Reflections: A Book

9 - Commuting News is for The Birds

Tell us about some of your commuting experiences to work. Is it enjoyable or horrific? If you work from home, what is it like not to commute? How did you turn your home into a work environment?

Funny you should ask this today since my first day at a new job 45 minutes down a busy highway. *sigh* I'm excited but wary all at the same time.....Wary because the past 30 days of unemployment have allowed me to set my own schedule and for the 3 months prior to that I was allowed to work from home 4 days out the week; which was fabulous from a layabout and not waste valuable resources (like gas and daily shower water) standpoint, but deplorable from the social vs. hermit standpoint; one guess which I lean towards.

Pray for me please, the next week or so will be quite the adjustment.

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What's the worst movie you've ever seen?

Hitchcock's The Birds.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056869/
Unbreakable was gawd-awful too, but The Birds popped in my head before I even finished reading the prompt.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217869/
I'll never forget my older cousin and I (who just found out she's preggers after YEARS of trying! SO HAPPY for her!!!!!) staying up LATE one night watching that silly movie. I was still a minor, maybe 9th/10th grade? So perhaps I'd appreciate it more now, but dang I remember being SO disappointed with how it ended. It was hilarious though!

I dunno, haven't seen a ton of Hitchcock but I know several of them are still terrifying even today, so I think it took me by surprise when this one was just laughable, literally. 6/10 in my book.

I just remember Unbreakable as being boring and too slow for an action hero/comic-book flick. I always expect more from Willis and Jackson (they're amazing in Die Hard 2!, though I hadn't even seen that yet). They are two of a rare group that never get old for me, no matter how often they play the same type of character.
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The Sunday News!
Prompt for March 9, 2014
Provide your thoughts/opinions on a newspaper/magazine article or a radio/television news story from the past week. And if you feel inclined, let loose and blog about your week. Also, feel free to comment on your favorite blog entries from your fellow challengers from the preceding week, though this is not required.

Again, I'm clueless and my radio crew was on spring break vaca this week sooooo *random MSN search*
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/week-in-pictures/week-pictures-feb-27-march-6-n...
I LOVE MSN's Week in Pictures, always have since I first stumbled upon it around a decade ago. Not a fan of the new layout (it used to be a hi-res pop up), it is more streamlined though so pros n cons....

It was hard, but between images 5, 11, 12 and 13 I chose 13- mud wrestling, the animalistic quality of the subjects is stimulating. 5 isn't as stimulating, 12 only has one subject, 11 is too obvious.

The most interesting images for me were:

5
Australian journalist Peter Greste, third right, of Al-Jazeera and his colleagues stand inside the defendants cage during their trial for allegedly supporting the Muslim Brotherhood at Cairo's Tora prison, on March 5. The high-profile case has sparked a global outcry and is seen as a test of the military-installed government's tolerance of independent media, with activists fearing a return to autocracy three years after the Arab Spring uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

6 The Valentine Murderer!
Oscar Pistorius leaves court during a lunch break on the third day of his murder trial in Pretoria, South Africa on March 5. Pistorius is standing trial for the premeditated murder of his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, in February 2013.

7's nice and artistic, worth mentioning.

8
People walk along a street heading to Kiev's Independence Square, Ukraine on March 4, the same day that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited the city.

11 This is especially gorgeous and interesting since I'm going to my lil cousins ball this month, my first ever; oddly enough, we don't do this in the South (least not in my neck of the GA woods), where I would expect such outdated ceremonies to take place....
Debutants dance during the opening ceremony of the Vienna Opera Ball at the State Opera in Vienna, Austria on Feb. 27.

12 The perceptively odd ones are my favorite!
A man covers his face in oil and soot as he gets ready to participate in a carnival festival in the small village of Luzon, Spain on March 1.

13 Makes sense to me, didn't know mud wrestling was still seriously considered as such a big sport. I personally rank it as the male equivalent of somewhere around the ball park of a wet t-shirt contest....or jello/oil wrestling.
Wrestlers practice as others rest in the mud at the Akharra traditional Indian wrestling center in Mumbai on March 4. Kushti (mud wrestling) is a traditional sport in India, but more and more young athletes are now training to wrestle on mats instead of mud to gain access to top international competitions like the Olympics or the Commonwealth Games.

14 This pic doesn't thrill in comparison, but the description gripped me.
Palestinians look at the body of Palestinian Mousab Al-Zaanin through the window of a hospital morgue in northern Gaza on March 3. An Israeli air strike on Monday killed the Palestinian militant in the Gaza Strip, who Israel's military said had been preparing to launch a rocket across the border. Palestinian sources said the 24-year-old militant was killed, but it was unclear which group he was affiliated with.

Out of the two top voted pics from the previous two weeks, it's no surprise they both involve babies, but the 2nd struck me the hardest:

A boy holds his baby sister who was saved from under rubble, after what activists say was an airstrike by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Masaken Hanano in Aleppo on Feb. 14.

Once again, I flipping hate war....sure Americans may not have caused this one but we never see the harm our people do innocents also....
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