Today

Was work. Got the warnings list I was expecting - things to change, bad habits. Basically it's learn the products and a couple of extras that can be fixed easily. Sunday is so damn quiet, it's not true. Added to the fact that apparently St. Giles Fair was on in Oxford, so very few customers. Sold some more SLRs - Steve commented on the fact that we sold no digital and one camcorder, but went far above our quota on SLRs. Two were even non-education related, and I explained all the functions and the concept of apertures and shutters and ISO speeds on film to people with not the first idea about it. Takes me back. :g: Also, today being very hot, and my bus getting in at least 40 mins before I was due to start work, me and this other girl sat on opposite ends of the benches in the middle of a ghost town (Reading before 10am on sunday - like pre-9am weekday but with 10% of the population) and dozed in the sun. If it was colder we'd have had to go to Coffee Republic and shelter, but as it was, just nice basking temperature.

Can't think how the hell to get my Chemistry A-level, as Reading College don't do chemistry. arrrgh. Seriously considering phoning up clearing and going 'this is what I've got, any suggestions?'. However, entering uni right now would so not be a good idea as need to earn more money to fund fees and living costs.

Typing up the newly re-jigged Sentinel!Gunn fic (what I've written since begging mimesere for help with bunnies - it works so much better if Wes and Gunn go to Cascade rather than the other way round. Plus, case framework for story! And it's far more amusing if Connor sits there with her gaydar, and the rest of Major Crimes goes 'That's it, pay up. Rafe wins with his bet that Sentinel-Guide pairs are required to be gay.' Plus H, Simon and Gunn so need to form the mutual admiration of Denzel and Samuel L Jackson society. You know they wanna. Lorne's appearance will now be by phonecall...

Have watched pilot ep of Dead Like Me, courtesy of mingmerciless. I am so in love with this show. It's pessimistic, it's got a great bit at the beginning about entry into the world of work, and it has Mandy Patinkin in it. You really can't go wrong with the spirit of Inigo Montoya.

Music musings

Just finished watching this week's Six Feet Under, wherein there was Opera sung at someone's funeral. Nessun Dorma, to be specific. It's a cool song, but it's definitely different to hear it sung fairly softly, as pretty much everyone in the UK is familiar with the Pavarotti version, because of the World Cup and its repetition on everything from ads onwards. Pavarotti's a belter.

This segues into me listening to my Gran's copy of The Very Best of Peggy Lee. Best known for Fever, taking on Disney and winning with her Lady and the Tramp stuff. She's got a version of Big Spender on there, which is closer to the Fosse version than Shirley Bassey's - a little more sleazy and quiet - and then I looked down the track list. She did the Jessica Rabbit Song! (Why Don't You Do Right) Fair bit faster, too, and not as treacly as Fever or the version Amy Irving did for Jessica's performance. I like the Jessica version a lot better. Although, considering how short the performance is in the Ink and Paint Club, I was definitely surprised to find that the full version? Two verses longer, and still only two minutes long.

This musing brought to you by a life-long fascination with Jessica Rabbit.