working from home and mutter time.
Dec. 29th, 2008 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperAdvantages of working from home :
the commute is reduced to logging off the computer.
doing the laundry does not take up the evening.
it is quite possible to haul self out of shower, log on, and while waiting for computer and various microsoft programs to load, to get dressed and brush your teeth and arrive back at computer just as they've finished loading.
Disadvantages :
You don't get up nearly as much so your feet start to freeze from inaction.
Borrrrrrrrrrrred. Even christmas Eve, when we were ridiculously productive and the office was quiet, at least had some gossip and so on going just by virtue of there being other people around you. The radio is not the same.
THE SQUIRRELS. They STARE. Robins are merely psychotic little bastards. The squirrels plan your demise and are completely transparent about this.
:sigh: have nowt scheduled for new years and have no actual idea what to do. And it doesn't help when your mother calls up from falmouth and says 'oh, you mean you were working from home today? you could have come with us.' ... thanks, no really. I wouldn't have minded going down to falmouth for new year - everything's in staggering distance, but sharing the flat with parents is... not good. Not to mention getting back in time for the 2nd would've been somewhat problematic.
Re the news that they're apparently going to be toning down Torchwood for US consumption. DEAR BBC, FUCK YOU. I thought the whole point of Torchwood was the rampant sex. If they tone down the gay, I will be really pissed off. Not to mention, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
derryderrydown said, if you take out the sex and swearing, we won't be left with anything. Other fandoms, the fanfic inserts porn. In Torchwood, fanfic inserts *plot*. (I'm still laughing about a comm that was set up a few weeks back with the express purpose of being 'If you want a respite from the sexing.' I suspect that these are the people who complain that the greenhouse scene was too in their face. Yet they didn't make any complaint about Tosh/Tommy or Gwen/Rhys or Owen/kitchen sink. Which always smacks of people like Disney and American tv stations olympics coverage who refused to show gay relationships/kissing/Matthew Mitcham's boyfriend because they don't show sexuality - yet don't realise that every time they showed someone's girlfriend, that's showing sexuality. :deep breath:) Anyway. What the hell is the purpose of a show that revolves around Captain Jack if you neuter him?
the commute is reduced to logging off the computer.
doing the laundry does not take up the evening.
it is quite possible to haul self out of shower, log on, and while waiting for computer and various microsoft programs to load, to get dressed and brush your teeth and arrive back at computer just as they've finished loading.
Disadvantages :
You don't get up nearly as much so your feet start to freeze from inaction.
Borrrrrrrrrrrred. Even christmas Eve, when we were ridiculously productive and the office was quiet, at least had some gossip and so on going just by virtue of there being other people around you. The radio is not the same.
THE SQUIRRELS. They STARE. Robins are merely psychotic little bastards. The squirrels plan your demise and are completely transparent about this.
:sigh: have nowt scheduled for new years and have no actual idea what to do. And it doesn't help when your mother calls up from falmouth and says 'oh, you mean you were working from home today? you could have come with us.' ... thanks, no really. I wouldn't have minded going down to falmouth for new year - everything's in staggering distance, but sharing the flat with parents is... not good. Not to mention getting back in time for the 2nd would've been somewhat problematic.
Re the news that they're apparently going to be toning down Torchwood for US consumption. DEAR BBC, FUCK YOU. I thought the whole point of Torchwood was the rampant sex. If they tone down the gay, I will be really pissed off. Not to mention, as
derryderrydown said, if you take out the sex and swearing, we won't be left with anything. Other fandoms, the fanfic inserts porn. In Torchwood, fanfic inserts *plot*. (I'm still laughing about a comm that was set up a few weeks back with the express purpose of being 'If you want a respite from the sexing.' I suspect that these are the people who complain that the greenhouse scene was too in their face. Yet they didn't make any complaint about Tosh/Tommy or Gwen/Rhys or Owen/kitchen sink. Which always smacks of people like Disney and American tv stations olympics coverage who refused to show gay relationships/kissing/Matthew Mitcham's boyfriend because they don't show sexuality - yet don't realise that every time they showed someone's girlfriend, that's showing sexuality. :deep breath:) Anyway. What the hell is the purpose of a show that revolves around Captain Jack if you neuter him?
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Date: 2008-12-30 02:52 am (UTC)If the comm is the one I'm thinking of, it really seems to be a reaction to the prevalence of J/I fic, not because it's gay but because it's Ianto. There's a subset who prefers Jack/Doctor, Jack/Owen, Jack/John, Jack/Anybloodybodyelse, or don't want Jack to be at all monogamous. Not that I'm sure that's what the show itself is trying to convey.
I feel like season 2 was already pretty spare with the personal romantic interactions, with the possible exception of Gwen/Rhys. You can really pull whatever you want from the scenes. Jack loves Ianto? Sure. Jack loves Gwen? Yes. Tosh loves Tommy more than Owen? Uh huh. Owen likes Martha? All right. Owen really loves Jack and is jealous if Ianto and doesn't want to hurt Tosh? Okay. J/I are just having fun? Okay. Ianto loves Jack? Yup. Ianto likes Jack because he can't die and he's hot? Can see that, too. Rhys loves Ianto? Well, maybe not that one.
I don't know that we can take JB's word as gospel on this.
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Date: 2008-12-30 06:45 am (UTC)