Tragedy after tragedy
There was a Tornado this week here in College Park, but everyone I live with is fine, in case you were worried. Seeing as I'm from Florida I tend to call it a Hurricane, even though that is wrong. I'm trying to learn myself right, but seeing as Maryland isn't really a hotspot for either weather-activity, I couldn't have planned. Anyways, on to the next item:
The Enterprise Premiere left me without any idea of what to expect in the future. I say it was bad, but all-in-all I wasn't too disappointed. There were things I really disliked though, and those stand out in my mind. There were three major things that really screwed it all up for me. First, the damn theme song is a Rod Stewart Monster Ballad(!). Then, they put the "hot" vulcan lady in a gratuitous half-naked-niplodicus decontamination erasing all cries of pandering which Voyager may have endured. I guess they figured that if they're going to go, they should go all-out. The third thing isn't as big of a deal, but they sure included a lot of corny flash-back and catch-phrase dialogue in the show. I realize they're trying to reach a new audience and that's why they're dropping the "Star Trek" name, but lordy-lord how they've changed things. I guess since Gene Roddenberry's vision was always that "Humanity has evoloved to such an extent (by the 24th century) that there is no in-fighting among the crew (see Next-generation) so the writers found a quick way to pile-on the inter-cast tension and load up on the boobs: Go back a couple of centuries! Still, while I imagine Gene wouldn't have sanctioned it, and I can't stand alot of the things they make the Captain say, I like Scott Bakula as an actor and I'll probbaly keep watching the episodes for a while, but luckily, I'll never have to call it "Star Trek".
On a positive note, the whole thing was in letterbox format. Let's see "There's something about Raymond" top that.
Power Lunches
Now that I've got an offer for a job, I've got another interview tomorrow where I'm going to lunch with a manager that I didn't meet at my last interview with the cellular company, and on Friday I have a 6 hour(!) interview with another company up in Columbia, MD, on Friday, and they're taking me to lunch at that one. With so many possibilities in my court, it's hard to say what my future holds, and I don't look forward to having to make the decision as to which job I take, but I'm glad I'll have to. I need to get a lot better about making decisions, because I really suck at it. It may be nice to be doomed into one job becuase I have no other options to choose from, but I really need to make a positive choice in my life and be proud of it. I've been saying that for about 16 years or so now. Ugh, I want to evolve.
At least one version of me is evolving...
Virtual Joel is trudging along towards his next release, slowly but fairly surely. I think I've got a good title for him: Virtual Joel; Almost as frustrating as being the real thing. I kid myself of course, because my life is good, but I wish I was better at being me AND at working on the Virtual me. Oh yeah, and that thing about me wanting you to submit your original artwork and music and animations? That's now mandatory. Having read this, you must submit. Bye!
