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girlofprey) wrote2010-06-28 02:37 am
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It's been a few days, internet, and you are still failing to provide me with Isner/Mahut slash. Bad form. I do have high hopes for some from people I found discussing Isner/Mahut slash using the Livejournal comments and entries search thing, though. Although by high, I mean 'miniscule'.
I've not been very communicative for the last few days. That's possibly because I've had a sort of busy week. I was at college on Tuesday and Wednesday, I know I didn't mention. I signed up to have some free college training with the Jobcentre, while I was off work and it was still available, and I have to go have a two day induction this week. Mostly this meant getting to a really odd community centre somewhere outside of Wakefield for a half day course on what the college is like, filling in induction forms, and finding out what kind of learner I am (visual, mainly, which I sort of already assumed, and it was only a self-assessment), and then a half day course on customer service, which mostly involved discussing customer service, and how you can do it well or badly, or how some people do it well or badly.
Then the next day I went to the actual college in Wakefield (and still had a hard time finding out where I needed to be), and had an almost-full day's course on First Aid in the Workplace, for which I now have a three-year certificate. I say almost-full day because we were meant to be staying until 4 o'clock, but we got let out at about half past 2 because a bunch of the lads wanted to go early for the England game, and another I think had a Jobcentre appointment at 2.30. But I think we still fit in everything we needed to, and it was actually quite good. I'd had a bit of first aid training at school, but they didn't teach us how to do chest compressions because apparently it was really easy, if you didn't know what you were doing, to accidentally break a rib and drive it into a vital organ, possibly the heart. But according to the woman who taught us on Wednesday, either that's been proved to be not true, or the law has sort of changed because apparently you'll almost certainly break a rib doing chest compressions anyway, and it's sort of assumed that if someone isn't breathing or has no pulse they'll need chest compressions enough to risk possibly breaking a rib and puncturing something anyway. I don't know. But we learned how to do them, and how to do mouth-to-mouth, and what should be in a first aid kit, and the different types of shock, and different causes of fainting. And I got used as someone to have the recovery position demonstrated on me, which I thought might happen since I was the only girl there, apart from the tutor woman. But maybe it had nothing do with that. Anyway, we went through and did it, and it was really quite good, and I have a First Aid in the Workplace certificate now, hurrah! And they're going to contact me shortly, possibly, about doing the actual work-related course I signed up for. I think.
After that, on Thursday my mum and I had my youngest nephew, and on Friday I had to get my mum a birthday present and my mum and I had my oldest nephew. Then on Saturday it was my mum's birthday, and I slept in, and then we went to Chiquito's for a meal, then today I slept in and then we went to a local pub for our Sunday dinner. And now I am posting. And in between all that, I was running up to my room on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8 o'clock or half 8 to listen to Adam and Joe at Glastonbury, which was grand. So, yes. I've been busy this week.
But I watched TV as well, a bit, last week. Including Emmerdale. OH MY GOD OH MY GOD NATHAN HAS THE WORST MOTHER EVER OH MY GOD. Right, I knew from a few weeks ago that Cain (a local criminal, bad-boy type) was going to be sending notes 'from Mark' (Nathan's dad, Natasha's husband) or blackmailing Nathan and Natasha, and I think I knew that he found the wallet, or I guessed it at least when Sam (his brother) was 'tidying up the woods' at Natasha's new boyfriend's request, without telling Natasha, and pretty obviously found something, and then had a 'chat' with Cain about it last week. I knew that some flowers got sent 'from Mark', and that Nathan ended up talking the blame for sending them, so nobody got suspicious about whether Mark was still around or tried looking for him. BUT I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. I assumed that it was all his, rash, idea, as he got deeper into covering up his dad's death, because as his mum pointed out, blackmailing her over it kind of made him an accessory. The TV guide said that 'Nathan confesses to sending the flowers to stop Natasha from confessing to Maisie', (Maisie is Nathan's sister) which sort of suggests that Natasha was feeling guilty about it and about what it was doing to Maisie, at least, and that Nathan stopped her from telling the truth because he was afraid he would go to jail. BUT NO. NO. Maisie got all upset because she couldn't understand why her dad would just send flowers and not make any other contact, and was staying up all night wondering if her dad would ever be coming home, and Nathan ended up shouting at her which was pretty awful, but as he pointed out to his mum, other than telling Maisie the truth, how should they handle it?
AND THEN NATASHA WAS IN THE LIVING ROOM WITH NATHAN, AND SHE WAS WORRIED ABOUT MAISIE AND WHETHER SHE MIGHT HAVE A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN AGAIN, AND THEN SHE JUST TURNED AND LOOKED AT NATHAN, AND WAS ALL 'NATHAN, MAISIE KNOWS YOU HATE MY NEW BOYFRIEND, SHE WOULD WAY BELIEVE THAT YOU WOULD DO ANYTHING TO SPLIT US UP'. AND HE WAS LIKE, 'UM, YEAH, AND?'. AND HE PROPERLY JUST NEVER EVEN CONSIDERED IT, IT WASN'T EVEN LIKE HE THOUGHT OF THE IDEA TO STOP MAISIE WORRYING OR TO BUY HIM AND HIS MUM SOME TIME AND STOP PEOPLE BEING SUSPICIOUS, IT NEVER EVEN CROSSED HIS MIND, EVEN AFTER HIS MUM STARTED HINTING ABOUT IT. AND SHE WAS LIKE 'YOU SHOULD TELL MAISIE YOU SENT THE FLOWERS. IF YOU CARE ABOUT HER. IF YOU WANT HER TO NOT HAVE ANOTHER BREAKDOWN.' AND HE WAS LIKE 'NO!'. AND SHE STARTED SHOUTING THAT IT WAS FOR THE GOOD OF THE FAMILY, AND THAT HE OWED HER, FOR, IDK, BLACKMAILING HER THAT ONE TIME AFTER HE FOUND OUT SHE MURDERED HIS DAD AND THOUGHT THAT THE IDEA THAT SHE MIGHT DESERVE TO GO TO PRISON FOR DOING THAT 'ABSURD'. AND OH MY GOD NATASHA, HE IS CLEARLY ALREADY A BIT MENTALLY UNSTABLE, EVEN MORE SO SINCE FINDING OUT YOU KILLED HIS DAD, WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TO HIM? THE PAIN AND BETRAYAL IN HIS EYES WAS A BIT UNBELIEVABLE.
I shouted for pretty much all of that paragraph. I did notice. Anyway, then Maisie came in and I think asked what they were arguing about, or if they were talking about her dad. And Natasha just sort of forced his hand, like she has done before, by saying 'No, we KNOW who sent the flowers', and looking at Nathan. And he told Maisie that 'Yes, I sent the flowers', and he knew how much she would hate him for it, and Maisie is like one of the few people in the world he actually really loves, and she did hate him for it. She said 'how could you do that to me? To Will?' (their younger brother). And he tried to claim it had been a joke, and she slapped him across the face, and told him she hated him, and then ran out. And Nathan just retreated to a corner of the room on his own, and Natasha came over and tried to put her hands on his shoulders, and said she was sorry, and she would try to fix his relationship with his sister in any way she could, and he just stepped away from her, and told her not to bother, and she was really lucky she had him, because he was the 'perfect fall guy'. And I just, oh my god. I cannot believe Natasha. I know she is trying to cover up a murder, and the programme needs her to keep it a secret a while longer, and Nathan is a jerk, but he is her son, and she is just unbelievably cold to her own children when she wants to be, and not in a 'not very maternal' way, in a 'really quite awful' way.
I sort of am having a hard time seeing how he will come out of this, I hope he does because OH MY GOD. But I know some stuff he does later on, and he's sort of getting deeper and deeper into helping his mother cover up his dad's murder, and even though it makes sense because we as viewers can see how his mother is pressuring him into doing it, how will other any of the other characters know about it? Or believe it, if Natasha continues to lie about it or not believe she's done anything wrong? It just seems like he going to go crazy, even more crazy, and have a hard time getting out of it. Or go to jail. Or doing something else really awful, and go to jail. Or get killed. Possibly. Maybe I am being a bit pessimistic about this. I don't know.
I love Nathan. I know that he is a jerk, but I love him. I love him. Oh god.
Also, you know what Simpsons pairing I love? Sideshow Bob/Bart. I have terrible pairings, I know. Although frankly, when there is a scene between two characters which involves one trying to kill the other and then finding that they 'can't do it', and then singing about how they've 'grown accustomed to his face', I'm not sure that it's completely my fault. I love Sideshow Bob/Bart.
Also I love Logan/Aaron from Veronica Mars. I really truly love it. I wrote a tiny bit of fic the other week based on a prompt from a prompt community, and thought up a bunch of AUs, including a sort of Labyrinth AU, mainly because I've been listening to the Labyrinth soundtrack quite a lot recently, and the idea of Aaron coming back from the dead as a kind of Goblin King figure and making Logan run around a maze to try to get back a child or person he'd accidentally wished away, all while trying to sort of convince/seduce Logan into staying with him in supernatural-land forever, was REALLY QUITE PLEASING TO ME. And I have awful pairings, I know. But awful GREAT pairings.
I've not been very communicative for the last few days. That's possibly because I've had a sort of busy week. I was at college on Tuesday and Wednesday, I know I didn't mention. I signed up to have some free college training with the Jobcentre, while I was off work and it was still available, and I have to go have a two day induction this week. Mostly this meant getting to a really odd community centre somewhere outside of Wakefield for a half day course on what the college is like, filling in induction forms, and finding out what kind of learner I am (visual, mainly, which I sort of already assumed, and it was only a self-assessment), and then a half day course on customer service, which mostly involved discussing customer service, and how you can do it well or badly, or how some people do it well or badly.
Then the next day I went to the actual college in Wakefield (and still had a hard time finding out where I needed to be), and had an almost-full day's course on First Aid in the Workplace, for which I now have a three-year certificate. I say almost-full day because we were meant to be staying until 4 o'clock, but we got let out at about half past 2 because a bunch of the lads wanted to go early for the England game, and another I think had a Jobcentre appointment at 2.30. But I think we still fit in everything we needed to, and it was actually quite good. I'd had a bit of first aid training at school, but they didn't teach us how to do chest compressions because apparently it was really easy, if you didn't know what you were doing, to accidentally break a rib and drive it into a vital organ, possibly the heart. But according to the woman who taught us on Wednesday, either that's been proved to be not true, or the law has sort of changed because apparently you'll almost certainly break a rib doing chest compressions anyway, and it's sort of assumed that if someone isn't breathing or has no pulse they'll need chest compressions enough to risk possibly breaking a rib and puncturing something anyway. I don't know. But we learned how to do them, and how to do mouth-to-mouth, and what should be in a first aid kit, and the different types of shock, and different causes of fainting. And I got used as someone to have the recovery position demonstrated on me, which I thought might happen since I was the only girl there, apart from the tutor woman. But maybe it had nothing do with that. Anyway, we went through and did it, and it was really quite good, and I have a First Aid in the Workplace certificate now, hurrah! And they're going to contact me shortly, possibly, about doing the actual work-related course I signed up for. I think.
After that, on Thursday my mum and I had my youngest nephew, and on Friday I had to get my mum a birthday present and my mum and I had my oldest nephew. Then on Saturday it was my mum's birthday, and I slept in, and then we went to Chiquito's for a meal, then today I slept in and then we went to a local pub for our Sunday dinner. And now I am posting. And in between all that, I was running up to my room on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8 o'clock or half 8 to listen to Adam and Joe at Glastonbury, which was grand. So, yes. I've been busy this week.
But I watched TV as well, a bit, last week. Including Emmerdale. OH MY GOD OH MY GOD NATHAN HAS THE WORST MOTHER EVER OH MY GOD. Right, I knew from a few weeks ago that Cain (a local criminal, bad-boy type) was going to be sending notes 'from Mark' (Nathan's dad, Natasha's husband) or blackmailing Nathan and Natasha, and I think I knew that he found the wallet, or I guessed it at least when Sam (his brother) was 'tidying up the woods' at Natasha's new boyfriend's request, without telling Natasha, and pretty obviously found something, and then had a 'chat' with Cain about it last week. I knew that some flowers got sent 'from Mark', and that Nathan ended up talking the blame for sending them, so nobody got suspicious about whether Mark was still around or tried looking for him. BUT I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. I assumed that it was all his, rash, idea, as he got deeper into covering up his dad's death, because as his mum pointed out, blackmailing her over it kind of made him an accessory. The TV guide said that 'Nathan confesses to sending the flowers to stop Natasha from confessing to Maisie', (Maisie is Nathan's sister) which sort of suggests that Natasha was feeling guilty about it and about what it was doing to Maisie, at least, and that Nathan stopped her from telling the truth because he was afraid he would go to jail. BUT NO. NO. Maisie got all upset because she couldn't understand why her dad would just send flowers and not make any other contact, and was staying up all night wondering if her dad would ever be coming home, and Nathan ended up shouting at her which was pretty awful, but as he pointed out to his mum, other than telling Maisie the truth, how should they handle it?
AND THEN NATASHA WAS IN THE LIVING ROOM WITH NATHAN, AND SHE WAS WORRIED ABOUT MAISIE AND WHETHER SHE MIGHT HAVE A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN AGAIN, AND THEN SHE JUST TURNED AND LOOKED AT NATHAN, AND WAS ALL 'NATHAN, MAISIE KNOWS YOU HATE MY NEW BOYFRIEND, SHE WOULD WAY BELIEVE THAT YOU WOULD DO ANYTHING TO SPLIT US UP'. AND HE WAS LIKE, 'UM, YEAH, AND?'. AND HE PROPERLY JUST NEVER EVEN CONSIDERED IT, IT WASN'T EVEN LIKE HE THOUGHT OF THE IDEA TO STOP MAISIE WORRYING OR TO BUY HIM AND HIS MUM SOME TIME AND STOP PEOPLE BEING SUSPICIOUS, IT NEVER EVEN CROSSED HIS MIND, EVEN AFTER HIS MUM STARTED HINTING ABOUT IT. AND SHE WAS LIKE 'YOU SHOULD TELL MAISIE YOU SENT THE FLOWERS. IF YOU CARE ABOUT HER. IF YOU WANT HER TO NOT HAVE ANOTHER BREAKDOWN.' AND HE WAS LIKE 'NO!'. AND SHE STARTED SHOUTING THAT IT WAS FOR THE GOOD OF THE FAMILY, AND THAT HE OWED HER, FOR, IDK, BLACKMAILING HER THAT ONE TIME AFTER HE FOUND OUT SHE MURDERED HIS DAD AND THOUGHT THAT THE IDEA THAT SHE MIGHT DESERVE TO GO TO PRISON FOR DOING THAT 'ABSURD'. AND OH MY GOD NATASHA, HE IS CLEARLY ALREADY A BIT MENTALLY UNSTABLE, EVEN MORE SO SINCE FINDING OUT YOU KILLED HIS DAD, WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TO HIM? THE PAIN AND BETRAYAL IN HIS EYES WAS A BIT UNBELIEVABLE.
I shouted for pretty much all of that paragraph. I did notice. Anyway, then Maisie came in and I think asked what they were arguing about, or if they were talking about her dad. And Natasha just sort of forced his hand, like she has done before, by saying 'No, we KNOW who sent the flowers', and looking at Nathan. And he told Maisie that 'Yes, I sent the flowers', and he knew how much she would hate him for it, and Maisie is like one of the few people in the world he actually really loves, and she did hate him for it. She said 'how could you do that to me? To Will?' (their younger brother). And he tried to claim it had been a joke, and she slapped him across the face, and told him she hated him, and then ran out. And Nathan just retreated to a corner of the room on his own, and Natasha came over and tried to put her hands on his shoulders, and said she was sorry, and she would try to fix his relationship with his sister in any way she could, and he just stepped away from her, and told her not to bother, and she was really lucky she had him, because he was the 'perfect fall guy'. And I just, oh my god. I cannot believe Natasha. I know she is trying to cover up a murder, and the programme needs her to keep it a secret a while longer, and Nathan is a jerk, but he is her son, and she is just unbelievably cold to her own children when she wants to be, and not in a 'not very maternal' way, in a 'really quite awful' way.
I sort of am having a hard time seeing how he will come out of this, I hope he does because OH MY GOD. But I know some stuff he does later on, and he's sort of getting deeper and deeper into helping his mother cover up his dad's murder, and even though it makes sense because we as viewers can see how his mother is pressuring him into doing it, how will other any of the other characters know about it? Or believe it, if Natasha continues to lie about it or not believe she's done anything wrong? It just seems like he going to go crazy, even more crazy, and have a hard time getting out of it. Or go to jail. Or doing something else really awful, and go to jail. Or get killed. Possibly. Maybe I am being a bit pessimistic about this. I don't know.
I love Nathan. I know that he is a jerk, but I love him. I love him. Oh god.
Also, you know what Simpsons pairing I love? Sideshow Bob/Bart. I have terrible pairings, I know. Although frankly, when there is a scene between two characters which involves one trying to kill the other and then finding that they 'can't do it', and then singing about how they've 'grown accustomed to his face', I'm not sure that it's completely my fault. I love Sideshow Bob/Bart.
Also I love Logan/Aaron from Veronica Mars. I really truly love it. I wrote a tiny bit of fic the other week based on a prompt from a prompt community, and thought up a bunch of AUs, including a sort of Labyrinth AU, mainly because I've been listening to the Labyrinth soundtrack quite a lot recently, and the idea of Aaron coming back from the dead as a kind of Goblin King figure and making Logan run around a maze to try to get back a child or person he'd accidentally wished away, all while trying to sort of convince/seduce Logan into staying with him in supernatural-land forever, was REALLY QUITE PLEASING TO ME. And I have awful pairings, I know. But awful GREAT pairings.