Gahhh more tears. Dang that Emergency Vets show. It's so heartbreaking, but I can't pull myself away. It's such a great show, but still so very evil. I can already cry all by myself WITHOUT watching something incredibly sad; I don't need even MORE encouragement. Blah. I saw that German Shepherd saying his final goodbyes to his family, trying to stand up on the back legs that no longer worked because of spine deterioration from a disease he had. Gawsh it was horrible. His legs were practically stiff and dead, and he whined as if he knew what was to come. And then everyone else cried at the same I was. *sigh* I wish animals lived forever. What sucks about loving animals as much as I do is the fact that they're gonna die way before me. I'd have to go through so many motions of attachments and losses, and yet, I can't picture myself never having a pet. I guess they're always worth the risk.
Well, wish me luck or say a prayer or whatever. Though I have no experience in the specific position they're hiring for, I'm hoping that my general 5+ years of retail experience will still be enough to get Walgreens' attention so that maybe they'll be willing to train me in that area (human resources, I believe) I'm trying to be positive about it, though my negativity (or realism as I like to call it), is still trying to pierce through. Anyway, it's a full-time position that pays about 4 dollars more than what I make, though I'd be willing to even settle for a mesely buck more if it means I'd definitely get in there. And heck, maybe that desire might just win me over to them....that I'm willing to do their job for 3 dollars less than what they're asking, and them training me is a small price to pay to get that done. Oh of course more money would be better, but at this rate, I'll take ANYTHING over my current job, just as long as it's offering equal or more pay, even it's more by 50 cents. The work week would consist of four nights a week (Monday through Thursday), each with 10 hour shifts, and I'd have Friday, Saturday, and Sunday off. That'd be good enough for me. I definitely wouldn't mind working 10 hour shifts in exchange for guaranteed weekends. Bring it on. A bit too good to be true, but alas...it's true. It's just a matter of how flexible they'll be on their "demands" of previous experience. I won't get my hopes up, but I'm trying not to kill them off either. It would be nice to be away from my very evil job.
Anyway, I went to see "Narnia" last night. Beware of probable spoilers. A wonderfully spiffy movie. It was just a whee bit slow to start, but I won't dwell on that, cuz this seems to be a movie that needs to build its story, and shouldn't just rush into things without people having an adequate understanding of what's going on. I guess I was looking too much forward to those griffins and that unicorn heh. So many fantasy creatures. It made me want to see "Legend" or "The Neverending Story" or "Labrynth." It was really cute. The technology today has improved drastically. Aslan (the lion) looked as real as can be. Oh of course, the "animal expert" in me still knows better, and can still tell when real animals aren't being used, as was the case with him, but still, it was a dang good job anyway. He made the animated lion in Jumanji look pretty sad if you ask me. I'm glad they at least had SOME footage of real animals, like the pack of wolves running through the forest. They almost looked like huskies, but I could be wrong. Wolves and Huskies look so close to each other anyway.
And of course, I very much appreciated the spirituality of the movie. The Lion being symbolic of Christ the King, symbolic all the way down to his death sacrifice to save another. Heck, even the act of "shaming" the lion by chopping off his mane before killing him was much like what the soldiers did to Jesus to shame him--stripping him down naked to be clothed in fake "king robes" and beating him bloody--before crucifying him. Putting a big and powerful King to shame, and the King doing nothing to stop it when everyone knows he has the power, simply because of his immense love for even the proven guilty. It was really rather moving, and might have made me cry if I thought about it enough. But I wasn't in the mood to cry just then. Then of course the resurrection, followed by the "breathing" that he did to bring creatures back to life who were recently "dead" by the White Queen's magics, much like Jesus blowing on people to heal them, or breathing out the Holy Spirit to empower them.
The witch as some sort of Satan figure...that was clever too. She was manipulative as Satan is, portraying herself as some sort of angel of light (at least at first) offering these wonderful temptations in exchange for being hailed as queen or worshipped or whatever. And her minions being wolves? Nice touch. That whole wolves in sheeps clothing thing. Not that these wolves had sheeps clothing, but you know what I mean. They're the bad wolves without the clothing. But it was especially clever because they talked, and did their own taunting, tempting, and badgering as demons typically do to a human conscience. Edmund the brother was like Judas, the one who betrayed Christ and started the process that lead to his death. Edmund betrayed his siblings, in this case, but the act still lead to the death of Aslan, who forgave him and offered himself in his place, knowing that he'd be risen again. Edmund betrayed for junk food, and Judas betrayed for silver. The betrayed for "goodies." Ahh I love it. Then there's the kids being sons/daughters of the original humans Adam and Eve. It was rather clever and imaginative. A very interesting way of sending a message.
I especially liked that Phoenix bird that bursted from the arrow. That was awesome. Too bad we didn't get to see more of that beautiful red and black bird. I was sitting there in quiet glee watching that thing. First it was the awesome Griffins, and then that Phoenix. Made me even more anxious for X3, if they put a Phoenix in there anyway. And all the other fantasy creatures (Minotaurs, Centaurs, Griffins, Unicorns, Giants, etc) were just cool. I was all excited to see all those different existent animals too, no matter how computer generated they were. I was like, "Ooh Cheetahs! Ah leopards! OH polar bears!" The only unrealistic creature was that rhino. He looked crappy, but it was forgiveable cuz his little action scene wasn't that long, so I didn't focus on the fact that he had computer written all over him.
Well anyway, that's enough Narnia talk. It was a very cool movie. Pirates of the Caribbean 2 looks awesome. But that's still a very long way away. I'm getting anxious now for King Kong. Two more days (if I see it on Wednesday that is).
By the way, thankfully, my Fantastic 4 DVD has the ending I remember. However, it doesn't have the planetarium scene, and instead has some kind of boring bridge scene with the same dialogue. The Planetarium scene is now in the deleted scenes menu. Dunno WHAT their reasoning behind that one was. *shakes head* But alas, it's okay.
Anyway, that's it I guess. Ta-ta.
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