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beansideIt's NYE, and I'm ringing it out in style--Plague style! (But not Covid style.) My sister kindly brought an upper respiratory infection home to us, and both Jess and I are down with it. I spent the night coughing my lungs up, which made for very restful sleep. We're supposed to have games tonight and tomorrow, but I just don't know right now if I'm going to be able to do it.
Yesterday was fairly slow, and I had a lot of patients that I needed to call to fill in slots. I got them filled, but it was not the easiest. Fortunately, my cough didn't get really bad until the evening hours. I'm sure today will be fun. I'd take off, but I need to save my PTO for the Alaska trip.
Tomorrow, I have off, which is awesome, then one day on Friday to work, then two days off. We're supposed to go to Philadelphia this weekend, but I really don't think that's likely. I'm not going to go up and risk giving it to my friends. It might have cleared up by then, but I do tend to hold on to coughs. So we'll cancel that, and hopefully go up another weekend.
Of all the adventures that we have planned, this is the one I'm least upset about needing to miss. As long as May is good, we're good. I don't like not getting to see my friends, but as I said, I also don't want to bear my plague to their doorstep. But at least it's not Covid. It also doesn't feel like the flu. Not intense enough. It sucks, don't get me wrong. I hate it. But right now it's just a moderate cough and a little congestion, which isn't terrible.
My sister swore she didn't feel bad, but I don't know what crack she's on, because I feel kind of assy. Part of that could be the lack of sleep, but ugh.
I felt bad enough last night that after work, I put on a comfort movie. I debated between movies, but ended up resuming Pacific Rim. I love that fucking movie. I'm not a huge fan of most kaiju movies, but that one hits my sweet spot. I love the design, I love the performances and I love the big robots smacking monsters. My only realy complaint is that the end is very difficult to see, as it's set in near darkness. I can deal with that, though. I especially love the interactions between the two leads. Raleigh (played by Charlie Hunnam) is one of my favorite depictions of masculinity in a movie. There's another Jaeger pilot who is a foil for Raleigh who's a bit more toxic masculinity, to contrast Raleigh's gentleness and kindness. Early on, he's found drift compatible with (gasp) a rookie female pilot, Mako Mori (played by Rinko Kikuchi). He quickly bonds wiht her, and throughout the movie, he's encouraging, kind and protective wihout being an asshole. He gives her respect, even when things don't go a planned. And in the end, you can 100% see how there might be love burgeoning, even though it's never touched on in the movie. The CGI holds up pretty well, and the world feels real. Also, a movie set in Asia with Asian actors in it!!
The second movie does not exist, despite John Boyega being entertaining in it. Or maybe it exists, but is not a sequel to this one.
The first Pacific Rim was directed by Guillermo Del Toro, and his hand is obvious throughout in the vivid colors and of course, a turn by Ron Perlman as a ne'er do well smuggler.
I'll probably watch the rest today, as I am still feeling lousy and in need of comfort.
And on that note, I'm going to sip this coffee and relax for a bit. Everyone have an excellent New Year's Eve!
Yesterday was fairly slow, and I had a lot of patients that I needed to call to fill in slots. I got them filled, but it was not the easiest. Fortunately, my cough didn't get really bad until the evening hours. I'm sure today will be fun. I'd take off, but I need to save my PTO for the Alaska trip.
Tomorrow, I have off, which is awesome, then one day on Friday to work, then two days off. We're supposed to go to Philadelphia this weekend, but I really don't think that's likely. I'm not going to go up and risk giving it to my friends. It might have cleared up by then, but I do tend to hold on to coughs. So we'll cancel that, and hopefully go up another weekend.
Of all the adventures that we have planned, this is the one I'm least upset about needing to miss. As long as May is good, we're good. I don't like not getting to see my friends, but as I said, I also don't want to bear my plague to their doorstep. But at least it's not Covid. It also doesn't feel like the flu. Not intense enough. It sucks, don't get me wrong. I hate it. But right now it's just a moderate cough and a little congestion, which isn't terrible.
My sister swore she didn't feel bad, but I don't know what crack she's on, because I feel kind of assy. Part of that could be the lack of sleep, but ugh.
I felt bad enough last night that after work, I put on a comfort movie. I debated between movies, but ended up resuming Pacific Rim. I love that fucking movie. I'm not a huge fan of most kaiju movies, but that one hits my sweet spot. I love the design, I love the performances and I love the big robots smacking monsters. My only realy complaint is that the end is very difficult to see, as it's set in near darkness. I can deal with that, though. I especially love the interactions between the two leads. Raleigh (played by Charlie Hunnam) is one of my favorite depictions of masculinity in a movie. There's another Jaeger pilot who is a foil for Raleigh who's a bit more toxic masculinity, to contrast Raleigh's gentleness and kindness. Early on, he's found drift compatible with (gasp) a rookie female pilot, Mako Mori (played by Rinko Kikuchi). He quickly bonds wiht her, and throughout the movie, he's encouraging, kind and protective wihout being an asshole. He gives her respect, even when things don't go a planned. And in the end, you can 100% see how there might be love burgeoning, even though it's never touched on in the movie. The CGI holds up pretty well, and the world feels real. Also, a movie set in Asia with Asian actors in it!!
The second movie does not exist, despite John Boyega being entertaining in it. Or maybe it exists, but is not a sequel to this one.
The first Pacific Rim was directed by Guillermo Del Toro, and his hand is obvious throughout in the vivid colors and of course, a turn by Ron Perlman as a ne'er do well smuggler.
I'll probably watch the rest today, as I am still feeling lousy and in need of comfort.
And on that note, I'm going to sip this coffee and relax for a bit. Everyone have an excellent New Year's Eve!
