life? don't talk to me about life. gimme tv instead.

gah.

shoulders utterly siezed up, and combine with the general shocky feeling you get from several days of not enough sleep (normally the weekend takes care of this, but indentured servitude and partying are cruel mistresses) So finally getting a massage at the local rather massive chinese place. I seriously hope the thai stall comes back to camden market - 10 quid massages where they tell you you're going to just get your shoulders and neck done and then end up getting three people working on your entire body at once are a joy and beauty forever.

The driving licence is back. That was quick. Thought it would be at least another week. So now I have portable ID again! Yay!

Need to put photos up.

Ah, Holby City. I love you way too much, medical drama. (cidercupcakes, you know how much you go on about doctors being arrogant sods in the view of nurses? Half of this show is union battles and nurses cursing about the sheer amount of scut work and working round the management initiatives and arrogant consultants (and yes, they do portray most of the surgeons as arrogant sods) they want to kill with hot pokers shoved into various orifices.)

megolas, you will be pleased to know that Hollyoaks is going amusing again with the gay teens. The fuckwit who won't accept he's bi (he insists he's straight) has gone and slept with his best mate again, is trying to get his girlfriend back, though this time he's not denying it ever happened - and is pushing for his best mate to be his bit on the side even though said best mate has a boyfriend. :twats fuckwit around the head: I wouldn't mind so much if it was poly, it's just that he refuses to have it as anything more, take anyone's feelings into consideration, and wants the best mate to be on beck and call. Whilst doing the control freak on his girlfriend. (one day I will kill the flatmate for being addicted to this. one day. but it's *such* a train wreck, and doesn't inspire the immediate homicidal rage that Eastenders would.)

Also, watching more how do you solve a problem like maria. Seriously. Judges comments 'well, Connie is wonderful as usual and utterly professional'. Every week. Every single week. God, I'd have hated to have been one of the other girls, since it's SO clear that they'd picked Connie as the one they wanted to be Maria from the word go and the others were there as trialing and seeing what they could do for other shows/understudying. (they say quite regularly that they want the other girls for different roles) I mean, in any dream, yes it is pretty clear that Lee's probably going to win it, but at least it's not such a complete one-horse race.

:pokes phone: WHY, WHY, must you have such a shit battery? It's currently turned off.

Never trust a soundtrack writer

Mummy, Bear Mcreary scares me.

Listening to BSG soundtrack, courtesy of cidercupcakes. Which - well, overall impression is lotsa war drums and sort of middle-eastern, with occasional leaps to chinese. Bloody gorgeous. Except? Sometimes I can't figure out whether he's schizo or just fucking with us. There's bits that are clearly, clearly celtic which suddenly segue seamlessly into arabic. And then suddenly you're blindsided by such tracks as 'dinner party' which are pure regency era. And then... oh god, the bastard re-engineered the tune for things like Battlestar Operatica and Battlestart Muzaktica. You heard me. The muzak version. Which was almost certainly played when the characters were in a lift or something.

And huh. I knew that occasionally theme tunes are changed from country to country - sometimes copyright, sometimes unsuitable, sometimes the weird vagaries of producers - a fairly well-known one being 'House', where the US gets Faithless' Teardrop and we get something else. (having never watched House except by download, I don't know what our theme tune is). However, on this, there's main tune (US version) and main tune (UK version). The slow bit at the beginning's different - the bit where the drums kick in for the clip montage is mostly the same. The US, you get an extended instrumental funeral-ish military, and the UK, we get Our Lady of Soundtrack Sorrow with choral and more chimes, and more chimes and choral in the drums bit. Only the UK one is what gets used on sci-fi, since Sky no longer gets it first. Did they just decide they liked the UK version more? Can someone clarify which one got used on the miniseries?

I am obviously a bad person.

the masseur tells me so. he spent a lot of time telling me that coffee was evil and the spawn of the devil and went bug-eyed when i told him my usual is 3-7 cups a day. (seriously, tiny little spanish/portugese guy almost waving his hands about) And yes, once again I was standing there sheepishly admitting that 99% of my muscle pain/tension is self-inflicted.

:holds up the mea culpa sign:

I don't sleep enough, I keep reverting to bad posture when at the computer (though I have good posture most of the rest of the time), I work in an environment that's stressful, and I have a co-dependent relationship with the coffee pot when at work.

After the massage, he begged me to go drink tea. Several times.

Massage? mmmm. Though faintly amused by him tentatively asking me to take my top off and then blink a lot when I asked if I needed to take my bra off and then taking it off *anyway*. I keep forgetting that other people haven't in their time a) done the artist modelling thing; b) been a seamstress/costumer and c) wear as little clothing as possible due to slightly whacked body temperature, so the *sensible option* is 'when in doubt, show a much skin as possible'.