good things lately
Jan. 19th, 2018 10:12 amA lovely ride in today: light rain, cool but not cold weather, and enough light that I wasn't overly worried about getting run down.
Discoveries about myself in counseling continue to come pretty frequently. I think that's a good thing.
Work pays me. It's dull as dirt but it's not stressful beyond that. I think that's what I need right now.
Multiple delightful conversations this week with good friends who sadly live too far away.
Solid plans for tomorrow, for friends who don't live too far away to provide moral and emotional support when I move back into the now-empty condo.
I'm moving back into the condo, which is I think (I hope) on balance more a good thing than a bad one. I'll miss Mya the roommate; we really started to click this month. I'll miss being a block from a Skytrain station and a ten-minute ride from work. I won't miss the ridiculous kitchen or the lack of a proper light over the bathtub, or the sense that the space isn't really Mine.
I finished watching the first season of The Good Place last night, of which more later. Quick nonspoilery thoughts: it moved from "lightweight and almost wasting its premise" to "deeply compelling" over the course of the season, which ... I'm glad it did but I would have preferred more "compelling" earlier. I hate recommending things to people and having to say "oh but it gets so much better after the first [n] episodes." (See also: Avatar, whose first season is enjoyable fluff with only a hint of what it will become once Toph Bei Fong shows up.) I think the half-hour format did it no favours in that regard. It's hard to build a story that you can really sink into in twenty-two minutes, and more so when you've got all the worldbuilding and character-introducing to do as well. Definitely gonna watch the second season. May rewatch the first sooner than later.
Things are alright.
Discoveries about myself in counseling continue to come pretty frequently. I think that's a good thing.
Work pays me. It's dull as dirt but it's not stressful beyond that. I think that's what I need right now.
Multiple delightful conversations this week with good friends who sadly live too far away.
Solid plans for tomorrow, for friends who don't live too far away to provide moral and emotional support when I move back into the now-empty condo.
I'm moving back into the condo, which is I think (I hope) on balance more a good thing than a bad one. I'll miss Mya the roommate; we really started to click this month. I'll miss being a block from a Skytrain station and a ten-minute ride from work. I won't miss the ridiculous kitchen or the lack of a proper light over the bathtub, or the sense that the space isn't really Mine.
I finished watching the first season of The Good Place last night, of which more later. Quick nonspoilery thoughts: it moved from "lightweight and almost wasting its premise" to "deeply compelling" over the course of the season, which ... I'm glad it did but I would have preferred more "compelling" earlier. I hate recommending things to people and having to say "oh but it gets so much better after the first [n] episodes." (See also: Avatar, whose first season is enjoyable fluff with only a hint of what it will become once Toph Bei Fong shows up.) I think the half-hour format did it no favours in that regard. It's hard to build a story that you can really sink into in twenty-two minutes, and more so when you've got all the worldbuilding and character-introducing to do as well. Definitely gonna watch the second season. May rewatch the first sooner than later.
Things are alright.