Truth in television? :P

[dreamerinsilico]

Probably not going to be seeing my therapist too much longer (in the good, we probably don’t need to do this anymore and also hopefully me moving way), and I kind of wonder if I could convince her to watch Hannibal by telling her that a lot of our conversations would suddenly become side-splittingly hilarious in retrospect. >_> Because they would. Oh, they would.  (At least, from my point of view.)

Like, just imagining her combination of outrage at how non-therapeutic and otherwise silly some of the "therapy" scenes are combined with

the fact that

literally today we had the most fucking Hannibal conversation about trees as metaphors, complete with me dragging WB Yeats into it.  (And this was not an atypical conversational branch.  Heh heh, branch)

is giving me the giggles as I type.  

Somewhat ironically I've never felt the urge to make a cannibalism joke in her presence, but I have narrowly avoided "Nietzschean fish" and not at all avoided "Any sorrow can be borne, if you put it in a story" or "I don't hide from God."  And I think she'd also retroactively appreciate my amusement when I found out that the show outright quotes one of the books she suggested I read, more than once.  

Anyway, I don't really have a point here except I'm Amused and wanted to share that.  It's a peculiar sensation when you're going "no, self, you can cackle about how this fucking sounds like Hannibal RP later; right now you need to focus on what you're doing with this metaphor rather than laugh about it."

Comments

[pauraque]

I've never watched Hannibal so I don't think I can adequately appreciate that aspect, but I'm glad you're doing well! How come you're moving?

[dreamerinsilico]

Thanks! I've been struggling to figure out where to go next, career-wise, for a while, but it kinda crystallized pretty quickly one night when I was talking to my best friend, who works in the CA Department of Education. There's a lot of open positions there and in other CA government offices that are up my alley, and she's well-known and well-respected in her own branch, so we're both pretty optimistic about my chances of getting something. Nothing's nailed down yet, but if all goes well I may be switching coasts in the next few months!

[pauraque]

Oh wow, that's cool! Would you be moving to the Sacramento area then, or elsewhere?

[dreamerinsilico]

Sacramento!

[pauraque]

Ah, I didn't get up that way very often when I lived in CA (it's like a 90 minute drive from SF) but from what little I saw it seemed nice! I hope it works out well for you. ♥