring countries to each other in order to make them more able to work with one another and understand one another. All of the characters were well played and very believable. I really enjoyed all of the interplay and the feeling of gritty reality. Not dark, but realistic interconnectedness of strangers who turn into friends. Good story arch.
There is an option for those of us from the United States to participate in something similar, the cost is of course, exorbitant. Something I am considering, however. *sigh* More than just finding summer internships, which, once you graduate, you no longer qualify for. *sigh* I really enjoyed the experience that I got with The Conservation Society... When I went up to Alaska. Yes, there were moments where I thought I would be driven insane by those up at Camp Dooby but it was worth it.
I keep contemplating the Peace Corps but... *sigh* there are complications and barriers, and simple matters of convenience and getting paid too. Gotta get paid. Want to be happy and fulfulled... Seek my bliss. I know of some things that make me happy. Helping people find the things that they want is one. Which is why I had a love/hate relationship with my "career" in retail. There was a hope to help people figure out how to get out of poverty, what things to do in a financial sense to build something out of nothing. Important stuff like what is a credit report, how you are seen and measured by society, how to succeed before you make a mistake that ruins your credit. So many things that if people only knew them, life would be simpler or easier, or... I like to make arrangements - what kind of positions involve making arrangements? (And no snarky comments about funeral directors or anything, or a ticket teller... that's not what I mean.) Between CoB and I, we would make great Travel Agency team. I dunno. Since we like to travel, we would go around and find all the best places on OUR vacations and be able to direct others to the best "authentic" places - you know, the best places are the ones frequented by the locals. Sound silly?
Anyways, on to number three. It is on right now. New show called In Justice. About finding innocent people who have been wrongly imprisoned and making the case for them to be reprived and freed. It has an interesing mix for a cast. Not bad acting and dramatic stretching of interplay. If any of you are also watching, let me know what you think.
Happy New Year!
The first was Evelyn with Pierce Brosnan. A bit of Irish goodness with a crescendo building from the beginning and a bell shattering fabulous ending. It made me even more intent to go to Ireland and find out where my roots are. Of course, when I get there I won't make a big deal about it, because I'm sure that half the tourists that go over there claim to be doing that. With all of the expatriots emigrating back to the home country now that it is better off there I don't want to be unseemly. Again it is like all the wonderful movies that I've seen, where the community pulls together to fight against a great wrong. Each person able to bring in one more to work on the problem, seven degrees of seperation to all of the people you want for a time of need. The welcome view of the (mostly) good and kind nuns. I remember them from my own childhood. My bunch were a French-Catholic sect though... Lovely and good women.
The second was L'Auberge Espanol (sorry, cannot figure out how to put the tilda over the o). It was also fantastic. Much better than the watered down fake "The Real World" on MTV. I think that the Erasmus idea is a very good one, to expose those of neighboring countries to each other in order to make them more able to work with one another and understand one another. All of the characters were well played and very believable. I really enjoyed all of the interplay and the feeling of gritty reality. Not dark, but realistic interconnectedness of strangers who turn into friends. Good story arch.
There is an option for those of us from the United States to participate in something similar, the cost is of course, exorbitant. Something I am considering, however. *sigh* More than just finding summer internships, which, once you graduate, you no longer qualify for. *sigh* I really enjoyed the experience that I got with The Conservation Society... When I went up to Alaska. Yes, there were moments where I thought I would be driven insane by those up at Camp Dooby but it was worth it.
I keep contemplating the Peace Corps but... *sigh* there are complications and barriers, and simple matters of convenience and getting paid too. Gotta get paid. Want to be happy and fulfulled... Seek my bliss. I know of some things that make me happy. Helping people find the things that they want is one. Which is why I had a love/hate relationship with my "career" in retail. There was a hope to help people figure out how to get out of poverty, what things to do in a financial sense to build something out of nothing. Important stuff like what is a credit report, how you are seen and measured by society, how to succeed before you make a mistake that ruins your credit. So many things that if people only knew them, life would be simpler or easier, or... I like to make arrangements - what kind of positions involve making arrangements? (And no snarky comments about funeral directors or anything, or a ticket teller... that's not what I mean.) Between CoB and I, we would make great Travel Agency team. I dunno. Since we like to travel, we would go around and find all the best places on OUR vacations and be able to direct others to the best "authentic" places - you know, the best places are the ones frequented by the locals. Sound silly?
Anyways, on to number three. It is on right now. New show called In Justice. About finding innocent people who have been wrongly imprisoned and making the case for them to be reprived and freed. It has an interesing mix for a cast. Not bad acting and dramatic stretching of interplay. If any of you are also watching, let me know what you think.
Happy New Year!
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Date: 2006-01-02 04:00 am (UTC)My parents went to Donegal last year, and they managed to find an ancestral home. (Dad's side.) It had no indoor plumbing and had been abandoned, because there is so much space in the villages that people don't rebuild- they just move down the road :D Anyway, they were able to explore the house and the grounds, and they found a silver spoon on the floor that they took home- heh.