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Aug. 19th, 2016 06:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotPaid off the last $2500 of my student loan! I will have to write my next rent check out of my old TD Bank just-in-case account, but it feels very good. And think of how much I will save now that I'm not paying 6.8% interest. Think of it. Instead of my sad three-digit bank account. #worthit
Welp, blog post on the Chrisman-Butchart Gardens scandal posted. I think it manages to express my regret without coming across as sanctimonious or prissy. It's actually a little more neutral than I intended, but it's hard to get across how bad I think trying to tank a business's online reviews is without being snarly, and I really don't want to make a big thing on my blog about the matter - I just want to make it clear to anyone who thought I was on that side that I'm not, and to kind of detach.
I'm more than 2/3 of the way through Star Wars: Aftermath: Life Debt and it feels really good! I've had a hard time finishing books over the past year or so, and then I tried to read the TFA novelization and couldn't get into it, so it's nice to know that I can still enjoy modern novels and Star Wars fiction. This does not have any of the entertaining wackiness of the old EU books (there are no telepathic space raptors to deal with immediately after RotJ anymore, and Han and Leia are already married and Ben is conceived, so there will never be a Hapan delegation forcing Leia to enact Shrek II In Space) and the writing can occasionally be a bit shaky, but I enjoy all the new characters. Especially Bones, who is a battle droid programmed to try to be people.
Welp, blog post on the Chrisman-Butchart Gardens scandal posted. I think it manages to express my regret without coming across as sanctimonious or prissy. It's actually a little more neutral than I intended, but it's hard to get across how bad I think trying to tank a business's online reviews is without being snarly, and I really don't want to make a big thing on my blog about the matter - I just want to make it clear to anyone who thought I was on that side that I'm not, and to kind of detach.
I'm more than 2/3 of the way through Star Wars: Aftermath: Life Debt and it feels really good! I've had a hard time finishing books over the past year or so, and then I tried to read the TFA novelization and couldn't get into it, so it's nice to know that I can still enjoy modern novels and Star Wars fiction. This does not have any of the entertaining wackiness of the old EU books (there are no telepathic space raptors to deal with immediately after RotJ anymore, and Han and Leia are already married and Ben is conceived, so there will never be a Hapan delegation forcing Leia to enact Shrek II In Space) and the writing can occasionally be a bit shaky, but I enjoy all the new characters. Especially Bones, who is a battle droid programmed to try to be people.
