Well, I have a job?
Oct. 7th, 2022 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timegoddessroseWell, I have a job? It's at my old place of work, but they're giving me a promotion and a good-sized raise. The only foreseeable problem is just that I have even more chronic injuries than before and it's a very physically taxing job. I've already secured some accommodations and I'm just going to take it a day at a time. It is also a public-facing job and, ya know, Covid, but I'm as vaccinated as I can be, and I need to be pulling in income as soon as possible, and this was a job I knew I could get pretty quickly.
For the moment, I'm waiting for paperwork to go through, and pending that I should start being scheduled sometime later next week.
But this has all been a lot of adulting, so I am Quite Tired.
Anyway, I've been listening to the audiobook (narrated by Marc Thompson) of Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn for coping purposes. It's been pretty wild listening to Thompson's pre-Rebels rendition of Thrawn, which is pretty much a generic quasi-British scifi villain voice. I maintain that the original Legends Thrawn Trilogy is more nostalgic than it is good, but comfort is what I am currently seeking so that is completely fine. That said, Heir ages especially poorly. The dialogue is bogged down by incessant self-referential winks to the reader that are more distracting than they are anything else. I also maintain that Thrawn isn't a particularly compelling villain in his original iteration, but it has still been fulfilling in and of itself to re-experience the genesis of this character concept even if only to conclude that later versions are superior.
For the moment, I'm waiting for paperwork to go through, and pending that I should start being scheduled sometime later next week.
But this has all been a lot of adulting, so I am Quite Tired.
Anyway, I've been listening to the audiobook (narrated by Marc Thompson) of Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn for coping purposes. It's been pretty wild listening to Thompson's pre-Rebels rendition of Thrawn, which is pretty much a generic quasi-British scifi villain voice. I maintain that the original Legends Thrawn Trilogy is more nostalgic than it is good, but comfort is what I am currently seeking so that is completely fine. That said, Heir ages especially poorly. The dialogue is bogged down by incessant self-referential winks to the reader that are more distracting than they are anything else. I also maintain that Thrawn isn't a particularly compelling villain in his original iteration, but it has still been fulfilling in and of itself to re-experience the genesis of this character concept even if only to conclude that later versions are superior.
