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Title: Salt Water, Fresh Start
Characters: Lori, Dr. Zhang, Toshi, The Wall, DJ, Suyin,
Genre: mostly friendship
Fandom: The Meg (Movie)
Summary: Lori meets the team for the first time and finds herself drawn to one in particular.
Rating: PG
Pairings: pre-slash Lori/Jaxx (Laxx? Jori? Jari? Loxx?)
Warnings/Spoilers: None -- prequel fic

I don’t own any of these characters, I’ve just seen the movie way more than any sane person would.

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I spelled the way Lori replies to Toshi wrong on purpose to try to express that she isn't getting it right. I don't speak Japanese, so I had to look this stuff up to the best of my ability. If I've messed it up, beyond what I intended, please let me know.

This is what I went off of:

When meeting a respected for the first time in Japan, you may say oai dekite kouei desu. This means “delighted to meet you” and is pronounced oh-aye dic-tish-te ko-ee dis.

https://www.wikihow.com/Say-Nice-to-Meet-You-in-Japanese

Current Mood: creative

In all the hoopla, I never got around to having my bubble bath, which is just ridiculous because I really did want to have one. I supposed I could go ahead and have one now. It’s about to be 11 pm but if I stayed in until midnight I’d have close to an hour in the tub and I’d still be in bed around my usual time. Thing is though, I don’t think I’m going to. As much as I’m annoyed with myself for not taking the opportunity when I had it, I think I would’ve made a point to have the bath had it really been that important to me to have one this weekend. I really thought I was going to want to have one this weekend, but I just ended up not making my way around to it.

Today I thought about it, but my to-do list was pretty long and I decided that I wanted to see “The Meg” again more than I wanted to take a bath I guess. I do enjoy baths a lot. Especially, with bubbles and bath bombs and shower oil, and etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. But I’m just obsessed with “The Meg” for right now. Which is very aggravating because it’s only just come out in the theater. It’ll be months before it comes out on BluRay. Argh.

I’m listening to the first book right now, and so far it’s pretty good. If I had read the book first, I can say that I would probably be livid about the movie. The movie is absolutely nothing like the book. It’s about as close to the book as the “Blood and Chocolate” movie adaptation is to the source material. It’s another one of those scripts where someone read the first couple of chapters and went, “Yes, let’s make a movie! It’s gonna be great.” In the case of “The Meg,” I do feel like they did a little more than read the first chapter or two and the description on the back before they made a movie. The movie is wildly different, but I also see where they had their own answer to scenes that happened in the book.

I still have a couple of hours left to listen to, but as an example, there’s a scene 75% of the way into the book where helicopters crash into one another because they’re distracted by the shark attack and some other stuff. There’s a scene in the movie where helicopters crash, but the set up of the scene--why the helicopters are there, what’s going on below--is different. In the book, a character named Mac is flying one of the helicopters whereas in the movie he’s on the boat below. In the book, Jonas has a wife that’s cheating on him and the relationship is pretty much over and she’s a bitch. In the movie, Jonas has a lovely ex-wife who is cool as shit but things just didn’t work out between them. She also has a different name.

Actually, most of the surrounding characters are either altogether different or have different names. So far my favorite difference (and I’m sure this would infuriate me had I read the book first) is the one between book DJ and movie DJ. In the book, DJ is the son of the Asian guy who is researching all this stuff that leads to the discovery of the megalodon (Zhang in the movie, Tanaka in the book--I think in the movie the guy and his daughter are Chinese (the daughter and granddaughter are played by people from China and he’s played by someone from Tawain) but in the book they’re Japanese (Tanaka is a pretty common Japanese last name I do believe and he calls the main character “Jonas-san”). In the movie, DJ is hired to remotely pilot the rover they’ve made for this exploration who also happens to be black. I like that they have a pretty diverse crew, so I don’t mind at all that they made that change. What I’m thinking about is how important it was that DJ was the head honcho’s son in the book.

DJ dies in one and not in the other though I’m not telling you which for spoiler reasons. Rain Wilson’s character didn’t exist at all. Suyin was younger, childless, and named Terry Tanaka. Jonas was a Navy man who went on diving rescue missions as well as research and other missions in the book, but where movie Jonas gets drunk for five years, book Jonas studies Megalodons for seven and becomes an “expert.” Heller is an asshole in both, but he definitely gets to be likable in the movie where I still hate him in the book so far. I don’t think Jaxx existed. Mac has more history in the book and comes into the project for very different reasons.

It’s interesting that I have a lot more background on a lot of the characters and their relationships to each other in the book, but I still don’t feel as though I’ve connected to them in the way that I connected with them in the movie.

The “science” behind the book sounds something akin to solid, whereas the movie is just total garbage hogwash. Not to mention a shit ton of problematic other plot points that the book has done a better job building.

And yet I know in my heart that I’m going to like the movie better.

Now, look at the wording there.

The book is technically better, but I enjoyed the movie immensely while I’m “not hating” the book. I know it’s sacrilege, or as close to sacrilege as anything ever really is. I do know.

But, the movie has my heart and will likely be the object of my obsession for a while. I’ve accepted this. I’d tell you to wish me luck, but y’all are more likely to need it than me because you all are the ones who have to put up with me.

Current Mood: obsessed

I’m still reeling from Avengers Infinity War. If you’ve seen it, you know. If you haven’t, well I won’t spoil you, but just prepare yourself because it’s a doozy.

I was glad I went with tickets at the Starlight because you buy your actual seat in advance and it’s a recliner so there’s a ton of space and you don’t have to worry about going to the theater 8 hours before the movie starts in order to get a good spot for the viewing.

At the same time, I kind of miss those days of lining up at 8 o’clock at night to sit for three and a half hours waiting to get properly seated for the midnight viewing with every other giant fan dressed up in costume. It was like going to a mini-convention for a night. You were surrounded by nerds, usually including your friends who also shared your passion. It was great! And you left the movie theater and stupid o’clock in the morning because the movie was always something like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings that lasted like three hours and then you’d spend another hour or two talking with all the people who’d just seen what you’d seen, breaking everything down and talking about how you’d be seeing again in the course of the next week or so because it was just that amazing even if you were mad that they didn’t do x, y, and/or z in the movie the way it was in the book/comic etc.

I remember 8 or so years ago when the Avengers first Assembled going to a show in the middle of the night with my friend. We got dinner and then went to wait in line with all the other fans. We watched and then talked after and it was after 4 am by the time I was heading home. Later that weekend I saw it again with another friend. I saw it about four times in the theater all told. It wasn’t perfect, but it was something I loved.

I think that was one of the last times that I went to a midnight showing like that. Not long after, the movie theaters started getting permission to show the big blockbusters like that at more reasonable times--more like 7 pm or 8 pm.

There are still lots of places that don’t have the assigned seating and you have to line up early to get a good seat, but still, you don’t have to do it so outrageously early to see a movie in the middle of the night. And again, that’s not all a bad thing. I don’t have to take the next day off to see the premiere of a movie anymore. And there are still a ton of fans mingling and lingering not to mention that we’re living in the height of online discussions and messaging.

I don’t know, I guess going to see the movie just made me a little nostalgic. Also, because there were small children, including someone who brought a toddler to a three-hour action-packed movie, it didn’t have quite the same atmosphere as it would have if I gone to a midnight showing.

And I’m whining about “the old days” (hah!) when I got to watch Avengers Infinity War in a leather recliner, which is just silly.

Also, for all the death and destruction in Infinity War, there were some incredibly funny and fantastic moments. The special effects were incredible. I wasn’t rooting for Thanos, but he was far more emotionally compelling than I expected.

I would’ve loved it if Shuri had had a little more time to shine. It would’ve been amazing if Okoye and Natasha could’ve had a little more time to talk. Just more lines for Natasha, in general, would’ve been great, but I will say Okoye had one of the best lines in the whole movie. And Wanda! My heart!

I’m still grumpy about Hawkeye not being in it at all, of course, because that’s just who I am.

But really for all I whine about it, it was a good movie. There were a ton of things going on across the Galaxy and they handled it incredibly well considering. That the movie felt fluid and cohesive overall with so many plot lines, characters, interactions, and leaps through time and space, it’s really incredible what they managed to do. I know when I see it again, I’ll find flaws but I think there will also be things I get to appreciate more. I will have to see it again, I think, for all that it’s bound to leave me an emotional wreck all over again.

The last couple of weeks have been so crazy. It’s hard to believe that September is already halfway over. It’s been going by so quickly and at the same time I feel like it’s been months since DragonCon which was literally two weeks ago. How can something that was two weeks ago feel like it was so long ago? Is this what Einstein was referring to when he talked about relativity?

I’m barely awake right now. I’ve had this whole crazy week and barely any sleep and now after 1am. Casey is downloading all the DragonCon pictures she took with her nice camera onto a scan drive for me and we’re waiting on it to complete. While I was waiting, I got to thinking about how I haven’t be writing. I did get a couple of my morning pages done this week but nothing serious.

Okay pass out time.

I’m still so effing tired y’all; worn slam out I am. I did a good bit today. Got my returns to Zulily worked out and off to FedEx. Did a few morning pages. Spent an hour and a half with the branch manager of my local library to help me prep for my interview at the library in Charlotte. I was hoping she’d have five or ten minutes for me, but seriously she spent ages with me which was super, super kind. I definitely want to send her a thank you note or something.

I wish my handwriting was better but it’s unfortunately terrible. I can probably put something reasonable together though if I try really, really hard. My friend Emily has incredible handwriting and I’m always so, so jealous.

Anyway, moving on. What else did I do today? Well, I did some tidying up around my room though I still have a bit more to do. I helped mom kill a black widow spider that was in our mailbox. I sent off the tire warranty thing I’d been meaning to send off for about three months (it was low priority). I activated my refund cards from the medical peoples. I got my old Kindle set up and charged so that I can use it as my official writing reference book. I was thinking how most of the time I get paperback copies of my writing reference books because I want to be able to highlight and study etc. But I can make notes and highlight on a Kindle. But I didn’t want to use the kindle I normally use for reading because I felt like I’d have trouble swimming through my other 3,000 books and documents and that would also be distracting. The Kindle editions are often much cheaper so now that I have a dedicated Kindle to keep at my writing desk, I won’t feel like I have to have the paperback in most cases. I’m sure there will still be exceptions.

I feel like there were other, little tasks I did today but that I’m forgetting them. I did give the dog her heart worm medicine and put the tick and flea repellent on her. She was such a good girl. I need to clean her ears again, but she always hides from me for hours, sometimes a whole day, after I do that to her and she hates it so much. I really hate doing it to her but she’s been shaking her head and scratching her ears a lot lately so I know they’re bothering her. I did a wash Thursday and they seemed to be a lot better today (... yesterday? Friday, whatever that is now) which is good but when I did the wash her ears looked red and aggravated and I doubt one wash is enough. At the same time the wash is only meant to be used a couple of times a week so I don’t want to do back to back days either, just in case. I don’t do it on the regular even though I really, really should. She hates it so much that I get to feeling really bad about it. Not to mention that it’s a monster of a task to do, even if you have two people. She’s a pretty big dog and she fights. Well, she fights to get away; she never barks or growls or snaps or bites or anything like that.

Wynonna Earp was bat shit crazy tonight. I think next week is going to be crazy face. I wish I didn’t have to get through a whole work week in order to get to the next episode, but dems dah breaks.

I really need to sleep. I have breakfast with my sister in the morning.

Current Mood: cheerful

I go back to work tomorrow and I’m feeling like the things I really want to do are write, read, and sleep and it’s like the joke about college where you have good grades, decent a social life, and regular sleep and you can only pick two. If I take the time to read and write, I won’t get a lot of sleep. If I get decent sleep I’m going to have to limit my reading and writing time. The audiobook thing helps a little because I know I’ll be able to listen in the car and with work starting back I’ll be spending plenty of time in the car. I just don’t want all my reading time to be relegated to listening in the car in the work week either. I hate ragging on my job. It’s a good job and one that really has a lot of perks as well as a lot of great coworkers. There are a few people I’d rather not spend time with ever again, but no matter what you do I think that’ll be an issue. Nowhere is perfect.

These six weeks have been so amazing overall. No matter the stress I felt some days or the anxiety and panic attacks I had to deal with - those are things that would’ve been worse had I been working as well as trying to do all those other things. I’m so grateful for the time off I had. When I first found out I wasn’t going to be working this summer I’ll confess that I felt a little insulted that they didn’t have a slot for me this summer and that they chose one of the other girls to work over me but I pretty quickly got very excited about the time off. I knew it would fly by and it really has. I cannot believe how quickly it past. Time does fly when you’re doing lots of stuff and having lots of fun. I wish I could go back and start over. Just like hit the rewind button. Maybe skip back a couple of chapters. But that isn't how life works and I’ll be back at work tomorrow.

It’s not like I don’t have a ton of good stuff to look forward to. The trip to Atlanta for SKO will be fun since Emily and I will get to room together for those few days. It’ll be like having a sleepover for a few days even if we have a shit ton of meetings to go to. Then Juleia is visiting at the end of August, a few days before I head to Atlanta again (I am spending more time in Atlanta this summer than in the last couple of years combined, I’m pretty sure) for DragonCon and the writer’s workshop. It’s going to be so fun. I was worried about where I was going to stay for DragonCon a little bit. I knew that I was good to stay with Casey for the workshop but I didn’t know if she was going to be able to (or want to) put me up for the whole thing and I haven’t talked to the girls I went with last time much at all in the last few months. I’m pretty sure they’re going but I didn't really feel like I had a place with them either. But Casey made it clear she’d totally assumed that I was staying with her for the whole thing. So no matter what now, I know I’ll be okay. It’s such a relief. I’m still nervous as fuck about the trip and the workshop and the crowds and just everything that the Con is, but I’m really excited for it too.

That’s just in the next like five weeks! Anyway, I’m going to try to focus on the perks of my job and the things I have to look forward to instead of the anything else. I need to get back into writing my stories too but I think I’d better get some sleep. I want to finish my book but it’s already 11 and I have to be up around 6am tomorrow. *Le Sigh*

Current Mood: pensive

I’ve been staring at my little phone screen playing games for several hours while listening to my book, which after hours on the computer the last few days and a lack of sleep has left them tired and a little sore. I shouldn't have strained them with that tiny screen and all those tiny Mah Jong tiles, ugh.

I am proud of myself though because I think I made it through all the coursework and I definitely did all five of the necessary work applications for the week and I’ve still had time to read. Goodness, it’s nice being off. I know I only have a few weeks left, I’ll be back to work three Monday’s from now, but I intend to thoroughly enjoy the time off I have left. I’d like to spend time at the pool here and do a lot of reading. I hope to write as well. My brain has been in editing mode for the most part for the last week or so and that makes it hard for me to switch to creation mode writing wise. Since I’ve submitted my story to a bunch of places, I really can’t do anything else with it until it comes back to me I created a spreadsheet so I could keep track of where it was submitted. I'd hate to end up submitting it to the same journal by accident or something else similarly sucky.

I have no idea what will happen with it or what I hear back but I’m sure that it will be good experience regardless. Rejection is part of writing and the earlier I learn that the better.

I don’t understand why, almost a week later, I still hear fireworks going off. I mean this is ridiculous. The puppy is barking up a storm over it and I can't even be mad at her. How is she supposed to know that no one is trying to blow up the neighborhood? Plus I’m sure there are a ton of dogs barking out there… yeah, I think I hear one now… so she’ll definitely have to respond to that. Poor thing. And poor mom because I know she’ll have a hell of a hard time sleeping through that.

Anyway, my plan is to write 4000 new words this week so I’ll definitely need to spend some time focusing on being creative. I’ve got a prompt book that I think I might try and I’m also thinking about picking up where I left off in “The Artist’s Way” since I know there are prompts in there as well. If I remember correctly, she recommended reading the book all the way through before starting on the activities so I may stick with the prompt book for now. It’s got 3 prompts per day for 366 days so there should be plenty there.

I can’t decide if I want to go through the prompts methodically or if I want to jump around and try random things. I’m usually a jump around randomly kind of person but I’m thinking of going through them methodically to push myself. Sometimes I skip prompts because they don’t inspire me or what have you, but I think it could be really good for my creative muscles to at least do some free writing with everything in there, to really work to pull out something even if nothing comes to mind initially. Plus it’s a eBook so it would probably be easier to keep track of what I have and have not done if I went in order. I could jump to locations or pages and highlight the things I’ve done but it’s not like I can physically flip through pages and put my finger on a random prompt.

But not tonight. Tonight I am going to listen to more of my book (I finished one and am now onto the next). I’m really anxious to get to the 6th one. I’m really enjoying the 5th one so far (it may be my favorite so far, though that’s hard to say for sure). I had picked up the sixth one and started reading it and I was loving it but then I realized that there was a ton of stuff I’d missed and if I was going to have any hope of really keeping up with the side plots, giant cast of characters, several different pantheons of gods, all the different countries and territories as well as understand the history of the two characters the book focuses on, I was going to need to read the other ones first. The series has been building these two up for the last like four books so I’m glad that I went back. Not to mention that I’ve enjoyed the books so far. All of them have had huge amounts of plot happening like so I think I would’ve gotten lost if I’d tried to just keep going. I mean I read the first two about four or five years ago so I don’t remember them perfectly but I remembered enough to be able to follow the third one well.

Plus, they’re all so funny anyway. There was no point in not reading them when I’m enjoying them so well. I’m not sure why I didn't continue on reading them after I picked up the first two. Though I think at the time the level of violence and gore was just too much for me, for whatever reason. Granted, there's probably more of a difference between 26 - 27 year old me than 31 year old me than I cognitively recognize because I'm still making a lot of the same dumb mistakes and in a lot of the same spirals, but that’s not something I particularly want to examine right this moment. I’ll probably never want to but it’s probably something I should make myself do at least a little of before I go back to work. But again, not tonight. Tonight I’m going to read.

Current Mood: accomplished

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Salt Water, Fresh Start
Oh Shit, I've Fallen into Obsession and I Can't Get Up
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I need sleep and nap
Still tired but at least I was productive
Work tomorrow and more whining but also a lot to look forward to
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Entries tagged with i am obsessed

Salt Water, Fresh Start

Oh Shit, I've Fallen into Obsession and I Can't Get Up

Nostalgia

I need sleep and nap

Still tired but at least I was productive

Work tomorrow and more whining but also a lot to look forward to

Course completion and a lot less stress