girlofprey

I have so much to do at the moment. Or not that much to do, but a lot more than I have been doing over the past few weeks. I am still not on my new laptop from Christmas, despite it all being set up and everything, because I want to back up everything from my current laptop before I move onto it, including my Favourites/Bookmarks, if possible. But I want to go through my Favourites first, to check for any broken links or things I don't want anymore, before transferring them over, and I have not edited my Favourites for at least a couple of years. I have added to it. Plenty. But not edited it. And a lot of the time when I find a broken link, I mostly spend my time trying to find another link to it, so I can decide whether or not I want it later - mostly because it can be hard to tell from a broken link and a bookmark title what a page actually is, and whether it's something I would actually want. So. It's taking a little while. And mostly it's reminding me of all my old fandoms. Remember when Heroes used to be less shit? I do. Also, last night I started going through my Vids bookmarks. Which basically led to just watching a lot of vids. So. It's a bit slow going. But hopefully once I'm through the big folders, near the beginning, the rest won't take very long. Then I only have to back up my Favourites, back up some music, and try to back up my Morrowind saved games, if possible, and then I am ready to move over to my new laptop. My dad keeps asking me if I've started using the new laptop yet. I want to tell him that after 7 or so years, and doing a lot of stuff online, moving laptops sort of feels a bit like moving house. But I've decided to just get on with it instead.

Other than that, I was meant to have a dentist appointment today but the receptionist called this morning and said I couldn't go because the dentist was at a funeral in Africa. And I thought I might have a Jobcentre appointment tomorrow, but it turns out that's not until next week. Apart from that, I need to tidy my room, which is a tip, buy some new jeans (desperately), decide whether or not I want to stay on Jobseeker's or try to get onto Disability Allowance, possibly chase up the mental health organisations I'm meant to be getting further help/treatment from, possibly buy some new wellies in case it snows again, go down to Alliance and Lester to check if I changed my details with them when I moved back to my parents' house, try to look at and sort out my money at the moment especially since I need to put some money aside for London, and try to charge my new electric toothbrush. And try to book my travel tickets for London. And try to watch up some of the stuff on our Sky+ box from over Christmas. Honestly, I finally deleted a mere 38 episodes of Emmerdale with lovely Nathan in then from off the Sky+ box on Friday, and dad IMMEDIATELY tried to get me to delete other stuff as well. HE HAS NO CONCEPT OF GRATITUDE.

Other things that have been happening, in bullet points:

• There were three new Marples on in a week over Christmas, which is almost always a good thing. I like Marple better than Poirot, I think. But unusually, I managed to guess massive plot twists in each one, if not who'd actually done it, long before the end of the programme, which I don't normally do. I can't tell if it's because I'm more used to the formula/stories, or if it's because they're getting more obvious. I feel like it's the second one, with all the ominous line delivery and close-ups on people's shifty faces, and Clearly Important Slight Slow Motion applied to certain things that happen. Which seems like kind of a shame. Still, nothing happened that was quite as disturbing as when I was watching the new one in August, and suddenly started shipping Miss Marple with the killer. Dolly is clearly Miss Marple's girlfriend, but I remain convinced that the killer from The Pale Horse is her one true love. Sort of.



• Coronation Street did a disgusting thing, but at least David had the good grace to look slightly ashamed and hunted over it the next day. And I don't normally enjoy sexual slurs being aimed at women, but the sheer timing of his comeback to Tracy the next day was sort of too good to believe.
  
  ( Spoilers for the Tracy storylines over Christmas and New Year. Mostly about the Platts )



• ( Sort of big spoilers for Tracy storylines up to the next six months or so )



• Nathan got a mention in yesterday's Emmerdale! A sort of actual involvement in the script! His little brother Will was playing computer games with his friend Belle, alone, and someone called his mobile and he looked at it and then his face darkened and he just put it away. Belle said maybe he should answer it because it might be someone important, and he said it was no-one he wanted to talk to. Then later on, in another scene, his phone rang again, and he checked it and his face darkened again and he put it away. And Belle asked who it was, it was okay, he could tell her anything, and he said "You want to know who it is? It's Nathan! He won't leave me alone!", and then he SMASHED THE PHONE ON THE FLOOR. Oh, Nathan is calling his little brother! I have wondered what Nathan's first Christmas and New Year without basically ANY OF HIS FAMILY would be like, unless he visited his mother. It makes sense he wouldn't totally give up without a fight too. And at least it suggests he's okay-ish and still has his mobile phone, or a phone, and hasn't had to sell it for warmth or food or shelter. I'm assuming Nathan's probably okay, they had a house all rented down in London to go to and I think he still has friends in London he could call on if he was properly in trouble. Still. It's nice to hear of him again. OH NATHAN.
  
  ( Some spoilers for upcoming Wylde storylines in Emmerdale )



• I didn't see the new Doctor Who special over Christmas (also I did see a bit of Voyage of the Damned with Tony Gordon in it, with his hair slicked back and calling everyone idiots, swoon) - but I did see a clip of it yesterday with the CRAZY SHARK, CRAZY MASSIVE SHARK THAT WILL TRY TO EAT ANYONE, ANYTHING, BUT ESPECIALLY HUMANS, NO MATTER HOW MUCH EFFORT IT TAKES OR HOW MUCH DAMAGE IT DOES TO ITSELF DOING SO. I know that it was some sort of weird air-breathing shark from some sort of mysterious anomoly. I'm assuming it was an alien shark and they explained that earth sharks generally don't act like this. Or that it was very hungry. Or something. I'm being very kind about it, really.



• Reason number one why it's probably a good idea for me to sort through everything on my laptop and back it up and start using the new one: I'm keeping the new one on the floor next to my bed, out of the way. Or so I thought. The fancy Christmas light decoration thing my parents put in my window is no longer staying on the glass, so I was propping it up against the window. I just went over to close my window and knocked it I think and it accidentally fell over and knocked a bunch of ornaments of my windowsill, including one I think onto the laptop. There doesn't seem to be any damage to the computer or marks on it though. Still. Oops.



• I was following John Allison's little Giant Days 'blog' on the top twenty albums of the year complete with sample songs. I wasn't too taken with a lot of them, but I'm finding myself suddenly a bit obsessed with Infinity Guitars by Sleigh Bells. Warning: This music may make you feel like punching a crow.
  
  And I was all sort of feeling a bit Alternative and pleased with myself. And then today I was watching E4 and an advert for the new series of 90210 came on, using that song as a soundtrack. Damn you 90210. Or you E4. You and your music-stealing ways.



• Ed From Bugs Dancing On Ice starts on Sunday. Eeee!

So, my team didn't QUITE collapse it's enemies (I have Italy from a World Cup sweepstake), but we didn't lose, which is also nice. I also learned two things about my team: 1, our goalkeeper is beautiful, and 2, one of the players has butterflies tattooed on his arm. I love my team QUITE A LOT at the moment. Woo.

I had a good week, anyway. I went to see an opera last week - there was an Opera North production called Rusalka that I'd been wanting to see for a while, and then I realised that is was only on for another week in Leeds. And after looking into it online, I learned that I could get a £10 stalls ticket because I was under 26, and then that you could get half price tickets sometimes on the day of the performance. So my mum and I ended up going last Wednesday night. And it was actually brilliant, it's basically a version of the little mermaid story, except possibly based on older stories than the Hans Christian Anderson version. But it was great and staged really well, and the woman in the lead role was amazing. If it's on anywhere near you and you have any interest in Opera, I would really recommend you see it.

And then this weekend I went to Lancaster to see jekesta and alicamel. And we watched the second series of Bugs and the second series and special of Hana Yori Dango, and OH MY GOD HANA YORI DANGO OH MY GOD, OH TSUKASA, OH MAKINO, OH ALL OF THEM, OH MY GOD, they are UNBELIEVABLY PRETTY, and Ed from Bugs is UNBELIEVABLY PRETTY, and all in all it was a good weekend for television. Also, jekesta showed me the latest episode of Lie To Me, where Logan from Veronica Mars is in it as a slightly terrifying evil character. That was pretty good too. And we played Escape From Atlantis, and charades, and I had to act out 'Disgrace', but jekesta had to act out 'Sense and Sensitivity', and alicamel had to act out 'Cavalcade', so it was pretty fair really. Also, did I mention Hana Yori Dango? It was a great weekend.

Come on Italy. Rah!

Somehow it's almost time for bed. I'm not sure how that happened. I have been playing Online Tetris for a while though. I long for the day it's one of those ancient "traditional" people wank philosophically about, with the human race since as far back as they can remember. Not that I'll be there to see that day.

Note to self: when you're not allowing yourself to buy anymore books, the bookshop is generally not a good place to go. Also, I learned that 'comfy' work shoes are not necessarily all that comfy if they have huge spikes digging into your ankles! (note: 'huge' may be exaggeration).

Did I mention that the (wanky) new SFX claims they're remaking Star Trek, the Original Series? Like, with new actors and everything. It's slightly surreally worrying. Though they did suggest Ian Hislop for the new Bones. And, um, Heath Ledger for the new Kirk.

Oh, and they did a little bit on BUGS beneath it. I love BUGS. Ed is pretty.

Sleep now I think yes.

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