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Feb. 16th, 2009 04:11 pmwanna read fic. Cannot as it's no longer lunchtime. Plus, am really in the mood for porn right now and that's *really* not allowed. :sulk:
Nothing like spending ten minutes cleaning the contact points and removing hair and fluff coiled round rods in your mouse so it works. (special ergonomic trek-like mouse)
bsg and being human being v. slow at dl'ing last night and was only half-done when I got up this morning. Dammit. And that was *last week*'s being human, too. Missed last night's due to parents dragging me to dinner post-them going to see Slumdog Millionaire (yours isn't really that interested in seeing it right now). Need to watch the second part of Sir Terry's Alzheimer doc on iplayer, too...
Things I feel I need to d/l (finding time to actually watch, though...) : Middleman, Big Bang Theory, Burn Notice. Still debating whether I can actually be arsed to d/l the second half of SGA S5, considering all the reports were not exactly filling me with joy. Is Life on Mars the US version worth it or is the absence of the godlike presence that is the original Gene Hunt entirely galling?
Went Basildon Park on sunday afternoon, pre-lunch. Which is pretty, a bit cold and grey with occasional showers, and has a rather fascinating mini-exhibit on the Pride and Prejudice filming, with lots on the logistics - from being approached by the location scouts to all the extra facings that had to be made and so on - seven months closure for ten days of filming, including diaries and so on through to the long and careful tear-down. Apparently it was a real head scratcher on giving the decision, since it was the first time a National Trust property's been closed that long for something other than renovation. As we know, they came down on the side of 'massive injection of cash and tourism'. Plus of course, no stately home viewing is complete without doing the 'spot the signs of people who actually work there' - tucked away corners with ye olde B&Q plastic garden chairs and wheelbarrows. Colour me odd but I actually find that stuff more interesting than the 500 old paintings on the walls. Complete with family scowling en masse at the utter waste of what was clearly walled kitchen garden which has been left to go fallow and was now paddock.
Of course, now that I've confirmed my size in converse, there are no orange lo-top converse to be found anywhere in my size. With that in mind, need to solicit an opinion/experience from the crowd - how difficult are converse to dye or paint? and which would you rec?
Other costume shite - think shall go as carnival freak for Hub2, probs based around tattoo. Victorian theme on the other hand, though... erg. I have very little that could possibly count as victorian aside from my bowler. Need to decide between whether I'll do owt else than Jenny Sparks for Heroes night for T1. Kids night, logistics of She-Ra needs to be figured out.
Need to get off arse with regards to unfinished torchwood fic. It's hanging around looking petulant.
Nothing like spending ten minutes cleaning the contact points and removing hair and fluff coiled round rods in your mouse so it works. (special ergonomic trek-like mouse)
bsg and being human being v. slow at dl'ing last night and was only half-done when I got up this morning. Dammit. And that was *last week*'s being human, too. Missed last night's due to parents dragging me to dinner post-them going to see Slumdog Millionaire (yours isn't really that interested in seeing it right now). Need to watch the second part of Sir Terry's Alzheimer doc on iplayer, too...
Things I feel I need to d/l (finding time to actually watch, though...) : Middleman, Big Bang Theory, Burn Notice. Still debating whether I can actually be arsed to d/l the second half of SGA S5, considering all the reports were not exactly filling me with joy. Is Life on Mars the US version worth it or is the absence of the godlike presence that is the original Gene Hunt entirely galling?
Went Basildon Park on sunday afternoon, pre-lunch. Which is pretty, a bit cold and grey with occasional showers, and has a rather fascinating mini-exhibit on the Pride and Prejudice filming, with lots on the logistics - from being approached by the location scouts to all the extra facings that had to be made and so on - seven months closure for ten days of filming, including diaries and so on through to the long and careful tear-down. Apparently it was a real head scratcher on giving the decision, since it was the first time a National Trust property's been closed that long for something other than renovation. As we know, they came down on the side of 'massive injection of cash and tourism'. Plus of course, no stately home viewing is complete without doing the 'spot the signs of people who actually work there' - tucked away corners with ye olde B&Q plastic garden chairs and wheelbarrows. Colour me odd but I actually find that stuff more interesting than the 500 old paintings on the walls. Complete with family scowling en masse at the utter waste of what was clearly walled kitchen garden which has been left to go fallow and was now paddock.
Of course, now that I've confirmed my size in converse, there are no orange lo-top converse to be found anywhere in my size. With that in mind, need to solicit an opinion/experience from the crowd - how difficult are converse to dye or paint? and which would you rec?
Other costume shite - think shall go as carnival freak for Hub2, probs based around tattoo. Victorian theme on the other hand, though... erg. I have very little that could possibly count as victorian aside from my bowler. Need to decide between whether I'll do owt else than Jenny Sparks for Heroes night for T1. Kids night, logistics of She-Ra needs to be figured out.
Need to get off arse with regards to unfinished torchwood fic. It's hanging around looking petulant.
