Oh, holy shit balls. Oh, holy shit!

[lunabee34]

Deadpool 2

So, first the elephant in the room. Vanessa totally gets fridged. She gets fridged and it sucks. BUT, the narrative acknowledges that in the credits that follow her death, and the movie ends with Wade going back in time and saving her life. These movies are so meta, so far beyond the fourth wall, that I can't help but read it as a commentary on fridging and a subversion of that trope. We get the delicious man pain (which I can't help it; I revel in the sadness), but Vanessa lives!

This movie is funny. So funny. I am so glad Emma is old enough to watch these movies now. We all just died laughing throughout the whole thing. Too many funny moments to list them all.

Love the way Wade has chemistry with all living creatures. I mean, he and Vanessa are hot like burning, he and Domino would be just as hot, he and Colossus have some definite chemistry, and Deadpool/Cable goes without saying. Also, Negasonic Teenage Warhead (who is so beautiful OMG; Emma is besotted) and her girlfriend are adorbs.

Love the music in this one just as much as in the first, maybe even more.

The X-Men cameos = A++.

As in the first one, I am astonished by how such a silly movie can move me; damn, can Ryan Reynolds emote. Also, Cable giving up his chance to go home to save Wade made me and Emma both sniffle.

Very, very much enjoyed this one.



In other news, I thought I wasn't getting an ecore class this summer, but I am!!!!!! I am so relieved. I really wanted the extra cash so we can buy furniture for the new house all at once rather than having to do it piecemeal. I feel like an enormous weight just rolled off my back.

The house is still set to close on May 31st. That seems to be plugging along nicely. We've started purging and packing some things. I sold some furniture we don't want to take with us for more than I thought we'd get which was a great bonus.

Annual conference of The Org went off without a hitch mostly last week. Just the usual hitches of a technology glitch in the afternoon and conference attendance attrition. When you've got 200 participants and a multitude of panels, a small number of people not showing up isn't a huge deal; when you're a small, one-day affair, even a small number of presenters not showing is a huge kink in the works. But not to worry! I am keeping a file of no-shows who are blacklisted, BLACKLISTED I SAY, and we're redoing the membership so that you must pay your registration by the early registration date if you're going to present. Almost all the no-shows the three years I've been doing this have been people who don't pay by early registration; they've almost all been graduate students as well. Some people have genuine emergencies, and that's fine, but the number of people who just don't show up and never email me at all is beyond the pale. Oh, well. On the whole, it went really well. Lots of good papers; our keynote was excellent; the journal is more robust this year than last; I got to award a founding member with a lifetime membership. Josh and I got to go to dinner with the rest of the Executive Committee for the first time because Emma (bless her!) was hanging out with Fiona, and for the first time we didn't have to take two cars and one of us rush home to do toddler duty.

I spent a great deal of last week in the depths of despair because I thought I had screwed up my data collection in my study. Without getting into it, the math for the instrument just wouldn't work out, and I spent several days on the verge of throwing up and just Not Understanding what the hell was wrong. Turns out there's an issue with the instrument in the original 1975 publication!! I think I can use my data after all! It is not insurmountable, and I did not waste my time writing the whole article except for the data section. I had worked myself up into a tizzy about how I'd wasted a whole year and wouldn't be able to submit this article for publication after all (which is maddening because I am trying to build the scholarship section of my CV so I can go up for full professor soon; I'm eligible to apply in fall 2019, but I don't think I'll be ready then IDK). I am doubly relieved.

Today has been a double whammy of relief and hilarity.

I am definitely basking in the gratitude today.

Comments

[monanotlisa]

A+ for Deadpool language in the subject line.

[lunabee34]

*takes a bow*

:)

[executrix]

"Present" as a verb makes me think of primate posteriors...

ION I was just thinking that if you get a whole wall full of bookcases (Ikea, or metal shelving from an office supply store, or used either of the first two) you can just stick the furniture in front, and put the least-read books (or other stuff like banker's boxes and the Thanksgiving turkey platter) in the lower shelves and the most-read books higher up, you can get a big chunk of the collection in one place.

[lunabee34]

Ha, ha, ha! It can feel that way when you're up in front of everyone, too. Like me, like me, like me, like my paper! LOL

We totally have Ikea bookcases. We plan to get two more this summer. I love them.

[china_shop]

Yay for ecore and house and conference and working out data problems!

*hugs*

[lunabee34]

Thank you!

It's been some good news lately. I hope it keeps coming.

[darlingdeathbird]

Oh man, even if everything turned out okay, I'm sorry you had to go through such stress. Blehhh!

On another note, I really need to watch the Deadpool films. I've never seen them but always hear good things.

[lunabee34]

Thanks, sweetie. *hugs*

I really like the Deadpool movies. They are very irreverent and crude, but I like them. LOL