Girl From the North Country ([info]justspies) wrote,
@ 2009-03-16 13:56:00
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Current mood: thoughtful
Entry tags:books, doing all right kid keep going, happiness is a kind of holiness

Always look on the bright side of life.
Has anyone read The Book Thief? I bought it on Friday and have been engrossed. I'm about 250 pages in so far and it's got me thoroughly hooked. If anyone else has read it, I was hoping for some thoughts about whether Death is a corporeal being in the book or a spirit that just has a shape of some sort? He refers to himself as a 'he' so if he has a gender, does that come with a body? Or is he just a spirit? Thoughts?

I am so in love with California. I love finally being somewhere that you truly feel is home. Currently still job-hunting. I'll admit that I get frustrated at times, but you know, job searching is never a quick thing, even when the economy is great. Well, unless you're my mother. Sometimes I question whether or not I should have become a nurse like I once thought about doing, but then I think...no, I'm too much of a History geek to have majored in anything else. I know the job I get soon more than likely won't be in my field. And I think all of dealing with job search woes are entitled to be frustrated, but I refuse to give in to the ridiculous fear-mongering going on in this country in regards to the economy, because all that does is make everyone more depressed. And so, I refuse. The economy is not great right now, we are in a recession, things are gloomy. Why must we be reminded of this every single day, multiple times a day? This too shall pass, and in the meantime, let's all try to balance optimism with a bit of healthy cynicism and pragmatism. I'll get a job; I won't get one tomorrow, maybe not even this week or the next, but eventually. If I started thinking otherwise, then I would truly doom myself. And to those of you also job searching, really don't get down. Don't. That's the worst thing you can do. Keep going and keep breathing, and just remember not to stop.

I am wishing all the best for you, poppets, we're all going to be all right. Trust me. :D


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[info]ficciones
2009-03-16 10:23 pm UTC (link)
I just want to say (though I know it isn't much) that I love your words.

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[info]justspies
2009-03-16 11:45 pm UTC (link)
Oh, it is much, believe me. I do not say that flippantly. I hope things are well on your end, while you are hiatus-ing.

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[info]ficciones
2009-03-16 11:47 pm UTC (link)
I am glad. I am sort of unhiatusing! Though I need to do some work, so I'll be scurrying back to the books, as it goes. But I'm being more unhiatus-y!

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[info]justspies
2009-03-16 11:52 pm UTC (link)
Books do have a way of demanding our attention, don't they? It's nice to see you gradually unhiatus-ing (I enjoy this word for some reason). I am working on an app for the Seventh Doctor for [info]realityshifted. A week later, I realized I'd written a novella on the psychology section alone. Thankfully, you will be spared this. :D

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[info]ficciones
2009-03-16 11:59 pm UTC (link)
I do love them! I'm done my Borges, which makes me sad. And I thing 'unhiatus-ing' is an excellent word. And and and when Sarah's app I was like "WHEEEE" and when she noted you were planning on apping I went, "WHEE!!!" again. Perhaps I am excitable, but it is glee.

And I'll probably do the Seven app. Well, we all know DW, obviously, but it will be a mod toss-up on who gets to do what app and I'll shout "I CALL DIBS!" and they'll have to give into me because no one ever dares defy me!

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[info]justspies
2009-03-17 12:32 am UTC (link)
I was always pleasantly surprised when I'd finish researching and writing on a particular story that I initially wasn't at all certain I'd enjoy. It's easy enough to muddle through with the stuff we love, but it's more satisfying to finish an assignment that surprised us or tested us a bit more, I think. That was always how I felt, anyway, but then I am weird.

I must be excitable, too, because RP world can often fill me with absurd amounts of glee.

Saying that no one dares to defy you I think just definitively qualifies you as the one who should read Seven's app, because uh, no one defies him, either.

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[info]ficciones
2009-03-17 02:04 am UTC (link)
No, that makes perfect sense! Though you are weird. It's always nice to be surprised, I think.

So long as there is glee, we're both good. And the best bits of RP are filled with glee.

He says that, but I think he just pretends it was all JUST AS PLANNED when other people defy him. "Yes Ace, I intended for you to blow up the building, ALL ACCORDING TO PLAN." My theory is that, in fact, he is as rubbish at planning as all the rest. By acting mysterious and pretending it was all part of his scheme all along, he manages to fake being the schemer.

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[info]wiccagirl24
2009-03-17 09:30 pm UTC (link)
Yes, because Ace never defies the Doctor. *eyeroll*

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[info]ficciones
2009-03-17 09:31 pm UTC (link)
Clearly, she is far too much in awe of his amazing powers of being always right to ever disagree with him!

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[info]wiccagirl24
2009-03-17 09:36 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, cause that's what Ace is walking around thinking "The Professor is always right. I know he would never keep anything from me or tell a little lie or act well devious. He's practically perfect in every way."

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[info]ficciones
2009-03-17 09:37 pm UTC (link)
I'm told that it forms a small prayer she repeats every night before bed.

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[info]justspies
2009-03-17 09:56 pm UTC (link)
There is only one truly well devious person in this universe, and that is me.

But of course Ace thinks he is well and truly perfect, he has never been anything other than perfect and completely forthcoming about everything.

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[info]wiccagirl24
2009-03-17 11:08 pm UTC (link)
"Dear god I don't believe in, thank you for making the Professor completely infalable."

*snort*

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[info]iluvme83
2009-03-16 10:27 pm UTC (link)
I haven't read it yet cuz the girl I work with at the library is reading it.. but once she's finished with it I'm next on the reserve. :D

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[info]wiccagirl24
2009-03-16 10:55 pm UTC (link)
I'm next on the reserve too, jsut as soon as [info]justspies finishes her copy.

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[info]killergraces
2009-03-16 11:31 pm UTC (link)
i haven't read it yet, but my roommate has it and i will attack it soon!

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[info]justspies
2009-03-17 12:32 am UTC (link)
I will give a final review on it when I finish it, but so far, it's shaping up to be the kind of book I'd recommend to everyone.

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[info]rwhip923
2009-03-16 11:58 pm UTC (link)
Glad you're loving CA. I can't wait until I can get to live there. I was originally supposed to move to Monterey for grad school but I wasn't ready to move across the country at 22 by myself. Now, maybe. We'll see what the future holds though.

Have you been to Santa Cruz yet? My ultimate aspiration is to be a beach bum there.

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[info]justspies
2009-03-17 12:34 am UTC (link)
I haven't been to Santa Cruz yet, but I've been near that area and it's really quite lovely. Really, the Bay Area is wonderful, and the Central Coast is equally so. I did not care for LA, but it seems like the type of place that would be all right to visit occasionally.

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[info]rwhip923
2009-03-17 05:54 pm UTC (link)
I'm definitely a NorCal girl. I've spent a lot of time visiting up there but I'm still determined to live there eventually. I'm quite fond of Marin County as well.

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[info]ravenskyewalker
2009-03-17 01:47 am UTC (link)
No, I haven't read The Book Thief yet, but it's one of those books that I'd love to get to eventually... once I've gotten through a mountain of other reading. ;-) Alas, while I'm passionately devoted to books, I can't read everything that people think I should, and am left feeling that I need to justify why I haven't read something yet. *whimper* (In fact, I've been so stressed lately that I can't even focus on reading, and that drives me up the wall.)

I'm native to California and used to feel the way you do about it, so it's lovely to read your fresh perspective; perhaps there's still something remaining of the state that I used to love.

I wish you luck with the job-hunting. I still have a job... have no idea how much longer I'll have that job, but I do now. Unfortunately, the bosses let us know every day just how bad the economy is, and how only the best will survive. Well, I'm sure I'm not what they consider the best (I have years of experience dealing with books, but am not the most sociable person ever), so just love getting those scare tactics Every Single Day.

Getting slammed with Old Parent issues at the same time that the economy is falling down a very steep mountain was... not exactly what I needed, but it's what I'm getting, so live with it, yes.

Your words help lift my morale, though -- thank you.

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[info]riverdresses
2009-03-17 05:29 am UTC (link)
And I think all of dealing with job search woes are entitled to be frustrated, but I refuse to give in to the ridiculous fear-mongering going on in this country in regards to the economy, because all that does is make everyone more depressed. And so, I refuse. The economy is not great right now, we are in a recession, things are gloomy. Why must we be reminded of this every single day, multiple times a day? This too shall pass, and in the meantime, let's all try to balance optimism with a bit of healthy cynicism and pragmatism.

♥

I agree. Fully. I feel like that everyday & you put it into perfect words. :D

& even though I want to escape, run away from this place & this little world, I know I'd miss it so much. There's too much of me, of my history here for me to be so easily left behind. So I stay, but for now, I don't mind.

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