beccatoria | RL: the No Good, Horrible, Very Bad Day, and BSG: The Awesome, Wonderful, Very Good Vid.

So, I have been having a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. No day when you wake up to discover you have no water because your pipes have frozen is going to be a good day. It is usually only made worse when you get yelled at aggressively by a random person on the street (near as I can tell for...not being Korean or something), made to teach an extra class forty minutes after my finishing time, having to handle children who think it's hilarious to draw in PERMANENT MARKER on the white board, discovering that 60% of the teaching staff of your school are leaving AT THE SAME TIME IN SEVEN WEEKS meaning that the school who are already serially late paying me (and worse about paying the Korean teachers) because rumour has it the bad economy is tanking it, will have to pay out about three times as much as usual in severance pay AND I'll probably get an insane workload all through March if I get paid at ALL, coming home to discover the pipes have frozen AGAIN because if the workman told us to leave a tap running, we didn't understand him and no one at the school thought to relay this piece of common wisdom to us until ten minutes before we left, having the workman show up to fix it AGAIN only to have him stand up in my husband's face, yelling his head off (presumably for being stupid and not leaving the tap on) even when it was obvious that a) Kev had no idea what he was saying, and b) he was scared. As people are wont to be when other people walk into their homes and yell at them in a language they don't understand. Oh, also, all the stress and then craziness at work meant I accidentally went for almost twenty-four hours with having anything to eat or drink. NO WONDER I HAVE A HEADACHE.

On the more positive side, I came home to this:

We Didn't Start the Fire by

chaila43

It's an AWESOME vid. Go watch it. (Warning: it has historical spoilers! But only up to 1990.)

It's an epic cycle-of-time, everything-that's-happened-in-the-show vid. To Billy Joel. It's wonderful. I can't really parse why it works so well, but I'll try. The vidder categorises it as "crack (sort of)" which I think is along the lines of what I call "deadly serious crack".

Sometimes ideas are crazy but work if you commit to them. I think the reason this vid works despite a song choice many would assume could only work for comedy (although there are some hilarious moments. Srsly. Laura Roslin is Elvis. WHO KNEW), is that it underscores the absurdity of, well, everything.

And absurdity is just as good for poignancy as humour.

And yes, I do believe that BSG is absurd. In the philosophical sense that they all live in a world where things just happen and therefore things are meaningless. Which might sound entirely contradictory considering my deep affection for the cycle of time, both in the show and this vid, but I don't think it's contradictory at all. What's more meaningless, arbitrary and absurd than being trapped in a giant cycle of events? Just because it's happened before doesn't empower it with a special gravity of meaning. It doesn't mean it'll count for something extra special later.

Oh. Yay! I think I just found my zen if they decide to do anything truly insane or disappointing in the last half of S4! Also. Again, this will help me handle any and everything to do with Bill Adama.

And now I am finished.