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I had tuna fishcakes for tea tonight, but when I got them they were a bit cool. Mum made them so I assumed they'd just been left out for a little while when she was doing other things. It only occurred to me after a while that they'd been frozen, and might just not have been cooked through properly. So now I'm concerned about the food poisoning. Still eating though.

Things that have happened lately that I took note of:

  • Microsoft have apparently dropped or debunked a bunch of the features in the Xbox One that everyone was furious about, which is probably for the best. The camera and microphone that watches you all the time can apparently be switched off in the menu - if you remember to do that; you can trade in and play used games, but only with 'selected retailers'; and the fact that it was going to need to 'check in' with the Microsoft online servers once every 24 hours or it wouldn't let you play offline, which they seemed adamant about, has now apparently been changed. That last fact is pretty good, since it apparently pissed off every army in the world. I'm still not planning on getting an Xbox One right now, mostly because I have a Playstation and I'd like to stick with them. Although Microsoft's tendency to use their money to buy exclusives for insanely popular games might one day change my mind - people have been talking about Fallout 4 being an Xbox One exclusive lately, although they've also pointed out that even if it was you'd probably still be able to get in on PC. But regardless, it's nice to know that Microsoft are actually listening to people, and capable of not being so crazy.


  • Kickstarter did something terrible, cut for sexual assault, rape culture and misogyny )


  • I love this girl:



  • Interesting history and the films that are being made based on it.


  • This cartoon about birth control:

    woman stork amazing



In other news, tonight David Platt picked up Becky's sledgehammer. Reason #538 why they should have been friends.

And Despicable Me 2 is out next week. And the week after there's Now You See Me, the film about magician thieves with Dave Franco in it, and The Internship. I feel ambivalent about The Internship, ever since another internet article pointed out there are no films out at the moment in most of America about a woman or a group of women, and I realised it was also true of England, or at least my bit of it from what I could see. And The Internship does like a film about two guys, hanging around with a bunch of other people who are mostly guys, trying to prove they are still worthwhile/man enough to have around. But on the other hand, Vince Vaughn is in it, and seems to be playing a part that doesn't mostly involve being a dick, unlike a lot of his roles nowadays. So I will probably give it a watch after all, if I have time.
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On a sort of related note to what I was posting about yesterday, it's kind of a shame that in there's quite so many Snow White-related fairytale films and shows coming out at the moment, because pretty much the only show about Snow White I'd like to see is this one. And it was on months ago, in New York.

Also, it would make me very happy if the Red Riding Hood tag on Tumblr wasn't quite SO full of Once Upon A Time and Amanda Seyfried/Max Irons. I still don't know who Max Irons is, but I know his name because of the Red Riding Hood tag.

This, on the other hand, is kind of making me laugh. SORRY TO ANY BENEDICT CUMBERPATCH FANS ON MY FLIST.

ALSO, I saw the trailer for Hunderby today. Behold:



Which looks like it's either going to be hilarious, or terrifying as fuck. Either way, I am interested. It's a 'black comedy' according to internet sources. Phew.

ETA: No-one should judge me for thinking Hunderby might have been terrifying and/or serious, by the way. The first time I saw the advert was backwards in a mirror while I was eating something in the kitchen. I literally went back and watched it again because I thought it might have been called 'Hundredy' and I didn't understand. It could easily have been a terrifying period drama about a house full of lunatics. IT STILL MIGHT BE.
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My parents are home. My mum said they'd probably be back by about 3pm, but just I was getting ready to come downstairs at about quarter to 2 I saw them pulling into the driveway. Almost the first thing my mum said to me as she came in was how horrible it had been - while laughing - and showing me her bitten-off fake nails. I get the feeling I made a wise decision not to go with them.

At first the kids stayed for a bit, while mum and dad unpacked and sorted out which things were theirs and which weren't. While mum and dad were sorting things out the kids were basically demanding to go home, and when everything was unpacked and my parents were ready to take them, they were demanding to stay. I beat a hasty retreat to my bedroom. Where I have been pretty much ever since, apart from going down for dinner. I think everything's basically back to normal now though.

What I do want to say is that this week I was largely entertained by Got To Dance semi-finals, which they repeated on Sky 1 every day this week. I LOVE GOT TO DANCE SO MUCH. I love all the judges. And we have some amazing amateur dancers in the UK. The only real low point was that each of the judges performed a dance themselves on each show, and Kimberley went first, and she is basically my favourite judge and was going to be doing some contemporary dancing, which she originally trained in, and I was really excited...and then her dance turned out to be slightly racist. The staging at least. It wasn't like the worst thing I'd ever seen, but it leaned pretty heavily on the 'problematic and kind of appropriative' line. Which was a shame. Apart from anything else, I couldn't concentrate on her dancing, like I wanted to, because I kept getting distracted by how awful it was. Oh well. Later on in the week she did another dance with Adam Garcia, although it was more along the lines of her commercial dancing. But it was also less racist. Which was nice.

Anyway. The show itself made me grit my teeth repeatedly, because of their habit of making all the contestants read and look at a few of the Twitter/Facebook/livechat comments about them online after they get their judges' comments. Which Davina McCall makes them read, and reads out LOUDLY AND MEANINGFULLY. Every time it happened I basically wanted to smash up my TV. Also I really hate the way they 'excitingly edit' dance routines on shows like that. Maybe it's just my OCD talking, wanting everything to be the same, and I've probably complained about it before on other dance shows. But I just think that performances like that are meant to be watched on a stage, where they are performed. By members of the audience who have one vantage point, and only one, all the way through. Not constantly cutting to an overhead shot, and then swirling round them. JUST LET ME WATCH THE DANCING. FROM THE FRONT. So yeah. That was annoying.

But mostly it was lovely, and showed me some amazing dancing. Like, some beautiful poledancing:





And Hoofing, which is a style of dance I didn't even know about:



All of which was lovely. And Adam Garcia did a performance that kind of blew me away. Which was odd, because of the three judges, he's probably my 3rd favourite. I still love him, but you know, Kim and Ashley. But still. And then he and Kim danced together. And Ashley was obviously so sad not to be dancing with them. THEY EACH PROMISED HIM ONE DAY THEY WOULD DANCE WITH HIM. I love them. Apparently they are adding a fourth judge in the next series. I am mostly excited by this, for some reason, but also slightly worried it will ruin the current brilliance of them. DON'T RUIN THE CURRENT BRILLIANCE OF THEM. That is all.

ETA: I am wrong - the new judge is replacing Adam, who has left for...reasons. See, this is why he is my 3rd favourite. Maybe. The new judge is a guy from JLS. I am slightly more apprehensive about what the new series and judge-dynamic could be like now. But. It could still be GREAT.
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Things I didn't know before now:

  • So You Think You Can Dance? has been axed, and The Voice, which is on at the moment, has taken it's spot. So much for finding out when it starts again this year.


  • I never really thought Duncan Bannatyne was a nice guy, but trying to find out when Dragon's Den is on again this year led me to find out that he's kind of racist (he said fellow Dragon James Caan had an 'unfair advantage' because being born in Pakistan meant he had a tax break, which is apparently part of the reason why James Caan left the show), and a little bit misogynistic - he criticised a woman who tricked a fellow contestant out of his share of their gameshow winnings (which was part of the gameshow), and apparently said "she took the money because she is a woman". Which is lovely. It's always nice when people turn out to be jerks, isn't it?

Anyway. Other than that I have mostly been a) playing computer games, and b) not watching things on TV. I missed Monday's Coronation Street because there was some sort of football game on, and haven't caught up, which is making it a little awkward to watch the new episodes. Should do that over the weekend I guess. Also, I mostly haven't been watching snooker, even though I do quite love it. I am happy for Ali Carter and Matthew Stevens. Also I have seen Matthew Stevens for the first time, except for vaguely in icons. He looks almost exactly like I thought he would, and I can't tell whether that's because I'm very good at picking out which icons are him and what his face would look like bigger, or because I'm psychic. Either way, hurrah.

Saints Row 2 is going well. I kind of wish you could just stay a scuzzy low-life criminal forever. But then you don't get the respect you deserve. So you have to be a psycho instead. And [spoilers]. Sob. Also I am really enjoying Shadows Of The Damned, but I'm finding it slightly frustrating as well. It's probably the first game I've ever played that is SO combat heavy, and not open world with it. Even in The Darkness, you got to run around doing side-quests, and in Wet, you got the occasional break to just sort of do a puzzle to work out how to get from one area to the next. In Shadows Of The Damned you literally have to do a lot of often pretty difficult combat challenges just to get from one area to the next, and to progress at all. Which can be a little annoying. But it's also the point of the game. And I am enjoying it. So yeah.

Also I went to see Lockout, that film I've been banging on about. I LOVE PETER STORMARE. And Guy Pearce was kind of amazing. I really did enjoy it, it felt quite old-fashioned and sort of B-movie-ish. Which didn't always work, but mostly it was pretty fun. But they did do one thing I didn't like, which I can't even really complain about, because if you watch the film at all it will probably be a spoiler. It was unexpected (for me)! But not that great really. But yeah. Mostly, I liked it.

Oh, also I think I may be a bit in love with Tom from The Apprentice. Everything makes him sad. And none of his team leaders are really good enough for him. I am not expecting this feeling to last, and am mostly expecting him to go next week probably. Although perhaps he will continue to be underappreciated and then exonerated for many more weeks to come. Who knows.

Also Death Valley is on the UK MTV channels (every night at 11pm, weirdly), and I really feel like I should give it a watch, to show there is an audience here and encourage a Region 2 DVD release. Watching recordings off Sky count as ratings, right? But it's sort of hard enough to watch things I've recorded off Sky most of the time anyway. Never mind something I've already seen, and can sort of see again whenever I like. Sigh.

Also it seems like I am, on the other hand, quite enjoying children's programming at the moment. I've been watching Deadly 60 for a while - it is nice, and Steve Backshall is quite nice and enthusiastic - but recently, I've been catching Lockie Leonard after it on CBBC. Which I'm quite enjoying. It's weirdly quite funny and grown-up (some of the time) for a children's programme, although that might say more about my assumptions than it does about the show really. Also, I quite fancy the dad in it. There, I admitted it. I still haven't caught up with Horrible Histories this series though. Missed the beginning while I was at Eastercon, and never watched the shows I recorded of it. Shame.
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A list of things I was going to post earlier because basic reactions were all I had, but you can have them now just because:

  • Vera is amazing. The show and the lady.


  • I am annoyed with Infamous, because it has so many problems and is kind of shit, but I also really enjoy playing it, and like the story-telling, if not the story, and now I have a pairing. A pairing with no fandom. Home at last.


  • There is no kink meme for Infamous, but there is for the game it's apparently constantly having fights with.


  • However, I've decided Infamous is probably the most difficult fandom there is to Google, especially when it comes to kink memes, because almost everyone non-fannish who talks about a fandom's kink meme seems to describe it as 'infamous'.


  • I really think I would be less annoyed about Infamous if more people talked about the problems with it, in a way that didn't make me think it was just me, and in a way that there was a good chance of the creators seeing it, so there was just a chance they would try not to make the same mistakes next time. There isn't even an 'Unfortunate Implications' link on the TV Tropes page, and they tend to be pretty good about things like that.


  • I did find the last pigeon in Infamous though. Hurray!


  • I commissioned a piece of work from an artist on Etsy. But apparently she just got a deal with a children's publisher, and has been working to deadline, and - even though she's apparently done it - she keeps forgetting to talk to me about it. This wouldn't be so bad, except one of my emails got lost on it's way to her before, or 'buried in her inbox', so whenever there's a long gap in emails, I'm never sure if she's just busy, or actually hasn't seen it.


  • I still haven't seen the film I was planning to see for ages, Lockdown, with Guy Pearce and Peter Stormare in it.


  • The Avengers film is out (I think), and I still haven't seen Captain America. I did not realise it was coming out as soon as April. However, given how popular it already is, chances are it will be in cinemas for a while. However, given how long it sometimes takes me to watch one film, never mind two, that might not necessarily help.


  • On the plus side, I've been largely ignoring the long, long pre-release buzz, so maybe I can mostly ignore the post-release buzz until I've seen it as well.


  • There also doesn't appear to be a Prison Break kink meme. That seems impossible to me. I was going to say that, well, it started in 2005, so maybe it just didn't quite catch that boat. But then just the other day I found out there was a Kiss Kiss Bang Bang kink meme. So I don't know. Unless I'm just not googling properly.


  • Guess which Playstation game I'm playing at the moment? If you guessed "Saints Row 2 again, because you love it", you are correct. If you also guessed "Shadows Of The Damned, because you saw it on Two Best Friends Play and it looked wicked", you are also correct. But that's a bit creepy. Shadows Of The Damned has a non-white main character. In terms of race, it's already streets ahead of Infamous. There is some slightly odd stuff about his white (white, white!) girlfriend who he almost constantly refers to as 'Angel' though. Hmm.


  • I hate my dad slightly less now. He's still a cunt though.


  • There are about five million dance shows on pretty much this month and next, mostly in London or other parts of the country where I don't live, which I'd really like to go see, but it's really just not feasible at all. Really. Which kind of sucks.


  • I don't feel like throwing up anymore. This day is looking up.
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Sometimes it seems like it's just okay for people to be casually racist and sexist and everything nowadays. I saw a bit of Have I Got News For You last night. Did anyone else see it? Slight spoiler )

On a related, but not quite as awful note, today on the Adam and Joe show Another slight spoiler )

But in slightly better personal news, our dog was having some problems yesterday, but seems a bit better today.Cut in case people find pets having physical difficulties distressing )

And now it's nearly time for the So You Think You Can Dance finale. I got the result I wanted last week anyway. Well, sort of. Spoilers for the outcome )
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Further thoughts on Coronation Street )

Well. I've pretty much enjoyed this week of Coronation Street, even with it's occasional lows, anyway.

Also, some Emmerdale news! Possible future Emmerdale casting/return spoiler )

Also, I'd like to tell you that in the end I just gave up and decided to open the MP3 player and start using it. I've been gearing up to buy it for a while, and the one from the website wouldn't come for at least 3-5 days, and I'm going on holiday in two weeks, so I don't really want to be messing about or possibly missing the return date. And it's only £10, and I didn't go to the cinema this week, so it probably evens out. I'll probably be annoyed if I have to pay for another customs charge on some Threadless t-shirts though. Growl.

The only problem now is that I've plugged it in to charge, and the only user's manual I got is a tiny booklet that explains what the buttons are for, so I'm not really sure how I'll be able to tell when it's charged. Hmm.

I want to go check if So You Think You Can Dance is on now. I don't think I ever said how sad I was about Charlotte going last week. It's really kind of a shame that the first week she wasn't with Matt, she got pretty bad comments for pretty much all her dances, and then got sent home. But I could kind of see some shortfalls in her dances compared to some of the other girl's dances. I have decided that Matt is my favourite now. Especially after that boys' group dance. With Kirsty coming in probably second. And Lee B probably in third. Ironically, I decided I quite liked Bethany Rose last week, for the first time, while she was doing her hip-hop dance, which the judges hated. I get the feeling Katie will win though. Partly because she's a really good dancer, partly because she's quite pretty, and partly because she's been pretty popular all the way through. I'll still probably be watching until the end though (or until all my favourites go, if that happens, I guess).
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Hello. I went to [livejournal.com profile] jekesta's for the weekend to watch Eurovision with her and [livejournal.com profile] cakesy. Which was lovely. I was rooting for Iceland and Moldova and possibly Ireland, but Azerbaijan stormed through. Somehow. Also we watched MANY OTHER THINGS. I can now proudly say I have watched all of the paintball episodes of Community, and the latest Parks and Recreation (I am a fool to not keep up with it), and roughly half of Crusoe. Neither Crusoe nor Friday are kings of Narnia (probably). But that doesn't mean it would have been weird for them to make themselves crowns.

Also [livejournal.com profile] jekesta watched Vera with me, which was lovely of her. Now she too knows how lovely Vera and Joe are, and how slightly incompetent at being police they sometimes are. Also I saw some of Summer Holiday for the first time, and was only squicked out by some of it, and while [livejournal.com profile] cakesy was there we saw one of the weirdest episodes of Columbo ever. Apparently if you date the main witness of a murder you commit, you can nearly get away with pretty much anything. Also, sharks help solve crime. Fact. Um. Sort of.

Anyway. We also watched So You Think You Can Dance (oh, Rithy), and Doctor Who. Well.

Spoilers for The Doctor's Wife )

Anyway. I'm back now. I got the Settle-Carlisle line back to Leeds, which sadly now appears to be the Leeds-Carlisle line. It was still lovely though. There were all sheep and lambs in the fields, often getting spooked by the train running past. I quite love the train journeys to and from Lancaster.

In other news, money. After accidentally leaving a gap in my sick notes and not hearing anything from the Department for Work and Pensions about it, I wasn't sure how much I had last week. So I checked just before going to Lancaster, tomake sure I had enough for train tickets and food and stuff, and they had totally paid me, and I had £300. I'm pretty sure I have quite a lot less than that now though. After going straight out to New Look to buy some clothes I'd been wanting but didn't think I could afford, and then some random bits of jewellery from Topshop, and then some t-shirts when Threadless reprinted some designs I'd wanted. But I'm hoping to keep it a bit more under control from now on, and I should be getting paid again on Thursday anyway. Yay.

In other news, next week isn't looking like it's going to be a fun week for me. I was thinking last week that it was going to be tough, because I had a doctor's appointment that week, then my first new counselling session, then my disability assessment, then my confidence course. But then I remembered that no, my doctor's appointment was this Friday, so it wasn't so bad. Then this morning I got a letter from my doctor, saying that sadly my doctor's appointment on Friday would have to cancelled, so could I call up to arrange another. I called up and the earliest they can see me is next Monday. So it is pretty much going to be like I thought it was going to be. Hmph.

Also, re: this week's Oglaf: askdfjklasdfhjkasdfnhj what?
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So. I've had an interesting and full day. I went to the doctor's this morning, and got my second sicknote. Which was nice, because my mum seemed to think that the doctor I was going to see wasn't someone thought much of mental health issues, or something. She said she'd seen him with my grandma sometimes, and he seemed to be of the opinion that people should just get on with things. But he turned out to be really nice. He asked what the problem was, whether I'd been working before my OCD 'flared up', and where I was supposed to be heading with the sicknote and benefits and stuff. I said OCD, that no I'd mostly been unemployed for the last year or so, and that I was on the waiting list for some counselling, and they'd said they were meant to be contacting me in mid-April, so hopefully I'd hear from them soon. And he said okay, and gave me a sicknote. Hurrah.

But due to some mix-ups with me and mum, who'd given me a lift to the doctors and then went shopping, and me having not much credit on my phone and not calling her when I got out of the doctors, in favour of going to buy some toothpaste, and my phone being on silent so I didn't hear when she tried to call me, she ended up driving home from town without me. Which meant I had to get a £1.30 bus journey home, and then walk back from the stop, with my OCD kicking in all the way. Which led to me crying on the bus and in the street. And then at home when I sort of confronted my mum about it. It probably wouldn't have been so bad, but I really didn't expect her to go without me, even if I didn't call her; and I have no idea what it is, but I had the sheets changed on my bed the other night for the first time in a while, and the duvet sort of moved around so it's not so heavy, and since then I've had really weird unsettled sleep, waking up every few hours; and after I got upstairs after talking to my mum I started having some adbominal twinges, which suggest I'm going to be having a period soon. We sorted it all out, she came upstairs and we hugged, and I apologised for crying at her, and she apologised for going home without waiting to speak to me. I do think it was a bit weird of her, but I probably overreacted a bit, and we got it all sorted out.

Anyway. But then, my mum informed me that unfortunately, today was the day when we - or my mum and my dad - were meant to be taking both my nephews off my sister and her partner's hands so she and he could have some time together alone. My parents did this a few weeks ago, and I assumed it was a one-off, but apparently no, it's something they're meant to be doing every month. So. Anyway. My mum said that she and my dad would take them out, so I wouldn't need to see them or play with them until the evening when they came back to the house for their tea. But they were planning to take them to Halfords for some helmets to ride on their bikes with, and then to the park. And then it started raining in the afternoon, so they ended up bringing them back here. It wasn't too bad though, there were a few fights and tears, and then the rain stopped and they went out to play on their bikes and there was a bit more bad behaviour, and then it was about time for them to go home, and then there was a lot of bad behaviour. But they were pretty okay most of the time. It did feel like a different day to the one where I went to town this morning though. But anyway. Then my parents and I had our tea and watched tonight's So You Think You Can Dance. I disagree with the judges pretty often in that show, but I do tend to enjoy the dances. Especially the hip hop dances. I might start trying to watch that regularly again.

And then I came upstairs and went on my computer, and started listening to the rest of the Adam and Joe Show from today that I missed on the radio today. Hurrah.

In between all of that I have been watching more old Coronation Street episodes I have found on Youtube. Oh. I have found things I had almost forgotten about, and things I never saw and wished I did. I did not get to see the episode where David and Gary met for the first time, but I saw the episode where the Windasses moved in next door to the Platts/Mcintyres. It's weird how crazy and violent Gary was when he first came to the street. In some ways I kind of miss crazy thuggish Gary and evil mastermind David, who were obsessed with each other. Always with the underlying feeling that if some greater evil, like a MOTORCYCLE GANG came to the street, they might band together, and become an unstoppable two-boy gang. It's nice to see it though. I just recently saw the episode where David freaked out at his mum for letting Anna hug her, because he can't stand the idea of 'physically touching' one of the Windasses. Oh. And it's sort of the start of Steve and Becky's relationship, properly, and oh God. The first time they properly deliberately had sex, and it wasn't just a drunken mistake, Becky stopped and wasn't sure what she was doing because she'd never had sex sober. OH. In some ways Steve was her first. And these are also the episodes with Sad Detective Maria, who's convinced that Tony is a murderer and had Liam killed, and everyone else is just telling her she's mad. I'd almost forgotten how great she was then. It's weird, but even now, watching it back, I kind of hope she uncovers Tony's lies and gets him sent to prison. Even knowing like I do what happens later, and loving it so much. It's just good writing I guess. I LOVE OLD CORONATION STREET. I AM GOING TO KEEP WATCHING TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS AND WHAT HAPPENED.
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Hello! I went out to see Northern Ballet's Cleopatra tonight. God I love ballet. Anyway, it was really good, it was a bit weird that given that it was called Cleopatra, we didn't really see her do much ruling or anything much outside of her rivalry with her brother/husband, her affair with Caesar, and then her affair with Mark Anthony. If they wanted to remake Anthony and Cleopatra, they could at least have let people know by calling it that. Also, between the history they gave us in the programme, the story they actually told in the ballet and the things I have learned from Horrible Histories, I am left just really confused about the story of Cleopatra, Caesar and Mark Anthony. But it was good, and then main ballerina was amazing. I thoroughly recommend it though, if it's on anywhere near you and you like ballet and have the money and stuff.

I had a bit of a trial getting there and back though. Yesterday, just to check, I went online and looked at the train times coming back. It turned out that the last train/s back from Leeds to my home town are now 35 minutes earlier than they were before, or 25 minutes earlier and I have to wait over at a different station for 35 minutes at half past ten at night. So my parents and I made a plan that I would try for the earlier one, and if I had to get the one with the big stopover my dad would come and pick me up from that station. Then today, I was all set to go get the train at the usual time to go to Leeds, but when I checked it just in case just before I went out, it turns out trains are all different on Saturdays, and I'd just missed one train and the next one would get me to Leeds train station at 7.20 when I needed to be at Leeds Grand Theatre/in my seat at 7.30. I took a taxi from the station in the end, and managed to get there in time. I bought a programme before I went in, which was too big for my bag, so when I went to the bathroom during the interval and didn't want to fiddle with my bag too much with wet hands, while juggling it about while trying to wash them and get tissue out to dry them, my programme ended up falling out onto the (slightly wet) bathroom floor. Then after I got out of the theatre, happily a little bit early, I had to peg it down to the station, to the point where my legs went really stiff, but I managed to get the first train. Then just as we were pulling into my home station, a man sat across from me looked over and asked if I had any tissues, and I realised he'd thrown up in his lap. Or his friend had done it, but frankly, his friend didn't look apologetic enough to have done it himself. But anyway. I got home alright. Hurrah!

Also, the back of my programme had all of the shows Northern Ballet are planning to do this year. They all look so lovely. But also expensive. Hmph.
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I have come back from my weekend in London with [livejournal.com profile] cakesy. Over the weekend, I:

  • Went to see Love and War by the Mark Bruce Company, which I loved, with K. It was a little bit nerve racking at first because K and I didn't really agree on a place to meet up, specifically, we just said at King's Cross at about 6.30. Then she called me at 6.25 when I was on a train, just about to pull in, to say her phone was really low on battery, but that she was there, and she said she'd wait at the tube station, opposite where the ticket-buying place was. It turns out there's quite a few tube station entrances near to where you can buy tickets. And her phone was off when I tried to call again. I basically couldn't find her, and ended up having to go to the theatre to pick up our tickets, and I didn't know exactly where the theatre was, just that it was close by. It ended up being easy to find, thankfully, but K wasn't there, and she didn't turn up while I was waiting for her outside. Eventually I went inside, and the show was a bit delayed, and as I was sat there waiting for it to begin K suddenly walked over and asked for her ticket so she could give it to the nice ticketman who'd let her come in to find me. She'd been considering giving up, but then just went to an internet cafe, found out where the theatre was and come to find me. It turned out she didn't know there was a ticket buying place in King's Cross King's Cross, and had been waiting at the one in St Pancras. But anyway. She made it, and we had a great time, and the show was good, yay!


  • I had found out just before I came to London that Luke Rattigan was in a play, over the weekend, in London. And it was basically right next to where me and [livejournal.com profile] cakesy were already going to see a comedy show later that night. And she is kind and said yes, of course we can go, Rachael. So we went to see Luke Rattigan in a play. And it was very good, and he was good, and it was about gay people and gay rights in the last few decades, and when he was in the audience pretending to be a protester at an anti-gay show thing, he made out with another actor about two rows down from me. It was quite good. And the play was good. And he was good.


  • And then later on that night, as I said, we went to a comedy thing, which [livejournal.com profile] cakesy had agreed to, once again, because it was Tom Stade, and he was on in London the weekend I was in London, and I kind of love him. And he was great, and he didn't tell any jokes playing on the word 'faggot', hurrah, and he kept picking on a guy in the front row who he informed us all was called 'Heroin Jim'. Oh the things he and Heroin Jim had been up to. He was brilliant. I love him. Except for that one joke. And THEN a man came on doing comedy and magic tricks, and THEN Paul Sinha came on, and he was pretty funny too. Hurrah.

And in between all of that, [livejournal.com profile] cakesy and I watched Blades of Glory, and about 2 and a third seasons of The Office (US). Ryan is my favourite, he is young and smart and kind of amoral, but also I love Dwight, and I love Toby, and I love Oscar, and I love Angela, and I love Phyllis, and I love Stanley, and I love Pam sometimes, and I love Michael sometimes. AND OH. Pam was in Blades of Glory too, it turned out. That was quite suprising and special. Hurrah. So all in all, I had a good weekend.

Things I have decided there should be:

  • A website place, sort of like imdb, where you can check to find out if actors you like are on stage any time soon. Finding out just afterwards, sometimes, is not really good enough in my opinion.

  • A Disney kink meme. I cannot be the only one who thinks this, right? I mean, I probably could be, but I would prefer not to be. DISNEY KINK. COME ON.

  • Office AUs. The ones I came up with so far are:
    • Desert island

    • Michael is a pimp and the rest of the office are his hos.

    • Crime syndicate
    And probably a bunch of others I can't remember now.


And, Coronation Street tonight )
girlofprey: (Andromeda The Domination of Known Space)
I still suck at posting, it turns out. My adventures recently have included:

  • Last Wednesday - A Jobcentre appointment and all the usual lack of sleep, running around and applying for jobs/lying that goes along with that.


  • Last Thursday - A counselling appointment, and all the lack of sleep that goes along with getting up for an appoinment at about 11 in the morning for me when I've normally been getting out of bed a bit later than that. Although the appointment itself was fairly fine, my counselling woman is quite nice.


  • Last Friday - Getting out of bed to answer the phone, which turned out to be one of my agencies calling to offer me a temporary job, which started today, and which I accepted. It's only for four weeks, but it is work. Hurrah.


  • Saturday and Sunday: - The Riverside Festival, which is one of my favourite things about Nottingham. There are live bands from around the world, and fairground rides, and people wandering around in costumes doing street theatre, and fairground-style burger and candyfloss vans, and it's by a river, and admission is free. On the Saturday I saw a dance performance as well by a local dance class doing swing-dancing. Then tap-dancing. And then another dance class who proceeded to do the cha-cha, and confusingly, a jive dance to the same song the celebrities did a group swing dance to on the last series of Strictly Come Dancing. But it was good. And now I get the enjoyable opportunity to look up the great bands I saw from various countries up on the internet. Yay.


  • Monday - Running around trying to get all my housing benefits and Jobseekers Allowance and things properly notified that I'm going to be working for a bit, and make sure I have clothes and stuff.


  • Today - My first day of work since February/March. Which was not so bad, but mostly because we weren't on the computers yet, and couldn't do much besides reading the leaflets they gave us, having health and safety talks and a quick run-through of what we would be doing when we did get on the computers, and talking. Tomorrow is when the actual work will start, but it looks fairly simple so far, and there's a few other temps working with me who started today, one of whom I'm sitting with and who seems quite nice. So really a pretty good day. Yay.

I am not going Naarmamo. Sadly. But my other adventures have included finding out that, although I was excited about seeing Sue Perkins in a toga/shift thing during the Ancient Rome episode of The Supersizers Go... - what I should have been really excited about was seeing her get a 1920s bob for the 1920s episode. And doing the Charlston. As I found out at about 1.30am last night, when I was drying my hair. Oh my God.

And on Sunday night - watching Single-Handed. Good Lord. I could see from the adverts it was going to be a gritty sort of police drama, although for some reason I was convinced it was going to be set in Scotland. And continued to be convinced through most of the programme, no matter how often they mentioned Dublin. But I didn't know it was going to be about a gruff young policeman fighting against a hideous web of corruption in his own home town, and finding out Spoiler ). I HAVE FALLEN QUITE HARD FOR SINGLE-HANDED. OH GOD. It's a bit great.
girlofprey: (Dance and Fight (Cullens))
I just watched The Apprentice Does Comic Relief, but Jonathon Ross did keep me from enjoying most of it. Jack Dee sort of made up for it. But anyway. The point of this post is that I have been around doing stuff. This stuff is:

  • I had my first Jobseeker’s appointment for my current claim on Monday, and I gave in the book with my little diary in it as I came in, and when I got called to the person seeing me's desk, he asked me how the job search was going, told me about a Jobseeker's job that I'd already heard about, had me sign the little signing on form, and told me I could go. IT WAS A WHOLE NEW EXPERIENCE IN JOBCENTRE APPOINTMENTS FOR ME. I liked it. I get the feeling the appointments will get longer as the claim goes on, however.


  • I saw Watchmen on Monday. I really quite liked it. Well, apart from Spoilers ). I'm speaking as someone who has not read the book, though, I read a few pages a couple of months ago and liked it but never got around to finishing it, so I don't really know what issues there were about adapting the comic to the screen, or (I assume) shortening the story. But as a film, I thought it worked really well, and I didn't feel lost for not having read the book. And no, I really liked it. It will probably surprise no-one that I liked Rorschach the best, and I thought Jeffery Dean Morgan was great even if the character of the Comedian is a bit 'hmm'.

    What I'd like to know now is if there's an AU out there where it's just the masked heroes and Doctor Manhattan never existed. I get that the story is mostly about nuclear power and the bomb and stuff, but from a character point of view, since they don't seem to actually be super-powered like I was sort of expecting them to be. Vague spoilers for the plot )


  • I went to see Northern Ballet Theatre's Swan Lake on Tuesday, even though I probably can't afford it. But I missed the one on at Christmas, and I did want to see a traditional version. It turned out this wasn't a traditional version at all, they'd changed the story so it was about an 1920s/1930s-ish boy in a wealthy family whose brother drowns in a lake on their estate one night while they're both out playing, and who then grows up into a teenager struggling with this tragedy and homosexual feelings for his best friend, and who sees visions of swan maidens one night when he's upset and sitting by the lake. It was very good though, I really enjoyed it. I really like ballet, it's just a shame it's so expensive. Oh well.


  • Speaking of dance-y things though: Sadler's Wells, what is up with you putting on the very shows I'd like to see at a time when I can least get to them or afford them? A Flamenco festival. An entire festival of flamenco, just as I found out I couldn't go see that Tango show I wanted to in April because it's sold out. Beginning THIS WEEKEND. Honestly. Is there a flamenco festival in Nottingham? No. Is there a tango festival on in Nottingham anytime soon? No, but there's apparently a show on in London in, oh, a few weeks time. I suppose I should just take the ballet and the dance things that are on in Nottingham and be happy with them, and possibly get a job so I can go to these other things. Still. Hmph.


  • On the other hand, I was looking up British lighthouses, and I found out about one in Whitley Bay that's decommissioned, and which visitors can go look round at low tide. it turns out it's about one stop down on the metro from where you have to get off to get to the hotel for Connotations. I might go and have a look around it if I have time before the con starts. Rah.


  • And I finally watched Mohabbatein, some weeks after [livejournal.com profile] whatho sent me the discs. Spoilers ). [livejournal.com profile] whatho, I will mail it back sometime next week probably. THANK YOU FOR LENDING IT TO ME. Sorry for keeping it for a bit.


  • Tomorrow and next week my plan is to actually get around to applying for some jobs. I get the feeling I should be getting a move on with that.


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