bitterdiva

I'll take badass female literary characters

There was a time, not too long ago – probably before I left for Ireland, that I would walk by the bookshelf in the dining room and belt out, “Polgara the Polgarian,” deliberately mocking the books Kris wanted me to read. For some reason before I became familiar with the Belgariad, I couldn’t for the life of me remember Polgara the Sorceress.

Now I’m on the book Polgara the Sorceress and I have to say, she’s probably my favorite female literary character. She is the best exemplification of a woman, she has wisdom, beauty, magic, and is an almighty bitch. Even her father realizes that her word when dealing with humans is the best, even when he doesn’t appreciate being put into his place.

On another note, my sister was laid off from her job. Apparently they had some uber watchdog in their office two weeks ago supervising their daily activities. She had said that it went fairly well and the guy was rather impressed by their organization’s human rights efforts. Just a couple weeks ago they had Angelina Jolie for an online chat discussing her work with Cambodian refugees.

Yesterday it seemed like a septic tank hit the industrial fan and wreaked havoc for the small department. Everyone was gone, disbanded, left hoping that a severance package might be in the works. This morning they came back to finish cleaning out their place and found that they had been locked out of every account, including their computers. The worst thing about XP is that if it’s a network connection, trying to log on to the computer is a great feat than pushing a bull elephant up Mount Everest. Then they removed all the equipment this morning leaving them without any means of communication with the outside world.

01:33 PM

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