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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
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10:55 am
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Happy Easter everyone!
I hope that it's as lovely and sunny for everyone else as it is here today :D
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9:15 am - Planet of the Dead (spoilers)
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I've had time to sleep on it, but not watched it again, so these are like reflective first impressions. Bit long winded, sorry.
( Doctor Who )
Also two episodes out of three of Red Dwarf and I still don't know what I think. I miss the laughter track, that much I know, but otherwise... I'll have to see how tonight's episode wraps it up.
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| Friday, April 10th, 2009
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10:42 am - Great big catch up post
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Holiday!
It's been a bit of a fraught week or so. My boss is now on holiday, but prior to leaving he had a big flap about all the things that could go wrong while he's out of the country and all the things that needed to be done while he was out of the country and dumped a load of responsibility on my head. Then my housing authority decided to make a bunch of plans about my flat with virtually no warning, so I had to take time off to sort that (stil not completely sorted though), and which has made it very difficult to do all the work-stuff I've been entrusted with. So in the end I've been late at work when I've been there, and stuck in a dusty, cold flat with no running water the rest of the time.
And now, I have a gaping hole in my bathroom wall, a kitchen door that won't shut, effectively no airing cupboard so there's a pile of towels and bedding on the floor, cracked tiles and the vague promise that someone will come and sort it out next week. Probably.
Thankfully I have all my amenities back on now and something that the plumbers did has stopped the crazy pipe clanking that's kept me from sleeping for the better part of the week. That Red Dwarf scene with the nureek, ruttutt, squiloocal, hununger? That was my life for days, getting out of bed at three in the morning to kick the radiator and try to swear it into submission. Lack of sleep makes me cranky.
But now it is holiday time. Four glorious lie-ins. New ( Doctor Who )
New ( Red Dwarf )Three more assignments on my ( Sapphire and Steel boxset )
And then there's the perfect excuse to eat a mountain of chocolate.
Oh, and the film Knowing, liked it even though it wasn't terribly original. Incredible SFX, so good technically that they made me a bit uncomfortable though. Thought provoking too, which is argulably a bad thing. Lead to the evolution vs creationalism argument with S on the way home. This is only ever a bad thing because neither of us have any intention of changing our views and I am starting to wonder if he's not more worried about being compared to an ape than he is about the word of Allah. There was some comment he made about why would anyone want to be related to an animal which provoked me into a badly expressed but passionate diatribe on how apes are cool and humans suck most of the time and the theory of evolution is not meant as an insult anyway. Thankfully someone changed the subject, we've been known to argue this for hours on end before.
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| Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
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7:50 pm
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Two reasons why I am cranky.
( Not especially long, but no doubt dull )
To cap it all, work going on elsewhere in the block means there's scaffolding up and someone got up it at 3.30am Monday morning and proceeded to run up and down ripping the lead off. We didn't realise exactly what they were doing at the time but we were all woken up, all blearily on the landings trying to figure what the hell the noise was and frankly having a bit of a panic. Well, I was anyway. The scaffolding has been boarded up now but I'm still a bit freaked out and an compulsively checking my windows are shut every half hour.
Still, my crankypants regarding life's irritations and the criminal activity of local lowlife aside, things aren't so bad.
I'm off to see Knowing at the flicks tomorrow which'll hopefully be good. *fingers crossed*
And I think I'm going to take my camera out and snap some pics of the pretty daffodils on the way to work if it's sunny. I have this vague idea that if I can get some good pictures I could print them out nice and big and decorate my bedroom a bit.
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| Friday, March 20th, 2009
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12:58 pm
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Today is turning out to be a good day. J phoned and asked if I minded taking a holiday day because she could use the extra day's work covering me, to which I have happily obliged. Usually it's virtually impossible to take leave because no one is ever available.
And it's a beautiful day. I have cleaned the kitchen (because I am exciting like that) and the sun is streaming in and all the windows are open and it is wonderful.
Better still, my solicitors phoned and said that I'd overpaid them for the flat purchase and they wanted to check it's okay to send a cheque for £80 to me. As if I'd say no.
I listened to Doctor Who and the Pirates this morning, which is both laugh out loud funny and hugely moving and much as my knowledge of Gilbert and Sullivan is virtually non-exisitant the Gallifreyan Buccaneer song is 24 carat solid win.
Time for a quick lunch and them I'm going out to enjoy the sunshine!
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| Friday, March 13th, 2009
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5:44 pm
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I am furious. Seriously. Some person (I am not going to sink to his level by cursing now) just called me a "stupid fuck" in the middle of Sainsburys because I walked past a Comic Relief face-painting stall without a second glance. He also added I "disgust him" and that he can say whatever he liked to me because he was a customer and not an employee of Sainsburys or a volunteer for the charity (Thank heavens).
I went to the security guard to get him to do something (admittedly I don't really know what I expected him to do) and he said "Oh, aren't you with them?" before extremely half heartedly asking the man and his mate - who had the word TWAT painted across his face I KID YOU NOT - to leave. Which really didn't help because I was in the process of leaving at the time and so they just continued to insult me as I went down the road, "You make me sick you fat bitch" etc, repeat to fade.
No thought about what I have already donated, about my financial ability to donate, or that while I don't begrudge giving to good causes I do begrudge being told that I must do it RIGHT NOW or the common sense that starting out by insulting someone will not endear them to your cause. The people actually manning the stall failed to intervene (I was too stunned to really see what they were doing at the time, perhaps they were busy, I will give them the benefit of the doubt) the security guard was as much use as a lump of pudding and I am extrodinarily angry anyone could feel that treating anyone so horrendously is okay as long as it's for charity.
Anyway, I'll repeat this isn't Comic Relief's fault, just some blanking blankers who decided that they have some kind of moral high ground.
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| Sunday, March 8th, 2009
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2:00 pm - And did I mention the invisible wings?
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The Scarifyers
The Scarifyers, a supernatural/comedy radio play starring Nicholas Courtney (DW's Brigadier) and Terry Molloy (DW's Davros - well, one of them), and frankly knowing that much was enough to make me want to listen. And I have very much enjoyed the 3 stories that make up the series so far.
The Scarifyers for some reason doesn't seem to get much love, possibly because it's too small for a fandom in it's own right and people in Who fandom who might enjoy it may not have ever heard of it, what with it not being from Big Finish. It's from the wonderfully named Cosmic Hobo Productions and their website is here, and Radio 7 are playing the third right now (but sadly the first part has been and gone already.)
But it really does deserve some love and attention because it's very very good.
( This started out as simple pimpage but turned into a bit of an essay, sorry )
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| Friday, March 6th, 2009
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8:25 pm
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Was lucky enough to get out of work early and was home before 2pm this afternoon. Sadly I got home only to fall asleep on the sofa and effectively waste the extra couple of hours. It was a bit of a kittycat moment really, the sun was coming in and I was warm and cosy and zonk. And that was that.
Then when I woke up I found that I couldn't get ITV4 on the TV for some reason (it's fixed now, I assume there was a transmission problem) and had to watch Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) on the ITV livestreaming site, which is YouTube quality picture-wise and appalling for sound, both out of sync and oddly distorted. I'm rather fond of ITV4 and it's selection of old fantasy stuff though; R&H(D), The Champions, UFO, Space:1999, these (along with Who, The Avengers and probably other stuff I'm forgetting ATM) are the shows I grew up watching because my Dad basically took issue with current, ie 1980/90s, programming for some reason and welcomed the VHS revolution with open arms. Just went off to Amazon and bought the Sapphire and Steel boxset too, it will be interesting to see if it freaks me out in adulthood as much as it did when I was a kid.
As for TV that was actually created in my lifetime, there's new Red Dwarf for Easter! I can't believe I didn't know about this until now. I admit I enjoyed the Kochanski eps less than the earlier ones, and don't really recall the final series at all - I should probably do something about that - but I'm excited by this news.
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| Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
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8:43 pm - Yay!
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Very good work-related news today. My boss has been accepted as a trainer for new graduates which has cheered him up no end, which in turn has cheered up the rest of us. He also bought us cake to celebrate (of the carrot variety, yummy) which is never a bad thing. On a practical level it means the practice stays open for at least the year the VT guy/girl will be here, so everyone is a lot more positive about the future. Job stability FTW!
I have also caved and decided to attend Collectormania Midlands" and just bought the cheapest train tickets I could find for the Saturday. Always nice to have something to look foward to!
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| Saturday, February 28th, 2009
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7:05 pm
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I cannot tell you how pleased I'll be when the clocks change, I feel like I've not seen daylight in months. Work is stressful right now, and I've been late out (and the last one out) every day for weeks. All the paperwork for the year end apparently has to be processed by mid March, which means actually finishing it for the week before, so I'll be crazy-busy until then. Hopefully it'll all calm down rather after that but I am starting to doubt it.
Went on a Interwebs hunt looking for a dl/stream of Downtime, couldn't find one but turned up the first story from the PROBE series instead. For those who don't know, PROBE was a fan produced Doctor Who spin-off from the 90s, written by one Mark Gatiss and starring Caroline John as Liz Shaw and various other Who actors in completely new parts. The first story has Jon Pertwee, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Louise Jameson and Sophie Aldred along with Gatiss and Linda Lusardi (I don't know why Lusardi's being involved amuses me so much but it really does). And Someone Else but that would constitute a spoiler...
( PROBE and the screencap that makes me smile )
And finally, as the CoT Awards slanging match rumbles on, one of my fics has received praise for being shippy by cot_tossed and praise for NOT being shippy from cot_reviews. The other received a pretty neutral but fair review. It just goes to show how personal and subjective these things actually are. It's lovely to be nominated but the awards so clearly mean nothing in any objective sense and I wish fandom would relax about it all. It is not OMG SRS BIZNS.
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| Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
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12:47 pm - Convention!
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Yesterday I got back from the Pegasus 4 (Stargate Atlantis) convention and I am still shattered! Fell asleep on the train, then fell asleep on the sofa but I should be ready for work tomorrow.
I had such a good time this weekend, everything seemed to go pretty smoothly and I'm just really glad to have gone. So thank you to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) crippsy_99 , majorkennedy , Sah and Nikki (whose name i have probably spelt wrong) especially. Also the woman on the Big Finish stall for the Doctor Who audio discussion, and for listening to me asking about an Eight/Lucie boxset because I maintain that it would be a good idea, and the woman in the photoshoot queue for keeping me company. I love that everyone is friendly at these things! Now all I have to do is find a way to remember all the steps to the con dances until next time - and maybe get rather rather fitter too.
No photos because I forgot my camera <insert insult to my camera and ability to take photos to start with here> but here is my group pic, with me looking deeply uncomfortable - this is due to having a camera pointed at me rather than because I actually was uncomfortable. I also look eighty-seven shades whiter than the guests, damn winter in England.
( Pic under here )
Will now have to keep my eyes peeled for other people's party/hanging about/talk photos and steal them as necessary, LOL.
Oh, and if anyone knows of an Idiots Guide to Facebook, please let me know, because I find LJ quite taxing enough and Facebook makes no sense.
In other news, my job is not only safe, I have an assistant who is very nice and even feigned interest in my impending departure for the con despite clearly never having heard of a) Atlantis or b) conventions before. Work is hell though, in order to keep afloat we've basically had to take on a helluva lot more work which makes every single day thoroughly exhausting - and this is coming from someone who was off two and half weeks over Christmas, three days sick after new year (legitimately!!!) and has been off since Thursday for the con. I feel exceedingly sorry for the new girl, though obviously not enough to really do anything about it.
And finally, I've been nominated for two fics at the CoT awards. I don't know who did it (and frankly I'm pretty darn surprised) but, if you happen to read this mysterious person or persons, then thank you. I appreciate it.
Now I better start to sort out my suitcase...
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| Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
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6:13 pm
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Belated merry Christmas and a happy new year to all!
Back to work on Monday, these two weeks off have flown by rather too quickly for my liking and whilst I've been off work my boss has hired me an assistant so I'm dreading going in to work even more than usual because I'll be forced to work with some girl I've never laid eyes on before for 8.5 hours straight and there is every posibility that she will have no interest whatsoever in the big news of the entertainment world:
The Eleventh Doctor has been officially revealed!
( In case anyone manages to be on the interwebz and not discover this immediately )
I feel I should write something, you know, actually important about the world, but nevermind, maybe next year ;-)
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| Sunday, November 30th, 2008
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9:00 pm - Who's the new Doctor? Some babble by me.
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8:20 pm
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Time has got away from me again, according to LJ it's been 8 weeks since I last updated which really is pretty faily even for me.
I'm still alive, but work has been terrible just recently. Well, not even just recently, TBH, but the last couple of months have brought to a head a number of problems that I can't go into for various reasons, and would be quite boring anyway even if I could, the upshot of which is the ever-growing likelihood that I'll end up unemployed. My boss, being as he is both a rubbish businessman and really rather soft has assured me and J that we'll be okay even if everyone else has to be let go. I think he thinks that this is in some way reassuring (maybe it should be) but it isn't. It just makes us all realise the magnitude of the many problems almost all of which might have been avoided if he wasn't a rubbish businessman. So, yeah, PCT shenanigans, bad business sense, current economic climate, blah, blah, blah, does not a happy me make.
Meanwhile, the housing authority are happily informing me that they'll be installing central heating which will lower my rent and it doesn't seem to matter how many snarky emails I send they won't listen to me informing me that I a) already have central heating and b) own the place anyway. I have a reply stating that they are 'looking into my concerns'. Sheesh, you wouldn't think it was complicated. They have also charged me fifty-something quid for painting of the block that has very clearly not happened.
I kind of feel like I am running around banging my head repeatedly into brick walls.
But in good news: S has had her baby, she was premature and is teeny-weeny but healthy. Only 4lb 5oz, I think. I know it's my duty as a human being to enquire as to the weight of any and all new babies but it means nothing to me. And, to quote her mother 'looks like a rat and is a bit boring'. Naturally I made the appropriate disagreeing noises. In all seriousness she's adorable and we're all relieved because the pregnancy was terrible and it was all very scary there for a while. The only down side to this recent spate of sprog dropping is people saying 'ooh, it'll be you next' or saying 'there's still plenty of time' in way that sounds like they're actually saying 'You're nearly thirty, you know'. I do not want a child but can't help feeling that I'm being judged for not having one.
I have, however, kept my pot plant alive for five months now, and I think that deserves a round of applause. I mean, it's a bit wonky, and is flowering in November which doesn't stike me as quite right, but it's alive and that's the main thing. I think it's a begonia, but I'm not sure it really matters.
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| Sunday, October 5th, 2008
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12:32 pm
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Update, update, update.
I went to Milton Keynes, I did not see the damn cows (seriously, how many times have I gone done there now and it's all anyone in RL ever asks), I came home from Milton Keynes. Some time in the middle I got rather drunk on blue stuff and spent a shedload of money. I also developed a Mountain Dew habit. Amazingly I still have some Pocky left (I mentioned Pocky to J at work, she thought it was a streetname for some sort of drug. This amused me greatly until I realised what she could be implying about me). Lovely seeing everyone again, it's such a shame that it's so long to the next event.
Once home (no one tried to burn anything down in my absence, yay!) I proceeded to sleep for pretty much a day and a half but the upside of that is that it staved off the impending con-crud. I had a horrible sore throat on Monday morning but it hasn't developed. The downside was that I missed my only oppotunity to watch SJA as it aired and had to do battle with the iPlayer which for some reason doesn't like me, or perhaps my connection or my computer, IDK.
SJA has again proved that it carries the spirit of Old Skool Who. I reckon if you showed a kiddiwink The Last Sontaran then The Time Warrior they would not see a marked difference. Fewer teenagers but they'd get Pertwee swordfighting and swinging from a chandelier, lots of medieval gubbins and Dot Cotton being posh. A fair exchange.
Also saw the midseason finale of Atlantis. Arrrggghhh Cliffhanger! And then it's not on this week. Evil, evil, people.
Back at work the usual remarkable failure to do anything the sensible way manifested itself. I spent three days discovering files filed under the Christian name, or heaped about in piles that no one could be bothered to misfile at all. I coped admirably, ably assisted by an entire box of Milk Tray.
I had a weird dream this morning where I was running a marathon, inside a badly signposted house, where everytime I ran up the stairs a perfume-spritzer type woman would give me a small box of chocolates and at one point I ran past Colin Baker who was passed out on the floor. I reached the top of the house, refused to jump out the window and got hopelessly lost on my way back down. When I woke up I was clutching at the pillow convinced it was a box of chocs. The radio was also telling me about The Great North Run. I will put Colin Baker down to having watched the last two eps of Trial of a Time Lord recently (following a bizarre conversation with Gregory regarding whether if the Valeyard had won, the Master would have turned to the side of good just to oppose his nemesis and be realy pissed off by having to help people all the time. I ♥ my brother for he is more weird even than me) and being generally irritated by Mel's exercise obsession. My brain = weird but clearly trying to make a point. Exercise will kill you, eat more chocolate. Or possibly I'm misinterpretting it, who knows.
Ooh, lunchtime!
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| Sunday, September 21st, 2008
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8:40 pm
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It's been a really nice weekend. Had Friday off due to lack of demand. Poor H went in on her own, I hope she was okay. It's dull as all get out when you're in your own and she's so new to the job. And it took an extremely long time to explain how to turn off the answering machine to her so I never got around to the 'and this is how to waste your day on the internet' tutorial.
The weather has been fantastic. It's like summer! I hope it holds out for a bit this time.
One of the pubs down the road had a bungee jumping session off a crane in their yard. I spent an unreasonably long time hanging out my bathroom window watching people go boiiinnng, but I can't for the life of me figure out why people want to actually do that. But then I'm afraid of fairground waltzers so obviously hurling myself from the top of a crane is never going to interest me.
Won three of the more expensive to get hold of EDAs (Vampire Science and both Interferences) on ebay for what evens out to basically cover price including postage and I am well chuffed. Fingers crossed they arrive safe and sound. My postman has not yet met a package he's not tried to snap in half. Maybe my letterbox is smaller than average?
Students are back with a vengeance. Sainsbury's was full of southerners buying Smart Price toasters. Naturally I am bitterly jealous. When my parents drove me up here to halls the first time they literally made sure I had my room key, unloaded the car and went. They didn't waste their afternoon in the supermarket getting in the way of people in desperate need of tea bags. It was pretty hilarious hearing the same conversations a million times though 'are you sure you don't want more fruit?' 'that's rather a lot of alcohol, darling', 'do you need teaspoons?' Ah, Freshers, you make me feel old.
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| Thursday, September 18th, 2008
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11:00 am
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I finally bought my train tickets to C14! I am more looking forward to a couple of nights out than any of the guests which (in theory at least) means a cheap event.
I thought that the train companies were making an effort to have clearer pricing though? There were 12 different single fares offered, and five return ones over a combination of 10 trains. And, buying a return would cost £49 when two singles FOR THE SAME TRAINS would be £31 (£13 + £18). It's like they pick numbers out of thin air.
Anyway, that's sorted now. Hurrah, holiday!! In Milton Keynes, but still.
Have spent the last two weekends watching the entire series of The Middleman and enjoyed the hell out of it. It's like if Due South's Fraser starred in a version of The Avengers written by the Men In Black team with a glass and a half of pop culture references each ep. It's mad and brilliant. It'll probably get cancelled by dumb network people, but I really hope not.
I missed the chance to talk about CERN and the LHC, but that won't stop me. I went to the CERN labs about ten years ago on a school trip. Particle physics is not very visual but it was really interesting. Plus Switzerland is beautiful, has great chocolate and we spent most of our time on the shore of Lake Geneva having water fights with the teacher's kids. It was awesome and hasn't really informed me much on particle accelerators in general or the LHC in particular but if you get the chance to go to Switzerland do, coz it's lovely.
Oh, and one more thing: on Sunday I saw a bloke dressed as the Tenth Doctor. He was on one side of the crossing and I was on the other. He had a brown suit and red Converse and I'm fairly certain no one would wear that without thinking of Doctor Who. He didn't actually look very much like Tennant, or at all like him tbh, but I thought it was very cool. I can't help but wonder now if there was some kind of fan meeting happening very near me that I didn't know about. Perhaps the uni has a DW soc? Unexpected Doctor spotting, yay!
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| Friday, August 29th, 2008
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4:34 pm
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It is now the weekend, yay! And amazingly I have left the desk completely clear ready for Monday, which is always a nice feeling.
Ramadan starts next week, as such our hours go weird for a month and lunchtime will be almost non-existant. I am torn between understanding that out of 5 staff, 3 will be fasting, and 1 would rather scoff down a quick sarnie and go home early and being plain miffed that I lose my lovely lunch hour (even if it does mean leaving early). I am the only one who feels that a lunch hour is important for my state of mind as much as the actual food. If the weather is any good I will spend my abbreviated hour (we're planning on it now being 30 mins, but I suspect with the traditional overrunning it'll be considerably less) in the park, if it's not I shall be unbearably grumpy at everyone. But they may not be able to tell the difference
Of course, come the fasting, come the tumbleweed blowing disconsolately through the empty rooms. I am on top of my work because I've had J helping out for two days and today was amazingly quiet for some reason too. I managed to read several chapters (EDA Genocide and I understand why everyone thinks Sam is irritating now) in the slightly jumpy and guilt ridden manner of someone who knows they really oughtn't to be sitting around getting paid for reading entirely irrelevent books. But it's not like I can force the phone to ring if it doesn't want to. And TBH I don't think I would force it even if I could.
So here's to a month of quiet days, surreptitious reading and badly put together packed lunches.
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| Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
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8:28 pm
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It's exam results time for many, and my take on the whole 'it's getting easier' argument is usually along the lines of, sure, but only since the summer 2000 exams, when they were at their hardest since records began. In honesty, I don't know. Kids today (God I feel so old!) work hard, I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt, but then I talk to the Spoilt Brat/Work Experience Boy who achieved 4 A grade A Levels and is a) thick as a brick, and b) proud of the way he didn't bother to read any set texts and just worked from crib notes. He intends to be a Doctor. I am scared for the future of society.
Also O brought in her little baby. Well, I say little, I mean massive. He's about a month old but you wouldn't believe it. She works in kg and our conversion is inaccurate, but he weighed about 11lbs at birth. Cute though. She left me to babysit despite the fact that she's met me, but once baby and I had negotiated a truce it all went pretty well. I might possibly have sung to him in a moment of desperation when I thought he was going to cry, but you'll never prove anything!
Most bizarre bit of post I've ever received came the other day. It's from a local bus company, trying to encourage me to use a route that not only doesn't go anywhere I want to be but also does not at any point get close to my flat. The hilarious bit (not counting it's assumption that I have ever driven a car and need to be persuaded to use public transport), is the bullet point explanation of HOW TO USE A BUS.
So, in case you are wondering the first point is: Stand at the bus stop. I wouldn't want to overload anyone with complex information so I'll leave it there. But I think we can all agree that the reason there are so many cars on the road is absolutely down to fact that people were unaware of what those signs with all the little numbers on were actually for.
That bit about being scared for the future. I fear it's already too late.
"With that in mind, I hope I'll be seeing you on the Stagecoach bus very soon - it's where you want to be!"
Sigh.
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| Thursday, August 14th, 2008
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6:11 pm
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Sometimes the world amazes me and good stuff quite unexpectedly happens right when I'm expecting the worst.
The gas engineers turned up at 12.08 (yes, I made a note of it, what?) and were done by 12.52. Which was awesome because I got to go to the Nando's and the cinema after all. AND Ish and Seleena were brilliant and voted with me in favour of The Dark Knight, so that's what we saw and it was very long fantastic. Really, really enjoyed it.
The other two choices were Angus etc, or The Love Guru proving that while half my colleagues have better (for 'better' read 'more like mine') taste than I'd thought, half have much, much worse.
I wish I could say that I spent the morning profitably though; I watched daytime TV. I am now aware of the theory behind creating perfect meringues and choux pastry (although I doubt very much I'll ever bother to try). I also drank more cuppas than is probably healthy - note to self, drink less tea prior to a two and half hour movie.
And the engineer guy said that the leaseholder peeps are considering fitting all flats with individual boilers which would be MADE OF YAY because it would a) stop this nonsense from happening again next year and b) make me responsible for paying for only the gas I use and not a quarter of teh block's usage. Did I ever blog about the crazy lady downstairs who almost burnt the place down... I've just realised I'm actually paying for her to leave gas appliances on and unattended.
( Cut for Doctor Who Unbound rambling (non spoilery) )
On the family front, I asked Gregory how his job hunting is going. It seems 'hunting' is the wrong word because it implies some sense of purpose and actual activity. I wish I knew some way of setting a fire under him, because it seems our parents are giving up hope of him ever leaving the house again.
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