I've been home sick for three days now, which is a drag because I hate being sick and still live in the minimum-wage fear of being fired despite the fact that I have a great job where I am treated well and valued as an employee.
This is a new thing for me, and it occasionally manifests itself in utter terror and confusion. "Wait, I can be home sick and not lose my job? You mean the interim chair of the English department at SUNY Cobleskill won't intimidate my students by telling them I'm a bad teacher* and then try to take away my unemployment benefits when they fire me just shy of the point in my employment where they would be forced to hire me on a permanent basis, thus having to pay me a living wage? What magical land of employment is this?"
So in being unable to get off the couch due to weakness brought on by being able to stomach little more than saltines and ginger ale, I've fallen back in love with Hulu (that, and watching my cats wrestle). Ian and I have arranged our Netflix queue so that we always have something we both want to watch (we like sharing), so since I was home all alone, I could finally catch up on trash TV, like Law and Order: SVU (which was awful before Stabler left and is worse now) and Commander in Chief (which isn't great, but Geena Davis is beautiful and my hero and I would elect her President without second thought). Hell, I could have watched Trigun if I wanted to, but Trigun always depresses me a bit, because it should be good and it just isn't.
Here's the thing about Hulu. There are ads. This is fine, I always mute advertising, but I noticed that they're usually ads for expensive things, like $200 phones or a Lexus. I am watching free TV on an 8-year old laptop . . . are free TV watchers really the kind of people you. people at Lexus, think will buy a car that costs more to lease than they make in an entire year? They can't even afford cable! It just seems like taunting to me.
*I have had exactly one student in six years say I was a bad teacher. Probably because he failed the class. Also, I have a chili pepper next to my name on ratemyprofessor.com, which means I'm H-O-T. This means more to me than a stack of good reports, because I am vain.
This is a new thing for me, and it occasionally manifests itself in utter terror and confusion. "Wait, I can be home sick and not lose my job? You mean the interim chair of the English department at SUNY Cobleskill won't intimidate my students by telling them I'm a bad teacher* and then try to take away my unemployment benefits when they fire me just shy of the point in my employment where they would be forced to hire me on a permanent basis, thus having to pay me a living wage? What magical land of employment is this?"
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Here's the thing about Hulu. There are ads. This is fine, I always mute advertising, but I noticed that they're usually ads for expensive things, like $200 phones or a Lexus. I am watching free TV on an 8-year old laptop . . . are free TV watchers really the kind of people you. people at Lexus, think will buy a car that costs more to lease than they make in an entire year? They can't even afford cable! It just seems like taunting to me.
*I have had exactly one student in six years say I was a bad teacher. Probably because he failed the class. Also, I have a chili pepper next to my name on ratemyprofessor.com, which means I'm H-O-T. This means more to me than a stack of good reports, because I am vain.
Trigun really wasn't good. I must recommend it to Eeon.
ReplyDeleteYou are very, very funny. And It SHOULD have been good, but it just didn't know what it wanted to be. Silly? Serious? Which is it?
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