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I had a very weird experience today. I wrote down my name, and I couldn't believe that this was my name!
It looked utterly strange and unfamiliar, as if it belonged to someone else.
Am I really the person with that name? What do people think when they meet me and hear my name?
A name is something so personal, and somehow it always says something about the person it belongs to. We are already prejudiced when we meet someone wiht a name we have heard before: we compare them to the other person we know with the same name, at least subconsciously.
My real name isn't very common, and I often meet people who don't know the name at all. I wonder what they think about me, judging me purely by my name. I wonder if my life had been different if I had had another name.
And why - all of a sudden - does my name feel strange to me? It's like I know that it is my name, but it still feels like it belongs to another person.
It's official, I'm losing my mind.
Yes, me and my mind watched more Buffy, right before I lost it. We watched "Witch", the third episode of the first season. Better than the first two, but still no reason to keep me watching. The plot is more interesting, and I especially like that it is set in their daily school and home life. I always enjoyed that we knew so much about the daily lives of the Buffy characters, unlike Stargate, where fandom still hasn't come up with a better way for Jack and Daniel to spend their evenings than pizza and hockey. These boys really need to get a life. :-)
I always disliked Amy. She is scary, and i don't trust her at all. From the first moment I saw her, with her little "Had too" when Willow asked her if she lost weight, I knew that she was bad news. And I don't really care that this was really her mom, Amy is bad, period.
Willow and Xander are great together. One thing I hadn't noticed before is that Xander tells Willow that she is like a guy. I wonder if that should prepare us for her becoming a lesbian. In no way do I mean to say that lesbians are like guys, but I know many guys who - when meeting a lesbian - say that she is a "half-woman" or "very male for a woman". And since Xander is a guy, and he said that...
I still love Cordelia, and I adore Giles. Isn't he sexy when he does his little magic trick at the end? Okay, witchcraft, magic, whatever. He is sexy in a very geeky, tweed-y way. *g*
I hate Buffy's hair. She looked cute back then, but her hair is more suitable for a thirty year old who got stuck in the eighties. I like her better as a character in the later seasons, when she is calmer, more reflective. But season 1 Buffy, while I don't really like to watch her, is convincing in her own way. She does not yet feel familiar in her new school with her new friends, and her jumpiness is a way to compensate for her insecurities.
Love the Buffy/Joyce scenes. "Witch" is also the origin of the term slayerettes, for those who forgot or didn't know.
Not a bad episode.
It looked utterly strange and unfamiliar, as if it belonged to someone else.
Am I really the person with that name? What do people think when they meet me and hear my name?
A name is something so personal, and somehow it always says something about the person it belongs to. We are already prejudiced when we meet someone wiht a name we have heard before: we compare them to the other person we know with the same name, at least subconsciously.
My real name isn't very common, and I often meet people who don't know the name at all. I wonder what they think about me, judging me purely by my name. I wonder if my life had been different if I had had another name.
And why - all of a sudden - does my name feel strange to me? It's like I know that it is my name, but it still feels like it belongs to another person.
It's official, I'm losing my mind.
Yes, me and my mind watched more Buffy, right before I lost it. We watched "Witch", the third episode of the first season. Better than the first two, but still no reason to keep me watching. The plot is more interesting, and I especially like that it is set in their daily school and home life. I always enjoyed that we knew so much about the daily lives of the Buffy characters, unlike Stargate, where fandom still hasn't come up with a better way for Jack and Daniel to spend their evenings than pizza and hockey. These boys really need to get a life. :-)
I always disliked Amy. She is scary, and i don't trust her at all. From the first moment I saw her, with her little "Had too" when Willow asked her if she lost weight, I knew that she was bad news. And I don't really care that this was really her mom, Amy is bad, period.
Willow and Xander are great together. One thing I hadn't noticed before is that Xander tells Willow that she is like a guy. I wonder if that should prepare us for her becoming a lesbian. In no way do I mean to say that lesbians are like guys, but I know many guys who - when meeting a lesbian - say that she is a "half-woman" or "very male for a woman". And since Xander is a guy, and he said that...
I still love Cordelia, and I adore Giles. Isn't he sexy when he does his little magic trick at the end? Okay, witchcraft, magic, whatever. He is sexy in a very geeky, tweed-y way. *g*
I hate Buffy's hair. She looked cute back then, but her hair is more suitable for a thirty year old who got stuck in the eighties. I like her better as a character in the later seasons, when she is calmer, more reflective. But season 1 Buffy, while I don't really like to watch her, is convincing in her own way. She does not yet feel familiar in her new school with her new friends, and her jumpiness is a way to compensate for her insecurities.
Love the Buffy/Joyce scenes. "Witch" is also the origin of the term slayerettes, for those who forgot or didn't know.
Not a bad episode.
