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rosa_heartlily) wrote2024-04-30 09:26 pm
rosa_heartlily) wrote2024-04-30 09:26 pm
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Better feet
Husband's podiatry appointment went well.
The weather was definitely milder today but the wind was still quite strong.
One of my colleagues has found a job elsewhere, so that's another round of recruitment. My new LM says I should be on the interview panel because I have to be able to work with the newbie. That could be an interesting conversation...
I'm also struggling to know what order to spin the plates in. There just seem to be Too Many - but I know if I can just focus on the most important, the others will fall into place. I have a relatively quiet week; I just need to take advantage of it and get some stuff boxed off before my blissful week off next week. Which somehow I had forgotten to mark in my calendar...
Today I discovered that Terry Pratchett was quite anti-LOTR and said a story about a walk to throw a ring into a volcano was silly. I was quite taken aback by this information because without LOTR, Pratchett has no career. I suppose it depends on what he's actually criticising - story pacing is quite valid because Tolkien was pretty bad at that. But Taking The Thing To The Place is a classic quest tale; I don't really think it's fair to criticise that.
Of course, Pratchett's writing is very intricate with several apparently separate plot lines that are gradually woven more and more tightly together to form a satisfyingly complex knot at the end. He also takes aspects of modern life and finds ways to send them up that are quite delightful, and shines a light on things like racism through mythical species. But saying 'your writing is different to mine and therefore wrong' is also invalid.
Anyway, it's taken a bit of shine off Pratchett for me - like finding out Jung had an affair with one of his female students and (allegedly) stole her ideas, changed my feelings about him. But there's still a lot to love. In particular, Jung's dream about my home town ('Liverpool is the pool of life!') means I'll always have a soft spot for him.
OK, time for bed - night DW!
The weather was definitely milder today but the wind was still quite strong.
One of my colleagues has found a job elsewhere, so that's another round of recruitment. My new LM says I should be on the interview panel because I have to be able to work with the newbie. That could be an interesting conversation...
I'm also struggling to know what order to spin the plates in. There just seem to be Too Many - but I know if I can just focus on the most important, the others will fall into place. I have a relatively quiet week; I just need to take advantage of it and get some stuff boxed off before my blissful week off next week. Which somehow I had forgotten to mark in my calendar...
Today I discovered that Terry Pratchett was quite anti-LOTR and said a story about a walk to throw a ring into a volcano was silly. I was quite taken aback by this information because without LOTR, Pratchett has no career. I suppose it depends on what he's actually criticising - story pacing is quite valid because Tolkien was pretty bad at that. But Taking The Thing To The Place is a classic quest tale; I don't really think it's fair to criticise that.
Of course, Pratchett's writing is very intricate with several apparently separate plot lines that are gradually woven more and more tightly together to form a satisfyingly complex knot at the end. He also takes aspects of modern life and finds ways to send them up that are quite delightful, and shines a light on things like racism through mythical species. But saying 'your writing is different to mine and therefore wrong' is also invalid.
Anyway, it's taken a bit of shine off Pratchett for me - like finding out Jung had an affair with one of his female students and (allegedly) stole her ideas, changed my feelings about him. But there's still a lot to love. In particular, Jung's dream about my home town ('Liverpool is the pool of life!') means I'll always have a soft spot for him.
OK, time for bed - night DW!