wiseheart: (Centaurus)
wiseheart ([personal profile] wiseheart) wrote2010-09-29 11:03 pm

Grief management

I felt a bit down due to yesterday's news, plus I had two hours between the end of work and the teachers' conference that ruined my otherwise half-free afternoon (and I only have two of those in the entire week!), so I decided to spend some money. It always helps.

So I treated myself to a decent meal in a nearby self-selving restaurant ([livejournal.com profile] the_wild_iris and [livejournal.com profile] rcfinch could give testimony that it's a good place indeed), and then I hit the bookshop next to it.

I had the good luck to find a beautiful edition of Brandbury's Martian Chronicles, a collection I've wished to read in original for ages. It wasn't exactly cheap, but then English books never are over here. I'm going to savour it, one tale a time, whenever I'll have the leisure to read undisturbed.

For that, I got to buy bad fanfic fairly cheap: the latest Star Trek movie was on sale. The two-disk edition with all the special features and extras cost me barely more than a movie ticket would have. So I bought it and watched it right away.

I might write a longer review eventually, so I'll say only this much: I hated it a lot less than I'd expected to hate it. Well, I still hate the new Uhura and how insignificant she was in the movie, I hated the really lame plot, the bad Tattooine-remake and the police motorcycles borrowed from the ill-remembered Galactica 1980, but the rest of it wasn't actually that bad.

Zachary Quinto was quite good as Spock, the Romulans were intriguing (liked Eric Bana), and Leonard Nimoy was simply awesome. I most likely won't become a fan of the new set of movies, but it was definitely better than any TNG-movie they forced down our throats.


Our choir is also starting to rise from the ashes. We've got quite a few new pieces this year, some of them very loverly.

[identity profile] lhun-dweller.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you treated yourself. (If I can't transport over there to do it, then at least I can take comfort in knowing you are giving yourself some nice things.) And the choir lives? Yay!

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
And I wish I could beam you over here. We could use a few more stable lower voices in the choir. *g*

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
Good idea to treat yourself and I'm glad it was a successful book shop.

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
It's strange, though. I took a glimpse into that book, and while it's very good indeed, quite poetic in some places, I find I can't rediscover the absolute awe I felt when I first read the Martian Chronicles in summer camp at the age of 13. Granted, it was in Hungarian translation, so it must have been a vastly different experience, but still...

And I've realized that Bradbury can be pretty depressing, too. Okay, I already knew that. But now I discovered that he's sometimes not that easy to follow, either.
artemis10002000: Don't drink water... fish have sex in it (Pushing Daisies)

[personal profile] artemis10002000 2010-09-30 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad to hear you gave yourself a treat. The choir rising from the ashes sounds wonderful!

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
We've just got an invitation to sing in an old church with other choirs at St. Emmerich Day. I hope the others won't chicken out and we'll do the gig. That place has the most amazin acoustics you can imagine.
artemis10002000: Don't drink water... fish have sex in it (Default)

[personal profile] artemis10002000 2010-09-30 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
That is wonderful! It sounds like an amazing opportunity. I hope so fervently for you that you get to do the gig.

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-01 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, me, too. It's up to the others, really... if they won't chicken out, we'll do it. They're a bit prone to sh*t themselves when it comes to public gigs.
artemis10002000: Don't drink water... fish have sex in it (Ilija Sleeper Cell)

[personal profile] artemis10002000 2010-10-01 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't blame them - I know I would be scared, too! But in your interest, I'll keep my fingers crossed!

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-01 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks. *g*

The only times I sh*t myself with anxiety is when I have a solo part in it - which, sadly, isn't likely to happen this year. Singing in front of a church full of people is a wonderful experience.

[identity profile] third-charm.livejournal.com 2010-10-01 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad to see that you are able to pick yourself up again. Losing someone so close is always a terrible, and I am glad that you are coping so well. I hope that the future brings you easier and happier times, hon.

Third Charm

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-01 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
And for you, my friend. You've certainly deserved it after all you've been through.

[identity profile] third-charm.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks so much. Hopefully the sun will shine and the wind will be at all our backs for the rest of this journey we call life.

Third Charm

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-02 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
Well said. All we can do is to hope.