Monday . May 27 . 2002 . 2:00pm |
burnout It's the end of the year and I'm burned out. I've been tired before, and fed up before, and I've certainly disliked rotations before this one, but this is the first time this year that I think I've really felt burnt out. Which gets you to start some dangerous questioning. Why am I doing this anyway? Am I even having fun? Will there ever be a payoff to all this work? Does it only get more miserable than this? Sometimes I feel as though I've been going to school for the past 22 years of my life, and I have yet to have anything come of it but a few sheets of official documentation and years and years of squandered youth. I'm almost 24 years old and I probably won't be done with my medical training until I'm 30. Now that, my friends, is depressing. Best not to think about it too much. Star Wars yesterday was...well, it's a movie that you're probably going to see anyway, regardless of what I say. But it was also kind of bad. Better than The Phantom Menace, yes. But that's not saying much. The best part of the movie, as expected, was the Yoda smackdown scene. The worst part of the movie was...well, everything else. Especially odious were the "love story" establishment scenes between future-Darth and Amidala. Not only was the dialogue horrible and stilted, but the line-readings were wooden and the chemistry was nil. It was actually kind of embarrassing in that (deadly silence in reaction to dialogue...single cough from the audience... crickets chirping) way, until people in the theater just started to laugh at anything either of the two said to each other. Then it was just funny. And, I'm sorry to say this, since I like Natalie Portman and all (though, come to think of it, I can't really recall any movie I actually saw her in besides The Phantom Menace--I guess I just think she's purty) but this franchise is pretty much going to ruin her acting career, at least for a while. Luckily, she's getting a college degree, so she'll have something to fall back on. Happy Memorial Day. Go have a weenie roast with your friends. xo Michelle |
