girlofprey

( Emmerdale, yesterday and tonight )

( Spoilers for next week, sort of )

In other news, I don't normally look at the digitalspy boards anymore, and often regret it if I do. But yesterday I went looking for the Emmerdale posting members' reactions to something that happened last week, and thoroughly enjoyed some of the posts. Highlights included them feeling that Moira and John should perhaps call an exorcist soon for Holly, or "Professor Abraham Van Helsing", and them claiming that Moira and John weren't great parents, but "as sex symbols, they're second to none". It was kind of genius. Though also in some ways disappointing, as usual.

I missed last night's Emmerdale because we had my youngest nephew, because my mum is working a night shift tonight and so wanted to sleep tomorrow rather than have him over as we usually do. However, because my sister is kind of a dick, I think we're going to be having him tomorrow anyway. But in any case - I caught up with it today, and watched tonight's episode.

( Spoilers from that/Natasha Wylde discussion )

Meanwhile, I have also been watching Hollyoaks. ( Hollyoaks, up to tonight's episode, with spoilers for tomorrow and Friday's nights' episodes )

Also, on Saturday I went to see Despicable Me. ( Thoughts, only vaguely spoilery )

But what I really wanted to say was that while I was sitting waiting for the film to start, during the adverts, that new advert for Reeboks came on - the one with a lot of close-ups of women's bums? Often barely covered ladies bums? Which I am guessing is to appeal to the mums in the audience - because from the advert I can only assume they are just for women - but for a U-rated film I am not sure that is appropriate, when you know there will probably be a lot of kids watching. "Look, kids, ladies' bottoms! They are important and deserve a lot of attention! But only 'nice' ladies' bottoms, that is". Hmm.

In other news, I got a letter from the mental health services I signed up with for counselling for my OCD symptoms, asking me to come along to a Group Therapy session. Dude. I don't even really like telling one counsellor about my problems at the moment, never mind a group of people I don't know, even if they do have similar problems. But they sent a nice little statistic in the letter about how group sessions are apparently 50% more effective than one-on-one counselling. So it sounds like it's worth a go. And, because they are only OFFERING me an appointment, I have to call up and confirm and say that I WANT to come, instead of just turning up and being sullen and sort of hating them. Except that that didn't so much happen, because I got the letter last week and I didn't call them, so they finally called me today to ask if I wanted to come, and I told them yes I did. So yeah, I'm giving it a go. That's next week.

In other other news, I was out in town today with my mum, and she asked me if I ever wanted a 'life partner', and talked about all the people she works with or knows who are gay and have partners, and that there must be somewhere near to us where you can meet other gay people. I told her that basically I am not all that eager to get another person massively involved in my life, although I do see the appeal - which is true, I'm not against the idea, but it's not really something I am actively interested in, to be honest. But at least she sort of remembered that I am kind of gay. And Alice is great.

Also, I watched a documentary about the South Pacific Ocean today (woo, documentary!), and learned that Moby Dick is apparently based on a true story. It makes finding out about the Moby Dick game from cakesy's journal, and spending quite a lot of the last few days being all "Is Moby Dick going to have to capsize a bitch?" (it turned out she almost always was), just slightly more pleasant. Hurrah!