drugs and movies, work and play
2009-Dec-19, Saturday 04:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerDoing much better. Drugs are good; penicillin is my friend. I no longer feel infection in my ears, although it's still in my throat.
I was unable to hand off the pager on Friday, so I volunteered to take the on-call duty this weekend. I've already traveled to Golden Valley and Coon Rapids today. It was good to get out of the house, since I've been on the couch under a blanket for the last few days. I may need to call Qwest eventually. They were expected to come out in the morning, but the Saint Paul line has been bouncing this afternoon. I talked to their site manager who said Qwest called her to work on it today (maybe), but she was going to take a look around to see if a tech was already there.
I've read a new book while I was out. "Coyote", a sci-fi book about humanity's first off-world colonization. It was interesting but not mind-grabbing. Well worded with plausible human foibles exploited for the plot. Similar, actually, to some of the ideas I still have for my own sci-fi story. That similarity alone was enough to keep me interested, to see how someone else saw our human traits affecting us for good or ill. I read the whole book in a day (between catnaps). That was fun.
I watched "I'm A Cyborg But That's Okay" on tv again. I liked it even better the second time. The blending of worlds is well done, the special effects are nice, and the acting is good. It's sort of a South Korean take on "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", and I like this cyborg version better.
I bought the dvd for "Ben X", so I watched it again. Still an excellent movie. World-blending is well done in this movie too. I caught a detail this time that I missed the first time. A pill called "Superman" actually exists in this world, and it's a form of Ecstasy. I've mentioned that drug before. It's reputation on regular people is that it makes them like everyone ("love drug" or "cuddle drug"). It apparently has the same effect on autistics, which makes the difference in behavior even more remarkable. It's a drug that I would be interested in trying once myself sometime, if only it were possible to simply purchase a safe formulation from a pharmacist.
I was unable to hand off the pager on Friday, so I volunteered to take the on-call duty this weekend. I've already traveled to Golden Valley and Coon Rapids today. It was good to get out of the house, since I've been on the couch under a blanket for the last few days. I may need to call Qwest eventually. They were expected to come out in the morning, but the Saint Paul line has been bouncing this afternoon. I talked to their site manager who said Qwest called her to work on it today (maybe), but she was going to take a look around to see if a tech was already there.
I've read a new book while I was out. "Coyote", a sci-fi book about humanity's first off-world colonization. It was interesting but not mind-grabbing. Well worded with plausible human foibles exploited for the plot. Similar, actually, to some of the ideas I still have for my own sci-fi story. That similarity alone was enough to keep me interested, to see how someone else saw our human traits affecting us for good or ill. I read the whole book in a day (between catnaps). That was fun.
I watched "I'm A Cyborg But That's Okay" on tv again. I liked it even better the second time. The blending of worlds is well done, the special effects are nice, and the acting is good. It's sort of a South Korean take on "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", and I like this cyborg version better. I bought the dvd for "Ben X", so I watched it again. Still an excellent movie. World-blending is well done in this movie too. I caught a detail this time that I missed the first time. A pill called "Superman" actually exists in this world, and it's a form of Ecstasy. I've mentioned that drug before. It's reputation on regular people is that it makes them like everyone ("love drug" or "cuddle drug"). It apparently has the same effect on autistics, which makes the difference in behavior even more remarkable. It's a drug that I would be interested in trying once myself sometime, if only it were possible to simply purchase a safe formulation from a pharmacist.
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Date: 2009-Dec-20, Sunday 01:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-Dec-20, Sunday 03:08 pm (UTC)Still, though... just to try it once is very tempting. Only in a safe environment with a safe formulation though.