Turn the car around
Nov. 1st, 2008 08:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Almost done.
I left the practice in California at 5:45pm yesterday (although yesterday feels a whole hell of a lot like an earlier part of today) and took the red eye overnight to JFK, where I am still sitting, typing, waiting for the plane to a city about an hour's drive from home.
Can I just skip this next part and be there already? Traveling is fun, but selling yourself for two weeks in the hopes that one of these efforts will yield a job after graduation. That gets old.
In my field, it's pretty routine to do an internship for your first year out in the real world. This position pays peanuts (seriously, well under the poverty line), but hopefully also provides the mentoring you need to get a good job your second year out. You're basically an indentured servant. The trick is to be indentured somewhere good.
To that end, you go around visiting practices during the first half of your senior year. Most places want to see you there for ~2weeks so they can get to know you (and you get to know them). It's like a prolonged interview that you initiate and pay for.
I think I would be happy to do my time at either practice I just visited, the one in California or the one in Colorado. I've been to both twice, in different seasons, and I still like them. The doctors are wonderful, they practice great medicine, and they have excellent support. One is bigger and more competitive than the other. They both have pros and cons.
I just hope one of them decides they like me too.
~
In other news, I had another thought about 4x07 and the fact that I'm not nearly as good a Dean-girl as I thought I was.
It never occurred to me, until this episode, that God or Castiel or whatever, had brought Dean back from Hell for any reason other than his relationship with/possible influence over Sam. Not once. I guess his years of self-deprecation had completely convinced me that Sam and Sam's gift was what made Dean worth saving. The idea that he was brought back in his own right, for his own purpose, is kind of thrilling.
I think, maybe, that was Kripke's point in building the story arc this way. And once again, he did it so masterfully, I didn't realize I was playing right into his hands until it was done.
I can't wait to see how Sam and Dean's purposes cross and intertwine, and who is playing them how. I still love the idea that Sam was meant to be the sacrifice/body for Lucifer, when Lilith manages to raise him, and I had always assumed that the angels wanted Dean to protect Sam from that eventual end. And maybe they still do. But maybe they have something else in mind for him. thoughts?
Speaking of Lucifer, lightbringer, I kinda hope we get another view of him, a more sympathetic one-- as in Sin City-- to complicate matters of good and evil. Just saying.
Oh! and then there's the matter of the seals. I don't quite understand how they work, I mean, they were described as keys, but are they really more like prerequisites to raising the demon? Like; you can't free Lucifer until these other 66 things are done? Because it also seems to me that while Lilith has been portrayed as the mastermind behind this whole thing, she really had nothing to do with opening this most recent seal. Or did she?
I left the practice in California at 5:45pm yesterday (although yesterday feels a whole hell of a lot like an earlier part of today) and took the red eye overnight to JFK, where I am still sitting, typing, waiting for the plane to a city about an hour's drive from home.
Can I just skip this next part and be there already? Traveling is fun, but selling yourself for two weeks in the hopes that one of these efforts will yield a job after graduation. That gets old.
In my field, it's pretty routine to do an internship for your first year out in the real world. This position pays peanuts (seriously, well under the poverty line), but hopefully also provides the mentoring you need to get a good job your second year out. You're basically an indentured servant. The trick is to be indentured somewhere good.
To that end, you go around visiting practices during the first half of your senior year. Most places want to see you there for ~2weeks so they can get to know you (and you get to know them). It's like a prolonged interview that you initiate and pay for.
I think I would be happy to do my time at either practice I just visited, the one in California or the one in Colorado. I've been to both twice, in different seasons, and I still like them. The doctors are wonderful, they practice great medicine, and they have excellent support. One is bigger and more competitive than the other. They both have pros and cons.
I just hope one of them decides they like me too.
~
In other news, I had another thought about 4x07 and the fact that I'm not nearly as good a Dean-girl as I thought I was.
It never occurred to me, until this episode, that God or Castiel or whatever, had brought Dean back from Hell for any reason other than his relationship with/possible influence over Sam. Not once. I guess his years of self-deprecation had completely convinced me that Sam and Sam's gift was what made Dean worth saving. The idea that he was brought back in his own right, for his own purpose, is kind of thrilling.
I think, maybe, that was Kripke's point in building the story arc this way. And once again, he did it so masterfully, I didn't realize I was playing right into his hands until it was done.
I can't wait to see how Sam and Dean's purposes cross and intertwine, and who is playing them how. I still love the idea that Sam was meant to be the sacrifice/body for Lucifer, when Lilith manages to raise him, and I had always assumed that the angels wanted Dean to protect Sam from that eventual end. And maybe they still do. But maybe they have something else in mind for him. thoughts?
Speaking of Lucifer, lightbringer, I kinda hope we get another view of him, a more sympathetic one-- as in Sin City-- to complicate matters of good and evil. Just saying.
Oh! and then there's the matter of the seals. I don't quite understand how they work, I mean, they were described as keys, but are they really more like prerequisites to raising the demon? Like; you can't free Lucifer until these other 66 things are done? Because it also seems to me that while Lilith has been portrayed as the mastermind behind this whole thing, she really had nothing to do with opening this most recent seal. Or did she?
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Date: 2008-11-01 09:31 pm (UTC)They'd be crazy not to! *crosses everything for you*
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Date: 2008-11-17 11:29 am (UTC)