amatyultare

New icon! I'm not really happy with the coloring, but such is life.

And now, to rant.

So first of all, reading Eragon immediately after finishing a trilogy of power and grace like His Dark Materials was not the best idea. And certainly at least somewhat unfair to Eragon. But I wanted to see if the book was 1) as bad as some of what I've heard and 2) as bad as the movie, which I watched with Eric and Erica a week or so back. So I spent most of the day reading it (and fighting off the urge to throw the book into the snow).

Wow. Where to begin?

First, to put things in context, I advise those who haven't read the book/seen the movie to read this review of the movie. Actually, I suggest you read it even if you've read the book AND seen the movie; the review is hilarious and also brings up most of my major problems with the movie.

( Lengthy and annoyed rant ahead )

Ridiculously long rant over.....I think I'll go to bed now that it's all out of my system. Night, all!

It feels like I haven't updated in forever, but it's actually only been a few days. Of course, a few days *is* forever when it comes to LJ...eh, whatever.

Things are going pretty well here, I guess. Both my and E's cars are having problems, but neither of us work on the weekends so hopefully we can get everything straightened out on Saturday. Work's fun, if stressful, now that we're actually taking calls instead of watching PowerPoint presentations six hours a day--even though I have to get up at 6 AM. *groan* I've been getting mostly good calls--some of my coworkers have gotten some wild ones though (a woman yesterday told the rep talking to her that she wanted Dell to track her stolen computer, and when he said they couldn't do that without special antitheft software. she responded that she knew that Dell had been reading her thoughts since she bought the computer so they could damn well track her computer...yeah). Tried to compare stories with B but I'm hampered because Dells aren't known for their aphrodisiac qualities ;-) Like I said, most of my calls have been great ( except for one )

On a lighter though still computer-related note...just as I was reading Ctrl+Alt+Del's storyline about Ethan becoming a 'Mac Panther' (hehehe), I read this story on BBC.com. Yeah Apple! I swear I'll get an iPod...eventually...

Meh, so tired...I'm gonna read a bit and then go to bed (I know it's strange to hear of me going to bed before midnight, but it's unavoidable--I start at 8 AM at least through next week). Later, all!