http://www.sffworld.com/forums/blog.php?1700-Eldanuumea en Sun, 19 May 2013 08:21:28 GMT vBulletin 25 http://www.sffworld.com/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.sffworld.com/forums/blog.php?1700-Eldanuumea http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?2111-I-may-give-up-on-SyFy Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:50:24 GMT SyFy keeps breaking my heart. First, they positioned Stargate Universe on a Tuesday opposite Dancing with the Stars, which I have never watched but which most of America watches. Then they moved it abruptly to Monday night.....I caught the midseason opener by pure luck. Cancelling what is... SyFy keeps breaking my heart. First, they positioned Stargate Universe on a Tuesday opposite Dancing with the Stars, which I have never watched but which most of America watches. Then they moved it abruptly to Monday night.....I caught the midseason opener by pure luck.

Cancelling what is arguably the best series in the Stargate Universe is very short-sighted and stupid.** Apparently, DVR'd shows don't count in the ratings game.

Robert Carlysle (spelling?) is an actor of such extraordinary caliber, and I have a high opinion of the actors in general. They make a terrific ensemble cast. I love the gritty production quality. I am just hoping that the powers that be consider a movie to tie up what will certainly be seriously loose ends after the show is gone.

**Don't get me wrong, I love SG-1. I own the series and watch reruns constantly. But SU takes the franchise to a new level of story-telling and serious acting quality. The complexity of the Rush-Young relationship alone is amazingly done. ]]> Eldanuumea http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?2111-I-may-give-up-on-SyFy http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?2110-Living-with-Fibromyalgia Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:31:07 GMT Depressing title, yep. But now that I've been officially diagnosed with this thing - I don't think of it as a disease, but as a syndrome - I feel a bit vindicated.
The medicine I'm on handles most of the joint and muscle pain, but what it doesn't seem to help is the constant fatigue. When my doctor asked me if I experienced fatigue often, I thought for a minute and realized I had no memory of what it felt like not to feel tired. I wake up tired. Exhaustion is what I feel by the end of a work day - or by the end of a shopping trip.

I wish I could be different for my hubby's sake. He needs a partner with verve, with the desire to be with people. Maybe retirement will help with this. I won't have students and administrators up in my face all day. I'll be looking for part-time work.......my dream job would be to stock and shelve books at the local BAM. We'll see.

I have to end on a super-positive note. Hubby is still cancer-free after having his cancerous pancreas removed in Nov. 2003. Folks around here helped keep me sane in the months following his surgery. ]]> Eldanuumea http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?2110-Living-with-Fibromyalgia http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?2107-Where-Has-the-Time-Gone Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:16:58 GMT God, it's been longer than I want to admit since I've logged on here. My life has been filled to the brim with health issues - hubby's and mine - and job-related toxic stress. There have been issues with my children's lives as well. I have decided to retire from teaching this May, because it dawned on me the job might kill me before I stopped.
Long story short.....I am on blood pressure medicine, fibromyalgia medicine, and several other psychtropic drugs. It bothers me that my daily survival is linked to so many meds, as if I couldn't make it through life without being chemically altered. But it is what it is.
With retirement at hand, I hope to find time for joining in on discussions about books, films, etc.......the stuff that makes life worth living.
What good is living without being able to go where your passions lead you?

I look forward to searching out old friends and making new ones. Maybe I'll get inspired and write poetry again. Who knows?

It's time to reinvent myself. I will be 60 in May.
HerefordEye used to get frustrated with my inability to face aging gracefully. I think I am ready to do that, to let go of things I should have let go of years ago. There are things I will never be able to do, places I will never see. But who knows what surprises life may have for me, just hiding around the corner? I need to be flexible enough - brave enough - to embrace who I am as well as who I may become. ]]> Eldanuumea http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?2107-Where-Has-the-Time-Gone http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?89-Whatever-happened-to-Hesse Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:32:40 GMT Almost no one I know, whether in "real" life or in cyberspace, remembers the novels of Hermann Hesse that were so popular in the early 70's. I cannot imagine why there has not yet been a Renaissance of interest in his works.

Steppenwolf (yes, the band named itself after the book) was probably the most popular. My personal favorite was Majister Ludi, also called The Glass Bead Game. That book has set the pattern of my learning and teaching. One things leads to many things, and so on, until one bit of information has resulted in exponential information. I have bucked the "No Child Left Behind" educational absurdity for years, trying to maintain the little bead game I attempt to play with my students.

Hesse wrote a marvelous novel exploring the relationship between body and spirit.....Narcissus and Goldman. And, of course, there is Siddartha, in which the boy Gautama evolves into the Buddha.

I would think that Hesse's work would be extremely well-liked in today's cultural climate. His great novels badly need resurrecting. ]]> Eldanuumea http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?89-Whatever-happened-to-Hesse http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?88-More-fantasy-than-sci-fi Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:18:47 GMT I am not reading anywhere near the sci-fi stuff I once did. My attention, since the LOTR films, has been on fantasy. I own lots of great sci-fi stuff recently acquired through my membership in a book club, but I almost always turn to fantasy, British crime novels, or (blush) historical romance... I am not reading anywhere near the sci-fi stuff I once did. My attention, since the LOTR films, has been on fantasy.
I own lots of great sci-fi stuff recently acquired through my membership in a book club, but I almost always turn to fantasy, British crime novels, or (blush) historical romance rather than sci-fi.
I don't know why that is, really. Back in the 60's, I discovered Asimov, Clarke, Simak, Heinlein, and many other greats in that genre. Then I went through a couple of decades of reading mainly literary/historical fiction.
Peter Jackson brought me back to my senses with his LOTR masterpiece. Once I discovered high fantasy, I went crazy trying to find the best authors to spend my money on.

But why have I moved away from sci-fi? I don't really know.....there's so much blurring of genres these days. Probably some of the books I would classify as "urban fantasy" are also strongly sci-fi in content.

Perhaps labels shouldn't concern me! As Hereford Eye said on some thread recently - echoing or echoed by KatG - it's the story that counts. Regardless of genre, the point is to tell a good story. That's what keeps me reading, and who cares how the book is classified.

These are just ramblings of a slightly confused mind, I know. Thank God, the school year is almost over..... ]]> Eldanuumea http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?88-More-fantasy-than-sci-fi