Quasi-Update, Plus Some Casual but Spoiler-y MCU and Disney Plus Reactions

Edit: in my description below of a professor trope, a potentially older professor in glasses that is judgmental, please know that upon reflection, I am that professor.  I even have the glasses.

I started using ProWritingAid to assist me in proofreading, and I must say it picks the strangest things to quibble about. If ProWriting Aid was a person, it would be a mean, judgmental professor of any gender, a trope of a professor that hates everyone and looks down at you, scowling through Ben Franklin glasses.

I once had a job, about 20 years ago, in which everything had to be in a strict format. I stated typing with the "Show Format" key on (if you are using Word, it's the little paragraph symbol on the toolbar). One of the requirements was that there be exactly two spaces between every sentence. That wasn't a problem for me so much because that's how I learned to type back in the Paleolithic era. I got so used to typing with Show Format on, that I can no longer use Word without it, and it is challenging in programs such as Blogger that don't have it.  

Apparently, the kids today have moved from two spaces between sentences, to one space between sentences. I am having some trouble with it, but I am breaking myself of it to avoid Professor ProWritingAid yelling at me. Note: After I wrote these paragraphs, ProWritingAid stopped working.  What a coincidence.  What a jerk.

I opened with a story because I am still a tiny bit in a depression. The jobhunt continues. I have applied my sales philosophy to jobhunting; the more I apply to things, the more responses I will get, the more interviews I will get, the faster I will get a job.  Not that I wasn't doing this before, but I am trying to increase the amount of time I spend looking. This is both good for me in terms of net responses, and bad for me in terms of reminding me that I have been getting pretty solidly rejected for over a year.

But as my new friend Valerie said to me, I have to think of it not as rejection, but re-direction. As I've said before, despite the PTSD, the depression, the fear, and anything else in my life that has happened, it has always worked out for me.  Having said all of that as a disclaimer, it is still hard to give an update on my quest to find a full-time job. 

I have had a lot of good interviews that never lead to anything, so when I'm asked, "How was the interview?" I don't know how to answer anymore. When I'm asked, "What happens next?" I don't know how to answer that either. When I'm asked by an interviewer, "Do you have any other offers pending?" I don't know how to answer that either.  I had a nice interview last week and was shocked when she asked for references at the end of it, which I sent right away afer notifying my two references that she would be contacting them. But that was last week, and nothing has happened since, so I muster my defense mechanisms and try to forget about any potential interview or offer of employment and just go back to job-hunting. All the time.

I watched Episode 2 of The Falcon and Winter Soldier, but before I comment on that, can I just say to the MCU and to Disney Plus, hey, look, girls, I know you have to make money. Completely understandable. But how very dare you charge me $30 to watch the Black Widow movie?  Peace and love, but we already know she's dead, and there's not likely to be anything in that movie that's empowering or any kind of happyish ending knowing that's where she is now.  Unless there is a line in that movie such that explains her death away in a sentence, like, "If you are to ever sacrifice yourself to save your friends, there will be a prequel movie after which you will be alive again." This movie is not likely to have a feel-good ending, no matter how fun it will be to watch Black Widow kick everybody's ass. So, why would I want to pay $30 to be depressed, just to watch a movie by myself? I'll wait and get depressed for free, thanks.

I hope the rest of the remaining four episodes of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier features them both fighting together because that was pretty awesome.  Are they both going to be Captain America?  Will they have new names?  Captain Falcon and the Winter American?  Episode 2 made up for the lack of any interaction or conversation between Bucky (YOU CAN'T CALL HIM BUCK!) and Sam.  I was pretty certain when Bucky was confronting Sam in the therapist's makeshift office (she was more tolerable this episode) that he would use the lines I suggested last week:  "Steve believed in you.  Why don't you believe in yourself?" He might use those lines yet. Or maybe it will be on Rhodie that speaks those lines. Or one of Sam's nephews.  Will we see them again?

Also, I absolutely have no interest in the Flag Smashers.  Sam's right. Really bad bad guy name. I do hope we have more Isaiah episodes.  More Isaiah, less NuCaptain.  Clearly that guy is not going to be Captain America for long. But according to the Internet, his sidekick Battlestar, our new friend Isaiah, and his grandson Elijah are part of the future MCU and the Avengers.  

The problem with my not having read the comics, and fast-forwarding through violent parts of unpleasantness, is that when I hear Bucky mention Zemo at the end of episode 2, I'm like, "The guy that framed you in Captain America: Civil War? That guy?"

That's all I can think of for now. I'll post again soon with another update.

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