Sep. 3rd, 2007

burntcopper: (war)
:mutter: You know when you change breakfast because you're vaguely bored with what you currently have, and go for something you haven't had in a while? And then after a couple of days of it, you remember precisely why you stopped eating it? And sadly, it being cereal, you've still got a week's worth to get through... Special K. The red berries make it nicer, but it's still way too sweet and gums up your teeth something chronic. Going back on the cheerios as soon as I can. (can't just shove it to one side as lodged at parents')

Hmmp. After having to do emergency repairs on sandal, have concluded that it's a rule that you always get a bit of superglue on your fingers. Which you know will come off in a couple of hours, but while it's there, it's bloody irritating.

Spent a large proportion of weekend asleep. Mostly due to inability to get self on decent sleeping hours during week.

Watched a bit of that eurovision dance contest thingy. Vaguely interesting, but kind of confusing what with it being a mix of pros and amateurs. But it did live up to the finest tradition of Eurovision with some very dodgy outfits (though sadly this is part and parcel of ballroom dancing rather than specially for Eurovision).

Went down the lock as is my wont on weekends (equivalent of Regents Park, the Regents Park bits originally to compensate for there being no lock) and saw that the flooding effects had pretty much dried up in the river meadows. Came home, read a bit of the latest rant in the media guide about the latest directors cut of Blade Runner. Which got me thinking. Blade Runner has an idea that you only really see as a blink and miss it design bit at the beginning, that there's been climate change which has changed the coastlines - I'll have to dig up my Blade Runner theory guide to see whether it was hotter or what. Which got me thinking about the fact that pretty much anything set in the near future in the UK would really have to make some vague acknowledgement of the flooding/bake that leads to drought leads to flooding cycle that we're in, because that's the weather conditions we're going to be pretty much stuck with for the next generation or so. It took a couple of generations to get like this, and it's not going to be settled for another couple because there is no quick fix. Either a random comment on the tv/media source or an expectation of what usual weather is for that time of year. Because we really haven't had any mid-point, and we pretty much expect floods somewhere in the country once a year.
burntcopper: (hypocrisy)
Why you can't have holiday )

Have decided that I'm going to be difficult by being reasonable and throwing everything they say back in their faces. And work to the letter. I made a point when I started that I wouldn't do overtime unless it was making up hours I'd missed because if there's more work than your hired staff can cope with in their contracted hours, hire a damn temp in the short term and get more staff in the long term.

gaaaah )

ETA : seriously, am I just being paranoid and is it the stress and so on talking?
burntcopper: (shep face)
Utterly. Shep as... :makes grabby hands: It's for the men and machines challenge, to give you some idea before you clicks. SHIIIINY.

:ponders if she may have read too much 2000 AD as a child:
burntcopper: (simon going mad)
Seriously, some parts of fandom : WTF?

I thought it was just a Stargate thing. I first saw them at one of those cons, displayed on a table as a hobby, thought it was mildly amusing, but... I've seen them in other fandoms since, dressed up as the characters. And it turns out people ask stars to pose with them and I... argh. I can't honestly decide whether this falls into category of 'RUN AWAY! I may be obsessed but the obsession doesn't go into that bloody category!' or quirk that I'm vaguely uncomfortable with because I view soft toys as kid-things that you should not be bloody trailing around in public when you've passed the age of puberty. We have the orangutang and Moominpapa hanging around the house because they're funny more than anything. Bought when adults for a laugh.

but one thing, fandom : stop bloody referring to them as real things. Makes you sound just this side of 'We think he's a very naughty boy, don't we, miss Jane?'

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