{"id":11043,"date":"2014-01-11T23:38:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T04:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11043"},"modified":"2014-01-11T23:38:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T04:38:45","slug":"saturday-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11043","title":{"rendered":"Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had my yearly performance review at work yesterday, and while I was a little nervous about it — those “where do you see yourself in x-number of years?” questions are always a little tough — I think it went well. I’m looking forward to 2014, even if the next couple of months are going to involve a lot<\/i> of work.<\/p>\n

I spent about four hours doing some of that work today, actually, which is not exactly how I wanted to spend my weekend. But I’m losing Monday, since I’ll be at a conference for work, and this review report really needs to have been finished weeks ago. The closer I can get it to finished, the better.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t all fun and work games, though. Yesterday I finished reading Kurt Vonnegut’s Timequake<\/i>, which just made me sad all over again that he’s no longer with us. And today I finished Are You Mother?<\/i> by Alison Bechdel, which made me want to re-read her earlier book about her father, Fun Home<\/i>. This “comic drama” is very good, too, although there’s a lot of distancing with all the talk of D.W. Winnicott and Virginia Woolf, maybe by design. In some ways, it’s a book about<\/i> psychoanalysis as much as it’s a book about Bechdel’s<\/i> psychoanalysis and her relationship with her mother. I liked it, but I seem to remember liking Fun Home<\/i> a lot more.<\/p>\n

Although I really do like that this is now the status of my Goodreads reading challenge:<\/p>\n

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Finally, this evening I watched Ultraviolet<\/a>, which is maybe the worst movie I have ever seen. (And I saw Jonah Hex<\/i> only two weeks ago<\/a>.) It’s such a ridiculous mess of a movie that it’s painful to watch, and it’s a regret I’ll take with me to my grave. To make it worse, I watched it on Crackle, who kept interrupting the movie with the same three or four advertisements — all of them terrible — and making the experience just that much worse. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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