girlofprey

I've been meaning to post this for the last few days. I've not been posting much recently. That is probably, I realise, the only thing I don't need to tell you. The explanation/excuses is partly I think to do with the fact that nowadays when I come onto Livejournal, I have about 100 or so messages since the previous day from comments on the Watchmen Kink meme, which I feel the need to try and clear out before the next hundred by the next day, and which I must carefully go through to make sure none are about pairings I like. Almost none of them are. This is a little bit annoying. But mostly it's to do with the fact that I haven't really been doing very much lately. Without a job to get up for, I've been sleeping in a lot, and staying up a lot. I have discovered that going to bed just as it's getting light is not the best of plans. I've basically only been going out to buy food for the day, and I've been skipping meals if I sleep through them. I'm basically sort of hibernating. Which is not the best job-hunting tactic, really. So I've not really had much to post about.

But - I'm posting now just to say that I am still around and reading stuff, although I'm not doing much commenting (sorry), and to thank lovely jekesta, who has posted me the first season of Leverage, which came today, because she is ace. I have not seen it, THANK YOU XXXXXX

I have been doing some stuff though. Things that are good recently:

• My mum came down to Nottingham and we went to see the Dancing on Ice live tour. And discovered just how high the back row of Nottingham Ice Arena (also known as Nottingham Trent FM Arena) is. Vertigo inducing, honestly. And the ledge the chairs are on has space for about your feet and that's all. But you do get used to it after an hour or so. Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean skated their Bolero in front of me, live. It was a bit great, although I annoyingly drifted out and missed a bit of it. But it was still great. Donal MacIntyre wasn't there, and it turned out Chris Fountain was only doing Fridays and Saturdays or something, which we found out after the show. But Roxanne was there, and she skated to I Wanna Be Loved By You, and Hallelujah, even if it was the new Alexandra version, and her Hallelujah routine was a lot better than it was on the TV, and she is just great, I love her a lot. Only two of them skated their Boleros, which is the way it was in the show, but I thought they might do something different on the Bolero anniversary tour. Oh well. I suppose they all get the pleasure of planning a Bolero, anyway. But it was still great, and my mum even shouted us both a hotel room for the night. Which was also pretty nice.



• I saw The Good, The Bad, The Weird at a special screening at the Broadway. I missed the very beginning, but saw most of it, and it is not only brilliant but beautiful. Visually beautiful. And brilliant.



• I saw the current RSC version of the Tempest. The RSC do a special £5 deal for 16-25 year olds, so I went down on Thursday, got a ticket, and went and saw it. And it was great. It's a South-African influenced production, I think, and all the actors were great, really, and I usually have a problem with the way Miranda is played, always a little too prim for the way I imagine her, but their Miranda actually seemed like she had probably grown up on a deserted island, which was great. I enjoyed it a lot.



• David came back to Coronation Street after a few weeks away, and almost immediately started gaying it up with Gary. He's pretending to be his friend now so he can stitch him up later on. I think Gary will be suspicious, but then start to believe him, and do something actually nice for him, and then David will be conflicted, and they'll end up actually being friends. I'm pretty biased though. At the moment Gary is mostly reacting with a mixture of "What?" and "Are you trying to seduce me, Mr Platt?". It's lovely. Also, David's grandmother has given him his job back at the salon. He could start cutting hair ANY DAY NOW. Mostly he's been getting the tea. But still. Probably he just needs to brush up on the art. ANY DAY NOW.



• Also - Tony Gordon is amazing and I love him. I almost don't care what he does, so long as he doesn't harm characters I like. He's just casually sort of going around owning everyone at the moment. I love that they had him kill someone, and then not just spend the rest of his time worrying and angsting over that. I'm aware that he's still a killer, but he gets to do other stuff as well. It's brilliant.



• Also, I saw The Boat That Rocked, which is good, and a few weeks back The Damned United, which is similarly good. Hurray.

Those are the main things. There are probably more. But yes. I'm still looking for work. I'm still not currently working. Which is pretty annoying.