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My adventures in the last few days have also included:

  • Going to the doctor's and getting a sick note that will last me indefinitely, until a decision is reached on my appeal, yay!


  • I got the bus to my local cinema on Wednesday, and just before we reached the cinema a man on the backseat - who I'm pretty sure got on the bus in the bus station with me and seemed alright - suddenly starting shouting loudly. He stopped after a minute, and everyone looked around at him, but he didn't say anything else (that I heard) so I assumed he probably had Tourette's or something. Then, he started coughing really loudly and quite noticeably. Then a little closer to the cinema he got up and walked down to the driver, and his jeans were pretty clearly wet, in a way that it seem pretty clear he'd wet himself. He went and spoke to the driver, something I didn't hear, and then walked back to the backseat, where he'd left a jacket, but because of the bus swaying as it drove, he fell, literally, on top of a young woman in one of the seats. Still with partly wet jeans. He got up, went back to the backseat, started coughing again and Cut for possible TMI and vomiting )

    Later on, while waiting for my film, I was wandering around near the cinema, and I'm pretty sure the guy walked past me, and he didn't seem drunk and wasn't staggering or anything. So I'm not sure what was going on there. A part of me feels a bit bad for not telling him about the jacket on the backseat, but I didn't really want to speak to him or get involved much. And it might not have been his, I guess, since he left it there twice. In any case. That was fun.


  • I have discovered a new-found love of the Simon and Garfunkel song "Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard". It's quite ace.


  • I bought this necklace from Topshop, after wanting it for quite a while. It's not a collar like I thought it was, sadly. But it's still quite cool.


  • And I went to go see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, yesterday. I understand that this might be a bit confusing, considering all the other Deathly Hallows posts that will probably be all over the place at the moment. It is Part 1. I never saw it when it first came out in the cinemas. I saw it yesterday.

    I have to say that hands down, the best part of it was that Gellert Grindelwald is David Platt's grandfather. In many ways, it explains so much. Man. That was almost as good as when the Devil from Reaper turned up in X-Men: First Class advising the American military department on a possible war with Russia. NEVER LISTEN TO HIM, AMERICA.

    Anyway.

    Spoilers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows PART 1, and probably spoilers from the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book, up to and including the ending )

Few. Anyway. Other casting things that have suprised me lately: finding out Aunt Petunia is played by the same woman who played the evil p.a. woman in the Super Mario Bros film. And finding out that the woman who played Rita Sue Dreyfuss <3 on Carnivale went for the role of Martha Kent in Smallville. Who knew?



And also today, I found out that [livejournal.com profile] jekesta doesn't want me to have a happy Christmas. WHY JEKESTA, WHY?

Hello

Oct. 31st, 2007 08:33 pm
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I was totally going to do a proper post last night, as well as vague minor rambling on Heroes, but then chores and minor panic set in. Oh well.

This weekend was a bit of a disaster. General rambling )

On Monday morning, I managed to be late despite doing pretty much what I usually do on a morning, except having no corned beef so having to magic up a sandwich from other ingredients I had. Then I went the wrong way into the building and had to go back to the kitchen to put my lunch in the fridge. Then the water machine had no plastic cups, so I had to go back to the kitchen to get a mug. Then I had to go back to the kitchen to re-rinse it because I couldn't actually drink out of something with that many tea stains. Then my bag fell down my arm as I was getting water, and splashed it all over me. It was rubbish. Yesterday morning, my agency rang at five to ten in the morning to say they hadn't got my timesheet for last week (which I sent), and they needed it by ten, so could I do another one quick sharpish? People were missing and the fax was engaged, so I did not get it in by ten. Which means my wage this week will probably be delayed, and I really did need that money in my account to cover the bills. And. Yes.

But it wasn't all bad. K and I went out on Monday night, since she and J moved out of their flat last week and were leaving Nottingham this week. Except it turned out J had already gone. But it was nice. We had dinner at a pub nearby (a touch overpriced), and she taught me a great catchphrase from Dali, and then we went to see a film. Which, through a lack of other things, turned out to be The Dark Is Rising. You know what's funny? How bad that film is. Omg. Vague spoilers ) We sort of enjoyed it anyway. They clearly missed a trick by not putting Ace of Base on that soundtrack. Oh.

Oh, and I finished Carnivale at the weekend. Oh, Carnivale. I do love it. I don't feel entirely like I can rec it, since it's so very much my sort of thing, and I'm probably MASSIVELY BIASED. But other people seem to think it's good too. There's sadly not much fic for my OTP. In a SHOCKING TURN OF EVENTS. But I get to love it onscreen, anyway. Mostly I think everyone on my flist should watch it. I'd squee, but that would only be spoilers, and it's so much better without them. If anyone I've met would ever like to come to my flat and watch Carnivale with me, THEY ARE PERFECTLY FREE TO. Dude.

And today I am tired, tired, tired. After a week or so of not really having much to do at work, all of a sudden everyone's coming to me and saying can you do this, this is urgent. Or reminding me about things they mentioned previously but said weren't important, and saying that they are now more urgent. Given that most of those things are printing stuff off and putting them in neat piles you'd think it would be easy, but it's actually quite time consuming. The job isn't going on until Christmas, either, the girl I was filling in for is coming back next week, so how I'm expected to do everything I don't know. But will have to figure it out I guess. But tonight is Halloween! I have a large bag of sweets and stuff my mum brought for me when she came up the other week, and nothing particularly to do. Possibly the perfect night in, you might say. TV is rubbish at Halloween. But I imagine I can root out some DVDs.
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