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Jun. 25th, 2023 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missizzyMom's new passport arrived in the mail this week. My application is still listed as in progress on the DoS website. It's only been seven and a half weeks since they received it, so I'm trying not to get too anxious about it, but one really wonders why it didn't get done alongside my mother's, since we mailed the applications together. Of course, in theory, I don't need it for two more months, although I'm still nervous about trying to board even a domestic flight to San Diego without it. Said flights have been booked, and I even downloaded the United app onto my phone, but so far it has not been behaving itself at all.
I finally saw Across the Spiderverse on Monday. I failed to be as immediately awestruck as some viewers described themselves as being, but the more I thought about it in the days since, the more impressed with the movie I got. Except then I got less so when I heard about how badly they abused the crew, and that they're even trying to force them to finish the next one by next year! (I'd assumed we'd have to wait until 2027 or whenever. I'd be perfectly fine with doing so. I and society will probably last that long.) Just goes to show you can't think highly of *anyone* in charge in Hollywood at the moment. At this point it's not even that the actors need to strike for their own sake, it's that everyone else needs them to strike, too!
I finally saw Across the Spiderverse on Monday. I failed to be as immediately awestruck as some viewers described themselves as being, but the more I thought about it in the days since, the more impressed with the movie I got. Except then I got less so when I heard about how badly they abused the crew, and that they're even trying to force them to finish the next one by next year! (I'd assumed we'd have to wait until 2027 or whenever. I'd be perfectly fine with doing so. I and society will probably last that long.) Just goes to show you can't think highly of *anyone* in charge in Hollywood at the moment. At this point it's not even that the actors need to strike for their own sake, it's that everyone else needs them to strike, too!
