I can has JOB.

I have a job, I have a job, I have a job! :D It's a high school counseling position in a small town about an hour and a half from here. The people are very nice, and I'm majorly looking forward to the whole thing.

Well, except the apartment shopping and moving. But! I can has job!

EDIT: Aaaaaaand I lost my debit card. Ah, well, it was about to expire anyway, so it's no great loss. I would have had to call and get a new one either way. But still, slightly grumpy Amber.

Thank you all for the well wishes! :D

1408 and stuff about Stephen King and God.

I went to see 1408 this afternoon, and enjoyed it. It is not the greatest horror movie ever, but let's face it...you've got essentially an hour of a guy in a hotel room, for the most part by himself. It's not an easy set up! But they did a respectable job with it.

It does remind me, however, of something I have noticed about the God of Stephen King's stories. The SK God is definitely old testament; he believes in the power of sacrifice, and he wants blood in tribute, and nothing less. It's not that he's not a benevolent figure...in a way he is. The White works for the good, and that's indisputable. But it's a bloody good, and that's what makes it horror. You cannot stop the darkness without losing your life. It's only when you're willing to go forth, and bleed, and hurt, and die, that God can intervene on behalf of the world; or that's the only time that he /will/ intervene. Other benevolent figures, though they may love and watch humanity, such as the Turtle, do not ask sacrifice, and therefore are powerless to actually step in and do something about what they see.

Power comes from blood, freely given or forcibly taken. It can perhaps be argued in the cosmology that blood freely given is by far the stronger, but it's also comparatively rare, so the Bad Things in The Night have supremacy over most situations, and it's only when someone is willing to truly, honestly, walk into the mouth of the beast and let it choke on them that Good is able to win.

It's the kind of feeling that I want to invoke in RPGs, really, but it's harder there.

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This is...not /quite/ Harper Oreton of Ista Weyr, but it's close. The expression certainly gets it...actually, pretty much everything except his skin should be darker, and he should have some premature grey.