Where I’ve Been

By Amanda – Posted on

Hello friends,

It feels like I’m emerging from a void or the “upside-down” with this blog post. It’s been a very long time since I’ve written here. I have some interesting updates that explain where I’ve been all this time.

My 2018 had a very slow start but has become a life-changing year. I began 2018 focused on applying to jobs and updating this website, all while working a part-time retail job. Finally, 80 job applications later, I got an opportunity to start my career in environmental management with an amazing two-year internship! I got news about my placement in June, and by July I had moved to a new city and started my job.  

I now live in Peterborough, Ontario. It’s a small, growing city with lots of character. Callie made it to Peterborough too, and together we’ve been getting settled in our new home. If anything, she’s adjusted much better than me. I still wake up confused sometimes, unable to tell whether I’m in Vancouver, Ottawa or Peterborough. Funny how it feels like it took forever to get to this point, yet my body still hasn’t adjusted to the new reality. 

My new city is beautiful in a small city way. The neighborhoods are lined with big, old trees, and the houses here have colonial style (think archways, columns, and bedroom attics). I’m still adjusting to all my new routines, but I’ve been loving going to work. It’s rewarding to be able to use the knowledge and skills that I’ve spent so long developing. All I wanted while working retail was to be intellectually challenged. I won’t take that for granted now.  

Well, that’s my update. Now that things have settled down, I hope to write here more frequently. Stay tuned for more updates on “Callie and Amanda’s Grand Adventure” haha. 

I hope you’ve all been well too! 

Amanda

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    they cast doubt on Lady Gaga’s ‘thin’ role in the film following its release on Friday.

    The ‘bleak’ sequel, has also received a tepid reception from fans, with some
    claiming Lady Gaga’s career could be at risk.

    While the same director Todd Phillips was back in the hot seat, critics have said the
    sequel is just a ‘repeat’ of the first hit but with an added musical
    twist.

    Most critics have said Todd failed to use Gaga correctly in the movie
    and claimed she was only bought in for the musical aspect of
    it.

    While the majority of critics say Joker: Folie À Deux didn’t live up to expectations, others have dubbed the movie ‘bold’ and ‘brilliant’.

    Joker: Folie À Deux has been branded the ‘most disappointing
    follow-up to the Oscar-winning movie’ by critics (Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga pictured in the
    movie)

    While the same director Todd Phillips was back in the hot seat, critics have said the sequel is just a ‘repeat’ of the first hit but with an added musical twist 

    Joker: Folie à Deux premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival last month and was released in the United Kingdom and the United
    States on Friday. 

    The Daily Mail’s Brian Viner commended the move as ‘bold’
    and ‘brilliant’ but said it lacked any thrill.

    Giving the sequel a four star rating, he wrote:
    ‘This film is audaciously different in style from the original, not as electrifying, but
    bold and brilliant all the same.

    ‘Arthur is now behind bars, waiting to see whether he will
    be judged sane enough to stand trial for murder, and in the meantime enjoying his celebrity status with fellow
    prisoners and even the warders, one of whom,
    a sadistic Irishman played by Brendan Gleeson, feeds him cigarettes in return for jokes.

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    Joker: Folie a Deux is a punchline five years in the making, writes
    BRIAN VINER

    ‘Lady Gaga plays Lee, a fellow inmate on her
    way, we suppose, to becoming Joker’s girlfriend Harley
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    soon mutually smitten, but Lee makes it clear that she loves the dangerously charismatic Joker, ‘clown prince of crime’, not
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    ‘Which is more real: the psychopath wearing the mask or the vulnerable
    fellow behind it? Either way, identity confusion is the theme of this film, which
    keeps being billed as a musical. 

    ‘It’s not, really, although music looms large as an expression of Arthur
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    And there are a couple of swooning dance routines that make them look like psychotic
    versions of Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in La La Land (2016).

    ‘For me, Joker was a near-masterpiece, and while this sequel doesn’t scale those heady heights, it
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    not quite comparable with all-time greats such as Psycho (1960)
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