My work day, part two
Mar. 25th, 2003 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterWell, just got done watching the episode of 24 that will be broadcast in a few hours. Coming as it did after the closing events of the prior episode, it seems a little anticlimactic, but that's only to be expected. However, the writers are doing a good job of keeping the pacing up. As with any episode of 24, I advise not missing it.
Work events were decent today. After coming back from the lunch, I received a pleasant surprise in that I learned that one of the aforementioned trio of black girls—the most unpleasant and sullen one—was "no longer with the company." The instructor said that it was because of her habit of incessantly sleeping in class, that she'd been counselled twice for it. I was pleasantly surprised when the other two black girls came forward and mentioned that she had lately been trying to stir them up against the instructor, claiming they were being mistreated because they were the only black girls in the class, and even hinting about the possibility of legal action—but to their credit, the girls didn't agree with her; they knew that he'd been getting onto them because of their behavior instead of their color. I guess I should take back most of what I said about those two; without the dismissed one egging them on, they seem to be quite decent.
I have to wonder if there's not a certain sense of overweening entitlement present in some people like that...the feeling that, because their people were (and still are) legitimately victims of persecution, any time someone gets down on them personally for anything wrong they're doing it's not anything to do with their behavior—it's more "persecution." Major kudos to those other two girls for proving that it's not anywhere near universal.
In case people haven't heard, it's been confirmed—Spirited Away is getting a wider rerelease, starting this Friday. The figure of 800 screens (5 1/3 times its peak of 151 in its earlier run) has been bandied about, but that's vanished from this version of the page so I don't know whether they're keeping that number, raising it, or lowering it. I sure hope it plays here longer than it did before. I'd like the chance to see it theatrically.
Work events were decent today. After coming back from the lunch, I received a pleasant surprise in that I learned that one of the aforementioned trio of black girls—the most unpleasant and sullen one—was "no longer with the company." The instructor said that it was because of her habit of incessantly sleeping in class, that she'd been counselled twice for it. I was pleasantly surprised when the other two black girls came forward and mentioned that she had lately been trying to stir them up against the instructor, claiming they were being mistreated because they were the only black girls in the class, and even hinting about the possibility of legal action—but to their credit, the girls didn't agree with her; they knew that he'd been getting onto them because of their behavior instead of their color. I guess I should take back most of what I said about those two; without the dismissed one egging them on, they seem to be quite decent.
I have to wonder if there's not a certain sense of overweening entitlement present in some people like that...the feeling that, because their people were (and still are) legitimately victims of persecution, any time someone gets down on them personally for anything wrong they're doing it's not anything to do with their behavior—it's more "persecution." Major kudos to those other two girls for proving that it's not anywhere near universal.
In case people haven't heard, it's been confirmed—Spirited Away is getting a wider rerelease, starting this Friday. The figure of 800 screens (5 1/3 times its peak of 151 in its earlier run) has been bandied about, but that's vanished from this version of the page so I don't know whether they're keeping that number, raising it, or lowering it. I sure hope it plays here longer than it did before. I'd like the chance to see it theatrically.
